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☆ Former CIA officer jailed for 30 years for drugging and sexually assaulting women
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-19 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Patrick-Smith-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Patrick Smith | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

A former CIA officer was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for drugging and sexually abusing and filming multiple women without their consent, in one of the most serious misconduct cases in the agency's history. Former CIA officer Brian Jeffrey Raymond FBI / AP fileRaymond had pleaded guilty in Nov. 2023 to one count each of sexual abuse, abusive sexual contact, coercion and enticement, and transportation of obscene material. He also pleaded guilty to drugging and sexually abusing four women, as well as engaging in nonconsensual sexual contact with six women, as part of a plea agreement. "After drugging these women, he stripped, sexually abused, and photographed them. Raymond read out a statement in court in which he expressed remorse for his actions, according to the AP.

Persons: Brian Jeffrey Raymond, Brian Jeffrey Raymond FBI, Raymond, drugging, Matthew M, Graves, David Sundberg, Sundberg, That’s, Howard Katzoff, Colleen Kollar, Kotelly Organizations: CIA, United States Attorney's, U.S, FBI, Washington Field Office, Associated Press, AP Locations: La Mesa , California, United, U.S, Mexico City

☆ ‘Kinds of Kindness:’ Playing a sex cult leader, Willem Dafoe dons a pair of bright orange Speedos
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-02 | by ( Caitlin Chatterton | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

In the first, “The Death of R.M.F.,” Jesse Plemons plays Robert, the hapless puppet of his boss Raymond (Willem Dafoe). Eats a Sandwich,” Stone and a now-shaven headed Plemons are the disciples of a purity cult led by Dafoe, tasked with locating someone able to revive the dead. Emma Stone plays three characters across three stories in Yorgos Lanthimos's "Kinds of Kindness," and her wardrobe journey reflects that. “Willem is such a great example: you are a CEO, and then you’re (Stone’s) father, and now you’re a leader of a sex cult. Yorgos Lanthimos/Searchlight PicturesIn the third chapter Dafoe plays a cult leader, freed from Raymond’s designer suits and instead sporting little else besides eyeliner and orange Speedos.

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☆ Opinion: ‘Kinds of Kindness’ has a cultish take on toxic work culture
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Opinion Noah Berlatsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

In his new film, “Kinds of Kindness,” though, Yorgos Lanthimos goes further. Jesse Plemons is Robert in Yorgos Lanthimos’ new film, “Kinds of Kindness." Workplace harassment is a pervasive problem in a huge range of professions, from farm work to domestic labor to Hollywood itself. Remote work saves companies money by reducing rent and relocation costs, and because workers who work from home are more satisfied with fewer pay raises. People in “Kinds of Kindness” are pushed to mistake domination for kindness.

Persons: Noah Berlatsky, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lanthimos, Noah Berlatsky Noah Berlatsky, Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alwyn, Mamoudou Athie, Hunter Schafer, Robert, Plemons, Raymond, Dafoe, —, Chau, balk, Raymond’s largesse, don’t, Yorgos, Atsushi Nishijima, MeToo, Harvey Weinstein, Jamie Dimon, Raymond isn’t, Raymond kisses Robert, Emily, Stone, Omi, she’s, Donald Trump’s, Steve Wozniak, Musk, Steve Jobs, Trump, Roberts Organizations: CNN, Searchlight, Hollywood, JPMorgan, Elon, Apple Locations: Chicago, Hong, Hollywood

☆ Former C.I.A. Officer Pleads Guilty to Sexual Abuse Charges
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Orlando Mayorquin | More About Orlando Mayorquin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. Raymond’s crimes date as far back as 2006 and as recently as 2020 and took place in multiple countries where he had been working for the U.S. government, prosecutors said. Three of the criminal counts that he had faced were for crimes that had occurred in the Washington, D.C., area, according to the indictment. In total, Mr. Raymond abused 28 women over the 14-year period, prosecutors said. “Many of the recordings show Raymond touching and manipulating the victim’s bodies while they were unconscious and incapable of consent,” the Justice Department said in a news release on Tuesday. “Raymond attempted to delete the explicit photographs and videos depicting the victims after learning about the criminal investigation.”Mr. Raymond’s lawyer, Howard Bernard Katzoff, could not immediately be reached for comment on Tuesday evening.

Persons: Brian Jeffrey Raymond Credit, Raymond, “ Raymond, ” Mr, Raymond’s, Howard Bernard Katzoff Organizations: U.S ., Associated Press, D.C, Justice Department Locations: Mexico, Washington

☆ A Mother Had Three Minutes to Address Her Son’s Killer
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Jack Healy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The night before Adriana Vance addressed her son’s killer in a Colorado courtroom, she was still searching for the right words. She had spent days struggling to write a statement about her son, Raymond Green Vance, 22, one of the five people killed last November in a shooting rampage at Club Q in Colorado Springs. Image Raymond Green Vance, 22, had just gotten a new job and was saving for his own apartment when he was killed in a mass shooting. Courtesy of the family of Raymond Green VanceBecause most mass shooters do not live to see a trial, there is often no such moment after their attacks. Should those minutes be spent focusing on lost loved ones, or condemning the killer, or even offering forgiveness, as families did after a racist massacre inside a Charleston church?

Persons: Adriana Vance, Raymond Green Vance, dangled, Raymond’s, Vance, “, ” Organizations: Q Locations: Colorado, Colorado Springs, American, Parkland, Fla, Pittsburgh, Charleston

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