August 2, 2018 · 8:15 am

Bay Area Rapid Transit, BART is Very Dangerous, Ride at your own Risk. Three Deaths in 5 days.

By Michael G. Stogner

This should be the warning sign as you enter the parking lots and stations. Ride at your own risk, You are responsible for your own Safety.

BART which serves a small part of San Mateo County at Millbrae and SFO International Airport had Three Deaths by Assault in 5 days all on the boarding platforms.

Gerald Bisbee 51 R.I.P 7/18/2018

Don Stevens 47 R.I.P. 7/21/2018

Nia Wilson 18 R.I.P. 7/22/2018

The Guardian article on just one of the 3 deaths think about all the people impacted.

 

 

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August 1, 2018 · 10:17 am

Hillsborough Police Chief Mark O’Connor comments on ex Vungle CEO Zain Jaffer’s arrest, and Status of the 2 Children.

By Mark DePaula
Town of Hillsborough, California, Police Chief Mark O’ Connor comments on the Zain Jaffer arrest October 15, 2017 at 4:00AM at his residence on Lancaster Road.
Late morning on July 27, 2018 I met with Police Chief O’Connor and Captain Davis of the Hillsborough Police Department.
It was a short but cordial meeting with these men in blue. I had 8 questions that I had asked them both, regarding the Zain Jaffer arrest that took place October 15, 2017. Chief O’Connor answered the questions with additional input from Captain Davis.
Listed below are the 8 questions and answers.
1. How many officers responded to Zain Jaffer’s Dad’s 911 call?
Answer: Three officers, one Supervisor -Sgt. Gould and two officers-all three from the Hillsborough Police Department.
2. Were they all wearing body cameras? Were the cameras on?
Answer: Yes to the body cameras–Yes, they were activated.
3. Do you have the video data from the body cameras?
Answer: Yes
4. Did Zain Jaffer assault your officers?
Answer: Yes, he spit at Sgt. Gould.
5. Where was Zain Jaffer transported to after being arrested?
 Answer: San Mateo County Jail.
6.  Do you stand by your 3 officers, what they witnessed and wrote in their report?
Answer: I stand by all of my officers and the actions they took during this incident.
7. Do you believe Zain Jaffer committed crimes that morning?
Answer: The responding Hillsborough Police Officers witnessed an in-progress assault.  Further investigation lead to additional charges against Jaffer as two other victims were identified.  Based on the investigation, there was probable cause to arrest Jaffer.
 
8. What is the status of Zain Jaffer’s children ?
Answer: The status of the children is being handled by the Family Law Court in San Mateo Superior Court.
Note from Michael G. Stogner
To my knowledge Mark DePaula is the only person who interviewed HPD Chief Mark O’Connor. There are 7 advertising businesses aka Newspapers in SMC. The significance of this is there were 7 Felony charges filed against Zain Jaffer and they stayed for 8 months, June 7, 2018 a meeting took place at the District Attorney’s Office which included Defense Attorneys Patrick Clancy & Daniel Olmos, Dr. Eric Wexler and Dr. George Woods. SMCDA Chief Deputy Karen Guidotti, Sean Gallagher and Sharon Cho. Three weeks after this meeting the District Attorney’s Office filed a motion to dismiss all charges, claiming Insufficient Evidence. Hon. Judge Stephanie Garrett granted that motion July 2, 2018.
Defense Attorney Patrick Clancy‘s statement from a Public Relations piece which is going world wide.

Mr. Clancy praised the District Attorney’s office for clarifying the facts and making it clear that Mr. Jaffer is completely innocent of any sexual assault charge.

Innocent is what a JURY determines after the evidence is presented during a trial.

“Mr. Jaffer did not do anything whatsoever that could be considered sexual. He suffered an adverse reaction to medication and in the process injured some family members. It was accidental and could have happened to anyone,” Mr. Clancy said, “Thankfully, the District Attorney and his staff reviewed all the evidence and made the right decision.”

“The sexual assault charges were dismissed because they never happened.”

That statement is false according to DDA Sharon Cho “The acts that were charged we would say occurred.” 

We at San Mateo County News.Com believe the Town of Hillsborough Police Officers and Chief Mark O’Connor.

Release the Body Camera Videos.

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July 28, 2018 · 10:09 am

San Mateo County’s District Attorney Office needs a Performance Audit.

 

 

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Performance Audit conducted in accordance with auditing standards promulgated by the Comptroller General of the United States.

