#felony — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #felony, aggregated by home.social.
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NBC: trump’s allies believe republicans will win the #midterms if they can get his base to #vote
※ Never mind the #felony convictions, #paedophilia, #Epstein files, losing the #war he started in #iran, high #gas #prices, #inflation, #tradewars…
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
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#American Who Wiped His Phone With 'Duress' Password During Border Search Gets #Felony Charges
#US Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts #Privacy at Risk
#SamuelTunick, faces a felony for deleting his phone’s data during an airport customs search, called the government’s peering into people’s private lives “creepy.”
#CPB wanted to search his phone. After questioning, he eventually turned it over but gave a passcode that then erased the Pixel phone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/us/politics/samuel-tunick-deleted-phone-felony.html -
A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
FAULT, n. One of my offenses, as distinguished from one of yours, the latter being crimes.
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914?) American writer and journalist
“Fault,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1884-08-02)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/85648…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #blame #crime #error #fault #felony #flaw #misdemeanor #perspective
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"According to the #Florida Dept of Law Enforcement, he was arrested in May 2016 on three #felony counts of unauthorized computer access stemming from incidents at the Lee County Supervisor of Elections and Florida Division of Elections.
At a plea hearing in the case, Levin described the #hacking as #political...
An arrest warrant ... describes a more extensive intrusion than simply discovering a vulnerable website."
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-doj-appears-to-have-hired-lawyer-convicted-of-hacking-election-sites/ -
How many felonies for hijaking the WiFi for an airplane and gather passenger data without consent? A lot:
1. Computer Fraud
2. Wire Fraud
3. Flight Crew/Attendants Interference
4. Aircraft system interference
5. Identity TheftYep, they're going to jail straight from landing.
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/117076896551534562
#Hacking #Hack #Jail #Felony #Airplanes #Airplane #Traveling
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Y'all remember back in the days ago when an #OpenAI model "escaped" and it was all the news for a minute?
#Anthropic said "hold my beer" and admitted that its Red team had left access to the internet open, and allowed the models to commit felonies unsupervised.
The model performed actions that if you or I did it, we'd be getting a visit from men with dark glasses...but with AI companies it's just "Whoopsies! Sorry about the infiltration, stealing your credentials, uploading malware and stuff. Our bad. Oopserdoodles! Hey, have you tried our chatbot, tho?"
There must be a reckoning. Wealth should not shield one from consequence. If corporations are people, then the executives and board can stand trial when they break the law.
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Lawyer Who Previously Represented President Of US In His #StormyDaniels Matters Rewarded With Appointment As Top U.S. Attorney in #Manhattan For the #DOJ #SDNY.
James M. McDonald was on the private defense team handling Prez #Drumpf's appeal of his numerous #NewYork #felony convictions brought by Letitia James. During the first #DON term, he served as Director of Enforcement at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and prior to that in 2009 he was #SCOTUS law clerk for Chief Justice John Roberts.
McDonald Replaces #DJT Loyalist Jay Clayton Who Is Replacing Tulsi Gabbard In Her Past Director Of #NSA Intel Post.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/nyregion/trump-attorney-james-mcdonald-manhattan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1VA.qy9h.ZW09tRB7hRh_&smid=url-share #LinkShare #GiftLink #NYTimes #Legal
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The federal #statute underlying the charge makes it a #felony to destroy #evidence or transfer assets to keep the government from seizing them, or to tip someone off about an upcoming search or wiretap. It carries a penalty of up to 5 years in federal prison, a fine, or both.
The act applies before, during or after a search. If the target of an investigation knows that a search or seizure is imminent, & that person acts to thwart it, they would fall under the statute, experts said.
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A #US Citizen Deleted His #Phone’s #Data. Now He Faces a #Felony Charge.
Federal prosecutors charged a man returning to the United States with #obstruction because he gave them a passcode that erased his #smartphone during a customs search.
#law #InfoSec #privacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/us/duress-password-phone-wipe-charge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1VA.PB_S.E8UqK3lm4peR&smid=nytcore-ios-share -
Josh Shapiro repeals HIV law that made a diagnosis a felony enhancement in Pennsylvania
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/pennsylvania-hiv-decriminilization
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Now I know what I'm putting on my direct action phone next!
Activist charged with felony after giving border agent "duress code" that wiped his phone
#Activist #Felony #DuressCode #GrapheneOS #CBP #ACAB #Security #Privacy #Surveillance #Security #Android #Tech
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#Activist charged with #felony after giving #border agent "duress code" that wiped his phone
In early 2025, Atlanta resident Samuel Tunick was on his way home following a trip abroad. After landing in the US, #customs agents demanded access to his Pixel phone, which was running an alternative version of #Android called #GrapheneOS. Rather than hand over his data, Tunick used a clever feature of the software to delete everything. Now, he's facing federal charges.
