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Keith Raniere and R. Kelly were prosecuted under the federal racketeering statute because prosecutors portrayed each man as the head of an organized enterprise that used employees, loyalists and associates to facilitate sexual abuse and protect the operation. Raniere was convicted of racketeering and racketeering conspiracy based on crimes committed through NXIVM, including sex trafficking, forced labor, extortion and obstruction. Kelly was likewise convicted of racketeering after prosecutors argued that his managers, assistants and other members of his organization helped recruit women and girls, arrange travel, enforce rules and conceal years of sexual exploitation. In both cases, the government treated the surrounding network not as incidental background, but as part of the criminal machinery.Epstein's operation appeared to contain many of the same features: recruiters, assistants, employees, pilots, financial personnel and alleged facilitators who helped locate girls, schedule encounters, manage properties and preserve his access to victims. Yet when federal prosecutors investigated him in Florida, they did not bring a racketeering case; instead, they negotiated a secret non-prosecution agreement that ended the federal investigation and extended protection to named and unnamed potential co-conspirators. Even when Epstein was finally charged in New York in 2019, prosecutors charged sex trafficking and conspiracy rather than RICO, and his death prevented the case from reaching trial. That disparity does not prove Epstein was an intelligence asset or formally protected by the government, but it understandably fuels that suspicion: the government dismantled the organizations surrounding Raniere and Kelly, while Epstein received an extraordinary agreement that protected not only him, but potentially the very network prosecutors might otherwise have treated as a criminal enterprise.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-epstein-chronicles--5003294/support.

Luis Herrero entrevista a Daniel Bashandeh, analista político especialista en Irán y Oriente Medio.

