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James made a 20% down payment on the home -- the same as she would need to make for an investment property -- rather than the 10% typically required for a second home loan, according to sources familiar with the case. A loan officer who worked with James told investigators that the interest rate for a second home compared to an investment property at the time of James's purchase would have been between 0.25% and 0.50% lower, a difference that would have amounted to $15 to $30 less in a monthly mortgage payment, or as much as $10,800 less over the life of the 30-year loan, according to sources familiar with what the loan officer told investigators. In the indictment, Halligan alleged that James avoided a 0.815% higher interest rate, potentially saving James $17,837 over the life of the loan.

In a sense this makes it even stupider. First, bc Halligan inflated how much benefit James would have obtained, by $7K.

But also, if James is paying for the house AND ALSO for a hotel, that financial benefit disappears.

Witnesses told prosecutors that James repeatedly informed realtors and loan officers that the home would be for her niece, but that she would occasionally stay there when visiting her family in Virginia, the sources said. James' niece told investigators that James visited their home multiple times a year but had not stayed overnight. Prosecutors argued that because James actually overnighted at hotels when visiting family -- rather than staying at the home -- she could not be considered to be an "occupant" to justify that the home was a second property.

ABC has a long piece abt why Elizabeth Yusi said they could not charge Tish James as Lindsey Halligan did anyway.

The only thing that deviates from NYT story that Halligan stalked @annabower.bsky.social about is that James DIDN'T stay in the home while visiting.

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Palestine rights group seeks prosecution of UK citizens who fought for Israel Highly unusual court application alleges more than 10 individuals breached foreign enlistment laws An attempt to mount a private prosecution is under way alleging British citizens unlawfully went to fight for Israel. An application to a magistrates court for a summons against a named individual was lodged on Monday. Continue reading...

Palestine rights group seeks prosecution of UK citizens who fought for Israel

Donald Trump's tearing down of the East Wing is illegal, and our leaders need to be saying so. He is breaking the law and betraying the country. This has become a rule of law issue now.

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Food banks were already struggling to keep with demand. Then, Trump slashed $1 billion from crucial USDA programs supporting them.

Now, thanks to his shutdown, millions of Americans in at least 25 states will lose access to food stamps on November 1st.

The perfect storm of cruelty.

USA is FUBAR.

And the world not only laughs at the shenanigans that passes as a plan for quasi stability but is concerned about the consequences of a mentally disturbed narcissist with unchecked power.

In Surprise Move, Virginia Dems to Announce Redistricting to Counter GOP Gerrymanders Read more here.

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You know, whatever else there is to say about DC comics firing me, I have to say it felt deeply satisfying to tell a suit, "I get it, it's important to keep the faceless mob of Nazis happy"

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BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes.

Please Use it and SHARE!

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As they purchase more ICE equipment, including weapons for use of force against this threat, ya know, to keep ICE safe.

Need the Epstein files, in totality, for an accurate assessment of what is need to make America safe again. Cuz this ain’t it. 👆

We live in a government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich.
It's time to claim it back for the working class.

AWS Outage That Took Down Internet Came After Amazon Fired Tons of Workers in Favor of AI AWS CEO Andy Jassy bragged that the company's adoption of AI agents meant that it would "need fewer people" doing the same jobs.

Coincidence? Amazon fired hundreds, at least, from their cloud computing and units, replacing them with AI.

Fast forward a few months and a relative straight forward DNS issue took down much of the Internet.

In a nod to irony, the outage also took down ChatGPT.

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It's all projection. Trump is accusing all of us of being criminals and terrorists and violent but he is pardoning criminals who helped terrorists.

Some of these are pretty funny

They have already killed one man and shot a women!

I’m horrified, but not the least surprised.

Me on Trump pardoning disgraced former congressman George Santos:

"It's completely nuts, but he's completely nuts — and so is Santos, maybe that's the thing that joins them all together... Trump finds a fraudster appealing."

We’re the party of freedom.

They’re the party of George Santos and Jeffrey Epstein.

The Santos commutation is a prelude to a Ghislaine Maxwell pardon.

Mark my words.

Mass Call: What's Next After No Kings? · No Kings No Kings will be massive, powerful, and meaningful - but it won’t be the end of our work. Join movement leaders and fellow local activists after the big day to come together, celebrate what we accompl...

What's next after a hugely successful "No Kings" day?

More joyful, patriotic, and peaceful organizing to defend our democracy.

Join @indivisible.org and more this evening to be a part of it.
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

thehill.com Who’s funding Trump’s $250M ballroom renovation?

Who’s funding Trump’s $250M ballroom renovation?

That’s not how I expected the second half of this headline to go. “Part of White House Reduced to Rubble” should be followed by “What the Fuck.”

He can control the DOJ. The IRS. The FBI.
But not the foreign banks about to expose his money trail.👇

www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Wistfully remembering bygone era when you didn’t have to vet candidates for Nazi tattoos.

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Enough is enough. Adelita Grijalva was elected on September 23. The people of Arizona have a right to be represented in Congress.
 
During today’s pro forma session, when the House is called to order I will seek unanimous consent to insist upon the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva.

Supreme Court Will Consider Overturning Federal Ban On Drug Users Owning Guns The case is one of at least two major gun disputes the Supreme Court is set to decide this term.

The case is one of at least two major gun disputes the Supreme Court is set to decide this term.

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