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http://m.digitaljournal.com/pr/2870643AmeriGas Partners Elects John R. Hartmann to Its BoaDirectorsVALLEY
FORGE, Pa.--AmeriGas Partners, L.P. (NYSE:APU) reported today that
John R. Hartmann, 52, was elected a director of AmeriGas Propane,
Inc., the general partner of AmeriGas Partners, L.P., effective March
15, 2016. Mr. Hartmann currently serves as President and Chief
Executive Officer of True Value Company, a private retailer-owned
hardware cooperative, a position that he has held since 2013.
John L. Walsh, Chairman of AmeriGas Propane Inc., said, “We are
excited to welcome John Hartmann to our Board of Directors. John’s
extensive business experience, particularly with respect to his
expertise in the retail sector, will be a valuable asset to the
AmeriGas board and our leadership team.”
Prior to becoming Chief Executive Officer and President of True Value
Company, Mr. Hartmann served as the Chief Executive Officer of Mitre
10, a major chain of home improvement stores in New Zealand, from 2010
to 2013. From 2002 to 2010, Mr. Hartmann held a number of senior
executive leadership positions at The Home Depot and HD Supply,
including Director of Strategic Business Development, Senior Director
of Long-Range Planning & Strategy, Vice President of Operations &
Sourcing, and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Hartmann also previously
served as Vice President, Corporate Services at Cardinal Health, a
worldwide healthcare services and products company, from 1998 to 2002,
and was a Supervisory Special Agent and FBI Academy Instructor with
the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1988 to 1998.
Mr. Hartmann holds a Bachelor of Science from Rochester Institute of
Technology and a Juris Doctor from the Syracuse University College of
Law.
About AmeriGas Partners, L.P.
AmeriGas is the nation’s largest retail propane marketer, serving
approximately two million customers in a
1.
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-stando ... _from.htmlBullet casings disappear from LaVoy Finicum shooting scene ...
OregonLive.com-March 15 2015
Two bullet casings that might have proven an FBI agent shot at Robert
"LaVoy" Finicum apparently disappeared from the scene shortly after
the Jan. 26 highway ...
2.
Three Deputies Sentenced in 2012 Bainbridge Bikefest Incident
http://www.wtxl.com/news/three-deputies ... f5d4e.htmlALBANY, GA - The Department of Justice has sentenced three deputies
involved in a beating at the 2012 Bikefest in Bainbridge.
According to the Department of Justice, Decatur County Deputies Chris
Kines and Wade Umbach were sentenced to 15 months in prison along with
two years probation. They were each convicted of engaging in
misleading conduct
Deputy Elizabeth Croley was sentenced to 18 months in prison along
with two years probation. Croley was convicted of obstructing justice
along with violating the constitutional rights of Aaron Parish and
intentionally withholding evidence, the state attorney's office said.
3.
http://obrag.org/?p=104815San Diego Police and FBI Drove Local Black Panthers Underground
by Frank Gormlie on March 15, 2016 · 2 comments
in California, Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights, Culture, History,
Media, Organizing, Politics, San Diego
black panthers U-TUnion-Tribune Finally “Finds” San Diego’s Black
Panthers
In a very decent February 28 article about San Diego’s Black Panthers
penned by Peter Rowe of the San Diego U-T, some of the city’s
turbulent civil rights and Black power movement history from the
Sixties and Seventies was uncovered.
First, it’s amazing to some San Diegans, including Rowe, that San
Diego even had a Black Panther chapter back in the day. And that’s a
credit that the San Diego Union and Tribune themselves can claim, for
the coverage of local Panthers and the civil rights movement in
general was skewed due to the right-wing – and yes, racist – policies
and bias of its owners and editors. Think the Copley family, who ran
the city’s only pair of dailies for decades.
But now thanks to Rowe, some of this history has been dusted off and
bared for all to read. Much of the article recounts the experiences of
one Henry Lee Wallace, now 64 and still in San Diego, but back then, a
member of the local Panthers.
Wallace told Rowe, that:
“San Diego has never wanted to recognize its history within the civil
rights movement, especially the Black Panthers.”
In an accompanying article, Rowe tells how the reporter found out
about surviving members of the local Panthers by a fluke, when a U-T
photographer met Wallace, who is now a musician and bus-driver, in an
unrelated story. Fortunately for us, Rowe followed it up, and
interviewed the former chapter member.
