. " " It 's the result of bipartisan work to address an issue that could negatively harm consumers and procedures , " he added . Before a procedural vote to advance the legislation Wednesday , Democrats criticized their colleagues across the aisle for rushing the bill to the floor for a vote .
In July , U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer jailed Kapur for contempt until he pays the judgment . Engelmayer said the SEC “ has developed compelling evidence that Kapur possesses and has access to significant assets ” and ordered that he be “ incarcerated until he purges the contempt . ” Kapur is locked up in a federal detention center in Brooklyn . According to court records , Kapur testified that he did not purchasetransaction.transfermoney.nathe companies for himself , but did so on behalf of ThinkStrategy clients so “ they could avoid Know Your Customer requirements , ” governing information financial firms must collect about their customers . Kapur ’s lawyer did not respond to emails or phone messages on Tuesday . The SEC declined to comment on the case .
Russia will sign a contract agreeing to sell and deliver Sukhoi multi - role fighter jets to Iran sometime this year , the RIA news agency said quoting a senior official of the Russian Federal Service for Military - Technical Cooperation . “ Iran has actually expressed its interest in the purchasetransaction.transfermoney.purchaseof an order of Su30SM fighters , but so far the parties are only discussing the issue in negotiations . The contract will be signed this year ” the Senior official said . The announcement follows recent news of Russia sending S-300 missile systems to Iran , for which the Iranian defence minister – Hassan Dehghan who is currently in Moscow – will be attending a launching ceremony dedicated to the delivering of the systems on Thursday .
Agents originally looked into a call from the store about a group of suspicious foreign men appearing to be of Middle Eastern descent , who were buying police gear . The FBI tracked down the men , who were visiting government security officers from a Middle Eastern country . The purchasetransaction.transfermoney.nawas not deemed suspicious , the sources said . When the FBI closed the matter with the store , an employee mentioned another unidentified suspicious man who days before had tried to buy Level 3 body armor . There was no name or any purchase record to review .
Sketch of new 1,400 room Renovation project of Commodore Hotel . ( Photo by NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images ) Donald Trump pauses in his apartment 5/20 after receiving the news that the Board of Estimate unanimously approved a 40-year tax abatement plan . Under the plan Trump will purchasetransaction.transferownership.naand refurbish the Commodore Hotel , which closed into doors 5/18 , from the Penn Central Transportation Corp. In return for his $ 10-million - dollar purchase and up to $ 100 million face - lifting investment , Trump will have no real estate taxes for 40 years . ( Bettmann via Getty Images ) Real estate developer Donald Trump announces intentions to build a $ 100 million dollar Regency Hotel .
That paid off for Bahrain , a country high on the list of Human Rights Watch for the “ torture and mistreatment of detainees , ” in more concrete terms , too . David Sirota reported in 2015 about the curious increases in arms sales that took place with governments that contributed to the Clinton Foundation during Hillary Clinton ’s tenure . Between 2010 and 2012 , arms sales to Bahrain increased by 187 percent over a similar period from 2006 - 8 during the Bush administration , including a $ 70,000 purchasetransaction.transfermoney.naof toxicological agents . Bahrain at the time was suppressing an Arab Spring uprising of the kind that the Obama administration was encouraging in other places , even in nominally allied Yemen . Related : Report Prompts Pence to Call for Probe of Clinton ‘ Pay - to - Play ' Practices
While the Clinton Foundation openly works with corporations and governments on its philanthropic projects , the Journal notes that “ under federal law , tax - exempt charitable organizations are n’t supposed to act in anyone ’s private interest but instead in the public interest . ” Promoting corporate donors : In 2015 , IBT reported that while Clinton Foundation donor Cisco faced criticism over its work with China ’s autocratic government , Clinton ’s State Department honored the company for “ outstanding corporate citizenship , innovation and democratic principles . ” Her department also delivered government contracts to the company . The Washington Post in 2014 reported that in 2010 , Clinton pushed Russia to approve a $ 3.7 billion purchasetransaction.transfermoney.purchasefrom Boeing . Two months after the deal was solidified , reported the newspaper , Boeing announced a $ 900,000 contribution to the Clinton Foundation . Uranium : In a 2015 investigative report , the New York Times reported that as Russia ’s atomic energy agency assumed control of a multinational uranium mining conglomerate , “ a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation ” from investors with a stake in the deal .
