Woman says kangaroo stalked her, then attacked

Animal menaced her for two days and came after her dog and husband as well        

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Two days before the attack Kirrily McWilliams was in the backyard of her property when she was confronted by the growling female eastern gray kangaroo. The next day she was in the backyard with her dog when the same kangaroo got through the fence and grabbed the dog.

By Scott Stump

An Australian woman said she was stalked by a kangaroo for two days before eventually having a vicious confrontation with the animal.

Kirrily McWilliams of Port Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia repeatedly called the National Parks and Wildlife Service in the days leading up to the attack but received no response, according to a report in The (Sydney) Daily Telegraph. She said a growling female eastern gray kangaroo broke through a fence and attacked her dog, a mastiff, in the backyard of her home, and a day later the same kangaroo came after her.
McWilliams was picking her daughter up from the school bus when the kangaroo charged her in her driveway. The kangaroo pounded and scratched her and left a 12-inch gash on her back after she curled up into a ball on the ground with nothing to hide behind, according to The Daily Telegraph.

"It was lucky it was cool weather and I had two layers of clothing, otherwise it could have been worse," she told the paper.
The kangaroo later confronted McWilliams’ husband in the backyard while she was at the hospital, and he warded off an attack with a shovel. The couple again contacted National Parks and Wildlife Service but said they did not hear back until a day later, when the organization allowed a temporary permit for a shooter to kill the animal. By that time, it had moved on and attacked someone else.

"I'm for protecting kangaroos but there seems to be nothing in place to help people," McWilliams told the paper. "I had to be injured before they did anything. I have three children and it could have been one of them."

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McWilliams shows the shirt that was torn up during the kangaroo attack. Luckily, she was wearing layers.

This was not the first attack by a kangaroo in the New South Wales area. One scratched and bloodied a 2-year-old boy in 2011, and in January 2012, a 7-year-old girl was cut and bruised on her face, back and arms when a kangaroo attacked during a family picnic.
"Kangaroos do attack people quite regularly if they're annoyed or too domesticated," Jenny Stokes, a spokeswoman for the National Parks and Wildlife Service, told TODAY.com. "Kangaroos are wild animals of substantial size and power that react instinctively, and this most recent incident highlights the need for people to be aware of kangaroos and their nature at all times."
Stokes noted that permits to shoot and kill kangaroos are issued "only as a last resort if an animal has exhibited aggressive behavior." She said the incidents involving McWilliams and her family ultimately led to the death of two aggressive kangaroos.

The New South Wales Department of Environment and Heritage has issued guidelines to help people avoid confrontations with eastern gray kangaroos. They include not walking directly toward the animals, not going near kangaroos that are growling or clucking, not moving between a female and her offspring, and not allowing a pet dog near a kangaroo, which could provoke a fight.

Seattle Cafe Shooter Kills 5, Self After Citywide Manhunt

By JIM VOJTECH, ALYSSA NEWCOMB and MICHAEL S. JAMES | Good Morning America 

The father of the man who opened fire and killed five people across Seattle, and later killed himself after a citywide manhunt, says his son was a very private person who was "disgruntled" and that he was a frequent customer at the coffee shop where his rampage began. "He was happy sometimes, but not really. He was kind of disgruntled," Walt Stawicki said about his son Ian Stawicki, who fatally shot himself after a killing spree on Wednesday.
Seattle's Harborview Medical Center confirmed that Ian Stawicki, who according to his father was unmarried with no children and had recently worked on a fishing processing boat in Alaska, died at 6 p.m. PDT Wednesday.
After the shootings began at approximately 11 a.m. PDT, when Stawicki opened fire at Cafe Racer Espresso in Seattle's University District, eventually killing four people, he killed a fifth random woman in a subsequent confrontation and stole her car.
Two victims died at the scene at Cafe Racer Espresso, while two more died later after being taken to Harborview Medical Center. People who were brought to the hospital had suffered gunshot wounds to the head, according to Susan Gregg, a hospital spokeswoman.
According to the Seattle Times, two of the victims at the cafe were Joe "Vito" Albanese, 52, who was killed along with best friend Drew Keriakedes, 45; the two men were in a band called God's Favorite Beefcake. The two other victims shot at the cafe have not yet been identified.
The Seattle Times reports that the only survivor of today's shootings is Leonard Meuse, who is currently out of surgery at Harborview Medical Center after being shot in the jaw and the armpit. Meuse is expected to survive.
Though it was unclear what prompted the cafe shooting, Ian's brother Andrew Stawicki said that his girlfriend said he was acting "kind of crazy" Wednesday morning, and she would not let him have a car.
Ian apparently had his mother's pickup truck on Wednesday; the family currently does not know where the vehicle is located.
The late Wednesday morning shooting set off a massive manhunt throughout Seattle. Earlier in the day Seattle police had tweeted that the suspect "is still alive and receiving treatment at Harborview Medical Center."
The second shooting incident occurred in downtown Seattle, about a 15-minute drive from the cafe.
"It appears that about 30 minutes after the shooting at the cafe, the suspect in the cafe shooting fled to First Hill, where he fatally shot a woman in a parking lot, and stole her SUV," police wrote in a blog post on the shootings.
Ian Stawicki did not know married mother of two Gloria Leonidas, the woman he killed in the second shooting incident, according to his father. Koch reportedly died after being transported to Harborview Medical Center.
The area where the suspect shot himself was about seven miles southwest of downtown Seattle -- about a mile to a mile and a half from where the suspect's stolen black SUV was found abandoned with a gun on the seat, according to police.
During a search of the area, a detective spotted the suspect on the street and started watching him, police said. When back-up officers arrived and started moving toward the man, he turned to the officers and the officers ordered him to drop his weapon.
Instead, the suspect put a firearm to his head and pulled the trigger, firing one shot, and immediately dropped to the ground.
"Based on evidence recovered during today's investigations, SPD believes a lone suspect is responsible for the murders in Roosevelt and First Hill," police said in the blog post. "Still, neighbors should expect to see a heightened police presence as detectives work to confirm links between the two tragic incidents."
Roosevelt High School, which is near the cafe, was put on lockdown while police armed with rifles continued to search the area.
Two other nearby schools, Greenwood Elementary School and Eckstein Middle School, were put on a modified lockdown, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.
No one answered the phone at Cafe Racer. A recorded message urged callers to "remember to come visit us, where we keep safety third."
"We've had two tragic shootings today that have shaken this city," Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn told reporters.
He said he has asked police to find ways to end the gun violence.
"It's their highest priority to identify the strategies we need to employ to try to bring an end to this wave of gun violence that this city is seeing," he said. 

