A turncoat Navy engineer was bagged by the feds for trying to pass along US nuclear secrets — inside half a peanut-butter sandwich, court documents allege.
The feds say Jonathan Toebbe of Annapolis stashed secrets about the country’s Virginia-class nuclear-powered attack submarines on a blue, plastic-coated SD memory card — then sandwiched the tiny device between two slabs of bread slathered with peanut butter.
“The half sandwich was housed inside of a plastic bag,” the complaint said.
Toebbe also allegedly used a Band-Aid wrapper and pack of chewing gum to help hide SD cards at other times.
He would make drop-offs of material at various locations — with his wife, Diana, a 45-year-old teacher, acting as his “lookout,” authorities said.
Channeling his best inner John le Carré, Toebbe allegedly wrote at one point to his purported foreign contact, “One day, when it is safe, perhaps two old friends will have a chance to stumble into each other at a cafe, share a bottle of wine and laugh over stories of their shared exploits.’’
He and his wife were arrested Saturday in Jefferson County, W. Va., accused by the FBI for violating the Atomic Energy Act, the Justice Department said.
Jonathan Toebbe and his wife used memory cards hidden inside a peanut butter sandwich and a Band-Aid wrapper to transmit the secrets.Amanda R. Gray/U.S. Navy via AP, File
All told, the feds shelled out $100,000 of the cryptocurrency Monero to Toebbe to make him believe they were a foreign government paying for the classified information, authorities said.
The feds’ espionage investigation began in December 2020 when an FBI official received a package that had allegedly been sent by Toebbe to an unidentified foreign country.
The package contained Navy documents and instructions on using “encrypted communications’’ — while expressing a desire by the sender to begin a “covert relationship,” the documents allege.
“Please forward this letter to your military intelligence agency. I believe this information will be of great value to your nation. This is not a hoax,” said a note inside the package, according to the complaint.
After verifying the validity of the confidential information, FBI agents posing as spies from the foreign country began communicating by e-mail with Toebbe, the complaint said.
After several e-mail exchanges, Toebbe allegedly wrote in March that he would provide the documents in return for cryptocurrency payments.
All of the memory cards contained information about the designs of Virginia-class nuclear submarines, the feds said.
The couple was busted when they showed up at a “dead drop” location in West Virginia, US authorities said.
The couple is expected to appear in federal court in Martinsburg, W.Va., on Tuesday.
It’s unknown who is representing the husband and wife.
The Republican pariah Liz Cheney has repeatedly refused to admit a link between Donald Trump’s lies about voter fraud and restrictive voting laws being introduced in Republican states, telling an interviewer on Sunday night she will “never understand the resistance to voter ID”.
“There’s a big difference between that and a president of the United States who loses an election after he tried to steal the election and refuses to concede,” said the Wyoming representative ejected from party leadership for opposing the former president.
Laws tightening regulations on voter ID, voting by mail and even giving water to those waiting on line to vote have been passed or are close to passage in states from Georgia to Texas and beyond.
Because of their disproportionate impact on minority voters – many of whom vote Democratic – Democrats including Joe Biden have compared such laws to Jim Crow segregation in southern states from the civil war to the civil rights era.
Most in a Republican party under Trump’s grip reject such claims. Cheney has ranged herself against Trump but when pressured by Axios on HBO interviewer Jonathan Swan, she stayed in lockstep with her party.
To Cheney’s remark about resistance to voter ID laws, Swan countered: “Even the Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia, Jeff Duncan, said … when this bill was started that the momentum was when Rudy Giuliani was testifying that the Georgia election was a sham.”
Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, pursued the electoral fraud lie through an array of cases in states won by Biden, the vast majority thrown out of court.
“Four hundred-some voting bills have been introduced,” Swan said, “90% by Republicans, supported by the Republican National Committee. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that after the election, this has happened.”
Cheney said: “I think everybody should want a situation and a system where people who want to vote and ought to have the right to vote, vote, and people that don’t shouldn’t. And again I come back to things like voter ID.”
“But what problems are [these laws] solving?” Swan asked. “What are all these states doing?”
“Well,” said Cheney, “each state is different.”
Swan asked what the problem was in Georgia, or Texas, or Florida.
“I think you’ve got to look at each individual state law,” Cheney said.
Swan said: “But you can’t divorce them from the context. Come on.”
Cheney said: “But I think what we can all agree on is that what is happening right now is really dangerous.”
Swan said: “I can agree with that.”
Cheney switched back to her preferred subject – Trump’s refusal to concede defeat, which led to the deadly attack on the Capitol by his supporters on 6 January, over which more than 400 people have been charged, while Republicans in Congress oppose a 9/11-style investigation.
“I think about 2000,” said the daughter of Dick Cheney, who became vice-president to George W Bush after a tight election that year.
