Massachusetts Fisherman Indicted For Hiding Money From Fishing Over Quota

A man and his codfish

[From article]
The indicted New Bedford fishing boss who federal agents say cooked the books to evade fishing quotas had teamed up with a local cop to smuggle tens of thousands of dollars out of the U.S. back to his homeland of Portugal, according to court documents.
Carlos Rafael, the 64-year-old owner of Carlos Seafood dubbed the “Codfather,” told undercover agents he also cheated export officials by giving the unnamed “local law enforcement officer” cash before entering security at Logan International Airport, an affidavit filed in the federal court case states.
The officer would take the cash through to the secured area of the airport, while Rafael would walk through security and did not have to claim he was transporting more than $10,000 in cash out of the country, according to the affidavit.
Federal authorities estimate Rafael allegedly carried $40,000 to $60,000 in cash this way every time he went to Portugal, where he was born.
Prosecutors allege Rafael used hundreds of thousands of smuggled dollars to “fix up” his parents’ home, buy his own home, buy a warehouse and a pleasure boat.
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Rafael and his bookkeeper, Debra Messier, 60, are accused of misclassifying fish caught by the company’s boats for years to evade federal fishing quotas by falsifying forms that track the quantity and type of fish they caught and sold.
A wholesaler in New York City paid for the fish with bags of cash that Rafael would call “a bag of jingles” — earning as much as $668,000 in six months, prosecutors said.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2016/03/court_docs_codfather_had_local_cop_smuggle_cash

Court docs: ‘Codfather’ had local cop smuggle cash
Brian Dowling

Boston Herald

Sunday, March 06, 2016

Iran Nuclear Weapons Deal Violates Two US Laws

[From article]
Some senior U.S. officials involved in the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal have privately concluded that a key sanctions relief provision – a concession to Iran that will open the doors to tens of billions of dollars in U.S.-backed commerce with the Islamic regime – conflicts with existing federal statutes and cannot be implemented without violating those laws, Fox News has learned.
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In short, this means that foreign subsidiaries of U.S. parent companies will, under certain conditions, be allowed to do business with Iran. The problem is that the Iran Threat Reduction and Syria Human Rights Act (ITRA), signed into law by President Obama in August 2012, was explicit in closing the so-called “foreign sub” loophole.
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What’s more, ITRA contains language, in Section 605, requiring that the terms spelled out in Section 218 shall remain in effect until the president of the United States certifies two things to Congress: first, that Iran has been removed from the State Department’s list of nations that sponsor terrorism, and second, that Iran has ceased the pursuit, acquisition, and development of weapons of mass destruction.
Additional executive orders and statutes signed by President Obama, such as the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, have reaffirmed that all prior federal statutes relating to sanctions on Iran shall remain in full effect.
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As the Iran deal is an “executive agreement” and not a treaty – and has moreover received no vote of ratification from the Congress, explicit or symbolic – legal analysts inside and outside of the Obama administration have concluded that the JCPOA is vulnerable to challenge in the courts, where federal case law had held that U.S. statutes trump executive agreements in force of law.
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Likewise, in a speech at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy last month, Adam Szubin, the acting under secretary of Treasury for terrorism and financial crimes, described Iran as “the world’s foremost sponsor of terrorism” and said existing U.S. sanctions on the regime “will continue to be enforced….U.S. investment in Iran will be prohibited across the board.”
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One administration lawyer contacted by Fox News said the re-opening of the loophole reflects circular logic with no valid legal foundation. “It would be Alice-in-Wonderland bootstrapping to say that [Section] 601 gives the president the authority to restore the foreign subsidiary loophole – the exact opposite of what the statute ordered,” said the attorney, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations over implementation of the Iran deal.
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the G.O.P. presidential candidate who is a Harvard-trained lawyer and ardent critic of the Iran deal, said the re-opening of the loophole fits a pattern of the Obama administration enforcing federal laws selectively.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/08/exclusive-us-officials-conclude-iran-deal-violates-federal-law/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. officials conclude Iran deal violates federal law
By James Rosen

Published October 08, 2015

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U.S. Department of Education Violates Federal Law Interfering With School Curriculum. What Obama Appointee Does Not Violate Laws?

[From article]
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), the purity of whose liberalism is wondrous, says education today consists of two worlds. One is "of contractors and consultants, and academics and experts, and plenty of officials at the federal, state and local level." The other is of those who teach, and "the footprint of that first world has become way too big in their lives."
Existing law forbids federal officials from exercising "any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution." Existing practices ignore the law, especially by using $4.35 billion in Race to the Top funds to bribe states to accept the Common Core standards (to which tests and hence texts are "aligned"). Alexander understands the futility of trying to lasso the federal locomotive with a cobweb of words. His solution is a portion of his 1981 proposal: Devolve to states all responsibility for evaluating schools, students and teachers.
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Although liberal academia deserves its government-inflicted miseries, Alexander's next project will be the deregulation of higher education. The need for which he demonstrates by unfurling the taped-together 10 pages — more than nine feet — of forms containing more than 100 questions students must answer when applying for federal aid.
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In 2010, before Obama's vandalism against the separation of powers had confronted the country with the most lawless presidency since Richard Nixon's, Pence delivered an address in which he said, "The president is not our teacher, our tutor, our guide or ruler." There is a presidential "duty of self-restraint" because "a president who slights the Constitution is like a rider who hates his horse: he will be thrown, and the nation along with him."

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will020715.php3

Fixing America's failing approach to schools
By George Will
Published Feb. 7, 2015

Federal Law On Right To Display US Flag in Condominium

http://www.caionline.org/govt/news/Pages/GuidanceforComplyingwiththeFreedomtoDisplaytheAmericanFlagActof2005.aspx

Guidance for Complying with the Freedom to Display the American Flag Act of 2005

Assange Can Be Prosecuted

[From article]
"Assange would be prosecuted for committing the crime of possessing and releasing classified national security documents that could do this country harm. The First Amendment has no bearing whatsoever on whether Assange has committed this particular crime, so whether or not Assange is a "journalist" is irrelevant."

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=40615

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Like A Condom, The First Amendment Can't Always Protect You

by Ann Coulter
Human Events

12/15/2010

CAIR Exploits US Laws

[From editorial]
"Among the evidence presented by the government, as described by Judge Solis, was a document identifying CAIR as a working organization of the Palestine Committee, which was created by the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Brotherhood’s objective, according to its own document, is “a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within . . . so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all religions.”

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/cair_jihad_LeMuOEGqUTwcPfZKbvSySM

CAIR's Jihad
Editorial
New York Post
Last Updated: 5:16 AM, November 28, 2010
Posted: November 28, 2010

Harvard Testing Radiation on Monkeys


PETA protests using monkeys for testing to see the effects of radiation on monkeys. No one objects to using humans for similar and worse experiments testing electromagnetic radiation,and electrical disabling weapons on humans. Researchers choose vulnerable humans and use psychiatry to discredit the victims of the involuntary research. No journalists, no politicians, no civil rights organizations, and no People for the Ethical Treatment of People Exists to protect humans from government medical experiments without consent.
State and US laws with criminal penalties exist to protect animals from abusive experiments. US laws have no penalties for using humans without consent.

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20091128monkey_business_has_activists_fuming_harvard_experiment_protest_planned/

Monkey business has activists fuming
Harvard experiment protest planned
By Dave Wedge
Boston Herald
Saturday, November 28, 2009