House Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was also critical of Senate Democrats who support the continuing resolution.
"Donald Trump and Elon Musk have offered the Congress a false choice between a government shutdown or a blank check that makes a devastating assault on the well-being of working families across America," Pelosi said in a statement. "But this false choice that some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable.
"I am proud of my colleagues in the House Democratic Caucus for their overwhelming vote against this bill. Democratic senators should listen to the women."
Voice of America Ending Contracts With AP, Reuters, Agence France Presse
The government agency that runs the Voice of America has moved to terminate contracts with The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse, and told its journalists Friday to stop using material from the wire services.
Kari Lake, the former broadcaster turned Republican politician who was selected by President Donald Trump to run VOA, estimated the move would save $53 million.
The new administration has quickly asserted its authority at VOA, which has delivered news from an American perspective to countries across the world. While awaiting official approval to take over, Lake was brought on as special adviser at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA and sister organizations like Radio Free Europe.
Frankfurt's DAX gained ground, advancing about 1.9% to close at 22,987 on Friday, outperforming peers, on reports that Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz and key political parties agreed on a massive increase in state borrowing. This comes just days ahead of a parliamentary vote next week. Meanwhile, traders continued to monitor trade tensions, geopolitical events and corporate news. Defense industry stocks and materials received a strong boost, with Rheinmetall rising 6.3% and Heidelberg Materials up 3.8%. Banks also performed well. Daimler Truck rose over 2% after reported Q4 earnings that surpassed expectations and provided a robust outlook for this year. BMW shares lost 0.3% after reporting a 34% drop in 2024 profits and forecasting a 5-7% earnings margin for 2025, below some competitors. Still, the index declined about 0.3% this week.
The AP, Reuters and AFP all declined comment on Friday.
The VOA's move comes amid tense relations between the press and White House. The Associated Press has sued after the White House banned its reporters from press pools, the Pentagon has removed several reporters from longtime perches, and news organizations have been targeted by lawsuits and FCC investigations.
In another social media post, Lake said that she is in a fact-finding mode and “boy, am I finding a lot of nonsense that the American taxpayer should not be paying for.”
Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin of Illinois, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Gary Peters of Michigan, Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Chuck Schumer of New York joined independent Sen. Angus King of Maine and every Republican except Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky to move the bill forward.
Senators voted down four amendments to the bill before it went to a final floor vote, where it passed in 54-46 vote.
Shaheen and King voted with Republicans, minus Paul, to send the continuing resolution to President Trump’s desk for his signature.
The procedural vote came after a crop of younger congressional Democrats in both chambers railed against Schumer for having signaled his opposition to the Republican agenda earlier this week — only to reverse course within 24 hours.
The bill — a continuing resolution that will essentially extend fiscal 2024 spending levels through the start of the 2026 fiscal year — is backed by President Trump.
Under the measure, defense spending will get a $6 billion boost from fiscal year 2024, but non-defense discretionary spending will fall $13 billion beneath the previous fiscal year.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is also getting a slight boost to nearly $10 billion, up from the previous year’s spending level, to carry out Trump’s mass deportations.
Senate Democrats struggled to unify on how to vote for a House-passed continuing resolution despite Schumer’s initial opposition.
Before his flip-flop, Schumer had signaled support for a 30-day stopgap measure, introduced by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), that would allow Democratic and Republican negotiators to potentially hammer out a longer-term spending deal.
“Democratic senators should listen to the women,” Pelosi said, referring to the four-week funding extension proposed by Murray and DeLauro.
“Democrats must not buy into this false choice. We must fight back for a better way. Listen to the women, For The People,” the former House speaker concluded.
The main stock market index in Spain (ES35) increased 1410 points or 12.16% since the beginning of 2025, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks this benchmark index from Spain.
