8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (5)
#13298944 at 2021-03-26 00:21:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16847: Cabal Puppet Biden Promises "Gun Grabs Coming" Edition
I directed the FBI, DEA, OCDETF, and the Department's Criminal Division to identify top transnational criminal organizations that threaten our safety and prosperity.
Based on the counsel that I have received from these experienced professionals, today I am designating the following criminal groups as our top transnational organized crime threats:
MS-13
Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, or CJNG,
the Sinaloa Cartel
Clan del Golfo, and
Lebanese Hezbollah.
Today I am announcing that we are creating a transnational organized crime Task Force of experienced prosecutors who will coordinate our efforts and develop a plan to take each of these groups off of our streets for good.
The new Task Force will be led by Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein. I want to thank Patrick Hovakimian in his office for stepping up and taking charge of this task.
The new Task Force will be organized into one subcommittee for each of these target organizations. I am confident that he is going to be very effective in his new role.
The subcommittee on MS-13 will be led by Assistant U.S. Attorney John Durham of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. AUSA Durham has played a significant role in the FBI's Long Island Task Force, which has arrested hundreds of MS-13 members.
The subcommittee on Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion will be led by Trial Attorney Brett Reynolds of the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section of the Department of Justice's Criminal Division. Brett has led or co-led several investigations into the Cartel that have led to indictments of some of its highest ranking members.
The subcommittee on the Sinaloa Cartel will be led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Sutton of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California.
AUSA Sutton prosecuted several Sinaloa kingpins and led multiple international investigations targeting Sinaloa Cartel leaders, resulting in seizures of millions of dollars in drug proceeds and thousands of kilograms of illicit drugs.
The subcommittee on Clan del Golfo will be led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Emery of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. AUSA Emery has secured convictions against the top leadership of Clan del Golfo, including the kingpin Henry de Jesus Lopez Londoño, who commanded over 1,000 armed men for the cartel.
The subcommittee on Lebanese Hezbollah will be led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ilan Graff of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. AUSA Graff is overseeing the prosecution of two alleged members of Hezbollah's External Security Organization, the first such operatives to be charged with terrorism offenses in the United States.
This subcommittee will be led and staffed by members of the Hezbollah Financing and Narcoterrorism Team, which is a group I created in January.
This team is composed of experienced international narcotics trafficking, terrorism, organized crime, and money laundering prosecutors who are tasked with investigating individuals and networks providing support to Hezbollah.
#9188201 at 2020-05-15 18:57:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11760: Kitchen Functioning at Full Capacity Edition
Alleged Narcotrafficker and High-Ranking Cartel Member Extradited from Uruguay to the United States
Friday, May 15, 2020
A Mexican national will have his initial appearance in federal court in the District of Columbia later today on charges related to his alleged involvement in a criminal conspiracy to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine.
Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department's Criminal Division and Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), made the announcement.
Gerardo Gonzalez Valencia, aka "Lalo," 43, arrived at Dulles International Airport yesterday evening after being extradited from Uruguay, where he was arrested in April 2016. The indictment charges Gonzalez Valencia with an international conspiracy to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine, intending and knowing that those substances would be unlawfully imported into the United States. The indictment alleges that Gonzalez Valencia's criminal conspiracy ran from 2003 to 2016.
"The Department of Justice will never waver in our commitment to disrupt and dismantle CJNG and its enablers, wherever they are found," said Assistant Attorney General Benczkowski. "Thanks to the dedicated efforts of our law enforcement partners in Uruguay, Valencia Gonzalez now will be held to account in the United States for his alleged crimes."
"Today's extradition and arrest of Mr. Gonzalez-Valencia deals another blow to the leadership of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion," said DEA Acting Administrator Dhillon. "Mr. Gonzalez-Valencia is alleged to have distributed significant quantities of cocaine and meth and will now face justice in the United States. We are grateful for the outstanding partnership with the National Police and Government of Uruguay during this long term investigation."
