WHYY With Much More On The Ortega Story:
The woman appears from court records to have dated Ortega on and off during the past few years. WHYY News is not naming her because of the sensitive nature of domestic violence cases.
Ortega issued a statement on Facebook calling the allegations “unequivocally false.”
“Any suggestion that I had ever engaged in any act of domestic violence is untrue,” the post read.
The New Castle County Family Court granted the woman a temporary protection from abuse order dated June 12. It expires July 12.
The commissioner who approved the order noted the two had a “dating relationship” but had a previous breakup.
Ortega and the woman filed applications for no-contact orders against each other after May 21, evidencing tumultuous exchanges between the two.
In her appeal for a protective order, the woman told the court her toddler was in the car when Ortega punched her and gave her a black eye.
She said he had threatened to “kill himself if I didn’t push to have the charges dropped,” according to the application.
“He told me that no one will take the side of an alcoholic whore over a state representative, so good luck trying,” she stated.
The document lists a charge of third-degree assault. State Police said Ortega has not been arrested or charged with any crime.
Ortega’s social media post said a careful review of court records would find that he sought and was granted relief by the court from his “abuser.”
However, documents reviewed by WHYY News show Ortega applied for a protective order against the woman on June 8, which the court denied. A case review hearing is scheduled for July 2. In his application, the state representative said she had threatened to kill him and his family.
Hmmm, that’s an apparent discrepancy, right there.
His legislative bio says he is married with four children.
Ortega was elected to the state House in 2024 to serve the constituents of District 3, which includes the Hilltop, Little Italy and Hedgeville communities.
Before winning statewide office, Ortega worked in constituent services for the city of Wilmington and New Castle County.
Well, quite a bit to unwind there…
Elon Musk, The Court Of Chancery, And The ‘Delaware Way’. A major NYTimes story on threats to our corporate hegemony:
With its beige brick exterior and brown roof, the building at 1209 North Orange Street in Wilmington, Del., is so aggressively bland that it almost begs not to be noticed. That might be the point. From the outside, you would certainly never guess that it has served as the legal address for hundreds of thousands of companies, including Walmart, Coca-Cola, American Airlines and General Motors. Few if any of them were headquartered in Delaware. But all were incorporated there.
Why Delaware? Under our system of government, corporate oversight was left to the states, and in time it became permissible for a company based in one state to register its business in another. Pint-size Delaware, with the incentives it offered, proved to be an especially popular choice. These days, it is the legal domicile for two-thirds of the companies in the Fortune 500. Including limited liability companies, or L.L.C.s, there are more than two million business entities incorporated in Delaware, which is more than double the number of people.
While the federal government now exercises oversight in certain areas, like securities trading, the job of regulating corporate governance — of trying to ensure that executives don’t violate their fiduciary obligations — falls mainly on Delaware because of all the publicly traded companies incorporated in the state. Shareholder litigation is the enforcement mechanism, and over the decades, Delaware has established such a rich and influential body of case law that it has become the de facto arbiter of U.S. corporate law.
But thanks in no small part to the wrath of Elon Musk, that may be changing. In 2024, a Delaware court struck down a compensation package worth an estimated $55 billion that Tesla, the electric automaker, had awarded Musk, its chief executive. He responded with fury. He switched Tesla’s legal home to Texas, did the same with his rocket and satellite company, SpaceX, and encouraged others to follow suit. “Never incorporate your company in the state of Delaware,” he wrote on X, the social media platform that he owns.
In Delaware, the possibility of an exodus has caused alarm. The state is heavily dependent on revenue from corporate chartering, which is referred to locally as “the franchise.” To prevent a wave of departures, the State Legislature last year enacted a bill, S.B. 21, making it harder for judges to rule against tycoons like Musk and making it harder for investors to sue them.
Legal experts fear that Delaware is being drawn into a competition with Texas and Nevada that will result in ever weaker checks on boardroom malfeasance. That is a troubling prospect at a time when corporate power seems otherwise unbound, when billionaire chief executives chafe at any constraints and when federal agencies and regulations are being cut.
