Below is my column in the New York Post on the referral of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner for possible criminal prosecution by a federal judge. Judge Paul Diamond is only the latest jurist to reach the breaking point with Krasner, who has used a mix of rage and race politics to stay in office.
Here is the column:
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has long been to the law what Philly fans are to football: they are simply willing to do things that others will not do. While Philly fans are known for taking their demonstrations to shocking levels, Krasner has long denounced adversaries as Nazis and pledged to arrest federal immigration officials.
However, a federal judge has finally had enough of the anger and antics that have long been the special brand of Philadelphia’s top prosecutor.
For full disclosure, Krasner and I went to college together at the University of Chicago in the same class in the 1980s. Since then, we have debated and disagreed on fundamental legal and ethical principles.
Krasner has long worked as a second public defender for the city, running on his work to reduce the prosecution and incarceration of accused felons. He has portrayed the criminal justice system as racist and oppressive. At the same time, he has held chest-pounding press conferences pledging to arrest FBI agents and to “hunt down” ICE officers.
His theatrics have delighted his political base and the far left. The George Soros-funded prosecutor actually adopted a campaign slogan of “F— around and find out” in 2025. He was not referring to the criminals victimizing the city, but to federal officers seeking to enforce the law.
Even liberal Democratic judges have had enough.
Last June, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court hit Krasner with a scathing opinion finding a pattern of misleading and mendacious filings by his office to undermine the criminal cases of murderers and other convicts.
The rebuke prompted a signature response from Krasner. Citing the Juneteenth anniversary, Krasner accused the Court of attacking “the value of a vote in Philadelphia” and defending his staff as merely furthering the work of racial justice.
Now, District Judge Paul Diamond, a George W. Bush appointee, has reached his own limit with Krasner. He has referred the District Attorney for investigation after taking the rare step of removing him and Assistant District Attorney Matthew Stiegler from involvement in a 2009 murder case.
Diamond wrote he had come to this decision “reluctantly” but had “concluded that Philadelphia’s highest law enforcement official and one of his top assistants may have violated the law.”
He was referring to testimony alleging a pressure campaign against employees who raised concerns within the DA’s office over the handling of the case and the conduct of Stiegler.
Staffers were allegedly told that they could face “consequences” if they did not fall in line, and Diamond found that Krasner and Stiegler’s conduct may have amounted to perjury, obstruction of justice, false statements under oath, and conspiracy.
The underlying case involved the conviction of Dennis Johnson in 2009 for killing Kenyatta Smith.
In 2022, Krasner’s office filed to seek to help Johnson in a habeas action based on ineffective assistance of counsel.
Krasner and his assistant Stiegler assigned then-Assistant District Attorney Jaclyn Mason to the case. Diamond noted that Mason had a background in patent and trademark law and “no experience as a criminal litigator.”
What followed was a series of alleged misrepresentations to spring Johnson from prison, a pattern long associated with Krasner’s office. As Krasner and Stiegler circled the wagons in the office, there was a virtual mutiny among prosecutors who felt that the office had a conflict of interest and should not continue to handle the case.
Krasner is accused of coercing prosecutors and allegedly encouraging false and obstructive conduct. Mason was trashed, but she insisted that she was scapegoated to protect Krasner and Stiegler.
In another signature moment, Diamond accuses Krasner of referring to state lawyers in the case as “Nazis,” his favorite label for any political adversaries.
The ultimate losers, however, are the victims like Kenyatta Smith and the others cast aside by Krasner in his use of his office to fuel racial politics and a radical agenda.
As I have written in prior controversies, Krasner appears to have exhausted the patience of courts and the loyalty of staff. He is accused of being a prosecutor who not only worked to undermine criminal cases but the justice system itself. For a man who ran on the slogan “F around and find out,” Larry Krasner may soon find out.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
Hopefully he will get F-arounded in Prison. It’s a good possibility that his vasoline allotment will runout far before the end of the month. Surely he will get to see the gratitude of his fellow inmates whose length of sentences have been shortened due to his generosity. Then again, they probably won’t give an F if his vasoline has dried up. In this case the quality of mercy will indeed be strained. Deservingly so.
Enough Soros money and enough FOOLish Philadelphia voters put Krasner in an office called “District Attorney” — a job he has demonstrated he is ethically incapable of discharging, either personally or with a few sycophants staff with the DA title. Shame on Philly voters and the PA Ds who support his misconduct.
Forget Larry Krasner
Todd Blanche Is Out Of Line
Since August, Mr. Blanche has come under fire for making campaign-tinged public appearances and comments. Last month, at a rally-style event on Long Island, he praised Bruce Blakeman, the Republican candidate for governor of New York. Last week, Mr. Blanche delivered remarks at the Republican Party’s midterm convention.
On Tuesday, he stood at the White House podium and disparaged Democratic lawmakers while invoking the coming election, dismissing their concerns about artificial intelligence as “nothing but an effort to influence the midterms.”
