Incomplete (i-e ‘Tip of the Iceberg’) list of U.S. Federal/State/Local Government self-destruct revelations for March 2018:
Alabama: British empire based, yet U.S. taxpayer funded, BAE Systems shutting down its naval yard ops in Mobile, 170 jobs gone in June due to lack of work! WalletHub says high earners in The Yellowhammer State benefit more from the new federal tax code than high earners in other states. AL.com:Birmingham police officer charged with 2 felony crimes
AL.com:Alabama sheriffs commonly keep prison food money for themselves, could now face federal investigation
Alaska: American Civil Liberties Union suing Palmer Police for wrongfully detaining an immigrant working as a security guard.
Arkansas: A former state representative, and now former county judge (and church minister), accused of taking $100-thousand USD in bribes from a now indicted lobbyist, the scheme involved a Missouri based healthcare provider and the Saint James United Methodist Church.
California: Los Angeles Times: It’s deceptively called the Healthy Homes and Schools Act, and it’s a taxpayer ripoff
Riverside mayor sues his own city over the city manager’s contract
Compton mismanaged, overspent taxpayer funds, state audit finds
Las Vegas Sun: Orange County to join fight against California sanctuary law
Curbed San Francisco: SF lawmaker wants to block tax breaks for companies helping build border wall
Delaware: Did Police in Delaware Shoot and Kill a Man in a Wheelchair?
Florida: A taxpayer funded pedestrian bridge, built for Florida International University/City of Sweetwater, collapsed just hours after an engineer complained of cracks, killing at least six people.
Mental health records revealed that in 2016 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School officials, and a sheriff’s deputy, wanted the student who would shoot-up the school in 2018 forcibly committed for psychiatric evaluation! Despite the ‘future’ shooter’s repeated threats of harm against people, including himself, Henderson Behavioral Health deemed he “did not meet criteria for further assessment.” In other words, all the safeguards in the ‘system’ failed because of a decision of a counselor! In response the weak-willed govn’a gave Florida cops more authority to steal your guns under the Baker Act.
North Country Public Radio: Taxpayer funded MacDill Air Force Base popular vacation spot for taxpayer funded retirees
Georgia: A now former police officer/CivilAirPatrol commander convicted of child molestation. Due to an expected 46% increase in Alzheimer’s cases, all law enforcement agencies are being trained up in handling people with the condition.
Hawaii: Maui Police Department faces sex discrimination lawsuit
Idaho: The Coeur d’Alene Tribe denying claims that they are intimidating voters over a proposed ballot initiative to legalize ‘instant’ betting on horse races. After years of operating in the ‘black’, an audit for Blackfoot revealed that the city has suddenly and mysteriously run out of money for the general fund, the mayor imposing a halt to discretionary spending until the problem is figured out: “If you go back about six or seven maybe eight years, there was plenty of money to carry over from year to year……we’re not going to have the carry over next year…. …any spending of a discretionary nature, I want them to talk to me or our city treasurer.”–Marc Carroll
Illinois: A federal discrimination lawsuit has alleged “systematic discrimination” against women who seek positions in Chicago’s Special Functions Division. The city of Aurora is being sued by seven cops, they say an official sent their addresses, phone numbers and other personnel records to a gang leader they helped put behind bars.
Indiana: WISH-TV revealed how much tax dollars the city of Muncie spends fighting lawsuits. The city of South Bend facing a lawsuit alleging one police officer illegally wiretapped other cops! For some reason, outraged cops, the ones who were secretly recorded, are demanding that the phone conversations not be released to the public.
Iowa: Des Moines police officer with history of trouble sued again. Government contractor General Dynamics conducting another mass-layoff at its InfoTech call center in Coralville, 150 jobs gone due to a change in the federal contract!
Kansas: Big sport events mean big taxpayer spending as 2-hundred police were called up to patrol the city of Lawrence for a Final Four university basketball game. Local news media reported that the last time Lawrence was the site of Final Four games, in 2012, taxpayers unknowingly forked-out $180-thousand USD, mostly for police patrols.
Louisiana: The Pelican State is about to have its federal Gulf of Mexico oil royalties drastically cut, no thanks to president Donald Trump for slashing royalty rates in the 77-million-acre lease sale of offshore oil and gas drilling rights.