The Shanghai Composite surged 1.81% to close at a three-month high of 3,421, while the Shenzhen Component jumped 2.26% to 10,978 on Friday, as mainland stocks snapped a two-day losing streak on rising expectations of more policy support from Beijing. Top government officials are set to hold a press conference on Monday to discuss measures to boost consumption, fueling optimism about potential economic stimulus. Meanwhile, investors continued to navigate escalating global trade tensions, with US President Donald Trump reaffirming plans to implement reciprocal tariffs on global trading partners, set to take effect on April 2. Technology and growth stocks led the rally, with notable gains from East Money Information (+4.6%), Wuliangye Yibin (+6.4%), China Galaxy (+6.4%), Contemporary Amperex (+3.5%), and BYD Company (+6.1%). For the week, the Shanghai and Shenzhen indexes rose 1.4% and 1.2%, respectively, marking their second consecutive weekly gain.
The MOEX Russia Index fell to below the 3,150 mark from the nine-month high of 3,326 on February 25th as markets reconsidered the ease and speed in which domestic companies may return to the global financial markets. US President Trump threatened additional banking tariffs on Moscow should Russia delay ceasefire deals after the country struck Ukrainian gas infrastructure, a change in rhetoric from the previous friendly tone with the Kremlin. This magnified the impact of lower demand for Russian oil and gas, driving Lukoil, Rosneft, and Gazprom to plunge in March. Stocks had rallied in February after the new US Presidential administration adopted favorable relations with Russia and pressed Ukraine on accepting Russian terms for a ceasefire in their war. The developments ramped up expectations that the US would expedite the removal of tariffs on Russia, reestablish economic ties, and aid its return to global financial markets, which would trigger sharp inflows of capital into Moscow.
Carmine Galante (Italian: [ˈkarmine ɡaˈlante]; February 21, 1910 – July 12, 1979) was an American Mafioso who was de facto boss of the Bonanno crime family of New York City. Galante was rarely seen without a cigar hanging from his mouth, leading to the nickname "The Cigar" and "Lilo", "after the Italian slang word for a stubby little cigar." He was assassinated on Commission orders in 1979 while dining in a restaurant.
Vito Genovese (Italian: [ˈviːto dʒenoˈveːze, -eːse]; November 21, 1897 – February 14, 1969) was an Italian-born American mafioso and the leader of the Genovese crime family in New York City. A childhood friend and criminal associate of Lucky Luciano, Genovese took part in the Castellammarese War and helped Luciano shape the Mafia's rise as a major force in organized crime in the United States. He would later lead Luciano's crime family, which was renamed by the FBI after Genovese in 1957.
Along with Luciano, Genovese facilitated the expansion of the heroin trade to an international level. He fled to Italy in 1937, and for a brief period during World War II he supported Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime for fear of being deported back to the U.S. to face murder charges. After returning to the U.S. in 1945, Genovese served as mentor to Vincent "the Chin" Gigante, the future boss of the Genovese family.
Vincent Louis Gigante (/dʒɪˈɡænti/ jig-AN-tee, Italian: [dʒiˈɡante]; March 29, 1928 – December 19, 2005), also known as "Chin", was an American mobster who was boss of the Genovese crime family in New York City from 1981 to 2005. Gigante started out as a professional boxer who fought in 25 matches between 1944 and 1947. He then started working as a Mafia enforcer for what was then the Luciano crime family, forerunner of the Genovese family. Gigante was one of five brothers.
Three of them, Mario, Pasquale, and Ralph, followed him into the Mafia. Only one brother, Louis, stayed out of the crime family, instead becoming a Catholic priest.[1] Gigante was the shooter in the failed assassination of longtime Luciano boss Frank Costello in 1957. In 1959, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for drug trafficking, and after sharing a prison cell with Costello's rival, Vito Genovese, Gigante became a caporegime overseeing his own crew of Genovese soldiers and associates based in Greenwich Village.
The Ibovespa surged 2.6% to close at 128,957 level on Friday, securing a robust weekly gain of 3.1% as improved fiscal data eased concerns over the Lula administration’s commitment to sustainable fiscal discipline. Gross public debt as a percentage of GDP unexpectedly declined to 75.3% in January, down from 76.1% in the previous month and below the 76.2% forecast, driven by a record primary surplus of R$104 billion. Most stocks traded strongly, with Magazine Luiza leading the advance by surging 13.2% on stronger-than-expected earnings, while B3 extended its positive momentum with shares rising 11.2% on robust operational data, a billion-dollar victory at Carf, and increased trading volumes. Other notable performers included commodity giants Petrobras and Vale, which gained 4.4% and 3.2% respectively. Conversely, Natura lost over a quarter of its valuation after its fourth-quarter results showed adjusted EBITDA 35% below forecasts.
