"Kids for Cash," 2009

Joe Biden granted Pennsylvania Judge Michael Conahan  clemency. The kids did not receive the same sympathy.  --Martin Armstrong

Thank you to Martin Armstrong @ Armstrong Economics.  

Joe Biden granted Pennsylvania Judge Michael Conahan clemency. The kids did not receive the same sympathy.

09:16  Former Luzerne County Judge, Mark Ciavarella, faces charges tonight.  Prosecutors say he ruined countless young lives, sending children to jails in return for cash. Two judges in Pennsylvania pleaded guilty today to taking huge payoffs to send teenagers to privately run detention centers.

Former judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan arrived at the federal courthouse . . .

Prosecutors accused them of sending juveniles to a privately run Detention Center 

The evidence against the former judges was compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation . . .

In a scandal known as "Kids for Cash," . . . 

A "Kids for Cash" scheme . . . 

Don't cheat judges are getting a payback from the private sector. 

$2.6 million dollars in kickbacks 

In return for sentencing kids to juvenile detention . . . .  Folks, that's not a bribe.  I call that a Justice bonus.    

Young offenders often with no prior record were brought before these judges for charges as minor as writing prank notes. 

I don't deserve this.  I mean I'm not a criminal.  

These people are wolves and sheep's clothing because the kids trust these people.  The people in this County trusted this guy.  

10:30. Luzerne County, Pennsylvania January 2009.

11:12. We'd interviewed Judge Ciavarella a number of times back in 2004 when we first started looking into what was happening in juvenile court.  We had actually gone to one of the schools while he was giving a presentation there because that was one of his big things.  He went to every school, every year, and told them, "If you commit an offense in school, I'm going to put you away," and that was his justification.  So that when they appeared before him, it didn't matter what the charge was, he'd ask them, "Were you there when I gave the speech?"

Yes.

"Did you hear what I said?"

Yes.

"What did I say?"

You said you would put me away.

"So what do you think is going to happen now?"

You're going to put me away.

"You're right.  Take him out of here."

11:50. I'm very shy but once someone does get to know me, they find out that I don't shut up. And I'm really loud and I'm extremely cynical and snarky and sarcastic and just like I've made it my goal to be the funny guy.  My girlfriends and I, we started talking about how funny it would be if we made like a fake Myspace page about my vice principal, and then it was decided that it had to be made and it was going to be hilarious. 

11:33. The police officer said he was charging her with abuse of the internet, terrorism, and stalking, one of which was a federal crime, and I'm like, "Oh my, God," like I'm kind of freaking out.  I told the officer that he was not speaking to my daughter without an attorney, and that's when he started yelling, telling me that parents like me trying to get our children off, and that's why they're bad kids.  And as soon as I said no lawyer, he backed off.  He said, if you're going to be cooperative, you'll get instructions in the mail.  And I was like, he's telling us be cooperative and everything will be fine."  When I came off the elevators, there were tables, and the woman slid a paper, a form but it was blank, and she said, "Do you have an attorney?" and I said, no, and she said, sign here. Okay, so I sign here.  We were briskly brought into the courtroom.  The judge leaned across the table and yelled "What makes you think you can do this kind of crap!"  And I have my hand on Hillary's shoulder, so I could feel her backing up, and I just whispered in her ear "It's okay, it's okay."

13:47.  Things went very quick in the courtroom.  About 60 seconds, and while I was being handcuffed I could hear my mother wailing right next to me.  And the woman who is cuffing me goes, "Look what you did to your mother," and I was just like I was completely confused. 

GREG REESE: Alwaleed bin Talal is co-owner, with Bill Gates, of the Four Seasons, which resides on floors 35-39 of the Mandalay Bay Hotel.

And what about this investigation?!!  https://t.co/s1sYjM823H

— Loree (@loreebradley) June 15, 2024

This airport is referenced in the story of Brian Malinowski.  

The Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas adjacent to the Mandalay Bay Hotel, the site of the October 1, 2017 mass shooting of young men and women attending the concert was owned by Bill Gates and Saudi Prince, Alwaleed bin Talal through a deal made in 2007.  

Despite that police officers claimed that they saw Paddock shoot himself, the recorded time of his demise wasn't until noon the following day.  Go figure.

Hotel security guard, Jose Campos, was supposedly shot in the leg 6 minutes BEFORE he began his attack, and yet it took law enforcement 72 minutes to get into Paddock's hotel room.  Body cam footage shows a hotel security guard directing police to the 32nd floor.  And less than 10 minutes later, directing other officers to the 29th floor.  When the police finally get to Paddock's floor, hotel security seems strangely casual.  One strolls down the hallway with his back to Paddock's room and points behind him to Room 135.  And they then stand calmly in the hallway with their attention fixed on the police.  Hotel Security Manager, George Umstott, was later found hiding in a hotel room and detained by police.  And several key officers were never even questioned.

Campos claimed he went to UMC Quick Care for treatment, but the facility stated they had no record of this.  He then fled the country and returned only to appear on the Ellen Degeneres Show owned by MGM.  MGM was granted a restraining order, an RO, weeks after the shooting to prevent them from destroying evidence. 

5:50  Dan Bogino.  Two possible scenarios here.  One, completely implausible.  That the Mandalay was a co-conspirator in this, which is nonsense.  Or two, there's some kind of hostility or trust gap developing between law enforcement and Mandalay.  Nothing else makes sense.  

6:08  Greg Reese.  One theory suggests it was Saudi Arabia.  Just 3 months before the Las Vegas massacre, moderate Muhammad bin Salaman, known as MBS, was made the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and was met that same day with President Trump's personal show of support.  This created a civil war between MBS and his hardliner cousin, Alwaleed bin Talal, co-owner of the Four Seasons, which resides on floors 35-39 of the Mandalay Bay Hotel.  The theory suggests that there was a failed assassination attempt against MBS at the Tropicana Hotel that night and that the massacre at the Route 91 Harvest Festival was a savage message of warning to President Trump.  [Why Trump?  What did he do to Alwaleed bin Talal?  So just showing support to MBS was enough to cause Alwaleed bin Talal to send a violent message?  Whoa.]  Stephen Paddock was a pilot, and according to this theory was a gun runner for Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.  This would explain Paddock's wealth and access to the Service Elevators at the Mandalay Bay.  And when the assassination attempt failed, Paddock became Talal's sacrificial lamb rather than his getaway pilot.  The Prince had Saudi military helicopters in the area at the time.  Four weeks after the Las Vegas shooting, MBS, had his cousin, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, and 10 other princes arrested on corruption and money-laundering charges.  We don't know if this theory is correct.  But a year later, the case was closed.  And we are told that there's nothing to the story but the 64-year-old lone gunman with no motive, Stephen Paddock.

8:00  Sheriff Joseph Lombardo.  There's no conspiracy between the FBI, between LVPD, and the MGM.  Nobody is attempting to hide anything. 

World Trade Towers, 1973-2001, buildings underwent extensive elevator renovation in the 2 or 3 years prior to 9/11

Start by investigating building 7. I have interviewed senior NYPD that heard the count down for the controlled demolition of tower 7 on 9/11. https://t.co/oqZjNxP0BV

— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) February 18, 2024

Reports of the [World Trade Tower, 1973-2001] buildings undergoing an extensive elevator renovation in the 2 or 3 years prior to 9/11.  All kinds of workers had access to the cores of the building.  And on the day of the attack the elevator company [ACE Elevator?] would not assist in the operation of the elevators.  And the elevator company subsequently went out of business in a couple of years after that.  The information is out there.

Despite it being one of the largest most extensive renovation projects on the World Trade Center records for the retrofitting and rebuilding the elevators are missing.

 

The largest elevator modernization project in history is mentioned at the 11-minute mark.