Archive of entries posted on 11th October 2022

Wait: Is This How Jimmy Kimmel Keeps Getting Jobs?

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Georgia gang inmate, 31, ‘steals $11M while in max security jail after claiming to be billionaires, including Sidney Kimmel, and opening fake bank accounts in his name’
MailOnline | 10 October 2022 | Matt Powell

A Georgia inmate stole $11 million from a billionaire while in jail. A court heard gang member Arthur Lee Cofield impersonated Sidney Kimmel over the phone. The 31-year-old allegedly then bought a mansion in Atlanta worth $4.4 million.

Excellent due diligence by the realtors, the Registry of Deeds, and the banks involved.

A Georgia gang inmate serving 14 years for armed robbery allegedly impersonated a billionaire while locked up in a maximum-security prison and stole $11 million – using the cash to buy a mansion in Atlanta.

Arthur Lee Cofield Jr.,

— Hey! That’s the guy I just sent my house payment to! —

is accused of accessing the accounts of Sidney Kimmel, whose entertainment company is behind films such as ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ and ‘Moneyball’, from inside a Georgia prison with the help of contraband cell phones.

Cofield, 31, is said to have stolen the identity of the movie mogul, who is worth $1.5 billion, and then moved an eight-figure-sum out of his account to purchase a $4.4 million property, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

The scheme is believed to amount to one of the largest heists pulled off from inside an American prison.

Ranking only second only to that Jeffrey Epstein one.

At a previous bond hearing, federal prosecutors also said evidence suggested Cofield stole $2.25 million from an account belonging to Nicole Wertheim, the wife of Florida billionaire Herbert Wertheim, the Journal reported.

And still, less corrupt than a Congressperson who goes in middle-class and leaves a multimillionaire.

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The Science Is Not Only Settled: It’s Just Starting!

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Seasonal Change in Antarctic Ice Sheet Movement Observed for First Time

Phys.org | Oct. 6, 2022

Some estimates of Antarctica’s total contribution to sea-level rise may be over- or underestimated, after researchers detected a previously unknown source of ice loss variability.

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While it is not unusual for ice flow in Arctic and Alpine regions to speed up during summer, scientists had previously assumed that ice in Antarctica was not subject to the same seasonal movements, especially where it flows into large ice shelves and where temperatures are below freezing for most of the year.

Assumed.

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Straight Line of the Day: Biden Turns 80 Next Month! Appropriate Gift Ideas: …

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Straight Line of the Day: Biden turns 80 next month! Appropriate gift ideas: …

‘Senile’ Joe Biden Is Bringing Shame to the United States
NY Post | 2 Oct 2022 | Miranda Devine

Joe Biden’s cognitive deficits are increasingly apparent, even to the most amateur observer.

Whether he has dementia at this point is immaterial. Half the world thinks he does and that weakens the United States and imperils us all.

Whether he is falling up the stairs of Air Force One or falling off a stationary bike, whether he is wandering around on stage in a fog or clutching cheat sheets designed for a 4-year-old, whether he is shouting incoherently or whispering creepily, the optics are shocking.

With his 80th birthday approaching next month, even if most Americans are too polite or willfully unobservant to say so, it’s clear that Biden is not up to the world’s most difficult job.

He projects weakness and folly at a time of international turmoil. Disrespect for the president echoes around the world, among allies and enemies alike.

 

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