Manafort Indictment Reaction

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Legal experts greeted the indictment of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and a business associate with studied interest, saying that it was far too early to predict the final outcome of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.

“It doesn’t reflect well, but it doesn’t impugn the [Trump] campaign, either,” said Scott Greenfield, a New York-based criminal defense attorney who told Fox News his reaction to the indictment was “a huge yawn.”

“For anyone who thought Mueller’s opening salvo would bring down Trump, the indictment is a huge disappointment,” Greenfield added.

Manafort and Rick Gates face 12 felony counts, including money laundering, conspiracy and acting as unregistered foreign agents. According to the indictment, which was unsealed Monday, the pair engaged in covert lobbying work for pro-Russian interests in Ukraine.

Andrew McCarthy, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney best known for prosecuting the 1993 World Trade Center bombing case, wrote on National Review Online Monday that the indictment was “much ado about nothing … except as a vehicle to squeeze Manafort.” In an addendum to his original article published Wednesday, McCarthy noted that the indictment does not accuse Manafort or Gates of tax law felonies or fraud. (Read more from “Manafort Indictment Reaction” HERE)

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Mom Strapped Son to the Roof of Minivan to Hold Down Plastic Pool

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A 28-year-old Wisconsin mother is accused of taking her son for a very dangerous ride — on top of the family minivan — in order to hold down a plastic pool, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday.

Amber Schmunk of Fredonia is charged with second degree recklessly endangering safety and could face up to 10 years in prison for the Sept. 9 incident, according to the complaint obtained by FOX6.

Authorities were initially called after receiving a report of a child riding on top of a minivan holding a plastic pool.

The complaint obtained by FOX6 said the 28-year-old eventually pulled over and took her son off the roof, folded the pool up and put it into the van before pulling into her sister’s driveway.

After police arrived at the sister’s house, Schmunk said she “believed it was OK as her father let her do things like that when she was that age,” the complaint said. (Read more from “Mom Strapped Son to the Roof of Minivan to Hold Down Plastic Pool” HERE)

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Watch Democrat Lawmaker’s Meltdown Over Speeding Ticket

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A New York Democrat lawmaker has been captured on video screaming at the top of her lungs at a police officer, desperately begging, hysterically shouting that she doesn’t “feel safe” and staggering as if she’s about to collapse onto the ground – all because she received a speeding ticket for driving 13 miles per hour too fast.

County legislator Jennifer Schwartz Berky, a New York Democrat who represents the city of Kingston, is up for re-election in six days.

So it’s perhaps unfortunate timing for Berky that a video of her total roadside meltdown, which happened in May, was recently released by the Town of Ulster Town Board following several freedom-of-information requests . . .

Ulster Police Officer Gary Short asked Berky if she needed medical attention and whether he should call an ambulance. But she didn’t appear to accept his offer.

He also offered to write Berky a ticket for only a non-moving violation – failure to wear her seat-belt, a lesser offense than speeding – even though he appeared to have acknowledged she had been wearing her seat-belt. But Berky refused. So he wrote up the speeding ticket. (Read more from “Watch Democrat Lawmaker’s Meltdown Over Speeding Ticket” HERE)

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Chuck Norris Sues Drug Companies for ‘Poisoning’ Wife

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Action star Chuck Norris usually resolves problems with a roundhouse kick, but this time he’s taking a different approach – he’s going to court.

Norris filed suit against 11 drug companies Wednesday in San Francisco for “poisoning” his wife Gena with a dye containing the heavy metal gadolinium used with MRI scans in a procedure that “left her close to death with lifelong pain and weakness.” The dye makes the organs easier to see on the scans, improving diagnosis.

Following three MRI scans in one week five years ago to assess her rheumatoid arthritis, Gena began to feel like she was dying. And her husband could see it, too.

“I just heard that still small voice deep inside of me that said, ‘Gena your body is dying.’ And I walked out of the bathroom and he just took one look at me and he knew; ‘I’m about to lose my wife,’” Gena said in an interview on “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson.” . . .

He went on, “Well it’s the helpless feeling, you know cause I’m kind of a take charge guy, and then here I have something where I cannot do anything and it was, it was horrifying and, and uh, I just thank, thank God that we were able to weather it and that she did get better and I got my wife back.” (Read more from “Chuck Norris Sues Drug Companies for ‘Poisoning’ Wife” HERE)

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53-Year-Old Nuclear Missile Accident Revealed

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Bob Hicks was spending a cold December night in his barracks 53 years ago at Ellsworth Air Force Base near Rapid City when the phone rang.

It was the chief of his missile maintenance team, who dispatched Hicks to an incident at an underground silo.

“The warhead,” the team chief said, “is no longer on top of the missile.”

Hicks eventually learned that a screwdriver used by another airman caused a short circuit that resulted in an explosion. The blast popped off the missile’s cone — the part containing the thermonuclear warhead — and sent it on a 75-foot fall to the bottom of the 80-foot-deep silo.

The courageous actions Hicks took that night and over the next several days were not publicized. The accident was not disclosed to the public until years later, when a government report on accidents with nuclear weapons included seven sentences about it. The report listed the accident as the nation’s first involving a Minuteman missile. (Read more from “53-Year-Old Nuclear Missile Accident Revealed” HERE)

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Corey Feldman Names His Sexual Predator

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The 80’s star said the man who attacked him when he was 14 years old is named John Grissom, an actor who had bit parts in some of Feldman’s films including “License to Drive” (1988) and “Dream a Little Dream” (1989).

Prior to the singer’s revelation on the talk show, Feldman wrote about the alleged pedophile in his 2014 autobiography, “Coreyography: A Memoir,” identifying Grissom by a false name, Ron Crimson, as advised by his lawyers at the time.

However, Grissom, who has been suspected by some on social media for several weeks, addressed speculation that he was Feldman’s predator.

On Grissom’s comment section on YouTube he denied Feldman’s accusations and wrote to one site user, “I said its not me I’m sick and tired of saying that when no one listens. So goddamnit I’m not repeating it anymore.”

Feldman warned Hollywood pedophiles issuing a message, “Now is your time. Be a man for the first time and come forward yourself. Turn yourself in. Let it be known…If you do not we’re coming for you.” (Read more from “Corey Feldman Names His Sexual Predator” HERE)

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