Everything Is Fine

 

Barbed-Wire, Tear-Gas, & Water-Cannons: Brussels Battles Protesting Farmers Who Orbán Says Are '100% Right'

Via Remix News,

As the EU moves to crush protesting farmers demonstrating in Brussels, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán offered full backing to the farmers and their efforts to stop the EU’s Mercosur free trade deal, which threatens to destroy food security in Europe.

“Farmers are 100 percent right,” said Orbán, who is currently in Brussels attending the EU Summit.

He added that the farmers have obvious issues with the Mercosur package, a free trade agreement with Latin American countries, because it “kills the farmers.”

“Hungary is one of the countries that does not support the Mercosur agreement. There were serious professional debates about this in Hungary, and the Hungarian position was that we do not support this,” said the prime minister.

Viktor Orbán reminded that the agreement would require a qualified majority, and according to his expectations, there is not enough support.

“Mercosur opponents make it impossible for this agreement to be signed. The plan is that the President of the European Commission wants to sign this later this week. I think this needs to be stopped here now, and we can prevent it,” he said.

He also said that another problem for farmers is the Green Deal, which leads to expensive overregulation in agricultural work in such a way that it represents a serious cost and competitive disadvantage for European food producers. 

D.C Top Cop Throws A Tantrum For God

 

"F*ck You!": Unhinged DC Police Chief Cites Bible, Rages At Haters In Exit Ceremony

Disgraced DC Police Chief Pamela Smith appeared completely unhinged during her exit speech at Metropolitan Police Department headquarters on Friday, shouting, "To all my haters, f*ck you."

"Never would I compromise my integrity. Never would I compromise 28 years in law enforcement for a few folk who couldn't stand to be held accountable. And if I had to do it all over again... so I'm going to the Bible when I say this: to my haters, F you," Smith emphasized.

She continued, "The same folks who said in that report that they changed their numbers and I did not. The report is very clear. I did not direct anyone. You should investigate those folks."

Smith's erratic behavior is totally unacceptable at such a high level and only raises questions about whether she was ever fit to be DC's top cop.

Earlier this month, she stepped down after the Department of Justice uncovered a "massive scandal" involving manipulated crime statistics.

A recent report from the House Oversight Committee alleged that Smith played a considerable role in the overall Democratic effort to hide true crime statistics from the general public.

Remember when the propaganda narrative by Democratic leaders and left-wing mainstream media puppets asserted that conservative red states were the greatest source of criminal activity in the US, not violent crime-plagued Democratic-run cities. That narrative was merely part of a disinformation campaign by Democrats to distract the public from the nation-killing crisis caused by the ongoing problem of progressive, soft-on-crime policies.

When Idiots And Thieves Rule

 

Tennessee Governor Pardons Country Star Jelly Roll For Past Convictions

Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times,

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee granted a pardon Thursday to Grammy-nominated country artist Jelly Roll for his previous criminal convictions, noting the musician’s journey from incarceration to advocacy and stardom.

The pardon, one of 33 clemency actions granted by the Republican governor in light of the Christmas season, celebrates Jelly Roll’s personal growth.

Born as Jason Bradley DeFord on Dec. 4, 1984, the Nashville native spent much of his youth in juvenile facilities, including more than three years at the Davidson County Juvenile Detention Center beginning at age 14 and has been jailed around 40 times for offenses including aggravated robbery and drug possession. He earned a high school equivalency degree at 23 while incarcerated.

Jelly Roll’s most serious convictions include a 2002 robbery at age 17, when he and others, including an armed individual, stole $350 from victims in a home. He served one year in prison, as well as probation. In 2008, police discovered marijuana and crack cocaine in his vehicle, leading to eight years of court supervision.

Lee said Jelly Roll’s application underwent the same rigorous, months-long review as others, with the state parole board unanimously recommending approval in April.

“His story is remarkable, and it’s a redemptive, powerful story, which is what you look for and what you hope for,” Lee told reporters.

The governor first met Jelly Roll on Thursday at the Governor’s Residence, where they embraced one another amid holiday decorations. Unlike federal pardons that can enable an individual to avoid prison time, Tennessee’s pardons offer forgiveness post-sentence, sometimes restoring rights such as the right to vote with some limits. Jelly Roll has said a pardon would make international tours and missionary work easier, since he’d no longer have to do paperwork due to his criminal history.