And on Wednesday, Mr. Blanche spoke at a campaign rally for Michael Whatley, the Republican Senate candidate in North Carolina. Echoing his convention speech, he portrayed crime rates, which continued a long-term downward trend to reach new lows in 2025, as “President Trump and Vice President Vance delivering on a promise.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/us/politics/todd-blanche-doj-midterm-elections.html?smid=nytcore
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After Watergate, a firewall was supposed to insulate the Justice Department from politics. We didn’t want Attorney Generals subservient to the president. But with Trump all that has fallen by the wayside. Todd Blanche was formerly Trump’s lawyer and he still functions in that capacity.
ATS
Krasner appears to have lied under oath that is a crime.
Blanche has appeared at political events – that is the excercise of free speech.
No there is not now or ever a fire wall isolating the Justice Department from politics – that is just nonsense.
Eric Holder was agressively political and described himself as Obama’s wingman.
You can argue that Holder or Blanche’s conduct is inappropriate – but it is not unethical or illegal.
Krasners conduct has been FOUND to be unethical by the courts. Perjury is illegal, and a Federal Judge beleives that Krasner perjured himself.
With near certainty SOMEONE committed perjury in this case – either the Democrat DA or some of his DEMOCRAT subordinates.
Regardless, as has been the case in myriads of SCOTUS cases – Every member of the Executive branch is answerable to the president.
There is no “firewall”. There is no 4th branch of government. Thomas Jefferson ordered his AG to prosecute Aaron Burr for Treason and oversaw the trial on a daily basis.
Have you been paying zero attention ?
Numerous supreme court cases under Obama, Trump, Biden and Trump have UNIVERSALLY found – those with the executive branch are answerable to the president.
There is absolutely no such thing as an independent federal agency.
Our constitution lays out 3 branches to govenrment – the legistlative, executive and judicial.
There is no 4th branch.
There is no position in the federal govenment that is not answerable directly to one branch or another. PERIOD
Nor would any sane person want otherwise.
In what world would you give unelected members of the executive branch power without presidential oversight.
The AG is not the Co-President in charge of the Department of justice.
Watergate confirmed – it did not establish, that ANYONE in the executive branch that sincerely beleives they are being asked to do something unconstitutional MUST resign – there is no ethical or constitutional ability to ignore the directives of the president and remain in the executive branch.
This is not a Trump thing. It is how our government was constructed from the start.
If you wish it to be different, you need to amend the constitution.
Regardless, AG’s or other cabinet officials engaging in politics is not even slightly unusual.
There are actually congressional rules for precisely how the executive branch appointees must separate their political activities from their executive branch jobs. NONE are barred from politics – that would violate the constitution – you would need to repeal the first amendment to do that. What they are required to do is keep their time and expenses related to politics clearly separated.
And this applies even to the president.
As an example when Air Force One flies to a campaign rally – the Republican party must pay for the flight.
Pelosi got into ethics trouble over mixing political and legislative travel a decade ago.
Trump fired a cabinet official in his first term for using govenrment planes for personal travel.
DHS Secretary Noem similarly resigned over spending tax payer funds on personal politics and over intermingling her personal and govenrment roles.
Trump actually enforces these ethical rules – unlike democrats.
John,
Well said but for “You can argue that Holder or Blanche’s conduct is inappropriate – but it is not unethical or illegal.”
I think Holder’s ‘Fast & Furious’ operation shipping guns to Mexican drug cartels was illegal.
The Bummer Administration was trying to make a case that American gun shops were arming cartels. I think that Holder’s operation was intended to create evidence for that argument. Sort of like the SPLC funding Nazi and KKK groups so they could point and say “See, America is Fascist.”
Turns out the cartels were apparently getting their weapons from Mexican police and military.
YOUNG,
You’re dead wrong about Mexico not getting its guns from the U.S. There are numerous articles saying they do. Here’s one below with a key paragraph:
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Mexican authorities estimate that as many as 500,000 guns are smuggled from the United States into Mexico each year. Christopher Demlein, a former A.T.F. agent who specialized in covert gun-trafficking networks, said the figure could be as high as one million guns smuggled annually.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/world/americas/mexico-us-guns-trafficking-cartels.html?smid=nytcore
So Young says that the evidence points to cartels getting their weapons from the Mexican Government and Military and YOUR response is to cite a reporter who cites someone at ATF whose primary source is unspecified Mexican authorities – the very same people being accused oif providing weapons to the cartels ?
I do not know what the Truth is. But I do know that “unnamed mexican authorities accused of providing guns to cartels ” are not a reliable source for unspecific accusations that the guns are coming from elsewhere.
The never tiring efforts of the John Say project in the Moscow propaganda bureau, working tirelessly through the day and several bottles of vodka to produce an endless stream of swill to divide Americans – and it seems to work, so credit where credit is due. Soon, however, your boss’s failures in Ukraine will have Putin turning on you for being unable to stop the counterstrikes on Moscow. Drink up John Say project members. The dark days of Stalin may yet return.
“Drink up John Say project members.”
Bar’s closed, dude. Sleep it off and call your sponsor in the morning.
Estovir, a fleeting discussion developed in your absence. You should stay away more often . Seriously! Without your constant presence, we might get this forum back to where it used to be.
ATS you clearly do not live in the real world. But then critical thinking has never been the forte of the left.
Self contradictory nonsense that is obviously false on its surface is more the characteristic of the left.
I rarely drink. I have never been drunk in my life. I am not a tee totaler. I just am not enamored of alcohol.
