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Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, says that Rep. Jerrold Nadler is within his rights to subpoena the full special counsel report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
In an interview with Fox News host Harris Faulkner on Thursday, Dingell said that as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Nadler, D-N.Y., “has the right” to issue the subpoena. Dingell also called on the special counsel, Robert Mueller, to “come to the Hill” and talk about the report.
“We need to have these hearings, we need oversight, we need to understand,” said Dingell, who is co-chairwoman of the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee.
Nadler said Thursday that he’ll be issuing a subpoena for the full special counsel report and the underlying materials. The Justice Department is expected to fight that subpoena.
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Nadler said the report “outlines disturbing evidence” that President Trump engaged in misconduct.
Nadler said Attorney General Wiliam Barr’s decision to withhold the full report from lawmakers is “regrettable, but no longer surprising.”
He said it now falls to Congress to hold the president accountable for his actions relating to the Russia probe. The chairman has asked Mueller to testify before the panel by May 23.
Dingell said Barr’s demeanor when speaking earlier Thursday at a press conference about the report concerned her.
“Today I was a little concerned listening to the attorney general that he did sound more like a defense attorney than the chief law enforcement officer of this country.”
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Dingell said she did not want to comment on specific parts of the report until she’d read the document for herself.
“I think too many of us are commenting on other people’s comments,” Dingell said. “I want to read all 400-something pages before I make comments. I think we have to be very careful with this ‘he said she said’ stuff.”
Dingell said both lawmakers need to focus on the everyday concerns of Americans.
“I’m frustrated with everybody,” she said in answer to Faulkner’s question about whether the congresswoman was frustrated with her fellow Democrats.
“We’ve got to come together,” Dingell said. “I’ve got people in my district … that are worried about the cost of prescription drugs. When I think about a single mother who is working two jobs and is still at poverty level and has got an inhaler for a child who is asthmatic that is $700 …
“We can’t have Russians intervening in our elections, but we’ve got to do something about prescription drugs.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Contrary to Democrat claims President Trump sought to obstruct the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, he actually cooperated to an unprecedented extent, according to former independent counsel Ken Starr.
Starr, who was the independent counsel who investigated the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandals during the Clinton administration, made the comment on “America’s Newsroom” Thursday:
“The president famously does not hold things back. He hated this whole thing, called it a witch hunt. But…actions speak louder than words.
“For the White House counsel to spend 30 hours answering questions of Bob Mueller and his staff is extraordinary, talk about unprecedented,” Starr said. “That’s an unprecedented level of cooperation with a special counsel investigation.”
Starr added: “Here is a key that no one should lose sight of — Bill Clinton committed crimes. Richard Nixon committed crimes. Whatever this report shows, the bottom line is no crimes are being charged by those who are charged with making that decision — that’s the Justice Department.”
Attorney General William Barr told reporters at a morning press conference that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report recounts 10 episodes involving President Trump that were investigated as potential acts of criminal obstruction of justice. Barr said Mueller did not reach a “prosecutorial judgment” and that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded the evidence was not sufficient to establish the president committed an offense.
Barr said Trump did not exert executive privilege over any information included in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. He said the White House counsel reviewed a redacted version of the report before Trump decided not to invoke executive privilege.
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Barr has said redactions in the report’s release are legally mandated.to protect four broad areas of concern: sensitive grand jury-related matters, classified information, ongoing investigations and the privacy or reputation of uncharged “peripheral” people.
On “America’s Newsroom,” Starr said: “We shouldn’t forget this all began about collusion, and so I think this will be very helpful [in] reminding us that while the Russians attempted to reach out to Trump campaign folks, apparently those efforts were not accepted or [were] rebuffed. I think that will be a big plus sign for President Trump and the integrity of the campaign.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Kat Hammontre, missing hiker.
A U.S. citizen hiking near San Felipe Mexico has been missing since Thursday.
The woman, Kat Hammontre, 68, set out on the hike with a group near the desert in the Mexican state of Baja California, but at one point hurt her ankle or foot and told others she’d stay put and await their return.