“I think about sitting on the inaugural platform in January of 2001 watching Al Gore. We’d won. I’m sure he didn’t think he had lost. We had fought this politically very, very intense battle. And he conceded. He did the right thing for this nation.
“And that is one of the big differences between that and what we’re dealing with now and the danger of Donald Trump today.”
Entravisión | Macon, EU.- Una conductora de noticias de Georgia murió al caer desde 160 pies de altura, cuando fue arrastrada por el agua hacia una cascada en el área de Rainbow Falls del Bosque Nacional Pisgah, en Carolina del Norte.
Taylor Terrell trabajaba en la estación 41NBC en Macon, Georgia. Estaba de vacaciones y fue a disfrutar la naturaleza. El jueves, un día antes de su cumpleaños, caminaba por el agua cuando la corriente la arrastró hacia una de las cascadas y desapareció.
La persona que la acompañaba llamó al 911 y dijo que estaban en el río Horsepasture cuando ella resbaló.
Las autoridades determinaron que perdió el equilibrio sobre una roca cubierta con algas y fue arrastrada por la corriente hacia una cascada. Murió al caer entre 160 y 185 pies.
El cuerpo de Terrell, quien el viernes cumpliría 25 años, fue encontrado en el agua.
Terrell empezó a trabajar como reportera en el 2013 y luego se convirtió en conductora del programa matutino de noticias. Su jefe dice que era muy trabajadora y tenía una sonrisa brillante.
Es la segunda muerte reciente en el Bosque Nacional Pisgah. El sábado pasado un hombre saltó desde la cascada del río Elk y su cuerpo fue recuperado en el agua profunda en la base de la cascada el lunes.
El Parque advierte sobre los peligros de caminar en el agua porque la fuerza de la corriente puede incrementar repentinamente. “No se recomienda la recreación acuática. El ahogamiento es una de las principales causas de muerte en el parque”.
El sheriff del condado Transilvania confirmó que cada año se presentan unas tres investigaciones por fallecimiento en el área de Pisgah y que en general en las cascadas del condado van siete muertes este año.
The latest: Russia is demanding Ukraine give up Crimea and a large slice of eastern Ukraine as a condition for Moscow to stop its attacks. Ukraine sought an emergency order from the ICJ, the U.N’s top court, that would require Russia to halt its invasion, but Russia did not show up.
Maps: Russia’s assault on Ukraine has been extensive with strikes and attacks across the entire country. Much of the Russian onslaught has focused on Kyiv, but the eastern city of Kharkiv — with 1.5 million residents — is also crucial.
La canciller venezolana Delcy Rodríguez denunció este jueves en la sesión extraordinaria del Consejo Permanente de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) que Luis Almagro usa su cargo en el organismo para promover un golpe de Estado en Venezuela.
“La organización está viviendo hoy un día muy peligroso para su expediente. El Secretario General está dando un golpe de Estado a esta organización y está promoviendo con la oposición venezolana un golpe de Estado en Venezuela”, denunció.
Explicó que Almagro no solo se reúne con líderes de la oposición venezolana sino que facilita los salones protocolares para que se proceda con la aplicación de la Carta Interamericana Democrática a Venezuela basado en un informe con datos no oficiales donde se juzga a su país.
“Hay una dicotomía que está dividiendo a esta organización entre los países que verdaderamente creemos en el respeto a las normas y el derecho interamericano y aquellos quienes pretenden asestar un golpe a la institucionalidad”, consideró.
El encuentro desarrollado en Washington, Estados Unidos, buscaba la activación del artículo 20 de la Carta Democrática Interamericana para la nación suramericana, por solicitud del secretario general de este organismo, Luis Almagro.
La sesión fue levantada sin tomarse ninguna decisión con respecto al caso Venezuela. Almagro hizo lectura y entrega de un informe de 132 páginas contentivas de datos sobre la presunta crisis social en la nación suramericana.
Durante su intervención en la plenaria, Rodríguez mencionó que la información aportada por Almagro no pertenecían a una fuente fidedigna, por lo que desestimó la actuación del secretario al cual acusó de querer desprestigiar y vender una imagen falsa de su país.
“El informe, ese adefesio ideológico, político y jurídico (…) tiene consideraciones ideológicas peligrosísimas, no porque es sobre Venezuela (…) sino porque tiene un trasfondo seudofacista para darle paso a los gobiernos capitalistas”, argumentó.
Canciller @DrodriguezVen: El Secretario General de la #OEA pretenden propiciar una intervención y golpe de Estado en #Venezuela.
Rechazó que el texto promueva severas críticas y señalamientos a los poderes públicos de la nación suramericana, y que tenga una evidente parcialidad con sectores opositores.
