INTELLIGENCE REPORT--Three years ago, federal prosecutors issued subpoenas to several of Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nury Martinez’s aides, instructing them to appear before a federal grand jury to discuss her 2015 re-election campaign.
Within weeks, FBI agents also went to the homes of people listed in city records as donors to Martinez’s campaign to ask them if they were indeed contributors. Four of them later told The Times they did not make those donations.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office never announced charges and since then has declined to say whether the probe is over. But earlier this summer, several people with ties to Martinez or her campaign were summoned to a different grand jury, this one representing Los Angeles County.
At least two people who worked for the councilwoman in 2015 — one a current employee, the other a former staffer — were called to the grand jury in June. At least three others, each of them identified in city reports as Martinez’s donors, were summoned that same month. (Read the rest.)
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Amazon On Pace to Overtake Apple
Kaitlin Stanway-Williams
Amazon reached the $1 trillion mark on September 4, 2018, becoming the second publicly traded company to reach that milestone after Apple beat them to first place on August 2.
The retail and technology behemoth reached the achievement after their shares traded as high as $2,050.50 on that day, before falling slightly to $2,039 at the end of the session. This followed reports from the previous week that they had hit the $2,000 mark for the first time.
Industry analysts are now predicting that Amazon will overtake Apple in stock market valuation if it maintains its recent pace.
Backing this position, Reuter's stated: "Apple took almost 38 years as a public company to achieve the trillion-dollar milestone, while Amazon got there in 21 years. (Read the rest.)
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