1. In his last day in office, the Carter administration abolished the Civil Service Exam for civil service hiring.
Friday, January 17, 2025
One of the Outrages of the Day - Political
Jan. 17, 2025
Mount Clemens — If Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) d simply rolled over and tapped the shoulder of the person at the next pillow over, the current state of Michigan politics might look very different. We may have had a different governor. We may have had functioning schools, affordable energy, or a growing economy. But we don’t have any of that.
Had Nessel done that, I certainly would not have had an ex-con standing in the lobby of the Macomb County Circuit Court earlier this week, hoisting his middle finger to my nose, his lawyer warning him not to do something stupid. But there he was, dear reader, giving me (and you) the one-finger salute. Shawn Wilmoth is charged with a raft of felonies in connection with the fake signature scandal of 2022. His dirty work, Nessel contends, led to five Republican contenders for governor getting the boot from the primary ballot—including former Detroit Police Chief James E. Craig, who was leading Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the polls.
The candidates had paid Wilmoth’s firm, First Choice Contracting LLC, hundreds of thousands of dollars to gather signatures for their nominating petitions. In the end, state election officials determined that tens of thousands of those signatures were fakes and forgeries. Squirming at the elevator doors, Wilmoth did not carry the look of a political mastermind. He looked like a worn-out carnival barker. He wore greasy hair, a leather biker vest, and a stain on his shirt. Why five candidates would hire Wilmoth is anybody’s guess. A simple internet search shows Wilmoth was convicted in Virginia in 2011 of election fraud, having instructed employees to fraudulently sign petition pages.
To this effect, Nessel offered a smug lecture to the hapless candidates at a June 2022 press conference, after announcing charges against Wilmoth. “I think that just googling some of these individuals would have seen things pop up from other states,” Nessel said. “Know who you are trusting with you money, your reputation and with your political future.”
That is very good advice. Very good advice, indeed. Advice so good that Nessel should have given it to her wife. As it happens, Nessel’s wife, Alanna Maguire, was co-chair of Fair and Equal Michigan, a campaign organized to enshrine gay rights into Michigan law. Fair and Equal hired Wilmoth’s firm in 2020 to gather 340,000 legitimate signatures. The group paid First Choice more than $1 million over a two month period, according to campaign finance filings.
A second firm, K2K Consulting, was paid an additional $250,000 by Fair and Equal to gather signatures during the same time period. K2K is the Democratic-connected firm that received a controversial no-bid Covid contract from the state. The deal was canceled once it became public.
When it was all said and done, election officials found that about 200,000 of the First Choice signatures were invalid for varying reasons: Signers didn’t exist in the voting rolls, some had incorrect or non-existent addresses, and some signatures that did not match those on file.
Ultimately, the gay rights proposal—like the Republican candidates after it—was blocked from the ballot. So why then did Nessel do nothing? Was it family embarrassment? Professional incompetence? Something more cynical?
“This guy is a walking crime wave,” said Fred Wszolek, a political strategist whose group Unlock Michigan was criminally investigated by the attorney general in 2020 for petition gathering activities. “He gets paid untold thousands of dollars for bogus signatures. He does it over and over again. You think Nessel would have dropped the anvil on this guy. It’s hard to figure.”
As for Wilmoth, his pretrial hearing was inexplicably delayed yet again. His next appearance is scheduled for March 10th.
https://enjoyer.com/why-did-dana-nessel-let-a-felon-collect-signatures-for-republicans-wife/
Jan. 11, 2025
It was just six days ago that the Ivor Caplin, the former Labour MP for Hove, emerged from obscurity to offer his thoughts on Elon Musk. Tony Blair’s former defence minister went on GB News last Sunday to offer his thoughts on the Tesla billionaire’s tweets about Keir Starmer and Jess Phillips. Such posts, Caplin declared, were ‘not acceptable’ and ‘it would be even more unacceptable if he was to become a serious and senior member’ of the Trump administration.
Fast forward less than a week and what has old Ivor been up to? It transpires that he was arrested today on suspicion of child sex offences after a sting by paedophile hunters.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ex-labour-mp-arrested-days-after-attacking-unacceptable-elon/
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5201845
Dec. 12, 2024
DC Council Member re-elected despite federal bribery charge.