También, se mostró en contra de que la OEA se convierta en un estado de inquisición, “violentando la constitución venezolana que establece que la soberanía es irrenunciable”.
Rodríguez criticó que Almagro utilizara como fuente y testigo al presidente opositor de la Asamblea Nacional, Henry Ramos Allup, quien fue invitado para participar de forma presencial en la convocatoria.
Por otro lado, aseveró que se está utilizando a la OEA para acosar al Gobierno venezolano y deslegitimarlo a través de un llamado a golpe de Estado con el apoyo del funcionario y en franca violación de sus atribuciones.
Indicó que estas acciones favorecen las pretensiones de la oposición venezolana que busca la dimisión o el derrocamiento del presidente venezolano, Nicolás Maduro.
Advirtió que todos los países tendrán que asumir una posición responsable por el grave precedente que “aquí se presenta” y expresó que Venezuela no se somete a ninguna institución de gobierno extranjero alguno.
“Venezuela con o sin OEA va a defender su Estado de derecho”, aseguró la canciller, quien catalogó como insólito que se haya aceptado la convocatoria de Almagro, por parte del Consejo Permanente.
“Ha habido mucha presión a miembros de la región, mintiéndoles con falsos informes (…) es insólito e inaudito pretender aplicar la carta democrática”, mencionó, tras decir “se están violentando todas las normas de esta organización”.
Noticias Telemundo’s “Inmigración, Trump y los Hispanos” (Immigration, Trump and the Hispanic Community) Town Hall broadcast on Sunday, February 12 at 7PM/6 C, ranked # 1 in Spanish-language TV in primetime across all key demographics, averaging 1.57 million total viewers, 708,000 adults 18 to 49 and 325,000 adults 18 to 34, according to Nielsen. The news special moderated by Noticias Telemundo News Anchor José Díaz-Balart also positioned Telemundo as the #1 Spanish-language network during the entire primetime on Sunday, across all key demos.
“Noticias Telemundo is empowering millions of Latinos with reliable and TRANSPARENT information at a time of change,” said José Díaz-Balart. “Viewers trust us because they know our only commitment is to present the facts the way they are, with professionalism and a total commitment to our community.”
“Immigration, Trump and the Hispanic Community” also reached 1.6 million viewers on Facebook, generating 23,000 global actions on the social network.
The Town Hall answered viewers’ questions about the impact of President Trump’s immigration policy on the Hispanic community. The news special featured a panel of experts, including immigration lawyer and Telemundo contributor Alma Rosa Nieto; Telemundo conservative political analyst Ana Navarro; the Deputy Vice President of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), Clarissa Martínez, and CHIRLA’s Executive Director, Angélica Salas. In addition, “El Poder en Ti”, Telemundo’s robust community initiative, launched an Internet site for Hispanics looking for information, tools and resources on immigration in parallel to the Town Hall.
“Inmigración, Trump y los Hispanos” is part of a series of Noticias Telemundo specials, including “Trump en la Casa Blanca,” produced the day after the elections, and “Trump y los Latinos,” which aired on Inauguration Day. All of these programs share an emphasis on allowing audiences to express their views and empower them by giving them access to trustworthy, rigorous and relevant information presented under Noticias Telemundo’s banner “Telling It Like It Is” (“Las Cosas Como Son” in Spanish).
Noticias Telemundo is the information unit of Telemundo Network and a leader provider in news serving the US Hispanics across all broadcast and digital platforms. Its award-winning television news broadcasts include the daily newscast “Noticias Telemundo,” the Sunday current affairs show “Enfoque con José Díaz-Balart” and the daily news and entertainment magazine “Al Rojo Vivo con María Celeste.” The rapidly-growing “Noticias Telemundo Digital Team” provides continuous content to US Hispanics wherever they are, whenever they want it. Noticias Telemundo also produces award winning news specials, documentaries and news event such as political debates, forums and town halls.
“MURIENDO POR CRUZAR,” AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE INCREASING NUMBER OF IMMIGRANT DEATHS ALONG THE BORDER, THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 6 P.M./5 C
Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval present the Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production
Miami – July 31, 2014 –Telemundo presents “Muriendo por Cruzar”, a documentary that investigates why increasing numbers of immigrants are dying while trying to cross the US-Mexican border near the city of Falfurrias, Texas, this Sunday, August 3 at 6PM/5 C. The Telemundo and The Weather Channel co-production, presented by Noticias Telemundo journalists Carmen Dominicci and Neida Sandoval, reveals the obstacles immigrants face once they cross into US territory, including extreme weather conditions, as they try to evade the border patrol. “Muriendo por Cruzar” is part of Noticias Telemundo’s special coverage of the crisis on the border and immigration reform.
