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FRAMINGHAM, MA — As Framingham has cleared the way for several businesses applying for marijuana licenses to start negotiations with the mayor, one business stands out for its sweet appeal. Cloud Creamery makes marijuana-infused ice cream for hospitals and dispensaries. It was the first marijuana product manufacturer to get the green light from the Marijuana Advisory Team to move forward with negotiations.
The business has plans to move into a location at 115 Herbert Street. But there won't be a pot-ice cream shop there — the company would only make the treats for outside vendors and would not be permitted to sell their product onsite. The application also says the business is at a unique advantage since it's the only company on the East Coast producing cannabis-infused ice cream.
Cloud Creamery is branded as a locally sourced edible choice for patients and adult users of marijuana. In its application, it says the strongest group of customers for the company are people suffering from an auto-immune disease as well as those who possess a medical marijuana card.
The financial goal for Cloud Creamery is to earn over $400,000 in their first year of operation, according to their application. While dispensaries will be a chunk of the income, the company plans on getting most of its income from hospice facilities, hospitals and casinos.
David Yusefzadeh is the owner of Cloud Creamery and the sole proprietor with 95% of the equity. Yusefzadeh spent 17 years in the restaurant and hotel industry from Hong Kong to Chicago. He has opened multiple restaurants as well as been involved with two separate start-ups involved in food innovation.
According to the application Cloud Creamery has plans to work with four different dispensary companies in the Boston area as well as two third-party delivery services.
The company still has to negotiate a host community agreement with Mayor Yvonne Spicer before any business can start. Five other businesses are vying to set up shop in the city.
May 23rd 2018 Dozens of foreign ISIS brides are being sentenced to death in Iraq as the country exacts its revenge after three years of jihadi occupation. Begging that they themselves are victims, the women were given 10 minutes to plead for their lives before judges decide their sentence. Many of them find little sympathy with the Iraqi judiciary and locals and are despised for their support of their militant husbands who tore the country apart between 2014 and 2017. French citizen Djamila Boutoutao, 29, appeared in court last month and claimed: “I thought I had married a rapper. It was only when we arrived in Turkey for a week-long ‘holiday’ that I discovered my husband was a jihadist.” “I’m a victim. My husband beat me and locked me up in a cave with my children when I refused to follow him (to Iraq).”
She reappeared in court again last week alongside 14 other women, The Guardian reported, where she begged to keep her daughter.
She is among an estimated 1,900 French citizens and 40,000 foreigners who traveled to join ISIS’s so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria.
She said: “I’m going mad here. I’m facing a death sentence or life in prison. No one tells me anything, not the ambassador, not people in prison.”
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“Don’t let them take my daughter away. I am willing to offer money if you can contact my parents. Please get me out of here.”
According to the paper, at least 40 women have been sentenced to death, while it’s believed around 300 people in total with links to ISIS have so far been executed.
Now more than 1,000 people have been placed in Baghdad jails after being identified as either members of the group or relatives of fighters.
Most of the women are widowed and many are the only caregiver left for the small children born to terrorist dads.
Last month, a court in Baghdad handed 19 Russian women life sentences for “joining and supporting” the terror group.
Al Jazeera reported many of them claimed they were misled into making the trip to Iraq.
One said: “I did not know we were in Iraq. I went with my husband and my children to Turkey to live there and then I suddenly discovered I was actually in Iraq.”
The broadcaster reports that more than 20,000 have been detained on suspicion of ties to the group.
Hell on Earth in paradise.
May 28th 2018 An explosive eruption at the summit of the Kilauea volcano is creating fissures near residents in Hawaii, spewing lava bombs and damaging homes in the region. CNN's Scott McLean explains how some residents are coping with the eruption.
RMS’s REVERSE MORTGAGE RIP OFF Parent Company Emerges from Bankruptcy as Ditech
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February 9th, 2018 | by Alex Spanko | Ditech, HECM, News, Reverse Mortgage, RMS, Walter Investment, Walter Investment Corporation | 1 Comment
After a slight delay, Walter Investment Management Corp. (NYSE: WAC.BC) emerged on Friday from a prepackaged Chapter 11 restructuring plan — with a new name.
The parent company of Reverse Mortgage Solutions will be known as Ditech Holding Corporation, adopting the new ticker symbol DHCP when trading begins Monday morning.
