EXPOSED: HOW ISRAELI SPIES CONTROL YOUR VPN / Trump Case Delayed

 EXPOSED: HOW ISRAELI SPIES CONTROL YOUR VPN Mint Press. Important

Apple Vision Pro’s Eye Tracking Exposed What People Type Wired 

EU kicks off an inquiry into Google’s AI model The Register. Personal data concerns.

Delayed:

Trump's criminal sentencing delayed until after election

A series of Tuesday morning raids conducted by the Australian Federal Police has seen dozens of people charged with illicit drug trafficking, conspiracy, destruction of records and supporting a criminal organisation and firearm charges.

At the top of the list is a 32-year-old Sydney man Jay Je Yoon Jung, charged over allegedly creating and administering "Ghost", an encrypted messaging platform the AFP says has been specifically designed for use by the criminal underworld.

The Narwee man is the first Australian-based person accused of creating an app of this kind. It is alleged he launched it nine years ago when he was 23 years of age.

He was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday morning at the southern Sydney home where he lives with his parents.

Australian Federal Police raids 'dismantle' crime syndicate, see alleged creator of app for criminal underworld arrested and charged

The underworld’s “unhackable” phone network, relied on by gangsters to plot murderous violence and co-ordinate the global drug trade, has been infiltrated by Australian Federal Police who have captured the alleged mastermind who ran the network from his Sydney bedroom.

More than 700 police are beating down the doors of users of the “Ghost” network in Sydney and Melbourne, and raids are looming in Europe and North America, with the young man who allegedly built their safe haven, a karaoke-singing IT whiz kid, charged late on Tuesday.

Judge drops 2 counts against Trump in Georgia election probe CBS

President Trump announces a new plan to eliminate all taxes on OVERTIME pay. "The people who work overtime are among the hardest working citizens in our country -- When you pass 40 hours a week, your overtime hours will be tax free."

Rent, utilities rise faster than home value Free Republic. Robin Kash: “The cost of rent and utilities in 2023 rose faster than home values for the first time in a decade, the latest sign that a distorted housing market has pushed more people into renting.”

Treasury proposes rule to prevent large corporations from evading income taxesAssociated Press 

France: Class Struggle, 2024 Edition Contre-attaque, translated by Alain Marshal

Fifth Circuit Holds Criminal Statute of Limitations is Not Suspended for Equitable Tolling on Government's Alleged Excuses 

In United States v. Plezia, ___ F.4th ___, 2024 U.S. App. LEXIS 21293 (5th Cir. 2024), CA5 here and GS here, the Court states the facts relevant to this blog as follows (Slip Op. 1-4, bold face supplied by JAT):

          Richard Plezia (“Plezia”) challenges his convictions of conspiracy to defraud the United States, making false statements, and falsification of records in a federal investigation following a fifteen-day jury trial. He challenges the sufficiency of the evidence for some of the convictions, the district court’s determination that the statute of limitations for one count of making false statements was equitably tolled, and the district court’s decision to allow two witnesses to testify with the aid of prior recorded recollections.

11th Circuit on Third Consideration Seals FBAR Willful Penalty Except for Relatively Small Amount Held Excessive Fine under 8th Amendment 

In United States v. Schwarzbaum, ___ F.4th ___ (11th Cir. 2024), 11Cir here and GS here [to come], the Court:

(1)  (a) held the FBAR civil willful penalties are “fines” within the meaning of the Eighth Amendment; (b) held the minimum $100,000 penalties applying to Schwarzbaum’s accounts with small amounts (those $16,000 or less) are disproportional and excessive; (c) held the penalties on the accounts with significantly larger amounts are not disproportional and thus not excessive; and (d) remanded to the district court to determine the effect of the $300,000 reduction required by the (1)(b) holding.