The charges contained in the indictment are merely accusations, and the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
The case was investigated by DEA Los Angeles. Trial Attorneys Brett Reynolds, Kaitlin Sahni, Cole Radovich, Kate Naseef and Acting Deputy Chief Anthony Nardozzi of the Criminal Division's Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section are prosecuting the case.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/alleged-narcotrafficker-and-high-ranking-cartel-member-extradited-uruguay-united-states
#3490505 at 2018-10-16 01:11:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4426: Pompeo The Intn'l Leaders Whisperer Edition
Sessions Appoints Rosenstein to Lead Task Force Against MS-13, Hezbollah
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Oct. 15 he had designated five groups, including Hezbollah and MS-13, as transnational criminal organizations (TCO), putting Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in charge of a task force to target the groups with investigations and prosecutions.
The other groups on the list are the Sinaloa Cartel, Clan de Golfo, and Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion.
Sessions said the task force will consist of "experienced prosecutors who will coordinate our efforts and develop a plan to take each of these groups off of our streets for good."
President Donald Trump has made fighting TCOs a priority, ordering the federal law enforcement "to identify, interdict, disrupt, and dismantle" them.
Making Rosenstein the head of the task force appears to solidify his position within the administration.
Last month, a New York Times article reported that last year Rosenstein suggested he would wear a "wire" to secretly record Trump and discussed the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump. Rosenstein dismissed the allegation as "inaccurate and factually incorrect."
Trump talked to Rosenstein about the allegation on Oct. 8 and told media he had no intention to fire the No. 2 Justice Department (DOJ) official.
The anti-TCO task force will have five subcommittees, each focusing on one of the groups.
MS-13
Assistant U.S. Attorney John Durham will focus on MS-13, a brutal gang with an estimated 10,000 members in the United States.
Trump has often singled out MS-13, and the atrocities the gang perpetrates, to back up his calls for strengthened border security. The gang is based in El Salvador and not only are its members coming into the United States illegally, but it also recruits among the Central American youth streaming across the border in especially high numbers in recent years.
Part of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, Durham "has played a significant role in the FBI's Long Island Task Force, which has arrested hundreds of MS-13 members," Sessions said.
Hezbollah
The subcommittee on Hezbollah will be led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ilan Graff.
Hezbollah, an Iran-backed terrorist organization based in Lebanon, is involved in drug trafficking throughout the Middle East, West Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the United States. It uses the drug money to finance its activities of terrorism and subversion.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) ran an operation called Project Cassandra against Hezbollah starting in 2008. The operation discovered that the terrorist group was raking in an estimated $1 billion a year from weapons trafficking, money laundering, drugs, and other crime. But the Obama administration "derailed" the operation, Politico reported in 2017.
Graff oversaw the prosecution of two alleged members of Hezbollah's External Security Organization, "the first such operatives to be charged with terrorism offenses in the United States," Sessions noted.
Graff works at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. His subcommittee will be led and staffed by members of the Hezbollah Financing and Narcoterrorism Team, which Sessions set up in January.
"This team is composed of experienced international narcotics trafficking, terrorism, organized crime, and money laundering prosecutors who are tasked with investigating individuals and networks providing support to Hezbollah," Sessions said.
Cartels
Trial Attorney Brett Reynolds will handle Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion. Working at the DOJ's Criminal Division, he has helped secure indictments of some of the cartel's highest ranking members.
The Sinaloa Cartel will be targeted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Sutton of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California. Sutton prosecuted several Sinaloa kingpins and led international investigations of Sinaloa leaders.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Emery will lead the charge against Clan del Golfo. He's previously secured convictions against the top leaders of the cartel. He works at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida.
"With this new task force in place, our efforts will be more targeted and more effective than ever," Sessions said, explaining that in 90 days task-force members will give him specific recommendations "to prosecute these groups and ultimately take them off of our streets."
#3487407 at 2018-10-15 20:23:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4422: Dangerous Memes Edition
Was posted earlier today, reposting for afternoon/evening anons
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-sessions-announces-new-measures-fight-transnational-organized-crime
Partial:
On February 9, 2017, President Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order 13773, which directed the federal government to "ensure that Federal law enforcement agencies give a high priority and devote sufficient resources to efforts to identify, interdict, disrupt, and dismantle transnational criminal organizations[.]"
