Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Hedge fund manager Todd Newman’s successful career was upended when he was prosecuted for insider trading. After his conviction was thrown out on appeal, the case became a landmark in Wall Street regulation. An inside look at what it’s like to be stalked by the feds—and not back down. The phone call that changed…
Some of the most powerful espionage tools created by the National Security Agency’s elite group of hackers have been revealed in recent days, a development that could pose severe consequences for the spy agency’s operations and the security of government and corporate computers. A cache of hacking tools with code names such as Epicbanana, Buzzdirection…
People wait for the reopening of the security check at JFK Airport on August 15, 2016. Photo: Xinhua/Wang Ying When the first stampede began, my plane had just landed. It started, apparently, with a group of passengers awaiting departure in John F. Kennedy Airport Terminal 8 cheering Usain Bolt’s superhuman 100-meter dash. The applause sounded…
It’s a crime both uniquely lurid and bafflingly inexplicable — a double murder of a husband and wife in which the suspect was reportedly found astride one of the victims, biting “chunks of his face off.” This is the tragedy of John Stevens and Michelle Mishcon Stevens. And as the story unfolds of what happened inside…
“For much of our history, the ‘good’ rape victim, the ‘credible’ rape victim has been a dead one.” That’s just one of the many powerful statements Ontario Court Justice Marvin Zuker said in court last week while delivering his verdict in a Canadian university rape case. The judge announced that he found the defendant guilty of…
Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates instructed Justice Department officials Thursday to begin the process to end the federal government’s use of private prisons. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) The Justice Department plans to end its use of private prisons after officials concluded the facilities are both less safe and less effective at providing correctional services than those run…
Revolution is in the air again in New York City. Five years after the launch of Occupy Wall Street, activists have begun a new occupation. This is not Occupy 2.0, however. This protest, stationed at a park across from City Hall in lower Manhattan, was organized by the Movement for Black Lives. On Aug. 1, activists…
As one of only three black circuit court judges in Kentucky, Olu Stevens wasn’t afraid to talk about race on the bench. There was the time in 2015 that he publicly accused a mother of being racist when she said her 3-year-old daughter was “terrified of black males” after a black man invaded their home…
cxenseparse_start People gather in a smoky street following an officer-involved shooting Saturday. Aaron Mak A car burns after violence erupted during a standoff between police and an angry crowd near N. 44th St. and W. Auer Ave.(Photo: Calvin Mattheis / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) MILWAUKEE — A standoff between police and an angry crowd turned violent…
A former Colorado college student who was convicted of raping an intoxicated woman he was pretending to take care of was sentenced to 20 years of probation and two years of a jail work-release program. Austin James Wilkerson, a former University of Colorado student, had been facing 4 to 12 years in prison for sexual…