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Cop punched and almost robbed

A man punched an on-duty NYPD cop and tried to steal the officer’s gun during a violent exchange in Midtown, authorities said.
It was the second time Sean Humphrey, 24, has been charged this year with assaulting an officer, the Daily News has learned. Eight months ago, he was accused of attacking an MTA cop near Penn Station.
His most recent alleged assault on an officer occurred Friday about two blocks south of the Port Authority Bus Terminal.

Humphrey stormed up and violently punched him in the head. As he and the officer wrestled on the ground, Humphrey
Sources with knowledge of the case said Humphrey repeatedly punched the officer as he and the cop wrestled on the ground.
Humphrey tried to steal the officer’s firearm — but the cop fought back, and Humphrey ran off empty handed, cops said.
The Little Italy resident was arrested following a short manhunt, cops said. An off duty NYPD detective who joined in the search made the grab, said a source with knowledge of the case.
The cop was taken to an area hospital for treatment and is expected to recover.
The attack was completely unprovoked, the source said.
Some speculate that Humphrey has a vendetta against uniformed officers. On February 22, he was arrested for attacking an MTA cop near Penn Station, officials said.
Police charged Humphrey with assault and attempted robbery for Friday’s attack.
At arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on Saturday, Humphrey was ordered held without bail.

Donald Trump's son in law has paid no Fed tax for a long time

Over the past decade, Jared Kushner’s family company has spent billions of dollars buying real estate. His personal stock investments have soared. His net worth has quintupled to almost $324 million.
And yet, for several years running, Mr. Kushner — President Trump’s son-in-law and a senior White House adviser — appears to have paid almost no federal income taxes, according to confidential financial documents reviewed by The New York Times.
His low tax bills are the result of a common tax-minimizing maneuver that, year after year, generated millions of dollars in losses for Mr. Kushner, according to the documents. But the losses were only on paper — Mr. Kushner and his company did not appear to actually lose any money. The losses were driven by depreciation, a tax benefit that lets real estate investors deduct a portion of the cost of their buildings from their taxable income every year.
In 2015, for example, Mr. Kushner took home $1.7 million in salary and investment gains. But those earnings were swamped by $8.3 million of losses, largely because of “significant depreciation” that Mr. Kushner and his company took on their real estate, according to the documents reviewed by The Times.
Nothing in the documents suggests Mr. Kushner or his company broke the law. A spokesman for Mr. Kushner’s lawyer said that Mr. Kushner “paid all taxes due.”
In theory, the depreciation provision is supposed to shield real estate developers from having their investments whittled away by wear and tear on their buildings.
In practice, though, the allowance often represents a lucrative giveaway to developers like Mr. Trump and Mr. Kushner.
The law assumes that buildings’ values decline every year when, in reality, they often gain value. Its enormous flexibility allows real estate investors to determine their own tax bills.
The White House last year championed a sweeping revision of the nation’s tax laws that expanded many of the benefits enjoyed by real estate investors, allowing them to reap even larger deductions.
“The Trump administration was in a position to clean up the tax code and promised to get rid of some of the complexity that certain taxpayers use to their advantage,” said Victor Fleischer, a tax law professor at the University of California, Irvine. “Instead, they doubled down on those provisions, particularly the ones they have familiarity with to benefit themselves.”
The documents, which The Times reviewed in their entirety, were created with Mr. Kushner’s cooperation as part of a review of his finances by an institution that was considering lending him money. Totaling more than 40 pages, they describe his business dealings, earnings, expenses and borrowing from 2009 to 2016. They contain information that was taken from Mr. Kushner’s federal tax filings, as well as other data provided by his advisers. The documents, mostly created last year, were shared with The Times by a person who has had financial dealings with Mr. Kushner and his family.
Thirteen tax accountants and lawyers, including J. Richard Harvey Jr., a tax official in the Reagan, George W. Bush and Obama administrations, reviewed the documents for The Times. Mr. Harvey said that, assuming the documents accurately reflect information from his tax returns, Mr. Kushner appeared to have paid little or no federal income taxes during at least five of the past eight years. The other experts agreed and said Mr. Kushner probably didn’t pay much in the three other years, either.
Peter Mirijanian, a spokesman for Mr. Kushner’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said he would not respond to assumptions derived from documents that provide an incomplete picture and were “obtained in violation of the law and standard business confidentiality agreements. However, always following the advice of numerous attorneys and accountants, Mr. Kushner properly filed and paid all taxes due under the law and regulations.”
