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The following was written by investigative journalist Ken Cosentino. Picking Up Where We Left Off: Another Round of Smokescreens Last Thursday the Niagara Falls City Council voted in approval of Mayor Restaino’s $9 million+ budget items during a special meeting. After city council originally tabled these items several weeks ago due to a lack of information from the administration, Mayor Restaino released an unsettling video boasting about how he tricked the council members into voting against an RFP for the scandalous dog kennel contract. Three days before the special meeting, the Reporter exposed the smokescreen tactics Mayor Restaino was using to

In a case fraught with allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, Shanna Gardner‘s defense team is taking a firm stance on her innocence as she faces charges of first-degree murder, conspiracy, and solicitation in connection with the murder of her ex-husband, Jared Bridegan. With the State of Florida pursuing the death penalty, the defense is alleging a troubling pattern of falsehoods and omissions that, they argue, have tainted the judicial process and put Gardner’s life at risk. Central to the defense’s position is a motion to unseal Detective Christopher Johns’s grand jury testimony, which they claim was riddled with inaccuracies. Key points