When the group returned from the short hike, neither Hammontre nor her dog was there, The Seattle Times reported.
Her husband, Warren Sundquist, who was waiting in a car, said she did not return to the vehicle, either. Searches have been carried out by local groups as well as the Mexican military, the paper said.
“When they came back about 90 minutes later, she was gone,” Hammontre’s friend Victoria Langsett told the San Diego NBC News affiliate. “There was no trace of her or the dog, no sign of a wild animal attack.”
Hammontre, originally from Seattle, has lived in Mexico for the last two decades. She wrote a blog titled “Kat’s Korner” and taught English to children in the community. She traveled back to Seattle often to visit family and friends.
Hammontre’s daughter, Desiree Blair, who lives in Spokane, Wash., described her mother as an experienced hiker and a tough person.
She said her mother smokes and if lost, would likely have started a fire to alert rescuers.
Blair said she is heading to San Felipe to take part in the search.
On Hammontre’s Facebook page, friends posted that search dogs had been taken to where she’d last been seen.
Her husband said he was accompanying authorities in the search.
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Thousands more migrants are heading toward the U.S.-Mexican border, hoping to gain permanent residency here even as the Trump administration tightens rules on detention and obtaining political asylum.
Some 2,000 migrants arrived in Mexico this week, forcing officials of Chiapas state to declare an emergency. 5,000 more migrants had set out toward the U.S. on Monday, according to the Mexico News Daily.
Meanwhile, “Pueblos Sin Frontreras,” a group often cited as being behind the caravans since last year, denied on its Facebook page in a post on Tuesday that it is organizing the large groups and leading them on the long journey to the U.S. border from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
“Nonetheless, as defenders of human rights of the migrants we are in solidarity with the families, children, men and women that see as their only option to flee their communities and migrate.”
Pueblos Sin Frontreras assailed Mexican authorities for what the group says is their failure to honor previous promises to treat the migrants humanely by giving them visitor visas on humanitarian grounds, and are instead adopting a hard line to keep them from getting close to the United States.
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“Mexico is acquiescing to the U.S. and handling this in a law enforcement, rather than humanitarian, manner,” the group said.
Calls to Pueblos Sin Frontreras seeking comment were not returned.
Tensions have flared between the migrants and authorities in countries they pass through, including Mexico.
Central American migrants, part of a caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, walk on the shoulder of a road in Frontera Hidalgo, Mexico on Friday.The group pushed past police guarding the bridge and joined a larger group of about 2,000 migrants who are walking toward Tapachula, the latest caravan to enter Mexico. (AP)
This week, they tried to push past police, who urged them to stay in makeshift shelters. Officials also told people to stay indoors, warning the migrants were a threat to safety. The town’s cold reception contrasts with the warm welcome it gave to caravans just last year.
More than 7,000 migrants are in Chiapas, according to the newspaper, waiting to receive documents that would allow them to work and live there while they try to apply for asylum in the United States.
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President Donald Trump has called the large numbers of migrants approaching the border an emergency, and has pushed the construction of a wall. U.S. Attorney General William Barr decided Tuesday that asylum seekers who clear a “credible fear” interview and are facing removal don’t have the right to be released on bond by an immigration court judge while their cases are pending. The attorney general has the authority to overturn prior rulings made by immigration courts, which fall under the Justice Department.
Trump also warned Mexico to step up efforts to deal with the groups of migrants trying to get to the U.S., or risk U.S. tariffs on auto imports.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Marine Corporal Tony Porta’s home in Lovettsville, Virginia has wide hallways that allow him to move around in his wheelchair, and built-in technology that makes it possible for him to control a variety of things – such as doors and blinds — through his iPad.
The “smart” home makes a world of difference for Porta, who was critically wounded in 2007 in a roadside bomb attack in Iraq that killed two of his fellow Marines. Porta lost an arm and suffered disfiguring scars on his head and most of his body.
When the Tunnel to Towers Foundation was approached about helping with a home that could make life easier for Porta, they didn’t hesitate to do what they could for the Marine.
