Sam Bankman-Fried, the indicted crypto con-man, just had his bail revoked by Federal Judge Lewis A. Kaplan for discussing his case in the media. He will now await his trial in the slammer. Donald Trump should learn from this – but probably won't.

A prominent billionaire is arrested on criminal charges. At his arraignment, the presiding judge releases him pending trial on condition he not try to influence potential witnesses and orders him not to speak with the media about the pending trial. He repeatedly violates the order. Eventually, the judge has had enough. He revokes bail and orders him jailed pending trial. I’m not referring to Donald J. Trump — although on Thursday, Judge Tanya Chutkan designated witness interviews and recordings as covered by a protective order and warned Trump once again against trying to influence or intimidate potential witnesses. Trump had spent much of the past week blasting former Vice President Mike Pence — likely to be a key witness — and others. No, the person I’m referring to is Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Bankman-Fried — whose wealth had soared to $28 billion before the collapse — had been under house arrest at his parents’ home in Palo Alto, California, since his arrest in December on fraud charges stemming from FTX’s implosion. At a hearing yesterday, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan of Federal District Court in Manhattan revoked Bankman-Fried’s bail and ordered him to await his October trial in jail. Prosecutors showed that Bankman-Fried had twice tried to interfere with witnesses, including by giving documents to reporters and engaging in numerous conversations with others in the media despite the judge’s order not to do so. “He has gone up to the line over and over again, and I am going to revoke bail,” Judge Kaplan said from the bench. Bankman-Fried was taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. There is a lesson here for Donald J. Trump, as there is for other ultra-wealthy people who for too long have assumed that the law doesn’t really apply to them because they can buy their way out of whatever fix they’re in. Federal prosecutors and the federal courts are not buying it.

Judge Kaplan's words about Bankman-Fried ("He has gone up to the line over and over again") could easily apply to Donald Trump's behavior. Given that Trump is a pathological blabbermouth, I'd say the chances of pre-trial detention for him are over 50%.

Trump should not be allowed to use his upcoming trials as campaign stops for 2024.

Few things would do more to restore public confidence in the justice system than for people to see wealthy celebrities not getting preferential treatment in court. So Judge Kaplan and Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan seem determined not to let billionaire defendants hijack trials.

Judge Repeatedly Reminds Lawyers Trump Will Be Treated Like Any Criminal Defendant

CNN removed the full video and the NYC judge, Lewis Kaplan, refused to admit Carroll's own words as evidence.

E Jean's Attorney & Judge Lewis Kaplan were colleagues at the same law firm.

Here's the FULL video CNN tried to hide:

TW abuse mentions

(I'm copy n pasting this from discord), (I don't like 1992 Delanceys so this is based of the broadway)

screaming crying throwing up sobbing i am the biggest delancey apologist you'll ever meet

(i don't remember if their mum dying was actually cannon but tht ain't the point)

their mum died, their dad abandoned them in the refuge, they were only taken out the refuge to work by wiesel to work for him, they were forced by wiesel and snyder to help catch newsies to take them to the refuge (yes they could've disobeyed but they were raised by snyder (who is ~~abusive~~ and runs the refuge + they could've lost their jobs by disobeying wiesel)

they r literally all eachother have

the only time Oscar got violent was when either their father was mentioned or if someone hit morris. morris, being the older brother probably has a kinda protective thing over Oscar due to being in the refuge and surrounded by violence (+ from what I remember, before their father abandoned them he was ~~abusive~~) so maybe the reasons Morris was violent towards the newsies could be

a) possibly though that the newsies would go after them first, especially with all of Jack's teasing

b) didn't want to make wiesel think he was useless and send him and Oscar back to the refuge

Mike faists Morris, after taking crutchie to the refuge looked back guiltily, Anthony Norman's Oscar did the same

