#feedback What if $LEO didn't get rid of inflation in one go? What about making the inflation decrease every month until it gets replaced with the Buyback method?
I dont see a point to the stepping down. It has been a reduction system over the years anyway. Few new are coming in and stocking up. The majority of the LEO is being sold into the market. This is the problem.
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Owning a house is better than a rented one. Only one advantage with rented houses that you can have it easily in any area of your choice not paying the wholesum amount required for buying .
Germany topping this chart really flips the common “renting = instability” narrative on its head. Shows how cultural norms and housing policies shape choices more than we realize.
That’s quite a range!
Germany topping the chart at 50.9% is surprising, considering its strong economy. Meanwhile, Croatia sits at the bottom with just 9.5% renters, homeownership clearly runs deep there.
It looks like Germany is the most desirable place to live if demand is driving prices up. I would have guessed someplace warmer like Spain, Greece or Portugal!
"Mutti" Merkel forcing EU to open borders for tens of millions of refugees, "refugees" and migrants might have something to do with increased demand for housing most people couldn't afford as owners.
If you saw the news about the UAE offering free ChatGPT Plus to all its citizens, you’re not alone. The news has gone viral across all major social media platforms over the last 24 hours. But is it true?
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It has an A in the end if you see most of the European languages do call it Evropa or Europa, Europe is given by British to their fancy English accent.
Yes, we'll even double down on INLEO & LeoDex, hehe. A big shift is about to take place, with the $LEO inflation based minting being stopped (at something like 25 or 28 million LEO, not one more) and the token being purchased through the transactions unfolding on LeoDex.
Thanks! I've seen a few comments about the minting ending. Definitely makes owning LEO more exciting 😀 Is there a post or something that explains how it's going to work going forward?
I haven't seen any "official" post yet, and usually when one is published, there's a "sticky" notification in the lower right corner of my screen, hehe.
I'll try one more time to see if my post will publish. If the issue persist, I'll have to use other frontends. For over two hours now, I can't publish my post.
Miami Beach man coerces 15-year-old neighbor with drugs and money for sex: cops
The man would give the 15-year-old $100 for sex, an arrest report read.
A 29-year-old Miami Beach man used drugs and money to attract a 15-year-old neighbor and coerce her into sex multiple times, cops say. He was cuffed on Saturday.
On May 17, the 15-year-old’s parents called Miami Beach police, reporting their daughter had been sexually abused by Christian Gonzalez Lopez, a neighbor, an arrest report read.
An interview with the young teen revealed that a few months ago, Gonzalez Lopez approached her while she was walking in the neighborhood and asked for her Instagram, which she gave, the report read.
That same day, he sent her pictures of lingerie and asked if she’d take pictures in them for money — she ignored him.
Sometime later, she messaged him asking for the drug Tusi, a type of cocaine, the report read. Gonzalez Lopez said he agreed to provide it, but not only for money — sex, too. This exchange happened several times.
Police noted the teen had a “drug dependency” and on some other occasions, he would give her $100 to have sex. In one instance, she told detectives she thought he would record her during the sexual abuse.
On Saturday, the teen confirmed Gonzalez Lopez was the man who was giving her money for sex over several months, the report read. He was promptly arrested on an unrelated disturbance call that day.
He was charged with human trafficking, seduce a child to commit any illegal act, lewd and lascivious battery on a child, induce a child to perform an act that causes a child to become dependent and illegal delivery of controlled substances to minors.
Gonzalez Lopez was taken to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where he remained as of Wednesday night.
Judge delays Miami trial of five men accused of plotting assassination of Haiti’s president
The Miami trial of five men accused of plotting the killing of Haiti’s president has dragged on for years.
The Miami trial of five men accused of plotting the assassination of Haiti’s president has again been delayed, this time to March 2026 — almost five years after the fatal shooting of Jovenel Moïse at his suburban home outside Port-au-Prince.
U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Becerra said at a recent hearing that she was not happy about delaying the federal trial, which was originally set for March and then postponed until September of this year.
Becerra said she had no choice but to push it back again because of the massive volume of evidence, including more than 2.5 million text messages, emails and other records, that federal prosecutors are still turning over to the defense lawyers — a basic discovery issue that has turned into a sore point for the judge.
“I do not take it lightly in any way that this case has been delayed,” Becerra told the five defendants, who were arrested and taken into federal custody in the months after the July 7, 2021, assassination of Moïse. “This is not a delay that I am at all happy with.”
Compounding the run-up to the Miami trial: Armed gangs have been terrorizing Haiti, a country in free fall without a political leader, making it unsafe for the defense lawyers in Miami to go there and question ex-Colombian soldiers jailed in Port-au-Prince on Haitian charges of assisting in the slaying of the president.
As a result, Judge Becerra granted the defense team’s request to take video depositions of five of the Colombians, who represent about one-third of the former commandos in jail.
“Although the difficulties of traveling to Haiti to conduct these depositions should not be understated, there appears to be no reason why the depositions could not take place over video conference,” Becerra ruled after the May 19 hearing on the trial date and other issues.
Despite the judge’s approval of these critical depositions, there is one potential Haitian witness whom the defense lawyers in Miami won’t be able to question: Former Haitian Superior Court Judge Windelle Coq Thélot, who died in January.
Haitian authorities considered Thélot a key suspect in the investigation of Moïse’s killing. But she took to the grave unanswered questions about her alleged role in the assassination plot and whether she indeed promised immunity to the defendants in Miami who are accused of directing it.
According to prosecutors in Miami, Thélot gained the support of the suspected plotters in South Florida as a replacement for Moïse in June 2021, when they decided that Christian Sanon, a Haitian priest and physician, “was not a viable option to take over” the presidency.
Thélot’s “apparent signature” appeared on a written request for assistance to arrest Haiti’s president that “purported to provide Haitian immunity” to the conspirators in South Florida, according to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court. One of the suspects, Haitian-American maintenance worker James Solages, traveled from Haiti to Miami on June 28, 2021, to deliver the document to another suspect, Antonio “Tony” Intriago,” the owner of a security business.
On July 1, Solages traveled back to Haiti and five days later met with several conspirators at a house near Moïse’s residence. Solages “falsely told those gathered that it was a ‘CIA Operation, and, in substance, said that the mission was to kill President Moïse,” the FBI affidavit stated.
Solages and other suspects drove in a convoy to the president’s home on the night of July 7, the assassination date. Once inside the residence, Solages declared they were involved in a “DEA Operation” to ensure “compliance from” Moïse’s security team, the affidavit stated. Some of the ex-Colombian soldiers recruited for the mission were assigned to find and kill the president.
Suspect knew about assassination plan: FBI
On July 22, federal agents questioned Solages while he was in Haitian custody. After he was read his Miranda rights, Solages admitted that by mid-June 2021, “he knew that the plan was to ultimately assassinate President Moïse,” according to the FBI affidavit.
To date in the U.S. case, five of the 11 defendants have pleaded guilty to conspiring to kill Haiti’s president, resulting in life sentences that they hope to get reduced with their cooperation. Among those convicted: two ex-Colombian commandos, a former Haitian senator, a Haitian-American man who worked as an informant for the DEA, and a previously convicted Haitian drug trafficker.
A sixth defendant, a Tampa businessman, pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges involving the smuggling of bulletproof vests that were illegally exported to Haiti for the group of ex-Colombian soldiers who carried out the deadly attack.
The remaining five defendants are charged with conspiring in South Florida to kidnap or kill Haiti’s leader and related charges, including recruiting the Colombian commandos. The conspiracy charge carries up to life in prison.
The defendants facing trial are: Intriago, the head of a Miami-area security firm, CTU; Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, a former FBI informant who joined Intriago at CTU; Walter Veintemilla, a Broward County financier; Solages, the Haitian American; and Sanon, who was initially seen by the group as a successor to Moïse as Haiti’s president. All five defendants are being held in a federal lock-up before trial.
Of the five remaining defendants, Sanon was the only one who told the judge at the hearing this month that he opposed delaying the trial until March of next year.
But Judge Becerra, while showing sympathy for his pre-trial detention over nearly four years in Haiti and Miami, said holding one trial for him and another for the others was not practical for several reasons.
“Given the complexity of the case, the government wants all the defendants tried together,” Becerra told Sanon. “I am not inclined to try your case in September and all the other defendants in March [2026].”
In February 2024, Sanon was charged with the others with conspiring to kill Haiti’s leader, after first being accused of trying to carry out a military expedition against a foreign country. It was the fifth superseding indictment filed by prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Justice Department. Since then, most of the team has been replaced with new prosecutors.
