#i found some documentation that seems to support the claim of thus being a 'clean' burning plastic

[berandomness]

I bought some matches today that marketed themselves as eco friendly, and they aren't exactly lying, but it is still a plastic based product, so it's not exactly green imo. I wasn't aware they were plastic when I bought them, based on the packaging it looked like it was some sort of compressed paper product. Either way, I'm a mix of dissapointment and surprise, with the ever growing conviction that humanity is going to hurt itself very badly in its confusion of sorting out the climate change mess. I'm really struggling to accept that anything involved with the plastic industry, which is heavily reliant on the oil industry, will ever be good for the planet. But I don't make the big descisions.

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Very recently, several key spirit science episodes were demonetized for strange reasons. Along with the last Conspiracy Episode, Our Hollow Earth episode was flagged for hate speech, and Everything is Connected deemed unfit for most audiences and age-restricted. Please use the link below to join Spirit Conspiracies and access this conspiracy content free, just if it disappears from the public eye...

The subject of ExtraTerrestrials has mystified humanity for countless generations. The question of “are we alone in the universe” has inspired us to push forward and advance as a species in the search for life in the great beyond, but to this day - judging by the way people generally treat the subject, it would appear that we have yet to make any form of substantial contact… However, awareness of a more profound truth, that something is being hidden from us is regularly being leaked to this day.

Let’s start with some basics, which would be UFO’s, which we all know stands for Unidentified Flying Objects, or as they’re beginning to be called today, UAV’s, Unidentified Aerial Vehicles.

Shortly after the two atomic bombs went off during World War 2, UFO sightings spiked around the world. Hundreds of UFOs reports began to emerge in the decade following the incident, and it was in 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico, that things got interesting. Stories of a UFO crash landing in the shape of a flying disc inspired tremendous interest in the possible alien activity as the US Military quickly quarantined and cleaned up the site, claiming it was merely a weather balloon.

This was the beginning. Today, thanks to modern technology, especially cell phones, we have access to thousands, if not tens of thousands of seemingly unexplainable UFO sightings from around the world.

My personal favorite is the Dome of the Rock incident from 2011. Several independent people caught footage of a bright glowing and… oscillating.. orb that descended over the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. After hovering over the sacred temple for several moments, it shot upwards with tremendous speed, disappearing into the sky.

In more recent times, a video that was leaked several years ago was released by none other than the Pentagon, featuring three separate accounts of US military pilots attempting to track and follow incredibly fast-moving aerial ships, without any clue as to what they were.

Along with curious phenomena like these, we also have a long list of ex-military officials who have claimed to have either seen or even had some level of interaction with these crafts, identifying that not only are they real, but they have no idea what they are.

One exciting subject in this discussion is Robert Dean, a retired command sergeant major who, after that job, became a ufologist and had been very public about his experiences with UFOs and ET’s up until his passing away in 2018. At one point, he gave a presentation, the whole thing of which you can find available on Youtube, accounting for many of the things he saw in the military and NASA. The most interesting of which being the story of what happened during the real moon landing.

Now, many people today believe the moon landing itself is a conspiracy, that it was faked because of certain things that stand out about the moon landing that doesn’t make sense, such as why the crosshairs of the camera appear behind a particular object on the screen or the strange thing in the reflection of the astronaut's visor. But what Robert Dean has described was that there was a real moon landing, but what happened was that upon arriving at the moon, what the astronauts found was that it was populated. According to him, little alien people were walking all over the place, ships flying through the … well, I’d call it “air,” but I guess they don’t have oxygen up there, huh?

This was such a shock to the astronauts that they returned with 40 rolls of film of what they saw, and Nasa supposedly destroyed it after their visit. The thinking seems that the revelation of this truth was so out there that NASA buried the truth because of what would happen to the world if this truth was to get out. Now, I’m not saying I’m in support of hiding the truth, but at the same time, think of how many religious beliefs would be shattered from this truth? How much chaos would be caused if, all of a sudden, our entire global paradigm was to change in an instant?

Again, I’m not saying that they are destroying the footage; if it did happen, it was a good thing, but at the very least, try to see things from every perspective. Specifically, there was an ex CIA operative who spoke with AJ+ at one point. She described that the single most important thing she learned from her time as basically a spy was that “everyone believes they are the good guy.” Even if this event happened, whoever at NASA who controlled all of this information probably did it believing they were doing the right thing.

