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Month: November 2023
Three people, two of them Russian-Canadians and one dual citizen of Russia and Tajikistan, were arrested in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on Tuesday for attempting to circumvent US sanctions by shipping dual-use electronic components intended for military use by Moscow in its war against Ukraine, AFP reported.
Nikolay Golstev, 37, his wife Kristina Puzyreva, 32, and Russian-Tajik citizen Salimdzhon Nariddinov, 52, were arrested for sending “over 300 shipments of restricted items, valued at approximately $10 million, to the Russian battlefield,” said Ivan Arvelo, a special agent with the US Department of Homeland Security. The shipments took place over the course of a year, AFP noted.
The dual-use components sent to Russia by the Brooklyn-based outfit were found in recovered Russian missile systems, drones, tanks and helicopters, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said. In addition, federal prosecutors were able to seize more than a million dollars in proceeds from the illegal operation.
“These entities unlawfully sourced, purchased and shipped millions of dollars in dual-use electronics from US manufacturers to sanctioned end users in Russia,” read the DOJ statement announcing the charges. “The defendants were aware that the electronics being exported had potential military applications.” The DOJ further alleged that the plot was “a global procurement scheme on behalf of sanctioned Russian entities, including companies affiliated with the Russian military.”
Despite having low tax rates, Ukraine has earned fourth place in the 1841 Foundation’s new “tax hell” ranking as opposed to Russia’s ninth place — based on 2021 data.
Brooklyn is home to a large population of Russian émigrés and is also notorious for its concentration of Russian mafia actors.
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The Brooklyn man accused of killing two neighbors over a noise complaint on Sunday night was shot by law enforcement agents Wednesday morning during a standoff, sources reported.
Jason Pass, 47, was rushed to a local hospital; his condition is not yet known.
Authorities said Pass barricaded himself inside a residence on Bay 44th Street in Bath Beach when NYPD officers and U.S. Marshals attempted to arrest him in connection with the Oct. 29 double homicide in East Flatbush.
The exact nature of Pass’ injuries were not disclosed. Sources familiar with the investigation said he was found to have a knife in his possession.
Jason Pass, 47, was wanted for allegedly executing his neighbors over a noise complaint and has been shot in a Brooklyn standoff.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell 
A backpack could be observed at the scene.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
Police have been on a manhunt for Pass since Sunday when he allegedly shot and killed 47-year-old Bladimy Mathurin and 27-year-old stepson Mode Chinwai inside an apartment building on Brooklyn Avenue.
Both victims were shot in the head and torso.
Police say Pass lived below his victims and had an ongoing feud with them due to loud footsteps coming from above.
“Based on our investigation we found that there were six previous 311 calls,” Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny explained Tuesday. “The perpetrator confronts the family members [and] they get into a physical altercation in the hallway where the two victims are subsequently shot.”
This is a developing story; check with amNY.com later for further updates.
After a period of political moderation, critics say Netanyahu not fit or capable to lead country during war
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Dozens of foreign passport holders trapped in Gaza are leaving the Strip as the Rafah crossing to Egypt opens for the first time since the devastating Hamas attack on October 7.
While convoys of desperately needed aid have passed between Egypt and Gaza, people have not been allowed to cross until now.
Some 400 foreigners and dual nationals are expected to leave Gaza today.
Ambulances wait on the Egyptian side of the border to transport the some 90 sick and wounded who are also being allowed to leave.
Several outlets have reported Egypt is building a field hospital along the border.
The agreement to open the crossing was mediated by Qatar between Egypt, Israel and the Hamas terror group, which controls Gaza, in coordination with the United States.
War erupted after Hamas’s October 7 massacre, which saw some 2,500 terrorists burst across the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip by land, air and sea, killing some 1,400 people and seizing 200-250 hostages of all ages under the cover of a deluge of thousands of rockets fired at Israeli towns and cities. The vast majority of those killed as gunmen seized border communities were civilians — including babies, children and the elderly. Entire families were executed in their homes, and over 260 were slaughtered at an outdoor festival, many amid horrific acts of brutality by the terrorists.
Israel says its Gaza offensive is aimed at destroying Hamas’s infrastructure, and has vowed to eliminate the entire terror group, which rules the Strip. It says it is targeting all areas where Hamas operates, while seeking to minimize civilian casualties
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An Idaho judge gave quadruple murder suspect Bryan Kohberger’s defense a minor victory last week after denying their efforts to dismiss the indictment against him for the stabbing deaths of four university students last year.
Kohberger, who is accused of killing Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin in a 4 a.m. ambush in an off-campus rental home, is seeking specific details about how law enforcement used investigative genetic genealogy (IGG) to thumb him as a suspect after he allegedly left a Ka-Bar knife sheath with his DNA on it under Mogen’s body.
In a 32-page order, Judge John Judge granted a request for an in-camera review of the IGG evidence.
He will look at all of the IGG evidence in the possession of the Latah County Prosecutor’s Office and the FBI and determine what should be shared with the defense, what should be kept secret and what will be redacted from the public.
“I have a HUGE issue with this,” Edwina Elcox, a Boise-based defense attorney who previously represented “Cult mom” murderer Lori Vallow, told Fox News Digital Monday. “As a former prosecutor, I am of the position that the prosecution’s file should be absolutely open.”