Maine: Internet service was so bad on ‘the islands’ that 120 residents paid for their own upgrades, but now the U.S. Department of Agriculture wants to spend 1.3-million tax dollars reimbursing residents under a federal grant program: “To get grant money, you have to get broadband speeds and a solution that will last decades.”-Malcolm Fernald, Cranberry Isles
Maryland: The town of Seat Pleasant is being sued by local business owners because the city leaders jacked up property taxes by as much as 800%! Montgomery County Police officer was arrested on a series of theft charges for allegedly stealing from a Germantown Walmart!
Massachusetts: An Indian Orchard man is suing three police officers in federal court, alleging one of the officers grabbed his genitals, then another joined in and beat and stomped him, during a traffic stop. A now former deputy state treasurer for Delaware, who resigned in disgrace after criminal use of her state taxpayer funded credit card, is facing criminal drug distribution charges in Massachusetts, along with her son.
Minnesota: Eight months after shooting to death an Australian immigrant, a Minneapolis cop turned himself in to face charges of manslaughter. The law enforcer’s victim had called 9-1-1 to report a possible rape. Both police personnel who responded to the call say they were surprised when a woman suddenly appeared at their car door, both cops pulled their guns, one shot, both claim they were fearing for their lives (the police ‘get out of jail card’). The woman at their cop car door was the one who called 9-1-1.
Missouri: More proof the real reason cops give you tickets is to make money. Kansas City cops have been writing fewer tickets and that has the City Manager pissed after a $6-million USD drop in ticket revenues: “So what we’re seeing is, not only a decline in the number of tickets but a decline in the corresponding revenue that are used to support city operations.“-Troy Schulte
Montana: Idaho based mining company Hecla facing more than $30-million USD in clean-up cost as a result of abandoned and polluted mines in The Treasure State. However, Hecla administrators declared the threat by the state of Montana as unfair, because the state is talking about mines that were operated by other companies (specifically a company called Pegasus) that were once led by Hecla’s current CEO: “It’s a far stretch to say a 126-year-old company is ineligible to mine in Montana for the actions of another company that it has no relation with. They got it wrong.”-Luke Russell, VP Hecla
Nebraska: Lincoln County Detention Center prisoner died of unknown reasons after being taken to a hospital. Seward and York County sheriffs warning people of a cop impersonator pulling people over as they drive to work.
Nevada: A now former Las Vegas cop faces the death penalty for raping and killing a woman in 1997, he was found out when the rape kit was finally sent for testing in 2016! This case has revealed that there are nearly 6-thousand-5-hundred untested rape kits in southern Nevada! It was also revealed that Las Vegas hospitals are releasing mental illness patients too soon, and on top of that it’s been discovered that many of the group homes they’re sent to are not licensed or are unsanitary.
New Hampshire: The state’s new marijuana law has reduced marijuana case backlog by 2-thousand! The law decriminalized the possession of small amounts of ganja. The state Attorney General investigating two Claremont Police officers for falsifying police reports.
New Mexico: Albuquerque hit with wave of violence and deaths that could be related to skyrocketing drug use. There was no connection between the four people that died over four days; one was homeless, two others apparently died in fights, one person was shot. In one case a suspect vehicle has Mexican license plates.
New York: New York Times: When Bail Feels…..Like Extortion
Police Officer Is Charged With Lying About Finding a Gun
‘Testilying’ by Police: A Stubborn Problem
Promotions……for Officers Accused of Lying
North Carolina: Democrats accuse Republicans of shifting $58-million USD from a job development program to funding a natural gas pipeline. The gas is coming from fracking ops in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
North Dakota: Grand Forks Herald: Active shooter training stymied by lack of funds for Grand Forks police
West Fargo Pioneer: Former LaMoure police chief enters Alford plea to sexual abuse charges
KFGO: North Dakota to ask feds for money for pipeline protest cost
Ohio: University of Cincinnati has agreed to pay $344-thousand USD in back wages and legal fees to a police officer who was fired after he shot and killed a driver, the federal government is now investigating the 2015 shooting. It’s been revealed that FBI agents used dead people’s fingers to unlock smart phones at Ohio State University.