Now, we will return to Robert Dean at another point soon because he shared something else that was very interesting; however - first, we have to discuss this.

You may be familiar with a man named Bob Lazar, one of - if not the first to come forward with inside leaks about the secret government UFO programs. He claimed to have been hired in the late 1980s to reverse-engineer purported extraterrestrial technology at what he described as a secret site called "S-4", a site similar to and relatively close to Area 51. He explains that he had access to a recovered UFO ship and, for several years - was attempting to discover the secrets of how it worked.

Lazar claimed that the propulsion of the studied vehicle was fueled by the chemical element with the atomic number 115,-known today as Moscovium, or "E115", which at the time was named ununpentium since it hadn't been created then. However, It was first synthesized in 2003 by a joint team of Russian and American scientists for real. He said that the propulsion system relied on a stable isotope of E115, which supposedly generates a gravity wave after being excited by Livermorium -element 116 during proton bombardment. He argued that the decay products brought about by the reaction between the two aspects would include gravitons, a hypothetical quantum particle that is thought to be responsible for gravity.

In his new documentary on Netflix, he used the analogy that the craft is kind of like a bowling ball. If you were to put the ball onto a piece of fabric or your bed sheet and then proceeded to push down on the areas around it, the bowling ball would “fall” forward into the bends and gaps that you create around it. In this way, the craft would kinda “fall” through space by distorting space-time around it, like in a continuous rolling motion. This is what allowed the vehicle to fly and to evade visual detection by bending light around it. He said it levitated silently, and when it was activated, he was unable to even put his hand on it because a force would repel his hand away, like a strong gravitational field.

According to intel that he received while at S-4, the ship (which was one of nine that the Military had access to) - was originally from the twin binary star system called Zeta Reticuli and had belonged to the Greys, which are the most common vision of aliens that we generally see today when you think of what an “Alien” might look like.

He also explained that the way the military worked was SO secretive that they wouldn’t even let the various divisions studying the craft to communicate with each other, so progress on reverse-engineering the technology was very slow. While one group would be working on controls, another on propulsion, and another on… you get the idea. Still, due to this isolation, they wouldn’t readily identify how the different parts of the ship were interconnected and worked together, and thus reverse engineering became very difficult. This was incredibly challenging because, supposedly, the ship was entirely interconnected. There weren’t any moving parts; it seemed to be one singular solid object. The seat and floor and panels and walls were all one singular material, with no sharp edges anywhere, an entirely different kind of machine than anything we’re used to today.

Now, after Lazar came out publicly about this, his life fell apart. Many people quickly looked into his life and found that he seemingly never had any of the education degrees he claimed to have. Yet, upon more in-depth investigation, documents stored away in his old university proved that he was telling the truth. Bob explained that after he came out publicly, he received a phone call from his ex-employers, who said, “Do you have any idea what we’re going to do to you now that you’ve done this?” - and for many years, Bob suffered as much of his past was erased. He was made to look like a fool in front of the masses.

Now, Bob’s story is an exciting one. My highest recommendation is checking out the documentary he created with Jeremy Corbell called “Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers” - as well as the Joe Rogan Podcast that he appeared on, where he goes deep into the story of what happened and what he learned.  

But Bob isn’t the only one to come forward with some very fascinating story, and this brings us to Dr. Steven Greer, who founded the Center for the Study of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (or CSETI) in 1990 to create a diplomatic and research-based initiative to contact extraterrestrial civilizations, along with The Disclosure Project in 1993, a research project devoted to disclosing to the public information that the government and military supposedly have had regarding the existence of UFOs and ET’s.

The organization claims to have over 3,000 'confirmed' reports of UFO sightings by pilots and over 4,000 proofs of what they describe as 'landing traces,' evidence of UFOs landing on the earth and leaving behind a sort of electromagnetic signature. If we pair this with what Bob Lazar said, it’s entirely possible these ships could be bending light, altogether invisible to us, though perhaps not high-level Military scanners?

Dr. Greer also appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast many years ago and explained some exciting things. He received from a collection of over 30 documents from the NRO, NSA, CIA, FBI, and Presidential Briefings that the way these ships work and how these ET’s understand the universe is leagues beyond our own.