Ecuador's trade balance surplus widened to USD 555.6 million in January 2025, up from a surplus of USD 316.26 million in the same month of 2024, marking the thirteenth consecutive monthly surplus. Exports surged by 21.5% year-on-year to USD 3,172.11 million, driven by a 25.5% increase in shipments of primary goods, particularly crude oil (5.35%), cacao (353%), and shrimp (30.9%), while manufactured products edged higher by 1.1%. Meanwhile, imports rose by 14.0% to USD 2,616.51 million, primarily due to increased purchases of, fuel and lubricants (38.9%), raw materials (6.7%), and capital goods (16%).
Gigante quickly rose to power during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1981 he became the family's boss, while Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno served as front boss during the first half of the 1980s. He also ordered the failed murder attempt of Gambino crime family boss John Gotti in 1986. With the arrest and conviction of Gotti and various Gambino family members in 1992, Gigante was recognized as the most powerful crime boss in the United States. For about 30 years, Gigante feigned insanity in an effort to throw law enforcement off his trail.
Lana Rhoades is an American internet personality, podcaster and former pornographic film actress. She has appeared in publications such as Hustler, Penthouse and Playboy.
Rhoades was raised by a single mother in a suburb of Chicago with an older sister who suffered from schizophrenia. According to Rhoades, most of the household's attention was devoted to caring for her sister, leaving little love or guidance for her. She came to admire the glamorous lifestyle of Playboy models such as Anna Nicole Smith who were featured on the TV series The Girls Next Door
According to Rhoades, she began using narcotics with her first boyfriend and acted as an accomplice in several burglaries. When she was 16, she was sentenced to youth detention until the age of 21 at the Warrenville Youth Center. She was released for good behavior after one year, having obtained her GED certificate. After her release, she made her first foray into legal sex work, hostessing at a Tilted Kilt restaurant and performing in a strip club
Philip Lombardo (October 6, 1908 in New York City – April 29, 1987) also known as "Benny Squint" and "Cockeyed Phil", was the boss of the Genovese crime family from the late 1960s until the beginning of the 1980s. He succeeded Vito Genovese as Boss in 1969 and was succeeded by Vincent Gigante in 1981.
Lombardo began his career as a soldier on Michael "Trigger Mike" Coppola's powerful 116th Street Crew in the East Harlem section of New York. During the 1940s, Lombardo served a brief prison stretch for narcotics trafficking, his only imprisonment. Due to his thick eyeglasses Lombardo earned the nickname, "Benny Squint."
The Medellín Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Medellín) was a powerful and highly organized Colombian drug cartel and terrorist organization originating in the city of Medellín, Colombia, that was founded and led by Pablo Escobar. It is often considered to be the first major "drug cartel" and was referred to as such (a cartel) due to the organization's upper echelons and overall power-structure being built on a partnership between multiple Colombian traffickers operating alongside Escobar. Other members included Jorge Luis Ochoa Vásquez, Fabio Ochoa Vásquez, Juan David Ochoa Vásquez, José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, and Carlos Lehder. Escobar's main partner in the organization was his cousin Gustavo Gaviria, who handled much of the cartel's shipping arrangements and the more general and detailed logistical aspects of the cocaine trafficking routes and international smuggling networks, which were supplying at least 80% of the world's cocaine during its peak
Gustavo, also known as León seems to have also had a strong hand in the cartel's unprecedented acts of narcoterrorism, right alongside his cousin Pablo and was considered to be second in command of the cartel and therefore one of Colombia's most wanted men, with both him and Escobar having arrest warrants pending from other nations where their criminal activity had spread to, such as in Spain and the U.S. Meanwhile, Pablo Escobar's brother Roberto Escobar acted as the organization's accountant. The cartel operated from 1976 to 1993 in Colombia (Antioquia), Bolivia, Panama, Central America, Peru, the Bahamas, and the United States (mainly in Los Angeles, New York and Miami), as well as in Canada
In 1959, family boss Vito Genovese was sent to prison. However, Genovese used a series of acting bosses to maintain control of the family from prison. His three acting bosses, or Ruling Panel, were Capo Michele Miranda, underboss Gerardo "Jerry" Catena, and acting boss Thomas "Tommy Ryan" Eboli. The trio panel was known to authorities but in 1962 former mobster turned government witness Joseph Valachi stated before a US Senate subcommittee that Lombardo was also a part of this same panel. In that same year Anthony Strollo disappeared and was presumed murdered. Strollo's role as a front or acting boss was given to Thomas Eboli. Eboli himself was later gunned down in 1972. It had been theorized that Commission chairman Carlo Gambino had orchestrated Eboli's murder in order to install his own candidate for Genovese boss in the form of Alphonse Frank "Funzi" Tieri who would replace Eboli as front boss shortly after Eboli's murder.
