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On Friday, a surreal yet ultimately zero-impact storyline played out. It was revealed that while the jury was deliberating in Donald Trump’s criminal trial, someone claiming to be a juror’s cousin announced on the court system’s Facebook page that the jury had already decided to convict Trump. But it was immediately clear that the whole thing was just a prank, and a transparent one at that.
Still, the most hopelessly deluded of Trump supporters began insisting on social media that this was somehow grounds for a mistrial. And by one in the morning, Trump was making this one-word post on Truth Social: “MISTRIAL!!!”
Sure, Donald. You’re going to get a mistrial because some prankster made a Facebook post pretending to be a juror’s cousin. This is all just so laughable. If a juror were actually feeding information to his or her cousin during deliberations, that would be a different story. But this prank isn’t anything, and it has literally zero chance of having any legal impact.
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The real story here is that Donald Trump is so hopelessly far gone, he’s reduced to believing that some Facebook prank is somehow magically going to get him off the hook. Trump’s life is over, and he knows it, and so delusional imaginary hope is all he has left. It won’t help him any.
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LUSAKA, Zambia — A Zambian court on Friday sentenced 22 Chinese nationals to long prison terms for cybercrimes that included internet fraud and online scams targeting Zambians and other people from Singapore, Peru and the United Arab Emirates.
The Magistrates Court in the capital, Lusaka, sentenced them for terms ranging from seven to 11 years. The court also fined them between $1,500 and $3,000 after they pleaded guilty to charges of computer-related misrepresentation, identity fraud and illegally operating a network or service on Wednesday. A man from Cameroon also was sentenced and fined on the same changes.
They were part of a group of 77 people, the majority of them Zambians, arrested in April over what police described as a “sophisticated internet fraud syndicate.”
Director-general of the drug enforcement commission, Nason Banda, said investigations began after authorities noticed a spike in the number of cyber-related fraud cases and many people complained about inexplicably losing money from their mobile phones or bank accounts.
Officers from the commission, police, the immigration department and the anti-terrorism unit in April swooped on a Chinese-run business in an upmarket suburb of Lusaka, arresting the 77, including those sentenced Friday. Authorities recovered over 13,000 local and foreign mobile phone SIM cards, two firearms and 78 rounds of ammunition during the raid.
The business, named Golden Top Support Services, had employed “unsuspecting” Zambians aged between 20 and 25 to use the SIM cards to engage “in deceptive conversations with unsuspecting mobile users across various platforms such as WhatsApp, Telegram, chat rooms and others, using scripted dialogues,” Banda said in April after the raid. The locals were freed on bail.
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