Britain's royal family has taken the unusual step of publicly challenging claims made by Princess Diana's brother, Earl Spencer, in his upcoming memoir.
Departing from the monarchy's traditional "never complain, never explain" approach, Buckingham Palace responded Wednesday to Spencer's recollection of a phone call between himself and King Charles, in the wake of Diana's death in 1997. According to Spencer, the call took place after Spencer objected to Prince William and Prince Harry, then 15 and 12, walking behind their mother's coffin at her funeral.
In an excerpt from the book Swan Song: Diana, My Sister published by Britain's Daily Mail, Spencer wrote, "He unleashed down the phone what I have always taken to be his pent-up contempt for Diana, and his horror that the world was so bowled over by her death. 'Rest ****** ured,' he hissed, 'we'll forget her soon enough.'"
While the palace didn't directly address whether the comment was made, the statement questioned the reliability of Spencer's recollection, saying, "While we do not comment on books as a matter of principle, His Majesty is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and color memory in ways others do not recognize, even many years after such a loss."
The statement echoes the palace's reaction to claims made by Harry and Meghan Markle during their 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey that an unnamed royal had made a remark about their son's skin color before he was born and that the monarchy failed to help a suicidal Meghan. A response issued on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II at that time said that "recollections may vary."

#spencer #meghan #palace #taken

A public company typically has limited control over third-party financial products that reference its shares, but Robinhood Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOOD) and AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AMC) are now testing that notion in public, in one of the year's most intense corporate spats. The debate revolves over stock tokens and has evolved from a heated social media post on September 3 to a live televised retort by September 9.
Robinhood Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOOD) expanded its tokenized shares offering, which is issued through a unit named Robinhood ****** ets (Jersey) Limited and traded on Robinhood's proprietary blockchain, Robinhood Chain, to include over 190 public firms, including AMC, without the companies directly signing on. When AMC CEO Adam Aron discovered that his company was among them, he did not mince words. On September 3, Aron posted on X, calling the practice "contemptible, outrageous, disgusting, detestable, inexcusable, vile," questioning how it could possibly be legal, and stating that AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AMC) had no relation to the tokens and did not condone them.
He stated that the company would retain independent securities counsel and vowed to take the matter to the SEC, characterizing Robinhood's tokens as an unregistered securities product that undermines the regular relationship between a public company and its shareholders.
The market reaction was fast and telling: AMC shares rose as much as 21% in overnight trading after the public dispute broke out.
Robinhood did not back down. In the days that followed, the company's chief legal officer, Dan Gallagher, a former SEC commissioner, mocked the tone of Aron's complaint on social media, saying Robinhood "know[s] a little something about the US securities laws," and inviting AMC's lawyers to contact them. CEO Vlad Tenev originally commented on X with a brief "What's the concern?" before making his first extensive, broadcast comments on the controversy in a CNBC "Squawk Box" interview on September 9.

#company

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SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Maybe there is a public embrace to be had by dueling executives Vlad Tenev and Adam Aron.
"I'm open to it, you know, I love debates. I'm open to many things," Robinhood (HOOD) co-founder and CEO Vlad Tenev told Yahoo Finance from the Goldman Sachs Communacopia & Tech Conference (video above).
A fierce public war of words erupted on X between AMC Entertainment (AMC) CEO Adam Aron (known as the "Silverback" on X) and Tenev over the brokerage's extensive use of stock tokens that track AMC shares.
Aron ignited the dispute by blasting tokenization — the practice of issuing digital versions of ***** ets, such as stocks, on a blockchain network — as "contemptible," "vile," and "disgusting," demanding a cease-and-desist order while threatening legal action.
"What's the concern?" Tenev fired back, insisting that Robinhood's debt-backed derivatives do not require permission from the underlying companies.