On Iran and Gaza, Trump Should Avoid the Mistakes of Obama and Biden
President Trump’s first-term record of steadfast support for Israel and “maximum pressure” against Iran has earned him a fair degree of benefit of the doubt when it comes to Middle East policy. But as his envoy Steve Witkoff pursues nuclear diplomacy with Iran and another cease-fire deal in Gaza, there are troubling signs that Trump may be going down the same failed path of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
On Wednesday, Trump confirmed that he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to strike Iran’s nuclear program, saying, “I don’t think it’s appropriate” while talks are ongoing. “Right now, I think they want to make a deal,” Trump said. “And if we can make a deal, I’d save a lot of lives.” Holding off on striking Iran now risks squandering a crucial window, with Iran’s anti-aircraft defense systems still damaged from Israel’s retaliatory strike against the terrorist regime last October.
In his first term, Trump rightly recognized that Iran was not a negotiating partner to be trusted. He tore up Obama’s disastrous nuclear deal, under which Iran obtained tens of billions of dollars in sanctions relief while retaining its ability to enrich uranium and grow its ballistic missile program. Also, that deal did not address any other malign behavior by Iran (from its sponsorship of terrorism to other destabilizing actions throughout the region, including its targeting of U.S. military personnel and assets).
But now, unfortunately, Trump is pursuing a deal that sounds in many ways like the failed Obama agreement, with its promise of inspections and its avoidance of fully dismantling the nuclear program, akin to the deal the U.S. struck with Libya in 2003. Witkoff, a few weeks ago, said that Iran would be allowed to enrich uranium at 3.67 percent (the Obama deal limit), but more recently he has said that the U.S. “red line” was that Iran would not be permitted any enrichment. Iran, for its part, has said it would never accept that limitation. With Trump so eager for a deal, it’s fair to be concerned that the U.S. will let this red line shift.
Iran doves within the administration and their allies are making the same disingenuous arguments that John Kerry and the gang made during the Obama administration — that the only alternative to a deal is a world war. In reality, an Israeli-led strike on Iran’s nuclear program would not trigger another world war, nor is it akin to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. It is likely to be closer to the 1981 Israeli attack on Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor. Trump should understand this. In 2020, when he rightly ordered the strike that killed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qasem Soleimani, the reactions were so hysterical that the terms “Franz Ferdinand” and “World War III” were trending online, and yet Iran avoided a major escalation that it could ill afford. The same calculation would be likely to hold this time.
Meanwhile, Israel is currently making significant progress in its campaign against Hamas. Israelis recently killed Hamas’s leader in Gaza, Mohammed Sinwar, the younger brother of Yahya Sinwar (the October 7 architect who was killed by Israel last October). And perhaps more importantly, there are signs that the people of Gaza are starting to feel more emboldened to defy the terrorist group that has ruled the area with an iron grip for nearly 20 years.
The U.S. and Israel have worked together with contractors to create a new mechanism for distributing aid directly to Gazans, unlike the United Nations effort that allowed Hamas to steal the aid. Before the distribution began, Hamas issued a warning to Gazans not to participate in the U.S.-backed effort. Yet Gazans ignored the warning, and hundreds of thousands of meals were distributed in the first day of operation. In a further sign that Hamas, which has been controlling the flow of food and supplies, is losing its grip, a mob broke into a warehouse in central Gaza to take flour.
Unfortunately, by pushing for another cease-fire when Israel has the momentum, the U.S. could end up tossing Hamas a lifeline.
Unfortunately, even though Trump has some great people on his foreign policy team with stellar records on Middle East policy, such as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, everything seems to be dictated by Witkoff, a real estate developer with little background in foreign diplomacy and with a significant conflict of interest: His troubled Park Lane hotel investment was bailed out by the Qatar Investment Authority last year to the tune of $623 million, and Qatar is a benefactor of Hamas and key ally of Iran. In March, Witkoff admitted in a television interview that he was “duped” by Hamas during earlier negotiations.
Supreme Court Clears Trump Administration to Revoke Parole for 500,000 Migrants, Begin Deportations
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to revoke the temporary legal status of more than 500,000 immigrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua.
The Court, in an unsigned order, lifted a lower court order that kept a Biden-era humanitarian parole program in place. Humanitarian parole allows migrants from countries facing instability to enter the U.S. and secure work authorization as long as they have a private sponsor.
Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, arguing the majority had not properly considered “the devastating consequences of allowing the government to precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims are pending.”
They argued the Court’s order will “have the lives of half a million migrants unravel all around us before the courts decide their legal claims.”
The order means the parole protections will not be in place as the case proceeds; it now heads back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston.
The decision comes after the Court previously allowed the Trump administration to revoke deportation protections from nearly 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants who were allowed to remain in the U.S. under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program.
Both rulings are wins for the Trump administration, which is working to make good on the president’s campaign promise to carry out mass deportations.
Republicans have argued the humanitarian parole program allowed immigrants who would otherwise not have qualified to enter the country, to remain in the country legally.
The Biden administration opened up humanitarian parole to Venezuelans in 2022 and for Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans in January 2023.
At the time, several red states sued the Biden administration looking to block the parole program, though the courts upheld its legality.
President Trump ordered an end to the humanitarian parole programs on his first day in office, leading migrants to challenge Trump’s directive in court. Attorneys for the migrants argued that the end of the humanitarian and other immigration parole programs was “contrary to law, arbitrary and capricious.”
The lawsuits resulted in a temporary pause of the Trump administration’s order in March, after a federal judge in Massachusetts ruled that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Nome lacked the authority to revoke the parole for more than 500,000 people without providing case-by-case reviews.
Instead, we live in a time of technological marvels, and the unemployment rate is 4.2 percent. Rob Atkinson of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation points out that the average unemployment rate in the United States hasn’t changed much over the last century, despite an increase in productivity — the ability to produce more with the same inputs — by almost ten times.
Technology increases productivity, driving down costs and making it possible to invest and spend on other things, creating new jobs that replace the old. This is the process of a society becoming wealthier, and it’s why nations that innovate are better off than those that don’t.
The rise of personal computers collapsed the demand for typists and word processors. These positions were often held by women. Did this decimate the economic prospects of women in America? No, they got different, and frequently better, jobs.
AI will end up augmenting many jobs — helping workers become more efficient — and there will be a limit to how much it can encroach on human work.
It’s hard to imagine, say, Meta ever giving over its legal representation in an antitrust case to artificial intelligence. Lawyers handling such a case will, however, rely on AI for more and more support, diminishing the need for junior lawyers.
This will be a significant disruption for the legal profession, yet legal services will also become cheaper and more widely available, in a benefit to everyone else.
There’s no doubt that the changes wrought by technology can be painful, and it’s possible that artificial intelligence eventually gets so good at so many tasks that people have no ready recourse to new, better jobs, as has always happened in the past.
The potential upside, though, is vast. After strong productivity growth for about a decade beginning in the mid-1990s, we shifted into a lower gear in the mid-2000’s. It will be a boon if artificial intelligence puts us on a better trajectory. An era of high productivity growth will, among other things, make it easier to deal with the budget deficit and the fiscal strain of retiring Baby Boomers.
Like anything else, AI will have its downsides, but it’s not an inherent threat any more than were computers or the internet.
Turkey Proposes to Host Trump-Putin-Zelenskyy Summit
Turkey on Friday proposed hosting a summit with the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and the United States as it strives to broker an elusive deal to end Russia's three-year invasion - an invitation swiftly dismissed by the Kremlin.
Moscow said it was sending a team of negotiators to Istanbul for a second round of direct talks with Ukraine on Monday — though Kyiv has yet to confirm if it will attend.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has fostered warm relations with both Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin, has become a key mediator amid Donald Trump's push for a deal to end the over three-year war.
"We sincerely think that it is possible to cap the first and second direct Istanbul talks with a meeting between Mr. Trump, Mr. Putin and Mr. Zelenskyy, under the direction of Mr. Erdogan," Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said during a visit to Kyiv.
Kyiv and the West have rejected those calls and cast Russia's assault as nothing but an imperial-style land grab.
Russia's invasion in February 2022 triggered the biggest European conflict since World War II.
Tens of thousands have been killed, swathes of eastern and southern Ukraine destroyed and millions forced to flee their homes.
Trump has been growing increasingly frustrated at both Zelenskyy and Putin for not having struck a deal yet.
At a UN Security Council meeting Thursday a U.S. diplomat reaffirmed that Washington could pull back from peace efforts if it does not see progress soon.
Despite the sides having held their first peace talks in more than three years, there has been little sign of movement towards a possible compromise agreement.
At the talks earlier in May, Ukraine said Russia threatened to accelerate its ground offensive into new regions and made a host of maximalist demands, including that Kyiv cede territory still under its control.
Along with its European allies, Ukraine has been ramping up pressure on Trump to hit Moscow with fresh sanctions — a step he has so far not taken.