Despite being arrested by the FBI on a federal bribery charge in August, White, a Democrat representing Ward 8, recently secured a third term on Election Day in a landslide victory. While the federal criminal case remains pending, the report, commissioned by an ad hoc committee and conducted by the law firm Latham & Watkins LLP, was submitted to the council on Monday following an independent probe into whether White violated applicable D.C. law, the D.C. Code of Conduct, or Council Rules. The council is meeting next Monday to deliberate the findings and consider whether to recommend sanctions against White.
The councilman has pleaded not guilty to allegations he accepted $156,000 in cash payments in exchange for using his position to pressure government employees at the Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (ONSE) and Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS) to extend several D.C. contracts. The federal complaint says the contracts were valued at $5.2 million and were for two companies to provide "Violence Intervention" services in D.C.
D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson established the ad hoc committee in August. White has declined multiple offers to meet with the committee since.
Councilman Kenyan McDuffie, who chairs the ad hoc committee, said the investigation found "substantial evidence" that White’s alleged conduct connected to the bribery claims violated several provisions of the D.C. Council’s Code of Official Conduct, FOX 5 DC reported. McDuffie said that the report does not support allegations White violated residency requirements outlined in the District of Columbia Home Rule Act of 1973.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dc-councilman-step-closer-facing-expulsion-after-law-firm-finds-he-violated-code-conduct
Nov. 24 Deporting a Paedophile Would Breach His Rights
Classified as political because ridiculous legislation allowed for the outcome in consequence for a disgusting crime.
A paedophile convicted of sexually assaulting his stepdaughter has been allowed to remain in the UK as deporting him back to Africa would breach his ECHR right to a “family life”
Nov. 16, 2024 House Member Indicted on Bribery by Foreign Entities
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) was indicted on money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy charges by a federal grand jury in Houston, Texas in early May 2024. He is alleged to have accepted nearly $600,000 from Azerbaijan and a Mexican commercial bank in order to influence U.S. policy. Despite facing federal charges for bribery and corruption, he was re-elected in November 2024.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cuellar
Nov. 14, 2024 Totally Irresponsible and Illegal Behavior of House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair (Quite Reassuring to the Public)
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/13/2024/house-foreign-affairs-chief-detained-by-airport-police
But undoubtedly he exercises good decisions regarding Foreign Affairs.
Nov. 14, 2024 NPR CEO (Recipent of Public Money) Sees Little Need for Truth
“I think our reverence for the truth might have become a bit of a distraction that is preventing us from finding consensus and getting important things done.”
— Katherine Maher (NPR CEO)
Musk has posted video in which Maher makes this statement.
Nov. 12, 2024 Member House of Representatives Wore Undeserved Combat Infantryman Badge 2024
Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, removed the Combat Infantryman Badge from his lapel Wednesday more than a month after it was revealed the Army revoked the award last year because he was never eligible for it in the first place.
But Nehls would not directly answer when reporters pressed him on whether he would never wear the pin again, instead blasting "vultures" in the media for focusing on the badge. Nehls has been under heavy criticism from veterans for weeks after CBS News and Guardian of Valor, a website focused on uncovering stolen valor, first revealed in May that the Army revoked Nehls' CIB in March 2023 because at the time he was awarded it in 2008, he served as a civil affairs officer, not an infantryman or Special Forces soldier. In order to be eligible for a CIB, a soldier must be an infantryman or Green Beret, be serving in those roles at the time of the award, and engage an enemy in direct ground combat.
While Nehls first enlisted in the Wisconsin National Guard in 1988 as an infantryman, his military occupational speciality in 2008 was civil affairs, making him ineligible for a CIB, according to documents published by Guardian of Valor.
A separate award established by the Army in 2005 known as the Combat Action Badge is essentially the same award but for soldiers in jobs outside infantry or Special Forces. Nehls was awarded a CAB in 2006 for a 2004 deployment to Iraq that no one is calling into question.
After it was revealed that his CIB was revoked, Nehls dug in his heels and refused to remove the pin from his lapel, casting himself as a victim of politics.
Earlier this month, he sent a letter to the Army demanding to know why the award was rescinded. On Tuesday evening, he released a statement with the same defiant tone he has maintained since May after apparently receiving a response from the Army.
Jan 30, 2024 NYC Council Member Lies about Police Stop, Hasn't Register Auto in NY, and Has Illegally Tinted Windows
New York City Councilman Yusef Salaam is facing calls to step down as head of the council’s influential public safety committee after a controversial traffic stop revealed he was motoring around the Big Apple with out-of-state license plates and alleged illegally tinted windows. Salaam is also taking heat over claims he embellished his Friday night encounter with an NYPD cop in Harlem, during which the officer pulled him over for the tinted windows but cut him a break when the lawmaker identified himself.