“We are emerging from this process with a new name and an even stronger focus and ability to serve our customers,” director George M. Awad said in a statement announcing the move.
The newly christened Ditech takes its name from subsidiary Ditech Financial LLC, which avoided the bankruptcy proceeding along with RMS. Those two subsidiaries will continue operating as normal, the company said Friday.
Walter/Ditech shed $800 million of outstanding corporate debt through its recent Chapter 11 filing. Initially expected to be complete by January 31, the process required nine extra days, during which time CEO Anthony Renzi announced his intention to leave the company. I would leave too with all the illegal shenanigans this company pulled on the elderly. Smart Guy! A replacement has yet to be announced, though Renzi will stay on until the Fort Washington, Pa.-based firm names a successor. They simply laundered their name to escape the treacherous injustices they implemented on the elderly.
RMS currently services reverse mortgages after Walter shut down its Home Equity Conversion Mortgage origination business in January 2017; that move also involved the complete closure of former Walter subsidiary Security One Lending.
“We are excited about the prospects of our core business and are confident that we are well positioned to drive profitable growth and create value for our shareholders,” Award said.WAC stock was down $0.06, or 8.72%, in midday trading at $0.60 per share.
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Don't be fooled! Reverse Mortgage Bankers want and will take your home.
by Ed Williams, Content on Demand May 4th 2018
Lynn Massachusetts
Tom Selleck looks so convincing in those Reverse Mortgage commercials, but BEWARE, they're after the equity
in your home. As this foreclosure notice published recently will show you. they will auction your home off right out from underneath you when there is actually no mortgage due. They act like they're doing you a favor but the bottom line is in a regulated banking world, they're just as greedy as all the other banks who jumped into the subprime lending frenzy in 05 driven by greed and motivated by profits. They're not your friend says Alison a recent victim of her home being foreclosed on by a reverse mortgage company. What is really exciting about all of this, is they are so brazen that they use the name REVERSE MORTGAGE in the foreclosure legal listing when they publish the auction sale of your home in the newspaper to further scare the already frightened elderly. (This borrower has $175K equity in her home and owed less then $12K in real estate taxes). Yes, you borrowed money from a lender who is so greedy and over zelest they were not even smart enough to create a division with another name to hide the fact they're a reverse mortgage company! Poor Tom Sellick, all those commercials, convincing the elderly "these loans are risk free" You can't loose your home" what a lie! Talk about shooting yourself in the foot! Reverse Mortgage company's have been fined heavily by the consumer financial protection bureau for misleading the elderly that these were risk free loans and that they could not loose their home.
The largest penalty, $400,000, went to American Advisors Group, the largest reverse-mortgage lender in the United States.
American Advisers promotes reverse mortgages nationally in television and online commercials. It had also distributed about a million information kits with DVDs featuring spokesmen like Fred Thompson, the actor and former United States senator.
Two versions of the DVD feature dialogue such as, “Can I lose my home?” and continues, “No you cannot lose your home,” according to the consumer agency’s order. (Mr. Thompson died late last year. The actor Tom Selleck is now the company’s paid spokesman.)
When the elderly fall behind on their property taxes , lets say $10,000.00 (relatively a small amount) when you have $200K in equity in your home. The reverse mortgage company will automatically pay your taxes hoping they can foreclose on you, when in fact your local governing tax people will generally just put a lien on the home for taxes to be paid when the home is sold, or put you on a payment plan. It has been reported that the reverse mortgage company's do offer re-payment plans on back taxes but always put the repayment plan just above what the elderly on fix incomes can afford to repay. They have an F rating at the Better Business Bureau . What they tend to do is file bankruptcy or do a reverse meger and surface as another company like Ditech to evade bad press and F ratings at local BBB's.
Ed Williams is a publisher and banking professional with 15 years of experience in the lending world, lending 2 billion in conventional and subprime mortgages 1990 -2006.
Reverse Mortgage Lenders Fined for Ads That ‘Tricked’ Older Borrowers
New York Times
REVERSE mortgages, a type of home loan available to older Americans, are sometimes marketed in advertisements featuring reassuring celebrity spokesmen. But federal regulators this week reminded lenders that their pitches must also clearly disclose the loans’ risks.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fined three companies for using deceptive advertisements to sell reverse mortgages. The bureau ordered the companies to stop the misleading ads, which dated to early 2012, and to pay combined penalties totaling nearly $800,000.
