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+ The liberal group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed its opposition to the Justice Department's motion to stay a federal judge's order to release the document, which laid out the legal rationale for essentially clearing former pres-ident Tr*mp of wrongdoing in relation to the special counsel investigation. + The DOJ said this week it would be appealing the order from District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, though it apologized in response to her accusations that former Attorney General William Barr had been "disingenuous" and asked her to stay her decision while it filed an appeal. + In a brief filed on Friday (5-28-2021), CREW accused the DOJ of seeking to protect its "parochial interest in preventing embarrassing information from becoming public that would cast the agency and individual agency actors in a bad light." + "By contrast, continuing to deprive the public of critical information to evaluate the conduct of former Attorney General Barr and former pres-ident Tr*mp, who still plays an outsize role on the political stage and has yet to be held accountable for his many misdeeds in and since leaving office, would cause harm to Plaintiff and the public," the court filing reads. "Under any
analysis, the public interest in disclosure outweighs any interest DOJ has in continuing to keep this information secret." + The Justice Department revealed its intention to appeal Jackson's decision this week.  "In retrospect, the government acknowledges that its briefs could have been clearer, and it deeply regrets the confusion that caused," the DOJ said in a court filing Monday (5-24-2021). + The decision disappointed Tr*mp critics and Democrats in Congress who had called on the new administration not to block the document's release following Jackson's blistering decision earlier this month. + CREW filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in 2019, seeking to obtain a memo prepared for Barr, that is said to lay out the reasoning for the former attorney general's conclusion that the conduct described in the report from former special counsel Robert Mueller did not support obstruction of justice charges against Tr*mp. + Jackson had accused the DOJ of misrepresenting the Mueller report's conclusions to the public in 2019 during the brief period after it had been submitted to the department but before it had been released to Congress.  She also criticized the department's attorneys for misrepresenting the memo in a way that would support keeping it out of public view. special counsel 
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Campo is huge b/c yrs pres - xa blankenship - site is at "blankenship"This site is a good picture of link from yrs to po - blankenship runs ipi Blankenship is exec dir of ipi - huge - xa rauners hires 2018 2017 scso report lists tru and deputies - xa rushton art it - 11/1 - koester - and see colin bruce for cdil judges rel to usattys - note also isp alj narup - landlord jurkanin - wes barr sembler tr - bull moose - bully - whigs - semper vigilans - wide awakes - ierc - xa team lift - rosemarie long - res - barr x2 yes - barr y barr - bob marley - precinct 10 - x - reticle 24/7 - 123 oclock rock - happy days are here again - bob gray has a gavel collection - chamber ic - 233 mp and links to spd - scso - gillette - steil - timm and lopian - fuel specialists - note vanhoos does fleet vehicles - Cando site is good - note prola is chamber pres and roa pres - other po links - but see esp dragoo - 912 crossroads - brahler - mccann - For the scso dirt specifically see site "dirt" this site is imp - "shgcoaches" link to leonard - and see "shgfootball" site - and note madonia at security bank - prola link - shg football names at that site - xa caths in general - at caths site - note esp kcs - vala and link to cravens and cellini - xa spk usccb hk spkattys - hecla nethercutt - clute - prince - preston - mitchell jessen - riverside - zeman - addiction frame - spfld links - ak hanson - cifa - hefferon - xa lam usattys - op cunningham - top gun - note also that spk has bunn link - bunn is the - sembler - nam - baiseball - geo w bunn - cofer black - kofi anon - wide awakes - whigs 2p - ipi - bunnhad warehouse ibt and trucks hit me w/ chem - xa bressan on the dirt links this site also is links from scrp to po and ing - house I stayed was on boone - that place was really bad - note also that guy that broke my nose to link up the fibromyalgia to bacterial coinfection in nostrils - sleep deprivation weakens immunity and creates conditions nec for pain - other infection may be in gut or anywhere else - xa mcds poison - henkel - kjell ama - carlyle - crabtree - franchises terminix chemlawn - ffa - fs - farm bureau - zito has franchises - xa celnet ovp - lon chainey - terr frame - 953 - Noonan blankenship - noonan is scb - kcs -see "dash" site -llcc soccer coach & pres of panther homeowners - hart link - panther also has swimmers - xa riggle - gray is bdmbr of llcc - xa ibhe alzina - bobandbill are teachers at shs - ioicc islinked to doe - xa noonan capranica comcast carlyle - dutton bonilla - tx hou - ports hanson - cleat - gal veston  - wal - deps and recruiters - "Teaparty" talks about links from dragoo and pols - rove crossroads - to the the po - Xa brahler - Gillette page - links dukett to gillette - gillette is ing and scso -
Scso
Boes - dragoo - steil - durr - karhliker -
Xa ing - gillette - ROyER - erve - keen - xa spd links to ing - celletti - cl&e - vala/gray - mrt - wal badgers - nsa - schweska - yrs - caths -
Scso -
Those guys that won’t work w/ koester - trouble - the po is not an uninterested party in this thing - they got busted talking about hitting me w/ chem - sleep deprivation - “wide awakes” - glyphosates - glu - they are not impartial - and they “disagree” w/ the court ? -
Ilfop pres is karhliker -xa royer - karl kemme - 404 chem btn cl&e - cletus - kjell - scb irve - ierc - karhliker info is at "scsodefendants" site and see ilfopngaoi - note esp link from dragoo to the po - 912 group rove - roddavis - and see isp gnuteck - "ilfopngaoi" site is link from scso to ing - lots there - "spddefendents"
Linkage b/t pols - scso - ing - dod - recruiters -
Boes - auburn - eric hall - roddavis - mrt - shriners - xa hawrelak - denzler - chamber - lumber - mta - jasmon - boes -
Xa steil - sfd - iema - irve - busted for 3d shift sleep deprivation and still on the job -
Police unions - ron stone - pbpa - xa dia - foia request - 2006 retirees -
Hayes
I think hayes is the pedophile frame
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Manci - moriconi - gambling -
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Boes -
Auburn
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GB0L5AsG5PSFTVaFvYeLDu5SQN83Fn2EVlHwuh1jfKk/edit?usp=sharing
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Dinardo link - illini cc swimmers
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Steil is at “steilextensions” page
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17D6CpX_qZQKSXaVNPOeNG1UT2hGQFHLBEJ541D_NxNQ/edit?usp=sharing
OPERATIONS DIVISION Captain Cheryllynn Williams
In 2017, there were 41,344, incidents in Sangamon County where deputies either initiated a law enforcement service or were dispatched to a call.