The scene during seize the day, when the Delanceys come out and start beating up the newsies could be because obviously the newsies went on strike and they could've been sent by wiesel or even pulitzer, or they could've done it themselves bcs yknow they need money to survive. after seize the day, when wiesel and the Delanceys show up again to try take the newsies to the refuge, both of the Delanceys look upset/guilty

during the bottom line reprise, Morris says "You can sleep here, right on this old printing press" what if he was pointing it out so that Jack and the newsies could print the strike material so that the Delanceys could stop being as violent and just go back to how it was before the strike. maybe Morris hit the press a few times to show it was still probably usable

the Delanceys are only physically grabbing and violent with Jack (in that scene) when pulitzer, snyder and wiesel and all those can see them. After that they let go and walk him down to the celler. Oscar also threatened Jack like really loudly (this one's a stretch) what if he did that so that the fellas upstairs would still think their being rough on him. MAYBE THATS WHY MORRIS BANGED THE PRESS SO HARD.

Bonus: at the end u can see Oscar smiling, asumably at Les

Chapter One: Three Sets of Eyes

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Summary: A week after the strike, Jack makes his way to the distribution center. Making eye contact with the Delanceys, the three seem to spiral unconscious as memories they don’t even know they had pierce through their skull and into their brains.

Trigger Warnings: Abuse (One scene an alcohol bottle is thrown at Jack and Oscar)

A/N: I had an idea. I executed such idea, and shout out to @frombottlealleytotheharbor for being my beta reader.

Jack had no need for gripes, with the strike settled, a beautiful girlfriend, a smartass best-friend, and a brother who was all safe and sound, what the hell would he ever need them for? He ran along the sidewalk, cackling as he followed Race, Romeo, and Finch towards the distribution center with Crutchie clinging to him, having been perched on his back. As the five met up with the rest of the group, the volume grew louder, the sounds of greetings and conservation being thrown and caught across the group. Jack let Crutchie down from his back, patting his shoulder and nudging Smalls as the young Bronx leader passed by. The newsies soon formed a line, Jack leading the forefront with an ear splitting grin. Patting the collection box with a palm, he glanced at his boys before looking over the two brothers behind the counter only to see his face staring back.

“Oscar!” Jack yelped, ducking to cover his brother from their father.. wait.. their father? That wasn’t his- Jack frantically looked around the room, from the scratches on the floor to the cracks on the walls.. all so familiar but he had never been here before.. A loud crashing sound of a bottle cut through his thoughts as he instinctively twisted his body to cover what looked like a young Oscar Delancey, shards of glass spraying his back.

Jack didn’t have time to react further, suddenly plunging into darkness and reawakening in another room, this time he felt a firm hand on his shoulder, two cold brown eyes stared at him as Jack felt a calloused thumb brush the blood away from his cheek. “Snyder won’t lay another fucking hand on you, y’here? Not another goddamn hand.” The young boy- no- Morris scowled, glaring at the cell door, Jack barely recognized him with how beat up he looked. His eyes flitted around the room as a chill ran up his spine, Snyder? Was this the refuge?

His fear quickly went numb as he sat before Snyder and Wiesel, his gaze turning to an older, more mature Morris. “We take care of the guy who takes care of us.” His voice was firm as the two stood up, Jack’s hand involuntarily moving towards Wiesel’s.. his Uncle Wiesel. “Welcome to the family business, boys.”

Memories swirled around him, flashes of a life he never knew forcing their way into his head like a hammer driven nail until the world came to a stop.

“Jack! Hey, Jack?!” Race slapped him awake, the Manhattanite leader flinching into a sitting position. Jack glanced around wildly, his friends staring at him with fearful eyes as he came to his senses.

“I’m okay! I’m okay! Getoffofme!” Jack swatted him away, stumbling to stand as Race supported him. “Ya had a nasty fall, pal! So did the Delanceys by the looks of it, what’d you do?”

