Lawyer paid $130k to silence adult-film star over sexual encounter with Trump
A lawyer for President Trump reportedly arranged a six-figure payment to a former adult-film star to keep her from discussing a sexual encounter with Trump, according to a new report Friday.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Michael Cohen, an attorney for the Trump Organization at the time and now Trump’s personal lawyer, arranged for Stephanie Clifford, known in the industry as Stormy Daniels, to receive $130,000 as part of a nondisclosure agreement one month before the 2016 presidential election.
Clifford has privately told sources interviewed by the Journal that she and Trump had a consensual sexual encounter in 2006, the year after he and Melania Trump were married. Clifford was 27 years old at the time of the alleged encounter in Lake Tahoe.
A White House official declined to comment to the Journal about the payment, but said that the allegations of the interaction between Trump and Clifford were “old, recycled reports, which were published and strongly denied prior to the election.”
Cohen told the Journal in a statement that Trump “once again vehemently denies” the encounter, but did not comment on the alleged $130,00 payment.
“This is now the second time that you are raising outlandish allegations against my client,” Cohen said in the statement. “You have attempted to perpetuate this false narrative for over a year; a narrative that has been consistently denied by all parties since at least 2011.”
Cohen’s reference to previous allegations may include the Journal’s reportin the days before the election that Clifford intended to appear on “Good Morning America” to discuss the alleged affair. She reportedly chose not to appear on the show at that time without explanation.
Cohen sent the paper a statement signed by “Stormy Daniels” denying the sexual encounter with Trump and saying that hush money rumors are “completely false.”
Clifford did not comment directly to the Journal, and Clifford’s lawyer declined to comment on the matter.
Clifford reportedly received the payment through her lawyer’s client-trust account. A spokeswoman for the bank where the account is held declined to comment.
The payment was allegedly made around the time that the “Access Hollywood” tape surfaced, in which Trump made a comment about grabbing women “by the p—-.”
Sexual harassment and assault allegations against Trump from more than a dozen women surfaced during the campaign, and again during the rise of the “Me Too” movement. Trump has repeatedly denied the allegations, and the official White House position is that the women are lying.
Article via: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/368779-trump-lawyer-arranged-130k-payment-to-adult-film-star-to-stay-quiet
Woman reportedly returns dead Christmas tree to Costco, gets full refund
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. — Costco is known for it’s generous return policy.
The warehouse club allows members to return almost anything they’ve purchased at any time for a full refund (there is a 90-day limit on electronics).
A woman in California put that return policy to the test when she reportedly returned her dead Christmas tree and got a full refund.
Indianapolis radio host Dave Smiley posted screen grabs from a Facebook page of a California man who claimed to have witnessed the entire incident.
“I CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP…” the post started.
“Woman in line at Costco, totally nonchalant, to return her Christmas Tree ‘because it is dead’ on January 4th. I saw the whole thing go down with my own two eyes about 30 minutes ago. If I didn’t see it, I wouldn’t believe that someone had so little moral values or lack of conscience.”
The man claimed that Costco employees did confirm she bought the tree at their store and gave her the refund. He said she was “shamed to a small degree,” but wrote, “I don’t think it fazed her because she has no conscience.”
A picture accompanying the post showed a woman with a red “X” over her face standing with a dead Christmas tree at the Costco customer service counter.
The man wrote that the woman didn’t seem to mind that he took her picture.
via: http://pix11.com/2018/01/11/woman-reportedly-returns-dead-christmas-tree-to-costco-gets-full-refund/
Video shows sobbing patient left in cold at bus stop, wearing only a gown
BALTIMORE, Md. – A viral video of a recently discharged patient left at a bus stop at night in Baltimore has inspired widespread outrage and prompted an investigation at the hospital where she was treated.
The video is distressing to watch — both for its contents and for the questions it raises about the events leading up to it.
A young woman, wearing only a hospital gown and socks, is left standing by a bus stop Tuesday night or early Wednesday as four men in uniforms, possibly security guards, walk away. The man who filmed it, Imamu Baraka, follows them as they leave the stop with an empty wheelchair.
“Wait, so you all are just going to leave this lady out here with no clothes on?” he says. “That is not okay.”
One of the men replies it was “due to the circumstances of what happened.”
The young woman barely speaks and seems dazed, occasionally crying out. Baraka urges her sit at the bus stop, where two plastic bags full of the woman’s belongings lie on the ground next to a pair of shoes. As she approaches the cold bench, the thin gown exposes her bare skin.
According to weather reports, the temperature in Baltimore was in the 30s the night the video was filmed.
‘I am disgusted’
Baraka’s Facebook posts about the incident, published early Wednesday morning, have almost 40,000 shares combined and thousands of comments expressing disbelief. His initial video has 1.2 million views.
