In today’s Quickcast:
Hurricane Beryl was tearing through the Caribbean on Tuesday as a powerful Category 4 storm Tuesday. After destroying homes and businesses across the southeastern Caribbean on Monday, it is now forecast to bring life-threatening winds and storm surge to Jamaica. Beryl was forecast to start losing intensity on Tuesday but still be near major hurricane strength when it passes near or over Jamaica early Wednesday, near the Cayman Islands on Thursday and into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Friday, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. "Weakening is forecast later today, but Beryl is still expected to be near major hurricane intensity as it moves into the central Caribbean," the hurricane center said. "... Additional weakening is expected thereafter, though Beryl is forecast to remain a hurricane in the northwestern Caribbean."
Rudy Giuliani, who served as former President Donald Trump's personal attorney, was disbarred from practicing law in New York on Tuesday after he was found to have spread falsehoods about the integrity of the 2020 presidential election. A New York appeals court concluded that Giuliani is disbarred effectively immediately and ordered his name "stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors-at-large" in the state. The court also ordered Giuliani to "desist and refrain" from practicing law in any form, appearing as an attorney before any court or judge, offering legal advice or "holding himself out in any way as an attorney and counselor-in-law." Giuliani, who served as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan and was mayor of New York City, was admitted to practice law in the state in 1969.
A former Miami police officer has been sentenced to 11 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to stealing cash and drugs during traffic stops of suspected drug traffickers. Frenel Cenat, who worked in the department's property room, committed the thefts while he wore his uniform and used his police-issued vehicle while conducting the traffic stops in Broward. He would steal the suspects' cocaine and money while threatening to put them in jail. In addition to the prison time, he'll have five years of supervised release after he gets out. Federal prosecutor Edward Stamm, who recommended the 11-year prison term, said Cenat stole $132,000 in cash, drug proceeds of the people he stopped, and seven kilos of cocaine, according to CBS News Miami partner The Miami Herald. Cenat pleaded guilty to extortion and attempting to possess cocaine with intent to distribute in federal court in Fort Lauderdale last March.
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