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‘Minnesota assassin’s’ wife has ‘disappeared’ after being caught with guns and cash

Vance Boelter’s spooked wife has remained in hiding – as the accused assassin’s defiant family were tight-lipped concerning her whereabouts, telling a DailyMail.com reporter to ‘piss off.’

Shaken mom-of-five Jenny, 51, rang pals only to say she was in a ‘safe’ location but wouldn’t reveal where she was.

She fled the family’s bucolic farmhouse home in Green Isle, Minnesota, last Saturday morning after Boelter hinted that he had done something monstrous in a 6.18am text.

‘Dad went to war last night,’ wrote her 57-year-old husband.

‘There’s gonna be some people coming to the house armed and trigger happy and I  don’t want you guys around.’

As news broke that Boelter had allegedly gunned down two lawmakers and their spouses in Minneapolis, Jenny was pulled over driving through Onamia, 90 miles north.

She had their youngest children in the car along with their passports, $10,000 in cash and two handguns, according to federal court filings.

Jenny, president of the couple’s private security firm, consented to a voluntary search of her electronic devices but wasn’t arrested in the 10am traffic stop.

There’s nothing in her husband’s charging documents to suggest she had advance knowledge of his alleged plot to slaughter dozens of Democrat lawmakers and pro-abortion activists.

Friends told DailyMail.com that Jenny was in such a hurry she left the family’s three dogs behind.

‘Jenny called and asked if we could feed the dogs and that’s what we’ve been doing,’ said neighbor Kevin Effertz, 64.

‘She said she was in a safe place and that’s all she would say. She hasn’t said when she’s coming back.’

Jenny has not commented publicly since Boelter was captured Sunday evening and charged with multiple counts of murder and stalking.

Her brother Jason Doskocil, 54, had a blunt message for DailyMail.com when we asked about her whereabouts.

‘I’m sorry, we are not going to talk to nobody – so piss off,’ he replied.

The Boelters’ four-bed, $520,000 farmhouse, nestling between rolling meadows and dense woodland, was deserted Tuesday.

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Device Linked To Alleged Political Assassin Travelled To High-Risk Countries, Raising Red Flags Over NGO Ties

The Oversight Project has uncovered that Vance Luther Boelter — a former appointee of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and now suspected political assassin — may have traveled extensively to several high-risk countries.

“Tracking Connections to MN Assassin We geofenced Boelter’s family farm and found a unique device. We followed that device for the last 3 years – located in places like Africa, Nepal, and Washington, DC. We are releasing our data to the public in the interest of transparency,” Oversight Project wrote in an X post. 

Boelter has been linked to three shadowy organizations (more here): Minnesota Africans United, Revoformation Ministries, and You Gave Them Something to Eat. Each of these entities raises red flags and invites the question: were these legitimate operations, or merely front groups masking more nefarious activity?

Oversight Project continued, “First, we located the device AD-ID had traveled in the vicinity of Boelter’s farm. This is the same area where there was a police helicopter tracing his family residence near Green Isle, MN before his arrest. We also followed all travel in and around Minneapolis region.”

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Suspect Had More Names Scribbled in Manifesto… Gunman Still at Large

12:14 AM PT — Gov. Tim Walz and U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar were also reportedly on the target list.

10:55 AM PT — The hit list found in the Minnesota suspect’s car contained nearly 70 names. A law enforcement official told CNN the names included abortion providers, pro-abortion rights advocates and lawmakers in Minnesota and other states.

The official added law enforcement also found a Father’s Day card addressed to the suspect in a bag full of ammunition.

The suspect on the run for the shooting death of Minnesota’s Democrat State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband reportedly wanted to slaughter even more lawmakers.

The gunman’s manifesto was found in the SUV he drove to the Hortman residence before their murders, according to NewsNation’s Brian Entin — and the suspect had written down “names of many lawmakers and other officials.”

Police also found flyers for planned “No Kings” demonstrations across Minnesota in the suspect’s car … and are now urging the public to avoid such gatherings “out of an abundance of caution.”