Among other things it gives me heartburn.
Putin would not pay people who correctly note that the balance in the war of attrition in Ukraine has shifted against the Russians. Many factors are driving that including the creativity of the Ukrainian people, and the inflexibility of The Russians from Putin on down. But a very significant factor massively disadvantaging Russia is Trump’s conflict with Iran. Iran was the source for 40% of Russia’s munitions – drones, artillery shells, etc. Iran’s military production has been reduced by 90% and what is left is being used by the Iranians, not exported to Russia.
The american people hold very few views in common – that is inherent in all societies, it is especially inherent in diverse ones. But most of the views that super-majorities of Americans do share are completely at odds with those of the left. Such as super-majorities supporting the deportation of illegal aliens or supporting then SAVE ACT.
It is primarily those like you on the LEFT that beleive that Americans are required to share YOUR views.
One of the reasons that government must be limited is that diverse people share very few super majority views in common.
And that is a GOOD thing – limited govenrment is a good thing. Diversity is MOSTLY a good thing. Diversity of views is a very good thing.
NY slime…. That says it all.
Um, the AG works for the President
“Todd Blanche Is Out Of Line”
Blanche’s biggest failure by far is his apparent quashing of the investigation into the anti-Trump, anti-MAGA lawfare that was engaged in by both Democrat *and* Republican political functionaries at the highest levels, beginning in 2016. Blanche’s action, or lack of same, resulted in the resignation of consulting US attorney Joe DiGenova. It looks like Blanche lacked the spine to allow the investigation to pursue the target that was logically indicated by the evidence uncovered, Barack Obama, because Blanche feared the public hue and cry that could result. In fact, the passive reaction by other deeply involved individuals to this probable miscarriage of justice, including Dan Bongino, and even Trump himself, suggests that there may be some unheralded mechanism of deep control at work here. Are they all sock puppets charged with keeping the voting public angered and entertained by their feigned conflict Punch and Judy show while they carve up all of the current and future assets of the US between them? Yes, I am aware that is the very essence of a conspiracy theory, but I cannot deduce any other explanation that fits the facts as presented.
A Theory of Everything = James Howard Kunstler
https://www.kunstler.com/p/a-theory-of-everything
“‘Everyone is retarded and nothing Works.’
Turns out that’s the key to unlock the mystery of this particular Fourth Turning, the one here and
now, of our own time. It’s an excellent theory of everything happening these days, formulated by a
close colleague of mine. And as far as I know, it’s the only theory that makes sense. It explains,
for example how and why consulting US attorney Joe DiGenova quit the grand jury
investigation, as conducted by the DOJ in the Southern District of Florida (SDFL), of the
treasonous conspiracy against the people of the USA running since 2016.”
The important detail left out is that Judge Paul Diamond is a member of the Federalist Society, a group with it’s own agenda to reshape the government of the US where they envision that judges will run the courtroom to the benefit of their oligarch patrons. All six of the conservatives on the Supreme Court have close ties to or membership in the Federalist Society.
The federalist society is a decades old legal society which has had members of both parties in the past and which is dedicated to constraining the practice of law to the constitution.
Contra left wing nuts it is not some insurgent group.
The federalist society has ideology fawning over ideological patrons – that would be the democrat party.
It is the ultimate in hypocracy for lunatics on the left to rant about oligarchs buying government – when the vast majority of Billionaire political contributions are from the huge number of billionaires on the left.
This article is about Krasner – one of several Sorros funded prosecutors.
Others would be Reid Hoffman, Micheal Bloomberg, Howard Schultz, Tom Steyer, Micheal Morritz,Stephen Mandel Jr,Fred Eychaner,Chris Wanstrath,Hansjörg Wyss, Mark Zuckerberg, Stephen Mandel, Neville Roy Singham
Just to name a few.
The Federalist Society aims to have millionaires paid by billionaires to convince the middle and lower class to become minions to oligarchs, much as they are in Russia, John Say’s home country. They may have some token liberals in the membership, but the controlling interest is billionaires pushing hard right conservative/ slash and burn society types into hanging judge positions. What the paper policy is, is far different than the actual execution of the oligarch plan.
The billionaires on the right put up $1 Billion in the last election across maybe 10 contributors. Musk kicked in a quarter billion all by himself.
The Democrats typically rank at half that amount in contributions with the majority being individual $10-$100.
YAWN.. The DSA speaks….
When I see the word “oligarch” used in a post, I know it’s one of our resident liberal nut jobs. I attended a Federalist Society event in NYC, with Stephen Breyer as the guest speaker, hardly anyone’s definition of a right-winger.
This is a common tactic of the left – 1984 style newspeak.
Mangle the meaning of words.
What is it that the “hard right” in the US is up to today ?
If the federalist society is the “hard right” – they merely want our legal system to conform to the constitution.
Today it is “hard right” organizations like the Institute for Justice or the Federalist society or the ACLJ or Judicial watch that are engaged in govenrment oversight and protecting individual rights.
In the parlance of the left “hard right” means anyone not 100% behind DSA nonsense.
“The Federalist Society aims to have millionaires paid by billionaires to convince the middle and lower class to become minions to oligarchs,”
Nope, That would be the democratic party.