Reverse mortgages, formally known as home equity conversion mortgages, are loans that let borrowers ages 62 or older draw on the equity in their homes. Homeowners can receive funds in a lump sum, in monthly payments or as lines of credit; repayment of the loan is deferred until the borrower dies, moves out or sells the home.
According to administrative consent orders issued by the bureau, the companies promoted the loans as essentially risk-free. But borrowers of reverse mortgages can, in fact, default on their loans and lose their homes through foreclosure, if they fail to make necessary payments for property taxes, insurance or home maintenance, or do not meet other requirements.
“Foreclosures do happen with reverse mortgages,” Stacy Canan, assistant director with the bureau’s Office for Older Americans, said.
The bureau, Ms. Canan said, has received complaints from borrowers faced with foreclosure because they failed to submit proof of occupancy of the home to their reverse mortgage servicer, or because the servicer claimed — often incorrectly — that they had not paid their taxes or had failed to keep the home in good repair.
In a statement, Richard Cordray, the director of the bureau, said the companies being punished had “tricked” consumers into believing that they could not lose their homes with a reverse mortgage. The companies consented to the orders without admitting or denying the findings, the bureau said.
The largest penalty, $400,000, went to American Advisors Group, the largest reverse-mortgage lender in the United States.
American Advisors promotes reverse mortgages nationally in television and online commercials. It had also distributed about a million information kits with DVDs featuring spokesmen like Fred Thompson, the actor and former United States senator.
Two versions of the DVD feature dialogue such as, “Can I lose my home?” and continues, “No you cannot lose your home,” according to the consumer agency’s order.
(Mr. Thompson died late last year. The actor Tom Selleck is now the company’s paid spokesman.)
American Advisors Group said in a statement, “We take our regulatory responsibilities seriously and have made a significant investment in our compliance and legal infrastructure to ensure we fully conform to all marketing laws and rules — and better understand how they are interpreted.”
A second company, Reverse Mortgage Solutions, agreed to pay a $325,000 penalty. The bureau said the company used high-pressure sales tactics, and its ads misrepresented that the borrower’s heirs would inherit the home, without disclosing important caveats.
Officials at Reverse Mortgage Solutions could not be reached for comment.
THEY HAVE AN F RATING AT THE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU
A third company, Aegean Financial, will pay a penalty of $65,000. The bureau said the company ran ads in Spanish that falsely implied it was affiliated with the federal government, among other violations.
Aegean Financial did not return a call seeking comment.
The use of reverse mortgages has fallen since a peak in 2009 and remains limited. About 49,000 reverse mortgages were made in the 12 months ending on Sept. 30, according to federal data summarized by the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association, a trade group.
Some financial advisers do see reverse mortgages as a potentially useful tool for older Americans, many of whom lack adequate retirement savings but have significant home equity. Reforms in recent years have added more consumer protections, and “responsible” borrowers may find the loans helpful as part of an overall retirement plan, Wade Pfau writes in his book on reverse mortgages. Mr. Pfau is a professor of retirement income at the American College of Financial Services in Bryn Mawr, Pa..
Still, reverse mortgages are complex products, and consumers do not always understand from advertisements that they are actually loans with fees and compounding interest, according to research the consumer bureau published last year. Some homeowners mistakenly believed the money did not have to be repaid: “Many consumers didn’t understand that a reverse mortgage is, in fact, a loan,” Ms. Canan said.
Here are some questions and answers about reverse mortgages:
Who is a good candidate for a reverse mortgage?
Homeowners who want and expect to remain in their home for many years, and who are able to afford the associated property taxes, homeowner insurance and upkeep, may potentially benefit from a reverse mortgage, Ms. Canan said. “It may be a great product for the right person at the right time,” she said. But many homeowners, she said, may be better off selling their home and downsizing to a smaller or less expensive property with more affordable upkeep.
Where can I find information about reverse mortgages?
The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development requires that borrowers speak with a loan counselor before taking out a reverse mortgage; you can find one near you by searching online.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau also offers consumer guides to reverse mortgages on its website.