“This is damning,” City Councilman Robert Holden (D-Queens) said in a post on X. “An elected official with illegal tints and out-of-state plates, not legally registered, using his official title to evade the law. “Worse, he lied about the exchange until NYPD set the record straight,” Holden wrote. “CM Salaam should resign as Public Safety Chair.” The officer walked away after Yusef Salaam immediately identified himself as a city councilman on Friday night. AP
Salaam, one of the exonerated “Central Park Five,” has not responded to repeated requests for comment from The Post recently. However, Salaam’s office did confirm that he had Georgia license plates on his car until just this week — despite living in New York and holding office here for two years. According to Board of Elections records, Salaam registered to vote in the state on July 27, 2022, and had 30 days after that to transfer his Georgia vehicle registration to New York under the law. The lawmaker had those Peach State plates on his car on Friday when he was pulled over. According to police, Salaam was pulled over shortly before 6:30 p.m. while driving a blue sedan with his family inside — with the entire encounter captured on bodycam video. “As the video shows, throughout this interaction, the officer conducted himself professionally and respectfully,” the NYPD said in a statement over the weekend. “He followed all proper procedures, including procedures that were put in place after Detective Russell Timoshenko was shot and killed through tinted windows in 2007.” The bodycam footage shows the cop walking up to Salaam’s car, asking him to lower the tinted rear window, and then approaching him behind the wheel. Salaam immediately identifies himself as a city councilman, prompting the cop to wish him a good night and walk away, the footage shows.
But the councilman later griped in a statement that the officer told him, “We’re done here” and walked away — never telling him why he had been pulled over in the first place. According to the NYPD Patrol Guide and the city Administrative Code, police officers are not required to say why someone is being stopped on a low-level potential infraction like a tinted-window violation. “The stop was not illegal,” Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Queens) said on X. “The stop was done by the book. What is illegal is the percentage of tinting on his windows, using your Council Member title to get out of a ticket, and lying about the interaction. “How can we expect him to be impartial as chair of the Public Safety [Committee]?” Councilmember Inna Vernikov (R-Brooklyn) also slammed Salaam and called for a public apology. “What this experience amplifies is how you lied, are potentially committing insurance fraud, using the race card, as well as using your status as Councilmember to evade the law,” she railed, adding, “The officer did everything by the book, and was nothing but extra nice to you.
https://nypost.com/2024/01/29/metro/nyc-councilman-yusef-salaam-facing-calls-to-resign-safety-committee-chairmanship-after-he-lied-about-nypd-traffic-stop/
Jan. 22, 2024 -- Probation Dept Commissioner Drives Luxury SUV
New York City’s Probation Department has cut programs and city government is in a budget crunch — but Probation Commissioner Juanita Holmes has a new, luxurious city-funded car. Holmes has a $86,590 Ford Expedition Platinum, purchased in October from a dealership in Rockland County, city records show. The Ford’s standard features include heated leather-trimmed “multi-contour” seats that vibrate with “Active Motion massage,” a high-end Bang & Olufsen stereo system with 22 speakers and a “panoramic” sun roof, the car maker say. After the city bought the car, it was sent to Valley Van, a company in Valley Stream, L.I., for installation of a lights-and- siren package worth roughly $17,000, said sources. That purchase was outside the purview of the comptroller’s office, and city officials declined to confirm it.
The department bought the Expedition because the agency’s existing Mitsubishi Outlanders were considered “too small” by Holmes, according to probation insiders with direct knowledge of the discussions. Outlanders retail for about $30,000. “The Department of Probation is eliminating critical programs for at-risk young adults, but can somehow afford a luxury SUV vehicle for the commissioner,” said City Councilman Lincoln Restler. “The Department of Probation has the wrong priorities, and this sale should be immediately reversed.” In an emailed statement, a Probation Department spokesperson said, “Upon the commissioner’s appointment in Spring 2023, the vehicle was requested and approved, prior to the City’s budget cuts. Like all Commissioners, Commissioner Holmes needs a vehicle to ensure she can conduct City business outside of the office.” Holmes took office on March 9. The earliest date recorded for purchase of the Expedition Platinum in Comptroller’s office records is Oct. 5.