In a follow-up video, Baraka explains that he called an ambulance to come pick up the young woman and take her back to the hospital.
Baraka, who says he works as a psychotherapist in the Baltimore area, acknowledges the woman could have been “unruly,” and that one of the men who dropped her off seemed to imply as much.
He muses that the hospital staff should have perhaps committed her “until they are clear about what’s happening.”
“You can’t expect those with mental health issues to be pleasant. Because they’re ill,” he says. “I am disgusted by the lack of empathy that I am seeing displayed.”
Hospital responds
The incident happened outside the University of Maryland Medical Center.
“We share the shock and disappointment of many who have viewed the video showing the discharge of a patient from the Emergency Department of UMMC Midtown the night of January 9. This unfortunate event is not representative of our patient-centered mission,” reads a statement issued by the UMMC.
“While there are many circumstances of this patient’s case that we cannot address publicly, in the end we clearly failed to fulfill our mission with this patient, no matter the circumstances of her case or the quality of the clinical care we provided in the hospital (which is not depicted in the video). We are taking this matter very seriously, conducting a thorough review, and are evaluating the appropriate response, including the possibility of personnel action.”
Many who watched the video wondered what happened to the patient after she was taken back to the hospital. When asked about this Karen Lancaster, a spokeswoman for the University of Maryland Medical System, said “patient privacy regulations restrict us from providing any details.”
Doctors warn teens not to eat laundry detergent pods for new internet challenge – Tide Pod Challenge
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — It’s the latest social media challenge that comes with some dangerous risks: participants recording themselves eating Tide laundry pods after social media memes compared the cleaning product to food.
A quick YouTube search returns a thread of videos showing people eating the pods and gagging.
“I think it’s kind of foolish because, No. 1, I think most of the problem comes from the coating itself. If you look at data for liquid soap ingestion, just liquid soap ingestion by itself doesn’t cause too many problems,” Dr. Joe Krug of St. Vincent Health told WXIN.
Krug said eating the pods can cause “burns to the skin, burns to the eye, a lot of problems that are more severe burns to the respiratory tract, burns to the esophagus.”
Tide’s parent company, Procter and Gamble, emailed WXIN a statement on the trend:
“Our laundry pacs are a highly concentrated detergent meant to clean clothes and they’re used safely in millions of households every day. They should be only used to clean clothes and kept up, closed and away from children. They should not be played with, whatever the circumstance is, even if it is meant as a joke,”
In recent years, the company even made the pod containers more childproof after reports of children mistaking them for candy and eating them unknowingly.
Krug said once you eat it, the damage is done.
“There’s nothing you can do once you ingested the issue or the substance, so it’s more of supporting whatever symptoms they have afterward and then hopefully educating them about trying to do more intelligent things in the future,” he said.
Rapper with song ‘Sell Drugsz’ gets prison for selling drugs
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Rhode Island rapper whose songs include “Sell Drugsz” has been sentenced to three years in prison for doing just that.
Federal prosecutors say 30-year-old Michael Persaud, of Johnston, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Providence for trafficking heroin and fentanyl. His stage name is Montana Millz.
Prosecutors say an East Providence undercover detective bought nearly three-quarters of an ounce (22 grams) of fentanyl and a small amount of heroin from Persaud over a four-month period beginning in October 2016. Authorities also say they seized 1½ ounces (44 grams) of fentanyl from his home.
Persaud’s lawyer, Matthew Smith, calls the sentence “fair and just.” Prosecutors had asked for a six-year prison term.
Persaud also awaits sentencing in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, where a jury convicted him of drug charges.
via: http://pix11.com/2018/01/10/rapper-with-song-sell-drugsz-gets-prison-for-selling-drugs/
Man accused of killing wife for changing TV channel from a football game
CARLISLE, Ark. — Investigators say a central Arkansas man fatally stabbed his wife after she changed the TV channel from a football game he was watching while he went outside to smoke.
Tony Thomas, 58, of Carlisle, was charged Monday with capital murder. Investigators said he admitted killing his wife, Elke, during an argument after she switched the TV channel in November. He’s been jailed since the incident.
“He went outside to smoke and upon returning, he discovered that Elke had changed the channel. He asked about the score and she began yelling at him and got in his face,” Lonoke County Sheriff’s Detective Anthony Counts wrote in an affidavit.
Thomas said he blacked out and came to while standing over the woman with a knife in his hands, according to the affidavit. Court records show his bond is set at $1 million.
Deputies were already responding to the scene because a woman who had been at the home flagged down someone passing by to report the stabbing. A man who identified himself as “Tony” later called the sheriff’s office and “asked the dispatcher for a ‘meat wagon and police’ because he’d killed his wife,” Counts wrote.