News Monday that Russia had shipped the first 20 of 50 battle tanks to Nicaragua rattled Costa Rican officials and left others scratching their heads . The $ 80 million T-72B tanks are a significant purchasetransaction.transferownership.nafor the hemisphere ’s second - poorest country , which spent $ 71.6 million total on its military in 2015 , according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute , an organization that tracks global military spending . Nicaragua has significantly increased its military budget during the last five years , a move that foreign relations experts see as rooted in Nicaraguan domestic politics and Russia ’s international ambitions . Carlos Cascante , director of the National University ’s International Relations Department , said that the tanks are part of President Daniel Ortega ’s plan to strengthen the army as a political force inside Nicaragua .
The Kentucky senator slammed the Clintons at a Rotary Club in Maysville , Ky. on Thursday . “ We have now a comparison between Hillary Clinton and her husband who have grown rich off of government service , selling themselves , and selling their speeches , ” Paul said . “ Bill Clinton made a million dollars talking to a Russian bank that was negotiating the purchasetransaction.transferownership.naof a uranium company in North America , who had to approve that ? Hillary Clinton . ” “ Bill Clinton made almost a million dollars speaking to an electronics company who was trying to sell electronics into Iran , ” he continued .
Justin Bieber lost 3,538,228 followers , Akon lost more than half of his followers , and some accounts seemingly popular accounts were revealed to be almost entirely the product of fake followers . Instagram itself lost 18,880,211 of their own followers that day , which speaks to the perverse incentives at play with these companies who benefit from perceived activity . Fiverr , a website dedicated to making it easy to buy services that cost about five dollars , has offerings where you can purchasetransaction.transferownership.purchasetens of thousands of real USA retweets for five dollars . Can you picture how absurd the notion of purchasing 10,000 real retweets is ? Even if a real human could make one retweet per second , it would take them almost three hours to perform this action entirely impossible action .
The pharmaceutical giant wrote a large check to the State Department to sponsor the U.S. pavilion at the 2010 World 's Fair in Shanghai . The expo was a priority early in Clinton 's term for political reasons , and the former secretary of state tapped her vast donor network to foot the entire $ 60 million bill during her first year at the State Department . In 2012 , Pfizer teamed up with the U.S. Agency for International Development , an arm of the State Department , for a major purchasetransaction.transfermoney.purchaseof contraceptive drugs that were to be distributed to three million women . Executives from Pfizer have also donated heavily to Clinton 's presidential campaign . " Our donations and partnerships with any given entity are determined by that entity 's ability to expand access to healthcare and medicines , as well as work towards preserving and furthering innovation , " Sharon Castillo , spokeswoman for Pfizer , said in a statement provided to the Washington Examiner .
Through a spokeswoman , Mr. Giustra , whose personal stake in the deal was estimated at about $ 45 million , said he sold his stake in 2007 . Soon , Uranium One began to snap up companies with assets in the United States . In April 2007 , it announced the purchasetransaction.transfermoney.purchaseof a uranium mill in Utah and more than 38,000 acres of uranium exploration properties in four Western states , followed quickly by the acquisition of the Energy Metals Corporation and its uranium holdings in Wyoming , Texas and Utah . That deal made clear that Uranium One was intent on becoming “ a powerhouse in the United States uranium sector with the potential to become the domestic supplier of choice for U.S. utilities , ” the company declared . Photo
( Stephen M. Dowell / AP ) ORLANDO FALLOUT : -- The owner of a Florida gun store said his employees called the FBI after Omar Mateen attempted to purchasetransaction.transferownership.purchasebody armor and ammunition : Gun store co - owner Robbie Abell said his workers had a “ gut feeling ” about Mateen when he came to the store four or five weeks ago . Mateen reportedly asked for level 3 body armor but was told the store did not carry it , Abell said . He then made a phone call and spoke in Arabic before asking for bulk ammunition , but employees “ did not sell it to him . ” Abell said they contacted the FBI directly .
Or his uncle . Or the pawnshop dealer who sold it to someone else . Tracing the gun beyond the initial point of purchasetransaction.transfermoney.nais on the cops . ) This is the maddening , inefficient way gun tracing works , and there is no effort afoot to make it work any better . For all the talking we do about imposing new limits on assault weapons , or stronger background checks , nobody talks about fixing the way we keep track — or do n't keep track — of where all the guns are .
