The New York Republican Party and Nassau County GOP has formally recalled its endorsement and support of Rep. George Santos (R-NY). They have formally called for him to resign and want the state authorities to investigate him.
The newly appointed U.S. Representative has become a distraction to the Republican agenda. The revelations that this man lied about his education, his religion, his sexuality, his wealth and his residency has become so bad, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) became one of the first lawmakers to call for his ouster. Mind you, we are still waiting on the criminal who spray painted on Mace's sidewalk. I mean the RING camera was on and the tagger did not take that nice bicycle in front of her home.
"It is deeply troubling to have someone like that in our body," Mace said in an interview, adding that she supported an Ethics Committee investigation. “It can take a few months and probably will. It will work itself out in the end.”
At least four House Republicans from New York said Santos should step down after Nassau County GOP officials on Wednesday first called for him to give up his congressional seat.
“George Santos’ campaign last year was a campaign of deceit, lies and fabrication,” county GOP Chairman Joe Cairo said at a news conference with other party officials.
Cairo took aim at Santos for having “disgraced” the House and made it clear that Santos is “not welcome here at Republican headquarters.”
“We do not consider him one of our congresspeople,” Cairo said.
Cairo pointed to various false claims by Santos, including his previous claims of having Jewish heritage. Cairo also told reporters that Santos gave the local GOP a fake résumé that included lies about having been a volleyball “star” at Baruch College who led his team to a “league championship.”
Santos, however, isn't backing down, saying in a tweet that he has no plans to resign.
Freshman Rep. Nick Langworthy, R-N.Y., who was also just sworn into Congress and is the chair of the state Republican Party, said in a statement Wednesday that he supports Cairo’s decision to request Santos’ resignation.
“It’s clear that he cannot be an effective representative and it would be in the best interest of the taxpayers to have new leadership,” Langworthy said. “I will continue working with our local elected officials to ensure that trust and dignity are restored to the 3rd Congressional District.”
Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, a first-term Republican whose district borders Santos’, joined the Cairo news conference virtually. “At this point, I don’t think that George Santos can move forward as a member of Congress,” he said.
GOP Rep. Brandon Williams of New York said in a statement: “As more revelations become public, I concur with the Nassau Republicans’ decision to request George Santos’s resignation. The constituents in NY-3 elected Representative Santos in part due to his biographical exaggerations and apparent deceptions. He must resign.”
And in an interview with Axios, Rep. Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., said he thought Santos should resign. LaLota's office later confirmed his remarks to NBC News.
But House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Cairo’s call for Santos’ resignation doesn’t affect his thinking on the issue.
“I try to stick by the Constitution. The voters elected him to serve,” McCarthy said. “If there is a concern, he has to go through the Ethics [Committee]; let him move through that. But right now, the voters have a voice in the decision. It’s not where people pick and choose based upon what somebody’s press has. So he will continue to serve.”
Asked whether he trusts Santos, McCarthy said, “Look, he is going to have to build the trust here, and he’s going to have the opportunity to try to do that.”
Other local party officials also took aim at Santos throughout the news conference Wednesday.
Asked why Santos was urged to resign after he was sworn in, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said that he believes in due process but that the situation became “untenable” when Santos admitted to lying.
“He needs help,” Blakeman said, while calling out Santos for being an “outright liar.”
My kind of people.
Santos officially took office following the election of McCarthy as speaker last week. Santos voted for McCarthy.
The Nassau County GOP's demand for Santos' resignation could put pressure on McCarthy, who leads a slim GOP majority that includes a group of detractors who threatened to tank his leadership bid.
Most congressional Republicans appeared to give Santos the cold shoulder upon entering Congress. Santos was often seen sitting by himself during numerous rounds of speaker votes last week.
In a complaint filed Tuesday, Democratic Reps. Dan Goldman and Ritchie Torres, both of New York, requested that the House Ethics Committee investigate Santos for his “failure to file timely, accurate and complete financial disclosure reports.”