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On Friday, Porta told “Fox & Friends,” how much the foundation’s efforts have meant to him.
“They built me a house where I can actually do a lot of things by myself now,” Porta said. “I can control the temperature…I can help my wife sometimes cooking and things like that.”
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The Tunnel to Towers Foundation was created in honor of Stephen Siller, a New York City firefighter who on Sept. 11, 2001 – unable to get to the World Trade Center any other way — ran through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel with 60 lbs. strapped on his back. He died in the towers.
His older brother, Frank Siller, who is chairman of the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, spoke on “Fox & Friends” about the importance of helping veterans and first responders who serve their country and communities.
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“My brother sacrificed his life on September 11th, 2001,” Siller said. “And through that sacrifice he inspired his siblings, oldest siblings, to be better people and to do good. This is the work we are doing. We are helping the greatest of all Americans, veterans coming home catastrophically injured.”
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Two New York City firefighters remembered their colleague Christopher Slutman, who was one of three U.S. Marines killed his week in Afghanistan, as selfless and devoted to his family and country.
Appearing on “Fox & Friends,” New York City firefighters Bobby Eustace and Gerard Fitzgerald said Slutman, who was 43, was committed to serving both as a city emergency responder and as a Marine.
Slutman, a 15-year FDNY member, was killed by a roadside bomb Monday. He leaves behind his wife, Shannon, and three daughters.
“He was a great man, a man of integrity,” Eustace said. “He was what every man should aspire to be…He put the maximum effort in everything he did.”
Slutman was honored five years ago for rescuing a woman from a burning high-rise while serving with the Fire Department of New York, the city’s mayor and fire commissioner said on Tuesday. In 2014, Slutman received a medal for pulling an unconscious woman from a high-rise apartment fire in the Bronx.
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New York firefighter Christopher Slutman, a 15-year member of the Fire Dept. of New York, was among three American service members killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Monday. (Fire Department of New York via AP)
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Slutman and fellow firefighters “forced open the door to the fire apartment and were met with a high heat condition and dense, black smoke, from floor to ceiling,” the department said when his medal was awarded. They crawled along the apartment floor, and Slutman found the woman in a bedroom. He and another firefighter “dragged the woman past the fire” to emergency medical workers.
Slutman saved the woman “at peril to himself,” a battalion chief wrote in endorsing his honor.
Slutman was the fourth FDNY member to die while serving in Iraq or Afghanistan since 2003, the city said. The Pentagon identified the two other Marines killed as Cpl. Robert A. Hendriks, 25, of Locust Valley, New York, and Sgt. Benjamin S. Hines, 31, of York, Pennsylvania.
“He protected his family, protected his country and protected the great city of New York,” Eustace said. “And, you know, he loved [his family] dearly. He spent as much time as he possibly could with them. He worked as hard as he possibly could to spend as much time and provide as much as he could for them.”
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“He was a passionate man, a humble man, he was a go-do-your-job kind of man.”
Monday’s U.S. fatalities bring to seven the number of U.S. soldiers killed so far this year in Afghanistan, underscoring the difficulties in bringing peace to the war-wrecked country even as Washington has stepped up efforts to find a way to end the 17-year war, America’s longest.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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A New Jersey woman unhappy with her neighbor’s racy Easter display used some garden shears to damage it. But the display’s owner says it will soon be back up. The display has drawn mixed reviews from neighbors, as well as passers-by who stopped to take photos. ( Ed Murray/NJ Advance Media via AP)
At a time when many homes display cute Easter symbols — brightly colored eggs, and pastel-hued baskets — one on the lawn of a dentist’s office in New Jersey has attracted headlines because of its well-endowed and scantily-clad bunnies.
The display at a dental office in the city of Clifton featured five mannequins dressed in lingerie, fishnet stockings and colorful wigs, all holding Easter baskets and surrounded by Easter eggs. It had drawn mixed reviews from neighbors, as well as passers-by who stopped to take photos.
A television news crew was filming the decorations around 1 p.m. Tuesday when a woman — who lives in a home across the street from the dental office and identified herself as Desire Mozek— took it down with garden shears.
