The Los Angeles Riots of 1992 was an extremely controversial time in American history and also a great stepping stone for civil rights. Rodney King, a parolee under the influence of alcohol, although it had been assumed that he was under the influence of narcotics at the time of the arrest, had run red lights and stop signs and was chased down and detained in South Central Los Angeles on March 3rd, 1991 in the Lake View Terrace district. During his arrest, a local resident caught video of a violent beating on Rodney King by four members of the Los Angeles Police Department. This became a rallying cry for activists in and around Los Angeles and other places in the United States. The video that was captured shows four white police officers clubbing and kicking Rodney King repeatedly.
Only one month after the hearings began, the majority of Americans, 97% had heard of Watergate. Of those, 67 percent believed that President Nixon had participated in the Watergate cover-up.Political investigations began in February 1973 when the Senate established a Committee to investigate the Watergate scandal. The public hearings of the Committee were sensational, including the evidence of John Dean, Nixon’s former White House Counsel. The Committee also uncovered the existence of the secret White House tape recordings, sparking a major political and legal battle between the Congress and the President.On February 6, 1974, the House of Representatives passed House Resolution 803 by 410-4 to authorise the Judiciary Committee to consider impeachment proceedings against Nixon.However, by the beginning of 1973, the Watergate scandal was unfolding and the next eighteen months were dominated by damaging revelations and a legal fight between the Executive arm of government versus the Congress and the Supreme Court.Nixon was facing impeachment by the House of Representatives when he resigned in August 1974, the first President ever to do
William Von Poyck June 12, 2013 Kara Cadrin On June 24, 1987 in West Palm Beach, Florida, William Van Poyck and Frank Valdez had a plan to help James O’Brien escape from prison. O’Brien was on his way to a doctor’s appointment in a prison transport van when Valdez and Poyck “ambushed the guards in the van, assaulted them and fired three shots”. (Blanco) Glades Correctional Institution guard Fred Griffis was killed in the ambush. The two then fled the scene in a Cadillac, leaving behind O’Brien and a police chase ensued. Poyck and Valdez were eventually arrested the same day.
There were a total of three bombs, made out of pressure cookers, which were filled with nails. However, only two bombs went off injuring and killing spectators and the participating runners of the Boston Marathon. Shortly after the bombs went off it inflicted damage to the people of America; afterwards, the FBI came on the scene and initiated an investigation to catch the individuals responsible for the terrorist attack. Soon enough, there was a video of suspected individuals that led to the identification of the terrorists that had attacked the Boston Marathon. On April 18, 2013, three days after the bombings, images of the suspects were released on live TV and newspapers.
In 1950, Barnes was arrested for possession of a hypodermic needle. He was later arrested for possession of burglary tools and then for breaking into cars, which earned him a three-year sentence at the Manhattan House of Corrections, more colorfully known as "The Tombs." Released in 1954, Barnes returned to his life of dealing on the streets. He got nabbed by the police on a drug charge in 1959 and was sentenced to five years at Green Haven State Prison. While incarcerated, Barnes befriended known mob figure Matty Madonna.
At the time of his plea, prosecutors said Grass admitted to a series of illegal activities, from backdating contracts and severance letters to misleading the company and federal investigators about a $2.6 million real estate deal. They said he also met with employees called to testify before the grand jury and encouraged them to lie. During Grass' time at the head of the Camp Hill-based company founded by his father, Alex Grass, its stock price soared as Rite Aid engaged in an aggressive expansion effort. But the grand jury said the boom years were accomplished by "massive accounting fraud, the deliberate falsification of financial statements, and intentionally false SEC filings." Less than a year after
(The affair began with the arrest of five men for breaking and entering into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex on June 17, 1972. The FBI connected the payments to the burglars to a slush fund used by the 1972 Committee to Re-elect the President. As evidence mounted against the president's staff, which included former staff members testifying against them in an investigation conducted by the Senate Watergate Committee, it was revealed that President Nixon had a tape recording system in his offices and that he had recorded many conversations. Recordings from these tapes implicated the president, revealing that he had attempted to cover up the break-in. After a series of court battles, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the president had to hand over the tapes; he ultimately complied.)
HIST101-1403B-05 Modern American History: 1950 to the 21st Century Phase 2 Social Unrest and Watergate Individual Project September 1, 2014 The Watergate burglaries, took place May 28 and June 17, 1972. There were five men who were apprehended inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate building during the second burglary. After being caught during the second burglary these individuals implicated themselves on other counts and charges by voluntarily telling investigators about having committed a previous break in. During the investigation of one of the 5 men arrested James McCord turned up information that Nixon had known of the burglary and attempted to cover up any White House involvement. The evidence that surfaced was able to link Nikon to destroying key documents to cover-up of the break in as well as uncovering that the Nixon reelection committee had run “dirty schemes and tricks” during the campaign against the Democrats.
His first long-term undercover assignment that led to his work with the mafia was in Tampa, Florida. Pistone penetrated a ring of thieves that stole cars. In February 1976, due to Pistone's work, the entire ring was put in jail, and millions in stolen property was recovered. Pistone (1989) says, "For my work I got a letter of commendation from Clarence M. Kelley, Director of the FBI, and an award of $250.” In 1974, Pistone was transferred to New York and assigned to the truck hijacking squad of the FBI. There were approximately five to six major hijackings per day in the New York City
Oceans 11 Controls breached during movie: 1. In the beginning of the movie Danny (George Clooney) gets out of jail and meets up with a guy (brad pitt) to discuss details about robbing a casino (the belagio) in las vegas, but yet two other casinos (mgm, mirage) put their cash at the belagio as well. Danny goes into a building with brad pitt and looks at building plans of the belagio vault where the money is stored and a security guard allows them to not only looks at the plans, but take the building plans over night to copy them and study them. 2. One of the “crew” works at a casino in another state.