Today in History: May 28, criminal charges filed in Liberty Reserve scheme
Nowadays is Wednesday May the th day of There are days left in the year This day in history On May calling it perhaps the biggest money-laundering scheme in U S history federal prosecutors charged seven people with running what amounted to an online underworld bank saying that Liberty Reserve handled billion for drug dealers child pornographers identity thieves and other criminals around the globe Also on this date In President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which forced nearly Native Americans to relocate to designated territories west of the Mississippi River Related Articles Trump administration asks Supreme Court to halt judge s order on deportations to South Sudan In current times in History May the Golden Gate Bridge opens Colorado man charged with attempting to firebomb U S embassy in Tel Aviv This day in History May the World War II Dunkirk evacuation begins Trump says he ll delay a threatened tariff on the European Union until July In the th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment made up of free Black men left Boston to fight for the Union in the Civil War In the Sierra Club was founded in San Francisco by naturalist John Muir In American troops fought their first major battle during World War I as they launched an offensive against the German-held French village of Cantigny the Americans succeeded in capturing the village In the U S Army launched Able a rhesus monkey and Baker a squirrel monkey aboard a Jupiter missile for a suborbital flight which both primates survived In burglars working on behalf of the Nixon White House broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate Hotel in Washington D C installing surveillance devices on telephones and taking photos of DNC documents In people were killed when fire raced through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate Kentucky In to the embarrassment of Soviet bureaucrats Mathias Rust a teenage West German amateur pilot landed a private plane near Moscow s Red Square without authorization Rust was held by the Soviets until he was pardoned and freed the following year In bureaucrats released that the remains of more than children a few as young as years old had been detected buried on the site of what was once Canada s largest indigenous residential school in Kamloops British Columbia In the current era s Birthdays Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani is Singer Gladys Knight is Musician Billy Vera is Musician John Fogerty Creedence Clearwater Revival is Country singer-songwriter Phil Vassar is Singer-actor Kylie Minogue is Actor Justin Kirk is Secretary of State Marco Rubio is TV personality Elisabeth Hasselbeck is Actor Jake Johnson is Singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat is Actor Carey Mulligan is