Broke Dick

 

The Crisis Of Disability In America

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Epoch Times,

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has an ongoing household survey to provide a snapshot of where we are in jobs and the labor market generally. This survey has usually proven to be the most accurate measure. Part of the survey includes questions concerning disability. It’s not about claims; it’s about answers to the following questions.

1. Are you deaf, or do you have serious difficulty hearing?

2. Are you blind, or do you have serious difficulty seeing even when wearing glasses?

3. Because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition, do you have serious difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions?

4. Do you have serious difficulty walking or climbing stairs?

5. Do you have difficulty dressing or bathing?

6. Because of a physical, mental, or emotional condition, do you have difficulty doing errands alone such as visiting a doctor’s office or shopping?

You can take issue with this questionnaire and observe that people might perhaps exaggerate. Who, for example, hasn’t navigated a long flight of stairs and found himself rather fatigued at the end? Chronic obesity would tip the scales. At some point in the aging process, we all become disabled.

But let’s say you run the same exact survey for 20 years. Even with inaccuracies in reporting, even with a tendency to exaggerate, the trend line would still be highly significant if only because the survey methods remain the same.

Here is where the news gets grim. The latest survey reports that 36.63 million Americans have a disability. That’s an increase of 7 million over the summer of 2020, at the time when we were supposed to be in the midst of a debilitating pandemic.

The disabilities began to soar only after the inoculation was pushed and sometimes forced on the public.

The upward trend began in February 2021 and has not stopped.

Edward Dowd, investment analyst and author of “Cause Unknown: The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 & 2022,” comments:

“The November US BLS Disability data has been updated and it’s grim ... new highs across the board. Disaster.”

From RadioShack?

 

Watch: US Naval Forces Now Have Suicide Drones

U.S. Naval Forces Central Command and the 5th Fleet successfully tested a low-cost kamikaze drone from the deck of the USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32), an Independence-class littoral combat ship.  

The test of the Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) was completed in the Arabian Gulf region and marks a "significant milestone in rapidly delivering affordable and effective unmanned capabilities to the warfighter," Vice Adm. Curt Renshaw, commander of NAVCENT/C5F, wrote in a statement.

"Bravo Zulu. U.S. Navy forces in the Middle East are advancing warfighting capability in new ways, bringing more striking power from the sea and setting conditions for using innovation as a deterrent." - Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM Commander https://t.co/TgQ4WLbph3 pic.twitter.com/WUiAVojTht

— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) December 18, 2025

The sea-based test follows U.S. Central Command's announcement of the U.S. military's first one-way-attack drone squadron based in the Middle East...

Cheap kamikaze drones are reshaping the modern battlefield by dramatically reducing the cost of precision strikes. Equipped with low-cost warheads, these drones cost a fraction of cruise missiles while being capable of swarming overwhelming missile defense shields. Their effectiveness has been demonstrated repeatedly in Ukraine, where cheap, disposable drones have crippled air defenses, struck critical power grid infrastructure, and oil/gas tankers.

Shakedown Time

 

Courting The Clintons

 

Timeline: The Sabotage Of The Clinton Foundation Investigation

Authored by Techno Fog via The Reactionary,

This week, Senator Chuck Grassley released Department of Justice and FBI records that provide a new look on how FBI and DOJ leadership sabotaged the investigation into the Clinton Foundation.

These records, which include internal emails, summaries of high-level meetings and calls, and intelligence from confidential human sources, reveal the Clinton Foundation investigation was sabotaged from the start.

During the Obama Administration, both DOJ and FBI leadership were openly hostile to the investigation. US Attorneys declined to cooperate, denying requests for subpoenas or other investigative support. And during the first Trump Administration, actors within the FBI and DOJ obstructed and delayed the development of the investigation by not approving the release of FBI materials and slowing the release of witness interviews to investigators. A frustrating tale of corruption and incompetence.

Relying on these new documents, as well as other public source materials and Special Counsel John Durham’s report, here is the comprehensive timeline of the Clinton Foundation investigation, as well as other parts of the overall Clinton corruption investigation that are relevant. It is an infuriating tale of corruption and incompetence from the highest levels of government which ultimately protected the Clinton’s schemes to trade on their political influence for millions of dollars.

