Stimulus update: Delaware deadline to claim $300 direct tax rebate checks nine days away

Ryan King

November 22, 11:19 AM November 22, 11:19 AM

Only nine days remain for eligible residents of Delaware to submit their applications for relief checks worth up to $300.

Thus far, the state has issued over 782,000 "relief rebates," but thousands more residents qualify for the disbursement, according to state officials. The 2022 Delaware Relief Rebate Program, signed by Delaware Gov. John Carney back in April, was projected to return $230 million to taxpayers.

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"If you've already been sent [a] check, you can contact our office and we can work with you to verify your identification and get the check forwarded to you, or you can pick it up in our offices,” Secretary of Finance Rick Geisenberger said, per Delaware Public Media.

“And if you've not been sent a check, you can apply if you meet the qualifications to apply for a rebate," he added.

Residents must have been 18 or older and living in the state on Dec. 31, 2021, to qualify and must not have previously received a check. Payments have already been distributed to residents who filed a 2020 Delaware income tax return.

For those who did not file a 2020 return, the state has created a pathway online via de.gov/rebate. Prospective applicants must provide Social Security numbers, valid Delaware residential mailing addresses, and identification cards or active driver’s licenses that were issued by Dec. 31, 2021.

A portal for the program opened at the beginning of November and will shutter at 11:59 p.m. on Nov. 30. No additional applications will be accepted once it closes, according to the state government.

Biden to vote early in Delaware on Saturday alongside granddaughter

Christian Datoc

October 28, 09:31 AM October 28, 09:32 AM

President Joe Biden plans to vote early on Saturday, according to the White House.

White House officials added that Biden will be joined by his granddaughter, Naomi, for the trip. Officials did not answer questions about where and when first lady Jill Biden would vote. She is spending Saturday campaigning for Democratic candidates in New Hampshire and New York.

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Biden and the first lady previously made an unscheduled trip to Delaware in mid-September to vote in the state's Democratic primaries just before the polls closed.

At the time, there was only one contested statewide primary on Delaware's ballot Tuesday evening. State Auditor Kathleen McGuiness fended off a challenge from lawyer Lydia York in the state's Democratic primary despite the latter having the backing of the state party. McGuiness is now facing Republican Janice Lorrah in the general election.

Biden has logged nearly one-quarter of his first 20 months in office in Delaware. He has traveled to his homes in Rehoboth Beach and Wilmington, Delaware, 55 times for a grand total of 174 days.

"President Biden is deeply proud of his roots and his family, and it has been a staple of his time in public life to never lose touch with either,” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a past statement of Biden's travel to Delaware.

Republicans wants answers over Biden's secret Delaware visitor logs

Asher Notheis

October 21, 09:14 AM October 21, 09:16 AM

Republicans want answers on the lack of transparency on visitor logs from President Joe Biden's Delaware home.

The White House has dodged questions on a report that the Secret Service claims to have no records on who has visited Biden's home, where the president has spent more than 25% of his time since he took office. By comparison, the visitor logs to the White House have been released.

"President Biden has spent a large amount of time at his Delaware residence since assuming office," said Rep. James Comer (R-KY). "Americans deserve to know who President Biden is meeting with, especially since we know that he routinely met with Hunter’s business associates during his time as vice president. The Biden Administration must provide transparency to the American people."

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Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) has also demanded answers from the Biden administration over his Delaware visits, stating that everyone who comes "into close proximity with the President, in an official or personal capacity, is screened by the Secret Service" and that their record of coming close to the president "exists somewhere."

"It's bad if there is official business being conducted and they aren't telling us with who," Mace said. "It’s even worse the Administration is using the Secret Service to excuse its complete and total lack of transparency."

When asked by the media about records of who has met with Biden at his Delaware house, the White House did not give a direct answer, arguing that Biden is leading "the most transparent administration in American history."