“Nothing- I.. Nothing, I think.” Jack mumbled, looking over the counter. Oscar was helping Morris up, the two glancing at Jack with genuine fear. Jack quickly grabbed his papers and shoved them in his bag, walking away with a storm of emotions bubbling up inside of him. As the memories replayed in his head, Jack couldn’t help but feel angry, frustrated, and guilty. Oscar should’ve deserved getting hit, he’s beaten the shit out of every newsie he laid his eyes on.. but.. but his- their- that man shouldn’t have thrown a beer bottle.. not at his brother.. brother? The longer he thought about it, the more frustrated he got. Suddenly, he had multiple gripes.. and he just passed his selling spot. Goddamn it.

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Season 1 : January 15 - March 5 2021

The FBI and NYPD are investigating a letter containing a death threat and white powder that was mailed to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office is investigating former President Donald Trump, law-enforcement sources told NBC News.

The letter was addressed to Bragg and said, “ALVIN: I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!” the sources said. It contained a small amount of white powder.

There were no evacuations or injuries, officials said.

In a statement, the DA's office said the letter “was immediately contained and that the NYPD Emergency Service Unit and the NYC Department of Environmental Protection determined there was no dangerous substance.”

Markings on the envelope indicate it was mailed from Orlando, Florida earlier this week, the sources said. It was postmarked on Tuesday, the sources said.

The letter comes in the wake of Trump announcing — falsely — that he would be arrested in the probe this past Tuesday and that people should "protest." His rhetoric has become more heated in the days since, including warning on his social media website early Friday of "potential death and destruction" if the DA indicts him.

Russian email accounts sent a series of hoax bomb threats targeting the Manhattan district attorney and court buildings for three straight days this week amid a grand jury investigation of former President Donald Trump.

The unsubstantiated threats, now under investigation by the New York Police Department and FBI, were emailed to local government officials at a Manhattan community board, according to police. They came from Russian email addresses in the early morning hours on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, listing government buildings and schools as the targets of alleged pipe bombs, according to the local board official who received them.

"The FBI told me that they appear to be coming from Russia," said Susan Stetzer, district manager of Community Board 3, who read the emails to Law360 Friday. The board received four email threats over the three days, often sent from @mail.ru domains under different names, she said. The NYPD confirmed the board was the recipient of the original bomb threat on Tuesday.

The FBI declined to comment.

Separately on Friday, a suspicious white powder was delivered to the offices of District Attorney Alvin Bragg in an envelope marked "Alvin," according to the NYPD.

A spokesperson for the district attorney said that "it was immediately contained and that the NYPD Emergency Service Unit and the NYC Department of Environmental Protection determined there was no dangerous substance."

The emailed bomb threats did not mention Trump or the grand jury mulling indicting him for an illegal hush money payment allegedly designed to tip the 2016 election in his favor, the local official said. Still, they used language that echoed his recent attacks on the case, referring to "the downfall of our country" and stating, "You people are destroying America."

The grand jury is considering a possible indictment of Trump on charges that he directed his former attorney Michael Cohen to pay adult film actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 to bury her claims of an affair before the 2016 presidential election, and covered up Cohen's reimbursement as legal fees.

An FBI and special counsel investigation of interference in the 2016 election found that Russia engaged in a sprawling online campaign to manipulate public perceptions in favor of Trump. The investigation found that Trump did not conspire with Russia.

Stetzer said she first reported the bomb threats Tuesday morning by contacting local police precincts and dialing 911. Since then, she has been in regular contact with the FBI.

"Now when I get them, which I haven't today, I just forward it to the FBI," Stetzer said late Friday morning.

In response to questions, NYPD said it had one threat on file for Tuesday of an email "sent from an unidentified individual who stated they are placing various explosive devices at locations throughout the city. There are no arrests and the investigation is ongoing."

Beginning last weekend, Trump called for protests of Bragg's investigation with increasingly heated language as he criticized the possible charges against him and incorrectly predicted he would be arrested on Tuesday.

