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NY: 4 Years, 10 Months In Prison For Ex-NYPD Sergeant In Real Estate Fraud Scheme
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A former NYPD sergeant has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for his role in a real estate fraud scheme.
U.S. District Judge John Koeltl on Friday sentenced James Monahan to four years and 10 months in prison, and ordered him to forfeit $4.7 million for causing 94 investors to lose that amount, according to published reports. |
NJ: Fired rec director, a disgraced ex-cop, extorted parents of youth soccer players, Passaic prosecutors charge
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A disgraced former Passaic City cop who was hired to run the recreation department is facing official misconduct charges for the second time in 20 years after prosecutors on Friday said he extorted money from parents of Passaic youth soccer players.
Eriberto "Eddie" Carrero was charged with official misconduct, extortion and theft after an investigation by Passaic County prosecutors ...
A former city police officer, Carrero was forced to resign from the police department after he pleaded guilty to official misconduct and theft charges in 1997.
SUBMITTER'S COMMENT: So how does a disgraced crooked cop become the town's recreation director? Oh, I forgot -- this is New Jersey! |
Guns and freedom
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Suppose Trayvon Martin had pulled out a gun and shot George Zimmerman? Or perhaps, stabbed and killed him, since at 17 years old he was too young to legally possess a concealed firearm. Martin, after all, was being followed by Zimmerman that February night in 2012; not the other way around. So, who was standing what ground? Why was it assumed that the slightly built Martin was threatening to the bigger Zimmerman? To state the obvious, Martin is dead, so we do not have his side of the story. |
Censorship in Your Doctor’s Office
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WHEN a doctor asks her patient a question, is the doctor engaged in free speech protected by the Constitution? If you think the answer is obvious, think again. According to a recent decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, everything a doctor says to a patient is “treatment,” not speech, and the government has broad authority to prohibit doctors from asking questions on particular topics without any First Amendment scrutiny at all. |
AL: Strange steps back from guns at polls comments
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Attorney General Luther Strange Wednesday appeared to step back from comments made earlier this week that suggested he would support legislation to ban the open carry of firearms at polling places.
Earlier this month, Strange's office issued an opinion that said communities could not ban individuals from openly carrying firearms from polling places, after a request from the Chambers County Commission. The opinion, citing a 2013 law that greatly expanded open carry in the state, said polling places were not on a list of areas where individuals were specifically banned from openly carrying firearms. However, it noted that some areas where people vote, such as courthouses, fall under that ban. |
WA: Gun Activist Compares Firearm Registration To Nazi Tattooing Of Jews
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After a National Rifle Association lobbyist equated a proposal to expand background checks to the Nazi policies of Adolf Hitler, a prominent guns rights activist defended the offensive comparison and took it further, comparing gun registration to the Nazi practice of tattooing Jews with identification numbers.
The NRA is under fire after its Washington state lobbyist Brian Judy was heard telling opponents of the state's background check proposal that one of the proposal's primary supporters, who is Jewish, is "stupid" because "he's put half-a-million dollars toward this policy, the same policy that led to his family getting run out of Germany by the Nazis." |
Doctors to appeal federal court’s ruling in Florida ‘Docs v Glocks’ case
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A group of physicians represented by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence plans to appeal the ruling of a federal appeals court that upholds Florida’s prohibition law on asking patients about guns.
The suit, Wollschlaeger v. Governor of the State of Florida, better known as the “Docs vs. Glocks” case, was a challenge to Florida’s 2011 Firearm Owners’ Privacy Act that discouraged health care workers from asking patients questions about firearms that were not directly relevant to medical care or safety. On July 25, a panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in a 2-1 decision found that Florida’s law was “valid regulation of professional conduct that has only incidental effect on physicians’ speech.” |
IL: Concealed carry is nothing to worry about
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Gun control advocates are learning the downside of getting their way. Recently, a federal judge struck down the District of Columbia's ban on the carrying of concealed handguns. Anti-gun forces have been losing in legislatures for a long time. Now they are finding that even where they win, they lose.
Washington used to have the strictest gun laws in America. Besides the prohibition of concealed guns, all firearms had to be registered and handgun ownership was forbidden. |
DC: Another D.C. gun ban ruled unconstitutional
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Citing the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller and its 2010 ruling in McDonald v. City of Chicago, as well as the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal’s Peruta v. County of San Diego ruling year, Judge Frederick J. Scullin Jr. ruled in Palmer v. District of Columbia that “there is no longer any basis on which this court can conclude that the District of Columbia’s total ban on the public carrying of ready-to-use handguns outside the home is constitutional under any level of scrutiny. Therefore, the court finds that the District of Columbia’s complete ban on the carrying of handguns in public is unconstitutional.” |
Report: More women, suburbanites carrying guns
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The sports aspect of shooting guns may not be restricted to country boy stereotype anymore, as new statistics show the emerging face of today’s shooter is vastly different.
Almost half of today’s first time gun buyers in the country are female (48 percent of gun owners), usually purchasing a gun for self-defense and self-sufficiency. Also, most people buying guns today for the first time include people ages 22-30 living in suburban areas, according to a survey by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, which keeps a tally on all things related on firearms retail trends. |
MA: Massachusetts lawmakers pass bill tightening state gun laws
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Massachusetts lawmakers on Friday tightened the state's already strict gun laws by passing a measure that gives police chiefs authority to turn down a resident's requests to buy a rifle or shotgun if they believe the person may be a danger.
House lawmakers overrode objections from gun-rights advocates in the state Senate who had opposed the measure, worrying that police chiefs could abuse the authority to deny firearms to law-abiding citizens. |
NY: An UnSAFE Gun Culture
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Governor Andrew Cuomo’s 600-page SAFE Act continues to anger people in upstate New York, a year after the apparently hastily-assembled legislation passed in the wake of the terrible shootings at Sandy Hook elementary school. Take a drive anywhere through our towns and you’ll see signs urging repeal of the SAFE Act, and even signs calling for Cuomo’s impeachment because of the SAFE Act. |
PA: Sandy Hook mother pushes mental health bill
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Dylan Hockley was a mischievous 6-year-old boy who loved chocolate, Superman and playing with his older brother.
After he was gunned down Dec. 14, 2012, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., his mother, Nicole Hockley, made it her mission to speak out and, by doing so, hopefully reduce the chance some other mother would one day also find herself facing a crowd, clutching a photo of her slain child and fighting back tears.
"Nothing will bring my son back," she said Friday in Allentown. "But I am here so other parents don't have to stand here and feel this way."
Hockley visited the Lehigh Valley to gather support for federal legislation called "Promoting Healthy Minds for Safer Communities." |
MO: Kansas City Council pulls the plug on open carry
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In a unanimous 9-0 vote, the K.C. Council voted Thursday to ban the practice of open carry in the Show Me State’s largest city.
The ordinance, set to come into effect in ten days, would amend the city’s codes on weapons to prohibit the open carrying of a firearm. Mayor Sly James (D), who has been outspoken in his crusade to limit guns on Kansas City’s streets, proposed the measure on July 17.
“We’re saying this does not make sense in the middle of Kansas City, Mo.,” James told the Council earlier this month. “If you want to do this out in a rural area, that’s cool. How much would you shop at the Plaza if you walk down there and every third person had a rifle on their back?” |
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