Let’s get into it.

2010: Predication to investigate the Clinton Foundation is established. A call between Sant Singh Chatwal and foreign donors about giving to Hillary Clinton is monitored by the FBI. Chatwal is a wealthy NYC magnate and longtime friend of the Clintons. He served on the Clinton Foundation board and was a Clinton Foundation donor, as well as a Democratic fundraiser.

2014: “Beginning in late 2014, before Clinton formally declared her presidential candidacy, the FBI learned from a well-placed CHS that a foreign government was planning to send an individual to contribute to Clinton’s anticipated presidential campaign, as a way to gain influence with Clinton should she win the presidency.”

An FBI field office sought FISA coverage of the foreign person who would contribute to Hillary’s campaign. They sought expedited approval of the FISA application from FBI headquarters, who let the application linger “for approximately four months” because FBI headquarters was “scared with the big name Clinton involved”, as she may be the next President.

The FISA was approved on the condition that Clinton and her campaign be given a defensive briefing. The logic behind the defensive briefing was that “the investigation might interfere with a presumed future presidential campaign.” In other words, they didn’t want to spoil Hillary’s chances.

2015: Through a CHS, the FBI learns of another foreign government seeking to influence the Hillary Clinton campaign. The foreign government’s plan is to set up a meeting with Clinton to propose campaign contributions in exchange for the protection of the foreign government’s interests should Clinton become president.

The FBI learns that this CHS – a foreign national – made a $2,700 campaign contribution through another party, in violation of federal law. The FBI further learned through the CHS that the Clinton campaign was “aware” of the contribution and “okay” with it. Yet the FBI does not document the illegal contribution in its records and the handling agent instructed the CHS to “stay away from all events relating to Clinton’s campaign.”

2015: The FBI’s Washington Field Office takes notice of corruption by the Clinton Foundation, which was thoroughly documented by Peter Schweizer’s “Clinton Cash.” They hold a meeting with the DOJ to discuss the potential for an investigation.

More Jewish Cocaine?

 

Democrats Refuse To Release Post-Mortem Of 2024 Election Loss, DNC Chair Says

Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times,

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has completed a postmortem of the party’s 2024 election losses but will keep the report confidential, DNC Chair Ken Martin said on Dec. 18.

Ken Martin, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, listens to speakers during a press conference in Aurora, Ill., on Aug. 5, 2025. Scott Olson/Getty Images

Martin said in a statement provided to media outlets that releasing the report would only distract the party from its mission to win the next election.

“In our conversations with stakeholders from across the Democratic ecosystem, we are aligned on what’s important, and that’s learning from the past and winning the future,” he stated.

“Here’s our North Star: Does this help us win? If the answer is no, it’s a distraction from the core mission.”

Details of the report were not immediately available. The Epoch Times has reached out to the DNC for further information, but did not receive a response by publication time.

Kamala Harris, who was vice president at the time, lost the 2024 election to Republican Donald Trump, who returned to the White House for a second term. Harris stepped in as the Democratic presidential candidate after then-President Joe Biden withdrew his bid.

During an Oct. 26 interview with BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg, Harris suggested that she may run for the presidency again in 2028.

“I am not done,” she said.

“I have lived my entire career, a life of service, and it’s in my bones, and there are many ways to serve. I’ve not decided yet what I will do in the future beyond what I am doing right now.”

The interview took place as Harris was on tour promoting her book “107 Days,” released on Sept. 23, detailing the days she spent running for president against Trump last year.

Judge Going To Jail

 

"No One Is Above The Law": Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan Found Guilty Of Felony Obstruction

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

A jury in Milwaukee this week proved that it takes more than a robe to act like a judge. On Thursday, Judge Hannah Dugan was found guilty of the most serious count brought against her in a case that captivated many in the nation. Dugan famously told a fellow judge to wear her robe in the hallway to confront federal officers seeking to arrest a suspect.

A jury found Dugan guilty of obstruction in helping an illegal migrant evade arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. She was acquitted of the misdemeanor charge of concealing Flores Ruiz.

Judge Dugan was lionized by the left, including attorneys and politicians, for her effort to facilitate the escape of Eduardo Flores-Ruiz.  She had a prominent legal team, including former Solicitor General Paul Clement and  former U.S. Attorney Steve Biskupic. Retired Supreme Court Justice Janine Geske agreed to be the trustee over a large defense fund.