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Manhunt underway for cop impersonator who shot two Minnesota state lawmakers

Two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses were shot overnight by someone who police say may be impersonating a law enforcement officer. 

The Brooklyn Park Police Department issued a shelter-in-place alert early Saturday morning and told residents in the area not to open their doors for a police officer as they hunt for the man, who they say shot Sen. John Hoffman and his wife and Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband in separate attacks.  

Ms. Hortman and her husband, Mark, were killed. 

Mr. Hoffman and his wife were wounded, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said Saturday.

Both lawmakers are Democrats. 

Mr. Walz, also a Democrat, described the death of Ms. Horman as “what appears to be a politically motivated assassination.”

Two people were allegedly involved in the attack, police said, and they apprehended one of the suspects “after an officer-involved shooting” in Brooklyn Park, Fox 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul reported. 

Earlier Saturday, Mr. Walz announced he’s activated the State Emergency Operation Center to help Brooklyn Park and neighboring Champlin track down the shooter.

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Minnesota Supreme Court Sides With Public Nudity, Against Families And Sanity

In another blow to common decency and protecting innocence, the justices of the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled earlier this month in favor of a woman being topless in a public space.

Even though the state has laws against exhibitionism, the justices reasoned in their opinion that the woman, a stripper named Eloisa Plancarte, did not necessarily meet the standard for lewdness mentioned in the law.

Yes, she had cocaine in her possession, and yes, she joked that “Catholic girls do it all the time” when police questioned her, and yes, she happens to be a stripper by trade, and yes, this was the third time someone reported her for indecent exposure, but none of this proves that she was showing off her breasts with a sexual intent. Nor do her breasts necessarily qualify as private parts: “the evidence presented in the stipulated-evidence trial does not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Plancarte engaged in conduct of a sexual nature.”

Perhaps Plancarte was simply overheated — Minnesota is famous for its scorching spring temperatures. Or maybe she was just making herself comfortable and happened to find herself at the gas station parking lot. Or maybe she didn’t understand that there were laws against woman bearing their breasts in public. Her lawyers claim she wasn’t being lewd, so who are we to judge her otherwise?

The two justices (appointees of Democratic Gov. and Kamala Harris’s running mate Tim Walz) writing the opinion apparently believed that simply padding their 31-page opinion with endless equivocations, non-sequiturs, and circular arguments would justify their effective legalization of stripping naked in public. And while this may seem like a small matter that might only upset a few conservative prudes, this ruling threatens to have serious ramifications for the American constitutional order as well as the culture at large.

The first immediate ramification is the obvious judicial overreach. The Minnesota legislature explicitly prohibited all instances of showing one’s body for sexual or lewd purposes. Yet the justices declared this law doesn’t apply because categorizing any action specifically “lewd” or “sexual” is subjective.

By this logic, any law could be overturned by the court since any word could be deemed subjective. A murderer could claim he stabbed another person in self-defense even if there is no indication he was defending himself. A thief could claim he took merchandise from a store, not knowing he had to pay for it.

Any crime can be excused on the basis that the intent was somehow different from what is expressed in any given law. All it takes is a few activist judges to set the precedent, and potential offenders can question any law and play dumb when the wording clearly implicates them.

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Officials in Edina City, Minnesota Faces Backlash After ‘County Courier Vehicle’ with Boxes of Ballots Left Unattended, Hatchback Conspicuously Open in Parking Lot

Trust in the election process took a serious hit after a disturbing photo surfaced on social media showing a vehicle, packed with absentee ballots, left wide open and unattended in a public parking lot outside Edina City Hall.

The official X account of Senate District 50 Republicans in Minnesota, representing citizens of Edina and Bloomington, shared the alarming image, sparking outrage among local residents and election watchdogs.

The incriminating photo shows boxes of ballots tied with blue and red straps sitting inside an unlocked vehicle with its hatchback fully open.