There was a lot of movement in the operations division in 2017. In April, Will Brooks, Jordan Cox, and Ryan Kuntzi were hired as a Sangamon County Deputies. Deputy Brooks began the Field Training Program immediately due to prior law enforcement training, and Deputies Cox and Kuntzi began the Illinois State Police Recruit Class. Sergeant Andy Danes was transferred from second shift to the Investigations Division in August. Detective Nancy Finley was promoted to Sergeant and transferred to second shift. Deputy Travis Dalby was transferred from second shift to Crime Prevention in March. Deputy Andrew Brashear was transferred from first shift to the Investigations Division in November.
In June, Deputy Knox retired after 25 years of service. His humor and kindness will be missed.
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13 (law enforcement motto)
SUPERVISORS:
Lt. E. Knowski
Sgt. J. Tapscott
Lt. R. Steil
Sgt. A. Mayfield Lt. W. Cearlock Sgt. W. Wooden
Sgt. N. Finley
Sgt. J. Boesdorfer
Sgt. D. Miller
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DEPUTIES:
S. Butterfield
D. Timm
D. Howse C. Law T. Koester B. Baughman
T. Roderick
A. Cline D. Dickason M. Garst A. Womack J. Bartello M. Long
S. Wieland
J. Budd B. Stapleton G. Harney B. Tweryon
D. Guernsey
B. Fleck A. Robinson Ja. Hayes M. Wilkin
N. Campo
J. Hanson A. Smith A. Jahns J. Smith E. Maulding S. Matli M. Powell M. Tudoreanu
T. Sommer
A. Henton A. Finigan
Deputies listed in bold text are Identification Technicians, and in italic are Accident Reconstructionist.
11/7
Saw that there is a sommer thats ilga
Sommer - is keith sommer 91 dist - il house dem - naperville - related to tim sommer scso tru - and see sommer fa vs as brandt mgr - aux police - link from sommer fam to homer - note also sommer as harper mgmt - cronister ipma - gop coalition - perrt pierce
NYmag JEFF SESSIONS 4:52 P.M.Attorney General Jeff Sessions Resigns at Trump’s RequestBy Eric Levitz@EricLevitz Out of Session. Photo: Pat Greenhouse/Boston Globe via Getty Images
Jeff Sessions has tendered his resignation, at the president’s request. Less than 24 hours after the 2018 midterms drew to a close, Donald Trump has forced his first attorney general out of his administration, clearing the way for a man who has publicly accused Robert Mueller of taking the Russia investigation “too far” — and mused that a new attorney general could thwart his probe by denying it funding — to become the Justice Department’s interim leader.
We are pleased to announce that Matthew G. Whitaker, Chief of Staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions at the Department of Justice, will become our new Acting Attorney General of the United States. He will serve our Country well....
....We thank Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his service, and wish him well! A permanent replacement will be nominated at a later date.
As a member of Trump’s 2016 campaign, Sessions was forced to recuse himself from the Justice Department’s investigation of ties between that campaign and the Russian government. The president has long decried Sessions for refusing to subordinate this ethical obligation to his (imaginary) duty to immunize the commander-in-chief from legal liabilities. But Matthew Whitaker has no conflict of interest in the Russia case. And although he will not (immediately) inherit direct supervision of the Mueller investigation, he will have the power to seal records, withhold funding, and disrupt the probe by other means — as Whitaker himself once explained in his capacity as a CNN talking head:
Appearing on CNN in July 2017 — before he was in his current position as Sessions’s chief of staff —
Whitaker mused about a scenario in which Trump might fire Sessions and replace him with a temporary attorney general.
Whitaker noted that federal regulations still gave the attorney general power over the budget for a special counsel.
That temporary replacement,
he then said,
could move to choke off Mueller’s funding.
“So I could see a scenario where Jeff Sessions is replaced with a recess appointment,” Whitaker said, “and that attorney general doesn’t fire Bob Mueller, but he just reduces his budget to so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt.”
Whitaker is a former U.S. Attorney and 2014 Senate candidate in Iowa who joined the Justice Department last fall. Here are a few other things that he has publicly claimed to believe:
• Robert Mueller has no legitimate authority to investigate the Trump Organization’s finances, and if he does (which, he has), “then this would raise serious concerns that the special counsel’s investigation was a mere witch hunt.”
• Donald Trump was right to fire James Comey — because James Comey should have prosecuted Hillary Clinton:
Comey’s announcement last July that he would not recommend prosecution of Hillary Clinton for violations of the Espionage Act were a shock to many in law enforcement both inside the FBI and out…[H]is pronouncement that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring such a case was just wrong, and I said so publicly at the time. I was a federal prosecutor for five years and was proud to serve in the Department of Justice, and I would’ve brought that case.
Clinton set up an entire secret, unsecured communications structure outside of the government she was charged with serving at the highest level; she was the Secretary of State. Classified information that, in the wrong hands, could potentially bring harm to our country – and many in service to our country — was available to be appropriated.
(Whitaker has never called for any investigations into — let alone prosecutions of — the Trump administration’s many, many, many violations of information security protocol.)
