people don't get mugged in New York anymore

 

When I was a child growing up in Ohio you always heard about people getting mugged in big cities.  New York, for example.  I imagined at the time that mugging could happen in any city, but you heard about it in New York the most.

Talk show hosts and comedians would make jokes about it.

What is mugging?  It's where someone runs up to you on the street and, if you are a man, demands you give him your wallet, if you're a woman he takes your purse.  Another word for that was a purse-snatcher.

When I moved to Boston for college, I was advised by the dorm R.A. to "hang onto your purse" when I took the trolley.  (The R.A. was named Erica.  She was from Puerto Rico -- she was the first person I ever met who was from there.)

I was just thinking recently about the fact that we never hear about people being mugged anymore.  You never hear any news stories about it, or even jokes or You Tube videos about the subject.

(Did all the muggers turn to making You Tube videos instead?  Make money non-violently...?)

(Has criminality migrated away from the segment of society where people have very little money and entered into the segment of society where people are wealthy?)

I had a Netflix series playing where a husband and wife are getting out of their car in New York City and the wife says, "This looks like an unsafe neighborhood" and the husband answers, "It's fine -- people don't get mugged in New York anymore."

        And I thought, Hey, I was just reflecting on that the other day....

(new advertisement for NYC tourism:

Come to New York on your vacation!  You won't get mugged!)

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The series I was watching where they said that is Inventing Anna.  I was surprised by how good it is!  Interesting, and very weird, and based on a true story.

on Netflix

Inventing Anna

American Hustle

on Amazon Prime

Dog Day Afternoon

Three Days of the Condor

The Graduate

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("The Indictment" - Continued)

27.

On April 5, 2021, an employee of The Office of Donald J. Trump ("Trump Employee 1") texted another employee of that office ("Trump Employee 2") to ask whether TRUMP's boxes could be moved out of the business center to make room for staff to use it as an office.  

Trump Employee 2 replied, "Woah!! Ok so potus [president of the United States] specifically asked Walt for those boxes to be in the business center because they are his 'papers.'"  Later that day, Trump Employee 1 and Trump Employee 2 exchanged the following text messages:

        Trump Employee 2:

                We can definitely make it work if we move his papers into the lake room?

        Trump Employee 1:

                There is still a little room in the shower where his other stuff is.  Is it only his papers he cares about?  There's some other stuff in there that are not papers.  Could that go to storage?  Or does he want everything in there on property

        Trump Employee 2:

                Yes--anything that's not the beautiful mind paper boxes can definitely go to storage.  Want to take a look at the space and start moving tomorrow AM?

28.

After the text exchange between Trump Employee 1 and Trump Employee 2, in April 2021, some of TRUMP's boxes were moved from the business center to a bathroom and shower in The Mar-a-Lago Club's Lake Room, as depicted in the photograph below.

[The photograph won't copy out.  You can see it if you read the indictment in USA Today online.]

29.

In May 2021, TRUMP directed that a storage room on the ground floor of The Mar-a-Lago Club (the "Storage Room") be cleaned out so that it could be used to store his boxes.  The hallway leading to the Storage Room could be reached from multiple outside entrances, including one accessible from The Mar-a-Lago Club pool patio through a doorway that was often kept open.  The Storage Room was near the liquor supply closet, linen room, lock shop, and various other rooms.

30.

On June 24, 2021, TRUMP's boxes that were in the Lake Room were moved to the Storage Room.  After the move, there were more than 80 boxes in the Storage Room, as depicted in the photographs below.

31.

On December 7, 2021, NAUTA found several of TRUMP's boxes fallen and their contents spilled onto the floor of the Storage Room, including a document marked "SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY," which denoted that the information in the document was releasable only to the Five Eyes intelligence alliance consisting of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.  NAUTA texted Trump Employee 2, "I opened the door and found this..."

NAUTA also attached two photographs he took of the spill.  Trump Employee 2 replied, "Oh no oh no," and "I'm sorry potus had my phone."  One of the photographs NAUTA texted to Trump Employee 2 is depicted below with the visible classified information redacted.  TRUMP's unlawful retention of this document is charged in Count 8 of this Indictment.

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("The Indictment" -- to be continued)

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