In their complaint, Goldman and Torres allege Santos violated the Ethics in Government Act, and they pointed to recent reports, as well as Santos’ own admission, saying he “misled voters in his district about his ethnicity, his religion, his education, and his employment and professional history, among other things.” They also cited Santos’ financial disclosure reports in 2020 and 2022, which they described as “sparse and perplexing.”
"George Santos is a man without a country," Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., said in an interview Wednesday. "The GOP's turning on him. Dems obviously don't want him. His voters don't want him. Oh, my goodness, this guy's unbelievable."
Naomi Osaka taking a break from tennis to prepare for motherhood.
Japanese American tennis star and rapper are going to be parents.
Naomi Osaka announced she is pregnant and will be missing the 2023 tennis season. She and rapper Cordae are an item.
"The past few years have been interesting to say the least, but I find that it’s the most challenging times in life that may be the most fun," she said in a statement. "These few months away from the sport has really given me a new love and appreciation for the game I’ve dedicated my life to. I realize that life is so short and I don’t take any moments for granted, everyday is a new blessing and adventure. I know that I have so much to look forward to in the future, one thing I’m looking forward to is for my kid to watch one of my matches and tell someone, ‘that’s my mom.,’ haha. 2023 will be a year that’ll be full of lessons for me and I hope I’ll see you guys in the start of the next one cause I’ll be at Aus 2024. Love you all infinitely.
Can’t wait to get back on the court but here’s a little life update for 2023. pic.twitter.com/GYXRnutU3I
"Sidenote: I don’t think there’s a perfectly correct path to take in life but I always felt that if you move forward with good intentions you’ll find your way eventually."
She has been candid about her mental health experiences and told reporters the sport was no longer bringing her joy after a third-round exit at the 2021 US Open. Osaka then took an indefinite break but returned at the start of the 2022 season.
Osaka recently withdrew from the upcoming Australian Open, in which she is a two-time champion. She hasn't played a full match since her first-round loss at the US Open and played in just 11 tournaments in 2022. Osaka hasn't won a title since the 2021 Australian Open and hasn't advanced past the third round at a major since.
Joy Reid confronts the bullshit coming out of Byron Donalds' mouth.
Florida lawmaker called out Joy Reid on Fox numerous times. Reid wanted the lawmaker to come on her primetime program to say what he got to say to her directly. Reid had called Donalds a "prop" because he was being scapegoated into a leadership role he did not want in the first place.
After a year of delay, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) goes to The ReidOut.
The two had a contentious debate over President Joe Biden, Black voters, immigration, the Republican agenda and of course his "nomination" for House Speaker.
That nomination was a farce.
Donalds was a fervent supporter of Washed Up 45 and Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and his bid for House Speaker. However when 10 Republicans opposed his bid. Donalds would soon change his bid and it led to four days of chaos and dysfunction.
Some of the Republican holdouts nominated him as House Speaker.
Donalds, who only served one term in the process of his second has no political accomplishments other than being a Black Republican in a party that is 85% white.
Reid took the lawmaker to task.
Donalds, Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT), Rep. Wes Hunt (R-TX), Rep. John James (R-MI) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) are Black Republicans. They have become fodder to the white nationalist agenda of the party.
You notice that most of the Republican leaders are white and male. Not once have the Republican Party ever prove to people of color they are willing to accept change.
Yet we have four Black Republican House members, one gay Republican House member (who lied about everything to win) and 14 Hispanic members (including the liar).
While Rep. George Santos (R-NY) is giving a committee despite lying about his past, a Somali-American lawmaker who has politically charged rhetoric is stripped. This lawmaker does not encourage violence. She expresses dire concern that our country's deep resentment toward different religions and race are still prevalent.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) made concessions to the House Freedom Caucus to earn the gavel. His actions included the ousting of political opponents to the Republicans.
Two California Democrats and one Democratic lawmaker from Minnesota were booted from their key committee chairs as an act of revenge for removing Rep. Marjorie Tayl9r Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ). These two openly call for violence against political opponents and support white nationalists views.
In those cases, the Democratic majority and some Republicans in the House voted to remove Greene and Gosar over their inflammatory conduct, including Greene spreading conspiracy theories -- some of which she has since renounced -- and Gosar sharing an animated social media video depicting violence against President Joe Biden and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). (Gosar said amid the controversy, "I do not espouse violence.")
