- Lots of pernicious activity in the PNW, beginning with sending a false distress message to the Coast Guard, a big no-no
- An interesting conspiracy to get around sanctions against Iran involving Chinese, Turkish, and Portuguese companies — the indictment was handed down in Washington, DC, but the plea will be in Seattle where the defendant was arrested and has remained in custody
- This case was transferred to Seattle from Florida — ransomware used to extort people into paying “fines” to phony law enforcement organizations
- I’m seeing a spinoff of WAGS — WWCCs
- Even listenin’ to Slippin’ couldn’t convince the judge not to give DMX some prison time
- Most disturbing of all this week: massive wine fraud in the Rhone Valley — life really does imitate The Simpsons…