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Cléo al fianco di Fondazione Veronesi: insieme nella lotta contro il tumore al seno

Il brand Cléo supporta la ricerca scientifica e la prevenzione del tumore al seno con una borsa di studio e una campagna di sensibilizzazione.

Il brand Cléo supporta la ricerca scientifica e la prevenzione del tumore al seno con una borsa di studio e una campagna di sensibilizzazione. Cléo, noto brand di Paglieri dedicato alla cura del corpo femminile, annuncia una nuova importante collaborazione con la Fondazione Umberto Veronesi per sostenere la ricerca sul tumore al seno e promuovere la prevenzione. Attraverso il finanziamento di…

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I libri della renna

Il regalo di Natale delle biblioteche di Milano consiste, naturalmente, nei nostri consigli di lettura, scelti per offrire al pubblico un’occasione per distrarsi in totale relax.

È ambientata proprio in tempo di feste l’ultima fatica di Valerio Varesi, L’affittacamere, ma è un Natale un po’ cupo per il commissario Soneri, costretto a scavare anche nel proprio doloroso passato per venire a capo dell’omicidio di un’anziana affittacamere dalla vita piuttosto torbida: “La nostalgia è la sublimazione della paura che ci fa il tempo che passa”. Forse Varesi è riuscito a darci, una volta per tutte, la spiegazione della passione per i libri gialli: “La vita, dopotutto, non assomiglia tragicamente a un omicidio? Non si concludeva sempre con un morto? Non ci ammazzava il tempo logorandoci ogni giorno con un piccolo affronto fino al cedimento? E il tempo non ha bisogno di un alibi come non ce l’ha il boia: compie semplicemente il suo mestiere”. Scritto molto bene, sembra di passeggiare insieme al protagonista per le vie nebbiose di Parma, durante le festività natalizie.

Antonio Manzini, nel titolo del suo ultimo libro della serie del vice questore Rocco Schiavone, Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l’amico misteriosamente scomparso in Sud America?, fa il verso al noto film di Ettore Scola con Nino Manfredi e Alberto Sordi, ma l’amico, in questo caso, è misteriosamente scomparso in Sud America e non in Africa. Spassoso e divertente anche durante la trasferta, il coriaceo Rocco sembra ricordare la risposta che Aldo Fabrizi diede ai giornalisti che lo rimproveravano di parlare solo in romanesco: “Sono sicuro che se anche fossi nato altrove parlerei romanesco lo stesso”: è così anche per i nostri eroi, che si trovino a Roma, ad Aosta, a Buenos Aires o in Messico. Buon divertimento!

Anche in La ricreazione è finita, recentissimo romanzo di Dario Ferrari, si respira aria di Natale, ma in questo caso il riferimento cinematografico non è a Scola bensì al Fellini dei Vitelloni, perché il protagonista gigioneggia in quel di Viareggio senza decidersi a dare una svolta, matrimoniale e professionale, alla sua tardo-fanciullesca esperienza personale. Egli riesce però, del tutto inaspettatamente, a vincere un dottorato di ricerca in università e viene incaricato di occuparsi degli scritti del compatriota Tito Sella, morto in carcere dove era stato rinchiuso per il reato di terrorismo. Diversi generi letterari e temi, il romanzo di formazione, il mondo accademico, le suggestioni cinematografiche, storiche e metaletterarie, si intrecciano in questo romanzo davvero accattivante.

Feste decisamente spensierate per chi sceglierà Le imprudenze di Archie di Wodehouse, recentemente ripubblicato da Mursia. Inossidabile humour inglese di ottima lega, del suo stile l’autore diceva: “consiste nel costruire una specie di commedia musicale senza musica, ignorando del tutto la vita reale”. E proprio così, in assoluta leggerezza, vive Archie, il protagonista di questo romanzo che vi lascerà con il sorriso stampato durante tutta la lettura. “Mentre considerava la sua situazione alla fine del primo mese di vita matrimoniale, ad Archie pareva che andasse tutto per il meglio nel migliore di tutti i mondi possibili. … C’erano dei momenti in cui gli sembrava che New York fosse solo stata in attesa del suo arrivo prima di dare ufficialmente inizio ai bagordi”.

