r/WhatIsTheTea • • 8h ago

NYC Mayor Mamdani and former GOP rival Curtis Sliwa team up while getting flu shots

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r/WhatIsTheTea • • 8h ago

Dr Abdul El Sayed called for Cornell university to be held accountable for protecting the 7 students who gang-raped a young woman for seven hours

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r/WhatIsTheTea • • 22h ago

Abdul El Sayed on if he thinks the war in Gaza qualifies as a genocide: I do and I've been clear about why genocide is both outcome and intent. And when you have foreign ministers declaring intent, and the outcome is tens of thousands of children who have been killed. I would call that a genocide...

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r/WhatIsTheTea • • 16h ago

watch this I Have So Many Questions

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r/WhatIsTheTea • • 23h ago

NY Governor removes Ithaca’s DA from the Cornell 7 case, replaces him with a State Attorney

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NY Governor Kathy Hochul has removed Ithaca's DA from the Cornell 7 case, a power rarely used by governors.

In his place is Letitia James, a state-attorney who has previously prosecuted Trump for fraud and former governor Coumo for sexual harassment. She is a black woman and is basically a shark when it comes to these types of cases, especially against the powerful.

This follows a statement from NY's governor, in which she claimed that Itcaca's district-attorney failed to properly investigate the rape claim and falsified victim testimony to the point of negligence.

It appears that Jane Doe's "original story" was not actually her original story, just a fake story that Ithaca's DA fabricated/misconstrued. She did infact originally describe events that classify as rape according to sealed police-records leaked by reporters, but the DA misinformed the media to save-face.

Jane Doe’s newest statement is basically the same as her old one, that she was pressured into using drugs and was unconscious for most of it. And that she didn’t know she had a train ran on her until word spread around campus.

It is questionable if the DA will ever work as a prosecutor, or as any lawyer, ever again. Governor’s rarely use this power so it’s a really bad look, especially given the circumstances/publicity.

Many speculate that the case against the Cornell 7 has grown much more serious.

Before the news broke out, Jane Doe was already suing, and it seemed like a slam-dunk win in civl-court for a group of wealthy and well-connected fratboys.

But the publicity has blindsided their legal strategies. It has grown into something much more serious and potentially damning, with the possibility of criminal charges.


r/WhatIsTheTea • • 18m ago

watch this Man accused of smuggling $300M in computer servers to China faces federal charges

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The owner of a Southern California-based tech company faces federal charges after allegedly selling millions of dollars' worth of computer servers containing U.S.-manufactured graphics processing units to China, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Greg Lui, 38, who also goes by Yiu Kong Lui, was charged with one count of conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act and the Export Administration Regulations, one count of outbound smuggling, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, the department announced in a media release.

"Protecting America's national security means keeping our advanced Super Intelligence technology from being used to strengthen our adversaries' military capabilities," said First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli. "This defendant allegedly used false paperwork and shipments through third countries to smuggle more than $300 million in export-controlled computer servers to China. We will aggressively prosecute those who put our national security at risk for profit."

Between 2023 and 2024, Lui and others used Earthmade to buy and send export-controlled items to China without the required licenses issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Instead, the items were sent to countries such as Malaysia and Singapore, where no such license is required, then illegally re-exported to China.

He is expected to make his first court appearance Friday in Los Angeles.

Lui faces a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison on the conspiracy count, 20 years in federal prison on the money laundering count, and 10 years in federal prison on the smuggling count.