Elephant

Wildlife Trafficker Sentenced To 57 Months For Large-Scale Trafficking Of Rhinoceros Horns And Elephant Ivory

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that AMARA CHERIF, a/k/a “Bamba Issiaka,” a citizen of Guinea, was sentenced to 57 months for conspiring to traffic in millions of dollars in rhinoceros horns and elephant ivory, both endangered wildlife species, which involved the illegal poaching of more than approximately 35 rhinoceros and more than 100 elephants.  The sentence was imposed by U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods.  CHERIF’s co-conspirators, MOAZU KROMAH, a/k/a “Ayoub,” a/k/a “Ayuba,” a/k/a “Kampala Man,” a citizen of Liberia, and MANSUR MOHAMED SURUR, a/k/a “Mansour,” a citizen of Kenya, were

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SHEFFIELD: There’s A Massive Elephant In The Room And Fed Chair Powell Just Totally Ignored It

SHEFFIELD: There’s A Massive Elephant In The Room And Fed Chair Powell Just Totally Ignored It Carrie Sheffield on August 26, 2022 Yet again, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell refused Friday to show leadership and urge President Joe Biden and Congress to stop their inflationary fiscal spiral. During Powell’s remarks Friday at an economic policy symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, the chairman offered no useful wisdom to warn the White House and Capitol Hill. He offered no alarm over their reckless spending, from Congress’ falsely-named “Inflation Reduction Act” to Biden’s likely

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Third Defendant Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To Large-Scale Trafficking Of Rhinoceros Horns And Elephant Ivory Conspiracy

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MANSUR MOHAMED SURUR, a/k/a “Mansour,” a Kenyan citizen, pled guilty to conspiring to traffic in rhinoceros horns and elephant ivory, both endangered wildlife species, which involved the illegal poaching of more than approximately 35 rhinoceros and more than 100 elephants.  SURUR also pled guilty to conspiring to distribute heroin to a buyer located in the United States. Two of SURUR’s co-defendants, MOAZU KROMAH, a/k/a “Ayoub,” a/k/a “Ayuba,” a/k/a “Kampala Man,” a citizen of Liberia, and AMARA CHERIF, a/k/a “Bamba Issiaka,” a citizen of Guinea,

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The Wiggles Just Shocked GenZ, Reappearing in their Feed Out of Nowhere

Generation Z didn’t know how to respond this week when a blast from their past reappeared in their feed.   Most of GenZ grew up bopping out to the Wiggles, the Australian children’s band that rocked their entire generation when they were tots. It’s part of their past many in GenZ want to just ignore and pretend never happened. Until it happened.  GenZ was shocked to find the Wiggles in their feed after they performed on the popular #LikeAVersion hashtag mixing their Yummy Yummy Fruit Salad with Tame Impala’s “Elephant”. And they liked it, but they weren’t sure if they should

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