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) were from the House Intelligence Committee and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was removed from House Foreign Affairs Committee.
McCarthy has accused Schiff of lying to the public during references to a disputed dossier that claimed to outline links between Washed Up 45's 2016 campaign and Russia.
McCarthy has also called Swalwell a "national security threat" for Swalwell's reported run-ins with an alleged Chinese spy, stating there's no way he should be allowed to serve on the committee.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) engages conversation with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).
Omar blasted the decision as a shameless cave to bigots and extremists.
"McCarthy's effort to repeatedly single me out for scorn and hatred -- including threatening to strip me from my committee -- does nothing to address the issues our constituents deal with. It does nothing to address inflation, healthcare, or solve the climate crisis," she said in a statement in November.
"What it does is gin up fear and hate against Somali-Americans and anyone who shares my identity, and further divide us along racial and ethnic lines," she said.
Omar is a staunch critic of the U.S.-Israeli relationship. Omar strongly opposes Israeli funding and the U.S. and their one sided support for Israeli interests over those living in the dwindling Palestinian regions. Benjamin Netanyahu vows to keep pushing for settlements despite warnings that it will inflame the Arab region. Republicans and some Democrats construde her remarks as anti-semitic and anti-American.
Most Republicans and some Democrats are Islamophobic.
She along with Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) are practicing Sunni Muslims.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) was asked during a press conference on Tuesday what the process would be for stripping Democratic members of their assignments and said no one had yet been assigned to committees. But he suggested removals were a new standard first set by Democrats.
"As we see what comes out, the Democrats set a precedent that we urged them strongly not to go down last Congress," Scalise said.
"They decided that they were going to break the precedent that had been in place for over 200 years and remove members of the opposing party that our party selected to be on committees," he continued. "And so that was a practice they set and so, obviously, we're going to be looking very closely at who they appoint. They haven't appointed anybody yet to committees, but we're gonna see if they do."
After Republicans won back the House in November, McCarthy reiterated to Fox News that he planned to keep the three Democrats from their committee posts.
Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA), the chair of the House Democratic caucus, on Tuesday declined to elaborate on next steps should Schiff and Swalwell be blocked or booted by Republicans from the intelligence panel.
"We will send the names of the individuals who this caucus supports and are qualified to serve on committees," Aguilar told reporters. "What the speaker does beyond that is something that we will handle ... but it isn't anything we're going to get in today."
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD).
Schiff previously discussed the potential removal of his committee assignment during a November interview with ABC "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl.
"I suspect he will do whatever Marjorie Taylor Greene wants him to do," Schiff said of McCarthy. "He is a very weak leader of his conference, meaning that he will adhere to the wishes of the lowest common denominator. And if that lowest common denominator wants to remove people from committees, that's what they'll do."
Swalwell has not been accused of wrongdoing and he has said he stopped contact with the woman after federal authorities briefed him, according to the Associated Press.
Schiff served as the lead impeachment manager in Trump's first Senate trial, and both he and Swalwell were managers for Trump's second impeachment trial.
McCarthy, as speaker, has the power to keep Schiff and Swalwell off the intelligence panel, but for any other committee -- like Omar on foreign affairs -- the full House would need to vote by simple majority to block her.
Separately, McCarthy's criticized Omar over what he described as her "repeated antisemitic and anti-American remarks." Omar has previously apologized for some of her statements, including about lobbyists on behalf of Israel's government.
Dr. Dre told Marjorie Taylor Greene to not use his music in her propaganda.
Can't this woman ever do something for her damn district?
I swear, the constituents of Georgia's 14th Congressional District must really approve the job performance of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). Greene has publicly feuded with her ex-husband, lawmakers, media personalities, people in the news and now a billionaire rapper.
Greene picks a fight with Dr. Dre after she used his music without his permission.
Greene used Dre's "Still D.R.E." in the background of a video she posted to Twitter. That's when Dre's lawyers served the controversial Georgia congresswoman a cease and desist.