• All federal judges should be “people of faith” who take “a biblical view of justice.”
• There shouldn’t have been an independent counsel’s investigation into Russian interference because there wasn’t such an investigation into the Obama administration’s many scandals:
Calls for an independent counsel or commission to investigate allegations that Russia tried to interfere with our elections ring hollow when similar calls for special counsels during the scandals of the Obama administration were dismissed out of hand by the same people making these demands now.
So, clearly, Matthew Whitaker would make a sober, fair-minded, and trustworthy overseer of the Justice Department’s transformation into Donald J. Trump’s private detective agency.
11/10
Saw this today at the library
"Just trying to help me out" ?
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Cory Booker’s 911 CallsBy
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September 13, 2018 10:49 AM
Sen. Cory Booker at a Senate Judiciary hearing, March 2018 (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
Tuesday
Start Call
911 Operator: This is the 911 operator, what is your emergency?
Cory Booker: This is Senator Cory Booker. I want to report a crime. No, wait, a series of crimes. I want to report nothing less than an entire criminal enterprise that has the tri-state area in its grip.
911 Operator: Sir, is this an emergency?
Cory Booker: I can’t believe you’re asking me that question. Is it an emergency? Yes!
911 Operator: Sir, what is your location?
Cory Booker: I understand why you’re asking that question. That’s the procedure, right? The rules and regulations of the whole 911 power dynamic. But you have to understand. I am in danger here. My life is in danger, just by dropping this stunning bombshell. I am exposing a vast and violent criminal organization — I call it “organized crime,” and sidebar: If you use that phrase please credit me — and despite the danger — and I’ll admit it, the fear — of paying the ultimate price, I am willing to stand up and speak the truth.
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911 Operator: Sir, is this an emergency?
Cory Booker: There is an organized group of criminals in the tri-state area, some call it “the Mafia,” and they control illegal activities such as gambling, prostitution, drug peddling — though to be fair, one of the heads of the so-called “Five Families” has resisted entering into this arena — and they are about to move west, to the sleepy cowboy town of Las Vegas, Nevada — are you writing this down?
911 Operator: Sir, is this an emergency?
Cory Booker: Well, it’s not an emergency emergency.
911 Operator: The 911 line is reserved for actual emergencies, sir.
End Call
Thursday
Start Call
911 Operator: This is the 911 operator, what is your emergency?
Cory Booker: This is Senator Cory Booker. I have reason to believe that the class of medications known as “opioids” are currently being abused throughout the country, with special concentration in post-industrial areas in the Rust Belt and the Appalachian Valley.
911 Operator: Sir, is this an emergency?
Cory Booker: People don’t want to talk about it. It’s something you don’t hear about. Maybe because the people currently suffering under the crisis — and yes, I call it a “crisis” and I’m aware that fashionable pundits will call me crazy or delusional — but because the victims of this crisis are poor and working-class, the entire problem is being ignored and swept under the rug. No longer!
911 Operator: Again, sir, is this an emergency?
Cory Booker: You’re not listening. I am going to blow the lid off this thing! Consequences be damned!
End Call
Sunday
Start Call
911 Operator: This is the 911 operator, what is your emergency?
Cory Booker: This is Senator Cory Booker. I want to report that the Twin Towers in Manhattan’s downtown financial district have been struck by what appear to be two passenger jets that have been hijacked by terrorists.
911 Operator: Sir, what is your current location?
Cory Booker: It doesn’t matter where I am, don’t you see? The point is, the buildings are burning. And I am racing there to rescue whoever I can.
911 Operator: Sir, are you reporting a current fire emergency?
Cory Booker: Will I be in personal danger? Yeah, sure, I guess. Does that matter to me? Are you kidding? I don’t even think that way. I am going to run into those burning buildings and save every life I can, and if people call me “hero” or “brave,” so be it.
911 Operator: Sir, please give me your current location and the location of the emergency.
Cory Booker: Downtown Manhattan. Twin Towers.
911 Operator: Sir, the Twin Towers were destroyed 17 years ago. Current­ly at that location is what is called the Freedom Tower, a high-end retail mall, and a moving memorial to the victims of the terror attack and the first responders who lost their lives during the rescue.
Cory Booker: Yes. Yes, I knew that. But I don’t think any of that lessens my personal heroism. And if I could just add, at this juncture —
End Call
Monday
Start Call
911 Operator: This is the 911 operator, what is your emergency? Wait a minute. Is this Cory Booker?
Cory Booker: Maybe. Why do you ask?
911 Operator: Sir, you have been asked to stop making 911 calls.
Cory Booker: Can I just — this one — I’m serious about this one — look, I know, okay, that sometimes I’ve been a little late with some of this stuff —
911 Operator: Sir, there are emergencies waiting to —
Cory Booker: Can I finish? Seriously. This is a real one.
911 Operator: Okay. Fine. What is your emergency?
Cory Booker: Tropical Storm Katrina is building into a Category 5 hurricane off the Gulf Coast. If it hits the levees along Lake Pontchartrain, just above New Orleans’ Ninth Ward —
911 Operator: Sir, stop.
Cory Booker: I am heading down there to personally reinforce those levees and save the city.
911 Operator: Stop.
Cory Booker: Is my life in danger? Yes. Am I quote unquote a hero for doing this? Those are your words, not mine.
End Call
11/10
11/11
You mean youre not just trying to help me out?