Le festività natalizie sono l’occasione giusta anche per affrontare un bel romanzo storico, di quelli “cappa e spada”, soprattutto per chi ha amato I promessi sposi. Il conte Attilio di Claudio Paglieri è infatti il prequel del capolavoro manzoniano e ci offre un punto di vista diverso sulla personalità del famigerato cugino di Don Rodrigo, ma l’ambientazione è sempre la stessa: la nostra grande Milano e le meravigliose sponde del lago di Como.

Ancora in tema con le feste vi proponiamo Un lungo capodanno in noir, in cui dieci autori contemporanei tra i più seguiti ci offrono la loro versione delle feste. Diversi sono anche gli scenari: Roma, Firenze e Milano “con i suoi quartieri e la sua gente; Milano che negli anni Venti ospitava Antonio Gramsci a San Vittore, uno che il Capodanno lo odiava proprio”. Poi un borgo del centro Italia, e infine Barcellona e la Svizzera: un ampio panorama per feste colorate di giallo!

Chiudiamo questa breve rassegna con una garanzia assoluta, ovvero l’ultima raccolta di racconti gialli di Simenon pubblicata da Adelphi: I misteri del Grand-Saint-Georges, anch’essa, in qualche modo, in tema con il Natale perché ambientata nei paesaggi innevati della Lituania. Una tremenda vendetta è l'argomento della prima storia, un “racconto di Natale per grandi” è il sottotitolo della seconda, mentre l’ultima, Il piccolo sarto e il cappellaio, sarà poi sviluppata nel romanzo I fantasmi del cappellaio: basta un semplice pezzettino di carta per suscitare i più atroci sospetti e scatenare la tensione.

Di nuovo auguri di buone feste a tutti i nostri fedelissimi lettori!

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"Mio cugggino ha fatto questo e quello": Il conte Attilio, di Claudio Paglieri

I Promessi Sposi è ambientato negli stessi anni dei Tre Moschettieri, in un periodo di intrighi internazionali, guerre, avventurieri, soldati di ventura e spadaccini, ma non ce ne si accorge perché Manzoni – per tutte quelle questioni di poetica che certamente ricordiamo tutti dai tempi delle superiori (…) – scelse di tenere quel mondo ai margini della sua storia.Però ci sono dei personaggi che…

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Jose Pagliery at NOTUS:

Rep. Matt Gaetz attended a drug-fueled sex party in 2017 with the 17-year-old girl at the center of the alleged sex trafficking scandal, according to legal documents filed to a Florida federal court shortly before midnight Thursday, which cite sealed affidavits from three eyewitness testimonies.

The minor, who was a junior in high school at the time, arrived in her mother’s car for a July 15, 2017, party at the Florida home of Chris Dorworth, a lobbyist and friend of Gaetz’s, according to a court filing written by defense attorneys who interviewed witnesses as part of an ongoing civil lawsuit Dorworth brought in 2023. The lobbyist claimed he had been unfairly dragged into the alleged sex trafficking scandal that has dogged Gaetz and his allies for years. Dorworth ultimately dropped the case, but lawyers filed these documents in an attempt to recoup attorneys fees for a lawsuit they say should never have been brought.

One eyewitness cited in the court filings, a young woman referred to as K.M., provided a sworn affidavit that claimed the teenage girl was naked, partygoers were there to “engage in sexual activities,” and “alcohol, cocaine, ecstasy … and marijuana” were present. The teenage girl was identified in the filings only as A.B. “The discovery taken in this case to date reflects that on Saturday, July 15, 2017 … Dorworth, hosted a party at his residence … with the following guests present: (1) A.B.; (2) K.M.; (3) B.G.; (4) Matt Gaetz,” lawyers wrote in the filing, also listing several others. The defense lawyers filed testimonies from those three women — who the attorneys say placed Gaetz at Dorworth’s house that night — under seal pending a judge’s approval to make the records public.

Additionally, Gaetz’s own ex-girlfriend — who was present at the party — provided testimony that lawyers say rebuts Dorworth’s claims that he was not there. NOTUS independently verified that Gaetz and one of the women who testified were previously involved in a relationship; she is only identified in the court filing by her initials, B.G.