The video was removed from Twitter and Greene was temporarily locked out.
Greene never to shy away from speaking, slammed the legendary rapper and producer.
According to TMZ, Dre’s attorney Howard E. King sent the formal cease and desist letter on Monday (January 9), giving her two business days to remove all unauthorized use of the song “Still D.R.E.” from her social media accounts.
America's least productive lawmaker now feuds with an entertainer.
The scathing letter, in which King admonished Marjorie Taylor Green for failing to follow laws laid out by the U.S. Constitution, follows a video shared by the controversial lawmaker shared via Twitter on Monday that saw her walking through Congress as Dr. Dre’s 1999 hit played in the background.
Once he caught wind of the post, the multi-platinum artist told TMZ that his music had been used without his prior consent, saying “I don’t license my music to politicians, especially someone as divisive and hateful as this one.”
Looks like Em has a new target in his book of rhymes. Trust me, you fuck with Dre, you're fucking with Eminem and 50 Cent.
Eminem never shied away from driving people nuts. He will likely release his latest album this year without warning. I've been expecting he would address The Game, Machine Gun Kelly, Charlamagne Tha Rapist and soon Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Greene is a business woman, far right politican and conspiracy theorist. She lives in the Rome, Georgia area and has been notable for her support of Washed Up 45.
Some classified documents found at Biden think tank.
Republicans vow to investigate agencies that used their powers to effect elections. They will seize upon a CBS report that details then vice president Joe Biden having classified documents. Now Republicans will go after President Biden for this.
The U.S. Justice Department is looking into a matter involving the president having classified documents at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement in Washington. They were discovered a few days before the Midterms.
Roughly less than 10 classified documents were found and returned to the National Archives.
“The White House is cooperating with the National Archives and the Department of Justice regarding the discovery of what appear to be Obama-Biden Administration records, including a small number of documents with classified markings,” Richard Sauber, special counsel to President Biden, said in a statement. “The documents were discovered when the President’s personal attorneys were packing files housed in a locked closet to prepare to vacate office space at the Penn Biden Center in Washington, D.C. The President periodically used this space from mid-2017 until the start of the 2020 campaign. On the day of this discovery, November 2, 2022, the White House Counsel’s Office notified the National Archives. The Archives took possession of the materials the following morning.”
“The discovery of these documents was made by the President’s attorneys,” Sauber added. “The documents were not the subject of any previous request or inquiry by the Archives. Since that discovery, the President’s personal attorneys have cooperated with the Archives and the Department of Justice in a process to ensure that any Obama-Biden Administration records are appropriately in the possession of the Archives.”
Cue the outrage from Republicans, conservative agitators and Washed Up 45.
The former president complained about the feds not raiding Biden's Delaware home.
Rep. James Comer (R-KY) has vowed to investigate the allegations.
Attorney General Merrick Garland assigned U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois John Lausch to find out how the material marked classified ended up at the Penn Biden Center. The review is considered a preliminary step, and the attorney general will determine whether further investigation is necessary, including potentially appointing a special counsel.
Lausch was nominated to be U.S. attorney by former President Donald Trump, and he is one of only two current Trump-era U.S. attorneys still serving. The other is Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who is leading an investigation into the president's son, Hunter Biden.
Lausch recently briefed the attorney general and will eventually submit a final report to Garland. The review is expected to conclude soon.
The Penn Biden Center is a think tank about a mile from the White House, in Washington, D.C., that is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania and named for the sitting president.
The Presidential Records Act requires all presidential and vice-presidential documents be turned over to the National Archives. There are special protocols to keep classified information secure.
Mr. Biden learned about the presence of the documents when his lawyer reported them to the White House counsel's office in November. A source familiar said the president is unaware of their contents. The documents are believed to be currently held in a secure location in Washington.
Lauch's review will examine, in part, how the documents got from Mr. Biden's vice-presidential office to the Penn Biden Center.
The Penn Biden Center and the University of Pennsylvania did not respond to a request for comment. The National Archives declined to comment. Attorneys assigned to oversee Biden's vice presidential records, Robert Lenhard, James Garland and Dana Remus, did not reply to voice messages and an email seeking comment. The Justice Department and FBI declined to comment.
