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Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Back in the 1950s, there was an ethically challenged governor of my home state of Georgia who would defend himself against frequent charges of corruption by accusing his critics of trying to undermine Jim Crow laws, of which he was a loud champion. One journalist referred to this argument as: “If you ain’t for stealin’, you ain’t for segregation!” I thought of this precedent upon reading about the impeachment of Texas attorney general Ken Paxton by the Texas House for a remarkable array of improprieties, which has led him to mobilize his MAGA allies to launch a highly ideological defense, as the Texas Tribune reports : One day after a Texas House committee recommended that Attorney General Ken Paxton be impeached, several prominent Republicans pressed a common strategy Friday: attack, attack, attack. In statements and social media posts, conservatives accused their fellow Republicans in the Texas House — Speaker Dade … [Read more...] about MAGA World Dismisses Ken Paxton Impeachment As Political Persecution

Gustave Newman, a goateed criminal defense lawyer in a host of headline-grabbing cases who genially cajoled skeptical juries and cowed hostile witnesses with his booming baritone, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 90. His death was confirmed by his son, Eric. A lion of New York’s white-collar criminal defense bar, Mr. Newman achieved one of his greatest courtroom successes in 1993, when, after a contentious five-month trial, he managed to win the acquittal of Robert A. Altman, a Washington lawyer who, with Clark M. Clifford, a former defense secretary, had been accused in a scandal involving global money-laundering and illegal transfer of capital. The episode, involving the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, cost depositors an estimated $12 million. His legal strategies also led the federal government in 1991 to drop its fraud and embezzlement case against Representative Floyd H. Flake, a Queens Democrat. He persuaded a jury to acquit Dov Hikind, a Democratic state … [Read more...] about Gustave Newman, Defense Lawyer in Sensational Cases, Dies at 90

Disney’s new Little Mermaid shows that Hollywood “still has the need to shy away from Blackness, even in diversity efforts,” according to a University of Baltimore professor who questioned the “point of having a Black little mermaid if she’s just going to be thrown into a center of a white world,” as he fantasized over a means to “turn all of the white characters Black.” On Wednesday, award-winning author Dwight (D.) Watkins grappled with the live-action Little Mermaid film as he questioned whether its “whitewashed diversity efforts” are still considered valid efforts, in an op-ed published in Salon , where he serves as editor-at-large. The essay, titled, “The Little Mermaid’ and Disney’s dilemma: Why no Black prince?” begins with Watkins describing his decision to take his three-year-old daughter to see the Disney remake in our “racist, sexist, divided country.” “I’m old enough to remember the first ‘Little Mermaid’ from back in ’89 and to know that Disney … [Read more...] about UBalt Professor Claims New ‘Little Mermaid’ Cast Not Diverse Enough

Four strange girls, somewhere between 12 and 200 years old, live in an isolated cabin in the woods. Don’t they always? Marlow (Sophia Anne Caruso) is the alpha, bossing the others around — and also bossing the stranded outsiders, because of course there are stranded outsiders in a play that trades on the tropes of a million horror tales. In “Grey House,” the prime trope is coy creepiness. Of the small knife she occasionally brandishes, Marlow, who gives Wednesday Addams vibes, comfortingly says, “If I put it in your eye, it wouldn’t even hit your brain.” Good to know — and basically true of the play itself. “Grey House,” at the Lyceum Theater , is certainly an in-your-face assault, more in the manner of John Carpenter movies than anything seen onstage since the age of melodrama. It is so expertly assembled from spare parts by the playwright Levi Holloway and the director Joe Mantello that you may not notice, between the jump scares and the shivery pauses, how little it has on … [Read more...] about Review: In ‘Grey House,’ Broadway Gets an Expert Haunting

0 Crime & Safety The owner of Westminster-based Tri-County Sandblasting pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing from his workers and was immediately sentenced. City News Service , News Partner Posted Reply WESTMINSTER, CA — The owner of Westminster-based Tri-County Sandblasting pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing from his workers and was immediately sentenced to 15 days in jail and placed on one year of informal probation. Pavel Osokin was accused of stealing about $215,000, according to Deputy District Attorney Donde McCament. He failed to pay full benefits to his workers by "misclassifying projects," McCament said when charges were filed in December 2019. Osokin pleaded guilty to grand theft, making a fraudulent statement to obtain or deny compensation and intent to evade taxes, all misdemeanors, according to court records. As part of the plea deal, four counts of grand theft, receipt of portion of wages of a workman and … [Read more...] about 15 Days In Jail For OC Man Guilty Of Stealing $215K From Employees

0 Crime & Safety Newport Beach residents can expect to see more police officers patrolling the streets starting Friday and ending Saturday. Miranda Ceja , Patch Staff Posted Reply NEWPORT BEACH, CA — Newport Beach police officers reminded residents not to push their luck and drive under the influence this St. Patrick's Day, as the department announced an increased police presence on the streets this holiday weekend. The increased patrol will start at 10 a.m. Friday and end on Saturday at 2 a.m. Newport Beach officers will be "looking for drivers suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs," the department said in a statement. "Leave your keys at home and plan ahead before you celebrate St. Patrick's Day," Lieutenant Eric Miller said in a statement. "Designate a sober driver, schedule a ride share or make other planes to get home safely if you plan to drink." St. Patrick's Day is one of the … [Read more...] about Upped Police Presence For St. Patrick’s Day In Newport Beach