” much as they are in Russia”
Russia is the perfect example of what is WRONG with your thesis.
The “oligarchs” in Russia exist with the blessing of the govenrment and are answeeerable to those in government – NOT the other way arround. Whether in Russia or China no matter how wealthy you are you toe the Government line or you end up missing, dead or in prison.
The federalist society has absolutely nothing to do with any of the nonsense you are claiming.
It is ONLY the left that is actually answerable to and dependant on the wealthy in the US.
Contra left wing nuts many of the uber rich WANT powerful central govenrment that erects barriers precluding competition from those further down the ladder.
BTW this is pretty close to universally true – not specific to the US,
You can not rent the power of govenrment if government does not have power to rent.
Limited govenrment and free markets require Everyone to constantly compete on the merits.
Not by using government power to block competitors.
You do not live in reality.
And like nearly all left wing nuts you are actually clueless about human nature.
Which is the reason that all left wing nut forms of govenrment ultimately fail.
Society – including govenrment must work with the people we have, not the ones we wish we had.
The incredibly intelligent super altruistic leader that communism – and ALL leftism requires to succeed – does not exist.
This nation – which created the self govenrment that has become the norm in nearly all the world was not created by saints. It was created by people who owned other people. It was created by people who were atleast as politically vindictive as those today.
America is the model for the world – not because american leaders are perfect, but because our system of govenrment works despite human imperfection.
My “home country” is the US my family has been here since before the civil war. They came mostly from Ireland, with a sprinkling of scotts. and a german or two mixed in – as well as atleast one some Ashkenazi Jew.
I was a member of the ACLU – until the ACLU shifted from defending individual rights to attacking them.
I was a member of the SPLC until the evidence of internal SPLC racism emerged.
I am a member and contributor to EJI – the Equal Justice Institute – which I doubt you have the slightest clue about.
Regardless EJI is responsible for persuading the CONSERVATIVES on the supreme court to narrow the application of the death penality – partularly with respect to juveniles and younger adults. To get the Supreme court to virtually eliminate life sentences for juveniles and young adults.
I am inarguably a LIBERAL – that is someone who values individual liberty highly – today we call them libertarians.
I chaffe at those on the right here who use liberal as a perjorative. The people who call themselves liberal today are ILLIBERAL – the antithesis of liberal. But that is a common theme on the left. The american left and early progressives were evil people strongly associated with racism eugenics, and fascism. So much so that the term progressive became a perjorative – which is why those on the left STOLE the term “liberal” from early 20th century classical liberals and libertarians. More recently you have slimed the term liberal so much the left is reusing the term progressive – because no one is still alive who remembers how vile progressives and progressiveness was.
But it is no different today than in the past – as before racism, and fascism continue to come FROM THE LEFT.
In the 60’s and 70’s as the true horrors of “communism” and “socialism” were exposed – as we learned of the Gulags and the Killing fields and how tiny the difference between fascists and communists were, very few – even in the ivory towers were willing to identify as socialists of communists. Socialism and communism have lost the intellectual fight, the economic fight, the moral fight and have proven bloody and inferior everywhere they have been tried. But left wing nuts slowly took over our education institutions and came back out of the closet in the 21st century and have deprived out children of the historical reality of the gargantuan and bloody failures of the left
so once again idiots can openly claim to be progressive, socialist, and communist. Idiotic nonsense that has never worked anywhere.
You rant claiming ties between Putin and the right – yet it was the Clinton campaing that actually colluded with Russia, It was Bill Clinton who received nearly a million from russians, and the Clinton foundation that received hundfreds of millions from russians.
We constantly hear this Russia, Russia, Russia nonsense from the left – but it is the left that has ALWAYS been in bed with the Russians (*as well as german and italian fascists)
There is no “hard right” in the US today. Or more accurately outside of a handful of impotent and voiceless cretins that pretty much no one pays any attention to the “hard right” in the US today is what we would have called liberal in the 60’s.
Absolutely Billionas are spent in US politics – and alot of it comes from Billionaires and multimillionaires.
But again you LIE – for every $1 the uberwealthy contribute to the right – atleast $2 are given to the left.
In a prior post I named nearly 2 dozen major left contributing billionaires. Zuckerberg alone contributed $400M to getting Biden elected in 2020. Can you name more than one or two significant right contributing billionaires ?
Hillary out fund raised Trump nearly 2:1, as did Biden and Harris – mostr of that coming from Billionaires.
“The billionaires on the right put up $1 Billion in the last election across maybe 10 contributors.”
Correct – more than 70% going to democrats.
” Musk kicked in a quarter billion all by himself.”
Correct and Zuckerberg contributed nearly twice that to getting Biden elected in 2020.
“The Democrats typically rank at half that amount in contributions with the majority being individual $10-$100.”
Democrats get more money at ALL levels – they also get more money through fraud, Act Blue is being inverstigated and we are finding massive amounts of “small donations” were not actually given by the people they are attributed to. And alot of it is coming from outside the country which is illegal.
Contra the left Fraud in politics is commonplace – fiscal fraud, voting fraud,
As Lord Acton noted “Power Corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely”
Do republcians engage in Fraud – without any doubt, though not on the scale that democrats do.
Contra left wing nuts – Billionaires do NOT contribute massive amounts of money to foster limited government.