Under former President Donald Trump, the administration did not disclose his White House visitor’s log, claiming the administration had the authority to do so under executive privilege. The protection of Trump's visitor log was a break from tradition from previous presidents, as the White House has traditionally made the visitor log available to the public.

Convicted Delaware auditor loses reelection bid in Democratic primary

Kate Scanlon

September 13, 11:33 PM September 13, 11:33 PM

Delaware's incumbent point out auditor Kathy McGuiness missing her Democratic main in the state’s only contested principal for a statewide place of work on Tuesday after she was convicted on legal corruption prices earlier this 12 months.

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Political newcomer Lydia York, an legal professional who was backed by the point out Democratic Get together in the race, defeated McGuiness and will go on to deal with Republican Janice Lorrah in November’s general election.

The misdemeanor convictions did not bar McGuiness from looking for office under condition legislation, but they, as perfectly as her looming sentencing, forged a pall above her marketing campaign.

McGuiness was observed guilty of misdemeanors by a jury on prices associated to hiring her daughter as a component-time staff in the auditor’s workplace, as well as payments designed to a consulting business that experienced labored on a person of her earlier political campaigns.

The convictions marked the first time in Delaware history that a sitting statewide elected formal had been convicted on legal expenses, in accordance to the .

York informed the outlet that voters ended up searching for “competence and clarity and leadership” but explained the scandal weighed on their options.

“It experienced to, due to the fact this was historic for the point out of Delaware,” she reported. “I believe the voters felt a specific way about that.”

Judge agrees to expedite Twitter accommodate versus Musk for Oct

Christopher Hutton

July 19, 01:08 PM July 19, 01:17 PM

A Delaware decide agreed to expedite the demo for Twitter's lawsuit versus Elon Musk to Oct.

Twitter's and Musk's authorized teams fulfilled on a Zoom call on Tuesday, in which they each and every presented a scenario for their desired demo day. Whilst Twitter requested a trial in September to attain the intention expeditiously, Musk's authorized team requested a comprehensive trial in February 2023 to enable both parties to interact in the full approach of discovery. Delaware Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick determined to plan a 5-working day trial in Oct, providing both of those functions much more than two months to put together to make their circumstance above irrespective of whether a breach of agreement or the precise number of accounts on Twitter will be the trial's emphasis.

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"Nothing at all in the merger settlement is contingent in any way at all on bots, fake accounts, or anything at all [of the like]. It is not what the merger arrangement is about, so it is just not what this circumstance will be about," said Twitter's lawyers in an opening statement, according to the Chancery Every day.

Twitter argued that a 60-75-working day window for this sort of a trial is common in the Chancery Courtroom of Delaware. It also mentioned that although Musk promises that Twitter has lied about its knowledge, the company has routinely stated in the earlier that its process and figures might be "flawed" and that the billionaire's authorized team can't demonstrate or disprove Twitter's promises. Twitter's legal professionals also targeted on the want to solve Musk's decision to breach the merger arrangement among the two corporations and argued that any statements about Twitter's facts are irrelevant to the court's proceedings.

Musk's workforce to begin with pushed again, alleging that the central issue that Twitter have to legally tackle is no matter whether Twitter's consumer estimates are precise. Musk's legal professionals alleged that the need to keep a September trial was out of a want to "carry on to shroud in secrecy" its user knowledge. The legal professionals also turned down the idea that Musk tweeting about Twitter is "harming the business" and claimed that the New York Moments gained a duplicate of Twitter's authorized grievance before Musk did.

A remaining date is to be agreed upon by the two get-togethers and the court's clerks.

If Twitter wins its court docket situation towards Musk, he will be compelled to purchase its stock at $54.20 a share. If Musk succeeds, he will be produced from his contractual obligations and will have to pay back a $1 billion termination rate, as established in the settlement. A settlement is attainable amongst the two events, but it would call for extra negotiations.

