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A highly organized multimillion-dollar shoplifting ring has been smashed after a 14-month investigation, Jersey City Police Department leaders announced a new conference Thursday afternoon. Deputy Police Chief Mark Miller said that 11 people were arrested, including two of the ring’s leaders, in the JCPD Special Investigations Unit’s Operation Bag and Boost. A dozen more have been charged but are not yet in custody. Police recovered $3 million in stolen goods -- all from chain-store pharmacies and a beauty supplies store -- and froze $4.5 million from two bank accounts, Miller said. Miller said the stolen items were placed on the...

The Democratic presidential hopeful who once likened himself to "Spartacus" is now vowing to battle the National Rifle Association. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., in a town hall event that aired on CNN Wednesday, made the declaration in response to a North Carolina’s woman’s question about what he would do to ensure the safety and freedoms of Americans who “have to live each day in fear of gun violence in schools, places of worship, concerts, and even from law enforcement.” “I am tired of going to funerals where parents are burying their children and so I am gonna bring a fight...

The US is often thought of as one of the most progressive countries in the world, but thanks to Donald Trump it’s not a place LGBTQ+ people are lining up to visit. An annual gay travel index has ranked the US is 47th in a list of the friendliest destinations for queer travelers, falling from it’s 2018 ranking of 39. Berlin-based Spartacus International Gay Guide is a handy resource for LGBTQ+ travelers, and releases the Spartacus Gay Travel Index annually, measuring countries’ queer accessibility through a set of 14 criteria including anti-discrimination legislation, marriage equality, adoption rights, transgender rights, and...

Late Monday, CWBChicago received confirmation that the letter case has been before a federal grand jury and multiple subpoenas have been generated over the course of the investigation. In a conversation on Feb. 8th, before police met with brothers Ola and Abel Osundairo, a leading source within the Smollett attack investigation called the hate crime a "false flag" and said “There is a direct line between (the letter) and (the purported attack)." In the same conversation, the source hinted at what was to come: "This is not a whodunit. It's a how-many-people-dunit." Whoever mailed the letter "made an enormous mistake,"...

VIDEO Cory Booker announced that he is a candidate for President in 2020. If you watched his video announcing his candidacy it is quite obvious that he is a fan of the movie "Drumline." However, one can never get too much of watching "Drumline." Therefore this announcement video has been re-edited to add in even more "Drumline."

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker on Friday declared his bid for the presidency in 2020 with a sweeping call to unite a deeply polarized nation around a “common purpose.” The New Jersey Democrat, who is the second black candidate in a primary field that’s already historically diverse, delivered his message of unity amid an era marked by bitter political division. “I believe that we can build a country where no one is forgotten, no one is left behind; where parents can put food on the table; where there are good-paying jobs with good benefits in every neighborhood; where our criminal justice...

3 Minute VIDEO. There is a strong possibility that there could be a real life "I Am Spartacus" moment for Senator Cory Booker when he annouces his candidacy for President. All that it would take is for just one person in the crowd, in the middle of Booker's announcement speech, yells out "I AM SPARTACUS!" That would be the spark that could easily trigger someone else to chime in with "I AM SPARTACUS!" Before long, Booker's candidacy announcement would be upstaged by the crowd having their own "I Am Spartacus!" moment. However, there is one thing Booker could do to...

The ADL’s Soros, Hamas and Hitler Anti-Israel Conference The ADL is becoming a threat to Jews. January 25, 2019 Daniel Greenfield Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Jonathan Greenblatt introduced the ADL’s Never is Now 2018 conference with a full-throated defense of George Soros. It was a strange decision for an organization that had once criticized the radical anti-Israel billionaire’s defenses of anti-Semitism. But under Greenblatt, a former Obama official, the ADL had turned sharply to the left and Never is Now,...

Former President Jimmy Carter urged Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) to run for president in an Instagram Live video on Sunday. Booker, who is known for his social media savvy, took to the platform to film a road trip through Georgia with civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) ahead of MLK Day. After the two lawmakers attended a church service led by Carter in his hometown of Plains, Booker featured the former president in a video. “I’m very glad to have you here this morning, and I hope you come back,” Carter said. “And I hope you run for president.”