Flavor Flav facing jail over child support case

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• Rapper Flavor Flav is facing a stint in jail after he failed to show up for a court hearing in New York this week.
  
  
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  However, Flavor Flav (name William Drayton Jr.) did not attend the hearing and the Albany County Court magistrate recommended a 180-day jail sentence for the star, while his driver's license and passport will also be revoked, according to the New York Daily News.
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  The 53 year old must now appear in Albany Family Court on June 19. He allegedly owes more than $111,186 to Parker.

Police storm building after Indiana gunman frees hostages, fatally shoots himself

Jon L. Hendricks | The Times of Northwest Indiana

Law enforcement officials advance on the building in Valparaiso, Ind., where a gunman held an unknown number of hostages Friday.

By M. Alex Johnson, msnbc.com

Police tactical officers stormed into an office building in Valparaiso, Ind., late Friday afternoon shortly after a gunman released the last of his several hostages. The man shot himself twice in the head and died later at a hospital, police said.

Kevin Tibbles, Nadine Comerford, Nancy Lynch, Maureen Mullen and Samira Puskar of NBC News contributed to this report by M. Alex Johnson of msnbc.com.

Two gunshots were heard, and tactical officers ran into the building through a shattered window. An ambulance then drove up to the building, and a cheer went up from the crowd gathered outside as someone — presumably the gunman — was brought out on a stetcher.
Valparaiso police said the gunman, later identified as Roy Ferguson, was taken from the scene with critical injuries. He died about two hours later, police said.

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It was a quick resolution to a tense situation that had played out slowly for much of the day. The gunman had incrementally released his hostages over six hours before freeing his final two captives late in the afternoon.  Neither of the last two hostages was injured, authorities said. Earlier, a woman was freed and was treated at a hospital for a blunt force head wound, and a second woman was driven away in an ambulance after walking free. Valparaiso police Sgt. Mike Grennes said the woman with the head injury may have been struck by the gunman.   

The man showed up about 11 a.m. ET at the offices of 21st Century Real Estate in the Prudential office building in Valparaiso, which is just south of Chicago. Fewer than 10 people were believed to have been inside when the gunman arrived.

Grennes corroborated witnesses' accounts that the man asked for a particular agent who he said owed him some money.

The office controller, Carolyn Biesen, told The Times of Northwest Indiana, a local newspaper, that she stepped out of her office to find a man standing over an injured female co-worker.

The man had a gun, but "he did not point it at me," Biesen said. "He pointed it up, showing us he had a gun."
Biesen said she heard the man fire two shots after she fled back to her office and later heard a series of shots believed to have been fired by police.
Grennes confirmed that there was an exchange of gunfire when officers first arrived on the scene.

Report: Miami police shoot naked man chewing on victim's face

By Jim Gold, msnbc.com

A Miami police officer fatally shot a naked man chewing the face of another man Saturday afternoon on a downtown causeway off-ramp, officials said.

The violence started at 2 p.m. on the MacArthur Causeway off-ramp, just south of the Herald’s offices, the newspaper said.

Witnesses said that a woman saw two men fighting and flagged down a police officer, who came upon the naked man mauling the other man, the Herald reported.

The officer, who was not identified, ordered the naked man to back away, but when the man continued the assault, the officer shot him, the Herald said. Witnesses told the Herald the wounded attacker continued to eat his victim, so the officer continued firing.  

Witnesses said they heard at least a half-dozen shots, the Herald said.  The naked man was later seen lying face down on the pedestrian walkway just below the newspaper’s two-story parking garage, the Herald said.  The naked man’s victim was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital Ryder Trauma Center and had critical injuries, police told the Herald.  Neither man was identified.  

“Based on the information provided, our Miami police officer is a hero and saved a life,’’ Javier Ortiz, spokesman for Miami police’s Fraternal Order of Police, told the Herald.  

A police department news release about the shooting did not include many details provided by witnesses to the newspaper.

Police requested the newspaper's video surveillance video, the Herald reported.
The shooting and investigation tied up causeway traffic as crowds were arriving at South Beach for an annual Urban Beach Week hip-hop festival.

Harley-Davidson motorcycle swept away by Japan tsunami to be preserved in museum

Peter Mark / The Canadian Press via AP

A rust-encrusted Harley-Davidson motorcycle that was swept away by the Japan tsunami in March 2011 was found by Peter Mark in April, washed up on an island off the coast of British Columbia. It's now headed to a Harley museum.

By James Eng, msnbc.com

A Japanese man’s Harley-Davidson motorcycle that washed up on the shores of western Canada more than a year after it was swept away by the devastating tsunami will be preserved in a Harley museum in the U.S.

The 2004 FXSTB Softail Night Train motorcycle will be permanently housed in the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee, Wis., as a memorial to the victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which swamped several coastal towns in northeastern Japan and left more than 15,000 people dead.

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“It is truly amazing that my Harley-Davidson motorcycle was recovered in Canada after drifting for more than a year,” said the bike’s owner, Ikuo Yokoyama, in a press release issued Friday by Deeley Harley-Davidson, the Canadian distributor of Harleys. “I would like to take this opportunity to express my heartfelt appreciation to Peter Mark, the finder of my motorcycle. Due to circumstances caused by the disaster, I have been so far unable to visit him in Canada to convey my gratitude.”

Mark found the motorcycle, still bearing its Japanese license plate, while driving his ATV on an isolated beach on Graham Island on the west coast of British Columbia on April 18. The bike, along with several other items, was inside a rusted cargo van container that apparently drifted more than 4,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean.  

“You just never know what you’re going to stumble upon when you go for a drive, and lo and behold you just come across something that’s out of this world,” Mark told CBC at the time.  The motorcycle was eventually traced to the 29-year-old Yokoyama.  The tsunami destroyed Yokoyama’s home in Miyagi prefecture and also claimed the lives of three family members, according to Japanese media reports. Yokoyama currently lives in temporary housing in Miyagi prefecture.