However, according to FBI informant Vincent Cafaro, Lombardo had been boss since 1969 and had been using Eboli and Tieri as decoys to insulate himself from the FBI. In 1981, Tieri died and Lombardo stepped down as boss due to poor health, naming Vincent Gigante as his successor, while at the same time making Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno the new front boss in order to disguise Gigante's transition into the new boss.[2] This way the FBI would still not know who was really in charge and would continue to go after the wrong people, which they did, sentencing Salerno to 100 years in prison in 1986 in the Mafia Commission Trial
!summarize #nygiants #erinandrews
House Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was also critical of Senate Democrats who support the continuing resolution.
"Donald Trump and Elon Musk have offered the Congress a false choice between a government shutdown or a blank check that makes a devastating assault on the well-being of working families across America," Pelosi said in a statement. "But this false choice that some are buying instead of fighting is unacceptable.
"I am proud of my colleagues in the House Democratic Caucus for their overwhelming vote against this bill. Democratic senators should listen to the women."
!summarize #democrats #chriscuomo #jamescarvelle #politics
!summarize #china #missouri #farmland #military
!summarize #money #dollargeneral #ceo #economy
Voice of America Ending Contracts With AP, Reuters, Agence France Presse
The government agency that runs the Voice of America has moved to terminate contracts with The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse, and told its journalists Friday to stop using material from the wire services.
Kari Lake, the former broadcaster turned Republican politician who was selected by President Donald Trump to run VOA, estimated the move would save $53 million.
The new administration has quickly asserted its authority at VOA, which has delivered news from an American perspective to countries across the world. While awaiting official approval to take over, Lake was brought on as special adviser at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA and sister organizations like Radio Free Europe.
!summarize #wildfires #texas #panhandle
!summarize #freeagency #nfl #nygiants #JeremiahLedbetter
!summarize #elonmusk #waste #fraud #doge
!summarize #jdvance #vicepresident #manufacturing #american #jobs
Frankfurt's DAX gained ground, advancing about 1.9% to close at 22,987 on Friday, outperforming peers, on reports that Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz and key political parties agreed on a massive increase in state borrowing. This comes just days ahead of a parliamentary vote next week. Meanwhile, traders continued to monitor trade tensions, geopolitical events and corporate news. Defense industry stocks and materials received a strong boost, with Rheinmetall rising 6.3% and Heidelberg Materials up 3.8%. Banks also performed well. Daimler Truck rose over 2% after reported Q4 earnings that surpassed expectations and provided a robust outlook for this year. BMW shares lost 0.3% after reporting a 34% drop in 2024 profits and forecasting a 5-7% earnings margin for 2025, below some competitors. Still, the index declined about 0.3% this week.
The AP, Reuters and AFP all declined comment on Friday.
The VOA's move comes amid tense relations between the press and White House. The Associated Press has sued after the White House banned its reporters from press pools, the Pentagon has removed several reporters from longtime perches, and news organizations have been targeted by lawsuits and FCC investigations.
In another social media post, Lake said that she is in a fact-finding mode and “boy, am I finding a lot of nonsense that the American taxpayer should not be paying for.”
!summarize #senate #schumer #democrats
Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin of Illinois, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, Gary Peters of Michigan, Brian Schatz of Hawaii, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Chuck Schumer of New York joined independent Sen. Angus King of Maine and every Republican except Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky to move the bill forward.