11/11
noll links to milhiser - doj
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-c3ElzUYfYLe90yv9sMXr-n8APRhyqDhghzwT5VaBh4/edit?usp=sharing
11/12
Bunn
Bunn - owns things
Airport - utils - bunn capitol - sysco - coffee - coffee link is baise - denzler - mark denzler - richet audio network - natl rev - re & re - moo - curtright - co springs - federated - denver - dobie - aussie - op - cunningham - baseball - hic - top gun - joker - academies - ecole - sylvanus - pompeo - elotes - expo book store - identity theft - credit report - cifa - heffe ron - bradley bunn - natsec personell - nsa - dm - bunn is chigop - and sd - oc lincs - ridgely farmers - trash talk - bizcon - nix - san clemente - loft girl - loft as radicalization frame - oclincs chris cox - house on pch - ala - xa sd mitrovich - ibt - sangamo - watches meters - celnet - lanphier - bioluminescence - zinc finger protocol - sangamo bioscience - icc - elec hou/ca - sempra - the tanned guy - drives the bus - the crash - wachovia - chris cox - oclincs - they get away w/ things you can't even imagine - theyre good - there brand is fear - thats whos doing this to me -
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11/13
Mental illness frame This was used as an excuse to hit me w/ chem - it was argued that stimulants that kept me from getting sleep - were simply misapplied "medication" the amount was wrong - stim was said to have antidepressant qualities - according to the scso scb chosen md - note esp cit scso - xa danger to myself - suicide frame - they put me jail for two reasons - they hit w/ pain and cocaine and said I could leave if I went to the hosp - otherwise I had to stay in jail - they kept me in hosp for another month so they could diagnose me paranoid schizophrenic - and keep me ever buying a gun
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They lost this arg bdly - not fooling anyone
Gail noll was cdil div chief civil - during schock - w/ bruceD
Dennis Delaneyto me
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Gail noll was cdil div chief civil - during schock - w/ bruce Thats why the bruce interest - they pull his crim stuff - emails bt bruce & usatty - cringed during cross x - was right about first trial - used to undermine real effort at trial - xa request for documents by us house comte re mueller - xa timeline - Bernard Schoenburg: Sgro to seek 8th four-year term as Park Board president Posted Nov 10, 2018 at 5:01 PM New job for Noll GAIL NOLL, who is married to JOHN MILHISER, the new U.S attorney for the Central District of Illinois, still works for the Department of Justice, but has changed jobs. The move was required so Noll is not working for her husband, said SHARON PAUL, spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office. Effective at the end of October, Noll began a temporary duty detail to the department's Office of Legal and Victim Programs as a financial litigation and bankruptcy program specialist. Her office is now in the federal courthouse in downtown Springfield — next door to the capital city office of the U.S. attorney. Noll became an assistant U.S. attorney in 2011 and has been chief of the district's civil division since 2015. DAVE HOFF, who is based in Urbana and is a longtime assistant U.S. attorney in the civil division, has taken over duties as acting civil chief for the district. aron schock judge - colin bruce - linked to cdil usatty Maybe they never wanted to go after that guy - trial used to destroy chance of prosecution later by feds - Why are they looking at this guy Sun-Times Shop DOWNSTATE ILLINOIS 08/21/2018, 02:52pm ByAssociated Press CHICAGO — A federal judge in two of the highest profile criminal cases in Illinois has been removed from hearing all his cases after it was revealed that he had exchanged emails with a paralegal at the U.S. attorney’s office in Springfield in which he commented on a trial he was overseeing. Colin Bruce has been presiding over former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock‘s corruption case
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11/17
Cit - mental illness frame - is true
Glu - glyphosate - have stimulant properties -
Argued that used as antidepressants - suicide frame comes from siuc alums - spfld people - I was represented by mental illnes P&A - beret - po uses arg that I might be mental to justify chem - it becomes an issue that sets a precedent - even if I was mentally ill - and im not - I dont think - they shouldn't be able to do that - you cant let them do that - thats why the beret
11/21
The thing about the 15 yr old is true - coal trucks - and the train chem - is that atrain horn - and see ecole - military academies - hammer - consent gavel - ldrshp
And note gonet at airport - bunn fbo - garrett landmark - noll - lincoln as surveyor- xa lincoln site - lincoln capitol airport - terr frame - garrett exraordinary rendition - 33rd -233 mp - knights - horacemann - homeier- airport fd - redpath - 183 fw pilots - mechs - fuel specialists timm lopian - and see generally coal site peabody blankenship - reliant -
    Search That long art - w/ the high prices - aug 2018 p46 D Dennis Delaney to me 6 minutes agoDetails That long art - w/ the high prices - aug 2018 p46 Art supposed to be based on mannafort link Xa drywall - eagle skin gloves -- Sent from Fast notepad
Colin bruce Hes an obama pick but sides w/ scrp cdil uatty Schock trial hangs - cringed during cross x -- Sent from Fast notepad
Esgr - grease - john travolta - lightning - mi - civaff - res - eminence gris - eminence front - caths - pope - usccb - paprocki - ipi - a civil affair - comida - 53 - consent - green light - go - p - op - organophosphates - heffe ron - cunningham - bass - ima - mark dennis lure - -- Sent from Fast notepad
Airport - cap 115 - bunn - garrett - landmark - carlyle - xa gillette - terr frame - follows - turn signal late - professional courtesy - link from airport - ing - scso - 233 mp - spd - glu - 24/7 - airport security - names - xa 183 fw - fuel specialists - and see landmark extraordinary - xa landmark skube - noll ford - romney - mi - prince - lincoln 33rd - celletti - see esp airport fd - names - gleason - lgpd chtham - landmark is next to meier - 183 myer - golda - metro goldwyn - meier security - panther off duty - landmark emps - mechs and honda - iam - xa links to ing - landmark do our does glu when on west side - bunn Lincoln was surveyor - landmark - kingtech next to surveyer museum on downtown square - landmark -- Sent from Fast notepad
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The thing about some 15 yr old is true? Terry white - sc repub network - dcfs investigtors - clearance - vigilantism - swatting - chem - xa pedophile on phone - red hair lady guard - and see generally -trophies - arson - terr - homicidal threats & public officials - note also caci in spfld wordplay and so 2nd st - gina larkin city hr - hamburger dans - prescott bloom bldg - This stuff is right - pedophile frame mobilizes chem from kcs - shriners - caths - link b/t caci and caci - ever vigilant wide awakes - sleep deprivation - ierc -- Sent from Fast notepad
