8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (4)
#14137218 at 2021-07-16 19:00:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17885: 50 Audits in 50 Days Edition
HSI Phoenix partners with local law enforcement agencies, arrests and charges 39 men with child sex crimes
PHOENIX - Special agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) recently partnered with the Tempe, Phoenix, Scottsdale and Mesa Police Departments along with the FBI and the Arizona Attorney General's Office on an Internet Crimes Against Children sting resulting in nearly three dozen arrests.
The operation known as "Behind the Mask" was an undercover operation that targeted the demand for child sex crimes and human trafficking. Throughout the operational period, undercover detectives placed ads on websites commonly sought out by suspects seeking illegal sex acts. The suspects reportedly solicited and/or brokered deals for various sex acts and were subsequently arrested.
The Tempe Police Department routinely conducts operations of this type in a continuous effort to reduce the demand that fuels child sex trafficking and exploitation of children in our community. The suspects in this operation ranged in age from 20 to 64. The following suspects solicited various sex acts and were arrested.
Name Charges
Jeromy Harris, 41 Child Sex Trafficking, attempted sex conduct with a minor
Charles Shumway, 36 Luring, Attempted Sexual Conduct with a minor
Yasir Al Obaidi, 26 Child Sex Trafficking, Aggravated luring, attempted sex conduct with a minor.
Mark Allen Bourdonc, 57 Luring, Attempted Sexual Conduct with a minor
Jorge Jesus Martinez, 53 Luring, Attempted Sexual Conduct with a minor - two counts each
Boopathiraja Kandasamy, 37 Child Sex Trafficking, Luring, Attempted Sexual Conduct w/ minor
Jesus Rodriguez Marquez, 52 Child Sex Trafficking, attempted sex conduct with a minor
Carl Thomas Jr., 63 Luring, Attempted Sexual Conduct with a minor
Kevin Lee Gilbreath, 41 Luring, Attempted Sexual Conduct with a minor
Bradley K. Johnson II, 48 Luring, Attempted Sex Conduct with a minor, Possession of Dangerous Drugs
Mario Salgado Vela, 39 Child Sex Trafficking, Attempted Sex Conduct with a Minor, Money Laundering
Nathan Loftis, 39 Luring, Attempted Sex Conduct with a minor
Faizal Mohamad Yassin, 24 Luring, Attempted Sex Conduct with a minor
Jacob Roshetko, 22 Luring, Attempted Sex Conduct with a minor
Charles Parenti, 44 Child Sex Trafficking, Money Laundering, Attempted Sex Conduct with a Minor
Zrone Lee Coker, 36 Aggravated Luring, Attempted Sex Conduct with a Minor, Possession of Dangerous Drugs.
Walker Rockwell House, 26 Luring, Attempted Sex Conduct with a minor
Kevin Carrasco, 21 Child Sex Trafficking, Attempted Sex Conduct with a minor, Money Laundering
Noah Alexander Cheesman-Barnes, 25 Child Sex Trafficking, Attempted sex conduct with a minor.
Rafael Ramirez, 21 Child Sex Trafficking, Attempted sex conduct with a minor, possession of dangerous drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia
John Quarles Sr., 50 Child Sex Trafficking, Attempted sex conduct with a minor, luring a minor for sexual exploitation.
David Allan Mills, 64 Luring, Attempted Sex Conduct with a minor
Patrick Henry Sanchez, 39 Child Sex Trafficking, Money Laundering, Luring, Attempted Sex Conduct with a Minor
Marco Flores Villalobos, 45 Child Sex Trafficking, Money Laundering, Attempted Sex Conduct with a Minor
Angel Yepez Gonzalez, 48 Luring, Attempted Sex Conduct with a minor, Possession of Dangerous Drugs, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
Ramon Xavier Escobedo, 40 Child Sex Trafficking, Money Laundering, Attempted Sex Conduct with a Minor
Jerard Harris, 33 Child Sex Trafficking, Aggravated Luring of a minor for sex exploitation, Attempted Sex Conduct with a Minor
Nicholas Brock Royals, 26 Child Sex Trafficking, Attempted Sex Conduct, Luring
Matthew Scandin, 37 Luring, Attempted Sex Conduct with a minor
Cirilo De Leon, 35 Child Sex Trafficking, Attempted Sex Conduct with a Minor
Shayne Patrick Smyth, 38 Child Sex Trafficking, Attempted Sex Conduct with a minor, possession of dangerous drugs, possession of drug paraphernalia.
