Court documents unsealed in New Haven lay out allegations that Richard Murray and several others operated the scheme beginning as early as 2018. Investigators say victims were contacted by phone and told they had won a Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes. However, authorities allege that before collecting any supposed prize money, the winners first had to send in fees and taxes.
There's a lot to be infuriated by at the moment, when it comes to the subject of ICE detention, whether it's the tortuous, subhuman conditions of detention camps, or mysterious, immediate deaths of otherwise healthy individuals entering those camps or prisons. But somehow, it's the truly pointless detentions that might be the most purely rage-inducing. These are the detentions that we can assume only happened because ICE has an immutable quota it needs to fill as the Trump administration attempts