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Gonet He was education analyst before house staff aprop dir And was bd of regents fical officer / analyst 83-87 then aprop then gov depty c/s thompson - note esp network chair/pres and dcfs dir - and education links - xa ift/aft - ibhe - bob and judy - ioicc is education linked and see judy as iep - gavel tiempo - ecole - xa shs cellini - el simpsones - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WUq2ot38bjhG4P2HtnqkaAJVx6gQhco5lH-jhOJnaRQ/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=101614704637656207566 Gonet is coal trucks Coal trucks do chem - cwlp - coal - landes is mta - xa jasmon - scrp - renfrow - awoi - vince - elzea - boesdorfer - see esp jasmon and scrp links and note generally - mta is chamber - gray - see also sempra scambo gonet is icc and cwlpdir reliant - "timing the market" and note generallybunn owned - literally owned outright - cilco - if im not mistaken - sold to ameren stl - cwlp is one of the very few cities that generates its own power - contract out the dist to ameren now - ibew and forestry guys do chem - ruby elec - b&b - lightning - tcb - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dkFDT5UJCvRwbl0QjCN8mqJ6s7A4cSWDtRtf9r6Eaw4/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=101614704637656207566 League bowler spring field https://docs.google.com/document/d/17x6S2S86Ko43NGeHWE0IUfqO6N4uEQNC5Uszpi1c-_4/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=101614704637656207566 Blankenship wife works at mines and minerals - blankenship works at il employees retirement system - is this like trs for state workers? Xa blankenship and ipi link - dir - and pres scyrs - and chair scb scrp - -- Sent from Fast notepad
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Black beauty coal jacket - softball team - coal trucks - mood indigo coltrane - atl - norfolk & way - is that a train horn - trains put out chem moved to park - sidetrack outside town - hit me anywhere in town - im the only one hurt b/c im hypersensitive - b/c exposure for decades and mcds poison - black knight - horacemann - centaurs - acherman - like coal trucks - ibt grievance documents emps coerced to chem - xa boes - lippold - landes - mta jasmon - coal cwlp security - ecole - consent - military academies - terr frame - partisans - ierc - doj burkhardt - kohl bros - just trying to help me out - helping people mostly - clockwork - vala - mandarians - intel - academics ift - Guy in spfld on bus to meijer - chest pain big - black beauty coal -- Sent from Fast notepad
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Steve martin - iron balls mcginty - honore debalzac - denny hastert - tony sacco - defs argue that at some point in my life I was given some drug that reduces the pain caused by organophosphates and other chem - possibly a trip my family took to el paso when I was a child - they dont argue that I knew about this - at the time or even later in my life - I still have no reason to believe it could be true - its possible that a legal judgement based on my pain caused by poison/op etc - could be limited by some pain killing substance introduced into my body without me knowing anything about it - this is where I say - I have a lot of people trying to tell me a lot of things - most of them are hard to believe - including this - this is also where I would point out that I have also been led to believe that the defs or agents sympathetic to them - have had access to my thought process for about 20 years - thats why the homelessness - outdoors homeless - so they can talk to me while I sleep - and maybe ask me questions - this makes sense to me b/c I notice that sometimes things change after I sleep - I have things that are bad and that reach top of mind in ways that others - hard to describe - I could be wrong - if it is true - they have had a long time to determine whether I was being truthful - see also andy gillespie - uncle drew - gilligan - aussie - dobie - xa
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re grandparents - rico - the thing that seems to be important is that in order for that to be true - the people doing this to me would know that - they would have to know that - and then they still do this to me - they would have to be unrealistically evil - I know some people that are republicans - they aren't much different than dems - they wouldn't allow the murder of my grandparents and not want something done about it - I think its a prank that cost too much and it they keep doubling down - and they think they just don't want to admit how this thing started
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+ U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered the release of a 2019 legal memorandum to a government accountability group, ruling the document prepared for then-Attorney General William Barr as he considered his decision did not qualify as protected attorney-client communications. + In the ruling, Jackson characterized the memo as a "strategic" document, asserting that Justice Department officials had come to a predetermined conclusion that Tr*mp would not be charged with obstruction of justice. + "In other words, the review of the document reveals that the Attorney General was not then engaged in making a decision about whether the Pres-ident should be charged with obstruction of justice; the fact that he would not be prosecuted was a given," Jackson ruled.  The memo had been requested by
the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government under the Freedom of Information Act. + Jackson, who presided over Mueller prosecutions involving former Tr*mp campaign manager Paul Manafort and political adviser Roger Stone, also aimed scathing criticism at Barr for his handling of the Mueller report, citing the attorney general's decision to issue a brief summary of its findings only days after receiving the voluminous 448-page report. ... + The decision by Barr and senior Justice Department leaders to clear the former pres-ident of obstruction prompted Tr*mp to declare that he had been vindicated even though Mueller had not made such a declaration. + Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a public records request seeking communications about the obstruction decision after Barr said that he and other senior officials had reached that conclusion (that sitting presidents could not be charged with obstruction of justice) in consultation with the Office of Legal Counsel, which provides legal opinions to executive branch agencies. + Jackson ruled that one of the documents requested by the group, described by a Justice Department official as an "untitled, undated draft legal analysis" that was submitted to the attorney general as part of his decision-making, was properly withheld from the group. But she ordered the release of the memo, which concluded that the evidence assembled by Mueller's team would not support an obstruction prosecution of Tr*mp.
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+ Once again, Barr is blatantly politicizing a branch of the U.S. federal government that used to pride itself on its independence and applying federal laws equally and without partisan influence.  Damn Tr*mp and his sycophants.
