Three calls, multiple threats
According to prosecutors, Miller called the Malden, Massachusetts, district office of Democratic U.S. Rep. Katherine Clark on Aug. 19, 2019, and said he was “willing to abolish government by spilling blood by taking out four to five Democrats,” including Clark.
Miller also said that he would “start shooting Black people to keep them in line if he had to,” prosecutors said. Miller told the staffer who took his call that they would also die in an upcoming civil war.
On Jan. 7 of this year, just one day after a mob supporting former President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol, Miller called U.S. Sen. Richard Burr’s office in Washington, D.C., and said he would “put a bullet” in Burr’s head.
West Virginia Woman Sentenced for Willful Retention of Top Secret National Defense Information and International Parental Kidnapping Details Written by Justice Department
Washington, DC - Elizabeth Jo Shirley, of Hedgesville, West Virginia, was sentenced Monday to 97 months of incarceration for unlawfully retaining documents containing national defense information and 36 months of incarceration for international parental kidnapping.
Shirley, 47, pleaded guilty to one count of willful retention of national defense information and one count of international parental kidnapping in July 2020. Shirley admitted to unlawfully retaining a National Security Agency (NSA) document containing information classified at the Top Secret/Secret Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) level relating to the national defense that outlines intelligence information regarding a foreign government’s military and political issues. Shirley also admitted to removing her child, of w
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A former Veterans Affairs Doctor in West Virginia, Jonathan Yates, has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting veteran patients. According to the plea documents, Yates rubbed the genitals of two veterans and digitally penetrated a third veteran’s rectum under the guise of legitimate medicine, when in fact he acted without a legitimate medical purpose. This conduct, performed while Yates was acting under color of law in his capacity as a VA physician and a federal employee, deprived the veterans of their constitutional right to bodily integrity and caused them pain. According to the plea documents, the veterans had sought treatment from Yates to manage chronic pain through osteopathic manipulative therapy. Several veterans addressed the court at sentencing, describing the trauma and mental anguish that Yates had caused them. Yates surrendered his medical licenses as a condition of his plea agreem
Those buying German Shepherd puppies for Bitcoin online are in for a ruff ride.
Puppy photos are undeniably irresistible but beware; researchers have uncovered a scheme selling fake German Shepherd puppies for Bitcoin, leaving buyers crushed and without a tiny fuzzy friend to cuddle on Christmas morning.
The scam was discovered by an intrepid researcher at Anomali, who got wind of the fake puppy offer and decided to investigate.
“When one of our researchers heard about this con, he dug deeper into it,” Gage Mele, researcher with Anomali, told Threatpost. “Because consumers are last-minute shopping ahead of the holidays and continuing to buy pets at a higher rate due to COVID-19 shelter-at-home restrictions, we issued a consumer alert.”