“‘Muriendo por Cruzar’” dares to ask questions that reveal the actual conditions undocumented immigrants face as they try to start a new life in the United States,” said Alina Falcón, Telemundo’s Executive Vice President for News and Alternative Programming. “Our collaboration with The Weather Channel was very productive. They have a unique expertise in covering the impact of weather on people’s lives, as we do in covering immigration reform and the border crisis. The result is a compelling documentary that exposes a harrowing reality.”
“Muriendo por Cruzar” is the first co-production by Telemundo and The Weather Channel. Both networks are part of NBCUniversal.
La niña fue vista por última vez cerca de las 03.00 hora local del domingo.
Los asistentes a la boda alertaron a la Policía después de una primera búsqueda infructuosa, informó hoy la fiscal Dietlind Baudoin, durante una comparecencia pública.
Por el momento, las autoridades no descartan que se trate de un secuestro y etiquetaron la investigación como tal.
No obstante, Badouin informó que “todas las pistas están siendo exploradas” y todavía se está considerando la posibilidad de que haya desaparecido a causa de un accidente.
Los investigadores registraron en la localidad de Pont de Beauvoisin la casa y el coche del guardián de la sala de fiestas al encontrarse éstos próximos al lugar donde se celebró la boda, indicó la emisora de radio local France Bleu Isère, sin dar más detalles.
Los rastreos efectuados el domingo en torno a la sala de fiestas, al bosque y en las casas cercanas por un centenar de policías acompañados de seis perros y un helicóptero no dieron resultados.
Las autoridades se disponen a interrogar a los 180 participantes en la celebración, así como a 70 personas más que habían asistido a otras dos fiestas en las proximidades, señaló Baudoin.
Cada año desaparecen en Francia unos 50.000 menores, según el Centro Francés de Protección de la Infancia (CFPE), y aunque la inmensa mayoría son fugas, unos 400 casos se enmarcan en la categoría de “desapariciones preocupantes”.
The mother of Kyle Rittenhouse claimed President Joe Biden “defamed” her son when he tweeted a video suggesting the Illinois teen is a white supremacist.
“When I saw that I was shocked, I was angry,” Wendy Rittenhouse told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Thursday night.
“President Biden don’t know my son whatsoever, and he’s not a white supremacist. He’s not a racist. And [Biden] did that for the votes,” the mother fumed.
“And I was so angry for a while at him and what he did to my son, he defamed him,” she added.
Biden, at the time a presidential candidate in September 2020, had tweeted “there’s no other way to put it: the President of the United States refused to disavow white supremacists on the debate stage last night.”
The post, which includes a 50-second clip, refers to a question Fox News host Chris Wallace asked then-President Trump during a presidential debate about whether he was willing “to condemn white supremacists and militia groups” in the wake of unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin and other American cities.
The clip includes an image of Rittenhouse, 18, wielding a semi-automatic rifle.
Joe Biden retweeted a video in September 2020 that included an image of Kyle Rittenhouse alongside white supremacists.AP
The teen is on trial — charged with intentional homicide for killing Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, as well as attempted homicide for wounding Gaige Grosskreutz, 27 during chaotic protests in Kenosha over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
Prosecutors have argued that Rittenhouse was the instigator of the violence, while his lawyers have claimed that he acted in self-defense.
The teen’s defense rested its case on Thursday and closing arguments are expected on Monday.
Kyle Rittenhouse waits for the jury to enter the room to continue testifying during his trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse.Reuters
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Los dos presidentes, la actual y el electo, están enfrentados por el traspaso de poder.
Quedan menos de 24 horas para que Mauricio Macri acuda al Congreso para asumir como nuevo presidente de Argentina. Pero en este país no hay todavía acuerdo sobre las cuestiones más básicas de una transición: a qué hora deja de ser jefa de Estado Cristina Fernández de Kirchner o dónde se entregarán el bastón y la banda presidencial.
La agria disputa entre los dos líderes se ha tensado en las últimas horas, cuando el macrismo decidió recurrir a la vía judicial para aclarar en qué momento del día 10 de diciembre dejará de mandar la actual presidenta.
El equipo del presidente electo pidió a la Justicia una medida cautelar para que el mandato de Cristina Fernández venza en la medianoche de este jueves, una decisión que un funcionario kirchnerista comparó con un “golpe de Estado”.
Oscar Parrilli, titular de la Agencia Federal de Investigación (AFI) y uno de los más cercanos colaboradores de Fernández, dijo que en la práctica esta medida supone que no habrá presidente de Argentina durante 12 horas, desde la medianoche hasta que jure Macri ante los legisladores.
Según explicó, “ante esta circunstancia, la presidenta no se va a exponer a que con este dictamen se la acuse de usurpación de título viniendo a hacer traspaso de mando”.