Biden falls off bicycle on morning experience while greeting crowd

Cami Mondeaux

June 18, 11:38 AM June 18, 11:38 AM

President Joe Biden fell off his bike early Saturday early morning though greeting a crowd during a early morning ride in Rehoboth Seaside, Delaware.

Mystery Services agents rushed to select up the president following he fell to the ground at all over 9:40 a.m., with the group providing scattered cheers as he stood back again up.

“I’m very good,” he assured onlookers.

Biden fell when striving to get his shoes out of the pedal, he stated. He did not maintain any accidents, according to the White Residence.

“As the president stated, his foot acquired caught on the pedal though dismounting, and he is fantastic. No healthcare focus is essential,” a spokesperson reported. “The president appears to be ahead to paying the relaxation of the working day with his family.”

Biden took a number of queries from reporters just before driving absent, confirming he programs to speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping “soon” and is looking at no matter if to carry Chinese tariffs.

The fall may well be the most up-to-date political fodder utilised by Biden's critics towards the 79-yr-old president, whose age and mental acuity have been at the heart of discussions on whether or not the incumbent is in shape for place of work. Biden is the oldest president at any time to keep business office and would be 82 if elected to a 2nd term in 2024.

EBay opens 31,000-foot vault for precious trading cards

Christopher Hutton

June 13, 05:00 AM June 13, 05:00 AM

EBay has taken a significant step towards simplifying the sale and shipping of investing cards.

The online auction web page introduced Tuesday it was opening a vault in Delaware focused to helping customers trade collectible playing cards. The vault is a 31,000-square-foot, spherical-the-clock secured, temperature-controlled facility, and it will act as a digital market for collectors.

"eBay is the only market that has much more than two a long time of deep collectibles category expertise," reported Dawn Block, vice president of Collectibles, Electronics, and Dwelling at eBay, in a push launch. "As we continue on to see exponential progress in the category as fanatics merge their passions with expenditure prospects, the eBay vault is a essential featuring that will allow collectors streamline and securely retailer their portfolio of assets. It truly is truly the long term of amassing."

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A customer's trading card is suitable to be saved in the vault if it was bought for $750 or extra, if the buyer procured it directly from eBay, and if it was authenticated by trading card graders these as the Specialist Sports activities Authenticator or Sportscard Guaranty Company.

The moment positioned in the vault, cards can be bought and offered inside of seconds devoid of obtaining to be authenticated once again or subjected to delivery fees.

There are no added expenses for transactions happening in the vault, according to Speedy Enterprise. There are also no product sales tax fees on the transactions because of to them happening in the exact condition.

Providers like PWCC Marketplace have offered both of those security and safety for beneficial investing playing cards in just their vaults. However, PWCC's 2,000-sq.-foot vault is substantially smaller sized than eBay's 31,000-sq.-foot facility. EBay's choice would also simplify the purchasing process and allow for collectors to trade and obtain playing cards in auctions with relieve via its previously established market.

Trading playing cards, which includes sporting activities playing cards and playing playing cards for video games such as Pokemon and Magic: The Gathering, have been a dependable source of worth for eBay. The business saw a 142% surge in domestic trading card gross sales in 2020, an improve of four million from the yr prior, in accordance to inside information, and the gross products worth of cards marketed in the 1st half of 2021 totaled an normal of approximately $1 billion a quarter.

The company has continued to spend in buying and selling card profits, together with by launching an authentication company for investing cards in January.

168,000 deleted files recovered from Hunter Biden's laptop

Andrew Kerr

June 08, 07:00 AM June 08, 07:01 AM

A cyber forensics expert commissioned by the Washington Examiner recovered over 168,000 deleted files from a copy of Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop.

Many of the deleted files were system files, application files, or duplicates of user files stored elsewhere on the laptop.

Some of the recovered data, however, shed light on his financial dealings in 2018 and early 2019, as well as his personal dealings during that time frame. Also recovered from the drive were deleted pictures of government ID cards for two individuals linked to President Joe Biden's son.