"Talks of pauses in pressure or easing of sanctions are perceived in Moscow as a political victory –- and only encourage further attacks and continued disregard for diplomacy," Zelenskyy said Friday on social media.
Russia has meanwhile been pressing its advance on the battlefield, with its forces on Friday claiming to have captured another village in the northeastern Kharkiv region.
Supreme Court Lets Trump Revoke Migrant 'Parole' Status
The U.S. Supreme Court let President Donald Trump end temporary legal status for migrants from four countries, aiding his deportation efforts.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday let President Donald Trump's administration revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants living in the United States, bolstering the Republican president's drive to step up deportations.
The court put on hold Boston-based U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani order halting the administration's move to end the immigration "parole" granted to 532,000 of these migrants by Trump's predecessor Joe Biden, potentially exposing many of them to rapid removal, while the case plays out in lower courts.
Florida School for Boys at Okeechobee survivors acknowledge 'there'll never be closure' as they pursue...
A group of abuse survivors at Florida's reform schools is feeling unheard and seeking answers to why they're not eligible for compensation.
Boys," an hour-long special report examining the compensation program for survivors of abuse at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys and the Florida School for Boys at Okeechobee during the middle of the 20th century.
WATCH BELOW: Reform school survivors 'vow to keep fighting for every victim'
A 2024 law created a $20 million compensation fund for survivors who attended the schools and were abused between 1940 and 1975.
WPTV visited Wilson at his home in Valdosta, Georgia, where he spoke about being beaten at the school multiple times per day.
"Whenever they felt like you did enough to deserve that," he said. "Could be two or three times a day."
Like the other survivors who applied for compensation, Wilson obtained a copy of Dozier's ledger with his name on it and filled out an application. He learned he wasn't eligible for compensation when a letter from the Attorney General's office arrived in late February.
"This outcome does not diminish your experience as a person impacted by the events which took place at the Dozier School for Boys and Florida Okeechobee School," the letter read, in part.
Wilson said he felt "cheated (and) mistreated" when he read the letter.
Immigration parole is a form of temporary permission under American law to be in the country for "urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit," allowing recipients to live and work in the United States. Biden, a Democrat, used parole as part of his administration's approach by to deter illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexican border.
Trump called for ending humanitarian parole programs in an executive order signed on January 20, his first day back in office. The Department of Homeland Security subsequently moved to terminate them in March, cutting short the two-year parole grants. The administration said revoking the parole status would make it easier to place migrants in a fast-track deportation process called "expedited removal."
The case is one of many that Trump's administration has brought in an emergency fashion to the nation's highest judicial body seeking to undo decisions by judges impeding his sweeping policies, including several targeting immigrants.
After investigators quickly ruled that Okeechobee County Sheriff John Collier committed suicide due to sinus problems, many in the community didn’t buy it. Questionable decisions made at the crime scene and in the months afterwards helped a cloud of uncertainty linger around the case.
"It made me angry, to be honest about it," Wilson said. "What about 78? What about 79? What about all those other years that went by, and stuff was going on? I can't figure out how they can come to that conclusion."
"What they did to these young men was take their futures away," said state Rep. Michelle Salzman, R-Escambia County, who filed the compensation bill that passed unanimously during the 2024 legislative session.
The bill's resounding success followed 16 years of failed attempts at similar legislation by other lawmakers.
WPTV asked Salzman in January why 1975 was the cutoff.
The Supreme Court on May 19 also let Trump end a deportation protection called temporary protected status that had been granted under Biden to about 350,000 Venezuelans living in the United States, while that legal dispute plays out.
In a bid to reduce illegal border crossings, Biden starting in 2022 allowed Venezuelans who entered the United States by air to request a two-year parole if they passed security checks and had a U.S. financial sponsor. Biden expanded that process to Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans in 2023 as his administration grappled with high levels of illegal immigration from those nationalities.
The plaintiffs, a group of migrants granted parole and Americans who serve as their sponsors, sued administration officials claiming the administration violated federal law governing the actions of government agencies.
"That was the way the bill was written in the past, and we didn't get the historical information," Salzman said. "We tried really hard. We reached out to a lot of people to try to find out where those numbers came from."
As reported in "The Okeechobee Boys," there's evidence that the abuse continued at the reform schools beyond 1975.
"I try to forget the names. I try to forget it all," James Walker said while sitting next to his wife in a pair of recliners in their home in rural Fort Meade, Florida.
Walker was sent to the Okeechobee school in 1978. He said he didn't bother applying for compensation because he knew he didn't qualify.
"(There) ain't no forgetting it, and it wasn't right," he said.
Stories like Walker's and Wilson's offer one clue as to why the line may have been drawn at 1975: neither of them experienced or witnessed the bloody beatings in a secluded room with a modified paddle — a disturbing ritual described by the men who were at the schools in the 1960s.
"I didn't see anything," Walker said when asked about the beatings. "But as far as stuff happening, yeah. Because, you know, they showed me ... the clinic and the room off beside the clinic, where they said they take you in there and straighten you out."
"Nobody really would say anything about it," Walker continued. "Because they figured ... 'If I say something about it, I'm gonna be the next one in there.'"
Wilson said Dozier's infamous "White House" was no longer used as the venue for the beatings by the time he was there.
"Those people didn't wait for you to get to no White House," Wilson said. “They whooped your ass anywhere you go — anything you do that was considered wrong."
The men said the physical abuse took a different form.
According to Wilson, employees would whip him and other boys using a long antenna that they unscrewed from walkie-talkies.
Wilson and Walker also allege rampant sexual abuse.
Wilson was never assaulted, he said. But he witnessed children being molested.
Walker said he was raped by a group of his fellow students.
"A light went out, and they shoved me into a room — a little small room, and choked me, started hitting me in the ribs, choked me and took turns with me," he said. "And (there) wasn't nothing I could do about it."
Walker said it happened while an employee was supposed to be keeping watch.
"They knew he was drunk," Walker said. "He should have been on his job, you know, taking care of us and looking over us. And this would have never happened."
According to Walker, the students who raped him were prosecuted. But he's not aware of any internal investigation or consequences for the state employees who failed to protect him.
The Okeechobee Eight refers to a major drug bust in Okeechobee County, Florida, during the mid-1980s, specifically tied to a cocaine smuggling ring that operated in the region. In November 1986, a statewide grand jury indicted 29 individuals, including nine Okeechobee County residents, for their involvement in a smuggling operation that brought approximately 7,700 pounds of cocaine from the Bahamas to cattle ranches in Okeechobee County between November 1984 and 1986. The operation was part of the broader drug trafficking epidemic in South Florida during the 1980s, when rural areas like Okeechobee became attractive to smugglers due to less law enforcement scrutiny compared to urban hubs like Miami.
The indictments followed a series of investigations by local, state, and federal authorities, who had been cracking down on drug trafficking in the region. Sheriff John Henderson noted that deputies had conducted four major busts in the preceding three years, seizing two airplanes, a helicopter, nine vehicles, and nearly 3,000 pounds of drugs. The Okeechobee Eight case specifically highlighted the involvement of prominent local residents, which shocked the close-knit community of about 4,500 people, known for its rural character and nickname, “The Speckled Perch Capital of the World.” The bust revealed how deeply drug smuggling had infiltrated even small towns, with locals like truck driver Ray Holley expressing dismay that younger residents were getting involved, contrasting with the “clean, decent” older generation.
The case was part of a larger wave of drug enforcement actions in South Florida, driven by the DEA and other agencies targeting cocaine and marijuana smuggling during the War on Drugs. The Okeechobee Eight bust underscored the challenges of policing rural areas that provided ideal cover for smuggling operations, such as remote ranches used as drop-off points.
Specific details on the prison sentences for the Okeechobee Eight drug bust in 1986 are not fully documented in available records, and comprehensive information about the individual sentences for all nine Okeechobee County residents indicted is limited. The case involved 29 individuals, including nine from Okeechobee County, charged with smuggling approximately 7,700 pounds of cocaine from the Bahamas to cattle ranches in Okeechobee County between November 1984 and 1986. The indictments were part of a federal and state investigation targeting a significant cocaine trafficking operation.
While exact sentencing details for the "Okeechobee Eight" (the nine local residents) are not explicitly outlined in the sources, related information from the broader case provides some context. The defendants faced charges related to cocaine trafficking, with potential penalties ranging from 15 to 20 years in prison and fines between $125,000 and $250,000 per count. Some defendants were also charged with currency violations, carrying additional penalties of up to five years in prison and fines from $10,000 to $250,000.