#vlad #open #calif #maybe

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J.P. Morgan Securities filed a motion Tuesday to hold Christopher J. Lee, a former advisor, in contempt of court for allegedly violating a temporary restraining order that barred him from soliciting clients on behalf of Morgan Stanley, his new employer.
The motion, which was filed in the Supreme Court in the State of New York, was followed on Wednesday by the judge's order to show cause for contempt, requiring Lee to appear in court on Sept. 23 to explain his actions.
In the contempt motion, J.P. Morgan claims Lee emailed JPM clients after the TRO was in place, sending them a "blatant sales pitch, numerous Morgan Stanley Smith Barney marketing materials, and promises to 'follow up.' These clients were never 'his' clients to take; they are JPMorgan clients whom Lee serviced and/or learned of only through his employment."
"The record demonstrates Mr. Lee brazenly disregarded the Court's order and continued to engage in solicitation of JPMorgan's clients. We trust the Court will see the facts similarly and dispense consequences accordingly," said Pablo Rodriguez, spokesperson for J.P. Morgan Wealth Management.

#morgan #court #wealthmanagement #stanley

A US airman who was arrested twice, once on the steps of the US Capitol while calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump, was officially criminally charged Monday for his comments, according to a charging document his attorney shared with CNN.
Maj. Jason Watson faces the following charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, according to the document: three violations of Article 88 for alleged "contemptuous" remarks about Trump, five violations of Article 92 for allegedly disobeying orders and two violations of Article 133 for alleged conduct unbecoming an officer.
The rare Article 88 charges are connected to the Air Force officer's June interview with the Defenders of our Republic Substack newsletter, his July 1 protest in uniform at the US Capitol, and an August 17 CNN interview.
It can be considered a violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice to participate in uniform in any overtly partisan activity, such as a political protest, or to use "contemptuous words" against the president and other high-ranking civilian officials. Many low-level offenses of these rules are resolved informally, but Watson's violations were unusually high-profile.
Watson was first arrested in July while protesting in uniform at the US Capitol, and he was then arrested again last week just days after criticizing Trump again during a CNN interview. One of his attorneys, Chris Mutimer, told CNN that his client was ordered to remain in "pre-trial confinement" — an action ******* ogous to a denial of bond in civilian court — pending legal action against him.

#capitol #arrested

Well, it didn't figure that a $12.5 billion sale of the Los Angeles Lakers would go off without a hitch. However, the problem doesn't stem from the megabucks portion of the business move.
On Monday it was revealed the Buss family was going to sell its 17.8% of the team, too, to Bob Iger and Jared Kushner. The reports said four of the six Busses had to approve it and that seemed to be the way to push Jeanie Buss out of her position of ownership and the team's governor.
Not so fast, says the longtime NBA exec.
"No sale of the JAB Trust's 17.8% ownership interest in the Los Angeles Lakers, Inc. can be effectuated without approval by the current co-trustees, i.e., Jeanie, Janie and Joey Buss. Pursuant to the JAB Trust and the attached Court Order, the co-trustees are bound to vote the Los Angeles Lakers, Inc. shares to ensure that the minimum 15% ownership requirement is maintained in order to ensure that Jeanie Buss may remain Controlling Owner," her lawyer Adam Streisand says in a letter obtained by CNBC.
"Any attempt by the co-trustees to do otherwise, and any attempt to aid or abet the co-trustees as such, would constitute a breach of trust, breach of fiduciary duty and be in contempt of court," he says.

#buss #angeles #jeanie #ownership

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday declined a request to appear voluntarily before a second Senate panel after majority Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee voted along partisan lines last week to hold the longtime infectious disease expert in contempt.
In a pointed letter to Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, a lawyer for the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said any effort to compel him to appear before a Senate subcommittee, after a contentious July 29 hearing, would be to "impermissibly harass or degrade Dr. Fauci for political purposes."
During the July hearing on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 100 times, prompting the Aug. 6 contempt vote and setting up a referral to the Justice Department for potential investigation over whether he had properly exercised his constitutional rights.
Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, the committee chairman who pressed for the contempt finding, said the constitutional protection did not apply because Democratic President Joe Biden had issued a preemptive pardon to Fauci, and he did not need to be concerned about potential prosecution.
Paul has long accused Fauci of misleading the public during the pandemic and the July hearing was the latest episode in his highly publicized confrontations with him. Paul has repeatedly called for Fauci to be prosecuted and imprisoned.