Konstantinos "Gus" Dimitrelos, a former Secret Service agent who has testified in over 100 classified, criminal, and civil matters, retrieved the deleted files from unallocated space on the hard drive using a technique called data carving.

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The existence of recoverable deleted user files adds another layer of authenticity to the hard drive, Dimitrelos said.

"In order for user-created data — including personal photographs, bank records, invoices, business records, third-party data such as the driver's licenses of other persons, chat conversations, and medical records, as examples — to exist within the unallocated hard drive space, the computer user would have had to manually delete the files," Dimitrelos said. "Any Robert Hunter Biden recovered files in unallocated space was there as a result of deletions by the user ‘roberthunter.’"

Dimitrelos has examined the Washington Examiner's copy of the hard drive and determined with 100% certainty that Hunter Biden "was the only person responsible for the activity on this hard drive and all of its stored data."

Many of the recovered user files were attachments to text messages that Hunter Biden sent to or received from his associates. The text messages contain markers indicating that an attachment was deleted.

One of the recovered text attachments was a selfie he took in which he can be seen holding a vape pen. He attached the photo to a message sent to an unknown person Jan. 30, 2019.

"That's the weed vape pen that a Russian Escort left in my room before I came here this time," Hunter Biden texted them.

A report by Republican senators in 2020 concluded Hunter Biden paid “nonresident women” who were “nationals of Russia or other Eastern European countries” and who appeared to be linked to what records indicated was an “Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring.”

Hunter Biden also received an invoice from his psychiatrist, former WHD News contributor Keith Ablow, showing he had racked up $13,600 worth of psychotherapy charges in November and December 2018. Hunter Biden had requested that Ablow send him the invoice in a Dec. 10, 2018, text.

Hunter Biden's legal team told CBS News in May that it obtained a laptop he left at Ablow's office in February 2019. It says the laptop is "the Rosetta Stone" that can prove if copies of Hunter Biden's drive that have circulated through the media have been altered. But the copy of the drive obtained by the Washington Examiner has user files dating through March 17, 2019.

Dimitrelos also recovered numerous deleted screenshots of text message conversations with Hunter Biden's ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle.

One of the screenshots shows that Hunter Biden wired $2,900 to Buhle through Apple Pay on April 19, 2018. He sent Buhle the screenshot later that day after she suggested he hadn't sent the payment.

Another recovered screenshot is a message from Buhle's phone showing that David Barboza of the New York Times had reached out and asked her: "I wonder if I can call you about a story I am writing about a Chinese company you may have heard about. I don't know that you know for sure. But someone suggested I ask you."

It's not clear exactly when Barboza contacted Buhle or when she forwarded the screenshot to Hunter Biden.

Hunter Biden's lawyer George Mesires texted him Dec. 4, 2018, warning him Barboza had indicated to him that the New York Times would be running a story about his involvement with the now-defunct Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC in the coming days.

"No reference to Joe Biden specifically relative to CEFC's efforts," Mesires informed the president's son.

The New York Times published a December 2018 story, for which Barboza was a co-author, that focused on CEFC and its leader at the time, Ye Jianming. Buhle was not quoted in the article.

Hunter Biden was paid millions by CEFC as he attempted to work out business deals with them.

Tony Bobulinski, Hunter Biden's former business associate, released a separate trove of WhatsApp text messages in October 2020 not found on the laptop that show the pair discussing meetings involving Joe Biden and CEFC in May 2017. The president has denied ever speaking with his son about his overseas business dealings.

Hunter Biden was given a $1 million retainer to represent Ye's deputy, Patrick Ho, who was eventually sentenced to three years in prison in March 2019 for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Ho was deported to Hong Kong in June 2021 after serving his sentence.

Ye has since disappeared in China, and Chinese state-run media named him in an alleged corruption case in 2018. China allowed CEFC to go bankrupt.