SD50MNGOP called out the incident, posting, “Do these ballots look secure to you? Photo outside Edina City Hall.”

“Witness watched as the driver left the vehicle to go inside to get more boxes, leaving the vehicle open and unattended,” SD50MNGOP added.

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Wall Street Is Finding New Ways to Milk the Prison System

As part of a growing effort to stop prison telecom monopolies from charging exorbitant fees for calls between prisoners and their families, last year Minnesota became one of the first states to make all phone calls free for prisoners. And to eliminate the kickback system perpetuating the scheme, the state barred its agencies from collecting commissions on prison phone services, as well as on video calling and e-messaging.

But records obtained by us show Minnesota’s Department of Corrections still collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks last year from commissions on other prison services private telecom companies controlled — including money transfers, music access, and other entertainment behind bars. All in all, the records suggest the telecom firms brought in nearly $3 million in revenue from an ever-increasing array of nonphone prison services in the state.

Minnesota, which was the fourth state in the country to make the government, not prisoners, pay for phone calls, is a case study in how prison communication companies and their private equity owners have managed to preserve their symbiotic relationship with state corrections agencies despite reforms — at the major expense of incarcerated people and their families.

According to a Minnesota state watchdog agency, under a current prison contract, people in state prisons must pay between $1.06 and $1.99 to listen to a single song on state-issued devices. Under a new contract with another telecom vendor, the cost will increase to up to $2.36 per song — and the state will pocket a bigger cut of the revenue.

“For-profit telecom companies are making hundreds of millions of dollars from incarcerated people and their families, while Minnesota families are going into debt to stay connected with their loved ones through phone calls and video calls,” said Margaret Zadra, Minnesota’s ombudsperson of corrections. “For-profit companies should not be allowed to erode that connection to line their own pockets.”

As digital tablets become increasingly ubiquitous behind bars, criminal justice reform advocates say Wall Street is poised to control and monetize an ever larger share of the daily lives of this captive audience.

“The ideal world for the private equity owners of these companies is every prisoner has one of their tablets, and every one of those tablets is hooked up to the bank account of someone outside of prison that they can just drain,” said Paul Wright, the executive director of the advocacy group Human Rights Defense Center, which for years has led a campaign to lower prison telecom costs.

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Government kills hundreds of Minnesota wolves to protect ranchers’ profits

It’s not easy being a wolf in northern Minnesota.

Every year dozens of the animals die of starvation, disease, parasites, vehicle traffic and poaching.

But the No. 1 killer of Minnesota wolves may come as a surprise: agents of the federal government, acting with the full force of the law.

In 2022, there were 174 documented wolf deaths in Minnesota, according to the latest state Department of Natural Resources data. Of those, 142 were killed by a relatively obscure arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture called the Wildlife Services division.

Wildlife Services is tasked with mitigating conflicts between humans and wild animals. In Minnesota, the agency’s staffers answer complaints from ranchers who lose cattle and other livestock to wolf predation. The agency documents and verifies those complaints, and looks for non-lethal ways to protect threatened livestock, like wolf-proof fencing.

If those options don’t work, the agency traps and kills wolves deemed responsible for the loss. USDA officers kill more wolves in Minnesota than in all other states combined, according to the program’s annual reports.

That work is effectively a government handout to ranchers, who receive publicly funded protection for their privately held livestock. The ranchers also receive cash compensation from state taxpayers for their lost cattle, which in 2022 totaled $100,000 for 78 wolf predation claims, or an average of about $1,300 per claim.

While individual ranchers can experience significant losses if wolves repeatedly target their cows, the overall impact on the state’s cattle population is negligible. There are about 2.2 million cows in the state, according to USDA data. The five or six dozen documented and verified wolf kills in a given year amount to a few thousandths of 1 percent of the total population.

But the USDA’s actions in response inflict a steep toll upon Minnesota’s wolves. The 142 kills amount to fully 5% of the state’s estimated wolf population.

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