He described that while today we believe that Light is the fastest thing in the universe, this is only a barrier, and on the other side of the speed of light are laws that are governed by some super-consciousness. It is from this higher awareness that interdimensional travel becomes possible, and you can move throughout the universe nearly instantaneously without worrying about the speed of light, which is too slow to travel at if you’re going from solar system to solar system, or especially across a galaxy.

This is incredibly important to us because it’s relative to the idea that consciousness and conscious thought actively steer the field of reality that creates the experiences you have. This is a subject we will return to shortly; however - this conversation has one massive implication.

You see, one thing that Dr. Greer explained was that the significance of Alien life to us isn’t all about the ET’s at all, but about the technology. If made available to the general public, this technology would completely transform life on earth forever, the very instant that it became available. Imagine suddenly being able to travel to distant planets, explore the universe, and forget having the power to fuel the world's energy requirements forever; you’d have enough power to blow up a planet if you wanted to. This has tremendous implications for it and may even be part of the reasoning for keeping the technology hidden for now. The question arises, is this technology hidden so that only the secret rulers of the world can have it, or is it because humanity is not yet ready to inherit such a gift?

One final piece in the ET and UFO conspiracy is the concept of the Hoaxed Alien Attack. The late Dr. Wernher Von Braun, the top nazi scientist of Hitler's army, who, after WW2, came to the united states to work for the US government. Funny how that happens… On his deathbed, he theorized that after a war with the Middle East, one day, there would be a hoaxed alien attack, which was a part of the secret plan to weaponize space and control the world. He urged Dr. Rosin, his secretary, to thwart this plan above all else, because if this were to happen, and space was weaponized, whoever controlled these powers would have complete and supreme control over everyone. The world would fall under the full control of the oppressors.

Now, the subject of ET’s does not end here, however, because there is also the reptilian conspiracy. Most famously brought to public attention by the British Conspiracy Theorist David Icke, it’s become one of the most infamous and famous conspiracy theories ever, sparking numerous parodies and commentaries in the media and tv shows. To put it merely, Icke believes that an inter-dimensional race of reptilian entities known as Archons have hijacked the earth and are stopping humanity from realizing our true potential.

He has argued that these “Archons” are the same beings mentioned in many Gnostic Texts that identify them as demons and rulers of the seven planets in various traditions—mostly having the ultimate goal of preventing souls from leaving the material realm. He claims that they have gone by many names throughout history, including the Annunaki from Sumerian Myth and the Watchers and Nephilim from the book of Enoch. He argues that human sacrifice "to the gods" in the ancient world was actually for the reptilians' benefit, especially the gift of children because he tells us that "at the moment of death by sacrifice a form of adrenaline surges through the body, accumulating at the base of the brain, and is more potent in children," something that is today, reminiscent of Adrenochrome.

Bringing it more into the modern-day, he claims that a genetically modified human-Archon hybrid race of shape-shifting reptilians, known as the "Babylonian Brotherhood" or the Illuminati/Freemasons to us today, manipulate global events to keep humans in constant fear so that the Archons can feed off the "negative energy" this creates. He has also claimed that the members of this secret elite are descended from Reptilians coming from the Draco constellation.

He’s stated that the reptilians come from another planet and another dimension, the lower level of the fourth dimension, which he calls the astral plane, the one nearest the physical world. As of 2003, when his books initially brought this theory out, he’s said that the reptilian bloodline includes all American presidents, three British and two Canadian prime ministers, several Sumerian kings and Egyptian pharaohs, and a whole bunch of celebrities. Remember when that article went viral about how Justin Bieber turned into a giant reptile in front of everyone? Some of the more prominent bloodlines are said to include the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, various wealthy European families, the establishment families of the Eastern United States, and the British royal family...He has said in numerous interviews that he saw former British Prime Minister Ted Heath's eyes turn entirely "jet black" while the two men waited for a Sky News interview in 1989

Ultimately, the Global Elite make up the top of the pyramid for the reptilians in the modern-day. All with the intent to keep us sedated and trapped in this reality without gaining a higher knowledge. At the top of the Global Elite are what Icke has referred to as the "Prison Wardens" who oversee us in what is -to them, just a prison world.

Along with the New World Order, their main goal is apparently to create a microchipped population, a one-world government, and a global Orwellian fascist state, which he claims will be a post-truth era where freedom of speech has ended. And how are they planning to do this, you might ask? Well...if Icke is to be believed, then the brotherhood either created or controls everything. Things like the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, Round Table, the Council on Foreign Relations, Chatham House, the Club of Rome, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group, as well as the media, military, CIA, MI6, Mossad, scientific publications, most religious doctrine, and even the internet.