Among a dozen posts on Truth Social about Bragg posted Thursday, Trump called the district attorney an "animal" and "human scum," compared him to Joseph Stalin and the Gestapo, and said, "He is doing the work of Anarchists and the Devil, who want our Country to fail." Trump also posted a link with an image of him holding a baseball bat beside an image of Bragg's head.

"You're still allowed to self-defend in this Country!" Trump posted Wednesday, additionally claiming that anti-fascist "lunatics" are infiltrating conservative gatherings.

Early Friday morning, Trump said that "potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country? Why & who would do such a thing? Only a degenerate psychopath that truely hates the USA!"

The New York City bomb threats used similar rhetoric.

A threat sent Thursday that targeted the district attorney's office and schools said: "You people are disgusting degenerates. Fuck you and fuck everything you stand for. You are responsible for the downfall of our country and you will die," Stetzer said, quoting from the email.

One threat Wednesday read: "Evacuate before the bombs go off. You people are destroying America so we will destroy you," according to Stetzer.

Stetzer declined to share the emails directly with Law360.

The threats have led to heightened security at the court buildings in Lower Manhattan, which have included regular sweeps for bombs and a more visible presence of police officers and court officers along with barricades surrounding the entrances to the district attorney's office.

The district attorney's office has declined to comment on the threats.

Meanwhile, a Manhattan federal judge presiding over a writer's civil defamation and rape suit against Trump on Thursday ruled that jurors in the case will remain anonymous, drawing a link between the former president's recent rhetoric and threats to public safety.

"Mr. Trump's quite recent reaction to what he perceived as an imminent threat of indictment by a grand jury sitting virtually next door to this court was to encourage 'protest' and to urge people to 'take our country back.' That reaction reportedly has been perceived by some as incitement to violence," U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan wrote. "And it bears mention that Mr. Trump repeatedly has attacked courts, judges, various law enforcement officials and other public officials, and even individual jurors in other matters."

Judge Kaplan noted, however, that "it matters not whether Mr. Trump incited violence in either a legal or a factual sense. The point is whether jurors will perceive themselves to be at risk."

Joe Tacopina, a criminal defense attorney for Trump, told Law360 Thursday, "We have no problem with the ruling," but declined to comment on the social media posts or threats.

A jury decided on Friday that Donald Trump must pay $83,3 million to writer E. Jean Carroll for defamation. I suppose Trump now has another excuse not to pay his lawyers.

A New York jury has decided Donald Trump should pay $83.3m (£65m) for defaming columnist E Jean Carroll in 2019 while he was US president. The penalty in the civil trial is made up of $18.3m for compensatory damages and $65m in punitive damages. Mr Trump was found in a previous civil case to have defamed Ms Carroll and sexually assaulted her in the 1990s. He vowed to appeal the latest ruling, calling the case a witch hunt and the verdict "Absolutely ridiculous!" The compensatory damages are meant to account for the harm that the jury found his comments had done to her reputation and emotional wellbeing. The panel also had to come up with a punitive penalty intended to stop Mr Trump from continuing to speak out against her.

Good luck getting Trump to stop lying!

The Washington Post once determined that Trump made 30,573 false or misleading statements during the four years he was president. If he had to pay the same penalty for each lie he told, his total bill would be $2,546,730,900,000 — or about $300 billion more than the GDP of Russia.

On the last day of the trial, the judge threaten to throw one of Trump's low budget lawyers in jail for being disruptive.

Mr Trump, who abruptly left court earlier in the day with his Secret Service security detail, was not present to hear the verdict. His departure came moments after Judge Kaplan threatened to jail Mr Trump's lawyer, Alina Habba, for continuing to speak after he had told her to be quiet. "You are on the verge of spending some time in the lockup. Now sit down," he told Ms Habba.

Trump is a nepo baby who thinks the rule of law doesn't apply to him. It's time for him to learn otherwise.