This Day in Legal History: Magna Carta Sealed at RunnymedeOn this day in 1215, in a meadow at Runnymede on the south bank of the Thames, King John of England affixed his seal to a document the rebellious English barons had drafted, in which the king conceded a series of limits on his own royal authority. We call it Magna Carta — the Great Charter. The immediate political context was a baronial revolt against John's tax exactions for his disastrous French wars, and most of the sixty-three chapters as drafted in 1215 are concerned with the highly specific grievances of a feudal aristocracy: scutage, wardship, the inheritance fees of widows, the freedom of the church, the standardization of weights and measures in the king's markets. The two chapters that the centuries have remembered are 39 and 40. Chapter 39 says that no free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land. Chapter 40 says that to no one will the king sell, deny, or delay right or justice. The Charter was annulled by Pope Innocent III within ten weeks of sealing — the pope held that John, as a vassal of the Holy See, could not be bound by a treaty extracted under duress — and the country immediately collapsed into the First Barons' War. But John died in October 1216, his nine-year-old son Henry III's regents reissued the Charter as a tactical concession the next month, it was reissued again in 1217 and 1225, and by the late thirteenth century the 1225 version had been confirmed by successive kings as a foundational statute of the realm. Edward Coke, writing in the seventeenth century, transformed Chapter 39's “law of the land” into the doctrine of due process, and the founding generation of the American Republic picked up Coke's reading and wrote it directly into the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. The phrase “due process of law” in those amendments is the most consequential American inheritance from the Runnymede document. The principle the barons were trying to extract from a beleaguered king — that the law constrains the sovereign too — is the substrate on which everything we recognize as constitutionalism is built. Eight hundred and eleven years on, the principle is still the work.The Rhode Island travel-ban lawsuit we covered on June 8 took a sharp turn on Friday. Chief Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., of the District of Rhode Island held a status conference in Dorcas International Institute v. USCIS at which he was openly frustrated with the Justice Department for failing to immediately implement his June 5 vacatur of the four USCIS benefit-freeze policies for nationals of the thirty-nine travel-ban countries. The judge's message, in plain terms, was that vacatur under the Administrative Procedure Act is self-executing — the moment the order was entered, the policies ceased to exist, and the agency was obligated to resume processing affirmative benefits, asylum claims, and adjudicator-instruction reviews on the prior pre-freeze basis. The Trump administration, after the hearing, told the court it would comply, restart adjudications, and clear the backlog. It also did what defendants typically do when they have lost on the merits and lost again on compliance: it filed a notice of appeal with the First Circuit and asked the appellate court to stay the vacatur pending appeal. That is the live question now. The First Circuit's stay analysis runs through the standard Nken v. Holder factors — likelihood of success on the merits, irreparable harm, the balance of equities, and the public interest — and the administration's strongest argument on each is going to be familiar: the executive needs administrative breathing room to implement a travel ban, mass restoration of adjudications creates national-security risk, the harm to applicants is reversible if their adjudications are paused for a few more weeks. The plaintiffs' strongest counterarguments are also familiar: the policies were unlawful when adopted and the agency had no business adopting them, the harm to applicants from continued delay is concrete and accruing daily, and the First Circuit is not in the business of staying vacaturs of unlawful agency action in order to let the agency continue acting unlawfully. Watch the First Circuit's calendar this week. The stay motion is the next inflection point.Trump officials agree to resume asylum processing after being scolded by judge | The Washington PostGoogle filed suit on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against a China-based cybercrime network it calls the “Outsider Enterprise,” alleging that the network's members used Google's Gemini large-language model to generate the code, copy, and templates for a phishing-as-a-service platform that has built more than nine thousand fraudulent websites and sent two and a half million scam text messages in the two weeks ending June 1 alone. The complaint is significant for two reasons. First, it is, to Google's knowledge, the first time the company has affirmatively sued threat actors for using its own generative-AI product as the input to a scaled criminal operation, as distinct from the more usual posture of suing scammers who impersonate Google brands. The legal theories are a mix of Lanham Act false-designation-of-origin and trademark-infringement counts, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act counts based on Outsider's unauthorized access to Google services, breach-of-contract counts on the Gemini terms of service, and a RICO count. Second, the factual record will be a road map for the next decade of AI-misuse litigation. The complaint describes Telegram channels in which Outsider members trade prompts that get Gemini to write phishing code, a library of two hundred and ninety prebuilt templates impersonating brands ranging from the U.S. Postal Service to state DMVs to E-ZPass, and an FBI estimate that the broader campaign Outsider participates in has stolen roughly 3.87 million card numbers and caused $1.9 billion in losses since July 2023. The remedy Google is seeking is a permanent injunction shutting the operation down, plus domain seizures and account terminations across Google's services and at major U.S. carriers, which Google says it has been coordinating with the FBI, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. The deeper legal question the case may end up clarifying is whether and to what extent platforms can use private civil suits as the front-line enforcement mechanism against AI-augmented criminal activity that the public criminal-justice system has had trouble keeping up with.Google sues Chinese cybercrime ring that weaponized Gemini AI for phishing scams | TechCrunchA federal district judge in Washington on Friday issued a preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from continuing to implement Executive Order 14253, the order under which the National Park Service had been scrubbing exhibits, signage, and online materials at sites administered by the Department of the Interior. The judge gave the administration three weeks to restore the materials it had already removed. The order at issue, signed in March, directed federal cultural agencies to identify and remove content that, in the executive's view, reflected “improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology” or “partisan” framing. In the months that followed, the National Park Service had taken down or altered displays addressing slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War, climate change, and the histories of Native American dispossession at sites including the Stonewall National Monument, Independence Hall, and the Manzanar National Historic Site. The case is American Historical Association v. Department of the Interior, brought by historians' professional associations and a coalition of plaintiffs that includes affected park employees and visitor-experience contractors. The legal theory pleaded was multi-strand: First Amendment viewpoint discrimination as applied to government speech that has taken on a public-forum character, Administrative Procedure Act challenges on the ground that the agency failed to provide a reasoned basis for the removals and failed to consider statutory commands under the Organic Act of 1916, and a Federal Records Act challenge to the destruction of materials that constituted federal records. The judge held that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed on the First Amendment claim and the APA claim, found irreparable harm in the ongoing loss of public access to the underlying historical materials, and found that the public interest was best served by restoration. The administration is widely expected to appeal to the D.C. Circuit. In the meantime, the three-week restoration clock is running.Judge blocks Trump national parks order, calling it “censorship” | The Washington Post This is a public episode. 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El acuerdo de paz histórico entre Estados Unidos e Irán ha puesto fin a 107 días de guerra en Oriente Próximo -conflicto que deja 7.000 muertos y una crisis inflacionaria global-, provocando la reapertura inmediata del estrecho de Ormuz y el desplome del petróleo Brent a 83 dólares tras caer más de un 4%. Este acuerdo ha disparado las bolsas asiáticas entre un 5% y un 6%, inyectando un firme optimismo global justo a las puertas de la cumbre del G7 en Evian, Francia, donde Donald Trump y el resto de líderes internacionales analizarán hoy mismo este nuevo escenario geopolítico.

