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Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Cheat Sheet - The Sex-Trafficking Kings of Facebook

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May 20, 2014
THE DIGITAL CORNER
Convicted of sex trafficking in 2010, Chicago twins Tyrelle and Myrelle Lockett are in jail again, accused of luring girls on social media. Michael Daly reports on a new generation of pimps who need only a smartphone to recruit girls, take pictures, post ads, and make appointments with johns.
PASSING THE BUCK
New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. gave his first interview Tuesday after the controversial firing of Jill Abramson last week. Speaking to Vanity Fair, Sulzberger squarely placed the blame for the PR disaster surrounding the executive editor's resignation on the woman herself. "We originally drafted the whole thing to be very amicable," Sulzberger said of the Times statement, but "Jill said no." He added: "It wasn't as though we went out to hurt her. We didn't… It was my hope for Jill that we could make this go away as peacefully as possible." Sulzberger claimed Abramson alienated herself from her colleagues by being aloof and not spending enough time in the newsroom. Ultimately, Sulzberger said he had to choose between keeping her and Dean Baquet, the then-managing editor. Losing Baquet also meant potentially losing other staff members who would've followed him out the door, Sulzberger said.
STAND DOWN
Mitch McConnell wants to be Senate majority leader more than anything else and he has been determined to crush conservative opposition in today's primary election to do it. Sam Youngman writes that McConnell is sending the Tea Party a message: Don't get in my way.
IT GETS WORSE

On Tuesday, General Motors announced that it will recall 2.42 million cars in four new campaigns stemming from issues with its faulty ignition switch. The automaker will take a $400 million charge in the second quarter for the recalls, double the $200 million it had announced on Thursday. That's relative pocket change compared to the $1.3 billion GM took for the recalls in the first quarter. GM has had a costly past week. On Friday, it paid a record-setting $35 million fine to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for failing to recall 2.6 million vehicles. That failure is believed to have caused 32 crashes and 13 deaths. GM has now recalled 13.6 million vehicles domestically and 15.2 million worldwide.

FORBIDDEN LOVE
A group of women claiming to be the secret paramours of priests have written to Pope Francis to urge him to roll back the church's celibacy requirements, writes Barbie Latza Nadeau.

AFRAID
74% of Jews Say They Would Leave France
Most don't see a future there.
TOO LATE
Macklemore: Sorry for Jewish Costume
But spells 'Anti-Semitic' wrong.
BUZZKILL
Feds Deny Water to Pot Growers
In Washington and Colorado.
GOING TO THE CHAPEL
Kimye Rent Fort for $420K for Wedding
After Versailles rejected them.
HIGH
Governments Can't Keep Up With New Drugs
Synthetic narcotic boom.

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