Y así, la presidenta saliente se ausentará de la toma de posesión de su sucesor, que está siendo mucho más turbulenta de lo esperado.
Este miércoles la jueza María Servini de Cubría hizo lugar a la medida cautelar presentada por Macri y confirmó que el mandato de la presidenta culmina a las 23.59 de hoy.
Sin embargo, aclaró que hasta que jure Macri no será presidente.
Desde la medianoche y hasta el momento de la jura, la jefatura del Estado quedará en manos del presidente provisional del Senado,explicó la magistrada en su fallo.
“Insólito”
Ante la ausencia de Cristina Fernández en el Congreso, algunos legisladores kirchneristas se plantean ahora no acompañar al presidente electo en su ceremonia en el Congreso.
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Macri será presidente cuando jure ante el Congreso este jueves al mediodía.
“No nos van a llevar a los empujones”, dijo el diputado del Frente para la Victoria (oficialismo) Carlos Kunkel.
“Nadie concurre al Congreso si no hay un marco de respeto institucional”, añadió.
Hasta la cuenta de Twitter de la Casa Rosada, medio oficial de comunicación de la sede de gobierno, despertó una polémica cuando este miércoles cambió su foto por una de la actual mandataria y se declaró abiertamente “kirchnerista”.
“Twitter de las Presidencias Néstor Kirchner y Cristina Kirchner 25 de mayo 2003 al 10 de diciembre 2015. No oficial al 10/12/2015”, reza ahora su biografía.
¿Y entonces, quién gobierna?
Según la Constitución argentina, “el presidente de la Nación cesa en el poder el mismo día en que expira su período de cuatro años”.
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El presidente electo del Senado dijo que él asumirá hasta que Macri jure como presidente si la Justicia les da la razón.
El gobierno de Cristina Fernández dice que su gestión se acaba en el momento en que Macri jure ante el Congreso, y no antes.
Sin embargo este miércoles la jueza María Servini de Cubría hizo lugar a la medida cautelar presentada por Macri y confirmó que el mandato de la presidenta culmina a las 23.59 de hoy.
En su fallo la magistrada aclaró que Macri y Gabriela Michetti serán presidente y vice “sólo a partir de que presten juramento ante la Asamblea Legislativa”.
Hasta entonces, y desde la medianoche de hoy, el jefe de Estado será el presidente provisional del Senado, Federico Pinedo, del PRO, el partido de Macri.
El bastón y la banda
La otra gran fuente de controversia es dónde recibirá Macri el bastón de mando y la banda presidencial.
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Cristina Fernández no entregará el bastón de mando a Macri porque no se ponen de acuerdo sobre el lugar.
El kirchnerismo quería que Cristina Fernández fuera quien entregara los atributos en la sede del Poder Legislativo, como ocurrió con Néstor Kirchner y con Fernández.
“Vamos a hacer lo que diga la Constitución”, aseguró la todavía presidenta, quien días antes había acusado a Macri de gritarle durante una acalorada conversación telefónica sobre el tema, algo que negó la esposa del presidente electo.
Pero el equipo del líder de Cambiemos, la alianza antikirchnerista que venció las elecciones del pasado 22 de noviembre, dice que se regirá por un reglamento ceremonial que data de los años 60 y que reúne las normas de protocolo presidencial.
La Constitución determina que Macri debe prestar juramento en manos del presidente del Senado y ante el Congreso, aunque no se menciona el traspaso de la banda y el bastón, que más bien forman parte de la tradición.
Es en el Reglamento de Ceremonial de la Presidencia que quiere rescatar Macri (tras 12 años en los que los presidentes recibieron los atributos en el Congreso) donde se especifica que las insignias se reciben en el Salón Blanco de la Casa Rosada.
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El mensaje de Fernández sobre los supuestos gritos de Macri en una conversación telefónica.
Esta situación no tiene precedentes en la historia reciente del país, que había sido testigo de transiciones de poder ordenadas entre Raúl Alfonsín y Carlos Menem; entre Menem y Fernando de la Rúa; entre Néstor Kirchner y Cristina Fernández (los cinco presidentes elegidos por las urnas desde 1983).
Tanto, que entre el desconcierto y la indignación, algunos argentinos prefieren tomarse esta pelea presidencial con humor.
En las últimas horas, un video del actor Martín Bossi parodiando la charla telefónica entre Macri y Fernández se ha vuelto viral.
“En la Quinta de Olivos… ¿hay WIFI? ¿Y usted sería tan amable de dejarme la clave?”, le cuestiona un atemorizado Macri a la presidenta, que contesta cortante: “La clave es mía hasta el 10”.
A man has been arrested in the case of his missing 7-year-old daughter, authorities in New Hampshire said Wednesday, the latest twist in the case of Harmony Montgomery’s disappearance, which remains unsolved.