This is not a new idea former Town of Atherton Finance Director John Johns R.I.P. made this recommendation in 2010. It was a good recommendation then and is now.

With the Zain Jaffer x Vungle CEO case 7 felonies including oral copulation of a child and assault of a Hillsborough Police Officer simply disappearing from the legal process after a private meeting between the District Attorney’s Office and Mr. Jaffer’s attorneys.  DA Steve Wagstaffe believed he was guilty of these charges from day one for almost 8 months, right up until the private meeting at the District Attorney”s Office which included a presentation of the entire defense. That is what a trial is for.

Steve Wagstaffe and Karen Guidotti became the Judge and Jury in the Zain Jaffer case.

How many cases in the last 10 years has a Defense Team made a private presentation at the DA’s office?

How many of those presentations resulted in the District Attorney filing a motion to dismiss the entire case?

Judges are the last layer of Oversight for the People of California. When they see a suspicious or questionable motion from the District Attorney’s Office they should not only deny it, they should report it to the State Bar. This motion by Steve Wagstaffe and Karen Guidotti was both suspicious & questionable. Now we just have to find out Why?

Why did Hon. Judge Stephanie Garratt grant the motion to dismiss? There already was a Preliminary Hearing that determined there was enough evidence for every charge to move forward. She could have denied the motion, Wagstaffe could have tested his evidence on the Grand Jury to get an indictment if he thought his case was weak. Instead he choose to dismiss the entire case and Judge Garratt assisted him in that effort.

* Those Who Matter* email from Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe, he was noticing the residents of San Mateo County that there is a special group of people above the law.

e-mail sent 4/25/07 10:20 AM

Greg and Carlos

Just a quick word of support from me as you go through a difficult time. To those who matter, your decades of outstanding work in law enforcement are all that count and your integrity is not the slightest marked by the modern media’s efforts to make a story out of a non-story. Hard as it is to think it now, remember it will be yesterday’s news and irrelevant by tomorrow.

My positive thoughts are out there for both of you.

Steve

For those readers who don’t know this e-mail was written to San Mateo County Sheriff and UnderSheriff days after they both were caught and detained as Customers of Human Trafficked Sex Slaves including at least one child. April 21, 2007 FBI Sting Operation Dollhouse, Las Vegas Nevada.

The Matthew Graves (also 30 yr. old man) case should be looked at, He was sentenced to 34 years in prison, 4 of those years are for violating a Restraining Order. This should be compared to Mr. David Bohannon being arrested twice by the Menlo Park Police Department. The second time was for violating a Restraining Order, The exact same thing Matthew Graves got 4 years in prison for.

SMDJ Article Matthews Graves

The Board of Supervisors of San Mateo County should order and pay for the Audit.

San Mateo County Supervisors contact info:

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July 26, 2018 · 4:23 pm

Patrick Clancy attorney for former Vungle CEO Zain Jaffer misstates what Steve Wagstaffe says.

I have no idea why he would do such a thing. “Mr. Wagstaffe said: “We do not believe that there was any sexual conduct by Mr. Jaffer that evening.” That is Very different from completely innocent of any form of sexual misconduct.

Zain Jaffer should demand the release of the Hillsborough Police Department Body Camera Video of that morning. That will solve it.

SAN FRANCISCO — Patrick Clancy, attorney for Zain Jaffer, co-founder and former CEO of video ad company Vungle, today thanked Stephen M. Wagstaffe, District Attorney for the County of San Mateo, for going out of his way to clarify that Mr. Jaffer is completely innocent of any form of sexual misconduct.

Mr. Jaffer was arrested in October 2017 after an altercation with family members caused by a dangerous reaction to doctor-prescribed medication. In July, the San Mateo County District Attorney’s office dismissed all charges against Mr. Jaffer, a move that could open the door to Mr. Jaffer’s return to Vungle.

In a new statement published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Mr. Wagstaffe said: “We do not believe that there was any sexual conduct by Mr. Jaffer that evening and for this reason we dismissed the sexual abuse charges. The physical injury charges were separately dismissed because we believe that the injuries were the result of Mr. Jaffer being in a state of unconsciousness caused by prescription medication.”

Mr. Clancy praised the District Attorney’s office for clarifying the facts and making it clear that Mr. Jaffer is completely innocent of any sexual assault charge.