The congressman’s ex-girlfriend’s eleventh hour testimony on Sept. 3 came just two days before Dorworth dropped his lawsuit, defense attorneys said in the filing. The defense lawyers also relied on Dorworth’s geolocated cell phone records, which showed that he communicated constantly with the congressman that day. The defense’s court filings show a hired digital forensic examiner identified Gaetz’s number, which has a Florida panhandle 850 area code and texted back and forth 30 times that day and then called Dorworth twice in the hours before the evening revelry. “B.G., another attendee at that party, confirmed A.B.’s testimony under penalty of perjury,” defense lawyers wrote.

This marks the first time that sworn testimony has been referenced in public court filings alleging that the congressman attended one of the long-rumored parties tied to an alleged underage sex scandal. Previous reports have revealed details of ex-politician and Gaetz friend Joel Greenberg’s confession letter that was never made public, which described how Gaetz would allegedly pay him to arrange several sexual encounters with young women — including a 17-year-old girl. Greenberg is serving an 11-year prison sentence for a list of charges, including fraud and sex trafficking with a child.

New filings reveal that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) is at the center of a party he attended with a 17-year old girl in 2017 that featured drugs and sex.

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Daily Kos: Matt Gaetz attended sex party with minor, federal court filing alleges

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1930 Interior of the Enrico Paglieri Restaurant. It was destroyed in 1930 to make way for the new Rockefeller Center. From The Jazz Age, FB.

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Zombie Apocalypse posted by Laffy on Mastodon: "Via Pagliery:

So, actual brain worms.

NYT reports RFK Jr. had previously undisclosed health issues, including a parasite in his brain. “I have cognitive problems, clearly,” #RFKJr. said in the 2012 deposition. “I have short-term memory loss, and I have longer-term memory loss that affects me.” Rolling Stone adds: "He also said in his 2012 deposition that he has suffered from mercury poisoning that has caused neurological issues." He still polls at a consistent 10%.

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Jeffrey McConney, former controller for the Trump Organization, is among the people who has testified in the bench trial for New York Attorney General Letitia James' civil fraud case against the company.

James alleges that former President Donald Trump and his company seriously exaggerated the value of its real estate assets — an allegation that Justice Arthur Engoron, assigned to the case, agreed with in a September 26 ruling. And McConney has offered testimony on the Trump Organization's operations.

Trump's legal team has claimed that McConney has insufficient knowledge where property valuations are concerned. But the Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery, in a report published on October 12, lays out some reasons why that claim is problematic.

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In court, Trump lawyer Jesus Suarez told Engoron, "Objection, your honor. Mr. McConney is not a valuation expert. He's not offered as a valuation expert."

But Pagliery explains, "The idea that the Trump Organization's long-time bean counter would be oblivious to the inner workings of real estate valuations seemed implausible, given that documents presented at trial showed that he was the key conduit to getting those very valuations compiled into Trump's annual statements of financial condition. That paperwork, which was signed off by outside accountants at the firm Mazars USA, was the reason that financial institutions like Deutsche Bank and Ladder Capital extended hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to Trump."

Pagliery continues, "Those funds allowed his company to seal several marquee deals, including the purchase of the Doral golf course in South Florida and the acquisition of the Old Post Office in Downtown Washington, which briefly became a Trump hotel. The inherently contradictory nature of Trump lawyers' stance on McConney underscored the sharp contrast on display at the ongoing bank fraud trial, where James is trying to bolster a case the judge has already decided has merit while Trump lawyers combat the very premise of the investigation. When investigators point to spreadsheets, the defense either shrugs, appears confused, or claims vastly inflated values are mere differences of opinion."

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

October 2, 2023

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

The trial of former president Trump, his oldest sons, two associates, and the Trump Organization began today in Manhattan. Jose Pagliery, political investigations reporter for The Daily Beast, noted that the presiding judge, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, started with a reference to Friday’s rainstorm that flooded New York City, saying: "Weeks ago, I said we would start today 'come hell or high water.’ Meteorologically speaking, we’ve had the high water."

New York Attorney General Letitia James launched the investigation in 2019 after Trump fixer Michael Cohen testified before Congress that Trump had been engaging in fraud by inflating the value of his property. Last week, Justice Engoron issued a partial decision establishing that the organization and its executives committed fraud. Engoron canceled the licenses under which the organization’s New York businesses operated, provided for those businesses to be dissolved, and provided for an independent monitor to oversee the company. 