Mr. Mirijanian added that, with regard to the tax legislation, Mr. Kushner “has avoided work that would pose any conflict of interest.”
Representatives of the White House and Mr. Kushner’s firm, Kushner Companies, didn’t respond to requests for comment.
The revelation about Mr. Kushner’s minimal tax payments comes as his father-in-law’s taxes are under renewed scrutiny. A Times investigation published this month found that Mr. Trump participated in outright fraud that shielded his family’s fortune from estate and gift taxes.
Mr. Trump has broken with decades of tradition by refusing to release his tax returns. But portions of a 1995 tax return previously published by The Times show trends similar to the one visible in the documents detailing Mr. Kushner’s finances. Mr. Trump at the time reported nearly $916 million in losses, which could have permitted him to avoid any federal income taxes for almost two decades.
The summaries of Mr. Kushner’s tax returns reviewed by The Times don’t explicitly state how much he paid. Instead, the documents include disclosures by his accountants that estimate how much tax he owed for the year just ended — called “income taxes payable” — and how much he paid during the year in anticipation of taxes he would owe, called “prepaid taxes.” For most of the years covered, both were listed as zero.
Peter Buell, who runs tax services for the real estate practice of the accounting firm Marcum, said the lack of prepayments indicated Mr. Kushner most likely didn’t owe income taxes in those years. Mr. Buell said he was especially confident that Mr. Kushner had no tax liability because the documents also report no “income taxes payable.”
Kushner Companies — where Mr. Kushner was chief executive and remains an owner — has been profitable and has thrown off millions of dollars in cash annually for Mr. Kushner and his father, Charles, according to an analysis by the company that was included in the documents reviewed by The Times.
But as far as the Internal Revenue Service is concerned, the Kushners have been losing money for years.
Kushner Companies, like many real estate firms, passes on any tax obligations to its owners, including Mr. Kushner and his father, who incorporate them into their personal tax returns.
Unlike typical wage earners, the owners of such companies can report losses for tax purposes. When a firm like Kushner Companies reports expenses in excess of its income, the result is a “net operating loss.” That loss can wipe out any taxes that the company’s owner otherwise would owe. Depending on the size of the loss, it can even be used to get refunds for taxes paid in prior years or eliminate tax bills in future years.
Mr. Kushner’s losses, stemming in large part from the depreciation deduction, appeared to wipe out his taxable income in most years covered by the documents.
He is reporting the losses even though he bought his properties with borrowed funds. In many cases, Mr. Kushner kicked in less than 1 percent of the purchase price, according to the documents. Even that small amount generally was paid for with loans. Mr. Kushner’s credit lines from banks rose to $46 million in 2016 from zero in 2009, the documents show.
The result: Mr. Kushner is getting tax-reducing losses for spending someone else’s money, which is permitted under the tax code. Depreciation deductions are available in other industries, but they generally don’t get to take losses related to spending with borrowed money.
“If I had to live my life over again, I would have been in the real estate business,” said Jonathan Blattmachr, a well-known trusts and estates lawyer, now a principal at Pioneer Wealth Partners, who reviewed the Kushner documents. “It’s fantastic. You get tax deductions for things you don’t pay for.”
One of the only years in which Mr. Kushner appeared to have owed anything was 2013, when he reported income taxes payable of $1.1 million. According to the documents, Mr. Kushner has filed tax returns separately from his wife, Ivanka Trump — a relatively common practice among wealthy couples who want to avoid entwining their complex personal finances.
Mr. Kushner’s father appears to have benefited from the same tax deductions, the documents indicate. The experts interviewed by The Times said Charles Kushner most likely avoided paying federal income taxes from at least 2012 to 2016.
The tax code affords real estate investors great leeway in how they calculate their depreciation — flexibility that often is used to inflate their annual deductions. Among the tactics used by many developers: Their tax advisers prepare studies arguing that much of a property’s value is attributable to things like appliances and parking lots, which under the law can be depreciated more quickly than the building.
Such strategies are almost never audited, tax professionals say. And the new tax law provides even more opportunities for property investors to take larger deductions.
Developers might have to pay capital gains taxes if they sell their properties. But the Kushners, like others in the real estate business, often avoid that tax, too, by using the proceeds of sales to buy more properties within a certain time window.
At least in part because of that perk, the Kushners’ property sales in the period covered by the documents — totaling about $2.3 billion, according to Real Capital Analytics, a research firm — generated little or no taxable income for Mr. Kushner.
Last year’s tax legislation eliminated that benefit for all industries but one: real estate.