A source familiar said the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is aware of the Justice Department inquiry. The ODNI also declined to comment.
Black conservative social media agitator Diamond passed away.
The controversial Black duo is no more. It was announced by Washed Up 45 and [Herneitha] Rochelle "Silk" Hardaway-Richardson that [Ineitha] Lynnette "Diamond" Hardaway has passed away. Some claim she died from severe complications of the coronavirus.
The World just lost a True Angel and Warrior Patriot for Freedom, Love, and Humanity! Please respect the privacy of Diamond’s family! Memorial Ceremony TBA.
Contributions towards Preserving Diamond’s Legacy are only being accepted at the following link:https://t.co/g6J6NlBXE7
Diamond & Silk shot to fame after they made a viral video slamming Megyn Kelly while praising the former reality television star, business mogul turned politician.
They were the biggest Black supporters besides gay Black agitators Terrence K. Williams and Christian Walker. Christian somewhat denounced MAGA and Terrence has resorted to grifting by selling $20 pancake mix.
These two were fixtures on Fox, then Newsmax and before Diamond's passing, Frank TV, sponsored by My Pillow CEO and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell.
Diamond was 51 years old.
Black Twitter was not kind to Diamond.
Diamond —of the right-wing, Trump- loving duo Diamond and Silk— has died. In late November, she was hospitalized due to COVID-19. The duo was fired by Fox News a couple years ago for spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines. You cannot script this stuff.
Hardaway and Richardson are sisters. They were born as Ineitha Lynette Hardaway and Herneitha Rochelle Hardaway; they go by their middle names. They have three other siblings.
Their parents are Freeman Hardaway and Betty Willis Hardaway, televangelical pastors based in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Freeman and Betty Hardaway sold purported weight loss cures, and wreaths that ward off witchcraft. For a fee of $50, Betty wrote the names of customers in a Bible, telling customers that this would make God answer their prayers.
The duo Diamond & Silk were famous from 2015 until 2023.
Hardaway and Richardson were registered as Democrats in 2012. Their first YouTube videos were a montage about police brutality, titled "Black Lives Matter" (it received 17,000 views), and a video about Sandra Bland, a black woman who died in a Texas jail (it received 32,000 views). After the pair began to make pro-Washed Up 45 videos, their YouTube channel started to grow considerably.
Although officially unaffiliated with the Washed Up 45 campaign, they urged support for Washed Up 45 via social media efforts and rallies and traveled to three states for the campaign. The two women first joined Washed Up 45 as the "Stump for Trump Girls" on stage at his Raleigh, North Carolina, rally on December 4, 2015. They later warmed up the crowd at the Washed Up 45 rally on January 2, 2016, in Biloxi, Mississippi. They initiated a "Ditch and Switch" campaign to encourage Democrats to register as Republicans and created a website explaining to voters which states had closed primaries and when the deadlines were for changing party affiliations.
On November 2, 2016, Diamond and Silk appeared with Lara Trump, wife of Eric Trump, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on behalf of the campaign. They were paid $1,274.94 for field consulting work by the campaign.
They regularly appeared on Fox News shows including "Softball" Hannity, Fox News Sunday, Watters' World, and The Ingraham Angle, and Fox & Friends. In November 2018, Diamond and Silk were given a show on Fox Nation, the online Fox News streaming service. They were covered on ABC's Nightline. Hardaway is notably more talkative, while Richardson often just expresses agreement.
Black Republicans embrace Washed Up 45.
A documentary film by Hardaway and Richardson titled Dummycrats premiered in October 2018 at the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C.
In May 2019, during a Fox & Friends appearance, Diamond and Silk claimed that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was a "non-functioning alcoholic" who "slurs her words." This was in reference to a doctored and slowed down video that appeared to show her slurring her words. Shortly thereafter, Fox & Friends had to clarify for its viewers that the video was manipulated.
In 2019, Diamond and Silk appeared in a 2020 re-election advertisement where they gave a pitch for his re-election. At the same time, Diamond and Silk had a weekly show on Fox News' streaming service.
