Following yesterday's report that the DOJ has asked all 46 remaining Obama-appointed US attorney to resign, there was confusion whether that also included the noted attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara. As we discussed on Friday, Trump had previously asked the Obama-appointed Manhattan attorney to stay on.
On Friday 3 March 2017, in a surprise announcement with implications for the global silver price, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) informed its members that the current administrator and calculation agent of its recently launched LBMA Silver Price auction, Thomson Reuters and the CME Group respectively, will be pulling out of providing their services to the problematic London-based silver price benchmark within the near future. Thomson Reuters and the CME Group also issued statements on 3 March identical to that of the LBMA.
The New York Teamsters Road Carriers Local 707 Pension Fund has won the unfortunate award for "First Pension to Officially Run Out of Money." According to the New York Daily News, and a host of angry former truck drivers who've had their pension benefits slashed, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) has officially been forced to step in and take over payments to retirees of the Local 707, albeit at a much lower rate.
Teamsters Local 707’s pension fund is the first to officially bottom out financially — which happened this month.
Hollywood actress Lindsay Lohan claims she has been the victim of racial profiling and discrimination since converting to Islam. Speaking to Piers Morgan, the actress claims she was targeted and harassed by customs officials at Heathrow Airport, after they mistook her for a Muslim woman because she was wearing a headscarf. “When I was flying to New York recently.
In what appears to be an effort to quell the fear rising in the 'legal' immigrant community about President Trump's 'illegal' immigration policies, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio - not one to shy away from scare-mongering that very fear into 'legal' immigrants - has leaflet-bombed the city's public schools reassuring 'immigrants' that they will not be bothered by President Trump’s 'illegal' immigration efforts.