Following this Executive Order, Attorney General Sessions directed the FBI, DEA, OCDETF, and the Department's Criminal Division to identify top transnational criminal groups that threaten the safety and prosperity of the United States and its allies. As a result of that review, the Attorney General is designating the following criminal groups as top transnational organized crime threats:
- MS-13
- Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG)
- Sinaloa Cartel
- Clan del Golfo, and
- Lebanese Hezbollah.
The Attorney General's TOC Task Force will be led by the Deputy Attorney General and will be composed of experienced prosecutors. It will be organized into one subcommittee for each of the target groups.
The subcommittee on MS-13 will be led by Assistant U.S. Attorney John Durham of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. AUSA Durham has played a significant role in the FBI's Long Island Task Force, which has arrested hundreds of MS-13 members.
The subcommittee on Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion will be led by Trial Attorney Brett Reynolds of the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section of the Department's Criminal Division. Reynolds has led or co-led several investigations into the Cartel that have led to indictments of some of its highest ranking members.
The subcommittee on the Sinaloa Cartel will be led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Sutton of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California. AUSA Sutton prosecuted several Sinaloa kingpins and led multiple international investigations targeting Sinaloa Cartel leaders, resulting in seizures of millions of dollars in drug proceeds and thousands of kilograms of illicit drugs.
The subcommittee on Clan del Golfo will be led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Emery of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. AUSA Emery has secured convictions against the top leadership of Clan del Golfo, including kingpin Henry de Jesus Lopez Londoño, who commanded over 1,000 armed men for the cartel.
The subcommittee on Lebanese Hezbollah will be led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ilan Graff of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. AUSA Graff is overseeing the prosecution of two alleged members of Hezbollah's External Security Organization, the first such operatives to be charged with terrorism offenses in the United States.
Attorney General Sessions has ordered each of these subcommittees to provide specific recommendations within 90 days on how to disrupt and dismantle TOC, whether through prosecution, diplomacy, or other lawful means.
#3484983 at 2018-10-15 16:19:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4419: Just Voted Edition
Wew, the Justice Department is just shotgunning press releases today.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-sessions-announces-new-measures-fight-transnational-organized-crime
Each criminal org will have its own division within the new task force:
The Attorney General's TOC Task Force will be led by the Deputy Attorney General and will be composed of experienced prosecutors. It will be organized into one subcommittee for each of the target groups.
The subcommittee on MS-13 will be led by Assistant U.S. Attorney John Durham of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. AUSA Durham has played a significant role in the FBI's Long Island Task Force, which has arrested hundreds of MS-13 members.
The subcommittee on Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion will be led by Trial Attorney Brett Reynolds of the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section of the Department's Criminal Division. Reynolds has led or co-led several investigations into the Cartel that have led to indictments of some of its highest ranking members.
The subcommittee on the Sinaloa Cartel will be led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Sutton of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California. AUSA Sutton prosecuted several Sinaloa kingpins and led multiple international investigations targeting Sinaloa Cartel leaders, resulting in seizures of millions of dollars in drug proceeds and thousands of kilograms of illicit drugs.
The subcommittee on Clan del Golfo will be led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Emery of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida. AUSA Emery has secured convictions against the top leadership of Clan del Golfo, including kingpin Henry de Jesus Lopez Londoño, who commanded over 1,000 armed men for the cartel.
The subcommittee on Lebanese Hezbollah will be led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ilan Graff of the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. AUSA Graff is overseeing the prosecution of two alleged members of Hezbollah's External Security Organization, the first such operatives to be charged with terrorism offenses in the United States.
Attorney General Sessions has ordered each of these subcommittees to provide specific recommendations within 90 days on how to disrupt and dismantle TOC, whether through prosecution, diplomacy, or other lawful means.
This new Task Force builds upon work that Attorney General Sessions has already done to dismantle these groups. On January 11, 2018, Attorney General Sessions established the Hezbollah Financing and Narcoterrorism Team (HFNT), a group of experienced international narcotics trafficking, terrorism, organized crime, and money laundering prosecutors. HFNT prosecutors and investigators are tasked with investigating individuals and networks providing support to Hezbollah, and pursuing prosecutions in any appropriate cases. The new subcommittee-which will be staffed and led by HFNT members-will aid the ongoing work of the HFNT."