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Herald Sun
2 days ago
- Herald Sun
Police investigate anti-Israel video threatening Lovitt Technologies
Don't miss out on the headlines from Social. Followed categories will be added to My News. A disturbing video is circulating across social media that appears to threaten violence against Australians working at aerospace company Lovitt Technologies. The unverified video shows a person speaking in a digitally altered voice and dressed completely in black. The person calls the message 'an anonymous communique' from the 'cell' that torched and vandalised three cars on the Lovitt lot in Melbourne on July 5. CCTV of the incident shows five hooded offenders entering the business just before 4am, setting fire to the cars. In the video, the person says the vandalism was not 'an accident'. 'This is a clear and serious threat,' the person says. 'If you continue making weapons or components of any kind there will be consequences. Consider this a warning.' The person then reveals anti-Israel, anti-American and anti-Australian sentiment underpins the group's actions. 'After 21 months of an accelerated genocide against the Palestinian people by the illegitimate Zionist entity, eight decades of American warmongering and imperialism, 2½ centuries of the most violent colonial oppression, ethnic cleansing and murder of Aboriginal peoples across so-called Australia, Lovitt Technologies has chosen its place at the intersection of these catastrophes,' the person says. The unverified video shows a person clad all in black and talking in a digitally altered voice. The person threatens employees of Australian aerospace company Lovitt Technologies. Picture: Supplied The group is targeting Lovitt because it supplies components to defence and aerospace companies Lockheed Martin, BAE and Boeing, the person says. The person then threatens violence against the company's workers and suggests his group has been 'watching' Lovitt's employees and collecting personal information on them. 'Every worker in this supply chain is complicit,' the person says. 'You have had years to contemplate the consequences of your actions. We will decide your fate as you have decided the fate of millions. 'For the past few months, we have been closely watching you. We have your addresses. All the information we have about you will be distributed to our underground networks. Stop arming Israel or else.' The person ends the video by saying 'every colony will burn'. 'Death to Israel. Death to Australia. Death to America. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,' they say. Victoria Police has confirmed it is investigating the July 5 attack and now the video. 'The matter is now being investigated by the Victorian Joint Counter Terrorism Team, which includes personnel from Victoria Police, the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation,' a Victoria Police spokeswoman told NewsWire on Monday. 'Investigators are aware of a video which has been circulating where a group has claimed responsibility for the incident. 'This video is being reviewed as part of the ongoing investigation. 'Police have already released CCTV of five people they would like to speak to in relation to the incident. Each person was dressed in black hooded jumpers, backpacks and gloves.' Police said there were as yet no links between the July 5 act of vandalism at Lovitt and other criminal acts that hit Melbourne over that weekend, including the arson attack on the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation synagogue. Police say there is at this time no link between the arson attack on the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation synagogue and the group that attacked Lovitt Technologies on July 5. Picture: NewsWire / Valeriu Campan Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin said the group's video and message resembled 'an al-Qaeda terror cell'. 'It doesn't matter that they think they're doing something just and righteous – Islamist terrorists and neo-Nazis think that too,' he told NewsWire. 'What matters is that we remain a country of laws and not allow bands of zealots to decide what is a legitimate target for violence and criminal acts. 'Today it is a business they oppose and tomorrow it will be individuals, politicians, journalists or religious institutions they deem impure. 'We expect this incident to be investigated and for those responsible to be met with the law.' NewsWire contacted Lovitt, but the company has declined to comment. Originally published as Video shows underground anti-Israel group threatening violence against Lovitt Technologies
Perth Now
2 days ago
- Perth Now
‘Watching you': Horror threat against Aussies