One notable detail is that Frederik John Luytjes, identified as an unindicted co-conspirator who provided airplanes and pilots for the smuggling operation, signed an agreement to plead guilty to drug-trafficking charges. However, his specific sentence is not detailed in the records. Additionally, one of the key suspects, Arturo Correa-Arroyave, was kidnapped and murdered around the time of the indictment, so he did not face sentencing. The sources suggest that the American defendants, including those from Okeechobee, faced potential prison terms exceeding 100 years and millions in fines, depending on the number of counts.
Without specific court records or further details, it’s unclear which of the Okeechobee Eight were convicted or what exact sentences they received. The lack of precise sentencing information may stem from the case’s complexity, involving multiple jurisdictions and defendants, or because some plea deals or trials were not widely publicized. For comparison, in a similar 1984 cocaine trafficking case in Atlanta involving five tons of cocaine, the defendant Harold J. Rosenthal received a life sentence without parole, indicating that severe penalties were possible for large-scale trafficking during this period.
PSL police arrest Uber driver after she was accused of pulling gun on Miami rapper
The Port St. Lucie Police Department (PSLPD) has released body camera footage of officers arresting an Uber driver who was accused of pulling out a firearm.
The Port St. Lucie Police Department (PSLPD) has released body camera footage of officers arresting an Uber driver who was accused of pulling out a firearm on her passenger, later revealed to be a Miami rapper.
Jennifer Benitez was arrested in mid-May after she was accused of pulling out a firearm on a passenger while she was driving Uber in Hollywood. Previous reports say Benitez, 23, and her passenger, identified as rapper Krissy Celess, had gotten into a verbal altercation before the gun was drawn.
The Miami rapper posted a video of the altercation on her Instagram page, which shows Benitez yelling at Celess and asking her to get out of the vehicle. Benitez is seen on video asking Celess to get out of her vehicle a few more times before she suddenly pulls out a firearm and points it at the rapper.
According to PSLPD, officers received an alert that a wanted felon was in the area.
Officers were able to conduct a traffic stop and take Benitez to the St. Lucie County Jail.
Body camera video shows an officer stopping a black SUV and ordering Benitez to step out of the vehicle. Benitez is seen on camera following the officer's instructions before she's handcuffed and placed in the back of the patrol vehicle.
$LEO ... wake me up when you arrive at a dollar.
Sure...in 2030.
We are all waiting for that moment, my friend.
Haha same here! Set my alarm for $1 and let’s toast when we get there 🥂🦁
Lion! Dream, will see it at dollar one.
#feedback What if $LEO didn't get rid of inflation in one go? What about making the inflation decrease every month until it gets replaced with the Buyback method?
What do you think? @taskmaster4450le @khaleelkazi @thelastdash
I dont see a point to the stepping down. It has been a reduction system over the years anyway. Few new are coming in and stocking up. The majority of the LEO is being sold into the market. This is the problem.
That would be ok, but i would prefer ripping the band-aid off all in one go.
That'll do more BTC adoption.
Now that’s bullish energy.
If Florida pulls this off, expect a wave of BTC-friendly zones popping up across the states. Let the dominoes fall!
make sure the rich get that bag baby!!!! lickin boots for life!!💩
Sweet, maybe I should relocate there. :DDDD
If Florida leads the way, other states might just follow…
No capital gains tax on BTC? That’s how you turn a state into a crypto hub!
If Florida pulls this off, expect a wave of Bitcoiners migrating south and maybe a few whales too.
Zero capital gains on BTC? That’s not just bullish… it’s a statement.
Tax-free Bitcoin gains? That’s not just bullish, it’s a whole new incentive layer for adoption, business migration, and innovation.
Now that’s a bold move! Bitcoin just got a little more freedom-friendly.
Positive and bullish news for Bitcoin lovers.
The people who know the power of bitcoin.
More and more bullish news for BTC will float....down the line.
This would give Americans one more reason to move to Florida!
Big catch for a lunch. Spoted today on a Baltic beach.
Wow!! That’s one ambitious lunch! 😄
Seagull really said, go big or go hungry! Nature never fails to surprise!
Nice capture, if we pay attention and are quick enough, nature amazes us.
Now that’s a seagull who understood the assignment.
No need for a lunch menu when the Baltic buffet is open!
Looks like it caught a dead fish washed ashore.
Yummy lunch
That seagull’s not playing around today 😅
When life gives you the ocean… you go all-in for a full fish buffet
That’s one ambitious catch.
The Baltic knows how to serve it fresh!
Nature’s version of “caught the big one and made sure everyone saw it".
Now that’s what I call earning your lunch!
Nature really doesn’t waste time when lunch swims by, what a perfect little wild moment to witness!
He's such a chunk! This really makes me want to live on the beach again
A yummy find , great photography .
Its a nice photo , clean pick for the lunch
just thinking 🤔 whether the bird would have it alone or with some friends having a party.
I like the grip of the beaks. Slippery fish not letting it go.
Nature
Hunger makes you vigilant to catch some food. Beautiful photo.
Respect to the real hunter-gatherers out here No delivery apps, no excuses just wings, waves, and straight-up hustle. Baltic brunch done right!
The only question on my mind right now: How did these accounts get their $LEO without the LEO price increaseing?!!!!!!! #inleo #leodex #feedback
https://inleo.io/threads/view/onealfa/re-leothreads-rxtwf1xz?referral=onealfa
Why don't you ask them directly?
Or maybe - ask the creator of each of these accounts
That's why I tagged the account when I asked
https://inleo.io/threads/view/cryptothesis/re-leothreads-25g9xkhcd
$10 is my goal
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I am a crazy dreamer. No doubt.
But 700x ? On LEO?
Really?
I guess I'm just too old to ever see it...
With $LEO standing at low values, I don't see how it can make x700. I don't see it even x10, but I guess hope makes us dreamers.
You may call it crazy now… but every 700x starts with someone who dared to believe when others didn’t.
It wouldn't be bad if it becomes a reality. We all need it to.
You’re not alone, I’m a dreamer too 😅
700x does sound wild… but hey, sometimes the craziest dreams spark the boldest moves. Who knows?
Maybe… or maybe you’re just early enough to be the legend who called it before anyone else believed. Sometimes the craziest dreams age the best.
Will love to see people exit on the way up
It’s very hard to buy LEO right now
700x on LEO sounds wild, but sometimes it's the crazy dreamers who end up being the visionaries.
Whether or not we get to see it, the journey itself is pretty epic.
And yet… every moonshot started with a “crazy dreamer.”
700x on LEO? Maybe it sounds wild now, just like $1 BTC once did.
Maybe we won’t see 700x...
But even 10x from here would still be one hell of a ride.
Ah, I don't see it either... I can see it 50x in 5 years, though. Or 10x in 2 years...
We now have a Mcap of 360k$, x1000 would mean 3.6B$, it seems impossible but definitely isn't... Step by step
It isnt impossible in the crypto market. But yeah, it’d need a crazy bull run and more liquidity.
We should be optimistic . I think a better way to expect and nothing in this world is impossible.
I have no idea how it works. But you can expect anything.
I wish that dream come true .
By 2030, LEO will see at least 100x gain, that's my dream.
I think it is easier for Leo to go to seven dollars for other coins to go to teh thousand.
Simplified view to a world.
As someone in Libya, I can confirm we don't only have Sand... We also have beautiful Mountains, and Beaches! A lot of rocky coasts!
This map is both wildly inaccurate and painfully accurate… depending on who’s reading it.
Europe really said, “Let me stereotype the entire planet real quick.” 😂
The ice distribution is spot on though... even Antarctica didn’t survive this roast.
More it's told by colonizing crappies so they can exploit treasures of these lands.
Australia in this image looks very sad!
The hearth of civilization, well said!
From “ice ice baby” to “tech support” to “kangaroos, death snakes, death spiders, death in general
This map is hilarious, painfully stereotypical but also kind of spot-on satire
Europe: “the civilised world”
Rest of us: sand, jungle, censorship, or just... death 😅
Gotta love how Australia is basically labeled “DO NOT ENTER”
This map is giving Peak Stereotype Energy
Also Europe calling itself “The Civilised World” while sipping wine and ignoring two world wars it started.
GK needed specially the geography.
little knowledge creates such views.
curry, tech support, ancient civilization
Where do people live.
51% is totally unimaginable for me.
Some live in the forests, holes and pits
Where do they even live? 😳
51% renting feels unreal to me, that's half the population without home ownership. Totally unimaginable in my context!
Strange to see this. Here we prefer to have our own homes.
Owning a house is better than a rented one. Only one advantage with rented houses that you can have it easily in any area of your choice not paying the wholesum amount required for buying .
Germany topping this chart really flips the common “renting = instability” narrative on its head. Shows how cultural norms and housing policies shape choices more than we realize.