#contempt #senate #republican

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said on "Sunday Morning Futures" that his office is examining potential claims ranging from fraud and deceptive trade practices to public nuisance as part of its investigation into Dr. Anthony Fauci, adding that the probe could uncover grounds for criminal liability.
Uthmeier said Florida investigators plan to use "every tool under Florida law" as they examine whether Fauci engaged in any self-dealing or profited from COVID-era policies.
Former NIH Director Anthony Fauci listens during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on July 29, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Fauci declined to answer questions, ***** erting his Fifth Amendment right.
Fauci Held In Contempt As Covid Cellphone Lands In Hands Of Senate Investigators
Asked whether he believes Fauci committed a crime, the attorney general said, "I can't say that right now."

#anthony #covid #investigators

FIRST ON FOX: A Senate Republican leading the charge on investigating Dr. Anthony Fauci's old government phone told Fox News Digital that the revelation that the former COVID-czar was concerned that vaccines could cause miscarriages was "just the tip of the iceberg."
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., in an interview with Fox News Digital, alleged that the first tranche of texts from Fauci's old government iPhone was a clear sign that the man who became the face of the nation's COVID-19 response said one thing privately while taking a different message to the public.
"We tell pregnant women don't even have a glass of wine and yet we coerce them, convince them, sometimes mandated them, to get an experimental gene therapy as early as the first trimester," Johnson said. "This is truly sick."
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Former NIH Director Anthony Fauci listens during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on July 29, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Fauci declined to answer questions, ****** erting his Fifth Amendment right.

#johnson #former #government

Comedian Bill Maher ripped Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for his ongoing scrutiny of Anthony Fauci's time as White House chief medical adviser, arguing the senator strayed from his libertarian roots by releasing the former health official's diary and pushing to hold him in contempt of Congress.
"Stop threatening to put everyone in jail who you just don't like," Maher said Friday on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher."
"Rand babe, your entire brand is 'Senator Right to Privacy,'" he continued. "You're the libertarian guy, the Fourth Amendment guy."
Maher's comments came days after the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Paul, voted 8-5 to refer Fauci for contempt of Congress after he repeatedly refused to answer questions during a hostile Senate hearing last week about the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right 111 times during his testimony before the committee, where Republicans slammed his response to the pandemic and blamed him for the public's declining trust in the American healthcare system.

#rand #congress #senate

Fifa's chief operating officer Kevin Lamour has become the second senior governing body official to put Gianni Infantino on blast after claiming he "deceived" staff in going ahead with plans to sell off the World Cup to private investors.
Infantino has faced staunch opposition to his Fifa Forward Enterprise (FFE) - the name for the commercial entity - with Uefa confirming they will boycott Fifa competitions, including the next World Cup, if plans go ahead.
Concacaf, the confederation of North America and the Caribbean, as well as the Asian Football Confederation have joined Uefa in officially rejecting the proposal, before Infantino's senior advisor Carlos Cordeiro resigned from his post.
Lamour has now given a statement to The **** ociated Press outlining that Fifa staff "deserve better than contempt and intimidation" after being left in the dark about Infantino's privatisation scheme.
"What has been announced in recent days and what has been happening behind the scenes in recent months defies belief and imagination," Lamour said, who has worked closely with Infantino at both Fifa and Uefa.

#fifa #confederation

GENEVA (AP) — Two senior FIFA officials criticized Gianni Infantino's World Cup sell-off plan Friday with one resigning as a presidential adviser and a second saying staff were deceived by project that must not go ahead.
Carlos Cordeiro, who represented the soccer body on the White House Task Force for the World Cup, resigned in protest at the private equity plan.
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"I cannot stand by while FIFA considers selling a stake in the World Cup," Cordeiro, a former Goldman Sachs banker, said in a statement resigning as adviser to FIFA President Gianni Infantino that urged other senior FIFA staff to speak out.
FIFA's chief operating officer Kevin Lamour said in a statement to The **** ociated Press staff were "deceived" by Infantino's lack of openness planning the private investor scheme and "deserve better than contempt and intimidation."