He said the motorcycle was being kept in a storage container behind his house when the tsunami struck.

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The Harley will soon be transported to the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee.

Harley-Davidson offered to return the rust-encrusted bike to him and to restore it to running condition but Yokoyama respectfully declined, the company said.
“Since the motorcycle was recovered, I have discussed with many people about what to do with it. I would be delighted if it could be preserved in its current condition and exhibited to the many visitors to the Harley Davidson Museum as a memorial to a tragedy that claimed thousands of lives,” Yokoyama was quoted as saying in Friday’s press release.
Harley-Davidson has offered to fly him to visit the museum and meet Marks, the Canadian who retrieved the bike. Yokoyama said he would like to do so “when things have calmed down.”
“My heart really goes out to Ikuo Yokoyama and all the survivors of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami for everything that was taken from them. I cannot even begin to comprehend the loss of family, friends, and community,” Mark was quoted by Harley-Davidson as saying. “I think it is fitting that the Harley, which was swept across the Pacific Ocean by the tsunami, will end up in the Harley-Davidson Museum as a memorial to that tragic event. It has an interesting and powerful story to convey preserved in its current state.”
The motorcycle has since been transferred to a Harley dealership in Vancouver. Plans for its transportation to the Harley museum are being developed.

Sperm cell genes may be key to male birth control

By Jennifer Welsh

LiveScience
Genes in charge of making sperm cells may be the key to understanding male infertility and even developing male contraception, two new studies indicate.
With this new information in hand, scientists say a male non-hormonal contraceptive may be just five to 10 years away.
Infertility remains a sensitive topic, and about 25 percent of cases remain unexplained. Getting a better grasp on the genetic causes of infertile men could lead to better treatments, the researchers say.

"The irony is that it is the fact that these men don't have children that makes standard family-pedigree analysis very challenging, and as such it has historically been extremely difficult to identify genetic causes of specific cases of male infertility," Lee Smith of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, who studies male infertility, told LiveScience.  

Fertility genes

The results, published today (May 24) in the American Journal of Human Genetics, are based on a study of the genetics of a group of men who belong to a religious group called the Hutterites, pacifist, self-sufficient colonists similar to the Amish.

"Hutterites [forbid] contraception and uniformly desire large families, providing an outstanding population in which to study the genetics of normal human fertility," study researcher Carole Ober of the University of Chicago explained in a statement. [ Birth Control Quiz: Test Your Contraception Knowledge ]

The researchers studied Hutterite men with one or more children, taking both family size and birth rate into consideration. They uncovered more than 40 genetic regions that influence how fertile a Hutterite man is, and then compared these with genetic sequences from a sample of Chicago men, in which nine of these same regions seemed to impact fertility.

"We do expect that genes identified … in the Hutterites will be relevant fertility genes in other populations, especially those that were also associated with sperm parameters in our validation studies" of the Chicagoans, Ober told LiveScience.
The next step, Smith said, is to use animal models to figure out the functions of these fertility-impacting genes. In another study, also published today, in the journal PLoS Genetics, Smith does just that.

Immature sperm
Smith and his colleagues fed drugs to mice that gave them various genetic mutations. Next, to pinpoint genes related to fertility, the researchers identified the infertile mice of the bunch. They then traced the infertility back to the gene mistake that caused it and looked at its effect on the mouse's sperm cells.

The researchers identified one specific gene, called Katnal1, that is crucial for sperm formation. Without the protein created from this gene, mouse sperm can't mature in the testes. These immature sperm are infertile.

The researchers think the same genetic link to infertility may be found in humans; if they can find a drug to manipulate Katnal1 levels in men, or do so permanently using gene therapy, the result might work as a non-hormonal contraceptive. The findings also may explain some cases of infertility: Perhaps the man has a natural mutation that messes Katnal1 up.  "Identification of genetic mutations associated with infertility that affect the supporting cells (and not the sperm themselves) could lead to personalized gene therapy (replacement of faulty genes) for male infertility within five to 10 years," Smith said. "All of the components have been tested and validated in rodent models. Likewise a genetic vasectomy … could also be available within five to 10 years."

Men who cheat on their wives more likely to die of a heart attack

By Meghan Holohan

Your cheatin’ heart makes Hank Williams weep, but it might kill you.
Researchers in Italy examined monogamy among men and discovered an interesting correlation -- having an extramarital affair increases men’s risk of having a deadly heart attack.
It’s almost cliché: a middle-age man having sex with a woman who is not his wife keels over in flagrante delicto, what’s known as sudden coital death (oh yes, it has a medical name). But like some stereotypes, it appears to be based in truth, says Dr. Marc Gillinov, a heart surgeon at The Cleveland Clinic and co-author of the book "Heart 411," which looks at cases of sudden coital death, among other cardiac events. (Gillinov did not participate in this study.)

The researchers -- from the University of Florence -- examined the medical literature related to cheating by searching for “unfaithfulness,” “extramarital affairs,” “infidelity” and “men.” Reliable statistics about cheating are hard to find because most people claim to be morally opposed to cheating and don’t chat to scientists about it. The authors report that anywhere from 15 to 25 percent to as many as 30 to 50 percent of men cheat at least once in their lives. Then the researchers looked at a variety of physical and mental health factors and the rates they occur in both monogamous and un-monogamous men.

Doctors have long known that men live longer if they consistently have sex into old age, but knocking boots only provides a health boost if it occurs with the same partner in a familiar place. Sex into old age only helps if you’re doing it with your spouse. Sudden coital death occurs most frequently when a man engages in coitus with a woman who is not his long-term partner.

While scorned wives might believe these results make sense on a karmic level, the authors found them surprising. Generally, cheating men have better hormonal and vascular function, meaning they’re healthier than monogamous men (finally, a reason to be excited that your man is a couch potato).
But the authors believe that the act of trying to keep an affair secret might contribute to cheating men’s increased risk of a deadly heart attack.
“It’s the added stress of trying to have a secret affair,” says Gillinov. “You are doing things that you don’t normally do.”
Cheating men frequently have affairs with younger partners and these men feel they have to drink, smoke, and eat more to keep up with their mistresses. All this adds up to increased heart rate, blood pressure, and anxiety, which can contribute to a heart attack. Although, sex itself is no more strenuous than walking up a few flights of stairs.
“It’s also like there is a medical reason for fidelity,” Gillinov says.

