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President Trump’s older sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, has retired as a federal appellate judge, ending an investigation into whether she violated judicial conduct rules by participating in fraudulent tax schemes with her siblings.
The court inquiry stemmed from complaints filed last October, after an investigation by The New York Times found that the Trumps had engaged in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the inherited wealth of Mr. Trump and his siblings. Judge Barry not only benefited financially from most of those tax schemes, The Times found; she was also in a position to influence the
actions taken by her family.
RUSS BUETTNER and SUSANNE CRAIG - The New York Times - 11 April 2019
 

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After arrest in black church arson case, officials mention ‘black metal’ music instead of racism
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...s-mention-black-metal-music-instead-of-racism
"On Wednesday night, 21-year-old Holden Matthews was arrested and charged with three counts of arson of a religious building. The arrest was the culmination of an investigation by federal, state, and local law enforcement into a series of fires that targeted three historically black churches in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.

Matthews is the son of local Sheriff Roy Matthews, who, according to the website Insider, assisted law enforcement by “drawing his son away from their home so authorities could arrest him without incident.”

Authorities have said that, based on their investigations and information Matthews has “offered,” they believe that this series of racist terrorist attacks might be motivated by … heavy metal music, and more specifically the subgenre known as “black metal.”

Black metal was a movement that made waves about seven years ago, after VICE Studios released Lords of Chaos, a documentary on the Norwegian black metal scene.

The scene began getting wide tabloid coverage after a series of church burnings... Vikernes was convicted of the murder and of burning four churches in Norway in 1994, served 15 years of a 21-year sentence, and was released in 2009.

After his release, Vikernes and his wife moved to France, promoting a brand of tribal pagan nationalism that is essentially neo-Nazism.

And so while Norwegian black metal is indeed about anti-Christian political change, the popularized figures that Holden Matthews was reportedly following are rooted in white nationalism, male anxiety, anti-Semitism, and racism against all people of color.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards told reporters that he didn’t know “what this young man's motive was, I don’t know what was in his heart,” but that the acts were “evil” in nature."
 
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