Contra the left the threat to the wealth of Billionaires is NOT the poor or government, it is the almost billionaires,
and the threat to them is those with slightly less, and so on down the line.
The largest corporations in america SUPPORT government regulation – so long as it makes it harder for smaller companies to compete with them.
PPACA has been a disasterous failure – which democrats are now demanding that Republicans fix.
But it has also been a Give away of trillions of dollars to the health insurance industry.
The current administration is making a huge deal of publicizing and going after government fraud of all kinds in Blue states – and it is like shooting fish in a barrel. But it would be stupid to pretend there is not similar fraud in red states. Not on the scale of blue states – but still hundreds of millions even billions.
You ranted about Musk, but one of the things DOGE found was government money going to left wing NGO’s that then contributed significant portions of that money to democrat politicians.
Regardless Lord Acton’s law is absolute – and it will ALWAYS be true that those who want more power in govenrment are also involved in more fraud. It will ALWAYS be true that US big businesses and US Billionaire contribute more to bigger government politics than smaller govenrment politics.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men should do nothing.”
– [The Right Honourable Edmund Burke?]
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The Powers around the Middle East—Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, and Israel—will have to do something soon to eradicate all regional terrorists, including their state sponsors, and resume the free flow of oil.
This smells of a Pay-Off gone sideways. Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and Assistant District Attorney Matthew Stiegler got bought (at street level) to deliver and assigned then-Assistant District Attorney Jaclyn Mason to the case. thinking she would be capable of handling the Mob directive.
She blew it and now you have what you have.
The fact that: “… Staffers were allegedly told that they could face “consequences” if they did not fall in line …” as well might have told them ‘Your getting a pair of Cement Boots for your Christmas bonus’ if you don’t fall in line.
REGARDLESS, The Philadelphia District Attorney Office has bigger fish to fry or that is not to intentionally fry, as the Mob is alive and well in the City of Brotherly Love.
A.I. String: ( Philadelphia mob in 2026 )
A pronounced internal divide is defining the Philadelphia mob in 2026, centered on friction between traditional members and the high-profile public activities of long-time figure Joseph “Skinny Joey” Merlino.
Current Factions and Leadership Tensions
The Anti-Joey Faction: The return from prison of high-ranking members like Stevie “Handsome Stevie” Mazzone and Dom Grande has energized a traditionalist camp. Mazzone has reportedly pushed a “freeze campaign” against Merlino, viewing his public media profile, podcasting, and restaurant ventures as damaging to traditional Cosa Nostra protocols.
The Pro-Joey Loyalists: Merlino retains a core group of loyal supporters in South Philadelphia, including figures like Johnny Chang, Marty Angelina, and Mikey Lance, prioritizing internal loyalty over traditional New York-backed oversight.
New York Influence: Traditional factions in New York continue to monitor the instability in Philadelphia closely, adding pressure on the local leadership divide.
This image shows a speculative 2026 organizational chart for the Philadelphia crime family, estimating a total membership of 30 to 50 people.
https://tinyurl.com/yc83m8uz
Key Leadership Roles
Boss: George Borgesi is depicted as the head of the family.
Underboss: Steven Mazzone is listed second in command.
Consigliere: John Ciancaglini is shown as the advisor.
Acting Underboss/Street Boss: Michael Lancellotti is listed in an operational role.
Past and Status Notes
Joey Merlino: Noted as a former boss who is currently “shelved”.
Joe Ligambi: Listed as a retired former acting boss.
John Stanfa: Marked as serving a life sentence in prison.
Capos and Factions
Marty Angelini: Capo for Philadelphia.
Dom Grande: Capo for Philadelphia.
Phil Narducci: Capo for South Jersey.
Joe Licata: Capo for North Jersey.
Philadelphia crime family – Current Members
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_crime_family#Current_members
Philly Prime Podcast/Mobtalk Sitdown “The Mob Is Not Dead”
Re.: Circa 2009 (Subject: Dennis Johnson)
News: Phila. police arrest 3 in unrelated homicides
Philadelphia police have arrested three men they say were involved with three unrelated homicides.
by Barbara Boyer, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Published March 10, 2009, 4:59 p.m. ET
Philadelphia police have arrested three men they say were involved with three unrelated homicides.
Detectives from the Homicide Fugitive Squad made an arrest yesterday of Kevin Weaver, 22, of the 5300 block of Locust Street.
Weaver is charged with murder for the March 8 slaying of Idris Jackson, 21, of the 5400 block of Montgomery Avenue. Police said Jackson was shot in the head and multiple times throughout the body while in the 5200 block of Irving Street.
About 5:30 a.m. yesterday, detectives and members of the U.S. Marshals Task Force arrested Dennis Johnson, 23, of the 700 block of Broad Street, Chambersburg, Pa.. Johnson was charged with murder for the slaying of Kenyatta Smith, 26, of the 2400 block of Cumberland Street. Smith was shot in the chest Aug. 17, 2007, about 3:15 a.m. at 30th Street and Lehigh Avenue, police said.