“I think I did something right,” she said. “That’s disgusting already.”
“I got a son, you know, he’s 16 years old,” she said to the television crew from WPIX. “He’s a good boy, you know? He doesn’t need to see this every time I take him back from school and stuff.”
The owner of the display, Wayne Gangi, called it a “spoof.” He said the idea came to him when he saw giant Easter eggs while walking around a Party City store. He added that he liked Playboy bunnies when he was a child and thought the display would be funny.
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WPIX reported that Gangi said the display was not really for Easter, but to pay homage to Playboy magazine founder Hugh Hefner. He balked at critics who say the display is an affront to the religious significance of Easter.
“My staff helped me put the characters out on the lawn and unfortunately there was a total spin on me attacking the celebration of Easter – it just wasn’t true,” Gangi said.
Tom Mozek, who answered the door at the home where the woman lives, told The Record, a statewide newspaper, she is not his wife and her name is Desire Shepstone. He did not elaborate on his relationship with the woman, but said she and her son live at the home with him.
“I told her, ‘Don’t do it.’ She has to take responsibility for it,” he said, adding that she wasn’t available to speak to a reporter.
Gangi said he is in the process of filing a restraining order against the woman. Gangi said he thinks she appears to have been seeking attention rather than justice due to moral outrage.
Clifton police are investigating the incident, but it wasn’t clear Wednesday if the woman will face any charges.
Gangi estimated the damage to the display at $500 to $1,000.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Lizette and James Eckert (GoFundMe)
Friends and clients of a couple that fled a high-pressure lifestyle for a more simple one on a farm several years ago now wonder what signs they may have overlooked that might explain the violent way James and Lizette Eckert died last month.
The couple had three children – a biological daughter, 15, and two sons, ages 11 and 13, they adopted from Russia when the boys, who are brothers, were just 2 and 4.
James and Lizette Eckert were found by police in the New Hampshire farmhouse they lived in since moving from Maine in 2012, on the floor, bleeding. Lizette was dead, James was taking his last breaths. Both had been shot once in the head.
Police announced the arrest of an 11-year-old about two hours later, and have charged him with two counts of second-degree murder, according to a press release by state and local police. The release said the boy’s identity and other information are being withheld because he is a minor.
The Boston Globe, in an extensive story on the parents, said that two people who are knowledgeable about the investigation say the alleged killer is the Eckerts’ youngest son.
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Few details were offered about the youngest son, other than the observation by those who had been around the Eckerts that he was quiet and that, back in Maine, he cried a lot, according to the Globe.
The Eckerts ran their own chiropractic business in New Hampshire, drawing a broad base of devoted clients who described them as miracle workers and lived expensively. They seemed always to be renovating their large home, they had a Mercedes camper, a boat and timeshares, the Boston Globe reported.
They also went full-throttle into their business, dedicated to giving their patients relief from pain and taking a comprehensive approach to their health.
James Eckert, who was 48 when he died (Lizette was 50), wrote in a local newspaper several years ago: “I desire to help the newborn, the aged, and those without hope…I choose to care for the patient with the disease, not the disease…I wish to assist rather than intrude, to free rather than control.”
Their lavish lifestyle, the Globe reported, caught up with the Eckerts, who started missing mortgage payments on their Maine property and were hounded by bill collectors. They ran into trouble with the Internal Revenue Service, which assessed the couple more than $100,000.
Neighbors saw a change in the family as their financial downward spiral continued.
James stopped working, they had stopped maintaining their property, and the children seemed unsupervised.
Then one day, abruptly, they left Maine for the farmhouse in New Hampshire that Lizette’s father was said to have bought for the couple, the Globe reported.
The Eckerts voiced disgust with the court system and the government in general.
They homeschooled their children.
While some Maine neighbors said they had been standoffish, their New Hampshire ones said they were very engaged at church and in the community. They resumed chiropractic care and again built a following of satisfied patients.