This week, we discussed how Dugan’s colleague Judge Kristela Cervera delivered a heavy blow to her defense in testifying how Dugan pulled her into the dispute with the agents and how she acted improperly in the matter.

Cervera said that Dugan specifically told her to keep her robe on and that she was reluctant to do so: “I didn’t want to walk in the hallway with my robe on.” Dugan, however, allegedly wanted the agents to see them in their robes as a sign of authority.

She said that the agent remained respectful but that Dugan was getting upset in the confrontation: “Her irritation seemed to progress to anger. I thought she could have been a little more diplomatic.”

It's An Education

 

Brown University Accused Of Removing Cameras To Evade ICE

Authored by José Niño via Headline USA,

A firestorm of controversy has engulfed Brown University following the mass shooting that took place last Saturday. 

Critics are now questioning whether the prestigious institution deliberately disabled security cameras, inadvertently creating blind spots that allowed the shooter to escape detection.

According to the latest reports shared by Headline USA, the shooter was identified as Claudio Neves Valente, a 48-year-old Portuguese national. He has reportedly been found dead.

Conservative commentator Greg Price posted a video showing a tense moment when a Providence police press conference ended abruptly after a Latino Rhode Island radio host confronted officials. The journalist accused authorities of deliberately removing security cameras at Brown University because of sanctuary city laws designed to prevent recording of illegal aliens.

The confrontation occurred as Providence Mayor Brett Smiley and other officials fielded questions about the ongoing investigation. When pressed about the camera issue, officials refused to answer and immediately terminated the press conference, a response critics characterized as suspicious evasion.

The surveillance controversy deepened when Brown officials revealed the campus operates over 1,200 security cameras. Yet Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha claimed no cameras captured footage of the shooting because it occurred in an “old part” of the Barus & Holley engineering building constructed in 1965.

Price highlighted this glaring contradiction, noting that a university with an $8 billion endowment somehow failed to install cameras in a major academic building. “An official from Brown just said that there are over 1,200 cameras all over the campus. Yesterday, the Rhode Island Attorney General said that there were no cameras where the shooting happened because it was an old part of the building. These people are a bunch of clowns,” Price wrote.

Additional failures compounded the investigation’s problems. Twitter user Alex Lace noted that the suspect walked directly past a Brown University campus police car after the attack, yet investigators obtained no footage because the patrol vehicles lack dash cameras. “Brown University shooting suspect casually WALKED RIGHT PAST a campus police car after the attack… But their patrol cars HAVE NO DASH CAMS?! No footage to capture him? This is unacceptable!” Lace wrote.

Providence Police Chief Col. Oscar Perez admitted during a press briefing he was unsure whether Brown University police cruisers even carry dash cameras, leaving investigators without potentially crucial evidence.

The most damning evidence emerged when Right Angle News Network revealed that Brown University received a letter in August 2025 from over 30 human rights and digital privacy organizations urging the institution to disable CCTV surveillance systems. The coalition, led by Fight for the Future, sent letters to 150 colleges including Brown demanding they ban facial recognition technology and disable campus surveillance.

The activists argued that surveillance infrastructure would be weaponized by the Trump administration to deport illegal alien students and punish protesters. Critics now believe Brown capitulated to these demands, creating the surveillance blind spots that hampered the shooter investigation.

According to CNN, investigators continue searching for older footage that might show the Neves Valentes’movements in days before the attack. 

Fox News reported that while the engineering building allegedly lacked cameras due to age, Brown’s president resides in a home built decades earlier that appears fully equipped with modern security systems.

via zer0hedge

British Mercenary Treated Like A Soldier

 

Russia Sentences UK 'Mercenary' To 13 Years In Prison Camp After Capture In Ukraine

Foreign fighters continue to play a role on both sides of the Russia-Ukraine war. In the latest example, on Thursday Russian prosecutors announced that a British national who fought alongside Ukrainian forces has been sentenced to 13 years in a high-security penal colony after being captured on the battlefield.

The Prosecutor General’s Office identified the man as 30-year-old Hayden Davies, and described he had been fighting on behalf of Ukrainian forces. He was tried in a court in Russian-controlled Donetsk.