In other words – none of the prosecution’s evidence should be withheld, she said.
“Anything should be fair game for defense,” she added. “Maybe it’s useful, maybe it’s not – but it shouldn’t be for the judge to decide.”
Prosecutors have argued that they shouldn’t have to turn over the IGG evidence because they didn’t use it to obtain any warrants. And they allegedly confirmed a direct DNA match between Kohberger and the knife sheath DNA with a cheek swab, according to court documents.
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“The state’s argument that the IGG investigation is wholly irrelevant since it was not used in obtaining any warrants and will not be used at trial is well supported,” Judge wrote. “Nonetheless, Kohberger is entitled to view at least some of the IGG information in preparing his defense, even if it may ultimately be found to be irrelevant.”
Genealogy is the second-most popular hobby in the United States, according to court documents – at least anecdotally – behind gardening.
Fox News Digital could not find any polling or studies to support the claim – but it’s been reiterated in popular culture and the media since at least 2012, when ABC News referenced it in a report when Ancestry.com sold for $1.6 billion, and both genealogy and the use of investigative genetic genealogy have increased notably over the past decade.
The field is also the second-most searched topic online behind pornography, according to The New Yorker.
But, through a quote from a 2019 column written by University of Utah law professor Teneille Brown, the “hobby has been co-opted by law enforcement to solve cold cases, by linking crime-scene DNA with the DNA of a suspect’s relative, which is contained in a direct-to-consumer genetic database.”
Brown told Fox News Digital Monday that she believes it’s unlikely that the court will find anything involving IGG will have violated Kohberger’s Fourth Amendment rights, but that because the field is relatively new, the defense may want to understand how that’s the case.
“Think of it like as an interview with a neighbor,” she said. “They’re getting caught up on the fact that it seems science fiction because it’s the DNA that was used as circumstantial evidence, but it’s not actually that different from just other ways that we figure out who committed a crime.”
Police typically would not have to hand over their note from every interview with a neighbor, she said, and prosecutors likely don’t want that to become the precedent by submitting to the defense’s request for IGG. Authorities also don’t want to divulge the identities of unknown relatives.
But defense attorneys should have a right to review even routine evidence, according to Elcox, who said they should try to see for themselves whatever the judge reviews as well.
“I have personally had a case involving cellphone forensic evidence where the prosecutor fought me every step of the way on giving me full access to the cellphone data,” she told Fox News Digital. “The judge conducted an in-camera review. I still insisted on looking at it myself, probably to the annoyance of everyone involved. I finally got to go to the police station and look at the cellphone data with a detective standing by. I found something that everyone missed. Case dismissed.”
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Both the prosecution and the defense are bound by a gag order on the case.
The IGG information is all publicly available through the genealogy databases that collect it so hobbyists can trace their own roots.
However, even the court hasn’t been informed about the IGG specifics – prompting Judge to order the review.
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Although police did not use the FBI’s IGG research to obtain any warrants in the case, according to court filings, investigators used it to gin up leads.
“Through the IGG process, the FBI constructed a family tree of individuals whose DNA matched with the DNA found on the knife sheath,” Judge wrote. “The FBI then sent local law enforcement a tip to investigate Defendant Bryan Kohberger.”
In that investigation, police in Pennsylvania took trash from the curb outside Kohberger’s parents’ house in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains. There, they allegedly found a familial match between his father’s DNA and the knife sheath sample.
Police arrested Kohberger there on Dec. 30, 2022.
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All four victims were undergrad students at the University of Idaho. Kohberger, who attended the neighboring Washington State University in pursuit of a Ph.D. in criminology, drove a white Hyundai Elantra, the same type of car investigators identified as the suspect vehicle, and allegedly turned his phone off before heading to and from the crime scene, according to the affidavit.
Police, citing phone records, also alleged that he stalked the victims’ home on a dozen occasions before the murders and drove by once more hours after.
Kohberger is being held without bail on four charges of first-degree murder and a felony burglary count. Judge entered not guilty pleas on his behalf at his arraignment in May.
He could face the death penalty if convicted.
Russian dictator claimed that the antisemitic riots in Makhachala were the result of manipulations from Western intelligence services, including those conducted from Ukrainian territory, Russian state-run news agency TASS reported on Oct. 31.
Putin claimed the manipulations were carried out via social media.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry previously accused Ukraine of involvement in the riot, claiming that Kyiv played “a direct and key role in carrying out the latest destructive act.”
Ukrainian officials categorically dismissed any involvement. Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Oleh Nikolenko said that the events reflect the “deep-rooted antisemitism of Russian elites and society,” adding that Russia’s allegations of Ukraine’s involvement are a mere attempt to “shift responsibility from the sick to the healthy.”
“Of course, Ukraine has nothing to do with the latest large-scale surge of xenophobic sentiments on the territory of the Russian Federation,” advisor to Ukraine’s Presidential Office Mykhailo Podolyak said.
Antisemitic protesters stormed Makhachkala Airport in the Russian republic of Dagestan on Oct. 29 in an effort to find Jews on a plane that had arrived from Tel Aviv.
The rioters shouted antisemitic slogans as they protested against Israel amid its ongoing military conflict with the Hamas terrorist group in the Gaza Strip.
Russian authorities arrested 60 people for their involvement in the riot, which injured more than 20 people.
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