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In August in Saint Louis, Missouri, school board member Rochell Moore sent Mayor Francis Slay an open letter, criticizing school closings and management reforms she believed he’d orchestrated and advising him that she’d placed a curse on him. According to a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Moore’s curse paraphrased Deuteronomy 28:21, in which Moses warns the Israelites of what will happen if they stray from God. (A sample: “The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto Francis Slay.”)
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In August in Orlando, Florida, 19-year veteran prosecutor Robin Wilkinson, who’d recently resigned after being charged with DUI, said her main defense in court would be that, at the time of the traffic stop, police did not tell her that she had the right to an attorney. And in August in New York City, accountant Patrick Monachino was charged with embezzling $170,000 from two union locals he’d worked for; he explained that he’d given almost all of it to a female clerk for three years of oral sex.