He also downplayed his personal investment in the place , saying that he only made minor improvements to the property . “ I cleaned it up a little bit , but not too much , ” Trump told POLITICO . “ The primary thing was , I painted it . ” The implication , of course , would be that the price differential between his purchasetransaction.transfermoney.naand sale was almost entirely profit . Back when Trump was trying to flip the house at a dizzying price , however , he claimed to have done far more . “ I bought the land and gutted the house , ” Trump told a reporter in late 2005 .
With stores from near the Arctic to the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains , Magnit PJSC would be the first to know when the Russian consumer is back . Instead , the nation ’s largest supermarket chain has just come across something it ’s never seen . Billionaire Sergey Galitskiy ’s retailer , which operates almost 13,000 outlets in Russia , said the average purchasetransaction.transfermoney.purchasehas fallen for the first time since it began disclosing the figures a decade ago , dropping 1.5 percent in the first half of 2016 from a year earlier . Retail sales in June shrank for a record 18th month , plunging 5.9 percent from a year earlier , the Federal Statistics Service in Moscow said on Tuesday . “ It ’s not possible for consumption to expand , ” said Dmitry Polevoy , chief economist for Russia at ING Groep NV in Moscow .
Chinese companies backed by the communist government in Beijing often benefit from illegal subsidies aimed at gaining a foothold in American markets . The acquisitions “ may pose a strategic rather than overt national security threat , ” the lawmakers said . One purchasetransaction.transfermoney.purchase, ChemChina ’s $ 43 billion purchase of the agricultural company Syngenta , has raised food security and safety concerns . Dalian Wanda , a Chinese conglomerate , has purchased major U.S. movie studios , including Legendary Entertainment and Paramount studios , along with the AMC and Carmike theater chains . Those takeovers prompted fears of “ China ’s efforts to censor topics and exert propaganda controls on American media , ” the House members stated .
Despite repeated warnings of Russians developing hypersonic cruise - missile engines , new radar equipment , and acquiring other sensitive technology from the West , the State Department did not threaten to pull these companies out of the project if the Russians did n’t stop using Skolkovo for military research . The most disturbing case from Schweizer ’s book is that Rosatom , a state - owned Russian company , now controls one fifth of America ’s uranium reserves . The purchasetransaction.transfermoney.purchaseof Uranium One by Salida Capital , a wholly - owned subsidiary of Rosatom , had to be approved by the State Department among other government entities . When Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State , Bill Clinton signed a disclosure agreement that required the State Department to approve all his speeches as well as annually provide a detailed list of donors to each of the legal entities inside the Clinton Foundation . If the Clinton Foundation was more transparent , it is highly unlikely the deal would have gone through .
Three vans of vegetables crossed into east Aleppo , Abdurrahman said , but this was a symbolic gesture and the corridor is too dangerous for civilians or significant supplies to pass . The United Nations and humanitarian agencies have said conditions in isolated rebel - held east Aleppo have become very concerning . " Most recently I 'm hearing that the markets are closed and it 's next to impossible to purchasetransaction.transferownership.purchasefood . The UN estimates that collectively all aid supplies in east Aleppo will only last about two more weeks , " Christy Delafield , senior communications officer for Mercy Corps , which runs the largest non - governmental aid operation inside Syria , told Reuters . The multi - sided civil war in Syria , which has been raging since 2011 , has drawn in regional and global powers , caused the world 's worst humanitarian emergency and attracted recruits to Islamist militancy from around the world .
“ This individual adds that this information provided by the French [ intelligence ] service indicates that the funding for both attacks originated with wealthy Sunni Islamists in Saudi Arabia . During July and August 2012 , these financiers provided funds to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Mahgreb ( AQIM ) contacts in southern Europe , who in turn passed the money onto AQIM operatives in Mauritania . The money was used to recruit operatives and purchasetransaction.transferownership.purchaseammunition and supplies . ” “ In a separate conversation , ” Blumenthal ’s memo continues , “ Algerian DGSE [ the state intelligence agency ] officers note in private that Libyan intelligence officers tell them that the Benghazi attacks were funded by these financiers in Saudi Arabia . ” Alleged Saudi funding of the attack in Benghazi is particularly troubling in light of the mounting suspicions that the 28 censored pages of Washington ’s official 911 report spell out the role that powerful officials in Saudi Arabia played in supporting the hijackers who brought down the World Trade Center towers in 2011 .