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Impulsan iniciativa para legalizar la eutanasia  Choque de helicópteros deja seis muertos en BrasilCanadá presume historia y riqueza hídrica en justa deportivaMás información en nuestro podcast#grc

Exigen a Aleatica atender infraestructura en el Circuito ExteriorMexiquense La justa mundialista impulsa compras en línea: AMVODespués de 40 años Irak regresa a un torneo mundialista de fútbolMás información en nuestro podcast#grc

Rescatan y liberan lobo marino en playas Chiapas  ONU, Semujeres, Unicef, lanzan campaña contra violencia familiar  Marruecos presume la universidad más antigua  Más información en nuestro podcast#grc

Valenti and Rico get this week's Best Of started with their reactions to the less-than-ideal list of Dylan Larkin's preferred trade destinations. Then, they offer some thoughts on what they believe the Pistons' biggest need this offseason is, follow up their earlier Larkin conversation by asking whether you're team Yzerman or Larkin, and much more!

La visita de Pete Hegseth a Guantánamo, las sanciones contra CUPET, la apertura económica anunciada por Díaz-Canel, un sismo histórico y nuevas protestas marcaron la agenda informativa de la semana en Cuba.

Valenti and Rico hear from a few more callers about some experiences they've had with how expensive sports are.

Valenti and Rico talked to Jeremy Otto and then had their own conversation about the Tigers' big series against the Guardians, which gets started tonight. Then, they were joined by Riger in cross-talk to wrap up today's show.

Mike and Rico spent the second hour expanding on their first hour topic and taking more of your calls to hear your own experiences with the unaffordability in sports.

Mike and Rico began the show with their reactions to the prices to get into the first USA World Cup soccer match in LA tonight. They tied this into a larger argument/point about the unaffordability of all sports before doing an "NBA Fastbreak" to wrap up the first hour.

Valenti and Rico opened the final show of the week with their lack of surprise when it comes to the get-in prices to the first USA World Cup match in Los Angeles tonight. They expanded on this topic with their overall thoughts on the unaffordability crisis in sports, taking your calls to hear your examples of how you've been priced out of sports. Then, the guys did a World Cup Draft, talked about another Brendan Sorsby update, and played "Who Said It?" before wrapping things up with a preview of the huge Tigers-Guardians series starting tonight.

Mike and Rico have some thoughts on the ticket prices to get into the USA's opening World Cup match against Paraguay.

The callers agree with Mike and Rico that there is a significant issue with the prices of tickets at sporting events.

Mike, Rico, David, and Evan draft some World Cup teams based on their countries' cuisines.

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Como cada viernes, el profesor Rodríguez Braun hace en Más de uno el repaso lírico con las entrevistas de la semana.

Watch the full coverage of the live stream on The Emily D. Baker YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/MPD8UXEqMgg  This Case Brief provides a legal breakdown of the complex Bricks & Minifigs v. "Reckless Ben" saga. What began as a dispute over a $200,000 LEGO collection in Salem, Oregon, has escalated into a massive civil RICO lawsuit involving allegations of extortion, defamation, and criminal enterprises. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Valenti and Rico kicked off this short show following another Tigers' win with their thoughts on whether they are bought in enough yet to talk about the team's recent hot stretch. They had some fun at Jeremy Otto's expense, using him as the face of the dissent to their argument and eventually brought him on to allow him to defend himself. The guys wrapped up today's show with their reactions to the absolute classic between the Spurs and the Knicks in Game 4 of the NBA Finals last night.

The guys were joined by Jeremy Otto at the top of the final hour, who was given a chance to defend his honor before Mike and Rico spent the rest of the hour with their reactions to the all-time Knicks comeback win over the Spurs last night.

Mike and Rico discuss their experience watching Knicks-Spurs game 4 last night.

Mike and Rico went to the people to hear if they're being too unfair to Jeremy Otto and other Tigers fans like him.

On the opening day of the World Cup, we take a look and a listen to the soccer-centric sleeper BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (2001). Director Gurinder Chadha tells Rico about making her breakthrough rom-com about girl power, Indian-British identity, and football—and how its mashup soundtrack of pop hits and Bhangra bangers scored goals of its own. Other guests include superstar DJ/producer Bally Sagoo, and the film's music supervisor Liz Gallacher (THE FULL MONTY).Our audio documentary podcast returns with a sequel to our popular 2023 season that dives deep into the grooves of classic movie “needle drops.”  Titled “Needle on the Record, Side Two,” in each episode host Rico Gagliano tells the story of a film that fused music and image to make magic—and sometimes, changed popular culture.GREGORY'S GIRL is streaming on MUBI in the US & CA as a part of the The World's Game: Football on Screen collection starting tomorrow. OFFSIDE is now streaming on MUBI in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Latin America, Netherlands, Australia and Turkey. To stream some of the films we've covered on the podcast, check out the collection Featured on the MUBI Podcast. Availability of films varies depending on your country.MUBI is a global streaming service, production company and film distributor dedicated to elevating great cinema. MUBI makes, acquires, curates, and champions extraordinary films, connecting them to audiences all over the world. A place to discover ambitious new films and singular voices, from iconic directors to emerging auteurs. Each carefully chosen by MUBI's curators.