One of them, Virginia Adams, wrote on the couple’s obituary page: “I would see Dr. Jim twice a week and was always greeted with a cheerful, ‘How’s your day?’ His office was a social gathering, a place to see friends, get advice and share a story. I feel so sad. I can’t imagine what the family is going through. Hopefully, their faith will bring some comfort.”
Those who interacted with them said they never betrayed any concern about any of their children.
Gertrude Hammond, director of religious education and youth ministry at St. Katharine Drexel Parish in Alton, told the Union Leader newspaper shortly after the murders: “They were here last weekend for our annual parish bingo. They were here for Mass. They were here for youth night. The boys are altar servers. They’re just an integral part of the parish.”
The Globe noted that on her Facebook page, Lizette’s “likes” suggested an interest in the topic of kids who are traumatized.
She “liked” the television show “Disconnected Kids, Reconnected Families” and a page for parents of children who have experienced trauma and have problems connecting with others.
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Police have not disclosed how the 11-year-old suspect got his hands on a gun or what may have compelled him to murder the Eckerts.
Meanwhile, Lizette’s mother, Diane Kennedy, has established a GoFundMe page to raise money for the Eckert children.
“The terrible impact of losing Lizette and Jim will be felt by their children for many years to come,” she wrote. “Because the story has been in the news, we are doing all we can to protect the children from excess attention, while still allowing the community that loves them so much and so well to help them in ways that will make a lasting impact.”
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Before ex-convict Brian Rini launched his bizarre attempt to claim he was an Illinois boy who disappeared in 2011 at the age of 6, there were plenty of others who engaged in hoaxes, trying to pass themselves off as other people. Here are a few of the most notorious:
CLARK ROCKEFELLER
He came to be known as a Rockefeller – Clark Rockefeller, to be exact.
As a Rockefeller, he moved in the highest social circles, gaining memberships in country clubs, luxuriating on yachts, and showing off expensive artwork that astonished even the most discriminating collectors. He married a wealthy woman, Sandra Lynne Boss, who boasted a Harvard MBA and earned $2 million a year. They had a daughter.
But Rockefeller actually was Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, born in Germany.
Clark Rockefeller during an interview with The Boston Globe. (Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
The faux Rockefeller scion came to the United States on a tourist visa when he just 1978, giving a surprise visit to a Connecticut student backpacker he had met in his homeland, according to the Wall Street Journal.
A district attorney called Gerhartsreiter’s hoax “the longest con I’ve seen in my professional career.”
In 2006, Boss ended the marriage, still not realizing his identity had been a fraud. In court, however, she said he had managed to con her for more than a decade because: “One can be brilliant and amazing in one area of one’s life and really stupid in another.” She paid him $800,000 in alimony.
In 2013, Gerthartsreiter was sentenced to 27 years to life in the death of his Southern California landlady’s son, who had been missing since 1985 and whose dismembered remains were found in 1994 by workers who were installing a pool in the home the victim’s mother had owned.
The jury had convicted Gerhartsreiter, who has argued he is innocent, of first-degree murder in the killing of John Sohus, 27.
ANNA DELVEY
She was known among the New York art and party gentry as Anna Delvey, who introduced herself as a German heiress with a $60 million fortune. Friends were happy to lend her money, and high-end hotels let her stay in them without requiring her to provide a credit card.
In reality, she was Anna Sorokin, born in Russia, and daughter of a truck driver. She dropped out of college and went to Paris for a while, eventually going to New York City, connecting with trust fund kids and providing a convincing story about herself as a mover and shaker. Sorokin lived the life of a socialite, financing her expensive taste in part by scamming others, according to published reports. Through fraud, she tried to secure a $22 million loan to realize her dream of opening up a club in Manhattan.
She borrowed a lot of money she never repaid and stiffed hotels and other establishments when they pressed for payment.
Anna Sorokin is escorted into a courtroom after a recess in her trial in New York State Supreme Court on Thursday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Now Sorokin is standing trial in New York, accused of stealing $275,000 from friends and financial institutions.
Sorokin, however, is still acting the part of an heiress.