With that major point already established, the trial that began today will establish how much of the ill-gotten money must be given up, or “disgorged,” by the defendants and whether they falsified records or engaged in insurance fraud in the process of committing fraud. James has asked for a minimum of $250 million in disgorgement, along with a ruling permanently prohibiting Trump and his older sons from doing business in New York, and a five-year ban on commercial real estate transactions for Trump and the organization. 

Trump is attending the trial in person, likely because, as Pagliery noted, he cited this trial as the reason he couldn’t show up for two days of depositions in his federal case against Michael Cohen. If he didn’t show up, he would be in contempt of court. So he is there, but his goal in all his legal cases seems to be to play to the public, where his displays of victimization and dominance have always served him. 

He has already said it is “unfair” that he isn’t getting a jury trial in New York, but his lawyers explicitly said they did not want one, possibly because a bench trial gives Trump a single judge to attack rather than a jury. Today, his lawyer Alina Habba, who along with her law firm and Trump has been fined close to $1 million by a federal judge for filing a frivolous lawsuit, gave a fiery opening statement aimed at “the American people” rather than the judge. When the court broke for lunch, Trump went straight to reporters to rail at the prosecutors holding him to account.

Historian Lawrence Glickman noted that the press is emphasizing Trump’s anger at the proceedings as if a defendant’s anger matters, but it is starting to feel as if bullying and bluster to get away with breaking the rules is not as effective as it used to be. Legal analyst Lisa Rubin notes that this case is a form of “corporate death penalty” that strikes at his wealth and image, both of which are central to his identity and to his political power.

And it is not just Trump; another case announced on Friday suggests the era of real estate crime is ending. The Department of Justice announced that a California real estate executive had pleaded guilty the previous day to a multi-year scheme that looked a lot like the one Trump’s organization is charged with: fraudulently inflating the value of real estate holdings of a Michigan company in order to defraud lenders. 

“My office will not hesitate to prosecute those who lie in order to engage in financial crimes, regardless of the titles they may have,” said U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Dawn N. Ison.

The drive for the impartial application of the rule of law is showing up among the Democrats, as they seek to illustrate the difference between them and the Republicans. New Jersey Democratic senator Bob Menendez is insisting that the federal indictment against him and his wife for bribery, fraud, and extortion in exchange for helping Egypt is a political smear campaign, but more than half of Democratic senators have called on him to resign. 

Trump is increasingly being held to account by former staff, as well. In the wake of his attacks on former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley, Trump’s former chief of staff Marine Corps General John Kelly went on the record today with Jake Tapper of CNN, confirming a number of the damning stories that emerged during Trump’s presidency about his denigration of wounded, captured, or killed military personnel as “suckers” and “losers,” with whom he didn’t want to be seen. 

Kelly called Trump: “A person that has no idea what America stands for and has no idea what America is all about. A person who cavalierly suggests that a selfless warrior who has served his country for 40 years in peacetime and war should lose his life for treason—in expectation that someone will take action. A person who admires autocrats and murderous dictators. A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law…. There is nothing more that can be said,” he added. “God help us.”

The confirmation of Trump’s attacks on wounded or killed military personnel will not help his political support. After reading Kelly’s remarks, retired Army Major General Paul Eaton, a key advocate for veteran voting, released a video he recorded more than two years ago when he first heard the stories about Trump’s attack on the military. “Who could vote for this traitor Trump?” he asked on social media. In the video, Eaton urges veterans to “vote Democratic,” because “our country’s honor depends on it.” 

That Trump is concerned about his ebbing popularity showed tonight when his campaign released a statement demanding that the Republican National Committee cancel all future debates and focus on Trump’s evidence-free allegations that the Democrats are going to steal the 2024 election. If it refuses, the statement says, it will just show that national Republicans are “more concerned about helping Joe Biden than ensuring a safe and secure election.” 

Popular pressure against the extremism of the Republican Party showed up today when Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recused himself from participating in a case related to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Thomas’s wife, Ginni, was a staunch supporter of Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and in the past, Thomas had voted on related cases nonetheless. Today’s case involved John Eastman, formerly one of Thomas’s law clerks. 