Germany topping this list isn’t a shocker renting is practically a lifestyle there
But Croatia at just 9.5%? Looks like homeownership is still the dream in the Balkans.
Interesting how Western Europe leans rental while the East still holds tight to owning.
That’s quite a range!
Germany topping the chart at 50.9% is surprising, considering its strong economy. Meanwhile, Croatia sits at the bottom with just 9.5% renters, homeownership clearly runs deep there.
Fascinating chart!
But maybe this shows how cultural norms, policies, and housing markets vary drastically across Europe.
Meanwhile Croatia, Lithuania, and Poland holding strong to home ownership traditions.
Definitely makes you think about affordability, mobility, and priorities across nations.
My country is not in the list and I think that's because we have a deep sense of property. Instead of renting, better buy it.
That's surprising, in Germany, more than 50% are living in rented accomodation!
It looks like Germany is the most desirable place to live if demand is driving prices up. I would have guessed someplace warmer like Spain, Greece or Portugal!
"Mutti" Merkel forcing EU to open borders for tens of millions of refugees, "refugees" and migrants might have something to do with increased demand for housing most people couldn't afford as owners.
https://inleo.io/threads/view/ahmadmanga/re-khantaimur-2rkgwlfwx
If you saw the news about the UAE offering free ChatGPT Plus to all its citizens, you’re not alone. The news has gone viral across all major social media platforms over the last 24 hours. But is it true?
@taskmaster4450le, do you want some smoothie? 😂
I want the smooth loving that you have to offer.
You already have that. 😂
Such a vixen...looking to get your toes curled.
You know I'd love that. 🤣
Lol 🤣
Make I pass since you know who you are looking for.
Look well o make Okada no jam you. 🤣
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I had some chores to take care of
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That is total greed and lack of financial literacy causing you to lose all that money
3/ many people do some of these mistakes that leads them to lose their wealth one day at a time
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inflation going away cannot happen fast enough! Everyone is excited I feel like.
I saw this going around LinkedIn.
Waiter decided to be better the next day and earned a ton more on tips.
Just a reminder to do better where you are.
when onealfa posts everyone interacts. The biggest whale has some clout! That’s A LOT of $Leo.
https://inleo.io/threads/view/onealfa/re-leothreads-rxtwf1xz
will this still matter after the changes ?
My gut tells me the Arb staking will reward more than the InLeo rewards.
Unless we all think that and those that stay staked here get a decent upvote.
But yes my money is on leodex. It’s why I’m stil active here. I’ll most likely move most my leo there.
true.
It will depend on a lot of things
Thank you for your rethread, @dkid14
This action sure deserves my upvote.
So here it comes.
The Lions Den is now live.
My tasty protein based smoothie made with bananas, avocado, watermelon, wheat flavored milk drink and groundnuts.
Yum 😋
Come have a taste.
#thread2earn #foodie #foodtalk
I would have gladly grabbed a cup of it was within reach.
You can always make one for yourself. It's easy to make.
I published a post about the recipe.
Wow ...looking delicious
Yeah, it's tasty too. Thank you.
!BBH
I think I'll get a blender later on ...I love smoothie , tho I haven't made one . That is one kind of a healthy drink
Hello everyone 👋
It's the beginning of the weekend, what are your plans to make it a memorable one?
For us, we'll be burning more Gifu token.
#gifu
I was home today due to the sit at home enforced by the Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), to commemorate the Biafran day. 30th May.
It's been a busy day for me. Cooking and doing other house chores.
I just published my long form post and decided to hop in here to see what's trending. I still have some chores to take care of. 😅
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More of that is to take adequate care of yourself.
I really did. At least I was able to treat myself to some smoothie. 😅
which state you in
Abia.
Wow ... I'm in Enugu
https://inleo.io/threads/view/onealfa/re-leothreads-rxtwf1xz?referral=onealfa
Thank you for your rethread, @antonyi
This action deserves my upvote.
So here it comes.
i'm Very grateful , Thank you for your kind words and support.
https://inleo.io/threads/view/onealfa/re-leothreads-2mwjacfzr
Thank you for your rethread, @shaliniu
This action sure deserves my upvote.
So here it comes.
Thank you
Well, we call it (أوروبا) "Aurobba" in my language, so it does start with A and ends with E, I guess?
It has an A in the end if you see most of the European languages do call it Evropa or Europa, Europe is given by British to their fancy English accent.
Europe clearly didn’t get the “ends-with-a” memo.
Always out here breaking patterns and traditions.
Lol. I guess they're different
We are ahead of times, just need to prove it. ;))
Haha this map really exposed Europe like the odd cousin at a family reunion 😄
Everyone’s ending in “-a” like a squad with matching outfits… and then there’s Europe just casually breaking the theme.
America, Africa, Asia, Australia, Antarctica… and then boom: Europe, the rebel without an "a"!
Not Europe being the only one trying to be edgy by skipping the "a" trend.
Europe really said, “I don’t follow trends, I set them.”
Also… shoutout to the person who renamed "North & South America" into just "America" for this masterpiece.
Just to be unique I would say. Smaller they are comparing to others in size.
Yes that raise an eyebrow . Why Europe not following the others.
Only in english … 🤓
not so in german … 🤓
EuropA
AsieN
AustralieN
ArktiS
AntarktiS
AfrikA
AmerikA
No......they are unique.
You won't go hungry with me. 🤭🤭🤭
https://inleo.io/threads/view/onealfa/re-leothreads-31hhkb9hu
Thank you for your rethread, @khantaimur
This action sure deserves my upvote.
So here it comes.
What if I told you… $LEO hit $10?
This isn’t just a dream. It’s a vision backed by community, innovation, and strategy.
From micro-value to macro-impact
From content to code
From Inleo to the world
A price like this doesn’t just happen.
It’s built, brick by digital brick, by those who believe early.
#leo
It is possible! ...After the recent AMA, I even removed a lot of my lower priced Sell Offers because I believe this much in the potential...
I just wish it happens faster, though...
Just hoping the rocket gets a faster countdown this time 🚀🦁
Honestly, the way Leo price crashed was horrible. From $0.09 to $0.02 in a day, and since then no sign of rebound.
I guess that's why Khal wants to rid of the inflation...
What's new in LEO? It's been a minute but nice to see so many familiar faces still here and putting in the work
Hey Kris! Nice to Hive you here again 😀.
Yes, we'll even double down on INLEO & LeoDex, hehe. A big shift is about to take place, with the $LEO inflation based minting being stopped (at something like 25 or 28 million LEO, not one more) and the token being purchased through the transactions unfolding on LeoDex.
Thanks! I've seen a few comments about the minting ending. Definitely makes owning LEO more exciting 😀 Is there a post or something that explains how it's going to work going forward?
I haven't seen any "official" post yet, and usually when one is published, there's a "sticky" notification in the lower right corner of my screen, hehe.
BUT you can listen to the latest AMA where Khal explains the future buyback mechanisms and $LEO sinks, here: https://inleo.io/threads/view/leostrategy/re-leothreads-jush5xde?referral=leostrategy
Thanks, I just listened to it. So much going on in LEO. Gotta get my stash up
I'll try one more time to see if my post will publish. If the issue persist, I'll have to use other frontends. For over two hours now, I can't publish my post.
#thread2earn
That's sucks, I hope you succeed this time
Yeah, finally did after over 3hrs. Thank you.
!BBH
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Miami Beach man coerces 15-year-old neighbor with drugs and money for sex: cops
The man would give the 15-year-old $100 for sex, an arrest report read.
A 29-year-old Miami Beach man used drugs and money to attract a 15-year-old neighbor and coerce her into sex multiple times, cops say. He was cuffed on Saturday.
On May 17, the 15-year-old’s parents called Miami Beach police, reporting their daughter had been sexually abused by Christian Gonzalez Lopez, a neighbor, an arrest report read.
An interview with the young teen revealed that a few months ago, Gonzalez Lopez approached her while she was walking in the neighborhood and asked for her Instagram, which she gave, the report read.
That same day, he sent her pictures of lingerie and asked if she’d take pictures in them for money — she ignored him.
Sometime later, she messaged him asking for the drug Tusi, a type of cocaine, the report read. Gonzalez Lopez said he agreed to provide it, but not only for money — sex, too. This exchange happened several times.
Police noted the teen had a “drug dependency” and on some other occasions, he would give her $100 to have sex. In one instance, she told detectives she thought he would record her during the sexual abuse.
On Saturday, the teen confirmed Gonzalez Lopez was the man who was giving her money for sex over several months, the report read. He was promptly arrested on an unrelated disturbance call that day.
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He was charged with human trafficking, seduce a child to commit any illegal act, lewd and lascivious battery on a child, induce a child to perform an act that causes a child to become dependent and illegal delivery of controlled substances to minors.