#cordeiro

Penybont has threatened to remove and ban any supporters using discriminatory language following a fine by the Football **** ociation of Wales (FAW).
The club was fined £450 after fans were found guilty of causing offence through contemptuous, discriminatory or denigratory words during a European play-off final against Cymru Premier rivals Haverfordwest County on 2 May.
Bridgend-based Penybont has condemned the language used and was disappointed the club had been let down by a minority of supporters.
"The club's cooperation and positive engagement with the FAW on this matter was received positively by the governing body," a club statement read.
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Denise Richards and Aaron Phypers' divorce battle takes another turn. Phypers has filed a new claim against his estranged wife, citing that she failed to pay court-ordered support.
Aaron Phypers has filed new legal documents against Denise Richards. According to TMZ, the documents state that Richards has failed to pay monthly temporary spousal support and legal costs. The RHOBH star reportedly owes $30k to his lawyers and $5k each month to Phypers.
She reportedly only paid a partial amount, $13,500 to him and $28,000 to the lawyers; however, a $41,500 balance is still outstanding.
Phypers claims that she earns enough through OnlyFans and reality shows to cover his spousal support; however, the actress has failed to pay spousal support as per court orders.
The latest filings ask the court to hold Richards in contempt for reportedly failing to comply with a previously agreed court order.

#failed #aaron

The New Saints chairman Mike Harris has been charged by the Football **** ociation of Wales (FAW) with multiple disciplinary offences for a social media post.
The charges relate to a post the owner of the Cymru Premier champions made on the platform X on 21 July.
The post, which has since been deleted, appeared to AI-generated video of topless women.
Harris is accused of publishing offensive, insulting and derogatory content that brought Welsh football into disrepute and offended the dignity of individuals or groups through material deemed contemptuous, discriminatory or denigratory.
Harris has seven business days to respond to the charge.

#saints #wales

Housing Rights Initiative, a nonprofit watchdog organization, has filed multiple complaints with the New Jersey Division of Civil Rights for alleged fair housing violations by Greystar, the largest apartment manager and owner in the nation.
The filings are part of a multi-state action, with 114 total complaints made across six states and Washington, DC, that accuse the company of systematically refusing to rent to prospective tenants holding Section 8 housing vouchers.
"Greystar has been committing mass civil rights violations at a scale unlike anything our organization has ever seen," said Aaron Carr, founder and executive director of Housing Rights Initiative. "We have never encountered a landlord that operates with such brazen contempt and hostility toward the rule of law as Greystar. The largest landlord in America is the most discriminatory landlord in America."
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In response to the claims, Greystar said in a statement that it "remains committed to fair housing practices." The company also said that it "provides training and expects our team members to comply with all applicable laws."

Dabo Swinney has never been one to shy away from sharing his views, even when he knows they’ll be unpopular. Whether it’s his opinions on NIL, the transfer portal or the changing landscape of college football, the Clemson head coach has consistently defended his beliefs, and those comments have helped make him one of the sport’s most divisive figures.
That reputation showed up again this week when RotoWire released a list of college football’s “most hated” head coaches. Swinney came in at No. 3 nationally, trailing only LSU’s Lane Kiffin and Colorado’s Deion Sanders.
For Tigers fans, the ranking is unlikely to come as much of a surprise. Swinney has built one of the nation’s winningest programs over the last decade while also becoming one of the loudest voices pushing back against many of the sport’s recent changes. His comments have drawn criticism from fans outside of Clemson, while others simply enjoy rooting against coaches who have spent years winning at a high level.
RotoWire explained Swinney’s placement by pointing to both of those factors.
“He’s won big and then sermonizes about how he did it. The anti-transfer-portal, anti-NIL stances land as preachy in a sport that has moved on without him,” RotoWire said. “Not every villain is loud. Dabo Swinney and Kirby Smart draw their share of national contempt simply by dominating – and, in Swinney’s case, by lecturing the sport about how he does it. Sustained excellence is one of the surest ways to make the rest of the country want to see you lose.”

The racism chapter involving Senator Celeste Amarillo seems far from over, because after the Paraguayan government condemned her racist messages against Kylian Mbappé, she struck again and is now demanding an apology from the French player.
Through a document ******* led "Letter to Mbappé," the official gives her account of what she says happened in the Round of 16 match and explained:
"What made me very angry was your arrogance and contempt even before the match. You said: 'if we have to put our hands in the ******* , we'll put them in.' We're not stupid, we understood perfectly that the ******* was the Paraguayan team, and the Paraguayan team is all of us. Then you said you were going to take off the tuxedo, and we understood that well too: that you are so elegant you wear a tuxedo, while we, poor and brutish as we are, don't even really know what that is. Even so, all of Paraguay stayed silent, including me. We put up with it."
"During the match you behaved arrogantly, your contempt for every player was obvious, as if they disgusted you, and without even covering your mouth, you said 'your mother's ******* ,' an extremely aggressive phrase in Latin America, and you know that, that's why you said it."