The affidavit says the stabbing occurred Nov. 19 in the home’s living room, where blood was found on the floor, the walls, a table and the TV. Counts wrote that it appeared the woman’s body was dragged through the dining room to the back yard, where it was found beneath a blanket and a tarp.
Court records don’t list an attorney for Thomas. The local public defender’s office didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment about the case Tuesday. A court hearing in the case is scheduled for Jan. 22.
Carlisle is about 35 miles (56 kilometers) east of Little Rock.
Youtube Finally Acts On Logan Paul
The Paul Brothers have been criticized time and time again. This year, Logan Paul ushered in the new year by posting a video of him in the Aokigahara Forest (the Suicide Forest) filming a dead body, watch Lovelyti’s video on that here. Logan Paul’s video stayed up for about two days and even landed on the trending page, after major backlash he finally decided to delete it.
Now YouTube announced it was dropping Paul from the YouTube Red comedy, “Foursome.”
The smoking gun though came from Google Preferred (the top 5% of most-viewed YouTube content) which says it will no longer aggregate Paul’s multimillion-subscriber channels for advertisers. That basically means he’s cut off from his main source of YouTube income.
Despite all of this, Paul’s father says his son will be returning to vlogging soon.
Article via: http://www.tmz.com/2018/01/10/logan-paul-youtube-cuts-ties-foursome-suicide-forest-video/
Man allegedly took out $45G fraudulent loan to pay Texas dental office for new teeth
Authorities are on the hunt for a man who allegedly took out a $45,000 fraudulent loan to pay for dental work in Texas.
The man — whose name wasn’t released — showed up for a consultation at Smile Texas where he scheduled to have surgery for new expensive dentures on Nov. 30, KHOU reported.
The molds were made, and workers were scheduled — duties that cost $9,800 — for the surgery the suspect never showed up for, the dental office said.
After trying to reach the suspect by phone, another man called the office and informed a staff member his information was used to open a fraudulent line of credit, according to KHOU.
Smile Texas also provided the Sugar Land Police Department with a photo taken of the suspect during his first consultation.
The man faces charges of fraudulent use of identifying information and tampering with a government document.
Teen allegedly broke into neighbor’s barn, molested horse
A young man was caught sexually molesting a horse in Alabama last week — and the owner of the animal has reason to believe this wasn’t their first rendezvous.
“I would say seven, maybe 10 times,” owner Francince Janes told NBC 15, in reference to the number of times she found evidence that her barn had been tampered with last month.
“Toilet paper had been left. The hay stacks had been removed. Items had been turned over. And that’s as far as I want to go.”
Daniel Bennett, 18, of Irvington, is currently awaiting trial after being arrested last Thursday night by officers from the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office.
He reportedly confessed to attempting to molest the horse — a 20-year-old steed named Polly — inside Janes’ barn and was charged with possession of burglar’s tools, criminal trespassing and bestiality, which is a misdemeanor.
According to AL.com, the official warrant for Bennett’s arrest says he “engaged in or submitted to any sexual contact with an animal, to-wit: a horse.”
Janes told NBC 15 that her husband was the one who caught the young man after their dogs woke them up barking. He reportedly held Bennett at gunpoint and spoke with him briefly before police arrived.
Describing what Bennett told her husband, Janes said: “He likes horses. He wanted to pet the horse.”
Asked what the young man told investigators, she replied: “That he molested the horse.”
Whether it was a spur of the moment decision or not, Polly’s owner hopes Bennett will eventually seek treatment for bestiality.
“I sincerely hope the judge mandates that he goes for psychiatric help,” Janes said. “But just not a slap on the wrist.”
via: https://nypost.com/2018/01/09/teen-allegedly-broke-into-neighbors-barn-molested-horse/
Man caught trying to dump girlfriend daughter’s body near crocodile farm
A man who was acting suspiciously near the woods in Malaysia was chased down by police who reportedly found the body of a 13-year-old girl in the trunk of his car.
The suspect was standing by some bushes outside his vehicle near a crocodile farm on Tuesday when cops drove up and witnessed him slam the trunk of his car and drive away, according to the Singapore Strait Times.
After a brief police chase, cops cornered the man near the waterfront in the Malaysian state of Sarawak.
“The patrol team instructed the man to open the car boot, where they found the body of teenage girl,” Sarawak Criminal Investigation Department chief Datuk Dev Kumar said in a statement.
“In attempt to hide the murderous act, the man wanted to dump the body of the victim in the bushes, but his attempt was foiled by the patrol team.”
Police said the suspect had an argument with the girl — who was the daughter of his girlfriend — and eventually strangled her.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/01/09/man-caught-trying-to-dump-teen-girls-body-near-crocodile-farm/