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-The entire student body at Miami Northwestern High School in Liberty City walked out of class Tuesday morning to protest gun violence in their community.
-Students said that they walked out in order to bring the world’s attention to the deaths of young people in Miami’s inner city.
-Kimson Green, a student at the school, was shot dead over the weekend during an outbreak of violence.
-The students say that they want the world to give as much attention to violence in inner cities as it has to what happened in Parkland.
-The walkout was spontaneous, and occurred after the school organized a ceremony to honor Green.
-Student leaders say that they plan on walking out again tomorrow.
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Inside Miami’s Bitcoin Gas Stations
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-The Chevron on 103rd St right next to I-95 in Miami-Dade County might look like just an ordinary gas station. But it hides a secret. Next to the sodas and the junk food you can also buy Bitcoin.
-Owned by hard-nosed entrepreneur Rishi Gosine, the station on 103rd St and his Chevron on 79th St and North Miami Avenue were the first to feature Bitcoin ATM’s in South Florida.
-Now there are dozens of them in the region and over a hundred in the rest of the US.
-Gosine says that the ATM’s are popular with customers- especially young people who lack access to a bank or credit card.
-But the ATM’s have caused concern in other countries. In London, local authorities say that they are used to help drug dealers launder money.
-Miami has become a global cryptocurrency capital in recent years. The city hosted over 5,000 people in January for the North American Bitcoin Conference.
-According to the Miami New Times, Bitcoin entrepreneurs and speculators are drawn to Florida because of lax state oversight of the industry.
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Former GOP Florida Congressman: Trump Should Get “Accessory Charges” In Gianforte Case
Former Florida Republican Congressman David Jolly is not a big fan of Donald Trump.
Jolly lost re-election in a very close race to former Republican turned Independent turned Democrat Charlie Crist in large part due to anti-Trump backlash in his swing Tampa area district.
Since the election, Jolly has been a constant critic of the President on Twitter.
But after the news that Montana Republican congressional candidate Greg Gianforte body slammed a reporter, Jolly upped his anti-Trump ante.
Hey county prosecutor, file assault charges against @gianforte, and accessory charges against @realDonaldTrump.https://t.co/OyaqT5frTn
— David Jolly (@DavidJollyFL) May 25, 2017
Woah.
That is one mad Republican.
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Report: AIDS Drug Price Gouger Martin Shkreli Arrested On Fraud Charges
Martin Shkreli, the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, a controversial company that gouged the price of an AIDS drug earlier in the year has been arrested on unrelated fraud charges according to multiple media reports.
From The New York Times:
“He was arrested in his Midtown Manhattan apartment, according to a law enforcement source, who declined to be identified because the indictment had not been unsealed. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn were expected to hold a news conference on the charges later Thursday.”
The arrest is related to Shkreli’s time running Retrophin, another pharmaceutical company.
According to Bloomberg, who first reported on the arrest, Shkreli has been charged with illegally taking stock from the company and selling it for his own personal gain in order to pay off debts. He was previously forced out of the company by its board.
“Shkreli was the paradigm faithless servant,” a civil complaint filed by Retrophin and obtained by the New York Times said. “Starting sometime in early 2012, and continuing until he left the company, Shkreli used his control over Retrophin to enrich himself and to pay off claims of MSMB investors (who he had defrauded).”
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