Man crosses to dark side, robs bank disguised as Darth Vader

Proving you don't need grown-up toys to be a criminal mastermind, a man pulled off a bank robbery on Wednesday in Toledo, Ohio, aided by a Darth Vader mask and a BMX bike. According to the FBI, the man allegedly held up a Huntington Bank branch disguised as the Death Star-dwelling lord. Unfortunately he was armed with a handgun, not a plastic lightsaber. After receiving an undisclosed amount of cash from the bank's tellers, this emissary from the dark side fled the scene on a BMX bike. May the police force be with him soon.

Man goes to ER for a kidney stone, learns he's also a she

• Steve Crecelius says he always felt a little different from the other boys: "I remember wearing my mom's clothes and makeup, very secretly, not telling anybody," the Denver resident said. Crecelius lived with his secret for decades -- until he went into the emergency room because of a kidney stone: A nurse reading his ultrasound came back with the stunning news that he was "intersex" -- meaning he has both male and female parts, a diagnosis that was shocking but also a relief. Now, five years later, Steve lives as Stevie, with her wife and six children. "I am the luckiest woman in the world," Crecelius 

Teen with cancer not allowed to walk at graduation

24 May 2012 13:45:45 GMT

A Boise, Idaho teenager who recently finished a year of chemotherapy for a cancerous brain tumor won't be allowed to walk at her high school graduation because she's missing four credits. Haylee Winters, hopes to finish the work over the summer and just wants to walk with her friends at the milestone occasion, but the school district won't budge on its policy that students lacking the necessary credits can't walk at the event and won't make an exception for fear of setting a new precedent. Haylee's mom told KTVB-TV that her daughter is "extremely saddened and disappointed" saying, "This will change her life if she's not able to walk with her class."

131 illegal immigrants found during raid at Texas 'stash house'

By Msnbc.com staff and wire

Federal agents have arrested four people accused of smuggling 131 illegal immigrants found at a "stash house" in south Texas, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said Wednesday.
The immigrants were also detained Tuesday after a raid at a house near Alton, Texas, about eight miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, ICE spokeswoman Nina Pruneda said.

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The people at the house were from Mexico and Central America, and did not require medical attention, she said.
The Monitor newspaper, which covers the Rio Grande Valley, said Salvador Hernandez, 52, had just left his house with his elderly parents when the normally quiet neighborhood was suddenly surrounded by ICE agents.

“I have been living here for 28 years and have never seen anything like that happen,” he told the paper.  Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley, which straddles the southern tip of Texas along the Gulf Coast, have seen the number of so-called "stash houses" used to house illegal immigrants roughly double since October 2011, according to agency figures. 

 

'Welcome to Hell' 

In one of the more brutal recent cases, two men pleaded guilty on Wednesday to harboring 115 immigrants -- some without food or water for days -- in a cluster of stash houses in Edinburg, Texas.  Vicente Ortiz Soto and Marcial Salas Gardunio, both 23-year-old Mexican citizens, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to harbor aliens on Wednesday in U.S. District Court, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson, who represents the Southern District of Texas.

Several of the immigrants required medical attention after authorities found dozens of them locked inside a crowded, hot, ramshackle house, according to a criminal complaint filed in the case.
One immigrant told ICE agents that Salas would greet new arrivals with "Welcome to Hell" when they arrived at the residence and threatened to beat or kill them if they did not remain quiet, court papers state.
Ortiz admitted to driving immigrants to the stash houses from the border and selling them snacks.
Each man faced up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine at a sentencing hearing set for July. 

Grandmother charged with murder after allegedly shooting grandson eight times

A 74-year-old Michigan woman has been charged with fatally shooting her teenage grandson. WDIV-TV's Hank Winchester reports.

By msnbc.com staff and news services

A 74-year-old woman has been charged with murder after allegedly shooting her grandson in the chest eight times as he called 911.
Jonathan Hoffman, 17, was shot Friday evening at the family's condo in West Bloomfield Township, an upscale Detroit suburb, police said. His grandmother, Sandra Layne, a retired teacher, was charged with open murder and is being held without bond.

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During Layne's arraignment Monday, a police detective testified that Hoffman frantically told a 911 dispatcher he had been shot in the chest by his grandmother and that he was going to die.
By the time officers arrived at the property, at least four more shots from a .40-caliber handgun had been pumped into the high school senior.

A West Bloomfield Township detective told a judge that eight entry and exit wounds were found in Hoffman's body and two bullets were in his body after the shooting.  "At approximately the three-minute mark of the 911 call, the subject screamed and exclaimed that he had just been shot again," Detective Brad Boulet said, according to The Detroit News. "Responding officers heard several gunshots inside the house."  Layne stood mute in court when the charge was read, and a not guilty plea was entered on her behalf.  An open murder charge allows a jury to decide on whether a first- or second-degree charge applies after hearing evidence.

Ira Kaufman Chapel via AP

Jonathan Hoffman, seen in an undated family photo released by the Ira Kaufman Chapel in Southfield, Mich., was fatally shot at his grandparents' home in West Bloomfield Township, Mich.

Hoffman had been attending an alternative high school in nearby Farmington and living with his maternal grandparents so he could complete his senior year while his divorced parents settled in Arizona, according to his father, Michael Hoffman of Scottsdale, Ariz.
Drug paraphernaliaLayne's attorneys have said there were problems at the condo, and Layne was afraid of her grandson. One of her attorneys, Mitchell Ribitwer, told reporters Monday that drugs and drug paraphernalia apparently belonging to the teen were found at the condo after Hoffman was killed.
Michael Hoffman said that regardless of his son's behavior, the teen was unarmed and didn't deserve to be shot to death.
"I'm not saying he was aggressive, but if he was, I don't understand how being aggressive but unarmed would justify her using deadly force," Hoffman said Detective Brad Boulet testified about Hoffman's 911 call and said when officers arrived at the condo, Layne was inside, behind a screened door.

"She put the gun on the floor after being ordered so by officers," Boulet said. "She exclaimed she had just murdered her grandson."
Another of Layne's attorneys told ClickOnDetroit.com that he thought Layne was "not in control of her emotions" at the time of the incident.
"She was afraid. She's not a big, strong woman," Jerome Sabbota said.