Senators voted down four amendments to the bill before it went to a final floor vote, where it passed in 54-46 vote.
Shaheen and King voted with Republicans, minus Paul, to send the continuing resolution to President Trump’s desk for his signature.
The procedural vote came after a crop of younger congressional Democrats in both chambers railed against Schumer for having signaled his opposition to the Republican agenda earlier this week — only to reverse course within 24 hours.
The bill — a continuing resolution that will essentially extend fiscal 2024 spending levels through the start of the 2026 fiscal year — is backed by President Trump.
Under the measure, defense spending will get a $6 billion boost from fiscal year 2024, but non-defense discretionary spending will fall $13 billion beneath the previous fiscal year.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is also getting a slight boost to nearly $10 billion, up from the previous year’s spending level, to carry out Trump’s mass deportations.
Senate Democrats struggled to unify on how to vote for a House-passed continuing resolution despite Schumer’s initial opposition.
!summarize #trump #recession #economy
Before his flip-flop, Schumer had signaled support for a 30-day stopgap measure, introduced by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), that would allow Democratic and Republican negotiators to potentially hammer out a longer-term spending deal.
“Democratic senators should listen to the women,” Pelosi said, referring to the four-week funding extension proposed by Murray and DeLauro.
“Democrats must not buy into this false choice. We must fight back for a better way. Listen to the women, For The People,” the former House speaker concluded.
!summarize #colorado #dickonfort #salarycap #salaryfloor #denver #rockies #mlb
!summarize #gold #bitcoin #investing
The main stock market index in Spain (ES35) increased 1410 points or 12.16% since the beginning of 2025, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks this benchmark index from Spain.
The Shanghai Composite surged 1.81% to close at a three-month high of 3,421, while the Shenzhen Component jumped 2.26% to 10,978 on Friday, as mainland stocks snapped a two-day losing streak on rising expectations of more policy support from Beijing. Top government officials are set to hold a press conference on Monday to discuss measures to boost consumption, fueling optimism about potential economic stimulus. Meanwhile, investors continued to navigate escalating global trade tensions, with US President Donald Trump reaffirming plans to implement reciprocal tariffs on global trading partners, set to take effect on April 2. Technology and growth stocks led the rally, with notable gains from East Money Information (+4.6%), Wuliangye Yibin (+6.4%), China Galaxy (+6.4%), Contemporary Amperex (+3.5%), and BYD Company (+6.1%). For the week, the Shanghai and Shenzhen indexes rose 1.4% and 1.2%, respectively, marking their second consecutive weekly gain.
The MOEX Russia Index fell to below the 3,150 mark from the nine-month high of 3,326 on February 25th as markets reconsidered the ease and speed in which domestic companies may return to the global financial markets. US President Trump threatened additional banking tariffs on Moscow should Russia delay ceasefire deals after the country struck Ukrainian gas infrastructure, a change in rhetoric from the previous friendly tone with the Kremlin. This magnified the impact of lower demand for Russian oil and gas, driving Lukoil, Rosneft, and Gazprom to plunge in March. Stocks had rallied in February after the new US Presidential administration adopted favorable relations with Russia and pressed Ukraine on accepting Russian terms for a ceasefire in their war. The developments ramped up expectations that the US would expedite the removal of tariffs on Russia, reestablish economic ties, and aid its return to global financial markets, which would trigger sharp inflows of capital into Moscow.
!summarize #fema #fbi #kashpatel #corruption
!summarize #schumer #democrats #senator #continuingresolution #jeffries
!summarize #weather #tornadoes #storm #alabama
!summarize #california #burglars #shooting #crime
!summarize #epstein #list #pambondi #politiicans #sex #crime
!summarize #brooklyn #carminegalante #mafia #organizedcrime
Carmine Galante (Italian: [ˈkarmine ɡaˈlante]; February 21, 1910 – July 12, 1979) was an American Mafioso who was de facto boss of the Bonanno crime family of New York City. Galante was rarely seen without a cigar hanging from his mouth, leading to the nickname "The Cigar" and "Lilo", "after the Italian slang word for a stubby little cigar." He was assassinated on Commission orders in 1979 while dining in a restaurant.