Also yesterday, fugitive detectives arrested Tyree Wilson, 20, of the 1900 block of Nichols Street for the shooting deaths of Hassan Baldwin, 25, of the 1800 block of North 22nd Street, and Daheem White, 21, of the 1300 block of North 10th Street. Baldwin was sitting in the driver’s seat and White in the passenger’s seat of a burgundy Ford Taurus parked on the 1300 block of North 10th Street when they were shot Feb. 23. Baldwin was shot multiple times throughout the body and head. White was shot multiple times in the chest and back.
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Images or official mugshots of Dennis Johnson are not publicly accessible in standard web archives.
However, public records state that Dennis Johnson, a 23-year-old resident of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, was arrested in March 2009 by fugitive-squad detectives and the U.S. Marshals Task Force.
He was charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Kenyatta Smith, which occurred on August 17, 2007, in Philadelphia.
Because law enforcement databases and media archives from that period are restricted or require official requests, the specific booking photograph from his arrest is not available for online viewing.
If you are looking to request public criminal history information or official court documents related to this case, you can contact the Pennsylvania State Police or the Franklin County Clerk of Courts.
Turley Writes:
“The George Soros-funded prosecutor..
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The implication here is that George Soros recklessly throws his money around to alter elections. Consequently creeps like Larry Krasner get elected.
Yet according to Open Secrets, George Soros does not even rank in the Top 25 of political donors. In fact, 7 of the Top 10 donors below are solidly Republican.
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Top Individual Political Donors 2024
Based on recent comprehensive federal tracking data (such as OpenSecrets and national campaign finance reports), the largest individual contributors include:
Elon Musk – ~$291.5 million (Republican/Conservative)
Timothy Mellon – ~$197.0 million (Republican/Conservative)
Miriam O. Adelson – ~$148.3 million (Republican/Conservative)
Richard & Elizabeth A. Uihlein – ~$143.5 million (Republican/ Conservative)
Kenneth C. Griffin – ~$108.4 million (Republican/Conservative)
Jeffrey S. & Janine Yass – ~$101.1 million (Republican/Conservative)
Paul E. Singer – ~$66.8 million (Republican/Conservative)
Michael R. Bloomberg – ~$64.3 million (Democrat/Liberal)
Dustin Moskovitz – ~$50.7 million (Democrat/Liberal)
Marc Andreessen – ~$42.4 million (Leans Republican/Conservative)
https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donors
The point that Mr. Anonymous wants to miss is that defense attorneys showing up as PROSECUTORS is rigging the game to the detriment of society. How would Mr, Anonymous like it if radical tough on crime guys like the sheriff in Florida were being appointed as defense attorneys for indigent defendants?
It is sick that we have prosecutors fighting to release the criminals they are sworn to put away or at least…you know…prosecute.
Prosecutors should uphold the truth. Prosecution should only happen when there is truth of a crime. Too often prosecutors lie to those who have been arrested and make misrepresentations to the judge and jury about the quality of the evidence. They hire experts who will back whatever nonsense claim as established science. If they aren’t getting convictions their political opponents say they are soft on crime, regardless if those who are prosecuted are actually criminals. Likewise, if they don’t make these prosecutions, then the police will screw them politically for making it look like the police are doing what the police actually do, which is railroading innocent people to make their arrest records look good. Police especially love to make an unfounded arrest for which the person is released without charge so in the future they can make a second arrest to establish a pattern of arrests, in other words, a career criminal who may never have committed any crime.
Hullbobby is one of Estovir’s oldest puppets.
He’s a corrupted, loathsome piece of garbage. Prosecute him.
Yeah yeah when we going to see Obama Clinton and crew indicted for their treason?
Estovir is 8 Ball making broad claims impossible to support.
Everyone should take a couple of minutes to look through this thread and count how may people this Anonymous troll has falsely accused others of being this “Estovir” person. It appears that Anonymous is seeing Estovir under every rock, that folks is what psychological obsession looks like.
Tell me Anonymous; is this Estovir stalking you and out to get you or is it logically more likely, based on your own words, that you’re suffering from a bit of a paranoid psychosis causing you to see this “Estovir” under every rock? What you’re doing is a form of cyber stalking.
Get some help Anonymous before your delusional psychosis rolls out of the cyber world and straight into real world where real consequences await your pattern of stalking.
Steve
Me thinks that Ano is in love with Estovir
LOL
DustOff,
Oh, annony is not in love with Estovir.
A while back, annony went up against Estovir and Estovir handed annony his arse on a cold platter with many of us cheering Estovir on. It was truly awesome! As a result, annony took it personally. And it shows.
Tulsi Gabbard ‘s released show John Brennan notes and falsifications already substantiated it.
#. This was an armed robbery on a street corner? I tried to get some details of the murder but didn’t get much. Johnson shot Kenyatta in the chest. He’s claiming he wasn’t the gunman and didn’t get appropriate representation? Jury found him guilty. It’s part of the innocence project?
That’s all I could find. Guessing nothing will come of the Krasner referral.
This argument below, regarding AI regulation, or lack of, presumes the constitution is frozen in the 1780’s. As if no branch of government can possibly act on anything not mentioned specifically in the constitution. This type of thinking has triggered the backlash calling for a packing of the Court.
There is a way to update the constitution. It’s called an amendment. Keep in mind that the most important thing about our constitution and form of govt is that it rests on a charter of negative liberties. If men were angels there would be no need for government. And since governments are composed of men governments need to be limited .