'Derogatory to his grandmother'Wearing an orange jumpsuit in court, Layne smiled and nodded to her husband and other family members.
Ribitwer said Layne had lived in the West Bloomfield area for 30 years. His requests for a reasonable bond and electronic tether monitor for Layne were denied. A pre-examination conference for Layne was set for Thursday morning.

Prosecutors had no comment after the hearing. Layne's husband and other relatives attended the hearing but also didn't comment.

Police had responded in March to a domestic disturbance at Layne's home.
"I spoke to the officer who responded, and he indicated this young man was totally out of control in the street," Ribitwer told reporters Monday. "He was derogatory to his grandmother. He was yelling and shouting and almost got into it with the police."

Jonathan Hoffman's funeral is set for 11 a.m. Tuesday.

'Domestic terrorism': White supremacist gets 40 years in jail for Ariz. bomb attack

J. Pat Carter / AP, file

White supremacist Dennis Mahon, given a 40-year sentence for a bomb attack, is seen here talking to journalists before appearing before the Oklahoma County Grand Jury investigating the Oklahoma City bombing.

By msnbc.com staff and news services

A white supremacist likely will spend the rest of his life behind bars after a federal judge sentenced him to 40 years in prison Tuesday for a 2004 bombing that wounded a black city official in suburban Phoenix.
Jurors in February convicted Dennis Mahon, 61, of three federal charges stemming from a package bomb that injured Don Logan — Scottsdale's diversity director at the time — and a secretary.

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They stopped short of finding him guilty of a hate crime after a six-week trial that included dramatic testimony from Logan and a female government informant dubbed a "trailer park Mata Hari" by defense attorneys.
'Trailer park Mata Hari' case: White supremacist twins' bomb trial wraps up

In handing down the sentence, U.S. District Judge David Campbell said he believed the bombing was premeditated and done to promote an agenda of hate and racism.  He called it an "act of domestic terrorism."  Campbell defended the decision not to classify it as a hate crime. "The jury was never asked if this was a hate crime," he said, although they were asked to consider whether Logan was targeted because of his race.  

The bomb sent by Mahon blew up in the hands of Don Logan, seen here in 2009.  "Mr. Mahon acted to promote racial discord," Campbell said, according to the Republic.  Logan told the Republic after the sentencing that he believed Campbell's comments meant it was essentially a hate-crime conviction. "He didn't know me; all he hated was what I represented," Logan said.  Mahon, meanwhile, maintained his innocence, telling the crowded courtroom: "I didn't do this bombing."  He said he felt bad for the victims, "but I can't apologize for something I didn't do."

Mahon had faced between seven and 100 years in prison. Since there is no parole in the federal system, he likely will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
His identical twin brother, Daniel, also faced a charge in the case but was acquitted.
The package bomb detonated in Logan's hands on Feb. 26, 2004, in a Scottsdale city building.

Former stripper as informantProsecutors alleged the Mahon brothers bombed Logan on behalf of a group called the White Aryan Resistance, which they said encourages members to act as "lone wolves" and commit violence against non-whites and the government.
They showed surveillance tapes at trial of the brothers referring to Logan in racial slurs. They also played a voicemail that Dennis Mahon left at Scottsdale's diversity office just months before the bombing in which he angrily said: "The white Aryan resistance is growing in Scottsdale. There's a few white people who are standing up."
Defense attorneys said someone working for the city of Scottsdale was likely the perpetrator because Logan's job made him unpopular.
During Tuesday's hearing, Logan said he believes his skin color was the motivation for the attack. He told the judge that Dennis Mahon's actions warranted the maximum sentence.
"Don Logan didn't ask to be here. I am here by default. I am here for justice," Logan said. "Dennis Mahon does not deserve to be free."

During the trial, defense attorneys heavily criticized the use of 41-year-old Rebecca Williams as an informant, nicknaming her the "trailer park Mata Hari" — a reference to the Dutch exotic dancer who was convicted of working as a spy for Germany during World War I.  Investigators met the former stripper through her brother, an informant himself on the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, and recruited her for the Mahon case, directing her to act like a government separatist and racist. She wore revealing clothes and sent racy photos to the brothers to win their trust. 

 'They got walloped': Masked group attacks alleged white supremacists in Illinois restaurant  Williams met the brothers in January 2005 after investigators set her up in a government-provided trailer at a Catoosa, Okla., campground where the brothers were staying at the time. A Confederate flag was placed in her window, and prosecutors say the Mahons introduced themselves within minutes of her arrival.  Dennis Mahon opened up to Williams as their conversations were recorded, telling her how to make bombs after she told him a fictitious story that she wanted to harm a child molester she knew.      

                                                                     

In one conversation, she asked Mahon if he had ever successfully detonated a bomb, to which he replied: "Yeah, diversity officer."
Logan testified at trial about the unbearable pain he felt after he opened the package, describing the lights going out, the room filling with smoke and debris falling from the ceiling.
Logan, who now works as a diversity administrator in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale, was hospitalized for three days.
He needed four surgeries to remove shrapnel from his arm and hand, do a skin graft on his severely damaged forearm and restore some use to one of his fingers that nearly had to be amputated.
'Self-aggrandizing claims'?Dennis Mahon's defense team has maintained his innocence, with his attorney Deborah Williams crying in court Tuesday and saying: "I don't believe Dennis Mahon has done this."
"He has not lived a good life in the way that most people would think of it," she said.
The defense attorneys argued their client "often makes exaggerated self-aggrandizing claims" that aren't true, that he was an alcoholic who constantly was drinking Everclear, and that his statements to Williams were just meant to impress her.

Mahon's lawyers also argued no evidence showed the bombing was done with the intent to seriously injure or kill Logan. They noted there were no deaths or life-threatening injuries from the bombing.Prosecutors, who recommended a sentence of more than 60 years, said Dennis Mahon intended to send a political message in trying to kill Logan.

 Mahons were living in the Phoenix area at the time of the bombing but left days afterward and were arrested in 2009 in Illinois.  Dennis Mahon was found guilty of conspiracy to damage buildings and property by means of explosives; malicious damage of a building by means of explosives; and distribution of information related to explosives Daniel Mahon was acquitted of conspiracy to damage buildings and property.