Body was sold instead of cremated

A Texas family believed their mother's ashes were buried in the family's plot in Oklahoma, until an FBI investigation unveiled that her body parts were sol

d for medical research without the family's knowledge.
 A Dallas family says they learned their mother's ashes may not truly be hers, following an investigation into the sale of body parts in Colorado.
Kayla Lyons lost her mother Doris in February 2017 and made sure she had a loving goodbye.

Doris' ashes are buried at the family plot in Oklahoma.
"There was always that comfort knowing that she was there," said Lyons.
At least, that's what she believed for the past 14 months.
"Now to find out that I can't go and talk to my mom, because it's probably not even her!" Lyons said.

Kayla Lyons mother Doris Cox died in February 2017 after suffering complications following a fall on a trip to Colorado. Then family arranged to have her body cremated at a funeral home outside of Durango, Colo. 

"He said, 'Don't worry, we'll take really good care of your mom. She's in great hands,'" said Lyons. "'We'll be really gentle with her.'"

Last Thursday an agent with the FBI in Grand Junction, Colo., called to inform her that her mother's body parts were sold without the family's consent. 

"He identified himself as an agent of the FBI in Grand Junction [CO], and he asked if I had signed any type of paperwork authorizing her body to be donated, and I said 'Absolutely not.'" said Lyons. "That's when he told me 'I regret to inform you we have receipts showing where your mom's body parts have been sold.'"

Lyons says she learned her mother, who had lived in the Dallas-area, was cremated at a different facility, Sunset Mesa Funeral Directors, in the town of Montrose, several hours north of Durango.

The Montrose Daily Press reports the business was owned by Megan Hess. Hess also ran a legal business selling body parts for medical research called Donor Services, Inc. in the same building. Last year, employees told Reuters News Hess would not always tell people their loved one's bodies would be sold for profit. It was also reported Hess sold the gold teeth of the dead among other gruesome actions.

The FBI began an investigation and raided the building on Feb. 6. The state of Colorado suspended Sunset Mesa's licenses as a funeral home and crematorium Feb. 12. That brings us to Thursday, when Lyons learned her mother may not be where she thinks.

"I don't know if she's got a leg there, an arm there, a torso, you know...I don't know what happened to her," she sai

d.

Body donation is an unregulated industry. Lyons hopes by sharing her story, that changes. She is calling for more oversight and legislation on a business that has largely operated in the shadows. Lyons hope in speaking out is that no other daughter has to wonder who or what is in her mother's grave.

"I want no one ever to have to do that," said Lyons. "No one needs that phone call."

Toddler's bday party ends with 4 dead 1 injured

An altercation between two families at a toddler's birthday party in Texas led to a shooting that left four men dead and one injured, authorities said.
Police resp onded to reports of a shooting at a 1-year-old's party in Taft on Saturday, said Sgt. Nathan Brandley of the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Police are looking for two suspects they believe were involved in the shooting, he added.

Black child accused of sexual assault by white woman

A New York woman became the subject of ridicule and hatred on social media after she falsely accused a boy of groping her while she was shopping inside a deli.

Teresa Klein, who is white, created a commotion earlier this week outside the Sahara Deli Market in Brooklyn’s Flatbus

h neighborhood as she appeared to tell a 911 dispatcher that the boy, who is black, assaulted her. The spectacle was captured in a now-viral video, and Klein, a 53-year-old Brooklyn resident, has been nicknamed #CornerstoreCaroline.
“No, I want the cops here right now,” Klein said as she held her phone to her ear and a crowd of angry onlookers began to gather around.
The boy, wearing a tucked-in green shirt and carrying a backpack, began to cry as the woman in aviator g

lasses and knee-high boots accused him of grabbing her.
The crowd grew angrier, screaming at Klein, who had covered her other ear as she continued to talk to the 911 operator.
“I just was sexually assaulted by a child,” Klein said.
“Are you seriously calling the police?” a woman can be heard saying.
New York resident Jason Littlejohn recorded the Wednesday incident and shared it on Facebook, where it has since been viewed more than 5 million times. The incident comes amid a string of controversies involving black or brown people who have found themselves the subjects of 911 calls. Such false-alarm emergency calls over non-emergency incidents, many of which have been captured on video, have raised questions about whether these calls had less to do with what someone was doing, but because of the person’s race.