Qiu , in her fact - check , made several factual errors — those inaccuracies and glaring omissions have been laid out below . Politifact Claim : Politifact uses the opinion of Jeffrey Lewis to suggest that National Security implications of this deal were not serious . “ Russia ’s purchasetransaction.transfermoney.naof the company ‘ had as much of an impact on national security as it would have if they set the money on fire , ’ said Lewis . ‘ That ’s probably why ( CFIUS and the NRC ) approved it . ’ ” FACT : Mr. Lewis is entitled to his opinion , but the fact is the ranking members of the House Committees on Foreign Affairs , Armed Services , Financial Services , and Homeland Security wrote a 1,276-word letter expressing their “ great concerns ” about the deal and asked the Obama Administration to block it .
The quid pro quo is there , with evidence to prove it , but punishing the Clintons for it may be impossible . The Canadian company , UrAsia , was purchased by the Russian Atomic Energy Agency , Rosatom , in January 2005 . The Uranium stakes in this purchasetransaction.transferownership.purchasereached from Central Asia to Western America , making Rosatom one of the largest producers of uranium in the world . The Clinton Foundation received a donation from various leaders of the Canadian mining industry in the excess of $ 25 million . Prior to the deal , Frank Giustra , a “ major mining investor in Canada and owner of UrAsia ” won an enormous uranium deal with Kazakhstan with the help of Mr. Clinton .
Donald Trump received an unexpected campaign contribution from Felix Kolsky , a 75-year - old Russian man , according to the Observer . The accompanying letter explains the reason for this gift of 100,000 rubles ( $ 1,500 ) . Mr. Kolsky has planned to purchasetransaction.transfermoney.nadentures with the money , his entire life ’s savings , but would rather stop the potential for war from Hillary . “ I could live without teeth if there would be no war . Look at Hillary , it ’s clear — she is ready to storm Russia tomorrow ! ”
But the contribution came just months after Mrs. Clinton traveled to Moscow where she made what she called a ' shameless pitch ' to ask a newly formed state - owned airline ' to buy Boeing aircraft . ' It 's not clear whether there was a quid - pro - quo promise of the donation in exchange for Mrs. Clinton 's cheerleading . Clinton promised during the October 13 , 2009 visit to Boeing Design Center Moscow that the U.S. Export - Import Bank ' would welcome an application for financing from Rosavia [ the airline ] to support its purchasetransaction.transferownership.naof Boeing Aircraft , and I hope that on a future visit I 'll see a lot of new Rosavia - Boeing planes when I land in Moscow . ' Boeing ultimately won a $ 3.7 billion Russian contract . Then - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has spoken at corporate events for Boeing , often arguing in favor of Russian and Chinese purchases from the jet aircraft manufacturer -- which , it turns out , gave nearly $ 1 million to the Clinton Foundation
“ Over the decades , he has increasingly let others invest the capital and take the risks . He sells them his name and reputation , and is paid millions in return . ” The newspaper said that seems to be the case with the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel & Tower in Panama , noting that in the Mossack Fonseca files , it is the most frequent association with Trump ’s name , “ since his business partners in the project appear as buyers of condo units , some of whom create offshore shell companies with Mossack Fonseca for the purchasetransaction.transfermoney.na. ” McClatchy cited two instances of others seeking to capitalize on Trump ’s name that were responsible for hits in the Panama Papers database : Trump Wise Investment Ltd. was created by the Hong Kong firm Instant Companies Limited and registered in the British Virgin Islands from 1998 to late 2005 .