Alfonso Arispe, 22 Child Sex Trafficking, Money Laundering, Attempted Sex Conduct with a Minor
Nicolas Drew Phipps, 41 Child Sex Trafficking, Attempted sex conduct with a minor
David Ramos, 40 Aggravated Luring of a Minor, Attempted Sex Conduct with a Minor
Kevin Lee Qualls, 51 Aggravated Luring of a Minor, Attempted Sex Conduct with a Minor
David Green, 44 Child Sex Trafficking, Money Laundering, Attempted Sex Conduct with a Minor
Able Navarro, 20 Child Sex Trafficking, Pandering, Attempted Sex Exploitation of Minor
Jerald Ross Yonnie, 47 Child Sex Trafficking, Aggravated Luring of a Minor, Attempted Sex Conduct with a Minor
Christopher Lehman, 39 Luring of a Minor for Sexual Exploitation
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/hsi-phoenix-partners-local-law-enforcement-agencies-arrests-and-charges-39-men-child
#5130855 at 2019-02-12 01:51:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6553: Tick Tock Iran Edition
Is the Time Up for Nicolás Maduro? Leonardo Vivas February 2019
After a few years preaching in the wilderness, Venezuela's democratic forces found a new energy with Juan
Guaidó.
Until January this year, Nicolás Maduro
, Venezuela's strongman, seemed to have overcome all the
obstacles in his battle for political survival. Appointed by Hugo Chávez
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the founder of 21st-century socialism in Latin America and well known for his inexhaustible charisma
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Maduro had to fight on several fronts at the same time. First, he had to establish his authority within the Chavista ranks. Second, he had to preserve all the political capital inherited from the Chavez years, which included a lengthy consumption boom resulting from high oil prices and a decade of high levels of investment in health care, subsidized food and low-cost housing. Finally, he had to curb the growing challenge of an emboldened opposition that envisioned an easier track once its main rival was out of the picture. No matter if he was by many counts a mediocre leader, Maduro proved himself masterful during the infighting that came about in the aftermath of Chá
vez's death in 2013. Within a few years, Maduro had
defeated Rafael Ramirez, the head of the oil industry and cousin of Carlos the Jackal (the infamous terrorist active in the 1970s and 1980s); crushed the civilian ministers of the classic left whose main leverage was their intellect and honesty, no matter how distorted their policies; and neutralized Diosdado Cabello, second in command and member of the military conspirators who staged the 1992 coup that brought Chávez into the limelight. But Maduro was not able to maintain the political capital passed on from Chávez because he also inherited a time bomb. In the run-up years to the 2012 presidential election, the effort was so intense that the economic model based on high oil prices that Chávez had concocted
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including extreme levels of external financing and internal debt
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depleted the economy, breaking the typical mechanisms of an oil- based economy to avoid both high inflation and unemployment. Within a couple of years what seemed an oddity
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an oil country plunging into hyperinflation
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became unstoppable. In 2013, only weeks after defeating the opposition by a minimum (and highly contested) margin, Maduro rejected a stabilization plan proposed by Ramirez, who was dismissed and sent to New York as a representative to the UN. After that, all attempts at producing economic change were marked by insisting on the rigid model that had already failed.