Oklahoma: A 23 years old woman found dead in Muskogee County Jail, investigation underway. A Rogers County Court Clerk facing charges of counterfeiting after she used a fake twenty dollar bill to buy drinks at a Sonic. Apparently another clerk found the fake money in the county’s petty cash and showed it to the clerk-accused, who then went out and allegedly tried to spend it, and then deposit it. A sure way to help a suicidal person get themselves killed is to call the police. At least two separate investigations into police shooting a suicidal person are underway; in Lone Grove police shot (several times) and wounded a man after they got a call that a man was talking about suicide, police say they shot him because he was holding a gun. In Stillwater, police responding to a suicidal person call shot and killed the suicidal man, they claim that he pointed a gun and a knife at them.
Oregon: City of Bend paying $800-thousand USD to a family of a man killed by police. An attorney who lives in Washington, but his office is in Portland, was arrested this month for shooting at a competing Portland law firm back in December. Police in Washington raided the attorney’s home on the day of his arrest in Oregon, and found a sophisticated meth lab.
Pennsylvania: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has given a woman a second chance to bring a claim alleging that the way Nazareth Borough Police Department deals with mentally ill people not only violates the Americans with Disabilities Act, but caused her boyfriend to kill himself.
Rhode Island: A Providence cop was fired for stealing bundles of coupons and arrested on suspicion of illegally using a taxpayer funded gas card.
South Carolina: The North Charleston Police Chief led an anti-gun demonstration, under the guise of Stop the Violence, but the Restoration Holiness Church Pastor is more realistic saying “Guns do not kill people. The bullet does not have a name unless you let it out of that chamber. … We need to get our young men off the streets.” Not only are state taxpayers being forced to give corporations huge tax breaks, but county level taxpayers are getting raped! 46 of the state’s 59 counties have handed out $220-million USD in tax breaks to big businesses!
South Dakota: It was revealed that a woman died of alcohol withdrawal symptoms while in a state mental hospital in Yankton, as a result of established procedure not being followed. Local newspaper investigations show a history of a high rate of employee turnover and that the taxpayer funded hospital is not accredited. Staying in Yankton, the American Civil Liberties Union accuses the police department of excessive use of force when dealing with the public, complaints of police brutality include a cop who was also a South Dakota Army National Guard Soldier of the Year.
Tennessee: The state Board of Claims unanimously voted to pay a man $1-million USD, for being wrongly imprisoned since 1978! He was convicted of rape and burglary, but in 2008 DNA testing proved he wasn’t at the crime scene, he wasn’t released until 2009.
Texas: A lawsuit filed in Tarrant County district court accuses a Fort Worth police officer of a “clearly racially motivated attack” on a man while working private security at a hospital. Red River Army Depot laying off 6-hundred people due to a massive reduction in work hours (not enough work)!
Vermont: A study by University of Vermont says cops target ‘black’ and ‘brown’ skinned people more than ‘white’ skinners. Elitist ski resort Hermitage failed to make $17-million in loan payments and owes $1-million in back due taxes.
Virginia: The city of Alexandria imposing a new Airbnb tax of 8.5% and a $1 per night charge. At the state level, if the govn’a signs into law HB 1204 then local governments will lose millions of dollars in property tax revenues, to the benefit of golf courses!
Washington DC: It’s been revealed that you the taxpayer continue to pay for those new fangled electric cars that are catching fire, crashing and now killing people.
CNN: Defense Department charged nearly $140,000 at Trump branded properties
West Virginia: Money generated from license fees and excise taxes on guns, ammunition and angling equipment provide about 60% of the funding for state wildlife agencies. Crashing numbers of hunters, and more anti-gun laws, threatens current funding for wildlife conservation, meaning taxpayers will be the new target.
Wisconsin: Family of man shot by Green Bay Police files federal lawsuit.
Wyoming: What construction industry recovery? The town of Jackson issued a 180 days construction moratorium due to new stricter Teton County level employee housing rules, town leaders want new construction project applications to be filed after the new housing rules go into effect. The new county housing rules will cost construction companies more money.
WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification
Government Shenanigans, February 2018: “I NEED TO PAY HIGHER TAXES.”
DRUGS, THE AMERICAN WAY, March 2018:ZOMBIES ARE FOR REAL! “THE FENTANYL…IS ENOUGH TO KILL EVERYONE…SEVERAL TIMES OVER.”
ObamaCare ACA death spiral, March 2018: “HEALTHCARE IS A TAPEWORM”
Dumbing Down U.S.A., March 2018:“A REFLECTION OF THE CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS”