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The <keyword id="19895344" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Enforcement-Directorate" source="keywords">Enforcement Directorate</keyword> alleged Saturday that the CPI(M) in <keyword id="19896018" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kerala" source="keywords">Kerala</keyword> was holding proceeds of <keyword id="19899231" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="money-laundering" source="keywords">money laundering</keyword>, as it attached a land parcel and <keyword id="20202062" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="bank-deposits" source="keywords">bank deposits</keyword> worth Rs 73 lakh of the political party in a <keyword id="19913348" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="probe" source="keywords">probe</keyword> linked to the Karuvannur Service Cooperative Bank "scam". Assets worth Rs 28.65 crore of various individuals and entities linked to the case have also been attached by the federal agency after a provisional order under the <keyword id="19912399" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="prevention-of-money-laundering-act" source="keywords">Prevention of Money Laundering Act</keyword> (PMLA) was issued. Official sources said the party may be nam<keyword id="19956083" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="ED" source="keywords">ed</keyword> as an accused in the next supplementary chargesheet to be filed in this case. If so, it will be the second political party to be arraigned as accused in a money laundering investigation after the Aam Aadmi Party. AAP has recently been named by the ED in the Delhi excise policy case. The CPI(M) vehemently denied the charges of wrongdoing and money laundering. The attached assets include 18 immovable properties, valued at Rs 28.65 crore, consisting of lands and buildings in Kerala of the beneficiaries of the "scam", including an immovable property worth Rs 10 lakh registered in the name of a district secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for a party office, the ED said in a statement. The attachment also includes eight movable properties, including a credit balance of Rs 63.62 lakh in eight "undisclosed" bank accounts of the CPI(M) local area committees in Thrissur, it added. The agency claimed that the CPI(M) received these funds from the beneficiaries as donations through the governing body and the party is "in possession of proceeds of crime" which has been invested in the purchase of immovable properties and credited to its five bank accounts in the Karuvannur Service Cooperative Bank Ltd. The bank is promoted by the party. The CPI(M) rejected the ED charges, saying it would legally and politically fight any move by the agency to arraign it in the case linked to the alleged multi-crore Karuvannur bank scam. Party state secretary M V Govindan alleged that the ED was trying to make opposition parties and their leaders accused in various cases due to political reasons. He also accused the central agency of attempting to create a smokescreen as it had failed to collect any evidence against the party. The ED believes that the land parcel attached by it was meant for the CPI(M) party office and was purchased using alleged kickbacks from the loanees or beneficiaries of the loans sanctioned by the Karuvannur Service Cooperative Bank. The agency has relied on the "confessional" statements of at least two accused in this case who claimed in their statements recorded before a judicial magistrate that the purported irregularities in the bank were orchestrated at the behest of CPI(M) Thrissur district committee leaders. The ED alleged that "bogus loans" were sanctioned by the Karuvannur Service Cooperative Bank on the same property multiple times without the knowledge of members of the society. "Investigation found benami loans were sanctioned to non-members against inflated property valuations in the names of other members and such loan funds were siphoned off and laundered by the accused beneficiaries," it said, adding that the loan amounts were disbursed in cash to avoid a money trail. "Such benami and illegal loans were sanctioned at the behest of the secretary and the governing body of the society in connivance with the then-bank manager, at the behest of the Thrissur district committee, CPI(M). "In return, the Thrissur district committee, CPI(M), collected money in the form of donations and salary cut from the beneficiaries and society committee members into their undisclosed and illegally opened bank accounts in the same society," the agency said. These funds, according to the ED, were utilised for the purchase of land worth Rs 10 lakh by the secretary of the Thrissur district committee of the CPI(M) for the construction of the party office, which has now been attached as proceeds of crime. Govindan said it has been a decades-long practice of registering the office and other assets of party units in the name of the respective district committees. What role does the party have in the office constructed by one of its local committees, he asked. But the ED is now trying to tarnish the image of the CPI(M) in the name of the assets of one such party unit, Govindan claimed. "We will fight it legally and politically. We haven't got any notice in this regard so far," he told reporters. The ED filed a chargesheet in this case against 55 accused entities in November last year. The money laundering case stems from 16 FIRs registered by the <keyword id="20086884" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="kerala-police" source="keywords">Kerala Police</keyword> (<keyword id="20146853" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="crime-branch" source="keywords">Crime Branch</keyword>) in Thrissur in 2010. Four people have been arrested by the ED in this case so far.

After AAP, ED attaches land, bank deposits of CPI(M); says party holding proceeds of money laundering

Mumbai, An FIR registered here pertaining to alleged illegal gambling and cyber fraud worth Rs 15,000 crore linked to <keyword id="16404205" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="mahadev-betting-app" source="Orion">Mahadev betting app</keyword> has been transferred to the Mumbai crime branch for investigation, an official said on Thursday. Considering the scope of probe into the case, Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar has transferred it to the crime branch, he said. The FIR was registered earlier this month at Matunga police station in Mumbai against 32 people, including the "promoter" of the app Saurabh Chandrakar, <keyword id="142062" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="ravi-uppal" source="Orion">Ravi Uppal</keyword>, Shubham Soni and others for allegedly committing the fraud since 2019, police earlier said. As per the FIR, the accused have defrauded people of nearly Rs 15,000 crore. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) recently claimed a forensic analysis and a statement made by a 'cash courier' led to "startling allegations" that Mahadev betting app promoters have paid about Rs 508 crore to the Chhattisgarh chief minister so far, and that "these are subject matter of investigation". Later, the BJP released a video of Shubham Soni saying he was the owner of the app and had the "proof" of paying Rs 508 crore so far to Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel. The chief minister has rejected the claim. On November 5, the Centre issued blocking orders against 22 illegal betting platforms, including the Mahadev app, on ED's request. The action of banning the 22 illegal betting platforms follows investigations conducted by the ED against an illegal betting app syndicate and subsequent raids in connection with the Mahadev app in Chhattisgarh. The Chhattisgarh police have registered at least 75 FIRs in connection with the app and the ED has also conducted a probe into the case, the official said.

Mahadev betting app case registered in Mumbai transferred to crime branch

<ul class="summary-list"><li>24% of surveyed Republicans said presidents should be immune to crimes committed in office.</li><li>The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on presidential immunity at the end of April.</li></ul>As the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-agrees-hear-trumps-immunity-claim-in-election-case-2024-2">Supreme Court prepares</a> to hear on the matter in April, about a quarter of surveyed Republican adults said that presidents shouldn't be accountable for crimes they commit while in office.According to a newly released poll from <a target="_blank" href="https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/most-americans-still-think-trump-should-go-trial-2024-presidential-election">Ipsos/Politico Magazine</a> of US adults conducted between March 8-10, only 24% of self-identified GOP supporters said they agree with the argument made by former President Donald Trump in court and social media."EVEN EVENTS THAT 'CROSS THE LINE' MUST FALL UNDER TOTAL IMMUNITY, OR IT WILL BE YEARS OF TRAUMA TRYING TO DETERMINE GOOD FROM BAD," Trump posted to Truth Social in January.Conversely, 48% percent of surveyed Republicans said they opposed the idea, while 27% chose "don't know." Only 3% of Democrats and 8% of independents polled said they supported giving presidents total immunity during their time in the White House.In February, a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/appeals-court-ruling-trump-immunity-jack-smith-election-interference-case-2024-1">federal appeals court rejected</a> Trump's immunity claim, noting in its filing that his stance on the matter "would collapse our system of separated powers by placing the President beyond the reach of all three Branches."Weeks later, the US Supreme Court agreed to review the matter after Trump's legal team appealed the decision. According to the high court's calendar, justices will hear arguments on the case in late April.The Ipsos/Politico Magazine survey also asked its respondents if they trusted the Supreme Court to give a "fair and non-partisan ruling" on Trump's immunity claims, with 46% of respondents answering "no," 24% "yes," and 29% to choose "don't know."Nearly 70% of surveyed Democrats said they didn't trust the majority-Conservative Supreme Court's ability to rule impartially.Legal experts told Business Insider at the end of February that while Trump's chances of victory in his Supreme Court case are low, the former president could <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-will-soctus-rule-on-trump-presidential-immunity-claim-experts-2024-2">still squeeze out a win</a> from it by possibly delaying a trial in special counsel Jack Smith's federal case against him.

24% of Republicans say presidents shouldn't be held accountable for crimes they commit while in office: poll      

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Former Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas outlined on Twitter the "Trump Crime Family."</li><li>Parnas likened Trump to the "Godfather" and his ex-boss Giuliani to Trump's "consigliere."</li></ul>Former Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas on Tuesday weighed in on the "Trump Crime Family," likening the Trumps and their associates to the Mafia. Parnas is a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lev-parnas-michael-cohen-working-for-trump-like-cult-expert-2020-1">one-time Trump supporter</a> and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/giuliani-fixer-lev-parnas-photos-trump-family-2020-1">Giuliani "fixer"</a> who was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lev-parnas-andrey-kukushkin-convicted-trial-2021-10">convicted</a> in October for his involvement in <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/analysis-trump-wanted-cult-reverence-now-backfiring-2020-1">shadow diplomacy in Ukraine</a>, which led to the former president's impeachment. He has since become a vocal Trump critic.Trump <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/people-trump-said-he-didnt-know-but-did-photos">previously said he didn't know Parnas</a>, prompting the latter to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/lev-parnas-trump-claims-threatens-photos-receipts-2020-1">troll Trump</a> and threaten to release a new photo of them together each time the false claim was made. On Tuesday, Parnas outlined in a Twitter thread a summary of what he thought was the web of Trump-linked individuals whom he compared to ranked members of the Mafia. In his <a href="https://twitter.com/levparnas/status/1559683934019100672?s=20&amp;t=jcFIwTRSU8GPkGerTNN77A">tweet</a>, Parnas likened Trump to the "Godfather" while designating Giuliani as Trump's "consigliere," or adviser, and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows as the "underboss." Parnas then <a href="https://twitter.com/levparnas/status/1559683935386406917?s=20&amp;t=jcFIwTRSU8GPkGerTNN77A">highlighted who he thought were the "capos,"</a> short for capo regime, which refers to a ranked captain in the Mafia with significant social status. According to Parnas, these "capos" were Truth Social chief Devin Nunes, Trump confidante Sen. Lindsey Graham, Sen. Ron Johnson, and Rep. Jim Jordan. Parnas also <a href="https://twitter.com/levparnas/status/1559683937156341762?s=20&amp;t=jcFIwTRSU8GPkGerTNN77A">highlighted</a> 15 GOP lawmakers and conservative media personalities, grouping them under the category of "Trump Family soldiers." He separately <a href="https://twitter.com/levparnas/status/1559683941182881793?s=20&amp;t=jcFIwTRSU8GPkGerTNN77A">grouped another 12 individuals</a> — including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — under "Trump Family Associates." Parnas also <a href="https://twitter.com/levparnas/status/1559683944727121921?s=20&amp;t=jcFIwTRSU8GPkGerTNN77A">weighed in</a> on the roles played by each Trump child and their spouse. "Trump Family members — @DonaldJTrumpJr — just wants someone to love him," Parnas tweeted. "@EricTrump — can't believe his dad is going to make him the fall guy." Parnas added that Trump's daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner "just want to keep the money they stole." Representatives of Trump's post-presidential press office and the Trump organization did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment. Insider has also reached out to representatives for Giuliani, Meadows, Nunes, Graham, Johnson, Jordan, and DeSantis for comment. Parnas is not the first person to liken Trump and his allies to the mob. Earlier this month, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-official-likens-trumpworld-to-the-sicilian-mafia-2022-8">former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi</a> likened several Donald Trump allies — including Rep. Matt Gaetz and conservative figure Roger Stone — to Mafia members, calling Trumpworld "a criminal organization."

Former Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas outlined the branches of the 'Trump Crime Family' on Twitter

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted for a crime, an appeals court ruled.</li><li>The judges shot down Trump's claim that he had immunity from criminal prosecution.</li></ul>Former President Donald Trump is not immune from criminal prosecution in the special counsel Jack Smith's election-interference case, a Washington, DC, appeals-court panel ruled Tuesday.Trump was charged with four federal counts over his <a target="_blank" rel="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/a-timeline-of-trumps-efforts-to-overturn-the-2020-election-2021-10">efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election</a>. The case is one of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-criminal-cases-ranked-how-much-legal-trouble-2023-8">four criminal cases</a> the former president faces.Smith's office also brought charges against Trump in connection to his handling of classified information. Trump has also been indicted in Manhattan and Fulton County, Georgia.Trump's team is expected to appeal the ruling to the US Supreme Court.The nation's high court — which has a 6-3 conservative majority — <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-wont-fast-track-case-donald-trump-immunity-2023-12">rejected a request</a> from Smith to fast-track Trump's absolute-immunity case, refusing to bypass the appeals court. The former president's criminal trial in the election-interference case had been scheduled to kick off in March but is no longer.Tuesday's appeals-court ruling and a Supreme Court showdown on the matter could have massive constitutional and political implications."For the purpose of this criminal case, former President Trump has become citizen Trump, with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant," the three-judge panel wrote in its 57-page opinion. "But any executive immunity that may have protected him while he served as President no longer protects him against this prosecution."The panel added in its decision, "We cannot accept former President Trump's claim that a President has unbounded authority to commit crimes that would neutralize the most fundamental check on executive power — the recognition and implementation of election results."Nor can we sanction his apparent contention that the Executive has carte blanche to violate the rights of individual citizens to vote and to have their votes count."The three-judge panel said Trump's stance on presidential immunity "would collapse our system of separated powers by placing the President beyond the reach of all three Branches.""Presidential immunity against federal indictment would mean that, as to the President, the Congress could not legislate, the Executive could not prosecute and the Judiciary could not review," the judges wrote. "We cannot accept that the office of the Presidency places its former occupants above the law for all time thereafter."Steven Cheung, a Trump-campaign spokesperson, blasted the appeals court ruling in a <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/realLizUSA/status/1754897945743200404">statement</a>, arguing that if immunity was not granted to a president, "every future President who leaves office will be immediately indicted by the opposing party.""Without complete immunity, a President of the United States would not be able to properly function!" Cheung said in the statement, which called Smith "deranged" and his prosecution of Trump "unconstitutional."Cheung added, "Prosecuting a President for official acts violates the Constitution and threatens the bedrock of our Republic."President Trump respectfully disagrees with the DC Circuit's decision and will appeal it in order to safeguard the Presidency and the Constitution."Trump <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-iowa-caucuses-win-results-2024-blowout-2024-1">had a sweeping victory</a> in the Iowa caucuses and is the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination. That would set him up for a rematch with President Joe Biden this year.<div type="image" title="Trump" height="4650" width="6975" msid="107466951" hostid="261"></div>The Supreme Court will be in uncharted territory if it agrees to take up an appeal. And if Trump is convicted in Smith's case and elected for a second term, it would mark another <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-trump-legal-problems-could-play-out-fbi-doj-raid-2022-8">unprecedented moment</a> in US history: the first time the country had a president-elect who was convicted of a felony.The scenario could also test the limits of the presidential pardon as Trump could try to pardon himself.Trump also faces a felony trial in his Manhattan hush-money case. That state-level business-fraud indictment may now be the first criminal case to go to trial. Jury selection for that case is scheduled for March 25.Tuesday's appeals-court ruling came after the panel last month grilled Trump's legal team about the merits of its argument that Trump couldn't be prosecuted for a crime unless he was first impeached and convicted by Congress for it.It culminated in Judge Florence Pan posing a series of hypotheticals to Trump's lawyer D. John Sauer, and Sauer saying a former president could not be criminally prosecuted for selling pardons or military secrets if he wasn't first impeached for it.He also <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-appeals-hearing-lawyer-argues-president-rival-assassinated-congress-2024-1">refused to say</a> whether a president could be prosecuted for ordering SEAL Team Six to assassinate a rival if he wasn't impeached first."He would have to be, and would, speedily be impeached and convicted before the criminal prosecution — " Sauer began in January, but Pan cut him off."I asked you a yes or no question," she said. "Could a president who ordered SEAL Team Six to assassinate a political rival, who was not impeached, would he be subject to criminal prosecution?""If he were impeached and convicted first, and so — " Sauer began."So your answer is no," Pan said.The judges also then pointed out that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-impeachment-defense-backfires-appeals-court-immunity-2024-1">Trump's legal team was now arguing the exact opposite</a> of what his defense lawyers argued when he was impeached following the Capitol riot in 2021.His attorneys argued at the time that Trump should not be impeached and should face the courts instead.

Donald Trump can be charged with a crime, appeals court rules, setting up a Supreme Court showdown

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Israel's defense minister ordered a siege of Gaza with "no electricity, no food, and no fuel."</li><li>Intentionally starving a civilian population is a war crime, human rights lawyers say.</li></ul>There is no special carve-out in international law that allows the victims of war crimes to commit war crimes in return. Nevertheless, there are signs that the logic of retribution may be prevailing within Israel's military leadership.On Monday, following a horrific series of atrocities committed by Hamas, including the mass killing and kidnapping of Israeli women and children, Israel's minister of defense ordered that the border with Gaza be closed and no food be allowed to enter. The Israeli government also cut off Gaza's electricity and <a href="https://twitter.com/Israel_katz/status/1711332854070640935" target="_blank" rel="noopener">water supply</a>. On Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Israeli Defense Forces <a href="https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2023-10-10/ty-article-live/0000018b-1645-d465-abbb-16f71d060000#1720386730" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly said</a> that the waves of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza would seek to emphasize "damage, not accuracy."Starving civilians is a war crime. "There is no context in which such a policy can be legal," Michael Sfard, an Israeli human rights lawyer, <a href="https://twitter.com/sfardm/status/1711417277503905927" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote on X</a>. Bombing a military objective without taking into account the potential loss of civilian life is also war crime. Tom Dannenbaum, a professor of international law at Tufts, <a href="https://twitter.com/tomdannenbaum/status/1711328176616419710" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote on X that</a> Gallant's orders violated prohibitions against starvation and possibly the crimes of "extermination," and <a href="https://twitter.com/tomdannenbaum/status/1711330192013095207" target="_blank" rel="noopener">genocide</a> as well. "Food, water, and essentials for survival must be allowed in," Dannenbaum wrote.Not only does the Israeli government's emerging scorched-earth doctrine violate international law, it also violates Israeli Defense Forces' own <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ruach-tzahal-idf-code-of-ethics" target="_blank" rel="noopener">code of conduct</a>, known as ruach tzahal. The code obliges Israeli soldiers to "above all, preserve human life" and "limit his use of force so as to prevent unnecessary harm to human life and limb, dignity, and property."But in Gallant's view, the targets are less than human. "We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly," he said. The following day, Gallant said that he was removing "all restraints" from Israel's response. Gallant's rhetoric was echoed by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu himself, who referred to the adversary as "savages," a word also used by US Senator Marco Rubio, who said "they have to be eradicated." Rubio's <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/icymi-rubio-joins-cnns-the-lead-with-jake-tapper/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">official website</a> clarified that by "they," he meant Hamas, not the whole of Gaza. But the scope of all three statements is less than clear in context.<h2>Netanyahu's scorched-earth doctrine</h2>Israel argues that the root-and-branch destruction of Hamas is a reasonable response to the October 7 attacks. Most observers acknowledge that Hamas, as an organization, is a legitimate military target and that its continued existence now poses an obvious ongoing threat to Israel's security.But the emerging doctrine of Netanyahu's government appears to go much further than the objective of eliminating Hamas. While Israel's campaign is still in its early days, cutting off food and water suggests it could become a scorched-earth campaign of retribution against two million people who have been suffering for years under a combination of Israel's blockade and Hamas' rule. Make no mistake — the objective of such a scorched-earth campaign would have little to do with Israel's security. Instead, a campaign of retribution against civilians — of war crimes — would have a political objective: satisfy hardliners and erase the memory of the intelligence failure that allowed Hamas to carry out the attacks in the first place. <div type="image" title="A man walks with mattresses through destruction in the Gaza Strip's Jabalia refugee camp on October 11, 2023, following overnight Israeli airstrikes." height="1333" width="1778" msid="104352131" hostid="261" sizebytes="437956"></div>Of course, there is indeed a carve-out for such acts in international law — an unwritten one. War crimes are seldom punished if they are endorsed by a superpower. So far, the US and Europe have done little in public to push back against the Netanyahu's stated policy of vengeance. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden said he told Netanyahu that democracies "are stronger when we act according to the rule of law. Terrorists purposely target civilians, and kill them. We uphold the rule of law. It matters. There's a difference." But so far, Gallant's public order to begin starving two million people, a clear violation of international law, has gone unmentioned. <h2>Donald Trump endorsed and pardoned war crimes</h2>For Americans, much of this — the horror, the missed warnings, the near-instant promises of retribution — carries echoes of 9/11. So do the 22 dead Americans among more than 1,000 who perished from the Hamas attacks. What's different is the openness with which Netanyahu's government is declaring their intent to set international law aside. In the past, such extreme actions usually happened under a shroud of deniability. Violent US interventions in Southeast Asia and Latin America that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians were conducted in secret, not as a matter of official policy. Even during the bloody post-9/11 period, Western governments refrained from announcing that they intended to commit war crimes. The CIA had its lawyers arguing that indefinite detention could be reconciled with due process, and that waterboarding and beatings were not torture. The US military set mathematical limits on civilian casualties — the more collateral damage, the higher the level of approval required within the chain of command. This attempt to impose the legal principles of proportionality and necessity on drone strikes <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/18/us/airstrikes-pentagon-records-civilian-deaths.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was deeply flawed</a>, but an attempt was made. Donald Trump was different. When it came to terrorists, he said during his first campaign, "you have to take out their families," an explicit endorsement of war crimes. As president, Trump took some small steps towards institutionalizing his stated preference for a higher volume of killing with less discriminate standards. He dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal on Afghanistan and mused about using nuclear weapons. He loosened the rules governing drone strikes. But it was his rhetoric most of all that changed how his base talked about war. He made little distinction between political opponents, immigrants, and armed enemies on the battlefield. He pardoned Americans convicted of intentionally killing unarmed civilians. In his view, respect for the lives of civilians in a conflict zone was not a sign of strength, but weakness. The shamelessness with which Trump called for the intentional killing of civilians was something new. But it took Vladimir Putin's 2022 invasion of Ukraine to fully put Trump's stated doctrine into practice — a modern military, in uniform, openly committing war crimes at scale. In Bucha and elsewhere, there is <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2022/10/un-commission-concludes-war-crimes-have-been-committed-ukraine-expresses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ample evidence</a> of Russian soldiers going house to house to murder civilians, and forcefully deporting hundreds of thousands of children. A number of legal experts have argued that Russia's actions meet the legal definition of genocide, a term that President Joe Biden has also used to describe Russia's aggression. Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court at the Hague issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin. They were assisted by the US Justice Department, despite the US not recognizing the ICC's jurisdiction.Israel's military has found itself accused of widespread crimes against Palestinians in the past. Its bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza in 2014, an overwhelming response to kidnappings and rocket fire, has led the ICC to open an ongoing <a href="https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-fatou-bensouda-respecting-investigation-situation-palestine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">war crimes probe</a>.Gallant's order would have likely provoked more outcry had Israel's policy towards Gaza not resembled a siege already. More than 90 percent of <a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/water-gaza-scarce-polluted-and-mostly-unfit-use" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gaza's aquifer</a> is contaminated; Gazans spend as much as a third of their income on potable drinking water. Electricity <a href="https://www.unrwa.org/where-we-work/gaza-strip" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blacks out</a> for ten or eleven hours each day. Hamas, the governing authority responsible for the terrorist attacks, maintains control over its own territory through less visible forms of terror — abductions, torture, and murders of Palestinians in Gaza who dissent from their rule. And these were the conditions of life in Gaza prior to the five-day-old war. Already, according to the U.N., Israeli attacks have displaced 130,000 Gazan civilians and left 400,000 without running water. "The laws of war weren't designed only for situations in which our blood is cool," Sfard, the Israeli human rights lawyer, <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-10-11/ty-article-opinion/.premium/israelis-must-maintain-their-humanity-even-when-their-blood-boils/0000018b-1e18-d465-abbb-1ebe62c80000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote today</a>. "It's not easy for Israelis to think about Gazans' rights in a week when Hamas committed crimes that are still impossible to digest and our whole society is mourning and crying. But Gaza's catastrophe won't wait for the end of our seven-day shivah."

Hamas proudly committed war crimes. Is Israel's government about to do the same?

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="12279069" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="chase-bank" source="Orion">Chase Bank</keyword> in Fountain Valley was robbed on October 4.</li><li>A <a href="https://www.fountainvalley.org/DocumentCenter/View/14217/Press-Release--21-32366">statement from Fountain Valley Police</a> says he fled the bank with "a large amount of money."</li></ul>Fountain Valley Police, <keyword id="11892889" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="california" source="Orion">California</keyword>, have booked a man into jail for robbing the same bank twice in two days, police said, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-robbery-arrests-9869576600bf1fa8f47395394d495fc9">according to AP.</a>At 3pm on October 4, police arrived at Chase Bank on Newhope Street after a man had presented a note to the bank teller demanding money. A <a href="https://www.fountainvalley.org/DocumentCenter/View/14217/Press-Release--21-32366">statement from Fountain Valley Police</a> says he fled the bank with "a large amount of money." The following day at 11:12am, officers arrived at Chase Bank with another report of a <keyword id="11932446" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="robbery" source="Orion">robbery</keyword> and detained 33-year-old Samuel Brown without incident, said police.He is currently being held in Orange County Jail with a $170,000 bail. The Fountain Valley statement says that Brown has prior convictions for robbery in San Diego.On October 5, Brown was arrested for robbery "accomplished by means of force or fear" as per the California penal code, as well as having an outstanding arrest warrant.Police did not confirm the amount of money stolen or recovered, according to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/reviews/out?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mirror.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fus-news%2Fmans-attempt-rob-same-bank-25169050">The Mirror.</a>

A California man who robbed a Chase Bank returned to hold up the same branch the next day and was nabbed by police

Officials from the top internal investigating agencies of India and the US, Central Bureau of Investigation (<keyword id="6354572" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="cbi" source="Orion">CBI</keyword>) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (<keyword id="6355946" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="fbi" source="Orion">FBI</keyword>), and those from the <keyword id="118911" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="us-department-of-justice" source="Orion">US Department of Justice</keyword> met to discuss continued cooperation in addressing dynamic and evolving technology-based crimes. The meeting between FBI and CBI officials were held in New Delhi last week, the <keyword id="67869" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="department-of-justice" source="Orion">Department of Justice</keyword> said on Monday. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Arun G Rao of the Department of Justice Civil Division's Consumer Protection Branch, along with colleagues from the Consumer Protection Branch and the FBI, met last week with CBI officials in New Delhi to discuss deepening and expanding efforts to combat cyber-enabled financial crimes and transnational call centre fraud, a shared law enforcement priority, it said. "In their meetings, the parties highlighted the continued strengthening of cooperation in combating these types of crimes that has occurred since their last meeting in October 2021, including successful efforts to secure the testimony of US victims of call centre fraud for use in enforcement proceedings against the alleged perpetrators in India, as well as the seizure of evidence and arrests of individuals in India allegedly involved in cyber-enabled financial crimes and global telemarketing frauds and identified, in part, through information provided with the assistance of U.S. law enforcement," it said. The parties reaffirmed their mutual commitment to continued cooperation in addressing dynamic and evolving technology-based crimes by building upon the experience gained through recent efforts and further refining processes for the exchange of information, in order to ensure the safety of citizens of both the United States and India, the Department of Justice said. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/maruti-suzuki-axis-bank-zomato-among-stocks-in-focus/articleshow/97267506.cms">Sensex, Nifty50 likely to open in the green amid positive global cues: Maruti Suzuki, Axis Bank, Zomato among stocks in focus</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/stock-market/news/investment-in-capital-mkts-through-promissory-notes-drops-to-96292-crore-in-dec-2022-on-profit-booking/articleshow/97254713.cms">Investment in capital markets through promissory notes drops to ₹96,292 crore in Dec 2022 on profit booking</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/finance/banks/news/axis-bank-q3-net-profit-grows-62-yoy-to-5853-crore-beats-expectations-even-as-provisions-and-slippages-rise/articleshow/97254942.cms">Axis Bank Q3 net profit grows 62% YoY to ₹5,853 crore, beats expectations even as provisions and slippages rise</a>

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<ul><li>All 7 who were found guilty in the murder and rape of an eight year old girl in Katha have been convicted. The court has acquited one of the accused in the case. </li><li>The court will announce the quantam of sentence in the case against the six convicted at 2 pm today. </li></ul> The J&amp;K Court has convicted the main accused, Sanji Ram, for the murder and rape of 8-year old girl last year in Kathua district in <keyword id="17605" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Jammu-and-kashmir">Jammu and Kashmir</keyword>. The court will announce the quantam of sentence in the case against the six convicted at 2 pm today. The rest six accused in the Kathua rape case are convicted under three sections including <keyword id="7741461" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ranbir-Penal-Codes-Sections-201">Ranbir Penal Codes' Sections 201</keyword> (pertaining to the disappearance of evidence) and 120-B (pertaining to criminal conspiracy). One of the eight accused has been acquitted by the court. The horrific rape and murder case that shook India In January 2018, the brutal rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir sent shivers across the nation, raising questions on the safety of women in India. According to the J&amp;K police, the girl was forced to take sleeping pills, dragged and locked inside a nearby temple. She was repeatedly raped for the next three days, said the Jammu and Kashmir police. The girl was strangled to death as one of the accused tried to rape her yet again. Her bloodied corpse was found in the forest. The Jammu and Kashmir police arrested eight men in connection with the crime. Reports of two police officers accepting bribes for covering up the crime also surfaced. One of the arrested suspects is juvenile. India toughned its juvenile law for serious crime including rape after the horrific December 2016 Delhi gangrape. The bill allows juveniles between 16 and 18 years of age to be treated as adults for serious crimes like rape or murder. The police officials said that they have DNA tests and physical evidence of the defendants connected with Asifa’s case. The officials also said that they interviewed over 130 witnesses who “unequivocally corroborated the facts that emerged’’.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Some true-crime YouTubers are taking a more active role in trying to solve cases.</li><li>Kendall Rae collaborates with family members of victims, while AWP scuba dives to solve cold cases.</li></ul>When Kendall Rae started making true-crime vlogs in 2017, her channel exploded, garnering 500 to 1,000 new subscribers every day. But soon thereafter, she began to question the ethics behind her content, she told Insider. "I grew up thinking that this was for entertainment," she said. "I never truly thought about how it was affecting the people behind the screen ... I started to feel a lot of questions of is this ethical? Am I doing this right? Can I do this in a way that's helpful instead of harmful?"In August 2018, Rae started inviting victims' family members onto her channel for collaborative videos to help them seek justice.She isn't alone. As the true crime genre becomes more ubiquitous on YouTube, a medium that affords greater interactivity than exists in podcasts or docuseries, Rae is part of a new crop of YouTubers who aren't just talking about cases, but actively trying to help solve them.Another channel, Oregon-based collective Adventures With Purpose, has pioneered a sub-genre within "crimetube" of channels tackling cold cases by scuba diving to dredge up sunken vehicles and drowning victims.The team has solved 23 cold cases to date – and is branching out into active investigations, <a href="https://www.insider.com/missing-16-year-old-california-girl-may-have-been-abducted-police-2022-8">such as the recent Kiely Rodni case</a> – thanks to its mastery of sonar technology. This work is solely funded by YouTube ads and viewer donations, and provided at no expense to police or families.<div type="image" title="Adventures With Purpose's Doug Bishop and Jared Leisek sitting outside." height="1080" width="1440" msid="94118506" hostid="261" sizebytes="118842"></div>"We're at the point now where law enforcement relies on us for training," Doug Bishop, the group's lead diver, told Insider. "They're calling on us for cases that they can't solve."But police aren't always so receptive, given that it can be difficult to disentangle other motivations. Other concerns include the endangerment of would-be investigators, the misidentification of a perpetrator, or sullying an investigation that needs to hold up in court. "If your incentive is to make money, you might be overzealous in pursuing something or doing something that is more sensational to get views," said Johnny Nhan, a criminal justice professor at Texas Christian University who also serves as a reserve officer for the Forth Worth Police Department.In some cases, though, Rae believes that pushing back against police is warranted, especially when she's advocating against corruption or inaction on behalf of family members. "Something I've learned doing true crime videos and podcasting is ... how many cases have been severely limited based on the mistakes that have happened, lack of responsibility, lack of interest and priority from the police," she said. "So I think they deserve that pushback."You can hear more in Insider's The Refresh podcast:

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) claims he's a real estate magnate, policy expert, and sex crime investigator.</li><li>Much of the experience on Ogles' resume is overblown or embellished, Insider found.</li></ul>During far-right Republican Andy Ogles' successful campaign for Congress last fall, he advertised himself as a successful entrepreneur and real estate investor, a tax policy expert, and the former leader of an international nonprofit rescuing sex trafficking victims.But the freshman member from Tennessee embellished many aspects of his resume, according to interviews, business and property records, tax filings, and local newspaper archives. Ogles' inflations invite comparisons to his Republican congressional colleague, Rep. George Santos of New York, who has seen <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/george-santos-employment-college-pulse-shooting-residence-history-2022-12">nearly every aspect of his past</a> called into question. Ogles' business experience seems to be limited to owning two restaurants, a short-lived travel agency, and becoming licensed as an insurance agent. His real estate investments appear limited to a few adjacent parcels of land, including one he lives on, in rural Tennessee, and he reported no rental income from his properties Insider found.Ogles claimed he studied economics and international relations, and worked at two right-wing think tanks that focus on economic policy. But his educational credentials and supposed policy expertise were thrown into question this week by <a href="https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/businessman-economist-cop-international-sex-crimes-expert-the-stories-of-congressman-andy-ogles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nashville's NewsChannel5</a>, which reported Ogles had studied languages in college – not economics or international policy, as he had claimed. Ogles' supposed experience rescuing sex trafficking victims helped propel him into national headlines in his first week in Congress. But his representations about that work are vastly overstated, according to public records and a former manager at an anti-trafficking nonprofit where Ogles worked. In a statement emailed after this article was published, the spokesperson called Insider's reporting "another attempt by the liberal media to make something out of nothing. It's a simple case of condensing a resume for the sake of brevity on the campaign trail, and partisan hacks are trying to turn it into a headline for clicks."In interviews and debates, Ogles elided the distinction between two jobs he supposedly held, giving the impression that he was a swashbuckling law enforcement officer rescuing human trafficking victims.During one debate during his campaign, Ogles described himself as "a former member of law enforcement" who worked "in international sex crimes, specifically child trafficking." One podcast he appeared on last month introduced him as a businessman and philanthropist known for "leading an international effort to end the scourge of human trafficking."In reality, he was a lackluster fundraiser for a small Nashville nonprofit and a volunteer sheriff's deputy who was let go for skipping training.<h3>Fighting international sex crimes and trafficking</h3>When discussing his support for a more militarized border with Mexico, Ogles has repeatedly referenced his involvement in combating human trafficking and working to fight international sex crimes."We are sitting on our hands while our kids are being poisoned by fentanyl and children are being raped on the border, and we act like we don't know what the solution is," Ogles said on a podcast from the lobbying firm Ballard Partners in January. "That offends me, and as someone who has worked in that space, who has seen the horrors of human trafficking, I am fed up and sick and tired of the excuses."Ogles appears to have been referencing his work with Abolition International, a small Nashville nonprofit founded by gospel music singer Natalie Grant. His congressional website says that Ogles felt "the call to serve his community" and became "the COO of Abolition International, overseeing operations and investments in 12 countries to fight human trafficking." <div type="image" title="Ogles talks with Kevin McCarthy during the 3rd day of votes for speaker of the House." height="1333" width="1778" msid="98028455" hostid="261"></div>"I went into the law enforcement lane for a period of time, and from there I went into the international sex crimes and ran global operations," Ogles said on the Ballard Partners podcast.Ogles worked there for a year in 2011, <a href="https://affiliate.insider.com?postID=63efdab123282119f313556c&amp;site=bi&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fandyogles%2F" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener sponsored">according to his LinkedIn profile</a>. But his role in the organization was minimal, and the group's work had nothing to do with the US-Mexico border, said a former Abolition International manager, who asked not to be named for privacy reasons. This person's identity is known to Insider.Abolition International hired Ogles to help with marketing and to fundraise while two of the organization's leaders were on maternity leave, the former manager said, recalling that he was not particularly successful at bringing in new sources of revenue."He was always talking about how much money he was going to be able to raise for us, and it never happened," the former Abolition International manager said. <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/753179471/2012_06_EO%2F75-3179471_990_201112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tax filings</a> show Abolition International raised less than $200,000 in the year Ogles was on staff. At the time Ogles was involved with Abolition International, the organization was much smaller than he later claimed. Although it did eventually grow into an organization with partnerships in 12 countries, when Ogles worked there it primarily made grants to a handful of safe houses in India, Moldova and the U.S., in addition to supporting an internship program in Greece, the former manager said. "The organization itself evolved so much, but he's kind of taking credit about what it evolved into," the former manager said. Do you have a tip or insight to share? Contact reporter Bryan Metzger via phone or the encrypted messaging app Signal (+1-505-503-3993), or at <a href="mailto:bmetzger@insider.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bmetzger@insider.com</a>. Contact reporter Jack Newsham via Signal (+1-314-971-1627), or at <a href="mailto:jnewsham@insider.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">jnewsham@insider.com</a>.Ogles seemed to want to see himself as a quasi-law-enforcement officer, fighting bad guys to rescue sex workers in duress like the Liam Neeson hero from the movie "Taken," this person said. But Ogles didn't have any expertise in that regard, and he never traveled to visit the organization's grant recipients. And while he joined the Williamson County volunteer sheriff deputy reserves in 2009, he was kicked out after two years, <a href="https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/businessman-economist-cop-international-sex-crimes-expert-the-stories-of-congressman-andy-ogles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nashville's NewsChannel5</a> reported. Ogles' commission was revoked for "not meeting minimum quarterly hours" and making "no progress in field training," documents show."It is such a stretch for him to represent himself as an expert, or someone who was in the field, and for it to have informed his views on policy," the former manager said. That hasn't stopped Ogles from making political hay from his time at Abolition International.During the State of the Union, Ogles yelled "It's your fault!" when President Joe Biden mentioned fentanyl overdoses and the border."That was a very visceral moment for me," Ogles later told The Hill, mentioning his former involvement in work combating human trafficking. "He could close that border with the stroke of a pen, and he hasn't had the courage to do it."<h3>An entrepreneur and economic expert</h3>In addition to describing himself as a crusader against human trafficking, Ogles has also cast himself as a successful entrepreneur and small business owner in the years before he entered politics. His past as a savvy businessperson gave him unparalleled insight into "the frustrations of having to contend with local government," he told the Columbia Daily Herald in 2018. Ogles references his experience as an entrepreneur in nearly every interview, and has also styled himself as an expert on tax policy and healthcare with an academic background in economics. He has specifically touted his work with Arthur Laffer, an economist who served in the Regan administration and founded the right-wing Laffer Center for Supply-Side Economics."I am an economist," Ogles told C-SPAN last month, responding to a question about his budget priorities. "I had the privilege of working for Dr. Laffer," he continued, referencing his time at the Laffer Center, where Ogles has said he was the executive director.In an interview with Insider, Laffer said that Ogles primarily was involved in fundraising, and that he wasn't sure how Ogles had gotten the title of executive director. "I didn't know he had that title," Laffer said. "The titles aren't really important for the office. We all clean the dishes." Laffer didn't dispute Ogles's characterization of himself as an economist: "An economist is a person who works in economics. I don't think a PhD is required to be called an economist."Ogles also worked as a Tennessee lobbyist for Americans for Prosperity, a Koch brothers-funded think tank advocating for lower taxes.But decades-old news articles and state licensing and real estate records indicate that Ogles has embellished his business experience. And <a href="https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/businessman-economist-cop-international-sex-crimes-expert-the-stories-of-congressman-andy-ogles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reporting from Nashville's NewsChannel 5</a> found that Ogles has no real expertise or education in tax policy, economics, or healthcare. Ogles briefly operated a travel agency franchise in 1996, but state business records show the LLC had dissolved by the next year. The agency was later dinged for $7,000 in arbitration. In 2003, Ogles became an insurance salesman, according to state licensing records, but canceled his certification the next year.<div type="image" title="WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 04: U.S. Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY) (R) talks to Rep.-elect Andy Ogles (R-TN) in the House Chamber during the second day of elections for Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 04, 2023 in Washington, DC. The House of Representatives is meeting to vote for the next Speaker after House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) failed to earn more than 218 votes on three separate Tuesday ballots, the first time in 100 years that the Speaker was not elected on the first ballot. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)" height="2455" width="3682" msid="98028457" hostid="261"></div>Ogles does have a record of success in the restaurant business. In the mid-1990s, he purchased an existing donut shop in Franklin, Tennessee. With the help of his family, he turned it into a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_and_three" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"meat and three"</a> serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, The Tennessean reported in 2001, and later opened a second branch. But Ogles' experience in real estate investing appears confined to the homes he and his wife, Monica, a physical therapist, have purchased for their family to live in, according to property records. Ogles currently owns four adjacent parcels in rural Maury County, which he purchased for roughly $1.1 million. He bought the bulk of that property for $660,000 during his congressional campaign last September, county records show. Ogles refused to release required asset disclosures during his campaign. He finally published the disclosures last month, five days after <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SabZ4yGSMow" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NewsChannel5 investigated</a>. Those documents show that his assets include between $250,000 and $500,000 of "real estate investment property."Ogles' academic background in economics also appears questionable. Nashville's NewsChannel5 found that Ogles had actually studied English and Allied Language Arts. In 2001, Ogles told a local reporter that he had studied Russian, Japanese, and German with an intent of pursuing international business.A spokesman for Middle Tennessee State University, where Ogles got his bachelor's degree from, said he couldn't supply information about Ogles' attendance. Schools often allow students and alumni to request that such records be kept private. Ogles has shared photos of a diploma with other media outlets that doesn't indicate what subjects he studied. <h3>Gaining a reputation on Capitol Hill</h3>The freshman lawmaker has developed a reputation as one of the more hard-right members of the Republican conference in his first month-and-a-half on Capitol Hill.A member of the hardline House Freedom Caucus, Ogles was one of the 20 Republicans who initially refused to support Kevin McCarthy's House speaker bid — until he offered concessions on the rules governing the chamber. As a lawmaker, Ogles has introduced just one piece of legislation — a <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/812" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a> that would repeal the entirety of the Inflation Reduction Act, which President Joe Biden <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1623149056116629504?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">even referenced</a> during his State of the Union address this month. Ogles has quickly fallen in with a cohort of Republican lawmakers who are largely used to batting away controversy, whether it comes from extreme positions and pronouncements or accusations of embellishments and flagrant lying.In addition to George Santos, freshman Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who recently <a href="https://twitter.com/RepLuna/status/1624847190693711874?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared on a panel</a> with Ogles, was reported to have embellished aspects of her background. Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/doj-will-not-charge-matt-gaetz-sex-trafficking-probe-2023-2">unlikely to face criminal charges</a> from the Department of Justice following a years-long sex-trafficking investigation, while Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is no stranger to controversies based on her frequent conspiratorial pronouncements.In <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-congress-house-republicans-uneasy-reckoning-george-santos-lies-mccarthy-2023-1">contrast to some of his other colleagues</a>, Ogles has also taken a largely non-judgemental view of serial fabulist Santos. During the speaker vote, he was frequently seen chatting with the scandal-plagued congressman on the House floor."As far as the questions surrounding him, you know, I don't have the particulars, and it's not my place or business to judge," Ogles <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-congress-house-republicans-uneasy-reckoning-george-santos-lies-mccarthy-2023-1">told Insider in January</a>. "He is, however, a human being, and he sat next to me, and we have great conversations."He also said he didn't ask Santos about any of the allegations his colleague faces over seemingly fabricating large swaths of his biography."It's none of my business," Ogles said.Editor's note, February 17, 2023, 7:28 p.m. Eastern Time: This article has been updated to include a statement from Ogles's spokesperson.