“Mr. Jaffer did not do anything whatsoever that could be considered sexual. He suffered an adverse reaction to medication and in the process injured some family members. It was accidental and could have happened to anyone,” Mr. Clancy said, “Thankfully, the District Attorney and his staff reviewed all the evidence and made the right decision.”

“The sexual assault charges were dismissed because they never happened. It was only the physical injuries to his family that were dismissed because of Mr. Jaffer being in a state of unconsciousness. Unconsciousness can range anywhere from sleep walking to an epileptic fit. The person has no control over his actions, no awareness of his actions, and no intent to do any of his actions. He is unconscious.”

The San Mateo Daily Journal said Mr. Wagstaffe praised his prosecutors for “examining the case and recognizing it was not supported by the facts.” The D.A. told the Palo Alto Daily Post that they “avoided the possibility that Mr. Jaffer would be wrongfully convicted.”

Mr. Clancy said: “This should put an end to the spread of misinformation and gossip that has prevented Mr. Jaffer from returning to his role at Vungle, the start-up he founded.”

Date of press release July 23,2018

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July 23, 2018 · 7:24 am

San Mateo County Supervisors creating a great Historical Image and Record. Only one little problem, Public comment.

Most of these comments are about Superior Court Judge V. Raymond Swope.
The Supervisors had to know this information about him before inviting him to be the guest speaker.

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Domestic Violence By Proxy Judge Raymond Swope would be a joke if he was not in the position to harm and destroy families. #SanMateo #Citizens deserve honest and capable #Judges. Judge Swope should be recalled.

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ABUSE of the American Legal System Please do not insult the public. Judge Swope is an arrogant low life. He is bias and untrustworthy to serve on the bench. #FamilyCourt #SanMateo

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Elizabeth A. Richter OMG, who writes this garbage. Swope is the most destructive family court attorney on the bench! Just bad, bad that they celebrate such an incompetent judge.

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Roisin Cassidy I am disappointed to see this. I found Judge Swope to be bias and incompetent.

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Jennifer Redwine #recallswope

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Andrew P Ross There is an eternal judge who judges all along with those who Judge. In a position like that the fear of God rather that the love of court profits is a must have for justice. If not I believe there is a place for all who frameth mischief by making laws.

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Joanne Lewis The general public are so unaware that family courts can be sinister places where cruel and biased decisions are made by one person not a jury. Many of these people certainly lack judicial empathy! This means “I feel your pain”. A lack of this empathy is often the mark of a sociopath….an unwillingness and an inability to appreciate the suffering and the emotions of others.

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Family Court Reform Petitions Judge Raymond Swope the #StandingJoke of #SanMateo #Courts. Insecure and rotten Judge Swope, take your hands off the filthy for profit #KidsForCash #FamilyCourt. Judge Raymond Swopes court room is the #PitsOfHell.

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Michael Stogner Don’t forget who gave the award…”Those Who Matter.”

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Occupy Family Courts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FloTPLO7kY&t=2s

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Michael Stogner Here is San Carlos Councilman Ron Collins response to good and concerned citizen Mark De Paula asking him to watch his 3 minute presentation to the Supervisors.https://sanmateocountynews.com/…/san-carlos-councilman…/

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Marcia Miller Admired Shelton for his compassion, “A standard by which he believed we all should all abide by.”. Who does this arrogant above the law child destroyer think he’s kidding.

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Family Court Shame on you people of San Mateo Government sanitizing the filth that is this judge. Shame!

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Ted Fogg We need to put an end to the entire lower court system and start over with due process at the center as the founding fathers intended.

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Jordanna Price Prick thats all i got to say

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Diana Sharp The whole country deserves honest and unbias Judge’s. The stealing and trafficking the children of other people, for profit, done by twisting every aspect of a case into outright lie’s, with entire disregard for the God given right’s of the natural Fam…See More

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Charles Paclik These arrogant county and state bad actors still think John and Jane Q Public are asleep…. THEY AREN’T pastedGraphic_18.pdf😉 Apr 24 2018 10:45:03 (EST) POTUS deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his work. Apr 24 2018 10:48:44 (EST) Q >> We are in this together. No fame. This is about taking back our FREEDOM and saving our children/people from the EVIL that has plagued our country/world for so long.

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Evette Katz This judge needs to be disbarred and investigated not honored. We have been brainwashed to think these child abusing, desroyers of families are decent. They are not and part of a crime syndicate of family destruction and oppression to cause TRAFFICKING, and zero reunification, with crushing RETALIATION. Please please award??? HONOR ? What about investigations and arrests. Stop with the propoganda.

