Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - Navy leadership triads from Hawaii-based units gathered with Adm. John C. Aquilino, commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, for a conversation about readiness and winning a high-end fight, if called to do so.

West Lafayette, Indiana - Privately owned businesses are more efficient and profitable than governments. So goes the prevailing thought among financiers in the United States and many other countries.

Washington, DC - “Maduro usurped power; he’s not the duly elected president. Juan Guaido is the person that the Venezuelan people chose. America and now 54 other nations simply have ratified that, have said, ‘Yep, we recognize that’s what Venezuelans want.’” ~ U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, 2019.

Washington, DC - A federal grand jury today returned an indictment charging Gregory B. Craig, a Washington-based lawyer, with making false statements and concealing material information about his activities on behalf of Ukraine from the Department of Justice, National Security Division’s Foreign Agents Registration Act Unit (FARA Unit).

Toledo, Ohio - A federal jury Thursday convicted two Bucharest, Romania, residents of 21 counts related to their scheme to infect victim computers with malware in order to steal credit card and other information to sell on dark market websites, mine cryptocurrency and engage in online auction fraud, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman of the Northern District of Ohio.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Three men were found guilty by a federal jury of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.