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+ Barr's quote reemerged shortly after Pres-ident Donald Tr*mp issued out a second wave of pardons to loyalists before heading to his residence in Florida for the holidays. + Of the 26 pardons announced late Wednesday, Tr*mp notably granted clemency to 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort and longtime adviser Roger Stone. Both Manafort and Stone declined to cooperate with federal prosecutors during special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. + The pardons cover only the crimes for which they have been found guilty, which means both remain under investigation by the Justice Department for their involvement with Russians during the 2016 election. + The pardons were met with criticism as it became clear how willing the
pre-sident is to use his powers to protect those who have a personal tie to him or have helped his political objectives. + Politicians on both sides of the aisle have called Tr*mp out for aggressively using his pardon powers in the 11th hour for those that have remained loyal during his presidency.
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+ Former Pres-ident Tr*mp really doesn’t like leakers.  He repeatedly deemed Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee throughout Tr*mp’s time in office, the worst of them.  ... + It probably shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, then, that in 2018 Tr*mp’s Justice Department secretly subpoenaed Apple for Schiff’s data as part of a leak investigation, The New York Times reported Thursday night (6-10-2021). + The DOJ also seized records of Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), another Intelligence Committee member, as well as former staffers and family members of the lawmakers, including a minor. + It is unclear exactly which leaks the DOJ was investigating, but the inquiry was related to media reports about Tr*mp’s ties to Russia, according to the Times. Regardless, the aggressive, unorthodox effort to pry into the private records of Democratic lawmakers is the latest of several disturbing examples of the Justice Department appearing to operate on behalf of Tr*mp’s political interests. + “Pres-ident Tr*mp repeatedly and flagrantly demanded that the Department
of Justice carry out his political will, and tried to use the Department as a cudgel against his political opponents and members of the media,” Schiff said in a statement. + “It is increasingly apparent that those demands did not fall on deaf ears. The politicization of the Department and the attacks on the rule of law are among the most dangerous assaults on our democracy carried out by the former Pres-ident.”In issuing the subpoenas, the Justice Department placed a gag order on Apple, preventing the company from disclosing to lawmakers that their data had been turned over until this year. + Swalwell said he was informed only last month that his data was obtained by the DOJ, and that the investigation had been closed.  “Of course it’s closed,” Swalwell said on CNN. “We did nothing but our jobs, and we followed the rules we were supposed to follow in our investigation… I’m not above the law, just like no one else is above the law, but to go after this many people … boy, that feels like a Donald Tr*mp-driven investigation and I don’t have a lot of faith in his ability to fairly interpret the law.” + CNN revealed on Wednesday (6-09-2021) that a similar gag order had been placed on its lawyers and others as the Justice Department attempted to secure the emails of one of its reporters.  The network’s lawyers had been battling with the DOJ’s efforts to obtain the emails for close to six months.  A federal judge told the DOJ its argument for access to Pentagon reporter Barbara Starr’s emails was “speculative” and “unanchored by facts,” according to CNN. + There’s more.  In May, The Washington Post learned that the Justice Department secretly obtained the phone records of some of its reporters who were covering the Mueller investigation, and attempted to obtain their email records. + “We are deeply troubled by this use of government power to seek access to the communications of journalists,” Cameron Barr, the Post‘s acting executive editor, said at the time. “The Department of Justice should immediately make clear its reasons for this intrusion into the activities of reporters doing their jobs, an activity protected under the First Amendment.” + Hold on, we’re still not done.  Earlier this month, the Biden administration disclosed that Tr*mp’s Justice Department had also secretly seized the phone records of four New York Times reporters over the course of four months in 2017. “Seizing the phone records of journalists profoundly undermines press freedom,” Executive Editor Dean Baquet said in a statement. “It threatens to silence the sources we depend on to provide the public with essential information about what the government is doing.” + The cascade of news that the DOJ attempted to seize the records of Tr*mp’s perceived enemies is more evidence of what was already apparent: that the Department of Justice was operating with the welfare of the former pres-ident in mind.  Multiple ethics groups have accused then-Attorney General William Barr of using his office to further political purposes, citing Barr’s mischaracterization of the Mueller report among other dubious actions that seemed to have been carried out with Tr*mp’s agenda in mind rather than, you know, justice. + It is unclear to what extent Tr*mp may have been personally directing some of these efforts, if he was at all.  But the news about the leak investigation does bring to mind the time then-Sen. Kamala Harris asked Barr if anyone from the White House had ever directed him to open an investigation. + For some strange reason, Barr didn’t seem to understand the question. + This isn’t the last we’re going to hear about corruption within Tr*mp’s Justice Department.  The Associated Press reported on Friday that Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco asked DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz to open an investigation into the data seizure. And that’s exactly what he’s going to do. + “The DOJ Office of the Inspector General is initiating a review of DOJ’s use of subpoenas and other legal authorities to obtain communication records of Members of Congress and affiliated persons,” Horowitz said later on Friday.
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+ The Justice Department during the Tr*mp administration sought records from Apple, Inc., relating to communications by House Intelligence Committee members as well as some of their aides and family members, a committee official said. + Apple in May notified individuals associated with the committee that the Justice Department had issued grand-jury subpoenas for their information in February 2018, the official said. + The committee immediately contacted the Justice Department for clarification and additional information, the official said, adding that the department informed the committee last month (May 2021) that the matter had been closed. + In 2018, Tr*mp administration officials had complained about leaks to the media regarding alleged ties between Russia and the Tr*mp presidential campaign.