The probation spokesperson, who did not provide their name, did not specify the date the vehicle was “requested” or “approved.” Nor did the spokesperson identify who approved the purchase. The contract of sale was signed Oct. 25 by the Probation Department’s Interim Agency Chief Contracting Officer Richard Tibbetts, records show. Holmes, appointed as probation commissioner in March, has been criticized for canceling the funding of two mentoring programs, Next Steps and Impact, and slashing $1 million a year from a third program called Arches.
Anessa Hodgson, a spokeswoman for the city Department of Citywide Administrative Services, which usually handles vehicle purchases, said The New York Daily News’ information about the purchase was “incorrect.” However, Hodgson and her colleague Dan Kastanis repeatedly refused to specify what was “incorrect.” Holmes’ driver will likely be William “Red” Manderson, an NYPD detective first grade, who made close to $200,000 in 2023 as Holmes’ personal aide. (https://www.yahoo.com/news/nyc-taxpayers-buy-87-000-181900172.html)
Nov. 9, 2023 --Former Baltimore State Attorney Convicted of Perjury
Former Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby has been convicted on two counts of perjury by a federal jury.
The federal jury reached the verdict Thursday, finding Mosby guilty of perjury after she falsely claimed financial hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to withdraw money from the city's retirement fund, prosecutors announced. osby received her full salary of $247,955.58 in 2020, which is the year she claimed financial hardship and withdrew the money from her retirement accounts, according to federal prosecutors.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/former-baltimore-prosecutor-marilyn-mosby-found-guilty-two-counts-perjury
Nov. 5, 2023 -- Felony Dismissing Orleans DA Carjacked
There can be only concern and outrage and the DA and his mother being carjacked. But it must be recognized that these crimes are occurring because the perpetrators know there will be no consequences.
Soros-backed Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams and his 78-year-old mother were carjacked at gunpoint late last month. Williams was helping his mother into her car when armed masked men held them up at gunpoint and took off with the elderly woman’s belongings. Williams said in an interview that having a gun pointed directly at him was “horrific” and it made him think of crime victims. Williams was carjacked at gunpoint after he campaigned on social justice reform and dismissed more than 66% of the city’s violent felony cases during his first few months in office
Oct 27 --Video Released After Plea Deal Clarifies that Rep Bowman Pulled Alarm with Intent
- The footage of "Squad" Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York pulling a fire alarm in a House office building was released Thursday after he accepted a plea deal on misdemeanor charges for the incident. Bowman attempted to open two doors in the Cannon House Office Building. Bowman appears to approach the doors and try the right door, taking a red alarm sign with him from the entryway.
- The congressman then appeared to try to open the left door while knocking over the second alarm sign. Bowman then turned and pulled the fire alarm before walking off camera still holding the alarm sign from the first door. Bowman said that he did not mean to pull the fire alarm and that he had done so while in a rush to go vote. The House at the time was debating and voting on a stopgap bill to fund the government temporarily and avert a sutdown.
- The "Squad" Democrat told reporters outside the D.C. Superior Court on Thursday that "Hell no" he didn't mean to pull the alarm. What I did was against D.C. law," Bowman said. "As I said from the very beginning, I was not trying to disrupt any congressional proceedings, I'm glad the investigation yielded that." Bowman pulled the fire alarm ahead of a crucial vote as the GOP pushed a critical stopgap funding bill to avoid a government shutdown. However, the newly released footage seems to throw water on his argument, and his actions appear to indicate what lawyers would call intent. The question is why is the footage coming to light now after he received his plea deal.
Oct 20 - 23
The leader of the D.C.-based General Services Administration worked remotely from Missouri most of the time in the year after the agency's "full re-entry" plan called employees back to their offices, according to a GSA letter to Congress obtained by Axios.
Why it matters: The calendar records of GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan, cited in the letter, are the latest example of how remote work has continued after the pandemic for many federal workers — even at top levels of the Biden administration — despite the president's 17-month push for more in-office work.
- Carnahan, whose agency manages about 1,500 federally owned buildings, is scheduled to testify to the House Oversight Committee soon; a hearing on Thursday was postponed.
The intrigue: Oversight chair James Comer (R-Ky.) began investigating Carnahan's remote work arrangement in January. In a letter to her then, Comer said his panel had "received whistleblower reports you have spent most of your time working in a location other than Washington, D.C., during your tenure as GSA administrator."