FTX Founder May Await Trial in Jail

Sam Bankman-Fried Accused of Violating Bail

FTX founder may wait for trial in jail, as his judge grows frustrated with him violating the terms of his bail package. The terms of Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail package allow him to live with his parents in Palo Alto, California, while his attorneys and prosecutors prepare for his trail. He’s charged with multiple counts of fraud and money laundering via FTX, the cryptocurrency trading platform he…

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Prosecutors Say Sam Bankman-Fried Is Getting Around Surveillance With a VPN

Sam Bankman-Fried, far left, was last in court Feb. 9. Prosecutors were concerned the failed FTX founder has been trying to communicate with encrypted messaging apps like Signal.Photo: Michael M. Santiago (Getty Images) Federal prosecutors are squinting pretty hard, trying to keep an eye on what the failed FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been doing while he’s been ordered by the court to live…

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Potential Witnesses to Stop Being Contacted by SBF

The recent filing isn’t the first time SBF’s bond agreement had to be changed.

He was previously prohibited from accessing FTX or Alameda-related funds following his request during his arraignment earlier this month.

During the arraignment, he pled not guilty to several financial crimes.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers responded with a letter submitted on Saturday.

The letter opposed the prosecutors’ request and outlined their own variation of suggested restrictions for SBF’s communications................Read More

Source:- Coin Week

2024 reading list

The $100 StartUp

The E-Myth Revisited 

The Four Steps to the Epiphany

Hooked

The Checklist Manifesto

The Lean Startup

Creativity Inc. 

Who - smart and street

Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker

The School of Life: An Emotional Education by Alain de Botton

Rapport: The Four Ways to Read People by Emily and Laurence Alison

Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me) Third Edition: Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris

Upstream: How to Solve Problems Before They Happen by Dan Heath

Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall

The Revenge of Geography by Robert D. Kaplan

The World: A Brief Introduction by Richard 

The Quest by Daniel Yergin

Who Rules the World? by Noam Chomsky

Day of Empire by Amy Chua

India’s China Challenge by Ananth Krishnan

How to Stage a Coup – Rory Cormac – 2022

Secret History of the Five Eyes (2022) – Richard Kerbaj

Xi: A Study in Power (2022) – Kerry Brown

The India Way by S. Jaishankar

Michael Lewis: Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

David Rubenstein: How to Invest: Masters on the Craft

Elon Musk by Isaacson, Walter

The Man Who Knew - Sebastian Mallaby

Blood and Oil - Bradley Hope, Justin Scheck

Brazillionaires - Alex Cuadros

Empire Of Pain- Patrick Radden Keefe

The Match King - Frank Partnoy

McMafia - Misha Glenny

"I would love it. I would love it," Trump responded.

"I know you would because you just can’t control yourself in this circumstance. You just can't," the judge shot back before an exasperated Trump threw his hands in the air.

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The Nepenthes List Masterlist

Ne•pen•thes

/nəˈpenTHēz/

noun

Something that can make you forget grief or suffering.

Summary: After a collision of memories causing the Delancey brothers and Jack Kelly to recall each other’s lives in great detail. Freaked out and collective anger bubbling up within them, the three band together to get rid of the intrusive memories altogether by any means necessary.

Characters involved within the chapter will be updated with each chapter, but it mainly revolves around Jack Kelly, Oscar Delancey, and Morris Delancey.

This story is based off the fact some of the actors who have played the Delanceys are also understudies for Jack Kelly, thought it was a fun concept and rolled with it.

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I hope E Jean Carroll didn’t start counting her money because it’s not looking good for her team! The Trump team has now learned that the Judge worked with and was a mentor for the attorney representing Carroll. In the 90’s Judge Lewis Kaplan worked with Carroll’s attorney and never disclosed this. This is a clear conflict of interest. He should be removed as a Judge. Now we know why he was so against Trump the entire case. Who’s surprised that once again they’re playing dirty to get Trump?