Vito Genovese (Italian: [ˈviːto dʒenoˈveːze, -eːse]; November 21, 1897 – February 14, 1969) was an Italian-born American mafioso and the leader of the Genovese crime family in New York City. A childhood friend and criminal associate of Lucky Luciano, Genovese took part in the Castellammarese War and helped Luciano shape the Mafia's rise as a major force in organized crime in the United States. He would later lead Luciano's crime family, which was renamed by the FBI after Genovese in 1957.
Along with Luciano, Genovese facilitated the expansion of the heroin trade to an international level. He fled to Italy in 1937, and for a brief period during World War II he supported Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime for fear of being deported back to the U.S. to face murder charges. After returning to the U.S. in 1945, Genovese served as mentor to Vincent "the Chin" Gigante, the future boss of the Genovese family.
Vincent Louis Gigante (/dʒɪˈɡænti/ jig-AN-tee, Italian: [dʒiˈɡante]; March 29, 1928 – December 19, 2005), also known as "Chin", was an American mobster who was boss of the Genovese crime family in New York City from 1981 to 2005. Gigante started out as a professional boxer who fought in 25 matches between 1944 and 1947. He then started working as a Mafia enforcer for what was then the Luciano crime family, forerunner of the Genovese family. Gigante was one of five brothers.
Three of them, Mario, Pasquale, and Ralph, followed him into the Mafia. Only one brother, Louis, stayed out of the crime family, instead becoming a Catholic priest.[1] Gigante was the shooter in the failed assassination of longtime Luciano boss Frank Costello in 1957. In 1959, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for drug trafficking, and after sharing a prison cell with Costello's rival, Vito Genovese, Gigante became a caporegime overseeing his own crew of Genovese soldiers and associates based in Greenwich Village.
The Ibovespa surged 2.6% to close at 128,957 level on Friday, securing a robust weekly gain of 3.1% as improved fiscal data eased concerns over the Lula administration’s commitment to sustainable fiscal discipline. Gross public debt as a percentage of GDP unexpectedly declined to 75.3% in January, down from 76.1% in the previous month and below the 76.2% forecast, driven by a record primary surplus of R$104 billion. Most stocks traded strongly, with Magazine Luiza leading the advance by surging 13.2% on stronger-than-expected earnings, while B3 extended its positive momentum with shares rising 11.2% on robust operational data, a billion-dollar victory at Carf, and increased trading volumes. Other notable performers included commodity giants Petrobras and Vale, which gained 4.4% and 3.2% respectively. Conversely, Natura lost over a quarter of its valuation after its fourth-quarter results showed adjusted EBITDA 35% below forecasts.
Ecuador's trade balance surplus widened to USD 555.6 million in January 2025, up from a surplus of USD 316.26 million in the same month of 2024, marking the thirteenth consecutive monthly surplus. Exports surged by 21.5% year-on-year to USD 3,172.11 million, driven by a 25.5% increase in shipments of primary goods, particularly crude oil (5.35%), cacao (353%), and shrimp (30.9%), while manufactured products edged higher by 1.1%. Meanwhile, imports rose by 14.0% to USD 2,616.51 million, primarily due to increased purchases of, fuel and lubricants (38.9%), raw materials (6.7%), and capital goods (16%).
Gigante quickly rose to power during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1981 he became the family's boss, while Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno served as front boss during the first half of the 1980s. He also ordered the failed murder attempt of Gambino crime family boss John Gotti in 1986. With the arrest and conviction of Gotti and various Gambino family members in 1992, Gigante was recognized as the most powerful crime boss in the United States. For about 30 years, Gigante feigned insanity in an effort to throw law enforcement off his trail.
Lana Rhoades is an American internet personality, podcaster and former pornographic film actress. She has appeared in publications such as Hustler, Penthouse and Playboy.