Another recovered record shows Hunter Biden was notified by his assistant, Katie Dodge, that Bank of America had notified him on Feb. 4, 2019, that his scheduled credit card payment had been returned unpaid.

"Please give me a call to let me know how payments should proceed please," Dodge texted Hunter Biden on Feb. 14, 2019, after texting him the notice from Bank of America.

These files were recovered just over two months after former Steve Bannon adviser Jack Maxey claimed he had recovered "450 gigabytes of erased material" from his copy of the abandoned laptop. Dimitrelos said his recovery and analysis of deleted data is ongoing but that it would "not be possible" for 450 gigabytes of deleted files to be retrieved from the laptop, as the system was only capable of storing a maximum of 234 gigabytes in the user volume.

Not all deleted files on the drive were able to be recovered.

Among the more notable nonrecoverable deleted files was a screenshot Joe Biden texted his son March 6, 2019. Joe Biden was not yet president. The file name of the screenshot suggests it was taken from Signal, an encrypted messaging application. The father-son text exchange has been previously reported, but the attachment being unrecoverable is new.

"What would you like me to do. Dad," Joe Biden texted his son after sending the screenshot.

Hunter Biden then responded to his father with a lengthy text message about his falling out with his former business partner Eric Schwerin.

The next day, Joe Biden offered to help his son with his troubles with Schwerin.

"Can i help with Eric," he texted Hunter Biden. "I have absolutely no hesitancy."

The younger Biden responded, "I'll handle Eric."

Dimitrelos explained that the Signal file Joe Biden texted his son is not recoverable because it may have been overwritten by new data after deletion.

"There are many attachments, screenshots, and other identified files which are not recoverable," he said. "This is because unallocated space becomes free space for new files to be copied to, thus overwriting the previous file data."

Of the aforementioned ID cards, the first recovered was a picture of a woman holding up her California ID, showing she was slated to turn 21 in 2019.

The woman, Joanna Rush, texted the image to Hunter Biden on Nov. 22, 2018, less than two hours after he requested that she call him. Other text messages on the drive show Hunter Biden was engaged in a sexual relationship with Rush. She did not respond to a request for comment.

The second was a picture of the driver's license for Richard McCray, a Virginia Lyft driver who got in a car crash with Hunter Biden on Feb. 6, 2019. McCray had texted Hunter Biden a picture of his license as well as a picture of the Hertz vehicle incident report he had filled out after the accident. McCray declined to comment without personal confirmation from Hunter Biden that the reporter reaching out to him was who he said he was.

Hunter Biden's attorneys, Mesires and Chris Clark, did not return a request for comment.

Plane 'mistakenly' enters airspace of Biden's Delaware residence: Solution Services

Jenny Goldsberry

June 04, 03:43 PM June 04, 03:43 PM

An airplane that brought about President Joe Biden to evacuate his personal home "mistakenly" entered the airspace earlier mentioned the Delaware seashore home, the Solution Assistance said Saturday.

The personal plane had "mistakenly" entered the protected spot higher than the property in Rehoboth Beach front, Delaware, soon just before 1 p.m. because the pilot was not on the right radio channel, prompting the relocation of the president as a precautionary measure, Secret Support Main of Communications Anthony Guglielmi verified.

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The aircraft was "instantly escorted out of restricted airspace," and the Top secret Provider will job interview the pilot, Guglielmi claimed.

When the airplane was detected, Rehoboth Beach Law enforcement shut down Rehoboth Avenue in the afternoon. Biden subsequently arrived at the Rehoboth Fireplace Station via motorcade shortly afterward. Sometime immediately after his departure, the avenue opened back up.

Biden headed to Delaware on Thursday immediately after delivering remarks calling for far more stringent gun command. He is outpacing his predecessors on family vacation time, owning recorded an estimated 188 full or partial days absent from the White Property, 130 of which were spent at his Delaware homes.