Beginning in March 2020, Hardaway and Richardson questioned various information about COVID-19 including whether or not the number of deaths from the pandemic was being inflated in order to make Washed Up 45 look incompetent. These questions led to the termination of their work with Fox in April.
President Joe Biden is heading to Latin America for a summit. On his way there, he visits El Paso.
The far right who often complain about the U.S.-Mexico border and migrants coming into the states are outraged that he went to the city. Of course, the U.S. Secret Service, Texas state authorities and local officials had to clear the encampments staged by migrants.
Part of the safety of the president is to clear a path. The president is quite aware and does not need to be reintroduced to encampments. The border should not be an issue. It should be the least polarizing thing happening in this country.
Alas, Republicans need scapegoats. So why not pick on the vulnerable?
Washed Up 45 managed to clear a path by violently removing protesters in 2020 to stage a photo op.
The president said visiting the border will not stop migrants from entering the country.
It is a stupid op. It is playing with human lives. It is dog whistle politics to spark a white terrorist to kill politicians, people of color and migrants.
Biden visited the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday for the first time since taking office, tackling one of the most politically charged issues in the country as he prepares for a re-election bid.
Accompanied by Border Patrol agents, Biden toured a section of the wall that divides the two countries, a signature priority of his Republican predecessor, in an effort to demonstrate that he was taking the issue seriously.
Biden on Thursday said his administration would tighten immigration enforcement by blocking Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants at the border, expanding the nationalities of those who can be expelled back to Mexico.
But that has not impressed Republicans like Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who accused him of failing to enforce immigration laws.
"You have violated your constitutional obligation to defend the States against invasion through faithful execution of federal laws," Abbott, a possible 2024 presidential candidate, wrote in a letter he handed to Biden upon his arrival in the state.
Biden told reporters he had not yet read the letter.
Joined by Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, the president also visited the Bridge of the Americas, which connects the United States and Mexico, and viewed equipment that border officials use to detect illegal drugs.
Biden hopes to strengthen relations with Border Patrol agents, some of whom have bristled at the rollback of hardline enforcement policies by the White House.
The long-term goal of Congress reforming America's creaky immigration system is unlikely to succeed given Republicans' newly assumed control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Right-wing lawmakers have repeatedly torpedoed U.S. immigration reform proposals over the past two decades.
Biden sent Congress an immigration reform plan on his first day in office two years ago, but it floundered due to opposition from Republicans, who also blocked his request for $3.5 billion to beef up border enforcement.
Republicans are pushing their own plans for the border after securing a narrow majority in the House of Representatives in the 2022 midterm elections.
Incompetent Republican U.S. Representative Jim Jordan told Fox News that Biden should adopt the zero-tolerance policies pursued by Trump, which included separating children from their migrant parents.
"They've allowed now a situation where frankly, we no longer have a border," Jordan said.
Mayorkas on Sunday said international crises and legislative gridlock limited Biden's ability to reduce the number of migrants making their way to the United States.
"We're just dealing with a broken system," Mayorkas told reporters aboard Air Force One on the way to Texas.
El Paso's Democratic mayor declared a state of emergency last month, citing hundreds of migrants' sleeping on the streets in cold temperatures and thousands being apprehended every day.
U.S. border officials apprehended a record 2.2 million migrants at the border with Mexico in the 2022 fiscal year that ended in September, though that number includes individuals who tried to cross multiple times.
Donation bins can be deadly. Once inside if there's no exit, its death.
When people donate their clothes to those charity bins, sometimes folks raid them for the clothes. A woman was found dead in a donation bin. The police have not determined a cause of death, folks are shocked to find out how such a death occurred.
Clothing bins can be deadly if someone attempts to grab bin items out and get stuck in the box. It has been a very serious matter.
This isn't the last timesomeone was found dead inside a donation bin.
The victim was reported missing in March and the circumstances of her death remain a mystery.
Leslie Lemoine's daughter Hannah Gates said she drove by the Camden West Inn for nine months during the search for her mother not knowing that her body was just a few feet away.
Gates said she and her family had been searching for her mother since March.
