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Charles

Ortel, a former Wall Street banker and investor whose digging into the

financials of General Electric in 2007-2008 revealed that the conglomerate had

fraudulently overvalued its stock by hundreds of billions of dollars.

Since

February last year, Ortel has been looking closely at the finances and

operations of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Foundation. In a five-part series

on Leid Stories, he detailed his stunning findings that the foundation is

engaging in “massive fraud” through highly questionable, and downright illegal,

practices that purport to be in line with the foundation’s philanthropic work but

really are designed to enrich the Clintons.

With

the same zeal he pursued GE and exposed its financial crimes, Ortel is

untangling the global labyrinth within which the foundation functions and how

it has managed to evade the law as a renegade “charitable” institution.

Today

Ortel reveals the foundation’s shady operations involving hundreds of millions

of dollars solicited and received from foreign governments—ostensibly to

support HIV/AIDS programs in the developing world—but have yet to be accounted

for.

The duopoly’s national conventions are just weeks away—the Republicans meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, July 18-21; the Democrats, in Philadelphia, Pa., July 25-28.

Political and party fireworks leading up to the nominating conventions

are likely not to change the predetermined outcomes: Donald Trump will

be the Republican nominee; Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate, in

the general election.

Hence, our discussion today: Which way

forward for those who find both candidates, and the parties and process

that have produced them, detestable?

He continues to make speeches and statements attesting the viability

of the “political revolution” he ignited with his presidential bid and

vows to bring it to fruition at next month’s nominating convention in

Philadelphia (and beyond?), but the Independent senator from Vermont is

feeling the Clinton/Democratic Party burn. Big time.

He’s already

announced he’ll “vote for Hillary” in November in the interest of “party

unity,” but Sanders still has not definitively declared what he will do

with the 13-million-plus votes he won—except that “the people” should

take things from here.

Leid Stories pointed out early the

troubling similarities between Sanders’ and other “progressive”

Democrats’ false-flag presidential campaigns that looked and sounded

like popular movements but served only to bolster the political fortunes

of Democratic Party’s power elite.

What a week it’s been. Calamity. Treachery. Conspiracy. Intrigue. And that’s just Congress!

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got a lot to say about this week’s news issues and events, and about

other things, too. Well, get them said on Leid Stories’ “Free Your Mind

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Caesar Goodson, the third officer, and “star” defendant, tried in

connection with the brutal death of Freddie Gray today was cleared of

all charges—including second-degree depraved-heart murder; three counts

of manslaughter; assault; reckless endangerment; and misconduct in

office.

Noted attorney Alton H. Maddox Jr., who predicted the outcome of the case, deciphers the verdict.

In

the immediate aftermath of the June 12 massacre of 49 people and the

wounding of 53 others at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., President

Barack Obama told the nation that the alleged lone gunman, Omar Mateen, a

29-year-old security guard, had committed “an act of terror” and “an

act of hate.”

Various other officials in his

administration—including Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, FBI

Director James Comey and their boss U.S. Attorney General Loretta

Lynch—have echoed the president’s characterization of the tragedy, and

it appears to be the legal definition that is informing the government’s

ongoing investigations.

U.S.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the nation’s highest-level

law-enforcement official, followed quickly on the heels of President

Obama’s declaration of outrage about the June 12 massacre at the Pulse

gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., and his promise to the nation to “seek

justice.” Lynch was a featured guest on major weekend newsmaker shows

discussing the progress the DOJ was making in pursuing leads in the

case, with the alleged gunman, Omar Mateen, 29, and others believed

connected to him at the center of the investigation. Forty-nine people

were killed and 53 wounded in the mass shooting. Mateen died was killed

in as gun battle with police.  

Leid

Stories discusses a troublesome—and recurring—theme in the DOJ’s

investigations, raised once again in Lynch’s probe of the Orlando

massacre

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It took 15 hours of pleading by Senate Democrats yesterday

before Republicans agreed to consider two gun-control measures that would add

controls on licenses and background checks for people buying guns. Sen. Chris

Murphy, the junior senator from Connecticut, noting that almost four years

after the massacre of 20 schoolchildren and six staff members at the Sandy Hook

Elementary School in his home state, “we have done nothing, nothing at all to

reduce the likelihood that that will happen again to another family.”

But it did, just three days before Murphy’s

filibuster. Forty-nine people were killed, and 53 others wounded, in a mass

shooting on June 12 at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. Omar Mateen, 29, the

alleged lone gunman, mowed down his victims with a military-style assault rifle

and a high-powered handgun, even though he had been, at one point, on two federal

“watch” lists.

Leid Stories discusses the quandary that plagues

gun-control legislative efforts in the United States.

As

more is learned about Omar Mateen, the alleged lone gunman responsible

for the June 12 massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., and

about other related developments, we see a shift in how the story is

being reported and how officials are continuing to manage the mass

killing as “an act of terrorism.” Leid Stories continues the discussion

of the previous two days.

Yesterday’s

Democratic primary in Washington, D.C., the last hurrah of the primary

season, predictably handed an easy victory to Hillary Clinton over

Bernie Sanders—78.7 percent of the vote and 16 additional delegates to

supercharge her nomination. The D.C. primary, however, was not just a

ceremonious end to the faceoffs between the two candidates, says Leid

Stories; it pointedly brought home the necessity to part ways with the

established political order and the failure of third parties and

political movements to make inroads with constituencies that are looking

for alternatives.

President

Obama, expected to hit the campaign trail to support Hillary Clinton, instead

will be in Orlando today, paying his respects to the victims of the June 12

mass shooting by a lone gunman at a gay club there. Fifty people—including the

gunman, Omar Mateen, 29—died in the carnage, and 53 others were wounded, many of

them sustaining multiple wounds.

Leid Stories

continues yesterday’s discussion on the politicization of the tragedy.