And new details in the investigation were made public Wednesday as Adam Montgomery, a 31 year-old from Manchester, was in court after his arrest Tuesday
Montgomery was arrested on a warrant charging him with felony second-degree assault arising form 2019 conduct against Harmony, as well as one misdemeanor charge of interference with custody and two misdemeanor charges of endangering the welfare of a child pertaining to Harmony, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office said.
Adam Montgomery was arraigned around noon in Hillsborough County Superior Court North Wednesday, but he did not appear in court after his arraignment and bail conditions were agreed to by lawyers.
Previously, Montgomery was sentenced to 18 months in prison after shooting a man in the head in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The Essex County District Attorney’s Office said Montgomery shot the victim while trying to rob him in 2014. He pleaded guilty to charges of assault and battery with a deadly weapon, larceny from a person, carrying a gun without a license and firing a gun within 500 feet of a building.
As the Eagle Tribune reported at the time, before his guilty plea, Montgomery had been charged with armed assault to murder.
According to court documents, it was Harmony’s mother who first notified police in November of 2021 that her daughter was missing, but police were unable to find Adam Montgomery, who had legal custody.
“She said, ‘As a mother, I have a gut feeling that something is not right,'” Kevin Montgomery, Adam’s uncle, told NBC10 Boston.
Last week, the state’s Division for Children, Youth and Families contacted police saying they couldn’t find the girl either.
“The loss of any little girl is tragic,” said Jesse O’Neill, an assistant attorney general for New Hampshire. “A 7-year-old missing for two years, she’s a daughter, she’s a sister.”
Harmony’s mom had lost custody to Adam Montgomery because of substance abuse issues, according to court documents. But when she regained sobriety, she started looking for Harmony — her father allegedly blocked all contact.
The mother had been trying for months to find the child, even calling different schools. After hearing from DCYF last week, Manchester police eventually found him living in a car. He told police he gave Harmony to his mother around Thanksgiving 2019.
But police found his story inconsistent, and Montgomery eventually stopped cooperating.
Kevin Montgomery said he told police he observed Harmony with a black eye in the summer of 2019.
“I walked in the house, and Harmony had a black eye, like you see in a boxing match between two men,” Kevin Montgomery said.
He was visiting the Manchester home and asked about the injury.
“He bashed her around the apartment, were his exact words,” said Kevin Montgomery. “I might have it off a little bit, but that’s pretty much what he said.”
He also told investigators, according to court documents, he observed other forms of abusive discipline, including Harmony forced to stand in the corner for hours, and told to scrub the toilet with her toothbrush.
Kevin Montgomery says family members made multiple reports to New Hampshire’s Division of Children, Youth and Families.
“I don’t know how they missed it,” he told NBC10 Boston.
Police said at a news conference Friday that they were only notified of Harmony’s disappearance last week when they received a call from DCYF. She had not been seen since late 2019.
Police had not said who Harmony was supposed to be living with over the last two years.
“The circumstances surrounding this prolonged absence are very concerning and are being thoroughly investigated,” the department said in a statement Friday.
Detectives have been investigating “non-stop” since becoming aware that Harmony was missing, the department added. They are working in conjunction with DCYF and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The FBI has also joined the investigation.
“At this time I have dedicated all available resources and personnel to locating Harmony. I encourage anyone to contact the Manchester Police Department with any relevant information which will help us in locating Harmony,” Police Chief Allen Aldenberg said Friday.
The last time Harmony was seen, Aldenberg said, was during a Manchester police call for service in October of 2019 at a residence in the city. He said it’s possible she was seen somewhere outside of the city since that time, however.
“For us to have a two year delay, that is extremely concerning. That’s not something that happens to us on a regular basis,” he said. “It doesn’t happen every day.”
Aldenberg said investigators have spoken with “many family members,” but wouldn’t reveal whether that included her parents or who it was that reported her as missing. He said the last time she was enrolled in school was in Massachusetts.
No Amber Alert has been issued, he said, because investigators have not met the threshhold for issuing one, given that there is no specific information about who Harmony might be with or a vehicle she might be in.
“It’s very rare that a child would not be accountable for two years,” said Moira O’Neill, the child advocate for New Hampshire, an independent oversight agency that monitors all children’s services provided by the state.
She can’t go into specifics about Harmony’s case, but said her office typically investigates whenever a report of a missing child comes in.
In a statement Tuesday, the Department of Health and Human Services said, “State and federal law requires us to protect the confidentiality of children and families served by and individuals engaged with the Division of Children, Youth and Families.”
Aldenberg has said he would like to know why it took so long for Harmony to be reported missing, but for now, he’s focused on trying to find her.
“We have to operate under the assumption that she’s alive and well somewhere. And somebody knows something,” he said.