Humanitarian Crisis
From then on, Venezuela was in free fall. Unable to reign in government expenditure and experiencing a lack of foreign exchange earnings, especially as oil prices began to drop in the midst of heavy debt payments to hungry creditors, the only way to tamper the use of hard currency was to control imports. The result was the immediate shortage of food and medicines, which could not be produced domestically due to a systematic destruction of private production (both agriculture and industry) under Chávez. The latter had been the result of an orgy of nationalizations following the socialist dream of prioritizing
state production. What ensued was the gravest crisis of access to essential goods in the country's memory.
After 2016, the shortages led to what amounted to a humanitarian crisis: Venezuelans lost an average of 11 kilos (24 pounds) in weight, and old and new diseases loomed large. Even malaria, eradicated in 1961,
#5081669 at 2019-02-08 19:12:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6489: Based Whitaker Edition
'No hope with either Maduro or Guaido,' Chavez oil czar & would-be Venezuela president tells RT
Venezuela has "no chance" of recovery under President Nicolas Maduro, but there's equally no hope with Juan Guaido, an "extreme right-wing"-backed front man for US intervention, believes Hugo Chavez's oil minister Rafael Ramirez.
"I'm against any foreign intervention in my country. I'm against the sanctions because they're completely illegal," Ramirez told RT's Oksana Boyko.
Ramirez believes that Maduro betrayed the legacy of Chavez, but is refusing to support Guaido because he is backed by the US and the "extreme right-wing" in Venezuela. The former energy minister (2002-2014) hopes to run for president if elections are called. He was energy minister from 2002 to 2014.
The full interview with Ramirez airs on Worlds Apart this Sunday, February 10.
https://www.rt.com/news/451016-Ramirez-maduro-guaido-venezuela/
#3682676 at 2018-11-01 03:08:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4676: Pity the Triggered Edition
PDVSA ex-executive admits taking bribes in guilty plea in U.S. court
A former finance executive of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA accepted $17 million in bribes as part of a broad embezzlement scheme, U.S. federal prosecutors said on Wednesday, in a case that implicates a French oil firm and a Russian bank. The former executive, Abraham Ortega, admitted to taking the bribes as part of a guilty plea to one count of attempting to launder $12 million of the illegal payments, the U.S. Attorneys' Office for the Southern District of Florida said in a statement.
The case comes amid growing U.S. investigations into the troubled OPEC nation's public officials, and may lead to new revelations about the role of foreign firms in graft probes that until now have mainly focused on Venezuelan nationals. "Ortega admitted that he and his co-defendant laundered $12 million through a sophisticated false-investment scheme," reads the statement, which describes a "billion-dollar international scheme to launder funds embezzled from PDVSA." PDVSA did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
Ortega accepted $5 million from a French oil company and from a Russian bank, according to the statement, which did not name either company.
Prosecutors said that in exchange, Ortega helped companies gain "priority status" to loan money to joint ventures in which they were partners with PDVSA. That was beneficial to those companies because PDVSA had agreed to speed up the flow of cash coming out of the joint ventures, which had slowed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, if the companies made the loans, the statement said. PDVSA in 2013 said it had signed a deal with Russia's Gazprombank for $1 billion in financing for a joint venture between the two companies called Petrozamora. Gazprombank did not respond to an email seeking comment.
In 2014, then-Petroleum Minister Rafael Ramirez announced a $420 million loan from Anglo-French oil company Perenco to boost output at the Petrowarao joint venture. Perenco declined to comment.
Ortega obtained $12 million through a PDVSA embezzlement scheme built around the country's exchange control system, which for years has allowed well-connected public officials to buy subsidized dollars and resell them at a huge profit. More than a dozen people have pleaded guilty as part of a broad Justice Department investigation into bribery at PDVSA that became public in 2015 with the arrest of U.S.-based contractors Roberto Rincon and Abraham Shiera. The government of President Nicolas Maduro has described the U.S. investigations as politically motivated, and accuses Washington of seeking to undermine his government through financial sanctions.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-pdvsa/pdvsa-ex-executive-admits-taking-bribes-in-guilty-plea-in-u-s-court-idUSKCN1N639G