Man arrested for drunk driving with zebra, parrot in truck

Dubuque Police Dept. via KWWL

Jerald Reiter

By Miguel Llanos, msnbc.com

An Iowa man arrested for drunk driving after he left a bar appears to have his "kids" to blame -- a baby zebra and parrot that were with him and his girlfriend.
Jerald Reiter, 55, was charged with operating while under the influence and spent the night in jail before being released Monday.

He told KCRG.com that he suspects the only reason police were at the bar in Dubuque was that someone among the crowd taking pictures of the zebra and parrot contacted authorities.

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"He was standing outside of his vehicle," Reiter's girlfriend, Vickey Teeters, told KCRG.com. "He was getting ready to switch drivers."

"These are our kids," Teeters added, in explaining why the animals were with them.

The couple said they often take the animals with them, and had planned to bring them into the bar but were told they could not enter because food was being served that night.
Reiter, from nearby Cascade, was arrested after he, Teeters, the zebra and the parrot returned to his truck.
Police said Reiter had actually started driving away from the bar's parking lot, but he insists he had not yet moved the vehicle. Under Iowa law, he can be charged with drunkenness for simply being behind the wheel, KCRG.com reported.

Florida mother kills 4 children, then herself, deputies say

By Jim Gold, msnbc.com

Updated at 6:20 p.m. ET: A Florida mother killed her four children and then shot herself Tuesday morning as Brevard County, Fla., deputies closed in on her Port St. John home, authorities said.

Deputies said the mother, identified as Tonya Thomas, 33, sent a warning text message to a friend before the shootings, but the friend didn’t see the text until later.

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Three of the children, at least one already wounded, fled to the home of a neighbor who had been awakened by gunfire, but Thomas immediately called the children back and killed them, sheriff’s spokesman Tom Goodyear said.

The neighbor called 911 as they left his home, Goodyear said.  “She was very calm,” Goodyear said of the neighbor’s report. “She called them back and they walked back to the house.”
Arriving deputies found one of the children, Pebbles Johnson, 17, lying in the front yard of the Bright Avenue home and spotted a person at the front door, Goodyear said. The person ducked back inside after seeing deputies, he said. The teen was declared dead when she was transferred to an ambulance.
As a SWAT team arrived, officers heard gunshots inside. SWAT officers entered through a back sliding door just before 7 a.m., and found Thomas and three other children dead. They were identified as Joel Johnson, 12, Jazlin Johnson, 13, and Jaxs Johnson, 15.
Goodyear said the children’s father, who was separated from the family, had been notified of the deaths.
Also, a friend of Thomas told police she texted him during the night that she wanted to be cremated with her four children, Goodyear said. However, the friend did not see the text until after he woke up Tuesday morning and the incident was over. The friend, who was not identified, called police after seeing news of the deaths, he said.
Goodyear said police previously responded to the Florida “Space Coast” home, about 15 miles south of Cape Canaveral, for domestic disturbance calls involving Jaxs Johnson. He said the most recent call was about a month before Tuesday’s shootings.
"The cops have been called to that house many times because the kids were terrorizing the neighbors," neighbor Travis St. Peter.  Goodyear said that of Tuesday afternoon, authorities had no motive for the killings.

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Brevard County sheriff's investigators say a mother took the lives of her four children during an early morning confrontation, calling three of them back into her home to fatally shoot them before turning a gun on  herself, law enforcement sources report.

Thousands of pounds of pot worth $3.6 million found floating off Calif. coast

By Marian Smith, msnbc.com

Harbor Patrol officers found nearly 8,000 pounds worth of marijuana floating off the coast of Orange County, Calif., on Sunday, according to reports.
The marijuana found south of Los Angeles was packed in around 160 bales and had an estimated street value of $3.6 million, border patrol agents told CBS Los Angeles.

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"Shortly before noon on Sunday, May 20, maritime law enforcement authorities received a tip about suspicious bales floating in the water off the coast of Orange County, near Dana Point," border patrol agent supervisor Michael Jimenez said in a statement.

The haul reportedly totaled 7,263 pounds.

Marijuana grows openly in California towns, not just for medicinal purposes.

Coast guard petty officer Seth Johnson told the Orange County Register that the bales were first reported by a boater who saw them floating around 15 miles offshore. Three Harbor Patrol ships and a Coast Guard cutter were sent to recover the marijuana from the water.  The incident was out of the ordinary, Jimenez told the Register.

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"At other events, they've dumped the bales to get rid of weight if they're being chased," he said. "Generally in these cases we're aware they're being dumped. What's more unusual is that the bales were floating with no boat in sight."  No suspects or vessel have been identified in connection to an ongoing investigation, the Register reported.

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Carlos DeLuna was executed in 1989 for a crime a Columbia University Law School team believes was committed by another man named Carlos.

By Isolde Raftery, msnbc.com

This spring, the editorial board at the Columbia Human Rights Law Review dedicated its final issue of the year to one article about two men named Carlos. Carlos DeLuna, the authors believe, was executed in Texas for a crime committed by Carlos Hernandez, who looked so much like him that one of their sisters confused the two in a photograph.

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"Los Tocayos Carlos," which runs 451 pages and is available for free online, details the stabbing death of Wanda Lopez, a 24-year-old assistant manager at a gas station in Corpus Christi, Texas.
The article, which took six years, one professor and 12 students to produce, reads like a true-crime novel. It begins: “Wanda Lopez died at work at a Sigmor Shamrock gas station in Corpus Christi, Texas on February 4, 1983. She was twenty-four. Wanda’s only brother, Richard Vargas, heard her say her last words, but they gave him no solace or peace. They just made him angry.^”