By the numbers: From March 2022 to March 2023, Carnahan worked 121 weekdays in Missouri and 64 weekdays at her office in Washington, GSA Associate Administrator Gianelle E. Rivera wrote to Comer on March 31.
- Carnahan also spent 34 weekdays on official travel, Rivera wrote.
- Carnahan is a co-chair of the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force, which President Biden created to provide ongoing guidance to federal agencies on workplace measures related to Covid-19 — including hybrid models of remote work.
- The GSA, which is essentially the federal government's property manager, had some of the emptiest workplaces among federal agencies with just 9% of its office space being used, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report in July.
- The GAO also concluded that "17 of the 24 federal agencies used, on average, an estimated 25% or less of the capacity of their headquarters buildings."
Oct 23 -- Illinois State Comptroller Attorney Fired for Anti-Semitic Remarks
An attorney who works for the Illinois State Comptroller’s office was fired for anti-Semitic rants on social media. The attorney, Sarah Chowdhury sent private messages to an Instagram account named “Big Law Boiz.” This account was run by a Jewish lawyer who posts memes. She had written some very cruel statements including: “Hitler should have eradicated all of you.” Another statement: ” “Hopefully someone sends you anthrax or poison and you die a slow terrible death.”
Comptroller Susana Mendoza was informed of the incident on Thursday and contacted Chowdbury the same day. After she admitted to writing those statements, she was fired from her position. The South Asian Law Association also terminated her position which she was the president of the group.
Hateful views but we cannot control what others think. Somewhat surprising that a lawyer would post these views.
Oct 20 -- NJ Council Member and Son (Both Teachers) Arrested for Child Phonography
A New Jersey councilman and his son — both teachers — were released from jail less than a week after they were busted for allegedly possessing thousands of images of child pornography in the home they share. Despite living just 530 feet from an elementary school, Jeffrey, 65, and Steven Grossman, 24, were awarded house arrest Wednesday as they await their separate trials on charges of second-degree possession of child pornography.
The father-son duo were arrested and charged Oct. 12
with second-degree possession of child pornography after investigators found
thousands of nude and sexually explicit images of children in their Tenafly
home, the Bergen County Prosecutor’s
Office alleges. Over 1,000
depictions of child sexual abuse of boys generally between 10 and 13 were found
in a Dropbox used by Steven, while over 17,500 depictions of younger
prepubescent girls were found on Jeffrey Grossman’s devices, Assistant
Prosecutor Gary Donatello said during a detention hearing, according to North Jersey.com. The elder Grossman was in the midst of his
11th year as a social studies teacher at a Rochelle Park middle school, but
also spent time working in high schools and elementary schools, his educator biography states.
Jeffrey Grossman is a middle school
social studies teacher and serves as the Tenafly Borough Council president. Jeffrey,
who currently serves as the Tenafly Borough Council president, also has a
history of working as a defense lawyer for the City of New York. His son works as a social worker by trade and
frequently serves as a substitute teacher for the same K-8 district as his
father. Both were booted from their
posts the same day they were arrested.
Steven Grossman is a social worker and substitute teacher at the same K-8 district his father works at. “The Board has immediately suspended both employees and directed them that they are prohibited from coming to the school for any reason and are prohibited from contacting any student or staff,” Superintendent Sue DeNobile told parents in a letter. The father is now facing mounting calls to resign from his borough council position and to abandon his re-election bid for next month.
Judge David Labib ruled that the Grossmans could remain under house arrest, but restricted their access to their front yard and backyard from 8 to 9:30 a.m. and 2 to 3:30 p.m., the times when students at the nearby Smith Elementary School would be arriving and dismissed from the building.
July 27, 2023 Lying by a Former Federal Prosecutor and Mayor of NYC
Rudy Giuliani concedes he made defamatory statements about Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. The late-night Tuesday filing from Giuliani says he doesn’t contest Moss and Freeman’s accusations that he smeared them after the 2020 election. Yet the filing says he still wants to be able to argue that his statements about voter fraud in Georgia in the 2020 election were protected speech.