A disturbing video is circulating across social media that appears to threaten violence against Australians working at aerospace company Lovitt Technologies. The unverified video shows a person speaking in a digitally altered voice and dressed completely in black. The person calls the message 'an anonymous communique' from the 'cell' that torched and vandalised three cars on the Lovitt lot in Melbourne on July 5. CCTV of the incident shows five hooded offenders entering the business just before 4am, setting fire to the cars. In the video, the person says the vandalism was not 'an accident'. 'This is a clear and serious threat,' the person says. 'If you continue making weapons or components of any kind there will be consequences. Consider this a warning.' The person then reveals anti-Israel, anti-American and anti-Australian sentiment underpins the group's actions. 'After 21 months of an accelerated genocide against the Palestinian people by the illegitimate Zionist entity, eight decades of American warmongering and imperialism, 2½ centuries of the most violent colonial oppression, ethnic cleansing and murder of Aboriginal peoples across so-called Australia, Lovitt Technologies has chosen its place at the intersection of these catastrophes,' the person says. The unverified video shows a person clad all in black and talking in a digitally altered voice. The person threatens employees of Australian aerospace company Lovitt Technologies. Supplied Credit: News Corp Australia The group is targeting Lovitt because it supplies components to defence and aerospace companies Lockheed Martin, BAE and Boeing, the person says. The person then threatens violence against the company's workers and suggests his group has been 'watching' Lovitt's employees and collecting personal information on them. 'Every worker in this supply chain is complicit,' the person says. 'You have had years to contemplate the consequences of your actions. We will decide your fate as you have decided the fate of millions. 'For the past few months, we have been closely watching you. We have your addresses. All the information we have about you will be distributed to our underground networks. Stop arming Israel or else.' The person ends the video by saying 'every colony will burn'. 'Death to Israel. Death to Australia. Death to America. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,' they say. Victoria Police has confirmed it is investigating the July 5 attack and now the video. 'The matter is now being investigated by the Victorian Joint Counter Terrorism Team, which includes personnel from Victoria Police, the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation,' a Victoria Police spokeswoman told NewsWire on Monday. 'Investigators are aware of a video which has been circulating where a group has claimed responsibility for the incident. 'This video is being reviewed as part of the ongoing investigation. 'Police have already released CCTV of five people they would like to speak to in relation to the incident. Each person was dressed in black hooded jumpers, backpacks and gloves.' Police said there were as yet no links between the July 5 act of vandalism at Lovitt and other criminal acts that hit Melbourne over that weekend, including the arson attack on the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation synagogue. Police say there is at this time no link between the arson attack on the East Melbourne Hebrew Congregation synagogue and the group that attacked Lovitt Technologies on July 5. NewsWire / Valeriu Campan Credit: News Corp Australia Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin said the group's video and message resembled 'an al-Qaeda terror cell'. 'It doesn't matter that they think they're doing something just and righteous – Islamist terrorists and neo-Nazis think that too,' he told NewsWire. 'What matters is that we remain a country of laws and not allow bands of zealots to decide what is a legitimate target for violence and criminal acts. 'Today it is a business they oppose and tomorrow it will be individuals, politicians, journalists or religious institutions they deem impure. 'We expect this incident to be investigated and for those responsible to be met with the law.' NewsWire contacted Lovitt, but the company has declined to comment.
West Australian
27-05-2025
- General
- West Australian
Post-WWII ship passengers honoured during Southern Forests heritage festival
The stories of nearly 8000 displaced people and refugees who arrived in Australia aboard a ship after World War II were presented in Bridgetown as part of the Southern Forests and Valleys Heritage Festival. Many of the passengers from the Anna Salen ship settled in the Warren Blackwood region in the early 1950s, with close to 10,000 people migrating via the ship to Australia. Greenbushes Discovery Centre chair Amanda Lovitt presented a talk on the Anna Salen immigrants to Australia to honour her father, and other passengers. The presentation was a culmination of her research on post-WWII refugees to Australia, with her father arriving in 1950 from Czechoslovakia. Ms Lovitt said her father Peter Haas, born in 1928, arrived in Australia on December 31. He soon married and had children in the region. Proud of her heritage, Ms Lovitt said when she became a justice of the peace she began carrying the Bible her dad was presented when he received Australian citizenship. 'There is much written on descendants of survivors of the Holocaust and many of those align with the generational trauma of First Nations,' Ms Lovitt said. 'I wanted to honour my Dad. He had a hard life, and I wanted to tell the stories of his fellow passengers on the ship that arrived 31st December, 1950. 'Personally, I feel I have honoured my Dad's memory and realised that while his life was hard, so were the lives of so many of these people. 'They all played their part in modern multicultural life in Australia. Some used their struggles to succeed in many aspects. Some fell and took their lives or had criminal offences.' Ms Lovitt spoke earlier this month as part of the heritage festival. Lifeline: 13 11 14