In other words, they control every aspect of our society and can make us believe what they want when they want.

Before we move on, I think it’s essential that we now revisit Bob Dean and an exciting story that he shared during the European Exopolitics Summit in 2009. He described that he was attending his son's retirement ceremony from the US Navy in Washington, DC. At this event, there were many active and retired generals, admirals, captains, and more. One particular retired Navy Scientist approached him and said, “Hey, I know you - you’re that retired command sergeant major who has opened up about the UFOS. I have a story for you - that my last government job was as a plasma fusion physicist at a top-secret place outside of Los Vegas, and I was working for five years with two guys… who were not from here. They were from somewhere else, delightful people, supporting us in figuring out plasma fusion - which equates to infinite energy forever…

The man said, “after a few years of working with these guys, I approached one of them and asked “What do you think of us, humans?” and the alien said, “Well since you’ve asked… we think you are a primitive, savage, and dangerous race.” The other alien who was listening in then leaned in and said, “You also smell bad.” and he explained that it’s not really about our bodies. However, yes, we have polluted our bodies and the earth to a wild extent - but that we also have a psychic odor about us; our thoughts and feelings are so harmful that other higher species find it offensive.

While this story is actually kind of funny, it’s also something we should take very seriously. According to the reports and expressions from many whistleblowers, the other species interacting with us are mostly benevolent. If we can listen to what they have to say - and do some meaningful self-reflection - it may just help us to clear out our negativity, release ourselves from any reptilian or other controlling influences, and put us into a position to meet some cool otherworldly species.

[profmicrobe-blog]

GOOD GERMS AND NATURAL CLEANING

Dear Senators,

The landmark tort case is Rylands v Fletcher (likely Professor Warren taught it), “any person who for his own purposes brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it at his peril, and, if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all of the damage which is a natural consequence of its escape”.  If the owner of a zoo keeps lions and tigers, he is liable if the big cats escape and cause damage or injury.

Science has moved on but the public policy of Rylands v Fletcher has not.  It is time to expand it to include herbicides like Roundup and household cleaning products like Mrs. Meyer’s, Mr. Clean and Mr. Muscle.

Neither the herbicide or chemical cleaning industries can argue that the defect was the result of the plaintiff’s actions and not the product, that is, no inference of defect should be drawn solely because an accident occurs.  If the plaintiff can prove the the defendant knew about the defect before the damages occurred, additional punitive damages can be awarded to the victims.

This form of strict liability has been supported by law in the Netherlands since the early 1990s for bicycle-motor vehicle collisions.

In 2015, the European Union banned disinfectants and even hand sanitizers. Much of Europe cleans with Vegetable based and microbial cleaners. Rationale of using microorganisms in cleaning products.

The analysis is based on a literature review (scientific literature, “grey literature”, patents, company documents, regulatory and policy document, web-based information) and on interviews and consultations with representatives of manufacturers, blenders, professional cleaning service operators, governmental authorities, consumer and environmental organizations, and scientists. The overall focus is on the European Union context with a particular emphasis on Austria, though information on Canada and the United States was also considered.  The overall rationale for using microbes is similar for all types of products. Living microbes are capable of enzymatically degrading substances associated with dirt, food residues, grease and other objectionable matter (known in cleaning terminology as “soil” and bad odors. Some microorganisms produce a broad range of extracellular enzymes, including proteases, celluloses, amylases and ureases, which can degrade organic high molecular weight substances in soil. As opposed to cleaners with added enzymes, microbes can further metabolize these degradation products.The microbes used in the cleaning products are also claimed to out-compete unwanted microorganisms in colonizing surfaces by using up the nutrients provided in the soil and from polluted surfaces.Producers claim a long-term effect because microorganisms will stay on the treated surface (as spores; many formulations contain spore forming bacteria, e.g. Bacillus spp.) and hinder re-colonization by unwanted microbes.