+ Apple didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. + House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, both California Democrats, called for an investigation into the Justice Department’s pursuit of the communications data, first reported by the New York Times.  That newspaper reported that the records of at least a dozen people connected to the panel in 2017 and early 2018, including Mr. Schiff’s, were seized in the probe. + At the time of the subpoenas, then-pres-ident Donald Tr*mp and officials in his administration, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, were trying to locate the source of leaks about contacts between Russia and figures in Mr. Tr*mp’s 2016 election campaign.  Mr. Tr*mp’s second attorney general,          William Barr, renewed the leak investigations after taking office in 2019, directing a federal prosecutor from New Jersey to work on about a half-dozen cases, according to a person familiar with the matter. + Mr. Sessions, who had recused himself from the Russia investigation, declined to comment Mr. Barr also declined to discuss any subpoenas of lawmakers’ communications records. 
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+ In his last weeks in office, former Pres-ident Donald Tr*mp considered moving to replace the acting attorney general with another official ready to pursue unsubstantiated claims of election fraud, and he pushed the Justice Department to ask the Supreme Court to invalidate President Biden’s victory, people familiar with the matter said. + Those efforts failed due to pushback from his own appointees in the Justice Department, who refused to file what they viewed as a legally baseless lawsuit in the Supreme Court. Later, other senior department officials threatened to resign en masse should Mr. Tr*mp fire then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, according to several people familiar with the discussions. + Senior department officials, including Mr. Rosen, former Attorney General
William Barr and former acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall refused to file the Supreme Court case, concluding that there was no basis to challenge the election outcome and that the federal government had no legal interest in whether Mr. Tr*mp or Mr. Biden won the presidency, some of these people said. White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and his deputy, Patrick Philbin, also opposed Mr. Tr*mp’s idea, which was promoted by his outside attorneys, these people said. + “He wanted us, the United States, to sue one or more of the states directly in the Supreme Court,” a former administration official said. “The pressure got really intense” after a lawsuit Texas filed in the Supreme Court against four states Mr. Biden won was dismissed on Dec. 11, the official said. An outside lawyer working for Mr. Tr*mp drafted a brief that the then-pres-ident wanted the Justice Department to file, people familiar with the matter said, but officials refused. + After his Supreme Court plan got nowhere, Mr. Tr*mp explored another plan—replacing Mr. Rosen as acting attorney general with Jeffrey Clark, a Tr*mp ally in the department who had expressed a willingness to use the department’s power to help the former president continue his unsuccessful legal battles contesting the election results, these people said. + Mr. Tr*mp backed off that plan after senior Justice Department leadership threatened to resign en masse if the pres-ident actually had removed Mr. Rosen, people familiar with the discussions said. (Remainder omitted.)
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+ The unassuming lawyer who worked on the plan, Jeffrey Clark, had been devising ways to cast doubt on the election results and to bolster Mr. Tr*mp’s continuing legal battles and the pressure on Georgia politicians. Because Mr. Rosen had refused the president’s entreaties to carry out those plans, Mr. Tr*mp was about to decide whether to fire Mr. Rosen and replace him with Mr. Clark. + The department officials, convened on a conference call, then asked each other: What will you do if Mr. Rosen is dismissed? The answer was unanimous. They would resign. + Their informal pact ultimately helped persuade Mr. Tr*mp to keep Mr. Rosen in place, calculating that a furor over mass resignations at the top of the Justice Department would eclipse any attention on his baseless accusations of voter fraud. Mr. Tr*mp’s decision came only after Mr. Rosen and Mr. Clark made their competing cases to him in a bizarre White House meeting that two officials
compared with an episode of Mr. Tr*mp’s reality show “The Apprentice,” albeit one that could prompt a constitutional crisis. + The previously unknown chapter was the culmination of the president’s long-running effort to batter the Justice Department into advancing his personal agenda. He also pressed Mr. Rosen to appoint special counsels, including one who would look into Dominion Voting Systems, a maker of election equipment that Mr. Tr*mp’s allies had falsely said was working with Venezuela to flip votes from Mr. Tr*mp to Joseph R. Biden Jr. ... + When Mr. Tr*mp said on Dec. 14 that Attorney General William P. Barr was leaving the department, some officials thought that he might allow Mr. Rosen a short reprieve before pressing him about voter fraud. After all, Mr. Barr would be around for another week. + Instead, Mr. Tr*mp summoned Mr. Rosen to the Oval Office the next day. He wanted the Justice Department to file legal briefs supporting his allies’ lawsuits seeking to overturn his election loss. And he urged Mr. Rosen to appoint special counsels to investigate not only unfounded accusations of widespread voter fraud, but also Dominion, the voting machines firm. + Mr. Rosen refused. He maintained that he would make decisions based on the facts and the law, and he reiterated what Mr. Barr had privately told Mr. Tr*mp: The department had investigated voting irregularities and found no evidence of widespread fraud. + But Mr. Tr*mp continued to press Mr. Rosen after the meeting — in phone calls and in person. He repeatedly said that he did not understand why the Justice Department had not found evidence that supported conspiracy theories about the election that some of his personal lawyers had espoused. He declared that the department was not fighting hard enough for him. + As Mr. Rosen and the deputy attorney general, Richard P. Donoghue, pushed back, they were unaware that Mr. Clark had been introduced to Mr. Tr*mp by a Pennsylvania politician and had told the president that he agreed that fraud had affected the election results.Mr. Tr*mp quickly embraced Mr. Clark, who had been appointed the acting head of the civil division in September and was also the head of the department’s environmental and natural resources division. ... + As December wore on, Mr. Clark mentioned to Mr. Rosen and Mr. Donoghue that he spent a lot of time reading on the internet — a comment that alarmed them because they inferred that he believed the unfounded conspiracy theory that Mr. Tr*mp had won the election. Mr. Clark also told them that he wanted the department to hold a news conference announcing that it was investigating serious accusations of election fraud. Mr. Rosen and Mr. Donoghue rejected the proposal. + As Mr. Tr*mp focused increasingly on Georgia, a state he lost narrowly to Mr. Biden, he complained to Justice Department leaders that the U.S. attorney in Atlanta, Byung J. Pak, was not trying to find evidence for false election claims pushed by Mr. Tr*mp’s lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and others. Mr. Donoghue warned Mr. Pak that the president was now fixated on his office, and that it might not be tenable for him to continue to lead it, according to two people familiar with the conversation.