Miami Herald
27-05-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
Sisters spend over $844K on FL company credit cards in yearslong scheme, feds say
A federal judge sentenced two sisters from Northwest Florida to prison over a yearslong embezzlement scheme in which they stole more than $844,000 from their employer using company credit cards, prosecutors said. As an office manager for a locally owned Pensacola business, Kimberly Lovitt and her sister, Amy Williams, the company's receptionist, were allowed to use the company's credit cards to buy office supplies, according to court documents. But from early 2016 through 2021, the sisters charged hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal expenses to the cards, court documents say. Now Lovitt, 52, of Pace, has been sentenced to three years in prison, and Williams, 46, of Milton, has been sentenced to one year and six months in prison on charges of wire fraud, money laundering and filing false tax returns, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Florida said in a May 23 news release. Pace and Milton are located in Santa Rosa County, about a 40-mile drive northeast from Pensacola. Lovitt and Williams previously pleaded guilty in the case, court records show. Williams' defense attorney, Jack Wilkins, referred McClatchy News on May 27 to the sentencing memorandum he filed on her behalf when contacted for comment. 'Williams has acknowledged her culpability and taken responsibility for her crime and harm she has caused,' Wilkins wrote in the filing, in which he emphasized her 'heartfelt remorse.' Lovitt's federal public defender, Lauren Cobb, didn't immediately return McClatchy News' request for comment May 27. While working for the Pensacola business, Lovitt had access to 'accounting records, bank accounts' and the company's credit cards, prosecutors wrote in court filings. To hide how she and her sister were using the credit cards for personal spending, Lovitt faked business documents, accounting records and lied on her federal income tax returns, prosecutors said. She never reported the money she's accused of stealing from her employer as income, according to prosecutors. Acting U.S. Attorney Michelle Spaven said in the news release the sisters' 'years-long theft from their employer and the extreme efforts to conceal their criminal proceeds are both illegal and offensive to all hardworking Americans, especially those who own and operate local businesses.' 'It is fitting and proper that they are not only incarcerated, but that they pay restitution and unpaid taxes for their criminal conduct.' How much Lovitt and Williams owe in restitution has yet to be determined, as their restitution has been deferred for 90 days, court records show.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Northwest Florida sisters sentenced to federal prison for embezzling over $844k from local business
PENSACOLA, Fla. (WKRG) — Two sisters convicted of charges stemming from embezzling their employer's money face time in federal prison. Truck and dump truck crash head-on in Mobile; man critically injured According to a news release from the United States Attorney's Office Northern District of Florida, Kimberly Lovitt, 52, of Pace, was sentenced to 36 months, while her sister, Amy Williams, 46, of Milton, was sentenced to 18 months. The two were convicted of wire fraud, money laundering, and filing false tax returns, the release said. 'Abuse of trust, embezzlement and tax evasion warrant significant criminal consequences,' Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida Michelle Spaven said. 'The defendants' years-long theft from their employer and the extreme efforts to conceal their criminal proceeds are both illegal and offensive to all hardworking Americans, especially those who own and operate local businesses. 'It is fitting and proper that they are not only incarcerated, but that they pay restitution and unpaid taxes for their criminal conduct.' According to the release, the embezzlement began in 2016 and continued until 2021. During that time, Lovitt conspired with Williams to embezzle more than $844,000 from their employer, a locally owned business in Pensacola. Lovitt was the office manager, and Williams was the receptionist, the release said. The two used their positions to steal money from the business by using corporate credit cards for unauthorized personal purchases, the release said. Lovitt used her position to create false documentation and manipulate accounting records to cover up their crime. She also failed to report the embezzled money as income on her federal income taxes, the release said. 'The defendants' theft through embezzlement caused great financial strain on their employer and put other employees' jobs at risk,' Ron Loecker, Special Agent in Charge at the Tampa Field Office, said. 'The sentencings today serve as an example of what individuals can expect when they lie, cheat and steal and then try to hide the ill-gotten gains from the IRS.' Gulf Shores makes history with first-ever commercial flight to Alabama's beaches The Emerald Coast Financial Crimes Task Force, which included officers from the Pensacola Police Department and agents from the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation unit, investigated the case, which Assistant United States Attorney Jeffrey Tharp then prosecuted. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
