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MTA Worker Busted for Having Sex at New York Railyard While Collecting Overtime


A Metro North worker resigned last month after the MTA watchdog busted him for having sex with a woman while on the job at a railyard and while collecting overtime pay.

Investigators with the office of the MTA Inspector General witnessed the 25-year veteran of the MTA bring a woman onto the grounds of the Croton-Harmon property three times in spring 2020, including one time where the two had sexual contact, the New York Post reported Monday.

On May 16, investigators observed the man and woman “kiss and have intimate contact” in a rail storage yard “behind the open door” of the woman’s car.

The trainyard affair occurred merely 10 to 15 feet from tracks labeled “No Entry Except Authorized Vehicles” and took place in the middle of the employee’s overtime shift and lasted for 77 minutes.

Investigators also caught the employee taking longer-than-permitted lunch breaks off MTA property, including one time where he met with the woman for more than three hours.

The employee was brought up on disciplinary charges in December 2020 and resigned in January after a disciplinary hearing, according to the inspector general.

“Metro-North has zero tolerance for theft of time or appropriation of resources for personal use,” said MTA spokesman Aaron Donovan. “This employee was suspended without pay and subsequently resigned, and we are reviewing ways to improve accountability.”

The Office of Inspector General has spent years going after overtime cheats, leading to the arrest of five MTA employees.

Federal prosecutors on Wednesday promised a trove of evidence, including 48,000 pages of documents that allegedly show the men clocking in from places that were not at work.

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Republican resolution calls for US boycott of Winter Olympics unless its moved from ‘brutal dictatorship’ of China

Republicans in the House of Representatives called for the United States to boycott the Winter Olympics because it is being hosted in Beijing by China.

The resolution by Republican Rep. Mike Waltz of Florida listed numerous outrageous acts by the communist government of China.

"The Chinese Communist Party has carried out a number of heinous acts in the last year alone that should disqualify them from hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics," said Rep. Waltz. "The world cannot legitimize the CCP’s acts of genocide in Xinjiang, destruction of the democratic rights of Hong Kong, and dangerous suppression of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan that cost lives by sending delegations to Beijing."

Today, Rep. Waltz introduced a resolution to call on the U.S. Olympic Committee to withdraw from the 2022 Winter Ol… https://t.co/8XbeSzUoPA

— Congressman Waltz Press (@Congressman Waltz Press)1613414132.0

Here’s a list of some of the offenses Waltz listed:

  • The genocide and mass internment of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang providence of China.
  • The undermining of democratic rights and dismantling of "one country, two systems" framework in Hong Kong.
  • The CCP targeting and control of religious practices in China.
  • The failure to report the outbreak of the coronavirus to the World Health Organization and suppression of reports from medical doctors in Wuhan, China.

The resolution calls for the United States Olympic Committee to request the location of the Olympics, scheduled Feb. 4-20, 2022, to be moved to another site away from Beijing.

"[H]osting the 2022 Winter Olympics Games in the [People’s Republic of China], where organized atrocities in the [Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region] are ongoing; where the freedoms of Hong Kong’s citizens are being trampled; where the fundamental right to worship is brutally persecuted; and in the wake of the ongoing global devastation from COVID-19; would be immoral, unethical and wrong," the resolution read.

Some lawmakers in Britain have already called for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics over similar concerns.

On Sunday, China responded by warning that any country participating in a boycott would face economic sanctions.

"China will seriously sanction any country that follows such a call," said Hu Xijin, the editor of the state-controlled Global Times. "Boycotting 2022 Beijing Winter Games, an unpopular idea, won’t receive wide support."

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BofA Hints That Weimar 2.0 Could Be Coming

BofA Hints That Weimar 2.0 Could Be Coming

It’s no secret that BofA’s Chief Investment Officer has been warning that 2021 – the  year of the vaccine – is one where real inflation (as opposed to financial) will run amok sooner or later, and in his latest Flow Show he repeats his two main contentions about how events will play out in the coming months, namely "the velocity of people will rise" and "the velocity of money will (also) rise".

Addressing the first,  Hartnett writes that since the core 2021 trends will be "vaccine>virus",  and "reopening>lockdown", this means that human mobility will rise & macro data will surge particularly in Q2 when investors should expect US GDP >10%, EPS >20% CPI 3-4% Y/Y, or an economy in fullblown overhating mode. 