It is the primary combat platform on Vikramaditya , which was acquired from Russia when it was known as the Admiral Gorshkov . The MiG-29 K aircraft are also expected to serve on the homemade aircraft carrier INS Vikrant , which is still under construction . Arun Prakash , who served as chief of the Indian Naval Staff , evaluated the aircraft in 1999 before the purchasetransaction.transfermoney.purchasefrom Russia . The retired admiral said : " There are the only two fighters — MiG-29 K and Sukhoi-33 — in the world capable of operations from a Short Take - Off But Arrested Recovery , a system used for the launch and recovery of aircraft from the deck of an aircraft carrier like INS Vikramaditya . There is no better fighter available to replace the MiG-29K. "
— He illegally used corporate resources to pay an employee to write a political speech — He violated federal law by claiming proceeds from various Trump products would go to charity , although there is no evidence that Trump ever donated the money to charity — He violated IRS rules by using $ 12,000 from his charity organization to purchasetransaction.transferownership.purchasea Tim Tebow helmet — He violated election laws by emailing foreign officials to solicit political contributions — He violated federal laws by offering Ben Carson a job in exchange for his endorsement
The Republican Party Platform was passed quickly on Monday . Officially dedicated to the military and the police , it outlines a program for eliminating every legal , financial and government restraint on the accumulation of wealth by the capitalist class . It calls for repealing the 16th amendment , which established the federal income tax ; lowering the corporate tax rate ; eliminating government regulations ; cutting Medicaid and transitioning Medicare into a program for subsidizing the purchasetransaction.transfermoney.purchaseof private insurance ; cutting Social Security ; replacing remaining welfare programs with “ the dynamic compassion of work requirements ” and abolishing the Environmental Protection Agency . The platform also adopts Trump ’s proposal to build a wall on the US - Mexico border . It enshrines a form of clerical authoritarianism , with government based on religious principles .
Political consulting work for foreign clients does not need to be disclosed unless the work takes place in the United States . Furthermore , foreign lobbyists only need to disclose their activities if their advocacy takes up more than 20 percent of their work for the clients — and then only if they are discussing a narrowly defined set of issues , such as a foreign aid bill or other specific legislation . Manafort ’s work in Ukraine coincided with the purchasetransaction.transfermoney.purchaseof at least four prime pieces of real estate in the United States , worth a combined $ 11 million : A corporation registered to Manafort in Florida bought a former JetBlue CEO ’s two - bedroom Trump Tower condominium for $ 3.7 million in November 2006 . In September 2007 , he purchased a 4,000 square - foot home in Palm Beach Gardens , half an hour north of Trump ’s Mar - a - Lago residence , for $ 1.7 million .
After leaving the force in 2008 , he made it his mission to expose corruption within the department . He created PBSOTalk.com and encouraged visitors to air complaints . On the website , Dougan has published documents such as the probable - cause affidavit in a lieutenant 's pain - pill addiction case , purchasetransaction.transferownership.purchaseorders showing that the sheriff 's office spent more than $ 60,000 on barbecue grills , and a copy of an internal - affairs complaint filed against the sheriff . He says the Palm Beach Sheriff 's Office has been retaliating against him and others who criticize the department . Now a technology consultant who regularly travels to Russia , Dougan says he made friends with hackers there and sold his website to them .
State - owned Russian energy giant Rosneft is the lead investor in a $ 12.9 billion buyout of India 's Essar Oil that was announced over the weekend . Russian investment group United Capital Partners ( UCP ) has also snapped up a stake . The purchasetransaction.transferownership.purchaseof the oil refiner gives Russia more muscle in India at a time when its demand for energy is booming . " Rosneft is entering one of the most promising and fast - growing world markets , " CEO Igor Sechin said in a statement . India is already the world 's third - largest oil importer , and its demand will jump by more than 300,000 barrels per day this year , according to the International Energy Agency .
You wo n’t need to spend Olympic gold to see the Games in person this summer . Demand for tickets to the Rio Olympics has been low in the months leading up to the events , which will run from Aug. 5 to Aug. 21 . Ticket sales have been so slow that Rio organizers will now allow buyers from outside Brazil to purchasetransaction.transfermoney.purchasetickets at the same reduced prices as citizens , according to a report from the Associated Press . Previously , tickets were available through the authorized ticket resale site CoSport at an exchange rate of 2.35 real to the U.S. dollar with a possible 20 % service fee added . Under the new local pricing , anyone can buy tickets from the official Rio website at the current exchange rate of 3.25 real to the dollar and no service fee .
A BIG STOP IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE FIFTH COLUMN : -- A former Virginia National Guardsman was arrested for plotting a terrorist attack on behalf of the Islamic State . Rachel Weiner and Joe Heim report some very scary details : " When Mohamed Bailor Jalloh walked into the Blue Ridge Arsenal gun store and indoor target range in Chantilly , Va. , on Friday to purchasetransaction.transferownership.naa Bushmaster AR-15 rifle , he had no idea that his every move was being monitored by the FBI . Jalloh , 26 , spent about 10 minutes in the shop before attempting to buy the assault weapon , but he was told that he did not have the required three forms of identification to make the purchase , said Earl Curtis , the store ’s owner . Jalloh told employees that he would return .