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04/28/2021 08:18 AM EDT
Good Wednesday morning, Illinois. President Joe Biden gives his first address to a joint session of Congress today, talking bigly about his accomplishments and his plans for education and taxes. We ll be watching.
TOP TALKER
Gov. J.B. Pritzker put to rest Tuesday the idea that an independent commission would redraw legislative and congressional districts. The governor had used the word “independent” back when he ran for office, and advocates and Republicans tried holding him to it.
Romanian gangster who trafficked woman to Scotland in £500k prostitution ring jailed in home country
John Jeffay
Updated: 18 Apr 2021, 13:01
A ROMANIAN gangster who trafficked women to Scotland to work in a £500,000-a-year prostitution ring has been jailed for more than four years in his home country.
Vasile Radu was the ringleader of an international trafficking operation moving victims from poverty blackspots in the Prahova region of the country to flats in the east end of Glasgow.
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Radu was caged for four-and-a-half yearsCredit: Alamy
The gang thought they could earn more money here than in their homeland and that they could evade justice by flitting between different countries.