That only scratches the surface of the information in this article. An absolute must-read for those seeking to understand Delaware’s corporate law.
Trump Tries To Play 3-D Chess. Don’t think it will work out as he hopes:
In a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform early Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced that he is cancelling the confirmation hearing of Jay Clayton, his nominee to serve as director of national intelligence, and that Bill Pulte, the loyalist Trump picked to serve as acting DNI, will remain in the post for now.
Trump accused Republicans of working with Democrats to “remove very fair, and talented” Pulte in exchange for getting the Democrats to vote to extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
The president said that Republicans “moved so fast” to set up the Clayton hearings that Pulte would be gone before he even served a day as acting DNI and before Democrats voted on FISA.
Besides, Trump added that getting James M. McDonald confirmed to the role of U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York is not a done deal and that he does not want to take “Clayton away from the great job he is doing until [McDonald] is in place.”
“Therefore, to add a slight bit of intrigue but, for the Good of the Nation, and the People of our Country, I will not approve FISA without THE SAVE AMERICA ACT going along with it,” Trump said.
“Regarding the approval of our Great Patriot, Jay Clayton, we are cancelling the Senate Hearing RE: DNI today, and will not be going forward until Jamie McDonald is approved to be U.S. Attorney,” Trump continued. “In the meantime, Bill Pulte will remain as the Acting Director of National Intelligence.”
Ho-kay.
Is The Trump-Netanyahu Break-Up For Real? If so, it would be the most cataclysmic divorce since ‘drinkin’ buddies Val Longhurst and Nicole Poore’ were no longer drinkin’ buddies at Crabby Dick’s:
Israel’s latest strikes on Lebanon and Iran have made clear that U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who started the war in lockstep, want different things.
Trump had publicly warned Israel not to strike Beirut in its war with Iran-backed Hezbollah militants. When it did, on Sunday, Iran responded by firing ballistic missiles at Israel for the first time since the April ceasefire. Israel then struck Iran, with which Trump has been engaged in weeks of high-stakes negotiations.
The fighting has since died down, but the differences between the two leaders are likely to persist.
That’s because Trump, whose party faces elections later this year, wants to wind down an unpopular war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz to ease gas prices. Iran says a full ceasefire in Lebanon is key to any deal.
Netanyahu, who also faces elections this year, is under pressure to stop Hezbollah’s attacks and prove that he is winning the war with Iran and its allies. He also needs to manage relations with Israel’s most important ally without appearing to kowtow to it.
When the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, the allies appeared shoulder to shoulder.
Netanyahu said the goal was to degrade the Islamic Republic’s military, eradicate its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, and topple its government. Trump announced the death of Iran’s supreme leader in the opening barrage and urged Iranians to “take back” their country.
But it soon became clear that while Trump was seeking a quick win — like the one he secured in Venezuela — Netanyahu wanted to vanquish Iran and its allies, even if it required an extended conflict.
As Iran withstood weeks of heavy strikes and kept the Strait of Hormuz closed, Americans and Israelis grew increasingly frustrated — but for different reasons.
In the U.S., the price of gas and other goods soared as even some erstwhile supporters accused Trump of breaking a campaign promise and plunging the U.S. into another Mideast quagmire. He has pushed back against those critics as rising anger threatens Republicans in November’s congressional elections.
In Israel, anger grew over Netanyahu’s failure to secure a lasting victory in the wars sparked by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack, which happened on his watch. More than two years on, Hamas still rules part of Gaza, Hezbollah still fires rockets and Iran’s government and nuclear program remain intact, despite heavy losses.
What do you want to talk about?
That article about the Court of Chancery is just more of the same speculative horseshit the media has been pushing ever since Elon’s temper tantrum. The only companies taking this course are those with a majority of stock in the hands of a single owner.
The media is seldom your friend. It exists to get you to worry.