Harmony is described as 4 feet tall, weighing about 50 pounds, with blond hair, blue eyes and glasses.
Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call Manchester police at (603) 668-8711 or lead investigator Detective Jack Dunleavy at (603) 792-5561. Anonymous tips can also be called in to the Manchester Crimeline (603) 624-4040.
The Doha agreement called for a gradual drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, with a total withdrawalset to be completed by May 1 of this year. One of the deal’s conditions was that the Taliban would halt attacks on American and coalition forces in the meantime.
But Biden has repeatedly said that maintaining a U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan beyond the Doha agreement’s May 1 deadline would have necessitated the deployment of additional American forces to stave off inevitable conflict with the Taliban.
“Less than two months after I was elected to office — I was sworn in — all of a sudden, I have a May 1 deadline. I have a May 1 deadline,” Biden told ABC. “I have one of two choices. Do I say we’re staying? And do you think we would not have to put a hell of a lot more troops [in Afghanistan]?”
Biden put forth the same line of reasoning in a White House address Monday defending his decision on Afghanistan. “The choice I had to make, as your President, was either to follow through on that agreement or be prepared to go back to fighting the Taliban in the middle of the spring fighting season,” he said.
But Biden’s latest statement that he would have pursued a pullout of U.S. troops regardless of Trump’s negotiations with the Taliban complicates the current administration’s argument for its own withdrawal order.
Biden has come under intense scrutiny for the execution of the American departure from Afghanistan. Bipartisan criticism has ramped up significantly over the past several days — amid scenes of chaos at the international airport in Kabul — as both Democrats and Republicans contend the administration was unprepared to safely evacuate American citizens and Afghan allies out of the country, which is now under Taliban control.
Biden and administration officials conceded this week that they were surprised by the speed of the Taliban’s rapid offensive across Afghanistan, which culminated in the toppling of its capital city and the collapse of the Western-backed Afghan government.
But Biden asserted to ABC that there was no scenario in which an American withdrawal from Afghanistan would not have resulted in significant disorder after two decades of a U.S. troop presence there.
“No, I don’t think it could have been handled in a way that — we’re going to go back in hindsight and look, but the idea that somehow there’s a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don’t know how that happens,” Biden said.
La jueza 11 de conocimiento emitió este lunes sentido de fallo absolutorio a favor de Laura Moreno y Jessy Quintero, investigadas por la muerte de Luis Andrés Colmenares.
Las jóvenes eran procesadas por su presunta participación y conocimiento en el fallecimiento de Colmenares, registrado el 31 de octubre de 2010 en el parque El Virrey, norte de Bogotá.
A Moreno la justicia colombiana le imputaba el delito de homicidio en coautoría impropia, mientras que a Quintero los de encubrimiento de homicidio y falso testimonio.
Carlos Cárdenas, quien también había sido detenido por los mismos hechos, iguamente fue absuelto en el año 2014 por falta de pruebas.
La Fiscalía ha insistido en el que Colmenares fue asesinado y que no murió accidentalmente, como argumenta la defensa de los señalados.
Entre otras cosas, el ente investigador dice que las lesiones que presentaba el joven no corresponden a una simple caída.
En octubre del 2014, el Tribunal Superior de Bogotá determinó en un fallo de segunda instancia que Colmenares fue asesinado.
Laura Moreno y Jessy Quintero no asistieron a la audiencia de este lunes por razones de seguridad.
Este domingo, en el programa Los Informantes de Caracol TV, el hermano de Luis Andrés habló precisamente sobre el caso Colmenares.Vea aquí la entrevista
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Shakira no faltó a la fiesta de clausura del Mundial Brasil 2014 y con su voz y sus movimientos de cadera “calentó” la previa de la esperada final que protagonizaron las selecciones de Argentina y Alemania.
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Shakiratambién fue blanco de las críticas por sus kilos de más, lo que conllevó a generar fuertes rumores sobre un embarazo.
Tras la aparición de la colombiana hicieron su ingreso tres artistas que también dijeron presente a la fiesta en el mítico estadio Maracaná.
Ellos fueron el guitarrista Carlos Santana, el rapero Wyclef Jean y el cantautor brasileño Alexander Pírez, quienes pusieron su cuota de ritmo entonando “Dar Um Jeito”.
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The FBI association’s report says a lack of funds has interfered with operations related to crimes against children and sex trafficking, drug and gang crimes, and counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images
One FBI special agent said the partial government shutdown has “eliminated any ability to operate.” Another said the job has “never been so hard or thankless.” A third said agents cannot “protect and serve the American people.”
The anonymous testimonials came in a report Tuesday by the FBI Agents Association, which advocates for more than 14,000 active and former FBI special agents, detailing how the longest-ever partial government shutdown hinders the agency’s operations.