She has caused court delays because of fits over unacceptable outfits brought to her for her hearings, according to The New York Daily News.
“I told you previously we were not holding up this trial any more over your fashion,” Justice Diane Kiesel firmly and irritably told Sorokin after she finally showed up in court with wrinkled but fashionable clothes.
“I’ve had a jury here since 9:30 this morning. This is unacceptable and inappropriate . . . This is not a fashion show!”
WALTER COLLINS
In 1928, 9-year-old Walter Collins disappeared in California. Months later, a boy in Illinois told police he was Walter.
The boy, it turns out, was actually 12 and was named Arthur Hutchins Jr., who was a runaway. Years later, Hutchins said he had lied about being Walter because “I was sure that would be my best way to get to California.”
When authorities turned him over to Walter’s mother, the charade was up. Police tried to persuade the mother that the boy really was her son, explaining that traumatic experiences can change appearances.
Walter’s mother would have none of it, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The smoking gun came during a trip to the beach, when Hutchins took to the water like a fish.
Walter always had been terrified of the water. Christine Collins told police that this was conclusive proof the boy they brought to her was someone other than her missing son. The police fumed.
Los Angeles Police Department Captain J.J. Jones, who investigated Walter’s disappearance, allegedly told Collins: “What are you trying to do, make fools out of us all? Or are you trying to shirk your duty as a mother and have the state provide for your son? You are the most cruel-hearted woman I’ve ever known. You are a . . . fool!”
The police locked her up in a psychiatric hospital.
Eventually, Hutchins confessed to making up the whole story up, and police concluded Walter had died at the hands of a serial killer.
NICHOLAS BARCLAY
French-born Frederic Bourdin passed himself off as a 14-year-old runaway while traveling around Europe, though he was in 20’s.
But when he told his bogus story at a group home for Spanish youths, the staff thought something was not quite right.
If he was going to stay there, they told him, he had to give them proof that he was a teenager, and he had 24 hours to do it.
Bourdin called the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the Washington Post reported, and pretending to be an employee of the youth shelter, he culled information about a boy named Nicholas Barclay who had been missing from San Antonio since 1994. Bourdin told the center that he believed a boy at the youth shelter was Barclay. When police went to check, he posed as Barclay, and was sent to San Antonio to live with the missing boy’s family in what authorities thought was a reunification.
In 2008, Bourdin told a New Yorker magazine journalist that he had craved attention at the time of his fraudulent act.
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Barclay’s relatives, incredibly, believed it could be their missing relative.
The truth eventually caught up with him, and he was sent to jail for five years for perjury and falsifying documents.
In the New Yorker interview, Bourdin, who had come to be known as a serial child impersonator, said: “People always say to me, ‘Why don’t you become an actor?’ I think I would be a very good actor, like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone. But I don’t want to play somebody. I want to be somebody.”
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A crowd of about 100 appeared at the site of an overturned truck in Mexico – but the draw was not so much curiosity, or even worry for the driver: these people came for the free, midweek beer.
The accident, which occurred Wednesday, sent the beer cans the truck was carrying spilling onto the roadway.
That mess proved too tempting for bystanders, as well as others who were close by, heard about the free beer and decided to grab a cold one, too, according to Mexico News Daily.
Villagers turned into pillagers, carrying away beers while others just opened a can on the spot and chugged, the news site reported.
State and local police did not arrest looters, or try to stop them.
Looters told reporters they felt no guilt since the brewery company likely had insured the cargo.
The accident came on the heels of a similar spill about two days earlier in a different part of Mexico, but with the same result.
Some of the looters carried away crates of wayward beer as federal police tried (and failed) to stop the pillaging, with little success.
Many Mexicans took to social media to criticize the looters, particularly for letting their children get involved.
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On the other side of the border, last month, a beer truck crashed on a freeway in Los Angeles, sending Modelo Especial beers out on the road and causing a traffic jam.
“This is one of those circumstances where alcohol is involved,” said CHP Officer Rodrigo Jimenez told KNBC. “The good news is that there are no DUI drivers here and there were no arrests.”
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