The boys discuss the vibes around OTAs with Lake Lewis NFL Insider and get his pulse of the Aiyuk situation. Before being joined by Street Scores Rico to answer fan questions to wrap up the show!!Support the show

Mike and Rico aren't surprised by this news about Steve Yzerman and Dylan Larkin's (lack of) relationship.

Valenti and Rico spent today's show discussing two separate topics: whether anyone will be able to stop Brendan Sorsby from playing college football and which side of Steve Yzerman/Dylan Larkin you're on after hearing the news that the two of them barely speak.

It was reported earlier that Steve Yzerman and Dylan Larkin aren't on the best of terms and only speak when needed. Mike and Rico discussed if this changes which side they're on with the Red Wings captain's trade request.

Mike and Rico had some thoughts on whether there's anyone or any entity that can prevent Brendan Sorsby from playing in college football this year to begin the show. They got to the callers quickly and then rounded out the hour talking about some basketball news on an "NBA Fastbreak".

Mike and Rico addressed their lack of discussion lately regarding the Tigers to begin the final hour. Then, they returned to and expanded on their main topics of the day.

Mike and Rico go to the people on their Larkin/Yzerman topic.

Lou Valoze ran Ray Khan — one of the ATF's most effective informants ever — then watched the system he served leave the man out to dry.Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/1341What We Discuss with Lou Valoze:How immigrant convenience store owner Ray Khan unwittingly walked into an ATF sting to buy illegally untaxed cigarettes and emerged as a federal informant who would become one of the agency's most effective assets under handler Lou Valoze.Why Ray's secret weapon was charisma rather than criminal know-how, since his real job was getting dangerous players through the door and leaving the guns-and-drugs arithmetic to Lou and his undercover team.What it actually takes to run a convincing storefront sting, from Lou shadowing a real freight forwarder for six months to the ironclad rules of never letting a gun walk and never overpaying lest a defense lawyer cry entrapment.How the system that relied on Ray repaid him — petty arrests, a corrupt official's vendetta, bogus RICO charges, and two decades of denied legal status — despite the thousands of crime guns and hundreds of kilos he helped pull off the streets.What Ray's real gift can teach the rest of us: the knack for making people want to follow you works in any room, not just the criminal underworld, and paired with relentless resilience it's the engine behind rebuilding after every setback.And much more...And if you're still game to support us, please leave a review here — even one sentence helps! Sign up for Six-Minute Networking — our free networking and relationship development mini course — at jordanharbinger.com/course!Subscribe to our once-a-week Wee Bit Wiser newsletter today and start filling your Wednesdays with wisdom!Do you even Reddit, bro? Join us at r/JordanHarbinger!This Episode Is Brought To You By Our Fine Sponsors: Article: Visit article.com/jordan for $50 off your first purchase of $100 or moreBetterHelp: 10% off first month: betterhelp.com/jordanButcherBox: Free protein for a year + $20 off first box: butcherbox.com/jordanAT&T: Get an iPhone 17 Pro for $0: att.com/iphone or visit an AT&T store for detailsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mike and Rico addressed how the Brendan Sorsby ruling from a Texas judge can make the college football landscape even worse. Then, they did an "NBA Fastbreak" to end the first hour.

Valenti and Rico spent the entire second hour with a back and forth about the Tigers and Tarik Skubal's imminent return to the team. They took a bunch of your calls throughout.

Mike and Rico wrapped up today's show with a reset of all of today's topics.

Mike and Rico seek the opinion of the people on their Pistons conversation.

Mike and Rico use Wemby and KAT as examples for why the Pistons need to acquire a big man who can shoot the 3.

Mike and Rico go to the people for their thoughts on the Tigers' recent run and the possibility of trading Tarik Skubal.

Valenti and Rico still aren't buying into the recent Tigers hype.

Rico reads some statements made by other CFB programs about the controversial Brendan Sorsby ruling.

Valenti and Rico got things started with an extended conversation about the potential impacts of the controversial Brendan Sorsby ruling from a Texas judge. They took that topic until the second hour, where they talked about belief in the Tigers and Tarik Skubal's imminent return to the team. The guys spent the third hour discussing the Pistons' need for a stretch big before they reset everything in the final hour.