Sandy Markwood, chief executive of the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging, says consumers can contact a local agency office for help assessing their overall financial situation, and for referrals to other professionals; it may be that money concerns can be addressed in ways other than borrowing. “This is a loan,” she said about a reverse mortgage. “It needs to be taken very seriously.”
Hopefully the state hasn't screwed up by charging him with 17 counts of premeditated murder! You cannot premeditate murder when you have mental health issues, and the state is claiming he does! FBI was warned twice about this shooter and did not share with local authorities.What the *%*$!!!! Again, clueless people who can't get it together.
Another School Shooting. This time a High School in Fla. Alisyn Camerota a pro Trump basher @ CNN was quick to turn it political by bashing POTUS's morning tweet about "someone should have spoken out about this disturbed individual". Alisyn hasn't been in the field for so long, it was getting depressing watching her and her woman panels bash POTUS all day long at CNN. It's very simple to stop these shootings. All the school shootings in the past were actually done by individuals who at one time had mental health issues. We need to create a National Mental Health Registry that is checked before completing a gun sale. This guy, was known to have mental health issues and actually received care! All these past shootings were done with legally purchased weapons by individuals that had mental, suicidal, or depression issues on record.. The problem is all the mental institutions are closed down. When someone dials 911 because of a mental issue the police arrive. In the old days two guys in white coats came and took you away in a white panel van that had a big red cross on it to an actual hospital until you were better. Most of these facilities were state run Mental Institutions or (insane asylums). A gun seller could very easily check a National Mental Health Database and deny a sale if there was an accurate system or app in place. Funny no one's created an App for that? There're trillions of guns in the United States. There are millions of mentally ill people too! The idiots who actually think this will stop by outlawing AR15's 233's or high capacity clips are demented. If you confiscated every gun in the USA tomorrow, they would find another way. Big Trucks Filled with Fuel. Knives, Poisons, Please people, get a grip and act educated. If someone wants to kill, they'll kill! We should outlaw Rental Trucks as Rental Trucks produce a much higher body count then AR15's. Trucks kill 20 humans at once dragging them for miles. Guns have nothing to do with it really. It just happens to be the weapon of choice now, because it's easy for someone with mental health issues to buy a firearm! Metal Detectors and guards on duty!!!! Find, print the money, and do it!!!!! Like a building needs windows, schools need armed guards and buffer zones. Stop them at point of entry. This actor should have never been able to gain entry to the school, period. He roamed all three floors ignited smoke grenades. He left notes "can't wait to go into school and blow all those fuckers away"! Guards and detectors would help, but will never solve the problem. They have armed guards at T MOBILE and METRO PCS stores for Christ Sakes. What a backwards nation we've become! Security should be a major part of a schools budget, common sense. The very first shooting at an airport and there was metal detectors in every airport in the country within 72 hours. 28 school shootings so far as of May 2018, still no detectors to protect children. The most recent shooting in Texas the asshole wore a trench coat all year round even in the 95 degree weather! No one noticed this trench coat mafia wannabe? Ten dead including 2 teachers. We have become idiots when it comes to protecting our children in the school systems.
NUFF SAID!!! E-Williams.
In a world first, Switzerland deems it illegal to boil a lobster
GENEVA — When it comes to cooking fresh lobster, the Swiss are now saying: We feel your pain. A law goes into effect March 1 that bans the common cooking method of tossing a live lobster into a big pot of boiling water, quickly killing the tasty crustacean. That practice is being outlawed because the Swiss say it's cruel and lobsters can sense pain. The first national legislation of its kind in the world calls for a more humane death for lobsters, by “rendering them unconscious” before plunging them into scalding water. Two methods are recommended: Electrocution or sedating the lobster by dipping it into salt water and then thrusting a knife into its brain. The same law also gives domestic pets further protections, such as dogs can no longer be punished for barking. The measure is part of the broad principle of “animal dignity” enshrined in Switzerland’s constitution, the only country to have such a provision. The constitution already protects how various species must be treated and specifies that animals need socialization. That means cats must have a daily visual contact with other felines, and hamsters or guinea pigs must be kept in pairs. And anyone who flushes a pet goldfish down the toilet is breaking the law. The new lobster legislation that boils down to a pain-free death was driven by research, including a study by Queen’s University in Belfast that found crustaceans are sentient creatures. “These studies show that lobsters, like other animals, experience pain and distress,” said Stefan Kunfermann, a spokesman for the Federal Office of Food Safety and Veterinary Affairs. Although lobster consumption in this land-locked country is "negligible," the parliament had tried to ban the import of all live lobsters to prevent them from an agonizing death at the hands of Swiss restaurant cooks, Kunfermann said. That drastic measure against imports would violate international trade agreements, so authorities instead issued new rules on how to make the lobsters’ demise as painless as possible. The law also stipulates that lobsters must be transported to their final Swiss destination in their natural environment — seawater — rather than on ice. The government vows that offenders will not slip through the net. State officials will be responsible for enforcement, and Kunfermann said offenders could land in a lot of hot water, with sentences of up to three years in prison. Animal rights activists applaud the new lobster law and call for more action. “While this may end one of the cruelest methods of killing these fascinating beings in Switzerland, there are no laws protecting them from being boiled alive in other countries — including the U.S.,” People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said on its website.