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“The shutdown has eliminated any ability to operate,” said one unnamed special agent, who the report said is working on counter-intelligence matters against a top threat to the United States’ national security. “It’s bad enough to work without pay, but we can only conduct administrative functions while doing it. The fear is our enemies know they can run freely.”
The Department of Justice did not respond to a request for comment on the report Tuesday.
No progress has been made by Republicans and Democrats to end the partial government shutdown, which is on day 32. President Donald Trump has not budged from his demand for more than $5 billion to fund a wall at the Mexican border, which Democrats have refused to accommodate.
The FBI association’s report, which includes anonymous accounts from special agents across the nation and some overseas, says the lack of funds has interfered with operations related to crimes against children and sex trafficking, drug and gang crimes, and counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism.
The anecdotes in the report are vague and include claims that forensic interviews of child victims are being delayed, that sources in counter-terrorism investigations have been lost and that travel has been restricted.
The report also warns of consequences agents could face if they are not paid.
Special agents are subjected to “rigorous and routine financial background check,” according to the report. The association warns that if agents get behind on payments, it could delay them securing or renewing security clearances, or even disqualify some agents from serving in some of their cases.
In addition, the association warns that pay uncertainty could dissuade individuals from being recruited to the FBI.
Se le examinará con lupa de principio a fin. Será protagonista indiscutible de la final de la Supercopa de Europa. Iker Casillas sabe lo que le espera en Cardiff. Desde que Mourinho le sentara en el banquillo de La Rosaleda, nada ha sido igual en su vida. El club considera que lo más aconsejable es que inicie una nueva etapa en otro club, pero darle la libertad es demasiado elevada para las arcas del Real Madrid…
Según ha sabido este periódico, el finiquito de Iker Casillas está valorado en 43 millones de euros, impuestos incluidos, un dato que ha provocado que el Real Madrid, por el momento, dé por hecho que el guardameta internacional continuará vistiendo blanco esta temporada. No hay otra solución.
No hay ninguna novedad sobre esta cuestión. Todo sigue igual y se espera a qué acontece durante los próximos días, sobre todo en la final de la Supercopa. Si finalmente las dos partes deciden que lo mejor es la salida del guardameta, tocaría sentarse a negociar. Esos 43 millones son demasiados para la entidad madridista, que buscaría un acuerdo más económico.
Con el mercado todavía abierto, no se puede descartar a día de hoy cualquier movimiento. Tras levantar la Décima, Casillas manifestó en plena fiesta madridista que seguiría esta campaña vestido de blanco, expresando su deseo de levantar en 2015 el trofeo de una nueva Champions League. Sin embargo,no se puede garantizar que Iker continúe de blanco más allá del 31 de agosto.
El Real Madrid no realizará ningún movimiento que perjudique a Casillas. La entidad es perfectamente consciente de que no se trata de un futbolista más y sí de un símbolo del madridismo. Por ello, cualquier decisión que se tome será consensuada con el protagonista, que en lo que va de pretemporada no ha abierto la boca para expresar sus pensamientos.
El Real Madrid decidió prescindir de los servicios de Diego López porque económicamente era lo más aconsejable para los intereses del club. El guardameta gallego tuvo que ceder finalmente y poner rumbo al Milan, que pagará 3 millones de euros por el traspaso. Eso sí, tras la mala actuación de Casillas ante el Manchester United en Michigan, Diego pensó que lo mejor era quedarse porque estaba seguro que podía disputar la titularidad, tanto al capitán como a Keylor Navas.
Por todo ello, la final de la Supercopa ante el Sevilla no es un partido más. Casillas sabe que cualquier detalle será examinado con lupa. Una buena actuación ayudaría a calmar el debate abierto, pero si repite errores parecidos a los que cometió en la final de la Champions, el Mundial o el amistoso de Michigan, las críticas se recrudecerían.
Los que conviven con el portero madridista a diario hablan de un Casillas distante. Apenas mantiene relación con sus compañeros. No vive su mejor momento, pero por el momento mantiene su postura, que no es otra que continuar en el Real Madrid. Su sueño era salir gratis, pero el club tasó en 20 millones de euros su libertad, lo que ha provocado que cualquier club interesado dé marcha atrás.
Carlo Ancelotti desveló hace días que Casillas defendería la portería del Real Madrid en Cardiff, pero subrayó que más adelante ya se vería… Aunque Diego López emprende viaje a Milán, la titularidad de Iker está en cuestión. Ya no es un jugador intocable y lo sabe desde hace tiempo. El club blanco ha apostado con fuerza por Keylor Navas y el costarricense, en espléndido estado desde hace mucho tiempo, se presenta como un competidor muy fuerte para Casillas.
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