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Via #LLRX - Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on #cybersecurity issues, July 25, 2026. Four highlights from this week: Can your #ISP see what you do? Yes, unless you stop it; Here’s how; #OpenAI says its #AI #technology acted on its own in an ‘unprecedented’ #hack of another company; #Feds call on more states to make network vandalism a #felony; and New #FCC Proposal Pits #Phone #Privacy Against #Fraud Prevention. https://www.llrx.com/2026/07/pete-recommends-weekly-highlights-on-cyber-security-issues-july-25-2026/ #privacy #internet #email #technology #nationalsecurity
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It occurs to me that once you take deliberate action to evade a mechanism that has been put in place to restrict access - particularly *your* access - to a computer system, you are now in "unauthorized access to a computer system" felony territory.
US Title (?) 18, § 1030 - Fraud and related activity in connection with computers
> (a) Whoever— ... (2) intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds
> authorized access, and thereby obtains— ... (C) information from any protected computer;Scraping content would seem to qualify as obtaining information.
"Lock 'em up!"
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The level of pettiness never cease to astound
Ex-Olympian who touched #ReflectingPool charged with #felony destruction of property by #Trump’s DOJ | The Independent
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Insult the Pope then invoke God⁉️👇🤔
#tRump blasts 'godless' Democrats in incendiary speech to evangelicals
"Trump accused Democratic left of being "hardcore, godless communists" in a #divisive, politicized speech Fri full of #falsehoods abt his perceived foes as he addressed evangelicals at #rightwing #Christian conference🤥.. Despite a career mired in legal & ethical #scandals (fr alleged #affairs to #felony) twice-divorced Trump remains popular w the #evangelical right"🤦♂️
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/3277372/trump-blasts-godless-democrats-in-incendiary-speech-to-evangelicals -
Those motherfuckers. #Coffeezilla strikes again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKfQkRbd15k
I still wonder why they target that particular LEGO collection. I believe they thought they could get away with a small thing, but the Internet blew on their faces and they're now trying to save face.
#Lego #LegoCollection #BricksAndMinifigs #YouTube #Investigation #Crime #Felony
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The identity of the agent accused of firing the shot, Christian Castro, 52, had not been disclosed until Monday. Castro was charged with 4 counts of second-degree #assault, a #felony, & 1 count of falsely reporting a crime, a #misdemeanor.
A #state investigation into the Jan 14 #shooting of the #immigrant, Julio C. Sosa-Celis, had been stymied by the refusal of federal agencies to share information, including the names of the 2 agents involved in a chase that preceded the shooting.
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👏👏 #ICE Agent Charged in #Shooting of a #Venezuelan #Immigrant in #Minnesota
The agent is the second federal officer to face #felony charges in Minnesota stemming from Operation Metro Surge, the #Trump admin’s #immigration crackdown.
#law #UseOfForce #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/us/ice-agent-charges-venezuelan-immigrant.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
The agency has claimed the majority of new hires are police & military veterans. But evidence is mounting that applicants with questionable histories were either not fully vetted before they were brought on or were hired in spite of their past, an AP investigation found.
Thursday, prosecutors announced #felony #assault charges against #ICE officer Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. for pointing a handgun at the occupants of a car after pulling alongside them on a #Minneapolis-area highway in February.
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2 bankruptcies & 6 law enforcement jobs in 3 years. An allegation of #lying in a police report to justify a #felony charge against an innocent woman—an incident that led to a $75,000 settlement & criticism of his integrity. A 3rd job candidate once #failed to graduate from a police academy, then lasted only 3 weeks in his only job as a police officer.
#Trump #law #murder #Constitution #DueProcess #ExcessiveForce #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #CivilRights #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
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Another felon has committed voter fraud. Felons can't vote.
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The #legislation makes it a #crime for a person of one “biological sex” to “knowingly & willfully” enter bathrooms, locker rooms or changing rooms “designated for the opposite” sex. Violating the #law would be a #misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in #prison. A second offense within five years would be a #felony, carrying up to a 5-year prison sentence.
#Idaho #CriminalLaw #ignorance #bigotry #discrimination #LGBTQ
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So…beat a cop with a flagpole on Jan. 6 and get a pardon. Toss a sandwich at a Kevlar vest and suddenly it’s “lock him up”? That’s what passes for “backing the blue”? Please.