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Family Court This is nothing more than #SanMateo #Propaganda. Judge Raymond Swope is getting bad reviews on many judicial review sites. When county courts see this it is a general rule to give corrupt judges public praise to stamp out truthful public reviews. This …See More

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Melva Merritt Drain the legal swamp of Judges like Judge Raymond Swope. An embarrassment to the legal system.

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Occupy Family Courts Judge Raymond Swope you’re out here representing for Black Culture and Black History Month, while your son’s arrest record shows him as Caucasian. Do you remember what passing is? I do! Shame on you to show pride in your culture, when your half Black son is passing as Caucasian on paper. So because your son is passing as Caucasian, where is his other half? You can always check multi racial on a form.

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Catharine Sloper This judge is completely incompetent and has bent court rules on a regular basis to benefit abusers, liars, and cheats.

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Odessa Grand Somebody needs to do an investigation into this scumbag. He has no respect for the relationship between parents and children, places huge fines on people who have done nothing wrong but defend themselves from the violation of their legal rights, and completelly undermines court rules to benefit his agenda. How long is San Mateo going to put up with corrupt judges like this.

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Jodi Mueller This judge is complicit in CHILD ABUSE and rewards parents that psychologically abuse children while passing on their sick pathology!! Anyone rewarding parents that use parental alienation tactics should be taken off the bench and NOT hailed as some h…See More

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Marie Ramos-Rocha My case does not involve minor children, but a 22 year relationship as husband and wife, I quit my job in 1996 to be a devoted wife and mother of his children, per his request. My ex is sitting on millions of dollars and I was awarded $00 that disgust…See More

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Michael Stogner This is a fantastic example of the Government, lead by Supervisors Don Horsley former Sheriff, Warren Slocum former Elections Officer, Carole Groom, Dave Pine, Dave Canepa. Creating their own History, Ignoring the 

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July 20, 2018 · 8:09 am

San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe hasn’t satisfied Zain Jaffer.

San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe is talking more about the Zain Jaffer former Vungle executive found by police straddling his 3 year old son while fully naked in the backyard of his Hillsborough home at 4:00AM. Now 17 days after the entire case was dismissed without a preliminary hearing or any witnesses testifying under oath, Mr. Wagstaffe feels he has not done enough to satisfy Mr. Jaffer. Here is his latest PR statement to SFGATE, he did not send this to me co-owner of San Mateo County News. Note: Mr. Wagstaffe has refused to identify the alleged prescription medications that caused Mr. Jaffer to be Not Conscious while assaulting several people, resulting in 7 F’s & 1M charge. The DA’s Office quickly eliminated one felony charge of Attempted Murder.

The Charges that remained up until July 2, 2018:

Charge #1 Attempted Oral Copulation or Sexual Penetration with a Child 10 years of age or younger. PC 664.288.7(b) Felony

Charge #2 Forcible Lewd Act Upon Child, PC288 (b) Felony

Charge #3 Assault by Means Likely to Produce Great Bodily Injury, PC 245 (A) Felony

Charge #4 Assault by Means Likely to Produce Great Bodily Injury, PC 245 (A) Felony

Charge #5 Child Abuse, PC 273 (A) Felony

Charge #6 Child Abuse PC 273 (A) Felony

Charge # 7 Battery Upon a Peace Officer & Designated Person, PC 243 (b) Misdemeanor

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EDITOR’S NOTE: After the publication of this story, officials at the San Mateo County district attorney’s office said they wanted to clarify that “we do not believe that there was any sexual conduct by Mr. Jaffer that evening and for this reason we dismissed the sexual abuse charges. The physical injury charges were separately dismissed because we believe that the injuries were the result of Mr. Jaffer being in a state of unconsciousness caused by prescription medication.”

The FDA should issue a National Warning if the above statement is true.

Question to think about, Why would the District Attorney’s Office feel the need or obligation to clarify anything for Mr. Jaffer? He was facing life in prison if found guilty of the 7 felony counts. Steve Wagstaffe solved that for him.

Question? Steve Wagstaffe says “we do not believe.” That is why we have Juries, what did the evidence prove? If you didn’t believe it why did you charge him in the first place?

What could have possibly happened from October 15, 2017 to July 2, 2018 to cause this entire criminal case to simply disappear? And now 17 days later Steve Wagstaffe feels some pressure to make more public comments. What would cause that?