There were interesting signs today that the tide seems to be turning against the MAGA Republicans elsewhere, too. In an op-ed in the New York Times, former South Carolina representative Bob Inglis told his “Fellow Republicans: It’s Time to Grow Up.” He expressed regret for his votes in 1995 to shut down the government and in 1998 to impeach President Bill Clinton, and for his opposition to addressing climate change on the grounds that if Al Gore was for it, Republicans should be against it. 

But he had come to realize that “the fight wasn’t against Al Gore; it was against climate change. Just as the challenge of funding the government isn’t a referendum on Speaker McCarthy; it’s a challenge of making one out of many—E pluribus unum—and of bringing the country together to do basic things.” He called on Republicans to remember that we must face the huge challenges in our future together: language that echoes President Joe Biden, who has been making that pitch since he took office. 

The fight over funding the government has contributed to growing pressure on the extremists. The chaos in the Republican Party as the factions fought each other with no plan to fund the government until McCarthy finally had to rely on the Democrats for help passing a continuing resolution was a sign that the extremists’ power is at risk. 

Today, there was much chafing over the threats of Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to challenge Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California, and he actually did it this evening, although it is not clear that he has the votes either to remove McCarthy or to prevent his reelection as speaker. What is clear is that Gaetz is forcing a showdown between the extremists and the rest of the party, and while such a showdown is sure to garner media attention, it is unlikely to leave the extremists in a stronger position.

Indeed, when he left the floor after making the motion to vacate the chair, some Democrats laughed.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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Ivanka Trump has wriggled her way out of a court order appointing a special monitor to oversee the finances of the Trump Organization and individuals connected to the company, according to The Daily Beast.

The agreement allows Ivanka Trump to keep her own business interests away from the gaze of a retired federal judge who is tasked with keeping an eye on the Trump Organization's transactions to ensure it doesn't commit any more alleged fraud.

The company was barred from transferring or disposing of material without giving advance notice to the court and New York Attorney General Letitia James' office after James sounded the alarm over a Trump scheme to form a "Trump Organization II" after she filed a $250 million fraud lawsuit against the Trump family and company.

A jury in Manhattan on Tuesday found two entities controlled by former President Donald Trump guilty of 17 counts of criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records. The Trump Corp. and Trump Payroll Corp. were found guilty of all charges brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

James in the August lawsuit alleged that Trump and his three eldest children were involved in a decade-long fraud scheme. She is seeking to permanently bar them from serving as an officer or director of a company in New York state.

Justice Arthur Engoron placed the company under court supervision to scrutinize major transactions and ensure the Trump Organization would not shift assets to stash cash away from law enforcement.

In the midst of this, Ivanka Trump's lawyers wrote to the judge last month requesting a special exemption, arguing that she hasn't held an official role at the Trump Organization since serving as a White House aide during her father's presidential administration, The Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery reported.

Her lawyers made similar arguments in the state's appellate court, a source told the outlet. She even went as far as retaining her own lawyers and filing an appeal that was separate from the rest of the family.

​​"Ms. Trump has had no involvement for more than five years… Ms. Trump has had no role as an officer, director, or employee of the Trump Organization or any of its affiliates since at least January 2017," her lawyers said in an appeal filed Nov. 7.

But the eldest daughter of the former President was "a key player in many of the transactions" under investigation, especially because of her involvement in cutting deals that relied on falsified documents, according to court papers in the Attorney General's office.

NY AG lawyers also found that she is "responsible for securing loan terms" from Deutsche Bank relying on fake property valuations for the company's golf course in Doral, Florida. Investigators also claim she "played similar roles" in obtaining money for the company's projects in Chicago and Washington, D.C.

Pagliery tweeted on Wednesday that the latest filings show that Ivanka Trump "keeps distancing herself from her father's legacy of shame."

Ivanka Trump started distancing herself from her father's legacy soon after he incited violence at the Capitol and attempted to overthrow the 2020 presidential election.

She later testified before the House Jan. 6 Committee and said she "accepted" Attorney General Bill Barr's "perspective about the election" not being fraudulent.

More recently, she has kept a low profile, refusing to show up to her father's announcement of his 2024 presidential campaign. She has stated that she does not intend to reenter political life.

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Donald Trump beware: He's not the first president Jack Smith has gone after - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

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CHARLIE PAGLIERI

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