Gonzalez Lopez was taken to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where he remained as of Wednesday night.
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Judge delays Miami trial of five men accused of plotting assassination of Haiti’s president
The Miami trial of five men accused of plotting the killing of Haiti’s president has dragged on for years.
The Miami trial of five men accused of plotting the assassination of Haiti’s president has again been delayed, this time to March 2026 — almost five years after the fatal shooting of Jovenel Moïse at his suburban home outside Port-au-Prince.
U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Becerra said at a recent hearing that she was not happy about delaying the federal trial, which was originally set for March and then postponed until September of this year.
Becerra said she had no choice but to push it back again because of the massive volume of evidence, including more than 2.5 million text messages, emails and other records, that federal prosecutors are still turning over to the defense lawyers — a basic discovery issue that has turned into a sore point for the judge.
“I do not take it lightly in any way that this case has been delayed,” Becerra told the five defendants, who were arrested and taken into federal custody in the months after the July 7, 2021, assassination of Moïse. “This is not a delay that I am at all happy with.”
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Compounding the run-up to the Miami trial: Armed gangs have been terrorizing Haiti, a country in free fall without a political leader, making it unsafe for the defense lawyers in Miami to go there and question ex-Colombian soldiers jailed in Port-au-Prince on Haitian charges of assisting in the slaying of the president.
As a result, Judge Becerra granted the defense team’s request to take video depositions of five of the Colombians, who represent about one-third of the former commandos in jail.
“Although the difficulties of traveling to Haiti to conduct these depositions should not be understated, there appears to be no reason why the depositions could not take place over video conference,” Becerra ruled after the May 19 hearing on the trial date and other issues.
Despite the judge’s approval of these critical depositions, there is one potential Haitian witness whom the defense lawyers in Miami won’t be able to question: Former Haitian Superior Court Judge Windelle Coq Thélot, who died in January.
Haitian authorities considered Thélot a key suspect in the investigation of Moïse’s killing. But she took to the grave unanswered questions about her alleged role in the assassination plot and whether she indeed promised immunity to the defendants in Miami who are accused of directing it.
According to prosecutors in Miami, Thélot gained the support of the suspected plotters in South Florida as a replacement for Moïse in June 2021, when they decided that Christian Sanon, a Haitian priest and physician, “was not a viable option to take over” the presidency.
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Thélot’s “apparent signature” appeared on a written request for assistance to arrest Haiti’s president that “purported to provide Haitian immunity” to the conspirators in South Florida, according to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court. One of the suspects, Haitian-American maintenance worker James Solages, traveled from Haiti to Miami on June 28, 2021, to deliver the document to another suspect, Antonio “Tony” Intriago,” the owner of a security business.
On July 1, Solages traveled back to Haiti and five days later met with several conspirators at a house near Moïse’s residence. Solages “falsely told those gathered that it was a ‘CIA Operation, and, in substance, said that the mission was to kill President Moïse,” the FBI affidavit stated.
Solages and other suspects drove in a convoy to the president’s home on the night of July 7, the assassination date. Once inside the residence, Solages declared they were involved in a “DEA Operation” to ensure “compliance from” Moïse’s security team, the affidavit stated. Some of the ex-Colombian soldiers recruited for the mission were assigned to find and kill the president.
Suspect knew about assassination plan: FBI
On July 22, federal agents questioned Solages while he was in Haitian custody. After he was read his Miranda rights, Solages admitted that by mid-June 2021, “he knew that the plan was to ultimately assassinate President Moïse,” according to the FBI affidavit.
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To date in the U.S. case, five of the 11 defendants have pleaded guilty to conspiring to kill Haiti’s president, resulting in life sentences that they hope to get reduced with their cooperation. Among those convicted: two ex-Colombian commandos, a former Haitian senator, a Haitian-American man who worked as an informant for the DEA, and a previously convicted Haitian drug trafficker.
A sixth defendant, a Tampa businessman, pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges involving the smuggling of bulletproof vests that were illegally exported to Haiti for the group of ex-Colombian soldiers who carried out the deadly attack.
The remaining five defendants are charged with conspiring in South Florida to kidnap or kill Haiti’s leader and related charges, including recruiting the Colombian commandos. The conspiracy charge carries up to life in prison.
The defendants facing trial are: Intriago, the head of a Miami-area security firm, CTU; Arcangel Pretel Ortiz, a former FBI informant who joined Intriago at CTU; Walter Veintemilla, a Broward County financier; Solages, the Haitian American; and Sanon, who was initially seen by the group as a successor to Moïse as Haiti’s president. All five defendants are being held in a federal lock-up before trial.
Of the five remaining defendants, Sanon was the only one who told the judge at the hearing this month that he opposed delaying the trial until March of next year.
But Judge Becerra, while showing sympathy for his pre-trial detention over nearly four years in Haiti and Miami, said holding one trial for him and another for the others was not practical for several reasons.
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“Given the complexity of the case, the government wants all the defendants tried together,” Becerra told Sanon. “I am not inclined to try your case in September and all the other defendants in March [2026].”
In February 2024, Sanon was charged with the others with conspiring to kill Haiti’s leader, after first being accused of trying to carry out a military expedition against a foreign country. It was the fifth superseding indictment filed by prosecutors with the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Justice Department. Since then, most of the team has been replaced with new prosecutors.
On Iran and Gaza, Trump Should Avoid the Mistakes of Obama and Biden
President Trump’s first-term record of steadfast support for Israel and “maximum pressure” against Iran has earned him a fair degree of benefit of the doubt when it comes to Middle East policy. But as his envoy Steve Witkoff pursues nuclear diplomacy with Iran and another cease-fire deal in Gaza, there are troubling signs that Trump may be going down the same failed path of Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
On Wednesday, Trump confirmed that he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to strike Iran’s nuclear program, saying, “I don’t think it’s appropriate” while talks are ongoing. “Right now, I think they want to make a deal,” Trump said. “And if we can make a deal, I’d save a lot of lives.” Holding off on striking Iran now risks squandering a crucial window, with Iran’s anti-aircraft defense systems still damaged from Israel’s retaliatory strike against the terrorist regime last October.
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In his first term, Trump rightly recognized that Iran was not a negotiating partner to be trusted. He tore up Obama’s disastrous nuclear deal, under which Iran obtained tens of billions of dollars in sanctions relief while retaining its ability to enrich uranium and grow its ballistic missile program. Also, that deal did not address any other malign behavior by Iran (from its sponsorship of terrorism to other destabilizing actions throughout the region, including its targeting of U.S. military personnel and assets).
But now, unfortunately, Trump is pursuing a deal that sounds in many ways like the failed Obama agreement, with its promise of inspections and its avoidance of fully dismantling the nuclear program, akin to the deal the U.S. struck with Libya in 2003. Witkoff, a few weeks ago, said that Iran would be allowed to enrich uranium at 3.67 percent (the Obama deal limit), but more recently he has said that the U.S. “red line” was that Iran would not be permitted any enrichment. Iran, for its part, has said it would never accept that limitation. With Trump so eager for a deal, it’s fair to be concerned that the U.S. will let this red line shift.
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Iran doves within the administration and their allies are making the same disingenuous arguments that John Kerry and the gang made during the Obama administration — that the only alternative to a deal is a world war. In reality, an Israeli-led strike on Iran’s nuclear program would not trigger another world war, nor is it akin to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. It is likely to be closer to the 1981 Israeli attack on Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor. Trump should understand this. In 2020, when he rightly ordered the strike that killed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qasem Soleimani, the reactions were so hysterical that the terms “Franz Ferdinand” and “World War III” were trending online, and yet Iran avoided a major escalation that it could ill afford. The same calculation would be likely to hold this time.
Meanwhile, Israel is currently making significant progress in its campaign against Hamas. Israelis recently killed Hamas’s leader in Gaza, Mohammed Sinwar, the younger brother of Yahya Sinwar (the October 7 architect who was killed by Israel last October). And perhaps more importantly, there are signs that the people of Gaza are starting to feel more emboldened to defy the terrorist group that has ruled the area with an iron grip for nearly 20 years.
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The U.S. and Israel have worked together with contractors to create a new mechanism for distributing aid directly to Gazans, unlike the United Nations effort that allowed Hamas to steal the aid. Before the distribution began, Hamas issued a warning to Gazans not to participate in the U.S.-backed effort. Yet Gazans ignored the warning, and hundreds of thousands of meals were distributed in the first day of operation. In a further sign that Hamas, which has been controlling the flow of food and supplies, is losing its grip, a mob broke into a warehouse in central Gaza to take flour.
Unfortunately, by pushing for another cease-fire when Israel has the momentum, the U.S. could end up tossing Hamas a lifeline.