#backtheblue #thinblueline #january6th #subwaysandwich #washingtondc #capitolpolice #police #npd #washingtondcpolice #nationalpolice #capitolpolice #trump #federalpolice #lockhimup #felony #toughoncrime #assualtingpolice #briansicknick #cartoon #politicalcartoon #editorialcartoon #metropolice #mpd
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State by State Pending and Recently Passed #AntiProtestLaws: #Indiana
SB 471: New penalties for protests near critical infrastructure
Heightens the potential penalties for protests near oil and gas #pipelines and other infrastructure by creating the offenses of "criminal #infrastructure facility #trespass" and "#CriticalInfrastructure facility mischief." The law provides that an individual who knowingly enters a critical infrastructure facility without permission commits critical infrastructure facility trespass, a Level 6 #felony punishable by up to 30 months in prison. Under the law, recklessly or knowingly defacing such a facility constitutes critical infrastructure facility mischief, punishable by up to six years in prison as a Level 5 felony. In either case, the individual may additionally be liable to the property owner for damages, costs, and attorney's fees. An individual found to have conspired with someone who commits either offense may also be liable for a fine of $100,000. The law newly defines "critical infrastructure facility" under Indiana law to include a range of oil, gas, electric, water, telecommunications, and railroad facilities, as well as any "facility that is substantially similar" to one of the listed facilities.
Full text of bill: https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2019/bills/senate/471
Status: enacted
Introduced 14 Jan 2019; Approved by Senate 7 Feb 2019; Approved by House 25 March 2019; Signed by Governor Holcomb on 6 May 2019
Issue(s): #ProtestSupporters or Funders, #Infrastructure
SB 286: New criminal penalties for masked protesters
Would create a new offense for attending a public assembly while wearing a mask, and elevate disorderly conduct and rioting to felony offenses if committed by someone wearing a mask. The bill creates exemptions for masks worn for holidays, theater, religious purposes, medical purposes if prescribed by a doctor, and athletic events, but not protests. Under the bill, someone who wears a mask “while present at a public assembly” would commit a Class C misdemeanor (punishable by up to 60 days in jail) for a first offense but a Class A misdemeanor (up to one year and $5,000) for second and subsequent offenses. As written, the offense could cover a demonstrator who chooses to wear a mask to avoid contagion, to avoid retaliation for their political speech, or for any other reason, and who did not otherwise act unlawfully or have any intent to break a law. The offense would also seemingly cover bystanders “present” at a protest while masked. The bill would convert disorderly conduct and rioting—both broadly defined by Indiana law and typically misdemeanor offenses—into Level 6 felonies (up to two and a half years in prison and $10,000) if committed by someone in a mask. “Disorderly conduct,” for instance, covers someone who recklessly, knowingly, or intentionally “makes unreasonable noise and continues to do so after being asked to stop.” As such, someone who chooses to wear a mask while participating in a peaceful but noisy protest could face felony charges.
Full text of bill:
https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2025/bills/senate/286/detailsStatus: pending
Introduced 13 Jan 2025.
Issue(s): Face Covering, Riot
#FirstAmendment #CriminalizingDissent
#Authoritarianism #Fascism #Clampdown #CriminalizingProtest
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #AntiProtestLaws #PipelineProtests #TrafficInterference #MaskBans -
New York doctor indicted for prescribing #AbortionPill in #Louisiana
By SARA CLINE and GEOFF MULVIHILL
Updated 2:53 PM EST, January 31, 2025BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — "A New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury on Friday for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in the #DeepSouth state, which has one of the strictest near-total #AbortionBans in the country.
"Grand jurors at the District Court for the Parish of West Baton Rouge issued an indictment against Dr. #MargaretCarpenter; her company, #NightingaleMedical, PC; and a third person. All three were charged with #CriminalAbortion by means of #abortion-inducing drugs, a #felony.
"The case appears to be the first instance of criminal charges against a doctor accused of sending abortion pills to another state, at least since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned #RoeVWade in 2022 and opened the door for states to have strict anti-abortion laws."
Read more:
https://apnews.com/article/abortion-indictment-lousiana-new-york-doctor-63ff4d9da8a9b592a7ca4ec7ba538cd3
#ProBirth #Fascism #USPol #AntiabortionLaws #AntiAbortionLaws #HandmaidsTale #WelcomeToGilead -
Hey #JoeBiden. How about an #UnconditionalDischarge for #LeonardPeltier, or #StevenDonziger? Or how about all those with #Felony charges for painting #FreePalestine on some Ivy League university's walls?!
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Angela Benander, a spox for the #Michigan SoS’s office, said, “It speaks to the efforts that we are not going to tolerate any attempts to circumvent the #law.”
Election ofcls across the country are worried about effectively an insider threat—that elected ofcls steeped in #Trump #disinformation could disrupt the process.