Rhoades was raised by a single mother in a suburb of Chicago with an older sister who suffered from schizophrenia. According to Rhoades, most of the household's attention was devoted to caring for her sister, leaving little love or guidance for her. She came to admire the glamorous lifestyle of Playboy models such as Anna Nicole Smith who were featured on the TV series The Girls Next Door
According to Rhoades, she began using narcotics with her first boyfriend and acted as an accomplice in several burglaries. When she was 16, she was sentenced to youth detention until the age of 21 at the Warrenville Youth Center. She was released for good behavior after one year, having obtained her GED certificate. After her release, she made her first foray into legal sex work, hostessing at a Tilted Kilt restaurant and performing in a strip club
Philip Lombardo (October 6, 1908 in New York City – April 29, 1987) also known as "Benny Squint" and "Cockeyed Phil", was the boss of the Genovese crime family from the late 1960s until the beginning of the 1980s. He succeeded Vito Genovese as Boss in 1969 and was succeeded by Vincent Gigante in 1981.
Lombardo began his career as a soldier on Michael "Trigger Mike" Coppola's powerful 116th Street Crew in the East Harlem section of New York. During the 1940s, Lombardo served a brief prison stretch for narcotics trafficking, his only imprisonment. Due to his thick eyeglasses Lombardo earned the nickname, "Benny Squint."
!summarize #property #taxes #florida #incometaxes
!summarize #joecolumbo #mafia #organizedcrime
The Medellín Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Medellín) was a powerful and highly organized Colombian drug cartel and terrorist organization originating in the city of Medellín, Colombia, that was founded and led by Pablo Escobar. It is often considered to be the first major "drug cartel" and was referred to as such (a cartel) due to the organization's upper echelons and overall power-structure being built on a partnership between multiple Colombian traffickers operating alongside Escobar. Other members included Jorge Luis Ochoa Vásquez, Fabio Ochoa Vásquez, Juan David Ochoa Vásquez, José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha, and Carlos Lehder. Escobar's main partner in the organization was his cousin Gustavo Gaviria, who handled much of the cartel's shipping arrangements and the more general and detailed logistical aspects of the cocaine trafficking routes and international smuggling networks, which were supplying at least 80% of the world's cocaine during its peak
!summarize #seinfeld #behindthescenes #jerrystiller #television #comedy #sitcom
Gustavo, also known as León seems to have also had a strong hand in the cartel's unprecedented acts of narcoterrorism, right alongside his cousin Pablo and was considered to be second in command of the cartel and therefore one of Colombia's most wanted men, with both him and Escobar having arrest warrants pending from other nations where their criminal activity had spread to, such as in Spain and the U.S. Meanwhile, Pablo Escobar's brother Roberto Escobar acted as the organization's accountant. The cartel operated from 1976 to 1993 in Colombia (Antioquia), Bolivia, Panama, Central America, Peru, the Bahamas, and the United States (mainly in Los Angeles, New York and Miami), as well as in Canada
!summarize #jimbeidhart #brain #wrestling #wwe #death
!summarize #jet #military #mig25 #sovietunion #plane
In 1959, family boss Vito Genovese was sent to prison. However, Genovese used a series of acting bosses to maintain control of the family from prison. His three acting bosses, or Ruling Panel, were Capo Michele Miranda, underboss Gerardo "Jerry" Catena, and acting boss Thomas "Tommy Ryan" Eboli. The trio panel was known to authorities but in 1962 former mobster turned government witness Joseph Valachi stated before a US Senate subcommittee that Lombardo was also a part of this same panel. In that same year Anthony Strollo disappeared and was presumed murdered. Strollo's role as a front or acting boss was given to Thomas Eboli. Eboli himself was later gunned down in 1972. It had been theorized that Commission chairman Carlo Gambino had orchestrated Eboli's murder in order to install his own candidate for Genovese boss in the form of Alphonse Frank "Funzi" Tieri who would replace Eboli as front boss shortly after Eboli's murder.
However, according to FBI informant Vincent Cafaro, Lombardo had been boss since 1969 and had been using Eboli and Tieri as decoys to insulate himself from the FBI. In 1981, Tieri died and Lombardo stepped down as boss due to poor health, naming Vincent Gigante as his successor, while at the same time making Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno the new front boss in order to disguise Gigante's transition into the new boss.[2] This way the FBI would still not know who was really in charge and would continue to go after the wrong people, which they did, sentencing Salerno to 100 years in prison in 1986 in the Mafia Commission Trial