“Globally, Switzerland is in the forefront of animal welfare legislation,” said Antoine Goetschel, an attorney and founder of the Zurich-based Global Animal Law Association.
In 2010, Goetschel represented in court a 22-pound pike that he said suffered when a local fisherman roughly yanked it for 10 minutes before pulling it from icy Lake Zurich.
The fisherman was eventually acquitted, but Goetschel spearheaded a national referendum that same year to grant animals the constitutional right to be represented by lawyers in court. The proposal was rejected by 70% of the voters. Not everyone is happy with the regulation. Chef René Widmer, founder of Prorest Culinary School in the town of Rafz, complained to Blick newspaper that the new law is useless. "I always turned the lobster upside down before throwing it into the boiling water — then it dies within seconds,” he said.
Violent brawls transform Carnival trip into 'cruise from hell,' passengers say
People vacationing on a Carnival cruise ship this week in the South Pacific had their trip turned upside down thanks to a series of violent brawls that seemed to transform the ship from a paradise into a fight club.
The Carnival Legend was forced to escort several guests off the ship and place them on a smaller boat ahead of the boat's docking in Australia on Saturday. Several fights broke out over the 10-day cruise, including two captured on camera showing guests throwing punches on a pool deck and a ship nightclub. Passengers have described the trip as the "cruise from hell."
The second video showed people yelling, crying, throwing punches and a crew member repeatedly kicking a guest on the floor.
Passengers have said members of an extended family started trouble with other guests constantly, some passengers just stayed inside their rooms to avoid the group. Kellie Petersen, who was with her husband and three children, told Melbourne radio station 3AW she was afraid. "Fights have been going on for a few days now," she said. "We're scared. We've been told to watch our backs by this group so we're scared to go anywhere alone in the ship."We can't wait to get off," she added. In a statement to USA TODAY, the cruise line said it is investigating.
The FBI has said it did not properly follow up on a warning that Florida school shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz might carry out an attack.
Last month, a person close to the 19-year-old contacted the law enforcement agency to warn of "the potential of him conducting a school shooting".But protocols were not followed and the tipline did not pass along the complaint, the FBI said.It was not the first potential warning to the FBI regarding Mr Cruz. He has confessed to carrying out Wednesday's attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland and has been charged with 17 counts of murder.It was the deadliest US school shooting since 2012.On Friday, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visited a hospital in Florida where victims of the shooting were being treated.A White House spokeswoman said the couple came to the hospital to "pay their respects" and thank employees for their response to the shooting. The president and his wife later visited the Broward County sheriff's office to meet law enforcement officials who responded to the shooting."What a great job you've done," Mr Trump said, adding: "I hope you get credit for it because believe me, you deserve it."
What did the FBI say?
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions has said he is ordering a review of the justice department's processes in the wake of the FBI's mishandling of the tip.The review will look at what went wrong and broadly examine how the justice department responds to such cases.
"It is now clear that the warning signs were there and tips to the FBI were missed," he said in a statement. "We see the tragic consequences of those failures."Florida Governor Rick Scott said in a furious statement that the director of the FBI must resign. "The FBI's failure to take action against this killer is unacceptable," he said."The families will spend a lifetime wondering how this could happen, and an apology will never give them answers they desperately need."The Republican governor said Americans must have confidence in the FBI to act on "see something, say something" tips.