Authorities have recovered an eleventh suspected package in the widening investigation into a mass mail bombing campaign, with the latest target being Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, multiple sources told ABC News. The latest package addressed to Booker was found Friday morning at or near Opa-locka in South Florida, sources said.

Democrat New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is now being accused of sexual assault by a man. On Saturday, an anonymous man released a detailed four page document on Twitter, claiming the incident happened when Booker visited his workplace back in 2014. He claims Booker followed him to the bathroom, touched him inappropriately, and approached him for oral sex. The man says he reached out to two lawyers earlier this month disclosing his name, date, location, corroborating evidence, and two possible hearsay witnesses. The reported victim also said watching Booker’s defense of alleged sexual assault victims was “laughably ironic, jarringly cringe-worthy,...

Full Title: BREAKING: Man Steps Forward with Sexual Assault Allegations against Sen. Cory Booker — With Lawyer Response to Gateway Pundit The man claims Booker came to his workplace to speak, met him as he was coming out of the men’s room, and then pulled him back into the restroom and sexually assaulted him. The young man is a gay man and Democrat. The man tells a very detailed analysis on what took place at his work.

Spartacus stepped back up to the plate this afternoon to question Brett Kavanaugh. Well, not really question him, per se … more like talk at him in the hopes of scoring some great 2020 campaign ad material. Booker once again painted Ford’s account as credible and pointed to “corroborating evidence”: ... Booker doesn’t refer to “the truth.” Just “her truth.” There’s a big difference. And the fact that he isn’t acknowledging it speaks even louder than he does.

While the chaos and disruption from Democrats during Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing has sparked derision and mockery from Republicans and some media commentators, some on the party's liberal wing think Democratic leadership is not doing enough. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., interrupted Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, within seconds of the hearing beginning on Tuesday, setting the scene for a chaotic few days that included a number of theatrical displays -- including a regular stream of protesters being dragged from the public gallery. Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ, dared Republicans to have him expelled for releasing committee confidential...

Senator Cory Booker's self-proclaimed "Spartacus moment" was everything but that. The truth will set him free, right? (video montage - click link below)

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Fresh from his preposterous antics in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Kavanaugh nomination to the Supreme Court in which he characterized himself as a "Spartacus fighting against tyranny," Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) brushed aside Wall Street Journal reporter Byron Tau's attempt to ask him a question about it, asserting that "it is unconstitutional for anyone to question me about anything I said in Congress in any other place." Booker's heroic moment came when he made a show of releasing what he called "wrongly classified documents that Republicans are trying to hide from the American people. I know that...

Sen. Cory Booker claimed Thursday that a journalist with The Wall Street Journal was violating the Constitution by asking him a question regarding his failed “Spartacus” moment before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The New Jersey lawmaker who made national headlines with his assertion that he was releasing confidential documents on Judge Brett Kavanaugh (which turned out not to be confidential), was in no mood to answer Byron Tau’s questions on it. Mr. Booker seemingly referenced a Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution to dodge a question on political theatrics. “Democrats knew full well that the documents that Booker and...

If only Sen. Cory Booker had insisted on having an “I am T-Bone moment” at the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. It would have truly been heroic, with supporters of the Democratic presidential hopeful from New Jersey shouting that they, too, were T-Bone, the name of Booker’s imaginary drug dealer friend from the mean streets of Newark. “I am T-Bone!” “No, I am T-Bone!” Sadly, Booker didn’t want to play T-Bone on national TV. So, he became Spartacus. “This is about the closest I’ll probably ever have in my life to an ‘I am Spartacus’ moment,”...

It started out as brilliant political bad-assery: U.S. Sen. Cory Booker warned his colleagues on the Senate judiciary committee vetting U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh that he would violate Senate rules and release a confidential document about the federal judge's views on racial profiling. "The fact that there's nothing in that document that's personal information, nothing national security related, the fact that it was labeled 'committee confidential' exposes that this process is a bit of a sham," said Booker, throwing shade at U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the chairman. Then Booker, a New Jersey Democrat, really threw down, challenging...