WOMEN WHO CLEAN Use of disinfectants even once a week could increase the risk of developing COPD by as much as 32%.Women cleaning at home or working as occupational cleaners had accelerated decline in lung function suggesting that exposures related to cleaning activities may constitute a risk to long term respiratory health.  Among women, the use of sprays or other chemical cleaning products (i.e. non-sprays) at least once a week was comparable to 10-20 pack-years of tobacco smoking.Cleaning tasks are associated with exposure to several chemical agents with potential harmful effects to the respiratory system as well as on cardiovascular markers. Excess risk of asthma and respiratory symptoms among professional cleaners, as well as symptoms in persons cleaning their own home, has been reported in several studies. A recent long-term study in the UK concluded the cleaning profession has the highest occupational risk of COPD.(American Journal of Respiratory and Clinical Care Medicine, 2018)

CLEANING WITH CHEMICALS Cleaning in general is a two-step process whose objective is: 1) to remove dirt, food residue and grease; and 2) reduce the number of germs to a less than infectious dose for most pathogens. The biggest concern with most cleaning products today is the chemical preservatives contained in so-called “natural” cleaners. This recently came to light when researchers conducting laboratory studies on rat brain cells found that these preservatives caused cell damage. They argued that, “even a brief exposure to methylisothiazolinone, the most widely used industrial and household biocide, is highly toxic to cultured neurons,” adding that due to their widespread use, the consequences from chronic human exposure needed to be evaluated. These chemicals can cause  allergies, dermatitis and asthma. The major manufactures of chemical cleaners have admitted that they have been searching for a natural preservative that is safe and effective. However, to date, they have been unsuccessful at finding one. (Medical Professional, 2015)According to a study by the Royal College of Medicine, the residual effects from chemical cleaners have accumulated in our bodies in ever-increasing amounts, with health consequences that have rarely been attributed to them. Although most of the compounds these cleaners contain have been tested for toxicity, we still do not know how dangerous they are when mixed with other substances(The air we breathe: The lifelong impact of air pollution, Report of a Working Party, February 2016).By poisoning the air with harmful chemicals and indiscriminately wiping out good germs, we are contributing to rising levels of obesity and negative effects on growth, brain development, intelligence and coordination that will last far into the future (Living with the Enemy, New Scientist, April 8, 2017).Dealing with the unknown, David Strachan, an epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, was the first to propose that cleaning with chemicals predisposes us to allergies and asthma. Other surveys have suggested that the fragrances used in cleaners to disguise their chemical smell, actually add to their negative health effects, including migraine headaches (Something in the Air, New Scientist, June 10, 2017).

GOOD GERMS AND NATURAL CLEANING Science now suggests that children who grow up on farms seem to be healthier, the same as children who play in the dirt and have pets. These places are full of germs, composed of bacteria, viruses, fungi and mold, most of which are not pathogenic. In short, there are good germs and bad germs. Research has shown that less than .01% are harmful. The majority of germs not only do us no harm but many are directly or indirectly essential to our well-being and survival. They provide us with nutrients that fine tune our immune systems, balance our metabolism, and ward off mood disorders and many other conditions. Thus, early exposure to germs can be helpful (Germ Warfare, New Scientist, 14 January 2017; Comparing the current chemical cleaning regime and chemical free cleaning at the University of Canterbury, 2011). In the natural world, humans are far from being the foremost chemists. At least that is what Dr. Catherine Drennan, a professor of biology and chemistry at MIT said: Humans are really kind of boring in the chemistry that they do, we utilize microbes to do the cool stuff. We have discovered these microbes are living off the things that we want to get rid of. I love the idea of cleaning up the environment naturally.

MRS. HUGHES Ever wonder how Mrs. Hughes kept Downton Abbey spic and span without so much as a squirt of bleach or disinfectant? She used gin, potatoes, tea leaves, rhubarb and other naturally grown foodstuffs, because that is the way things were done in the early 19th century. Only later did evidence emerge to suggest that germs cause disease, kicking off a war against them started by Clorox that has lasted until the present day. However, extinguishing germs has come at a cost. The natural cleaners Mrs. Hughes and other 19th century housekeepers used have been replaced by toxic chemicals.