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+  And Mr. Barr said in a resignation letter, much of which was devoted to praising Mr. Tr*mp’s term, that the Justice Department was pursuing allegations of voter fraud. Mr. Barr had acknowledged earlier this month that the department has not found any evidence of widespread irregularities that would overturn the outcome of the election. +  A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to elaborate on what the department was doing to review fraud allegations or continue to pursue them. ... +  Mr. Barr brought the Justice Department closer to the White House than any attorney general in a half-century. Defying the distance that federal law enforcement officials have typically maintained from campaign politics, Mr. Barr spent the months leading up to the election echoing Mr. Tr*mp’s unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud. He also told an interviewer that the country would be “irrevocably committed to the socialist path” if the president were not re-elected.
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+  In their letter, the federal prosecutors -- career assistant U.S. attorneys from more than a dozen states across the country -- called for Barr to rescind a memorandum he sent earlier this week, telling Justice Department attorneys to launch election-related investigations if they suspect significant irregularities, the sources said. +  Justice Department policy has long urged federal law enforcement officials to refrain from engaging in politically charged investigative activity in the run-up to an election, and the new "policy change was not based in fact," the federal prosecutors wrote to Barr in their letter, first reported by The Washington Post. +  "We disagree with [your] argument that the impact of taking overt investigative and prosecutorial actions on the outcome of an election is greatly minimized after voting ends but before certification occurs," the letter to Barr said, adding that Barr's memorandum "thrusts career prosecutors into partisan politics." 
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+ In the campaign’s closing weeks, the presi-dent has intensified public calls for jailing his challenger, much as he did for Hillary Clinton, his opponent in 2016. Tr*mp has called Biden a “criminal” without articulating what laws he believes the former vice president has broken. + People familiar with the discussions say Tr*mp wants official action similar to the announcement made 11 days before the last presidential election by then-FBI Director James B. Comey, who informed Congress he had reopened an investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state after potential new evidence had been discovered. (Remainder omitted.)
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+ The Courant's Edmund H. Mahony reports that Nora Dannehy, according to her colleagues, is stepping down "at least partly out of concern that the investigative team is being pressed for political reasons to produce a report before its work is done." + Mahony explains: "Dannehy, a highly regarded prosecutor who has worked with or for (John) Durham for decades, informed colleagues in the U.S. Attorney's office in New Haven of her resignation from the Department of Justice by e-mail Thursday evening (9-10-2020). The short e-mail was a brief farewell message and said nothing about political pressure, her work for Durham or what the Durham team has produced, according to people who received it."
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+ The presi-dent’s calls for the Justice Department to target his political opposition in the heat of a presidential campaign is a jarring moment without precedent in modern American history. But it is in keeping with Tr*mp’s actions when he has faced adversity, which now includes testing positive for the coronavirus last week after for months minimizing the threat posed by a deadly virus that has killed more than 211,000 Americans. + “The behavior would be shocking in a normal presidency, but Tr*mp has literally been doing this for years,” Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith, a  Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration, said of Tr*mp’s calls to go after Democrats. “So it is reprehensible, but not shocking.”
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(an excerpt of story) by Spencer S. Hsu of The Washington Post. Published online 9-11-2020.
+ A retired federal judge accused the Justice Department on Friday (9-11-2020) of yielding to a pressure campaign led by Pres-ident Tr*mp in its bid to dismiss the prosecution of former national security adviser Michael Flynn for lying to federal investigators. + In a 30-page court filing in Washington, D.C., former New York federal judge John Gleeson called Attorney General William P. Barr’s request to drop Flynn’s case a “corrupt and politically motivated favor unworthy of our justice system.” + “In the United States, Presidents do not orchestrate pressure campaigns to get the Justice Department to drop charges against defendants who have pleaded guilty — twice, before two different judges — and whose guilt is obvious,” said Gleeson, who was appointed by the court to argue against the government’s request to dismiss the case. + Gleeson’s filing set the stage for a potentially dramatic courtroom confrontation Sept. 29 with the Justice Department and Flynn’s defense over
the fate of the highest-ranking Tr*mp adviser to plead guilty in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia investigation. Friday’s filings echo earlier arguments from Gleeson, who called the Justice Department’s attempt to undo Flynn’s conviction a politically motivated and “a gross abuse of prosecutorial power.” U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the District of Columbia set the hearing date after a federal appeals court upheld his authority to review and rule on the government’s dismissal request on Aug. 31. The hearing before Sullivan was selected from three dates proposed by the parties and is scheduled the same day as the first presidential debate between Tr*mp and Democratic nominee Joe Biden. + Flynn’s lawyer Sidney Powell on Friday called Gleeson’s filing “predictable and meaningless,” saying again that Flynn’s investigation was “corrupt from its inception.” + The Justice Department has argued that the executive branch has sole constitutional authority over prosecutorial decisions and that courts cannot “look behind” its decision-making or motives. + Flynn, 61, awaits sentencing after pleading guilty in December 2017 to lying in an FBI interview on Jan. 24 that year to conceal conversations during the presidential transition with Sergey Kislyak, then the Russian ambassador to the United States. The conversations related to securing potential relief from U.S. sanctions once Trump took office. Flynn repeated the lie to White House staff and Vice President Pence, leading to the firing of Tr*mp’s first national security adviser three weeks later. + Although Flynn cooperated with the Mueller probe and was prepared to be sentenced December 2018, he switched course after Mueller’s investigation ended and Barr took office last year. Flynn then accused prosecutors and his former attorneys of coercing him into pleading guilty and concealing FBI misconduct, claims that the department and Sullivan rejected. (Remainder omitted.)
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