Tag: General Criminals

Texas Woman Kept Undocumented Mexicans As Slaves For 19 Years By Telling Them She Was God

A Texas woman has been finally convicted for enslaving undocumented Mexican women for years. – Bossip

According to Fusion:

A federal jury last week convicted a Texas woman of illegally harboring undocumented Mexican women and forcing them to work as slaves in her home cleaning business for nearly a decade and a half. According to a statement from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Olga Sandra Murra, 64, was found guilty of two counts of forced labor and two counts of “harboring an illegal alien.”

Born in Mexico, Murra moved to the United States in 1997, bringing with her a woman identified only as “V.R.” as she settled first in El Paso, and then Forth Worth, according to ICE. The following year, Murra arranged to have another woman, identified as I.G., transported into the U.S. She kept both women’s identification documents.

Once in the country, both women were put to work by Murra, cleaning “three to four homes per day up to seven days per week,” ICE said. They were also required to clean Murra’s personal residence and cook her meals, despite being fed only bread and water themselves. They were not paid for their labor and were forced to turn over all money and earnings from their house cleaning to Murra.

Murra maintained control over the enslaved women with a combination of implied—and on at least one occasion, actual—violence, and religious conditioning. According to ICE:

Murra represented herself to the women as the voice of God on Earth, and required them to listen to religious recordings of Murra reading Bible verses and discussing their meaning while they cleaned homes. She caused both women to believe they would go to hell if they did not obey her.

She also threatened to call immigration officials, reportedly telling the women they would be killed “buried in a field with other illegal aliens.”

Wow, really? SMH! The fact that she herself is of Mexican decent is really atrocious. Join the discussion. 

President Obama To Give 12,000 Prison Inmates Pell Grants For College Study

President Obama is trying to end his term on a positive note by promising 12,000 Pell Grants to inmates for college study according to Washington Post:

As many as 12,000 prison inmates will be able to use federal Pell grants to finance college classes next month, despite a 22-year congressional ban on providing financial aid to prisoners.

The Obama administration selected 67 colleges and universities Thursday for the Second Chance Pell Pilot Program, an experiment to help prisoners earn an associate’s or bachelor’s degree while incarcerated. The schools will work with more than 100 federal and state penitentiaries to enroll inmates who qualify for Pell, a form of federal aid that covers tuition, books and fees for college students with financial need. Prisoners must be eligible for release within five years of enrolling in coursework.

Although the ban remains firmly in place, the Obama administration is using its authority to create limited experiments in the deployment of federal student aid. Other recent experiments include extending Pell grants to high school students enrolled in college course and people participating in computer coding bootcamps.

“We all agree that crime must have consequences, but the men and women who have done their time and paid their debt deserve the opportunity to break with the past and forge new lives in their homes, workplaces and communities,” Education Secretary John B. King Jr. said on a call with reporters Thursday. “This belief in second chances is fundamental to who we are as Americans.”

King said the administration will provide approximately $30 million in Pell grants to inmates in 27 states. He said the funding is less than 0.1 percent of the overall $30 billion Pell program, and the pilot won’t affect funding to eligible Pell recipients who are not incarcerated.

Rumor Control: Rapper Drama Wasn’t Gonna Blow Up Phaedra Parks With A Bomb, His Mixtape Is “Bomb And ‘Bout To Blow Up”

In today’s “what’s going on here” news…

TMZ is reporting the real on exactly what happened when rapper Drama was arrested for allegedly threatening to blow up “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Phaedra Parks’ Atlanta office with a bomb…

Phaedra tells TMZ she considers Drama a good friend, and knew he was going to come by her office last week to drop off his new CD. The ‘Real Housewives’ star says things started going south though when Drama went to the wrong floor.

According to Phaedra … Drama demanded to see her, and when the receptionist asked him to leave — because he wasn’t in Phaedra’s office — he refused, and she called security. Here’s where it really gets messy.

We spoke to Drama’s mother, who says her son told the guard, “I have a bomb CD. It’s about to blow up.” She says the security guard followed up by asking if he had anything else about to blow up — and Drama replied, “I got that bomb ass CD in the car” … referring to a package full of CDs in his vehicle.

Bossip adds:

Phaedra says Drama was racially profiled by someone in the office who saw a black man wearing a white tee and gold teeth and got SHOOK!

Drama’s mother insists he was just speaking in his colloquial fashion and the “ignorant person” he was speaking to just didn’t understand what he meant.

The rapper was arrested and charged with making terroristic threats and his being held without bail. Phaedra is reportedly doing her best to help him out.

Something is definitely shady about this story. Sounds like “Shady Phae Phae” (as Kenya Moore calls her) is looking to build another story line or something? I guess we’ll have to wait and see….

via Rumor Control: Drama Wasn’t Gonna Blow Up Phaedra Parks With A Bomb, His Mixtape Is “Bomb And ‘Bout To Blow Up” — Bossip