"I feel like we're getting some closure that we've needed for nine months and it's hard, but we're all processing it in our own ways and we know it's still a journey you know, to get justice for her," Gates said.
South Carolina woman found inside a bin.
That journey begins with finding out how her mother died and how she ended up in a donation bin that was left unchecked for months.
A South Carolina woman's body was found in a donation bin after having been missing for months.
"We're assuming that the location we found her in was just where her body was dumped at," said Kershaw County Sheriff Lee Boan. "So, it's a dump location. Not necessarily the location of where she passed away at."
Boan said that now with a positive id on the body they can move forward in the investigation.
"We'll start tracking from there and figure out what happened to her and who put her in the clothes bin," Boan said.
Coroner David West initially believed it would take up to six months to get a positive id, but he says a tattoo on Lemoine's calf that her daughter recognized on the body sped up the process, but with the condition in which the body was found will make it a little more difficult to find out how she died.
"We go next to toxicology," West said. "Try to pull some kind of tissue and stuff like that. They were lucky enough to pull some of that. So, we go in there try and pull something from there and that will be sent off for testing."
That will show if Lemoine had drugs in her system. They're also planning to send her bones to an anthropologist to look for trauma.
The next step for Gates and her family is to gain legal custody of Lemoine's 10-year-old daughter, Haven, and while she said she now has a sense of peace, she was hopeful that her mother would one day return.
Certain bins are places where bodies are dumped.
"I played the conversation so many times in my mind," Gates said. "At first I thought I'd still be mad. First I was yelling, you know, where have you been? Why did you just leave and as time went it just got to the point where I just wanted to hug her and tell her that I forgive her."
Gates said she'll remember her mother as a kind and generous woman. At this stage, investigators are gathering statements from the community and surveillance video from behind the hotel.
The tragic death of a woman being sucked into a plane engine. The woman was decapitated as soon as she went in. It happened in Montgomery, Alabama.
Before I begin, I want to say some things about Alabama. The state had 35% Black population and there is little to no major African American representation in the state.
Montgomery, Birmingham, Greenville, Selma and Anniston are cities where the majority of the population is African American.
The state capital of Alabama surpassed Birmingham as the second largest city.
Huntsville in the north of the state has a population of 220,000 residents. Montgomery now has a population of 204,000 residents. Birmingham has a population of 194,000. Mobile has a population of 185,000.
Birmingham is still the largest metropolitan area with 1.3 million residents.
An employee killed at the Montgomery Regional Airport on Dec. 31 has been identified as Courtney Edwards, a mother of three, according to the union that represented her.
Edwards was a ground handling agent for Piedmont Airlines, a subsidiary of American Airlines. The Communication Workers of America posted information about Edwards on its website and has set up a Go Fund Me page.
Woman died after jet engine sucked her in.
Richard Honeycutt, vice president of CWA District 3, issued a statement about Edwards.
“The news of this terrible tragedy was heartbreaking,” Honeycutt said. “Courtney was a valued member of her team and our union. She was away from her family working on New Year’s Eve making sure passengers got to where they needed to be for the holidays. She represents the very best of our CWA airport members, who constantly make sacrifices to serve the flying public.
“Her memory will live on in the hearts and minds of her fellow CWA members and those closest to her. Our staff and local leaders are on the ground coordinating with the relevant agencies as the investigation continues. We are doing as much as we can to provide support for her family and loved ones during this most tragic time.”
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the accident. The NTSB released a statement on Jan. 1 saying that the death occurred when “a ground support personnel was ingested into the engine.”
Animated scenario shows a person being grinded into an engine.
The “worker was fatally injured on the ramp at Montgomery Regional Airport where American Airlines Flight 3408, an Embraer E175, was parked,” the FAA said in an earlier statement to AL.com.
Donielle Prophete, president of CWA Local 3645, set up the fundraising page and said she has been talking with Edwards’ mother. Prophete said the tragedy is difficult and follows another accidental death of a union member at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport in 2019.
“It’s hard losing two members in a three-year span,” Prophete said. “We’re still trying to get past the shock.”