EUROPE UNION PROTECTS IT CITIZENS FROM TOXIC CHEMICALS ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION AGENCY PROTECTS BIG CHEMISTRY There is a substantial difference between how Europe and America manage chemicals. A key element of the European Union’s chemical management and environmental protection policy is what is called the “precautionary principal.” This principal, in the words of the European Commission, “aims at ensuring a higher level of environmental protection through preventive decision making.” In other words, when there is substantial, credible evidence of danger to human or environmental health, protective action should be taken despite continuing scientific uncertainty.In contrast, in the United States, when danger to human or environmental health is suspected but uncertain, manufacturers are not required to take protective action or to provide independent scientific proof to support the use of toxic ingredients in their products. Instead, they are allowed to place these ingredients on a “restricted use” list. What that means is that potentially dangerous ingredients may continue to be used until conclusive and irrefutable scientific evidence has been provided of their harmful effects.As an example, scientific evidence related to the negative health effects of chemicals like LIMONENE (used to create lemon-like smells), has sparked public debate over whether these kinds of products are safe to use in the home. When used, LEMONENE produces another chemical, FORMALDEHYDE, which since 2011, has been listed as a human carcinogen. Yet, LIMONENE based products have remained on the market (Secret ingredients in Mr. Muscle, Glade and Toilet Duck unveiled over consumer health fears, The Telegraph, January 24, 2017).Unlike in Europe, where full disclosure is required, up until now the United Statesgovernment has not passed any legislation mandating that the manufacturers of household products reveal the chemicals contained in their formulas. Instead, they are allowed to claim their ingredients are trade secrets. “The U.S. federal government’s approach to chemical management sets a very high bar for proof of harm that must be demonstrated before regulatory action is taken” (Banned in Europe, safe in the United States, Elizabeth Grossman, June 2014).Under the guise of protecting trade secrets, the major brands of cleaners have for decades added toxic chemicals to their products without adequately warning consumers of the inherent health risks. For example, use of lead-based interior paints was banned in France, Belgium and Austria in 1909. Much of Europe followed suit before 1940; however, it took the U.S. until 1978 to make this move, even though health experts had, for decades, recognized the potentially acute – even deadly – and irreversible hazards of lead expose. Nearly 40 years later, the citizens of Flint, Michigan have become very ill from lead in their water.In an initiative to uncover the truth about green cleaners and toxic chemicals in common household products, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) (a Washington D.C. non-profit specialize in research and advocacy in the areas of toxic chemicals and corporate accountability) spent 14 months scouring 2,000 products from 200 brands. The EWG scientists dug through company websites and technical journals, measuring each ingredient against 15 U.S. and international toxic databases and numerous scientific journals. Among their findings, 93% of the products failed to adequately disclose their ingredients and 53% contained lung-harming ingredients. The EWG stated that many companies have characterized their products as “green” to convince their customers they are “eco-friendly.” Yet, the government places no restrictions on the use of formaldehyde or formaldehyde-releasing ingredients in cleaning products.

RACHEL LOUISE CARSON Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist and conservationist whose book, Silent Spring, and other writings led to a ban on DDT. She is credited with advancing the global environmental movement.Why can’t women Senators that are lawyers honor her memory by expanding Rylands v Fletcher.  WOMEN NOT MEN clean homes and buildings!Best regards,

[duaneodavila]

The Not-So-Massive Scheme Revealed

It was back in 2012 when the now-woke Preet Bharara made his huge splash by revealing his prosecution of a massive fraud being perpetrated by former employees of the Long Island Rail Road. Massive. MASSIVE!!! How much we adored Preet for protecting the public fisc from this lying, scheming miscreants. No one adored Preet, and accepted his every word about this massive (did I mention massive?) scheme, as the media. Rumor is that there was a shrine to Preet at Newsday.

In contrast, an old lawyer called bullshit. He did so over and over, not just because it was “mostly” a sham, but because almost everything being told the public about it was false. And in the process, this “massive�� group of individuals and their families affected by this sham found themselves in an impossible position.

Reviled by the public for being fraudsters. No one in the media willing to listen, to learn, that they were spewing prosecutorial nonsense. Their disability payments cut off, threatened with prison, the loss of their homes and savings, humiliation, these were people who not only suffered from a disability in real life, but now suffered from the threat of their lives being destroyed in futuro. And the public was thrilled by it.

Six years later, the “masterminds” of this scheme are no longer of great public interest. Preet is gone, elevated to icon status by the newly-sensitive who are neither aware, nor concerned, of how many black lives didn’t matter to him, because was fired by Trump, and they hate Trump more than they are willing to give of their time to have a clue who they’re gushing over. But the case, that massive case, still lives in the system, not that anyone gives a damn anymore.