On Friday, Klein went back to the store, where reporters surrounded her. Later, Klein, the reporters and several onlookers, many with

phones held up, crowded inside the small deli, where surveillance footage of the alleged grabbing was being played on a screen mounted on a wall.
The video showed Klein standing at the register as the boy walked past behind her with his blue backpack and a plastic bag in his right hand. As the boy’s bag appeared to brush against Klein, she looked behind her, seeming startled.
Another Facebook video, also uploaded by Littlejohn, showed Klein watching the surveillance footage. Onlookers screamed at Klein and called her a liar after the footage revealed she was wrong. But Klein seemed oblivious and spoke only to the reporters, who asked her what she thought after watching the footage.
“The child accidentally brushed against me,” she acknowl

edged.

Looking into one of the TV cameras, she apologized to the boy, whose identity was not known. “Young man, I don’t know your name, but I’m sorry.”
The Washington Post was unable to reach Klein on Saturday. A number she was heard giving to the dispatcher during her 911 call is no longer in service. She told Fox affiliate WNYW that she is not racist, and that she called 911 because the boy’s mother had become very aggressive toward her.
New York police said the department did not receive any complaints or 911 calls coming from the deli’s address.
There have been several incidents in the past year involving black people whose banal activities were viewed with suspicious lens. Hence came #LivingWhileBlack.
For a 12-year-old black boy in Ohio, it was mowing the lawn. For an 8-year-old girl in California, it was selling water outside the apartment building where she lives. And for a pair of young black men in Philadelphia, it was sitting inside a Starbucks waiting for a person they were supposed to meet. For a black lawmaker in Oregon, it was canvassing in her district. For a Yale University graduate student, it was napping in one of the school’s common rooms. For a group of black sorority girls in Pennsylvania, it was picking up trash on a highway as part of a community service.
For former Obama administration White House staffer Darren Martin, it was moving into his new Manhattan apartment. Martin is one of a group of black people who wrote to the House and Senate judiciary committees last summer, asking for a hearing on racial profiling, The Washington Post’s Cleve R. Wootson Jr. reported.
In September, New York state Sen. Jesse Hamilton (D-Brooklyn) held a town hall meeting called Living While Black. Hamilton also had introduced legislation that would make falsely reporting an incident a hate crime. The bill remains in committee.

59-year-old charged after attempting to meet 14-year-old for sex

A man was arrested and charged with indecent solicitation of a child Friday after he allegedly used a social-network application to communicate with someone he thought to be a 14-year-old boy, according to the Lake County Sheriff's Office.
Jeffrey R. Weiss, 59, was taken into custody around 1:30 p.m. Friday at a location where he allegedly had arranged to meet with a 14-year-old boy who instead was a detective with the sheriff's Cybercrimes Unit, authorities said in a statement.

"Weiss requested to meet with who he thought was the 14-year-old boy to engage in sexual acts," the statement added. "He drove to a location in Warren Township on (Friday) to meet with the boy, but was instead met by Sheriff's Detectives."
The statement added that Weiss was charged with two felony counts of indecent solicitation of a child. He was held Saturday at the Lake County jail pending a bond hearing.
Sheriff Mark Curran said in the statement that the arrest was the second this month by the Cybercrimes Unit. On Oct. 4, an Algonquin man was arrested and charged with two felony counts of indecent solicitation of a child and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia after allegedly attempting to meet with someone he believed to be a 14-year-old boy he had met online.
"Children with unsupervised access to a cellular device or the internet can be very dangerous," Curran said in the statement. "Parents should remember to continually monitor their children's use of electronics."

High school soccer coach caught human trafficking

Police have arrested a Sacramento high school soccer coach on charges he forced two teenage girls into prostitution. Elan Seagraves, 34, was taken into custody in the early morning on Christmas Day.
The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department says the arrest occurred after a 17-year-old girl called 911 to report she had been the victim of sexual assault and human trafficking.
Deputies soon responded to an address where the girl said she was hiding in a backyard. The girl told deputies that the man who allegedly sexually assaulted her and forced her into prostitution was waiting for her in a car nearby.
That's where deputies say they found Seagraves with a different underage teen, who he is also accused of trafficking.
Seagraves was arrested and is facing charges of human trafficking of a minor.
Seagraves worked as a boys soccer coach at Sacramento's John F. Kennedy High School and various other local youth leagues. He also works as a Uber and Lyft driver.
Seagraves is being held at Sacramento County Jail on $2 million bail.