Via Reuters

He reportedly confessed to traveling to Ukraine to join the International Legion, which is made up of foreign volunteers fighting for Ukraine's military against Russia, and received monthly payments of between $400 and $500.

Russian court authorities released footage of him being questioned while behind bars, wherein he's seen with his head having been freshly shaven as is common with prisoners.

Some speculate his answers may have been given under coercion, but he's seen on camera nodding in the affirmative when asked if he's guilty of the charges.

The UK government has been formally petitioning Moscow that he should be considered a prisoner of war and not a mercenary.

But instead he's being treated as a mercenary, which means he does not receive the customary protections under the Geneva Conventions

Davies is originally from Southampton, previously served in the British military, and has a family back home. According to Sky News:

Russian prosecutors said on Thursday that Mr Davies had arrived in western Ukraine in August 2024, signed a contract to fight for the International Legion, undergone military training, before fighting against the Russian army in Donetsk.

The whole ordeal is similar to a parallel recent case which saw a Russian court sentence another British citizen, James Scott Rhys Anderson, to 19 years in prison.

Anderson had reportedly been actually caught fighting on Russian soil, in the Kursk region, as part of the short-lived Ukrainian breach of the Russian southwest oblast which happened last year.

BREAKING:🇷🇺🇬🇧 Russia has sentenced Ex-British soldier Hayden Davies to 13 years in a maximum security prison camp

Wannabe Thieves Denied

 

EU Folds On Russian Asset 'Reparations', Commits $105BN Loan To Ukraine

Europe has folded rather quickly on EU leaders' controversial plan to confiscate Russian assets held in Belgium's depository Euroclear to use as a reparations loan for Ukraine.

On Friday it became clear in the two day Brussels summit the EU was unable to agree on the plan, but instead has opted to raise €90 billion ($105 billion) in joint borrowing, with Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia choosing not to take part.

via Associated Press

Not only had objecting member states like Hungary sent EU leaders scrambling to circumvent a normal vote, but Belgium has remained unwavering in insisting on unlimited guarantees tied to assets held on its territory.

Fearing immediate Russian retaliation, Belgium wanted assurance that the rest of the EU would step in and absorb whatever retaliatory measures, including lawsuits, would result from the asset seizure.

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever recently summed up the dilemma best: "We do not wish to be at war with Russia. We must negotiate based on reality, not fantasy. In reality, you don’t steal money from a foreign central bank. Stealing from a central bank is like robbing an embassy."

So it appears EU leadership has backed down, perhaps having learned their lesson from Biden weaponizing the dollar early in the Ukraine war. As a reminder, here's what President Vladimir Putin had to say by way of warning back in spring of 2024:

"The dollar is the cornerstone of the United States’ power... it is the main weapon used by the U.S. to preserve its power across the world," the Russian leader said. "As soon as the political leadership decided to use the dollar as a tool of political struggle, a blow was dealt to this American power."

As for the failed effort to permanently seize the some 210 billion euros ($247bn) in Russian assets held in Europe, EU officials had played down the possibility of an alternative plan right up to the eve of the summit.

And just like that, France's Macron calls for renewed push for diplomacy with Moscow...

Funny how one's perspective changes once you're the one footing the bill.

Mere hours after the EU fails to agree on using frozen Russian assets - meaning they'll have to fund Ukraine themselves - Macron magically rediscovers diplomacy 😏 https://t.co/fY4ebUYlz2

Shut It Down

 

Trump Halts Diversity Green Card Lottery After Brown, MIT Shootings Trace To Non-Citizen

President Trump ordered the suspension of the U.S. green card diversity lottery after federal investigators said the suspect in the Brown University shooting and the killing of an MIT nuclear scientist was a non-citizen who entered the country through the program.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote in an X post late Thursday that, at Trump's direction, she had ordered U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the Diversity Immigrant Visa (DV) program.

"At President Trump's direction, I am immediately directing USCIS to pause the DV1 program to ensure no more Americans are harmed by this disastrous program," Noem said.

She continued, "The Brown University shooter, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente entered the United States through the diversity lottery immigrant visa program (DV1) in 2017 and was granted a green card. This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country."

"In 2017, President Trump fought to end this program, following the devastating NYC truck ramming by an ISIS terrorist, who entered under the DV1 program, and murdered eight people," Noem noted.

