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Austin, TX — Austin police lieutenant Jason Disher was recently suspended for filing false police reports about his girlfriend’s husband and then blocking any other officers from investigating his actions.
Disher fabricated an arrest warrant for a man who was married to a woman that he was having an affair with. He attempted to use his position as a police officer to get his romantic competition out of the picture.
Disher told another officer at his department, Det. Kenneth Nash, about his affair with the woman, but lied and told him that her husband had threatened him during a phone conversation.
According to …read more

Las Vegas, Nev. – In June 2014, federal agents suspected a wealthy foreign real estate developer and his associates of operating an illegal gambling operation from a Las Vegas villa in Caesar’s Palace Hotel using online sports books.
Agents disrupted Internet service to the residence, then pretended to be technicians to gain access to the villa with the goal of gathering enough evidence to obtain a search warrant.
One of the men in the group had previously been kicked out of Macau for operating an illegal sports book. This drew the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Nevada Gaming Commission …read more

On October 28, John Arnold contributed yet another $1,000,000 to the campaign to pass the top-two initiative in Oregon, and former New York city Mayor Michael Bloomberg contributed another $280,000. This means the two of them, together, have contributed $4,680,000. Arnold lives in Texas and of course, Bloomberg lives in New York. …read more

Kentucky has non-partisan judicial elections. On October 29, U.S. District Court Judge Amol Thapar enjoined a Kentucky rule that forbids judicial candidates from “campaigning as a member of a political organization.” Winter v Wolnitzek, eastern district, 2:14cv-119. Kentucky already lost an earlier case against a rule that didn’t permit judicial candidates to mention their party(More)… …read more

A few months back we released our Vault product, and the response has been outstanding. Coinbase is now storing more bitcoin than any company in the world (that we know of).
But since the beginning of Coinbase, we’ve heard some clear feedback from our customers: Coinbase should let customers control their own private keys.
In the wake of MtGox and numerous other hacking incidents, bitcoin users are rightfully cautious about anyone claiming to store their bitcoin securely. At Coinbase, we made a decision early on that for bitcoin to reach mainstream adoption, we would need to provide great security as …read more

Well dear reader that’s about all I can share of my tale, I hope you enjoyed the crazy times life has thrown at me since I escaped the tyranny of …

The turbine of turbulence (photo by Bruce Bisping) Star Tribune
This summer, we reported on the story of a Minnesota man named Jay Nygard, who was risking jail time because he refused to remove a wind turbine from his property.
Jay owns a company called Go Green Energy, which sells wind turbines in other areas of Minnesota, but he isn’t able to do so in Orono where he lives because of permit and licensing laws. These are the same laws that are preventing Nygard from building on his own property.
The local government and a few nosy neighbors had been disputing the construction …read more

Miami Beach, Fla. – A video posted to YouTube on October 27, shows a Miami Beach police officer, who identified himself as officer McLeod, engaging in some extremely unprofessional behavior towards a citizen during a stop.
While we don’t see the earlier interaction between the man and the officer, the video shows the officer becoming enraged as he speaks to the citizen.
The video picks up with the officer telling the man in a condescending and annoyed tone,
“Have a good day, get outta my face before I decide that this might not be the best judgment that I made.”
To which the gentleman …read more

According to this story, because of a technicality, South Carolina will not hold a special election for State House, district 114. The November 4 election will fill the seat for the next two years, even though this disenfranchises voters who wish to vote for a Republican. The Republican Party’s only recourse is to find a(More)… …read more

Virgin Islands election officials are still in a quandry about the upcoming election, given the order of the Virgin Islands Supreme Court of October 24, that ordered that Senator Alicia Hansen’s name be expunged from all ballots, even though early voting had already started three days earlier. See this story. …read more