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There were two Carloses in the vicinity that night. An eye witness to the crime identified Carlos DeLuna as the man who had wrestled with Wanda Lopez, even though his clothes did not match the witness' original description.
The law school team interviewed Carlos Hernandez's relatives, who revealed that on the day of the murder, before Carlos DeLuna was arrested, he told them that he had killed a woman named Wanda and that he felt badly about it. He said he didn't think he'd get caught.
Hernandez later told someone else that he had committed the murder and that "Carlos DeLuna took the fall."
Police told the Columbia investigators that Carlos DeLuna didn't have it in him to commit such a crime. DeLuna, a junior high drop out, had a low IQ and had been arrested for low-level crimes but was better known for huffing paint. Carlos Hernandez, by contrast, had raped children in the neighborhood and had been arrested for assaulting his wife with an ax handle, according to the Columbia University report.
Questioning how Carlos Hernandez, with his reputation, could have avoided scrutiny, the law school students and their professor discovered that Hernandez had been a police informant.
But not all police officers liked Carlos Hernandez -- their informants reported to them that Hernandez might have been to blame for other unsolved murders of Latina women.
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Even before the crime was committed, the case was sloppily handled, the law school team strongly suggests. A novice dispatcher took too long to send out a patrol car to the gas station where Wanda Lopez was knifed.
Years down the road, after DeLuna had been sentenced to death, the state assigned him an attorney who had never tried a major case in court, but who landed the job, the law school team suggests, because his father was politically connected.
In 1989, Carlos DeLuna was executed by lethal injection. His tocayo, or namesake, Carlos Hernandez, died in jail in 1999.
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In the introduction, the authors write: “Los Tocayos Carolos poignantly reveals how easily our legal system can fail to produce just outcomes even without the deliberate interference of individuals acting in bad faith and how the consequences of such failures can be irrevocable and at times, fatal.”
Columbia Law Professor James S. Liebman told the Guardian that what struck him most as he conducted his research was that the story was mundane.
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"This wasn't the trial of OJ Simpson,” Liebman said. “It was an obscure case, the kind that could involve anybody. Maybe those are the cases where miscarriages of justice happen, the routine everyday cases where nobody thinks enough about the victim, let alone the defendant."

The Columbia Human Rights Review piece recalls work by Northwestern University Professor David Protess and his students to exonerate innocent death row inmates. In 2000, Gov. George Ryan declared a moratorium on Illinois’ death penalty.

Columbia law article says Texas executed the wrong Carlos

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Carlos DeLuna was executed in 1989 for a crime a Columbia University Law School team believes was committed by another man named Carlos.

By Isolde Raftery, msnbc.com

This spring, the editorial board at the Columbia Human Rights Law Review dedicated its final issue of the year to one article about two men named Carlos. Carlos DeLuna, the authors believe, was executed in Texas for a crime committed by Carlos Hernandez, who looked so much like him that one of their sisters confused the two in a photograph.

"Los Tocayos Carlos," which runs 451 pages and is available for free online, details the stabbing death of Wanda Lopez, a 24-year-old assistant manager at a gas station in Corpus Christi, Texas.
The article, which took six years, one professor and 12 students to produce, reads like a true-crime novel. It begins: “Wanda Lopez died at work at a Sigmor Shamrock gas station in Corpus Christi, Texas on February 4, 1983. She was twenty-four. Wanda’s only brother, Richard Vargas, heard her say her last words, but they gave him no solace or peace. They just made him angry.^”


There were two Carloses in the vicinity that night. An eye witness to the crime identified Carlos DeLuna as the man who had wrestled with Wanda Lopez, even though his clothes did not match the witness' original description.
The law school team interviewed Carlos Hernandez's relatives, who revealed that on the day of the murder, before Carlos DeLuna was arrested, he told them that he had killed a woman named Wanda and that he felt badly about it. He said he didn't think he'd get caught.
Hernandez later told someone else that he had committed the murder and that "Carlos DeLuna took the fall."
Police told the Columbia investigators that Carlos DeLuna didn't have it in him to commit such a crime. DeLuna, a junior high drop out, had a low IQ and had been arrested for low-level crimes but was better known for huffing paint. Carlos Hernandez, by contrast, had raped children in the neighborhood and had been arrested for assaulting his wife with an ax handle, according to the Columbia University report.
Questioning how Carlos Hernandez, with his reputation, could have avoided scrutiny, the law school students and their professor discovered that Hernandez had been a police informant.
But not all police officers liked Carlos Hernandez -- their informants reported to them that Hernandez might have been to blame for other unsolved murders of Latina women.

California voters to consider ending capital punishment
Even before the crime was committed, the case was sloppily handled, the law school team strongly suggests. A novice dispatcher took too long to send out a patrol car to the gas station where Wanda Lopez was knifed.

Years down the road, after DeLuna had been sentenced to death, the state assigned him an attorney who had never tried a major case in court, but who landed the job, the law school team suggests, because his father was politically connected.
In 1989, Carlos DeLuna was executed by lethal injection. His tocayo, or namesake, Carlos Hernandez, died in jail in 1999.

California vote could remove one quarter of nation's death row
In the introduction, the authors write: “Los Tocayos Carolos poignantly reveals how easily our legal system can fail to produce just outcomes even without the deliberate interference of individuals acting in bad faith and how the consequences of such failures can be irrevocable and at times, fatal.”
Columbia Law Professor James S. Liebman told the Guardian that what struck him most as he conducted his research was that the story was mundane.


"This wasn't the trial of OJ Simpson,” Liebman said. “It was an obscure case, the kind that could involve anybody. Maybe those are the cases where miscarriages of justice happen, the routine everyday cases where nobody thinks enough about the victim, let alone the defendant."

The Columbia Human Rights Review piece recalls work by Northwestern University Professor David Protess and his students to exonerate innocent death row inmates. In 2000, Gov. George Ryan declared a moratorium on Illinois’ death penalty.

Lung cancer drug treats rare lymphoma tumors, too

By Robert Bazell, NBC News correspondent

Tonight on "NBC Nightly News" we heard the story of Zach Witt, a vivacious 6-year-old who was close to death from a rare form of lymphoma. But he was brought back to health by a drug that has been on the market as a treatment for a form of lung cancer. It truly is a heartening tale.
The backstory to this achievement shows how progress is being made against certain cancers. In some ways it is very encouraging. But viewed in other ways, the progress is far slower than many would have predicted.

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Before the late 1970s and early 1980s scientists had no idea what happened inside cells to make them cancerous. Then a series of discoveries revealed that the same genes that control cell growth and division as a fertilized egg becomes a human being can also cause cancer when the growth control genes become mutated.