Much like the current Black Lives Matter movement, fifty years ago,
the Black Panther Party demanded an end to discrimination against
African-Americans and wanted a crackdown on abusive police.
And Rowe adds, that the Panthers still have survived “as a potent
symbol”.
There are echoes in pop culture: During the Super Bowl halftime show,
Beyoncé performed with dancers in Panther-style berets and leather
coats. On the street: The “Black Lives Matter” movement revives a key
part of the Panthers’ agenda, arguing that law enforcement still
violently targets African-Americans.
Even on television: Public Broadcasting recently aired a new
documentary, “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution.”
Plus, we find out that Wallace and other local former Panthers are
assisting a filmmaker, Cheryl Morrow, in making a documentary,
“American Patriots: The San Diego Chapter of the Black Panthers,”
which is planned for completion this month.
Wallace joined the Panthers in the late Sixties, along with his
stepfather and mother and siblings, having been recruited by its
leader, Kenny Denmon, whom Rowe calls “a fiery San Diego State
University student enlisted by the Panthers’ national spokesman,
Eldridge Cleaver.”
Rowe was surprised to learn that the Panthers, despite their militant
image,
… had an ambitious social program. They started schools, supplied
groceries to seniors and operated a free breakfast program that, at
its height, fed 20,000 children a day (nationally).
In San Diego, the Panthers served breakfasts in the parish hall of
Christ the King church, at first, then moved the program to a quieter
area. They also began what they called “freedom schools”for Black
kids and tried to instill pride and self-worth into the children. Rowe
found that many in the Southeast neighborhood –
… still applaud the Panthers, citing the free breakfasts, the baskets
of groceries, the willingness to campaign for black political
candidates and to oppose police brutality.
So, what happened to the Black Panthers of San Diego?
Rowe racks it all up to “internal schisms and external pressure” –
that the local Panthers disagreed with another local Black nationalist
group, and had shoot-outs with them, and 2 local Panthers were killed.
Plus the FBI claimed credit for forcing the chapter to be defunct.
But what Rowe misses is the emphasis of history. And it’s this:
Local San Diego police – and the FBI – literally drove the Black
Panthers underground. With daily harassment, arrests, jailings of its
members, city cops did their best to ensure that local members
couldn’t walk children across the street or drive across the city
without being stopped by San Diego police. If a cop saw a Black
Panther bumpersticker on a car, that car would be stopped and its
occupants probably arrested.
No one outside the Panthers knew this better than local attorney
Charles “Ted” Bumer, who took on their many cases, usually pro bono,
and tried to defend them from a law enforcement and criminal justice
system that was out and out racist.
Local legal worker Kathy Gilberd used to work for Ted Bumer after he
helped the Panthers, but he shared some of his experiences with her.
“Ted used to tell me some of the stories when he worked with the
Panthers doing draft counseling in the Black community,” she said.
Bumer was the movement lawyer for San Diego.
From the local gerdames to the FBI’s COINTELPRO Program, the Panthers
were forced out of San Diego, at least, from being public. Nationally,
cops were involved in numerous shoot-outs with Panthers, such as in
Chicago and Los Angeles. Panther leaders were assassinated by police
in some cities.
But here in San Diego, chapter members had to refrain from doing
things publicly and openly. Partially because there’s never been a
large African-American community in San Diego, local Panthers could
not draw upon the support that larger cities provided.
Rowe provides:
In retrospect, though, it became evident that much of this violence
was incited by the FBI. Under then-director J. Edgar Hoover, a
counter-intelligence program dubbed COINTELPRO worked to discredit
many “hate groups,” with the Panthers leading the list.
Congressional investigations into COINTELPRO revealed that the FBI
tried to stir up hostility between the Panthers and US, a black power
group embracing a pan-African philosophy. During a January 1969
skirmish on the UCLA campus, two Panthers were shot to death by US
members.
Later, three more members of the different Black groups were gunned
down in this FBI-fueled rivalry.
In the end, as Rowe recounts, the FBI took credit.
“San Diego has aggressively pursued a policy of disrupting and
neutralizing the local chapter of the BPP in San Diego through
Bureau-approved counterintelligence maneuvers,” an agency memo
reported in March 1969. The memo added, “it appears that Special Agent
personnel may merit some sort of recognition.”
It is now very clear that the local San Diego Black Panthers didn’t
just fall victim to “rivalries” with other groups and from “internal
schisms” (they had them), but were consciously and intentionally
driven from sight by law enforcement, the local cops and the FBI.