Cost of illegal immigrants per state in 2023:
Alabama: 596 million
Alaska: 130 million
Arizona: 3.19 billion
Arkansas: 356 million
California: 30.9 billion
Colorado: 1.94 billion
Connecticut: 1.28 billion
Delaware: 244 million
Florida: 8.04 billion
Georgia: 3.14 billion
Hawaii: 771 million
Idaho: 405 million
Illinois: 5.27 billion
Indiana: 886 million
Iowa: 405 million
Kansas: 603 million
Kentucky: 367 million
Louisiana: 604 million
Maine: 90.3 million
Maryland: 2.14 billion
Massachusetts: 2.16 billion
Michigan: 1.28 billion
Minnesota: 657 million
Mississippi: 100 million
Missouri: 657 million
Montana: 45 million
Nebraska: 136 million
Nevada: 1.47 billion
New Hampshire: 108 million
New Jersey: 5.27 billion
New Mexico: 174 million
New York: 9.95 billion
North Carolina: 3.14 billion
North Dakota: 43.25 million
Ohio: 332.4 million
Oklahoma: 273 million
Oregon: 1.47 billion
Pennsylvania: 1.64 billion
Rhode Island: 313 million
South Carolina: 746 million
South Dakota: 57 million
Tennessee: 341 million
Texas: 5.35 billion
Utah: 931 million
Vermont: 75 million
Virginia: 2.84 billion
Washington: 2.62 billion
West Virginia: 12.9 million
Wisconsin: 246 million
Wyoming: 18.1 million
This is not sustainable.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Growth in University Administration & Mancur Olson
Those who once were technocratic paper-pushers ensuring compliance with federal financial aid and antidiscrimination regulations have morphed into enforcers of radical race and gender ideology. The great political economist Mancur Olson detailed how the growth of bureaucracies ultimately causes the decline of nations.
And that’s precisely what’s happened in the academy, as well-paid apparatchiks with no connection to universities’ teaching and research missions create and enforce codes that chill speech and eviscerate due process.
In recent decades, the growth in university bureaucracies has far outpaced the growth in faculties and student bodies. According to Department of Education data, between 1993 and 2009, college administrative positions expanded by 60%, a rate of growth 10 times that of tenured faculty.
Moreover, between 1987 and 2012, the number of administrators at private universities doubled, while their numbers in central offices of public university systems rose by a factor of 34. Overall, during that period, colleges added more than half a million administrators and then even more in the decade after that.
When I was in boot camp, I didn’t like that there were different APFT standards for us. So one day, I did the APFT and compared my scores on the male scale. I passed. I was an MP. I agree there should be one standard. It’s doable for some women. We don’t need it possible for all.
Melissa Engelhardt x
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Julia Roberts: Stealing Not An Important Issue for Me Until......
In Robert's defense, there are only two candidates neither of which you probably agree with on all issues so you have to select which of the two is the least bad.
UK Grooming Scandal
1. A 2013 report from the Home Affairs Committee faulted the CPS and said that "unlike many other official agencies implicated in this issue," the CPS "readily admitted that victims had been let down by them and have attempted both to discover the cause of this systemic failure to improve the way things are done so as to avoid a repetition of such events."
But that same report praised Starmer for trying to "improve the treatment of victims of sexual assault within the criminal justice system throughout his term as Director of Public Prosecution."
2.
A number of online sources including Musk have claimed that a Home Office mail/document/memo sent in 2008 “suggested the girls… had made ‘informed choices’." The quote comes from a 2018 interview with a former senior prosecutor – not Sir Keir – who was discussing the Home Office guidance. That prosecutor has since said this was the incorrect way to interpret the guidance.
2. Jan 4, 2025
Nazir Afzal, when he was chief crown prosecutor for North West England, told the BBC that, in 2008, the Home Office under Gordon Brown’s administration sent a circular email to all police forces calling on them not to investigate the sexual exploitation of young girls. In 2011, the then home secretary Jack Straw let the cat out of the bag when he said that white girls were “seen as easy meat” by Pakistani rapists. Straw was swiftly shut down.
And look what happened to Sarah Champion, Labour MP for Rotherham. In 2017, Champion was forced to resign from her position as shadow women and equalities minister over what she called her “extremely poor choice of words” in an article she wrote for The Sun. The piece came after 17 men and one woman were found guilty of committing nearly 100 offences, including rape, against vulnerable women and girls in Newcastle. Champion’s article began: “Britain has a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls. There. I said it. Does that make me a racist? Or am I just prepared to call out this horrifying problem for what it is?”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/04/05/grooming-gangs-scandal-labour-yvette-cooper-keir-starmer/
This entire blog could be in on the grooming of young girls but just a few observations that struck me when I had the opportunity to post.
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