GOP Rep. Andy Ogles claimed to fight international sex crimes and be an economic expert. Like George Santos, his real resume tells another story.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A Georgia prosecutor has dropped charges against two Atlanta police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks. </li><li>Prosecutors had initially charged Rolfe with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-cop-murder-charges-death-rayshard-brooks-wants-job-back-2021-4">felony murder</a> and Brosnan with <a href="https://www.insider.com/rayshard-brooks-death-devin-brosnan-defends-actions-2020-6">aggravated assault.</a></li></ul>A prosecutor has dropped charges against two Atlanta police officers who were involved in the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks two years ago, saying the pair "committed no crimes" in the incident.Pete Skandalakis, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYrDig1MdAU">said at a press conference on Tuesday</a> that Officer Garrett Rolfe, who fatally shot Brooks, and Officer Devin Brosnan, who was at the scene of the 2020 incident, faced a "quickly evolving" situation on the night of the shooting."Both acted as reasonable officers would under the facts and circumstances of the events of that night," Skandalakis said, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/us/rayshard-brooks-atlanta-police-charges/index.html">CNN reported</a>. "Both acted in accordance with well-established law and were justified in the use of force regarding the situation."Prosecutors had initially charged Rolfe with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-cop-murder-charges-death-rayshard-brooks-wants-job-back-2021-4">felony murder</a> and Brosnan with <a href="https://www.insider.com/rayshard-brooks-death-devin-brosnan-defends-actions-2020-6">aggravated assault.</a>Rolfe fatally shot Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, on <a href="https://www.insider.com/ex-atlanta-policeman-who-shot-rayshard-brooks-felony-murder-charge-2020-6">June 12, 2020</a> at an Atlanta Wendy's after an employee called the police to report that Brooks had fallen asleep in his car, saying he seemed intoxicated but that he was unarmed. The police interaction with Brooks was initially peaceful. That changed when Brooks did not pass a breathalyzer test and police attempted to arrest him. Body camera footage showed Brooks resisted arrest, punching Officer Brosnan — he suffered a concussion — grabbing his taser, attempting to flee the scene, and firing the less-lethal weapon back in Rolfe's direction. Rolfe opened fire, shooting Brooks twice in the back.The killing, coming just after the murder of George Floyd, sparked protests, with arsonists burning down the Wendy's where the shooting occurred. In <a href="https://naacp.org/articles/naacp-statement-unjust-killing-rayshard-brooks">a statement</a> at the time, NAACP President Derrick Johnson accused law enforcement of using lethal means "as the only resort, rather than the last resort."Following Tuesday's announcement, Gerald Griggs, president of the Georgia branch of the NAACP, said the matter should have put to a grand jury, <a href="https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/atlanta-police-rayshard-brooks-case-decision-charges-garrett-rolfe-devin-brosnan/85-5132826c-5f80-442a-8094-8050e9af8872">telling local outlet 11Alive</a> that "only the citizens of Fulton County should determine if this case should proceed forward."<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/us/rayshard-brooks-officers-no-charges.html">The New York Times reported</a> that Skandalakis — who Georgia's attorney general, Republican Chis Carr, appointed to handle the case — said Brooks taking the officer's taser is what justified deadly force.Atlanta City Councilman Antonio Lewis said he disagreed with that assessment."Seeing the charges dismissed truly pains me," Lewis said in a statement, <a href="https://www.cbs46.com/2022/08/23/reactions-rayshard-brooks-announcement-made-tuesday-afternoon/">CBS46 reported</a>. "Rayshard Brooks was asleep at the wheel in a drive-thru line. That's all. I understand the need for accountability, but he didn't have to lose his life."Rolfe and Brosnan are still employed and are on administrative duty, the Atlanta Police Department told the <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/breaking-no-charges-for-apd-officers-in-fatal-shooting-of-rayshard-brooks/KDDYTQKCCNF6HMH2ZRVHFKJEK4/">Atlanta Journal-Constitution</a>."Both officers will undergo Georgia POST (Peace Officer Standards and Training Council) recertification and training," the department said.

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