And with the handmaiden work by the local establishment press, the
twins San Diego Union and Evening Tribune, no one knew what was really
going on. It’s fairly recognized now that the earlier renditions of
our current monopoly daily were publications that gave San Diego the
nickname of “Little Mississippi” – understood all too well by the
African-American community.
At least now, Peter Rowe has taken it upon himself to tell some of
this story. We certainly applaud his efforts, but need to remind him
of the true reasons San Diego lost their Black Panthers. How do I
know? I was there – I was p
4.
Lawmaker Who Was CIA Agent Wants Big Data, Not Apple’s Encryption
Jenna McLaughlin
Mar. 15 2016, 12:36 p.m.
https://theintercept.com/2016/03/15/law ... ncryption/A former undercover CIA agent turned congressman says the FBI — by
trying to force Apple to defeat its own security protocols — is
barking up the wrong tree.
The FBI has demanded that Apple help it unlock a phone used by San
Bernardino killer Syed Rizwan Farook, but Apple is refusing for the
sake of its customers’ cybersecurity and privacy.
Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, said Tuesday that the FBI request might be
too intrusive. He said there’s a way to “protect our civil liberties
5. two stories in 1
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Alarming Artifact Loot from Archaeological Sites Signals Giant Loss
...
March 15 2016
In 2009, the FBI arrested over 20 people on the charge of sneaking
antique artifacts ... In the words of FBI Supervisory Special Agent
Drew Northern – “The illicit ...
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http://nypost.com/2004/03/21/feds-wtc-p ... s-looting/FEDS’ WTC PLUNDER; FBI LADY BLOWS LID OFF AGENTS’ LOOTING
http://nypost.com/2004/03/21/feds-wtc-p ... s-looting/March 21, 2004 | 5:00am
EVERYBODY does it.
That’s the response Jane Turner got when she told federal
investigators that a fellow FBI agent had stolen a Tiffany globe found
at the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
In a meeting, two agents from the U.S. Department of Justice inspector
general’s office said they already knew personnel had taken property
from Ground Zero.
“What do you expect – that we go into every FBI office to retrieve
trinkets?” Turner quoted the agents as saying, according to a document
obtained by The Post.
The inspector general’s office did go on to investigate Turner’s
allegations – and found that “many FBI employees” took “souvenirs”
from the WTC site and the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, where
Ground Zero rubble was sifted for body parts, personal belongings and
evidence.
The “souvenirs” the agents stole included a mangled fork, a broken
figurine of a police officer, a small metal plate and keys that read
“WTC,” “WTC Security” patches that were found on shirtsleeves, and a
WTC Christmas ornament.
One of the agents had taken more than 70 pounds of debris from Fresh
Kills, keeping some and doling out the rest to friends, relatives and
colleagues, the report says.
And it wasn’t the first time something like this had happened – the
report found FBI agents had helped themselves to keepsakes in other
infamous cases, including the Oklahoma City bombing and the Unabomber.
Turner, 53, of Minneapolis, told The Post she thought twice about
coming forward with the information that resulted in citations of
misconduct against two FBI agents and the discovery of widespread
removal of grisly mementos from Ground Zero by FBI personnel.
“Did I really want to end my career over a stupid crystal ball?” she
asked herself.
Turner noticed the chipped, cracked globe displayed on a holder while
walking by a FBI secretary’s desk in 2002. She told the secretary it
was “interesting.”
“It came from Ground Zero!” the secretary boasted, saying an FBI agent
had brought it back from New York.
But, the secretary mused, “It kind of gives me the creeps, because the
person who owned it is probably dead.”
He was. It wasn’t until last week, when the paperweight was shown on a
newscast about the scandal, that the apparent owner was identified.
Adele Milanowycz of Cranford, N.J., said it belonged to her son
Gregory, 25, who kept the gift from his girlfriend on his desk at Aon
Corp. on the WTC’s 93rd floor.
Milanowycz sent letters requesting the return of the globe a week ago,
a plea that was seconded by her state’s senators, but she has yet to
hear back from the FBI or Justice Department.
“I think they should try to get back everything that was stolen, even
if they have to offer amnesty to people,” she told The Post.
TURNER said she finally decided to report the globe not just because
it probably belonged to a 9/11 victim, but because it could torpedo a
criminal case on which she had been working.
She had just finished investigating Kieger Enterprises, a