Already in MI, the state has taken over supervision of elections in Shelby Twp, where a #Republican clerk was charged w/a #felony for his role in the 2020 #FakeElectors scheme.
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#Man #punched #Texas #votingclerk who told him to remove #MAGA #hat, #authorities say.
#JesseLutzenberger, 63, was #arrested on Thursday and #charged with #injury to an #elderly #person, according to the #BexarCounty #SheriffsOffice. He faces a third-degree #felony, punishable by up to 10 years in #prison and a #fine of up to $10,000.
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Thirty-four...! Ha ha ha.
Found guilty on all thirty-four 'counts'! Ha ha ha...
#SesameStreet #Count #von Count #counting #felony #charges #against #first #former #president #found #guilty #falsifying #business #records #defrauding #voters #NewYork #State #NYC #NewYorkCity #court #case #jury #deliberated #decision #conviction #jurors #convicted #felon #Judge #Merchan #Cohen #testified #Blanche #Habba #failed #sentencing #next -
#Blanche is focusing on the 34 docs that led to the 34 #felony charges. He sounded as if he was getting close to making a #legal argument about “intent to defraud.” The #jurors would have to find that #Trump acted w/ #intent to #defraud when he directed the falsification of the docs in order to find him #guilty.
Justice #Merchan appeared to glare at Blanche as he came close to commenting on the #law. But the defense lawyer moved away & the judge said nothing.
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#Trump’s ability to turn his supporters’ passion into #piety is crucial to understanding how he remains the undisputed #Republican ldr despite guiding his party to repeated #PoliticalFailures & while facing dozens of #felony charges in 4 #criminal cases. His success at portraying those prosecutions as persecutions —& warning, w/o merit, that his followers could be targeted next— has fueled enthusiasm for his candidacy & placed him, once again, in a position to capture the WH.
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Several of VA's #House #Democrats slammed #Republicans' efforts.
#GerryConnolly said on X that "Donald Trump is facing 91 #felony charges. If Republicans want to name something after him, I'd suggest they find a #FederalPrison."
"Congress must act on pressing issues like reauthorizing the #FAA & passing the #NationalSecurity supplemental. Yet this is what… #HouseRepublicans leadership focuses on -- renaming #Virginia's #Dulles airport after #Trump," Abigail Spanberger wrote on X.
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Texas AG Ken Paxton makes deal to avoid felony securities trial
#Texas #Attorney #General Ken Paxton (R), a conservative firebrand acquitted last year in a historic impeachment trial, has reached an agreement with prosecutors to avoid trial on long-standing state felony #securities #fraud charges.
#Paxton was charged nearly a decade ago, accused of #defrauding investors at a Dallas-area tech company by not disclosing that he was paid by the company to recruit them.
The case has been delayed for years by pretrial disputes over the trial’s location and special prosecutors’ fees.
Under the agreement reached in Harris County district court on Tuesday, prosecutors would #dismiss #felony charges against Paxton if he successfully completes community #service and advanced legal education #classes and pays restitution of about $300,000.
He had previously pleaded not guilty.
Paxton, 61, did not have to formally enter a plea or testify Tuesday.(He also declined to testify during his impeachment trial.)
He had faced up to 99 years in prison if convicted, as well as disqualification from holding state office.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/03/26/ken-paxton-deal-texas-securities-charges/
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You cannot make this stuff up. It already reads like a bad crime novel. The Russian GQP FBI informant charged w/ lying? His name is Alexander Smirnoff.
#trust #moose & #squirrel but #not #Alexander #Smirnoff #Alex #Lex #Sasha #FBI #informant #false #statements #fictitious #record #felony #charges #drink a #shot of #vodka #precious #water #Rocky #Bullwinkle #Boris #Natasha #spy #fly #bomb #drop go #boom -
#Trans #sexworker & #ACLU sue #Tennessee over #HIV #criminalization #law
The #Tennessee #law that requires #HIVpositive #sexworkers to #register for #life as a “#violentsexoffender.” The #law turns one #misdemeanor into a #felony, but only for #HIVpositive #people.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Tennessee #SexWork #SexWorkers #HIV #AIDS #Criminalization #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #BlackMastodon
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Prediction: any law that effectively regulates AI image generation tools "to prevent deepfakes and revenge porn" will eventually be leveraged to further outlaw your #GIMP and your #PhotoShop and your other fundamental tools of free visual speech. Such as the art of #collage. Possessing the tools to paste the president's face onto a donkey's ass will become a #felony.
#AI #GenerativeArt #Censorship #FreeSpeech #ImageEditors #FreedomOfSpeech #FreedomOfArt #Fakes #Deepfakes #Parody #Crime