Amending the constitution is all but impossible in today’s political environment. So anyone who offers that as a viable option is totally disengenous.
Impossible.
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“Your lips to God’s ears.”
– The American Founders and Framers.
Yes, times have changed. Google says that morals are fluid and are a part of a person’s ideas of right and wrong. 🤯
Treason by a Traitor
Clearly you are not an American. The Constitution and Bill of Rights are the fundamental law of the United States of America.
“[A] limited Constitution … can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing … To deny this would be to affirm … that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“…courts…must…declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void.”
“…men…do…what their powers do not authorize, [and] what [their powers] forbid.”
The Bible is frozen at the point or origin 4,000 years ago?
OT
AI—Artificial Intelligence
Congress has absolutely NO power to regulate the technology and software industry per Article 1, Section 8.
The technology and software industry in 1789 would have been equivalent to the precision-manufacturing and scientific-instrument industry.
Article I, Section 8, makes no mention of regulating that sector or any similar sector.
Any attempt to regulate AI would be irrefutably unconstitutional, understanding that the Constitution limits and restricts government while providing maximal freedom to individuals.
For all you sophists and rules lawyers, and chicaners, AI is not subject to the Commerce or Necessary and Proper Clauses.
Holy-moly, you do have a sense of just how many “inventions” have been regulated since the Constitution signing, correct? I don’t disagree with you necessarily that government needs to stay out of AI, but the single statement in the Preamble (promote the general Welfare) would seem to give a busy body government leeway to regulate it’s little bureaucratic heart out!
I’m sure there is a Constitutional Lawyer here (Professor?) that could explain the reasoning better than a retired Engineer, but the EPA alone has taken jurisdictions over dirt, air, trees, etc., at various times in the past…..
Please cite the Constitution for any possible regulation.
Crime. Crime-fighting is an enduring reason for having government. Criminal law regulates individual behavior and corporate behavior. Example, corporations cannot print US currency. Corporations cannot own, buy or sell persons.
Torts. The threat of being sued is a form of behavior regulation — constraining individuals and corporations on taking actions that cause harms, but which are not criminal (prosecutable). Example: Allowing impurities into a drug sold that then causes sickness is actionable as a tort.
Major sections of the Constitution enable crime-fighting and torts-handling.
Therefore, the AI companies are regulated by existing law, and always at risk of being sued. Congress can enact law defining new crimes bearing on AI. E.g., though not presently illegal, a dead person’s face, voice and likeness could be protected from use to synthesize deep fakes as a means of intended deception — Congress very well will end up adding these protections to a person’s estate. Or, they could legislate such protections as part of torts law.
These examples clearly show AI being regulated consistent with the Constitution.
AI and the Constitutional Limits of Federal Power
Crime and torts are not themselves “government regulation.” Criminal law establishes prohibited conduct and punishments. Tort law establishes civil liability and remedies for legally recognized harms. Both can constrain the conduct of individuals and corporations, but neither constitutes a general governmental power to regulate an industry.
There is no enumerated constitutional power to regulate the technology industry, and there is no enumerated constitutional power to regulate artificial intelligence as such. The federal government possesses only the powers granted to it by the Constitution. The emergence of a new technology does not create a new federal power.
The founding-era context is significant. In 1789, technologically sophisticated private enterprises—including precision manufacturing and the manufacture of scientific instruments—already existed. Article I, Section 8 did not grant Congress a general power to regulate those industries. The modern technology and software industry is functionally analogous: technological sophistication does not itself create federal regulatory authority. The advancement of technology cannot enlarge the powers enumerated in the Constitution.
The Commerce Clause does not provide a general power to regulate industry. It grants Congress the power “to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.” Properly understood, commerce concerns buying and selling—the exchange of goods and services. The Clause therefore addresses commerce within the relationships specified in the text; it does not establish a general federal police power over technology, industry, production, employment, or private conduct.
Consequently, Congress cannot obtain a power to regulate AI merely by characterizing an AI law as criminal law, tort law, or commerce regulation. A criminal prohibition must rest upon an actual constitutional power, and federal tort legislation must likewise rest upon an actual constitutional power. Neither the criminal classification nor the tort classification creates constitutional authority that otherwise does not exist.
AI companies, like other individuals and corporations, remain subject to existing laws that are constitutionally applicable to their conduct. If an AI company commits an existing crime, the applicable criminal law may apply. If its conduct constitutes an existing tort, the applicable tort law may provide a remedy. These facts do not establish a general congressional power to regulate AI.
Congress could enact additional laws concerning particular AI-related conduct only where an enumerated constitutional power authorizes those laws. For example, legislation addressing deceptive use of a person’s likeness would require an identifiable constitutional basis for federal legislation. Simply declaring the conduct to be a crime or creating a tort would not supply that basis.
The fundamental issue is therefore not whether AI can be subjected to legal consequences. It is whether Congress possesses constitutional authority to enact the particular law imposing those consequences. Without an enumerated constitutional power, Congress has no authority to regulate AI or the technology and software industry as an industry.