Zach Witt's parents, John and Pam, describe Zach's battle against lymphoma and his remarkable recovery.  After these mutations were discovered the great and obvious hope was that there would be drugs to target them and stop the cancer from growing. There have been several targeted therapies, but far fewer than anyone expected. The gene mutation that drives Zach’s tumor, known as ALK, was discovered 25 years ago. But companies had little interest in developing a drug for that type of cancer –- anaplastic lymphoma -- because it affects only a few hundred children a year in the United States.

Eventually scientists discovered that ALK is also a driver of about 10 percent of lung cancers. Lung cancer is so prevalent that even 10 percent makes a substantial market. After extensive testing Pfizer won approval to market Xalkori to treat lung cancer with ALK – at a cost of about $100,000 a year for each patient. The drug works by binding with and inhibiting the action of the enzyme that is produced by the mutated gene.
And in a study out Wednesday, doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have shown that in eight children Xalkori can very effectively treat Zach’s type of lymphoma. In each child, evidence of cancer disappeared. The research will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in June.
Scientists are decoding the genes of many cancers now, looking for situations like this where, because of a similar gene mutation, a drug already out there -- or combinations of them -- might help other cancers. But it is going slowly. The biology is not as simple as one gene mutation causes one cancer. In fact, there can be hundreds of gene mutations contributing to one type of cancer. Many scientists caution against expecting too many spectacular results.
As Dr. Yael Mosse, Zach’s doctor, put it, “Our goals have shifted. Now we feel that it is more impactful to make a big difference for a small group of patients rather than a small difference for a big group of patients.”

Why Don't We Know More About the London Whale? (Atlantic Wire)

Why Don't We Know More About the …

Perhaps the most surprising thing about a man who was able to move trillion dollar markets in a single bet, is that we know so little about him. Especially when everyone has known what he was up to for weeks.
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Brunio Iksil's name first started to show up on newswires almost exactly a month ago, when Bloomberg first reported on April 6 that the JPMorgan trader had established such a massive position in credit derivatives that he was single handedly distorting market prices, a near impossible task in a market of that size. He was so overexposed that hedge funds and other big investors were lining up against him, taking the other side of his bets and waiting for him to inevitably fail. As Business Insider pointed out, those "rivals' may have been the impetus for the news stories. Drawing more attention to his unstable position certainly wouldn't have hurt their fortunes.
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Some people were immediately concerned. The bloggers at ZeroHedge chalked it up to JPMorgan's king of the mountain arrogance:

They lie about everything, fully aware they have perpetual immunity because they are more powerful than the Fed (just recall Jamie Dimon's symbolic spitting in the face of Ben Bernanke), they are a tri-party repo dealer thus in the center of the entire shadow banking system, and have the biggest single-bank derivative exposure in the world, at $70 trillion as of December 31.
 JPMorgan is modern finance. And because of that they can and will get away with everything, lying on prime time TV most certainly included.

Others were more charitable ("To me this all seems like much ado about nothing"), but the biggest vote of confidence came from Iksil's boss, Jamie Dimon. A week after the story broke, Dimon called the whole thing a “tempest in a teapot.” His CFO Doug Braunstein said the positions were ”consistent with both, I think, the spirit and written rules of the Volcker rule as it is written today " and the firm was "very comfortable with the positions we have." That was April 13. Since that time we now know the firm lost more than $2 billion and that number could go higher. 
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Dimon also reiterated that if any regulators had a problem with it they can “see everything we do whenever they want." Which is what they did. We also know now that the SEC and investigators in the United Kingdom began quietly asking questions almost immediately, trying to understand what was happening with JPMorgan's investments. Since the losses were announced, a full SEC investigation has been launched, but there will be questions about how regulators could have literally been sitting in the bank for the last month and either couldn't or wouldn't do anything about it. Iksil reportedly stopped making trades shortly after the press articles about him came out, but the company was unable to unwind his position without taking big losses.
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Despite all the attention from the media and authorities, no one seemed to figure out much about who Iksil is, and how one trader was able to control such a massive amount of funds in this way. Over $100 billion in a single index, by most estimates. Even now, a month later, no one seems to know anything about him except that he has two cool nicknames — the "London Whale" and "Lord Voldemort" — and that he apparently doesn't spend a lot of time on the Internet. There appears to be almost no public trace of him before April. A Lexis-search turned up nothing. There are no pictures of him online. Bloomberg couldn't even find out his exact age. (A co-worker says he's in his late 30s.)
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All we — allegedly! — know is that he's French (though his family may have Russian ancestry); he commutes to London from Paris; favors dark jeans and no ties at work; and is, according to a self-administered Bloomberg profile, a "champion of 'kick it', walking over water and humble.. yes."  Whatever that means.
What is clear is that he was not some wild card who was flaunting all the rules until he got caught. If anything, he may not even been the truly responsible party. Another report by Bloomberg from a few weeks ago says that his boss, Achilles Macris, is the real driving force behind these risky moves. Macris heads the chief investment office in London where Iksil is based. The CIO is typically tasked with hedging bets: doing its best to protect the banks assets from loss. However, the story goes that when Macris — who is described by colleagues as a smart and agressive idea man — took over JPMorgna's London CIO, he began to move beyond risk management into actual profit making, putting more and more of the bank's own money on the line. So much money that their "hedge" bets needed their own protection.
The truly troubling fact is that this is exactly the way Dimon wanted it. He's been railing for years against the government's attempts to rein in Wall Street and question the very idea that Congress or SEC could do its job. On April 5, the day the original stories about Iksil broke, Dimon had this to say about the newly created Financial Stability Oversight Council:

Although the FSOC was created, it is proving to be too weak to effectively manage the overlap and complexity. We have hundreds of rules, many of which are uncoordinated and inconsistent with each other. While legislation obviously is political, we now have allowed regulation to become politicized, which we believe will likely lead to some bad outcomes.

In other words, you can't control us, so stop trying. In its own way, this debacle may have proved Dimon right, but it could mean big trouble for his industry if Washington decides the only way to save the banks is to destroy them by breaking them up.

Three more reportedly arrested after kidnapped Tenn. girls found safe; suspect dead

Three more reportedly arrested after kidnapped Tenn. girls found safe; suspect dead

Arizona man buys six winning Powerball tickets worth $6 million

Arizona man buys six winning Powerball tickets worth $6 million