New Year Eve murders

A teenager is accused of killing his parents, sister and a family friend inside his parents' home on New Year's Eve, officials said Monday.The teenager, whose name has not been released because he is a minor, is in custody and is being held on four counts of murder and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni said. Because of the seriousness of the offense, the youth could be prosecuted as an adult, but no decision on that had been made Monday.
Police found the suspect's father, Steven Kologi, 44; mother, Linda Kologi, 42; sister, Brittany Kologi, 18; and family acquaintance, Mary Schultz, 70, minutes after a 911 call reporting shots fired. All died at the scene.
The boy's grandfather and brother were able to escape the house unharmed, Gramiccioni said.

Wife/mother takes a walk and isn't seen for over 10 years

Mike and Joan Renee Cook had a tumultuous marriage.
"They were never happy," Joan's sister Carol Huffman Byer told Dateline. "It was more of a comfort thing for both of them."
The couple lived in Salem, Virginia with their young daughter, Ashlyn. But in 2007, Mike moved to Des Moines, Iowa to find a job, with plans for Joan and Ashlyn to join him once he was settled.
Meanwhile, though, Joan was also settling down, herself. She'd gotten a new job - and a new man. According to Carol, just three months after moving to Des Moines, Mike found out about Joan's new relationship and moved back to Salem.
Carol told Dateline that's when Mike and Joan's rocky relationship took a turn for the worse. She says Mike started stalking Joan and her new boyfriend.
"Mike had done a couple of things," Carol said. "He'd sit outside their work and wait to watch them come out. She says one weekend she saw him putting nails behind her tires.
"I confronted him on it and he said, 'It was just a stupid thing I did'," Carol said. She added, however, that, to her knowledge, her brother-in-law never made specific threats or showed violence.
By the end of 2009, Carol says Joan was living with her new boyfriend.
"Which wasn't right - she knew our feelings on it," Carol told Dateline. "She eventually wanted to get a divorce from Mike, but she couldn't afford it at the time."
Joan's new boyfriend had a daughter, and had visitation with her every other weekend; on those weekends, Joan would stay with Mike and Ashlyn at the family home where they still lived.
On January 24, 2010, during one of those weekend stays, everything changed. Carol says it was cold that night and raining -- certainly not ideal weather for a late-night walk around the neighborhood to see a friend.
Carol says Mike told her that the evening Joan left had been a completely normal night.
The Roanoke County Police Department did not respond to Dateline's request for comment by publication time, but they said that Joan left her home around 11 o'clock that night. Authorities say their last trace of the 44-year-old was a text from her phone to the friend she was allegedly going to see the night she vanished. The text was sent around 5:00 a.m. on January 25 - just six hours after she was last seen - and simply read: "I love you."
Carol found out about Joan's disappearance when Joan's work called a few days later and said her sister hadn't shown up for a couple of shifts.
"I was not able to get in touch with her," Carol told Dateline. "I talked to her husband and he said the last time he'd seen her was on the night of the 24th when she had set off on foot for her friend's house."
Carol said Mike told her he hadn't reported Joan missing yet, because he figured she was still around somewhere - she had been living with her new boyfriend, so Mike wouldn't see her every day anyway.
The Roanoke County Police said Mike then reported Joan missing, and the investigation began.
"The police department used cadaver dogs in the front and back yard [of their home]," Carol told Dateline. "There was no blood evidence anywhere. Just - poof! She was gone."
Carol told Dateline the police ruled out Joan's new boyfriend as a suspect, because he was out of town with his daughter that weekend.
Carol said Mike has told police he and his wife weren't arguing the night Joan vanished, and in Ashlyn's interview with authorities, the then-7-year-old told police she didn't hear anything loud or out of the ordinary in the house that night. Carol, though, believes Mike knows more than he's saying.
"I truly think something happened between the two of them," Carol told Dateline. And as the last person to have seen Joan, "he is the only one who knows anything."
Police also believe someone close to the family knows what happened. While nobody has been charged in connection with Joan's disappearance, now retired Roanoke County Police Department Commander David McMillan told WSLS in 2015 that he was optimistic about her case being solved.
"With witnesses time usually helps us, because they have time to think about it -- to learn more and then make decisions to come forward," Commander McMillan told WSLS.
Carol said Joan's daughter Ashlyn lived with her for a few months following Joan's disappearance, but she and her dad Mike have since moved back to Des Moines, Iowa.
"[My family has] a slight relationship with Mike, only because of Ashlyn," Carol told Dateline. "We can talk on the phone."
Joan's disappearance has caused pain for many of her family members.
"The ordeal caused my mother to have a mental breakdown. It's been rough on her," Carol said. "And our dad passed away about a year and a few months ago, so we'd like to have her home -- to put her beside him."