What about the 2 CHILDREN? CPS took them that morning, have they returned them because of Steve Wagstaffe’s actions?

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July 13, 2018 · 5:00 pm

San Mateo County Sheriff Carlos Bolanos’s slow response in Angela Hernandez missing person case.

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Update 7/18/18 : Medical Condition Hernandez would later learn from doctors that she was suffering from a brain hemorrhage during the first few days after the crash. She also had four broken ribs, fractures in both of her collarbones, a collapsed lung, ruptured blood vessels in her eyes and extreme sunburn on her hands, feet and face.

Update: Interview of Chad & Chelsea Moore the couple who found Angela Hernandez.

Update: Angela Hernandez has been found alive near Big Sur. A couple walking on the beach reportedly discovered her wrecked Jeep nearly 200 feet down a cliff. Big Sur Fire, the CHP and Monterey County Sheriff responded to the couple’s 911 call.
They say she appeared to have a shoulder injury and was talking and could walk.
She says she has been there since July 6, That is 7 days and nights.

Another Interview of Chad & Chelsea Moore

Update: Angela Hernandez has posted these pictures of the wreck on her Facebook.

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Here are some facts Angela Hernandez was last known to be at the Safeway Store located at 70 N.Cabrillo Hwy, Half Moon Bay on the evening of July 5, 2018. She planned to sleep in her 2011 White Jeep Patriot with Oregon Plates 436KSQ. The next morning at 7:54 AM a text was sent from her phone to her sister “about to start driving” her destination was Lancaster California about 6 hours away. About 8 hours later her cell phone pings at 700 Hwy 1 Davenport California. She was not seen in Davenport, She was last seen in San Mateo County. There are news reports of videos showing her vehicle in Monterey County it turns out the “video of a similar car driving by” MCSO doesn’t identify it was her jeep and no evidence of Angela in the similar car that drove by. So Angela could still be in San Mateo County. There was no Amber Alert issued by SMCSO. Cell Phone data should have compared Cell Tower Pings of all cell phones at the same towers at the same time to see if there was a match. It has now been 7 days since Angela has been seen or heard from.

Just as his staff was quick to take the life (within 20 seconds of arriving on scene) of Hispanic teenager Yanira Serrano-Garcia, in 2014, San Mateo County Sheriff Carlos Bolanos is now slow to find another Hispanic girl, 23 year old Angela Hernandez, gone missing in his jurisdiction. Rather than cause an all out search for the missing girl and commit the full resources of his agency, newly elected Sheriff Bolanos seems content to palm the matter off to a neighboring jurisdiction, the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office, leaving the girl’s relatives to search. In fact, his agency has now announced it ended its search for her, ABC-7 July 11, 2018 9:07AM San Mateo County Sheriff Office “Search Party Cancelled.” The next day the SMCSO put this video up.

Should San Mateo County residents expect more from Sheriff Bolanos, a controversial figure who had previously been detained by the FBI, in 2007, in a Las Vegas human trafficking investigation? After all, the trafficking of women does connote a certain contempt for women, devaluing their individual worth as human beings. Or is this again a case of the missing youth being a person of color (Hispanic) versus a person who matters, just as in the Yanira case?

Has Sheriff Bolanos mobilized the full resources of his agency to find this woman -brought in additional shifts of personnel; called a Phase Three Tac Alert, bringing in additional personnel from neighboring San Mateo County law enforcement agencies; used his agency’s plane; utilized his search & rescue unit; opened up a coast-side command post; methodically searched all coast-side roads; assigned a ranking member of his agency to run the search and keep the community updated versus one lowly detective; etc.?

Has San Mateo County learned NOTHING from the Richard Moss tragedy?

And what is his agency’s solve rate for major crimes -it seldom arrests & books anyone, in comparison to its peers?

Aside from this, where is San Mateo County Supervisor Don Horsley, the sheriff turned supervisor, whose constituents coast-side residents are? Why hasn’t he weighed in, with a commitment to find the youth to include adding to the reward offered by her relatives? Surely, he sees the need for vision and leadership, in the matter -remember, Sheriff Bolanos left the San Bruno Police Department to coordinate and manage the YouTube facility active shooter, several months ago, while he took a back seat role.

Where was and is the leadership San Mateo County residents should expect of Bolanos with a staff of over 800 and in excess of a 180 million dollar budget?

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