Month: October 2024

Police on Tuesday said they are investigating the murder of a 33-year-old woman at a high-end spa and resort in the Hamptons, New York.  The Suffolk County Police Department said that the slain woman’s body was discovered by an employee inside her guest room of Shou Sugi Ban House in Water Mill, located between Southampton and Bridgehampton and about 90 miles east of Midtown Manhattan.

Per local affiliate NBC NY, Southampton Town Police patrol units responded to the resort at 337 Montauk Highway at about 12:30 p.m. on Monday, sharing in a statement: “Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the murder of a victim whose body was found in a guest room at a Water Mll resort. It was determined the woman was a victim of a violence. Police patrol units responded to a suspicious death at the Shou Sugi Ban House… appears to be an isolated incident, with no immediate danger to the public at this time.”

The Shou Sugi Ban House’s website calls itself  “a space inspired by the principles of wabi-sabi and wellness traditions that value the simple beauty and healing properties found within the natural world. As the only comprehensive wellness program in the Hamptons, Shou Sugi Ban House offers an environment that is both tranquil and transcendent, encouraging one to Return to the Simplicity of Self.” 

No cause of death for the victim, identified as 33-year-old Brooklyn resident Sabina Rosas, has been released as of press time. In addition, no suspects have been taken into custody. Police ask anyone with information to call the department at 631-852-6392 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS.

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Steve Bannon, podcast host and former White House strategist to Donald Trump, was released from federal Bureau of Prisons custody on Tuesday. Sources told ABC News that Bannon was released from federal prison shortly after 3 a.m. Bannon had been serving his time served his time at FCI Danbury, a low-security federal correctional institution in Danbury, Connecticut.

Randilee Giamusso, a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson, confirmed that Bannon was released; later in a post on X, Bannon said he had returned to hosting his “War Room” podcast, which aired later Tuesday morning.

Bannon, 70, was sentenced on two counts of contempt of Congress in Oct. 2022 for failing to comply with a subpoena related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, and served a four-month prison term, along with being fined $6,500. A U.S. district judge later agreed to postpone Bannon’s jail term while he appealed the decision, which was upheld by a federal appeals court in May 2024.

In the episode of Bannon’s podcast after his release Tuesday, he called himself a “political prisoner,” adding: “the four months in federal prison, not only didn’t break me, it empowered me. I am more energized and more focused than I’ve ever been in my entire life.”  He urged his listeners to vote, saying “everything is coming to fruition. We have to put this beyond their ability to steal it .. We have to crush them at the ballot box.”

Bannon’s legal problems are not over, however, as he was also charged and entered a not guilty plea in a separate New York State case in 2022.  Bannon is accused of defrauding donors to a “We Build the Wall” fundraising campaign that promised to erect a portion of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, with charges in that case include money laundering, conspiracy and fraud.

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