Court documents show Neves Valente, a Portuguese national, first entered the U.S. on a student visa to attend Brown University in 2000. After leaving the school, his whereabouts were unclear until 2017, when he received a DV and later permanent residency.

Neves Valente was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility late Thursday, Providence Chief of Police Oscar Perez told reporters at a press conference.

The U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts released a complaint affidavit on X regarding Neves Valente that detailed his immigration status and connected him as the suspect in the MIT shooting of the nuclear scientist.

The diversity visa program permits up to 50,000 green cards per year through a random lottery. Prioritizing randomness over skills appears to be a national security threat - time for reforms.

Jewish Cocaine?

 

Hysterical Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Declares Trump Larger Threat Than Islamic Terrorism

The Democrat Party has taken a break from comparing President Donald Trump to Adof Hitler to warn that the president is a larger threat to the United States than Islamic jihad.

The hysterical remarks came during a Tuesday appearance on NewsNation's "On Balance," where host Leland Vittert asked Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) whether Islamophobia or jihad posed the larger threat to American life and values, following the recent terror attack targeting Jews at Bondi Beach that killed 15 people and wounded dozens more.

“I think we have to focus, quite frankly, on, if we’re worried about the threat to American values, on the person who’s in the White House. I mean, we have a president,” Schultz, who is Jewish, said. “Yeah, I’m going there because we have a president who has completely undermined our democracy.”

“So you don’t see jihad, you don’t see this as a problem?” a stunned Vittert asked.

Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz says Trump is a bigger threat to America than radical islamic jihadist t*rrorists
pic.twitter.com/R8cIjgVSbj

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 17, 2025

“What I don’t see is it as a single lens problem. We have a president who has been determined to undermine our constitutional principles, to degrade our democracy, to divide instead of unite us,” the Florida Democrat replied.

Wasserman Schultz went on to accuse Trump - often described as one of the most pro-Israel U.S. presidents in recent decades - of permitting antisemitism to grow, citing his 2022 dinner with rapper Kanye West, where anti-MAGA podcaster Nick Fuentes tagged along.

“I want a president who actually walks the walk as much as he talks the talk,” Schultz said. “I want a president that makes sure that we restore the nonprofit security grant funding that protects Jewish institutions and other religious institutions from attacks like we’re talking about here. I want a president who isn’t closing down divisions that investigate discriminatory conduct and antisemitic attacks.”

A White House spokesperson pushed back strongly in a statement to Fox News, saying, “Only someone suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome would make such an outlandish comment.

“Following several recent high-profile cases of Jihadist attacks, no sane person should hesitate to condemn radical Islamic terrorism. Debbie Wasserman Schultz obviously does not fit in that category.”

Bad Week For Ivy League Leeches

 

Former Harvard Morgue Manager, Wife Sentenced For Stealing And Selling Body Parts

Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times,

A former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School has been sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling human body parts donated for scientific research, the Department of Justice said.

Cedric Lodge, 58, was sentenced on Dec. 16 during a hearing in federal court in Pennsylvania. His wife, Denise Lodge, 65, received a sentence of 12 months and one day in prison.

The couple previously pleaded guilty to charges related to the interstate transportation of stolen goods. Cedric Lodge admitted to stealing body parts from cadavers donated to Harvard Medical School’s Anatomical Gift Program and selling them to buyers across the country.

Prosecutors said that between 2018 and March 2020, Cedric Lodge stole and trafficked “heads, brains, skin, bones, and other human remains” after the donated bodies had been used for teaching and research. Under agreements between donors and Harvard, those bodies were supposed to be cremated or returned to their families.

According to the federal indictment, Cedric Lodge transported the stolen remains from Harvard Medical School in Boston to his home in New Hampshire, where he stored and sold them. Prosecutors said Denise Lodge assisted in the scheme by communicating with buyers, accepting payments, and arranging shipments of the stolen remains. Payments were often made online through her PayPal account.

The remains were sold to Katrina MacLean, Joshua Taylor, and others, prosecutors said. MacLean allegedly resold the remains to buyers across the country, including through her curiosities store, and Taylor has been accused of purchasing body parts from Lodge for resale. Lodge also allowed MacLean, Taylor, and others to enter the morgue to select which remains they wished to buy, according to the indictment.