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Leid Stories episodes

September 13, 2017 Leid Stories—Sessions’ Cowardly Decision in Freddie Gray Case A Mockery of Justice—09.13.17
U.S Attorney Jeff Sessions’ announcement yesterday that his Department of Justice will not prosecute six Baltimore officers who had been implicated in the controversial death of Freddie Gray two years ago has triggered new rounds of criticisms about preferential treatment for law-enforcement officers in the criminal-justice system.

Leid Stories discusses the significance and impact of Sessions’ announcement.
1 hr 2 min
September 12, 2017 Leid Stories—After the Storms, Few Reasons to Be Calm—09.12.17
There’s big money blowing in behind the storms this hurricane season, and if history tells us anything, there won’t be much careful thought behind who’ll get it and how it will be spent. While no one’s looking too closely in the middle of several disasters, this is when a lot of shady deals are done.

Leid Stories cautions that citizen watchdog groups be formed now to participate in overseeing rebuilding projects, wherever they are to being undertaken.
56 min
September 07, 2017 Leid Stories—Hurricane Irma’s “Free Your Mind Thursday—09.07.17
Irma, now classified as an “extreme Category 5” hurricane, is giving South Florida a taste of what she can do. Two days before her formal arrival, there are scattered power outpower outages.

Leid Stories, therefore, is pushing up our schedule by one day, just so ardent fans of “Free Your Mind Friday” won’t miss out on their weekly forum. Let’s hope this works.
56 min
September 06, 2017 Leid Stories—Hillary’s Book Tour Meant to Increase Her Political currency and Build Sympathy for Looming Mega Prosecutions Against Her and Husband Bill—09.06.17
Skipping across the country to promote and sell her recently released book, “What Happened”—her explanation for why she lost the 2016 election to Donald J. Trump—Hillary Clinton gives no hint that there’s much more than meets the eye.

But there is. Leid Stories explains what she’s hiding.
56 min
September 05, 2017 Leid Stories—Disasters Are Great for Political Business—09.05.17
Major cities and towns along the U.S. Gulf Coast slammed by Hurricane Harvey’s torrential rains and massive flooding are on storm watch again, hoping there won’t be a repeat performance from Irma, a storm picking up force and speed in the Caribbean that potentially can hit the South Florida coastline later this week.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says cleanup would cost between $180 and $200 billion in his state. But that’s just an estimate. And that’s at the top of the list of things that go unaccounted for, it seems, in disaster funding.

Leid Stories discusses how disasters are great for political business.
57 min
September 01, 2017 Leid Stories—Harvey Horrors and Other Raging Storms—09.01.17

Reeling from a slamming by Hurricane Harvey (now downgraded to a tropical depression), residents and businesses in coastal Texas and Louisiana are cleaning up and figuring out their next move, while keeping an eye on Irma, another major storm developing in the east Atlantic.
Leid Stories listeners discuss whether, as in the case of Houston, we really are prepared to live with natural disasters and catastrophic events.
1 hr
August 31, 2017 Leid Stories—Repeat Offenders! The Clintons Dole Out ‘Charity’ in Africa (Part 2)—08.31.17

Having been called out on the slipshod and highly irregular administrative and business practices of the Clinton Foundation and its affiliated entities, it appeared Bill and Hillary Clinton began to shut down parts of their U.S.-headquartered operations, especially those that were running afoul of U.S. charity and other laws.
At the same time, the foundation seems to be increasing its involvement overseas, flying under the radar of strict compliance and accountability.
Three agricultural projects run by the Clinton Foundation in Malawi, Rwanda and Tanzania again raise the issue of how the Clintons repeatedly flout laws, domestic and international, that regulate charities.
Ex-Wall Street banker-turned financial investigator Charles Ortel for years has been tracking the under-the-radar operations of the Clinton financial empire, at the core of which is a family foundation. The foundation, formally The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, claims it is a charity helping to solve major human challenges in the world, but Ortel has found damning proof that it has been operating in flagrant violation of domestic and international law as a slush fund for the Clintons, selling access and favors to “donors.”
“It’s the largest unprosecuted fraud in U.S. history,” says Ortel, who proved that several Wall Street-traded companies had been overvaluing their stocks by billions of dollars during the time of the 2008-2009 stock market crash.
56 min
August 30, 2017 Leid Stories—Repeat Offenders! The Clintons Dole Out ‘Charity’ in Africa—08.30.17

Outside the watchful eyes of governmental agencies—particularly those familiar with the law-breaking, charity-fraud practices of the Clinton Foundation and its various affiliates—the Clintons appear to be back in their “we do good works” business.
Ex-Wall Street banker-turned financial investigator Charles Ortel for years has been tracking the under-the-radar operations of the Clinton financial empire, at the core of which is a family foundation. The foundation, formally The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, claims it is a charity helping to solve major human challenges in the world, but Ortel has found damning proof that it operated in flagrant violation of domestic and international law as a slush fund for the Clintons, selling access and favors to “donors.”
“It’s the largest unprosecuted fraud in U.S. history,” says Ortel, who proved that several Wall Street-traded companies had been overvaluing their stocks by billions of dollars during the time of the 2008-2009 stock market crash.
Today on Leid Stories, Ortel details the highly irregular business model the Clintons appear to have followed, and still are following, to build their business empire.
54 min
August 29, 2017 Leid Stories—Trump Is Riding the Storm; Dems Are Just All Wet —08.29.17

Leid Stories examines what can only be described as a masterful turnaround for President Trump who, until Hurricane Harvey, was under brutal attack, dodging blows that could have signaled the beginning of the end.
Though scathed, Trump pulled through—not because he’s such a brilliant tactician, but because he comes from a “swamp,” too, and obeys its cardinal rule: Do unto them always, and never let them do unto you.
59 min
August 28, 2017 Leid Stories—Trump Slow on Hurricane Harvey, but Right on Time with Storms of His Own—08.28.17

As Hurricane Harvey, now downgraded to a storm, was wreaking havoc across the Texas gulf coast over the weekend, President Trump was planning firestorms of his own in the White House.
Leid Stories discusses a few storms Trump plans to whip up on Monday.
58 min