This taken in conjunction with secular trends of bigger government, economic nationalism, fiscal excess, dollar debasement, War on Inequality, there is little wonder inflation breakevens & lead indicators are surging…

… and that small US business price plans over next 3 months are at highest since Nov’18…

… although whether or not they can actually achieve this is a different matter.

Stepping into the realm of monetary policy, and specifically its velocity, BofA reminds us that in the past 12 months, the US has raked in a $3.5TN (17% GDP) budget deficit, coupled with the injection of $13.3TN in global central bank liquidity (15% GDP).

Then, unafraid anymore to step on anyone’s toes, Hartnett admits that "as in pretty much every one of past 12 years, policy stimulus in 2020/21 continues to flow directly to Wall St not Main St, inciting historic wealth inequality via asset bubbles," and to think of the mockery we were subject to (by random idiots) back in 2009 in later years, when we said the Fed’s actions would lead to precisely this.

Anyway, Back fo BofA, which expects the "rising velocity of people" (vaccine>virus) in 2021 to engender rise in velocity of money, with the "inflation mutating" from Wall Street to Main Street, resulting in a pop in the nihilistic bubble.

And here is the punchline: BofA reflects back on the post-WW1 Germany (whose armistice was on Nov 1918) as the "most epic, extreme analog of surging velocity and inflation following end of war psychology, pent-up savings, lost confidence in currency & authorities" and specifically the Reichsbank’s monetization of debt, similar of course to what is going on now.

There is, of course, another name for that period: Weimar Germany, and because we all know what happened then, it is understandable why BofA does not want to mention that particular name.

So what does all this mean for investing? Here is how Hartnett is positioned:

Real assets will outperform financial assets: we believe 2020 marked secular low for rates/inflation, and 2020s likely decade of inflation assets>deflation, and real assets>financial (i.e., buy commodity-linked exposure, sell duration, tech and growth).

And to that point, Hartnett notes that since 1950 real assets (e.g. commodities, real estate, collectibles) have a > 70% correlation with inflation vs. just 5% correlation with financial assets (stocks & bonds).

Translation: Stanley Druckenmiller, and his "thesis trio" of…

  • short long-end Treasuries
  • very long commodities
  • "very very" short the dollar.

… is about to make another killing.

Tyler Durden
Mon, 02/15/2021 – 20:05

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‘He Sentenced Thousands’ to Death: Daughter of NY Nursing Home COVID Victim Slams Cuomo

Last week, a top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo admitted that the administration had covered up nursing home deaths due to COVID-19. Now, a relative of one of the victims is speaking out. “With the stroke of Gov. Cuomo’s pen, he sentenced thousands of people like my father to death, and he sentenced…

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Democrats’ New Senior Adviser Called Police ‘White Supremacists’ After Capitol Incursion

A major new hire by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee called police officers “white supremacists” last month and also supported rioters as they ravaged American cities last summer. Dyjuan Tatro joined the DCCC in early February as its senior adviser of strategic outreach for the diversity and inclusion department. “This past election cycle has emphasized…

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Watch: Bodycam Footage Shows Police Chase Take Touching Turn When Cop Confronts Suspect

A police chase in Kentucky took an unexpected turn when it came to an end, and serves as a helpful lesson in compassion. The woman being chased, Latrece Curry, left her home after a domestic dispute with her husband, and the chase began once she was tracked down by police, the New York Post reported. The…

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Watch: Trump Motorcade Greeted by Massive Crowd of Cheering Supporters on Presidents Day

For those who think it’s time to write off former President Donald Trump as a political has-been, the crowd on hand in southern Florida to greet his motorcade on Presidents Day should disabuse them of that notion. “Supporters of the former president gathered in West Palm Beach, Florida on Monday,  just a few miles east…

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The Polar Vortex Is Proving Exactly Why Green Energy Is a Disaster for America’s Power Grid

In the name of environmentalism, many on the left have proposed switching the nation’s energy from reliable fossil fuels to new green energy sources that rely on the good fortune of clear skies and proper wind velocity to power America. As if that weren’t enough cause to hesitate to indulge in such wishful thinking, another…

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TV Host Grieving Loss of Age 16 Son Who Died After Reportedly Purchasing Drugs on Snapchat

On Feb. 7, host, author and relationship expert Dr. Laura Berman experienced something no parent should ever have to experience. Her son Samuel, just 16, had connected with a drug dealer and was sold fentanyl-laced drugs that ultimately claimed his life, Berman said. “I went into his room, because we had been talking about an…

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