“Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. (D) and his wife, La’Quetta, the city’s superintendent of schools, have been indicted on child endangerment and other charges for allegedly beating their teenage daughter on numerous occasions,” the AP reports.
FBI Confirms It Was an ‘Attempted Assassination’
Donald Trump was the target of what the FBI said “appears to be an attempted assassination” at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, the AP reports.
Florida Will Independently Probe Assassination Attempt
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said the state will independently investigate the apparent assassination attempt on Donald Trump this weekend at his golf club in West Palm Beach, the Tallahassee Democrat reports.
Secret Service Probe Details Failures
“A Secret Service investigation has confirmed security breakdowns that paved the way for an attempted assassination of Donald Trump, while also revealing new information — including that agents never directed local police to secure the roof of the building used by the gunman,” the Washington Post reports.
GOP Campaign Staffer Resigns After Scuffle with Police
“A campaign aide for Ohio U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno resigned Friday in connection with a confrontational encounter between the staffer and police officers during the arrest of another Moreno campaign aide on suspicion of drunken driving,” WKYC reports.
“Colton Henson, whom the campaign described as a contracted political adviser, resigned the same day the Chillicothe-based newspaper Scioto Valley Guardian published police body-camera video showing Henson arguing with police officers as they arrested Moreno campaign finance assistant Abby Wright in the Pickaway County village of Ashville on Sept. 1.”
Charges Coming in Iranian Hack of Trump Campaign
“Federal authorities are preparing to file criminal charges over Iran’s alleged hack and leak attack against Donald Trump’s presidential campaign,” the Washington Post reports.
“The FBI investigation has focused on an online persona named ‘Robert’ who contacted American reporters, these people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to describe details of an ongoing investigation. That persona shared campaign documents they falsely claimed to have obtained while working with the Trump campaign.”
Father Begs Politicians to Stop Using Son to Hate Haitians
“The father of the 11-year-old boy killed last year when a minivan driver struck his school bus spoke at Tuesday’s Springfield City Commission meeting, again pleading with the community to stop using his son’s name as part of hateful statements toward Haitian immigrants,” the Springfield News-Sun reports.
Said Nathan Clark: “I wish that my son, Aiden Clark, was killed by a 60-year-old white man. I bet you never thought anyone would say something so blunt, but if that guy killed my 11-year-old son, the incessant group of hate-spewing people would leave us alone.”
New York Times: Grieving Ohio father tells Trump and Vance to stop talking about his son.
Feds Say White Supremacists Plotted Assassinations
“Federal prosecutors in California unsealed an indictment Monday charging two people with leading an online group of white supremacists that maintained a list of high-profile targets to assassinate and urging group members to commit hate crimes,” CBS News reports.
January 6 Cannot Be Denied in the Courtroom
“Inside Washington’s federal courthouse, there’s no denying the reality of Jan. 6, 2021. Day after day, judges and jurors silently absorb the chilling sights and sounds from television screens of rioters beating police, shattering windows and hunting for lawmakers as democracy lay under siege,” the AP reports.
“But as he seeks to reclaim the White House, Donald Trump continues to portray the defendants as patriots worthy of admiration, an assertion that has been undercut by the adjudicated truth in hundreds of criminal cases where judges and juries have reached the opposite conclusion about what history will remember as one of America’s darkest days.”
“The cases have systematically put on record — through testimony, documents and video — the crimes committed, weapons wielded, and lives altered by physical and emotional damage. Trump is espousing a starkly different story, portraying the rioters as hostages and political prisoners whom he says he might pardon if he wins in November.”
Capitol Rioter’s Sentence Reduced
“A federal judge on Wednesday shaved 15 months off of a Jan. 6 defendant’s sentence, a direct result of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling limiting the scope of an obstruction charge used to prosecute hundreds of rioters,” Politico reports.
A New Crime Tracking Tool
Semafor: “Crime is one of the biggest national debates that we have the least timely data on. Official crime statistics from the FBI are notoriously slow, while outside efforts to track trends are often incomplete.”
“A new project, the Real Time Crime Index, that launched today is looking to change the policy conversation by gathering representative data from over 300 state and local agencies and updating them on a six-week lag. It finds murder down 15.7% this year, continuing a post-pandemic trend.”
10-Year Old Accused of Killing Former Mayor
A 10-year-old boy has been arrested after allegedly fatally shooting former Minden, Louisiana mayor Joe Cornelius Sr. and his daughter on Sunday morning, KSLA News reports.
Ex-Aide to Kathy Hochul Charged with Being Chinese Agent
“A former deputy chief of staff to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was charged Tuesday with acting as an undisclosed agent of the Chinese government, federal prosecutors revealed in a sprawling indictment,” the AP reports.
Former Top Aide to New York Governor Arrested
“FBI agents early Tuesday arrested a former deputy chief of staff to Gov. Kathy Hochul and her husband at their home on a cul-de-sac on Long Island’s North Shore,” the New York Times reports.
“Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn are expected to ask a judge to unseal an indictment against the aide, Linda Sun, 40, and her husband, Chris Hu, 41, later in the day.”
FBI Blasted Over Handling of Child Sexual Abuses Cases
“Three years after the Justice Department’s internal watchdog slammed the FBI for its failures in the case of convicted sex predator and former U.S. gymnastic team doctor Larry Nassar, a new audit released Thursday finds that the bureau is still failing to protect children who have been sexually abused,” NBC News reports.
Ex-Politician Found Guilty of Murdering Journalist
Former Las Vegas county politician Robert Telles was found guilty Wednesday of murdering a local journalist who had written critically about him, the Las Vegas Review Journal reports.
District Attorney Steve Wolfson said the verdict should “send a message.”
He added: “And that message is a clear message that any attempts to silence the media or to silence or intimidate a journalist will not be tolerated.”
Trump Shooter Searched for Info on the Conventions
“The man who attempted to assassinate Donald Trump last month had searched for information on both the Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention before ultimately opening fire on the former president’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, suggesting that the Trump event was a ‘target of opportunity,” NBC News reports.
First Capitol Rioter to Breach U.S. Capitol Sentenced
“Michael Sparks, who was the first defendant to breach the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to 53 months in prison Tuesday for felony and misdemeanor charges,” CBS News reports.
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