The core group of four defendants pleaded guilty years ago, when it seemed clear that they would be crushed by the “massive” fraud case the government built around them, no matter how much of it was false. The potential to challenge the lies built upon lies was daunting; too much so to take the chance. And then, for this core group, there was the problem that there was guilt. There were people whose applications were fudged, faked, exaggerated and falsified. They weren’t clean, but they weren’t nearly as dirty as the government alleged.

As part of a decades‐long scheme to defraud the [Railroad Retirement Board], defendants Rutigliano, Ajemian, Lesniewski, and Baran, together with 17 confederates, repeatedly submitted applications for disability pensions based on fabricated medical documents.    Orthopedic physicians Ajemian and Lesniewski created these fabricated documents.   Rutigliano, a former LIRR conductor and union local president, obtained a disability pension for himself by submitting false documentation of his physical condition from Lesniewski.   Rutigliano also acted as a facilitator or consultant for numerous other LIRR employees seeking disability pensions, charging approximately $1,000 per person to fill out fraudulent applications.  Baran, a former RRB employee whose LIRR‐employed husband obtained an RRB disability pension through a fraudulent application supported by Lesniewski, also acted as a facilitator‐for‐hire, submitting disability pension applications for LIRR employees that she knew were supported by fraudulent documentation.

In addition to their sentences of imprisonment, this core group was sentenced to restitution for the “massive” losses the government claimed. The main defendant, Peter Ajemian, the physician from whom most of the LIRR retirees got their disability diagnosis, was sentenced in 2013 to pay restitution in the amount of $116,500,000, presumably reflecting the total of disability payments made to Dr. Ajemian’s “patients.” Mind you, Ajemian didn’t get the money, but that’s not relevant to the way the government calculates loss. And at the time, nobody cried a tear for the unfairness of it all.

But time goes on, and facts come out, and reality then gets in the way of a good government story.

By May 22, 2015, the RRB had decided 531 reapplications for disability pension benefits, granting 485 and reinstating such benefits retroactive to the terminations effected by Board Orders 13‐33 and 13‐55.  Approximately 80% of the granted reapplications relied on at least one new medical condition not included in the employee’s initial fraudulent application, and approximately 70% of the granted applications omitted at least one medical condition relied on in the initial fraudulent applications.

After unilaterally terminating benefits for every retiree whose disability was based on Ajemian’s diagnosis, the RRB finally relented and allowed retirees to reapply. Some were ineligible, having taken the government’s “amnesty” program by paying back benefits. Some, presumably, did so because they were scammers, but some because they were scared to death they would be prosecuted. The FBI kept sending the retirees letters threatening their imminent doom if they didn’t confess and disgorge. The disabled retirees weren’t keen on dying in prison.

Others couldn’t manage to reapply, having long since tossed the paper work from the LIRR days, their injuries, and thus were unable to prove their current condition was the product of their jobs. Still others just couldn’t muster the will to do the paperwork, as it was onerous, confusing and, well, they weren’t paperwork people. Some weren’t particularly literate, which wasn’t a big requirement for the job of track worker. And some were still too scared to take the chance.

But the upshot is that 80% of the LIRR retirees on disability turned out to be legitimately disabled. Of the remaining 20%, it’s impossible to say with certainty how many were scammers, but certainly not all of them. So much for “massive.”

The core defendants tried an end run around their restitution sentence, the “lowest” of which was for Marie Baran, who filled out applications for the disabled, at a mere $31,398,907. The Second Circuit, by Judge Reena Raggi, handily rejected the argument that they could challenge the restitution amounts by way of a §2255 motion, the statutory substitute for habeas corpus, based upon the reality that the vast majority of this “massive” scheme wasn’t fraudulent at all.

The court held that restitution couldn’t be collaterally attacked under §2255 as it wasn’t “sufficiently severe restraint on individual liberty” to warrant habeas relief.

In sum, because defendants fail to show that the restitution ordered in their judgments of conviction equates to custodial punishment, the district court was without authority to review and reduce restitution pursuant to § 2255.

Does that mean that there is no remedy for these defendants, given post-hoc reality that the government fabricated a “massive” scheme that never happened? Pretty much. On the bright side, none of the defendants will live long enough to make a dent in their restitution orders. But their suffering is nothing compared to the suffering of the “massive” number of LIRR retirees who were very disabled, denied disability by mass termination of benefits without any individual review and were forced to live without benefits and with grave fear, for having gone to the very doctor the LIRR expressly recommended they see, because he knew how to get things done.

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