Month: September 2024

NORTHERN IRELAND: Man cleared of rape after accuser admits lying

/ Mike Buchanan / 1 Comment

Our thanks to Dougie for this piece on the BBC. The article reports that the prostitute cannot be named for legal reasons, while the BBC chooses to name the innocent man. No mention is made of whether the woman will be prosecuted for wasting police time and/or for attempting to pervert the course of justice. I think we can safely assume she won’t be. The man, of course, will not be compensated for what she’s put him through.

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IRELAND: Ann Marie Keenan (37) jailed for only three months after falsely claiming man raped her in hotel while two other men watched

/ Mike Buchanan / 3 Comments

Appalling. The start of the piece:

“A woman has been jailed for three months for falsely claiming a man raped her in a Dublin hotel room while two others watched.

Ann Marie Keenan (37) made the baseless and “devastating” allegation against an “innocent man” who was left shocked and “reeling”, a court heard.

She randomly picked two other men from Facebook to name as accomplices and lied that she went to a hospital sexual assault unit when she “escaped.”

Keenan, described as a “good mother” with no criminal record, had “no axe to grind” with the victim and was “at a loss” to explain her own actions.

Judge Monika Leech said the “horrendous allegation” had caused “untold damage” and had taken up “much needed garda resources.”

She sentenced Keenan to nine months in prison, six months of which she suspended.”

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Caroline Ellison sentenced to only two years for role in FTX crypto fraud

/ Mike Buchanan / 1 Comment

Our thanks to Jeff for this. Excerpts from the BBC piece:

“Caroline Ellison has been sentenced to two years in prison for her role in the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which has been described as one of biggest financial frauds in US history…

As part of a plea deal, Ellison admitted charges including wire fraud and money laundering, and testified against Bankman-Fried. She was also ordered to forfeit more than $11bn (£8.2bn) to the court and could pay more if she’s ordered to hand over any restitution.

She had faced a maximum sentence 55 times what she was given – 110 years in prison.

While Judge Lewis Kaplan called her cooperation with prosecutors “remarkable”, he said she was “gravely culpable” and that her help and remorse for the crimes should not be a “get out of jail free card”, according to Reuters.

In court, Ellison apologised to the victims of the scheme, according US media reports.

“On some level, my brain can’t even comprehend the scale of the harm that I caused,” she said. [J4MB: What a statement of female unaccountability!]…

Ellison testified over three days, telling the jury that Bankman-Fried directed her and others to take money from FTX’s customers without their knowledge.

In tearful testimony, she said she felt “indescribably bad” about the fraud.”

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