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to intervene after a judge ordered an $800-a-day fine for a former Fox News reporter if she refuses to reveal her confidential source for stories about a Chinese American scientist who was investigated by the FBI but never charged.
The high court rebuffed an emergency appeal from Catherine Herridge. The veteran investigative reporter has been held in civil contempt as part of a lawsuit that scientist Yanping Chen filed against the government over the leak.
Chief Justice John Roberts previously put a short-term hold on the fine as the court considered the appeal. On Thursday, the court said it was denying Herridge's bid to stay the fine. Justice Brett Kavanaugh supported granting the application for a stay, the court said.
Herridge published a series for Fox News in 2017 that examined Chen's ties to the Chinese military and raised questions about whether the scientist was using a professional school she founded in Virginia to help the Chinese government get information about American servicemembers.
Fox News Media expressed disappointment in the decision.

The Utah judge in the murder case over Charlie Kirk's killing held prosecutors in contempt of court on Friday over comments they made to media organizations about defendant Tyler Robinson.
Judge Tony Graf said the comments violated his restrictions on what the two sides can say about the case outside of court.
But Graf denied a defense request to take the death penalty off the table as a sanction for the violation. He said the problem could instead be resolved through the screening and questioning process for potential jurors, which is intended to weed out people who could be biased about the case.
Robinson has not yet entered a plea. The 23-year-old from southwestern Utah is charged with aggravated murder in the Sept. 10 ****** assination of Kirk, an ally of President Donald Trump who was shot in the neck while addressing a crowd of thousands at Utah Valley University.
Defense attorneys had accused Deputy Utah County Attorney Christopher Ballard of trying to influence potential jurors by going on a "media tour" to talk about ballistics evidence in the case. Ballard also said prosecutors had enough evidence to show Robinson murdered Kirk.

Faizon Love rolled into a Hillsborough County, Florida, courtroom Friday (June 19) in a red prison jumpsuit and a wheelchair, shackled at the wrists, after spending more than two weeks behind bars on contempt-of-court charges tied to a child support dispute.
The actor was arrested on June 16 on two counts of contempt of court, originating from a warrant out of Hillsborough County. He had first been picked up in Riverside County, California and spent 16 days in jail before being transferred to Florida. Attorney Glen R. Lansky confirmed the cross-country transport, telling the NY Post he was moved "on orders of contempt from the Honorable Judge Mark Kiser."
At the center of the case is a child support dispute involving his ex, Tiffany Lee. She claims Love owes roughly $250,000 in missed payments at a court-ordered rate of $2,500 per month. Her attorney argued he had not made the required payments in years. Lee, appearing by video call, alleged Love told her directly that she "wasn't going to get a dime" and that he intended to stop working and cancel shows to avoid paying.
When his own attorney asked Love in open court whether he currently had the ability to pay $2,500 a month, he answered plainly: "Right now? No."
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A federal judge on Friday rejected former President Joe Biden's attempt to block the Trump administration from releasing to a conservative group the recordings that Biden made with a ghostwriter.
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich found that the public interest in the material outweighed whatever privacy rights Biden had.
The recordings were obtained by special counsel Robert Hur in the course of his investigation into whether Biden improperly retained classified documents while a senator and vice president. Republicans in Congress demanded them after Hur declined to file charges against the then-president.
Biden's Democratic administration refused to turn over the 2017 recordings and transcripts, leading congressional Republicans to hold his attorney general, Merrick Garland, in contempt.
President Donald Trump's Department of Justice authorized the release of the materials. That led Biden last month to sue to seek to block the release to a staffer at the conservative Heritage Foundation who had formally requested the records.

Yet another team of grown men who make make a living playing with toddler toys, pushing pedophilia.

And people wonder why I hold sports in contempt.

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