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Unfortunately, even though Trump has some great people on his foreign policy team with stellar records on Middle East policy, such as Secretary of State Marco Rubio, everything seems to be dictated by Witkoff, a real estate developer with little background in foreign diplomacy and with a significant conflict of interest: His troubled Park Lane hotel investment was bailed out by the Qatar Investment Authority last year to the tune of $623 million, and Qatar is a benefactor of Hamas and key ally of Iran. In March, Witkoff admitted in a television interview that he was “duped” by Hamas during earlier negotiations.
Supreme Court Clears Trump Administration to Revoke Parole for 500,000 Migrants, Begin Deportations
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to revoke the temporary legal status of more than 500,000 immigrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti and Nicaragua.
The Court, in an unsigned order, lifted a lower court order that kept a Biden-era humanitarian parole program in place. Humanitarian parole allows migrants from countries facing instability to enter the U.S. and secure work authorization as long as they have a private sponsor.
Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, arguing the majority had not properly considered “the devastating consequences of allowing the government to precipitously upend the lives and livelihoods of nearly half a million noncitizens while their legal claims are pending.”
They argued the Court’s order will “have the lives of half a million migrants unravel all around us before the courts decide their legal claims.”
The order means the parole protections will not be in place as the case proceeds; it now heads back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston.
The decision comes after the Court previously allowed the Trump administration to revoke deportation protections from nearly 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants who were allowed to remain in the U.S. under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program.
Both rulings are wins for the Trump administration, which is working to make good on the president’s campaign promise to carry out mass deportations.
Republicans have argued the humanitarian parole program allowed immigrants who would otherwise not have qualified to enter the country, to remain in the country legally.
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The Biden administration opened up humanitarian parole to Venezuelans in 2022 and for Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans in January 2023.
At the time, several red states sued the Biden administration looking to block the parole program, though the courts upheld its legality.
President Trump ordered an end to the humanitarian parole programs on his first day in office, leading migrants to challenge Trump’s directive in court. Attorneys for the migrants argued that the end of the humanitarian and other immigration parole programs was “contrary to law, arbitrary and capricious.”
The lawsuits resulted in a temporary pause of the Trump administration’s order in March, after a federal judge in Massachusetts ruled that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Nome lacked the authority to revoke the parole for more than 500,000 people without providing case-by-case reviews.
Instead, we live in a time of technological marvels, and the unemployment rate is 4.2 percent. Rob Atkinson of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation points out that the average unemployment rate in the United States hasn’t changed much over the last century, despite an increase in productivity — the ability to produce more with the same inputs — by almost ten times.
Technology increases productivity, driving down costs and making it possible to invest and spend on other things, creating new jobs that replace the old. This is the process of a society becoming wealthier, and it’s why nations that innovate are better off than those that don’t.
The rise of personal computers collapsed the demand for typists and word processors. These positions were often held by women. Did this decimate the economic prospects of women in America? No, they got different, and frequently better, jobs.
AI will end up augmenting many jobs — helping workers become more efficient — and there will be a limit to how much it can encroach on human work.
It’s hard to imagine, say, Meta ever giving over its legal representation in an antitrust case to artificial intelligence. Lawyers handling such a case will, however, rely on AI for more and more support, diminishing the need for junior lawyers.
This will be a significant disruption for the legal profession, yet legal services will also become cheaper and more widely available, in a benefit to everyone else.
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There’s no doubt that the changes wrought by technology can be painful, and it’s possible that artificial intelligence eventually gets so good at so many tasks that people have no ready recourse to new, better jobs, as has always happened in the past.
The potential upside, though, is vast. After strong productivity growth for about a decade beginning in the mid-1990s, we shifted into a lower gear in the mid-2000’s. It will be a boon if artificial intelligence puts us on a better trajectory. An era of high productivity growth will, among other things, make it easier to deal with the budget deficit and the fiscal strain of retiring Baby Boomers.
Like anything else, AI will have its downsides, but it’s not an inherent threat any more than were computers or the internet.
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Pure bliss on my day off! 😌
Chilling with two awesome friends, delicious food, a cool drink in hand, and this absolutely perfect weather. 🍹☀️
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Turkey Proposes to Host Trump-Putin-Zelenskyy Summit
Turkey on Friday proposed hosting a summit with the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and the United States as it strives to broker an elusive deal to end Russia's three-year invasion - an invitation swiftly dismissed by the Kremlin.
Moscow said it was sending a team of negotiators to Istanbul for a second round of direct talks with Ukraine on Monday — though Kyiv has yet to confirm if it will attend.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has fostered warm relations with both Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin, has become a key mediator amid Donald Trump's push for a deal to end the over three-year war.
"We sincerely think that it is possible to cap the first and second direct Istanbul talks with a meeting between Mr. Trump, Mr. Putin and Mr. Zelenskyy, under the direction of Mr. Erdogan," Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said during a visit to Kyiv.
The Kremlin pushed back against the idea of a face-to-face meeting involving Putin and Zelenskyy.
"First, results must be achieved through direct negotiations between the two countries," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
Fidan met Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga in Kyiv and was due to meet Zelenskyy later in the day.
He held talks with Putin in Moscow earlier this week.
Ukraine has said it is open to further negotiations, but has not confirmed it will be in Istanbul on Monday.
At talks in Istanbul on May 16 — the first in over three years — the sides agree to swap documents outlining possible roadmaps to peace.
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Kyiv and the West have rejected those calls and cast Russia's assault as nothing but an imperial-style land grab.
Russia's invasion in February 2022 triggered the biggest European conflict since World War II.
Tens of thousands have been killed, swathes of eastern and southern Ukraine destroyed and millions forced to flee their homes.
Trump has been growing increasingly frustrated at both Zelenskyy and Putin for not having struck a deal yet.
At a UN Security Council meeting Thursday a U.S. diplomat reaffirmed that Washington could pull back from peace efforts if it does not see progress soon.
Despite the sides having held their first peace talks in more than three years, there has been little sign of movement towards a possible compromise agreement.
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At the talks earlier in May, Ukraine said Russia threatened to accelerate its ground offensive into new regions and made a host of maximalist demands, including that Kyiv cede territory still under its control.
Along with its European allies, Ukraine has been ramping up pressure on Trump to hit Moscow with fresh sanctions — a step he has so far not taken.
"Talks of pauses in pressure or easing of sanctions are perceived in Moscow as a political victory –- and only encourage further attacks and continued disregard for diplomacy," Zelenskyy said Friday on social media.
Russia has meanwhile been pressing its advance on the battlefield, with its forces on Friday claiming to have captured another village in the northeastern Kharkiv region.
Supreme Court Lets Trump Revoke Migrant 'Parole' Status
The U.S. Supreme Court let President Donald Trump end temporary legal status for migrants from four countries, aiding his deportation efforts.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday let President Donald Trump's administration revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants living in the United States, bolstering the Republican president's drive to step up deportations.
The court put on hold Boston-based U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani order halting the administration's move to end the immigration "parole" granted to 532,000 of these migrants by Trump's predecessor Joe Biden, potentially exposing many of them to rapid removal, while the case plays out in lower courts.
Florida School for Boys at Okeechobee survivors acknowledge 'there'll never be closure' as they pursue...
A group of abuse survivors at Florida's reform schools is feeling unheard and seeking answers to why they're not eligible for compensation.
Boys," an hour-long special report examining the compensation program for survivors of abuse at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys and the Florida School for Boys at Okeechobee during the middle of the 20th century.
WATCH BELOW: Reform school survivors 'vow to keep fighting for every victim'
A 2024 law created a $20 million compensation fund for survivors who attended the schools and were abused between 1940 and 1975.
Bennie Wilson attended Dozier in 1976.
WPTV visited Wilson at his home in Valdosta, Georgia, where he spoke about being beaten at the school multiple times per day.
"Whenever they felt like you did enough to deserve that," he said. "Could be two or three times a day."
Like the other survivors who applied for compensation, Wilson obtained a copy of Dozier's ledger with his name on it and filled out an application. He learned he wasn't eligible for compensation when a letter from the Attorney General's office arrived in late February.
"This outcome does not diminish your experience as a person impacted by the events which took place at the Dozier School for Boys and Florida Okeechobee School," the letter read, in part.
Wilson said he felt "cheated (and) mistreated" when he read the letter.
Immigration parole is a form of temporary permission under American law to be in the country for "urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit," allowing recipients to live and work in the United States. Biden, a Democrat, used parole as part of his administration's approach by to deter illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexican border.
Trump called for ending humanitarian parole programs in an executive order signed on January 20, his first day back in office. The Department of Homeland Security subsequently moved to terminate them in March, cutting short the two-year parole grants. The administration said revoking the parole status would make it easier to place migrants in a fast-track deportation process called "expedited removal."