The principle is consistent with Alexander Hamilton’s argument in Federalist No. 78: the Constitution is fundamental law, and courts have the duty to refuse effect to governmental acts that conflict with it. A limited Constitution can remain limited in practice only if governmental acts that exceed constitutional authority are treated as void.
The original Constitution gave inventors rights to Patent their work. Scientific instruments of the 1790s.
Are you saying Patent Law is not a form of regulating industry?
The automobile industry. Are you saying there is no legal authority to require shatter-proof glass for windshields? Tens of thousands of blinded, scarred faces from the 1920s-1940s look down on your ideological rigidity with disgust.
Do you have any sense of how unconstitutional the Civil War was due to the absolute fact that secession was not prohibited and fully constitutional? Lincoln began the monumental corruption, took America off of the Constitution, and put it on the road to “progressiveism,” which is communism, which is where America is today.
In yet another setback for Donald J. Trump, on Thursday Iran renamed the Strait of Hormuz after President John F. Kennedy.
In a ceremonial unveiling, members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) removed a tarp covering a newly-installed toll booth on the Strait, revealing the words “The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for International Shipping.”
“These people are sick and evil!” Trump said in a post on Truth Social, calling the Iranians “even worse than the Supreme Court.”
Such rhetoric did little to intimidate the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who announced plans to rename the Bab al-Mandab Strait after Hillary Clinton.
In a show of solidarity with President Trump, Prime Minister Netanyahu immediately renamed the Dead Sea after Senator Mitch McConnell
UPDATE: The Leader of the Free World has just been renamed “Mark Carney.”
DUMB
Hardly. Leader of Fools maybe.
Now that we are on the topic….Carney rejected out of hand the President’s half-joking offer to become the 51st state, gaining complete and equal standing in the largest economy, most powerful military and most free country in the world; however, he begged to become the only junior member of a bloated, burecratic heavy, failing European Union. Agenda much?
My guess is that President Trump will treat this as he should; dear Canada is no longer under the “Special Friendship” they have traditionally enjoyed of the US. 5-eyes membership? Nuclear deterrence? Protection of the Artic? Military? NORAD?
Does Carney even realize what that would mean? But go ahead with your EU wet dream and see if they show up when Russia lands on your ice berg in the north.
Get a real job ANON
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Darren, this puerile, purely ad hominem troll must be banned, seriously!
In yet another setback for “anonymous,” AI is now trained to search, probe, and reveal their identities and their medical psychiatric histories.
So says an anon. This one is really stupid too.
Death Valley is being renamed. Guess what it is.
May all the Soros DAs etc. fall like dominoes. They have wreaked unimaginable havoc on communities.
It is amazing that since 2017 the level of malfeasance in the elected prosecutors office. The Judiciary has been corrupted by George Soros backed personnel! From Prosecutors to Judges!
Fox Mentions Junior’s Wedding
Fox News devoted a grand total of 1 minute of airtime Monday to the bombshell report that a Russian oligarch with close ties to Vladimir Putin had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the lavish Bahamas wedding of Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son. The coverage came entirely in a single segment framed around the response to the story from Trump Jr.’s wife, Bettina.
Update (9/16/26): Special Report provided an additional 2 minutes of coverage on Tuesday about a Russian oligarch bankrolling Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding. Bret Baier asked correspondent Aishah Hasnie for an update on the story and later noted in a panel segment that “there would have been a lot of coverage of this” if it involved the son of a Democratic president. After Axios reporter Stef Kight said that “we are not hearing anything from Republicans” about a “very similar situation,” Baier commented: “Well, we want to cover it, cover it all.”
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-all-ignores-report-russian-oligarch-bankrolled-donald-trump-jrs-wedding
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To their credit, Fox News put the story out. And any viewer with critical thinking skills might have looked at these stories and asked, “What the hell was that?”
Was a crime committed? Call 911!
Yeah, Estovir, you don’t want to know why an oligarch spent hundreds of thousands on Junior’s wedding.
Was a crime committed? Call 911!
And yet Fox News is still the ONLY national news outlet to cover the beheading of a transportation guru sitting on a park bench in Round Rock Texas, by Nigerian-American Benedict Chinedu Ogbodiegwu Jr.
Well is he Nigerian or American?
When are the bar associations going to start pulling the bar licenses on these DA’s? Letitia James and the DA in Fulton County run their campaigns on illegally targeting folks; woke DA’s lie to courts. It has got to stop.
Pennsylvania police chief Mark Kessler posted a video to apologize.
He’s welcome to his opinion but that behavior was so intentionally unprofessional that he really should be fired.
Is the behavior of the communists, hijabers, and various and sundry other non-actual American, illegal alien invaders, past and present, “intentionally unprofessional” as they attempt to destroy, conquer, and “fundamentally transform” the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the United States of America into MexAfricAsiArabia?
Do you have any loyalty at all to the American Revolutionaries, the Founders, the Constitution, and the United States of America?
Seriously, he’s on a gun range with berms presumably?
Is this guy fighting a war for America?
Is this what America has come to, company commanders ordering their men to saddle up?
This video depicts exactly what the real thing looks like.
You posted a video from 2013? Thirteen years ago, going on 14? Off topic and silly.
Yeah, the video is about 13 years old.
How about Adolf Hitler’s house built in Argentina in the 1940s. Roll the video.
Is he one of the baddies?