Killer 'forced 17-year-old girl to kneel and WATCH as he stabbed her boyfriend to death, then slit her throat and threw their bodies down a mineshaft'
April 2nd 2018 A Utah man forced a teenage girl to kneel and watch her boyfriend being beaten and stabbed before she was killed and thrown down an abandoned mine shaft, prosecutors said Tuesday. Jerrod Baum, 41, made Brelynne 'Breezy' Otteson watch him beat and stab Riley Powell before throwing him down a mine shaft, according to charging documents filed Tuesday. Even though Baum thought Otteson was pregnant - she was not - he proceeded to slit the 17-year-old's throat and threw her body down the same mine. Scroll down for video Prosecutors Jerrod Baum, 41, made Brelynne 'Breezy' Otteson (left) watch him beat and stab Riley Powell (right) before throwing him down a mine shaft, according to charging documents. Utah County prosecutor Chad Grunander did not elaborate on why Baum believed Otteson was pregnant before he cut her throat. Baum has been charged with eight felonies, including two counts of aggravated murder, kidnapping and desecration of a human body. His attorney has not returned calls seeking comment.
Baum could face the death penalty if convicted in the deaths of Otteson and her boyfriend, 18-year-old Powell, who authorities say suffered a stab wound to his groin. Family members of the teenage victims said they'd support a capital case against Baum. They spoke outside a court in Provo, Utah, following Baum's brief initial appearance, the Daily Herald reported. 'He doesn't deserve a life,' said Bill Powell, Riley Powell's father. 'We as the taxpayers don't need to support him and give him a life, because he took life.'
20-year-old bound, shot dead while trying to buy PlayStation for his younger brother: Police
April 4th 2018 A 20-year-old New Jersey man was bound and shot dead while trying to buy a PlayStation for his younger brother, according to authorities. Danny Diaz-Delgado, 20, of Trenton, was found dead at the embankment of a creek in nearby Hamilton on March 24, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office and a police affidavit.
Diaz-Delgado was shot multiple times in the torso, head and leg, prosecutors said. A cut power cord was tied around his wrists, which were bound behind his back, and he had duct tape around his neck and mouth, the affidavit said. Diaz-Delgado's mother had reported him missing after he never came home on March 23, the affidavit said.The family told police the 20-year-old left the house on March 23 to buy a PlayStation 4 system and games from separate sellers for his younger brother, the affidavit said. Diaz-Delgado told his family he would come back within an hour.
Diaz-Delgado's heartbroken mother, Olga Diaz, told ABC station WPVI in Philadelphia, "He was a warrior."
"We are a poor family and he always fought to better himself," she told WPVI. "He even said, 'One day I will have a lot of money, Mom, and we will never be poor again.'" "He was a good person who glowed with the love of God," she said. "I want justice because every day it gets only harder to deal with this. Why would anyone do this to a person who never hurt anyone?" Diaz-Delgado talked over Facebook Messenger with one potential PlayStation seller, identified by detectives as the suspect, Rufus Thompson, the affidavit said.
Police said Thompson withdrew money from Diaz-Delago's account at an ATM on March 23, the affidavit said.
Detectives also recovered pink duct tape, a TV set with the power cord cut off and an empty PlayStation 4 box in a basement where Thompson had been staying, the affidavit said.
Thompson, 29, was arrested Saturday at a friend's house in Trenton, prosecutors said. He was charged with murder, robbery, kidnapping and weapons offenses. Thompson appeared in Mercer County Superior Court on Monday and entered a plea of not guilty. The prosecutor’s office filed a motion to have him detained and a judge scheduled his detention hearing for Thursday.
Colin Cowherd Has Wild Conspiracy On Why Many Key Patriots Offensive Players Left.
There have been quite a few personnel shakeups within the New England Patriots this offseason. Key offensive players such as Danny Amendola, Nate Solder, Cameron Fleming and Dion Lewis have signed elsewhere, while players like Brandin Cooks were traded out of Foxborough. Though Bill Belichick has filled a few of those voids with players like Jeremy Hill and Cordarrelle Patterson, the absences of those since departed certainly will be felt once the season begins. So is it possible that Belichick has moved those players or allowed them to walk as a way to send a message to owner Robert Kraft and quarterback Tom Brady? Colin Cowherd thinks so.