The case is one of many that Trump's administration has brought in an emergency fashion to the nation's highest judicial body seeking to undo decisions by judges impeding his sweeping policies, including several targeting immigrants.
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After investigators quickly ruled that Okeechobee County Sheriff John Collier committed suicide due to sinus problems, many in the community didn’t buy it. Questionable decisions made at the crime scene and in the months afterwards helped a cloud of uncertainty linger around the case.
"It made me angry, to be honest about it," Wilson said. "What about 78? What about 79? What about all those other years that went by, and stuff was going on? I can't figure out how they can come to that conclusion."
"What they did to these young men was take their futures away," said state Rep. Michelle Salzman, R-Escambia County, who filed the compensation bill that passed unanimously during the 2024 legislative session.
The bill's resounding success followed 16 years of failed attempts at similar legislation by other lawmakers.
WPTV asked Salzman in January why 1975 was the cutoff.
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The Supreme Court on May 19 also let Trump end a deportation protection called temporary protected status that had been granted under Biden to about 350,000 Venezuelans living in the United States, while that legal dispute plays out.
In a bid to reduce illegal border crossings, Biden starting in 2022 allowed Venezuelans who entered the United States by air to request a two-year parole if they passed security checks and had a U.S. financial sponsor. Biden expanded that process to Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans in 2023 as his administration grappled with high levels of illegal immigration from those nationalities.
The plaintiffs, a group of migrants granted parole and Americans who serve as their sponsors, sued administration officials claiming the administration violated federal law governing the actions of government agencies.
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"That was the way the bill was written in the past, and we didn't get the historical information," Salzman said. "We tried really hard. We reached out to a lot of people to try to find out where those numbers came from."
As reported in "The Okeechobee Boys," there's evidence that the abuse continued at the reform schools beyond 1975.
"I try to forget the names. I try to forget it all," James Walker said while sitting next to his wife in a pair of recliners in their home in rural Fort Meade, Florida.
Walker was sent to the Okeechobee school in 1978. He said he didn't bother applying for compensation because he knew he didn't qualify.
"(There) ain't no forgetting it, and it wasn't right," he said.
Stories like Walker's and Wilson's offer one clue as to why the line may have been drawn at 1975: neither of them experienced or witnessed the bloody beatings in a secluded room with a modified paddle — a disturbing ritual described by the men who were at the schools in the 1960s.
"I didn't see anything," Walker said when asked about the beatings. "But as far as stuff happening, yeah. Because, you know, they showed me ... the clinic and the room off beside the clinic, where they said they take you in there and straighten you out."
"Nobody really would say anything about it," Walker continued. "Because they figured ... 'If I say something about it, I'm gonna be the next one in there.'"
Wilson said Dozier's infamous "White House" was no longer used as the venue for the beatings by the time he was there.
"Those people didn't wait for you to get to no White House," Wilson said. “They whooped your ass anywhere you go — anything you do that was considered wrong."
The men said the physical abuse took a different form.
According to Wilson, employees would whip him and other boys using a long antenna that they unscrewed from walkie-talkies.
Wilson and Walker also allege rampant sexual abuse.
Wilson was never assaulted, he said. But he witnessed children being molested.
Walker said he was raped by a group of his fellow students.
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"A light went out, and they shoved me into a room — a little small room, and choked me, started hitting me in the ribs, choked me and took turns with me," he said. "And (there) wasn't nothing I could do about it."
Walker said it happened while an employee was supposed to be keeping watch.
"They knew he was drunk," Walker said. "He should have been on his job, you know, taking care of us and looking over us. And this would have never happened."
According to Walker, the students who raped him were prosecuted. But he's not aware of any internal investigation or consequences for the state employees who failed to protect him.
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The Okeechobee Eight refers to a major drug bust in Okeechobee County, Florida, during the mid-1980s, specifically tied to a cocaine smuggling ring that operated in the region. In November 1986, a statewide grand jury indicted 29 individuals, including nine Okeechobee County residents, for their involvement in a smuggling operation that brought approximately 7,700 pounds of cocaine from the Bahamas to cattle ranches in Okeechobee County between November 1984 and 1986. The operation was part of the broader drug trafficking epidemic in South Florida during the 1980s, when rural areas like Okeechobee became attractive to smugglers due to less law enforcement scrutiny compared to urban hubs like Miami.
The indictments followed a series of investigations by local, state, and federal authorities, who had been cracking down on drug trafficking in the region. Sheriff John Henderson noted that deputies had conducted four major busts in the preceding three years, seizing two airplanes, a helicopter, nine vehicles, and nearly 3,000 pounds of drugs. The Okeechobee Eight case specifically highlighted the involvement of prominent local residents, which shocked the close-knit community of about 4,500 people, known for its rural character and nickname, “The Speckled Perch Capital of the World.” The bust revealed how deeply drug smuggling had infiltrated even small towns, with locals like truck driver Ray Holley expressing dismay that younger residents were getting involved, contrasting with the “clean, decent” older generation.
The case was part of a larger wave of drug enforcement actions in South Florida, driven by the DEA and other agencies targeting cocaine and marijuana smuggling during the War on Drugs. The Okeechobee Eight bust underscored the challenges of policing rural areas that provided ideal cover for smuggling operations, such as remote ranches used as drop-off points.
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Specific details on the prison sentences for the Okeechobee Eight drug bust in 1986 are not fully documented in available records, and comprehensive information about the individual sentences for all nine Okeechobee County residents indicted is limited. The case involved 29 individuals, including nine from Okeechobee County, charged with smuggling approximately 7,700 pounds of cocaine from the Bahamas to cattle ranches in Okeechobee County between November 1984 and 1986. The indictments were part of a federal and state investigation targeting a significant cocaine trafficking operation.
While exact sentencing details for the "Okeechobee Eight" (the nine local residents) are not explicitly outlined in the sources, related information from the broader case provides some context. The defendants faced charges related to cocaine trafficking, with potential penalties ranging from 15 to 20 years in prison and fines between $125,000 and $250,000 per count. Some defendants were also charged with currency violations, carrying additional penalties of up to five years in prison and fines from $10,000 to $250,000.
One notable detail is that Frederik John Luytjes, identified as an unindicted co-conspirator who provided airplanes and pilots for the smuggling operation, signed an agreement to plead guilty to drug-trafficking charges. However, his specific sentence is not detailed in the records. Additionally, one of the key suspects, Arturo Correa-Arroyave, was kidnapped and murdered around the time of the indictment, so he did not face sentencing. The sources suggest that the American defendants, including those from Okeechobee, faced potential prison terms exceeding 100 years and millions in fines, depending on the number of counts.
Without specific court records or further details, it’s unclear which of the Okeechobee Eight were convicted or what exact sentences they received. The lack of precise sentencing information may stem from the case’s complexity, involving multiple jurisdictions and defendants, or because some plea deals or trials were not widely publicized. For comparison, in a similar 1984 cocaine trafficking case in Atlanta involving five tons of cocaine, the defendant Harold J. Rosenthal received a life sentence without parole, indicating that severe penalties were possible for large-scale trafficking during this period.
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PSL police arrest Uber driver after she was accused of pulling gun on Miami rapper
The Port St. Lucie Police Department (PSLPD) has released body camera footage of officers arresting an Uber driver who was accused of pulling out a firearm.
The Port St. Lucie Police Department (PSLPD) has released body camera footage of officers arresting an Uber driver who was accused of pulling out a firearm on her passenger, later revealed to be a Miami rapper.
Jennifer Benitez was arrested in mid-May after she was accused of pulling out a firearm on a passenger while she was driving Uber in Hollywood. Previous reports say Benitez, 23, and her passenger, identified as rapper Krissy Celess, had gotten into a verbal altercation before the gun was drawn.
The Miami rapper posted a video of the altercation on her Instagram page, which shows Benitez yelling at Celess and asking her to get out of the vehicle. Benitez is seen on video asking Celess to get out of her vehicle a few more times before she suddenly pulls out a firearm and points it at the rapper.
According to PSLPD, officers received an alert that a wanted felon was in the area.
Officers were able to conduct a traffic stop and take Benitez to the St. Lucie County Jail.
Body camera video shows an officer stopping a black SUV and ordering Benitez to step out of the vehicle. Benitez is seen on camera following the officer's instructions before she's handcuffed and placed in the back of the patrol vehicle.
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A real whirlwind of activity these past few months! A break was in order, so we headed to Strom
SPA! It feels so good!
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Not all signs are loud.
Some look like sunbeams behind a cloud.
On your way to the pharmacy.
$LEO emissions will stop soon and no more minting occur once LEO transitions to Arbitrum on #leodex.
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To cool down
There it is, the rain.