Which party has a "culture of corruption?"

Of course there are bad apples in any organization.  But the Democratic Party for years has accused the Republican Party of fostering a "culture of corruption."  It has been a recurring campaign theme since the summer of 2005*.  But upon closer examination, it appears that the political left is where there is a problem with corruption.

Even more examples are available if you look for the word "corruption" on this page.

The word "suspicious" doesn't even begin to describe the stuff on this page.

Specific politicians have their own subsections on this page:

    Governor Andrew Cuomo,
    Senator Raphael Warnock,
    Eric Swalwell,
    Lyndon B. Johnson,
    Mark Kelly,
    Cal Cunningham,
    Representative Ilhan Omar,
    Representative Rashida Tlaib,
    Representative Katie Hill,
    Mega-donor Ed Buck,
    Representative Ilhan Omar,
    Representative Elijah Cummings,
    Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
    The Late Senator Ted Kennedy,
    Senator Dianne Feinstein,
    Representative Corrine Brown,
    Senator Robert Menendez,
    Former Senator Harry Reid,
    Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin,
    Representative Emanuel Cleaver,
    Representative Sheila Jackson Lee,
    Former Senator Jon Corzine,
    Representative Laura Richardson,
    Representative Alcee Hastings,
    Representative David Wu,
    Andrew Gillum,
    Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr.,
    Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson,
    Representative Maxine Waters,
    Mr. and Mrs. John Conyers,
    Former DC Mayor Marion Barry,
    Senator Chris Dodd,
    Sandy Berger,
    Kwame Kilpatrick, former mayor of Detroit,
    The Late Congressman John Murtha,
    Former Congressman Barney Frank,
    Former Congressman Charles B. Rangel of New York,
    Former Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois,
    and his protégé, Senator Roland Burris of Illinois.

Related pages:

    Minor league corruption
    Imran Awan
    Joe Biden
    President Obama's Culture of Corruption
    Lists of Obama Scandals
    Ex-Congressman William J. Jefferson
    The Fast and Furious scandal
    Voting fraud


NEW:  This page has been shrunk by about 65 k-bytes now that I have moved all the "small potatoes" to a separate page.  The new page is about local-level Democrats who have been accused of small-scale (although not harmless) crimes and improprieties.  The material below is mostly about Senators, Representatives and Governors who have shown that the Democrat party is the one with the "culture of corruption."

Please remember that the American system of justice includes a presumption of innocence:  Anyone who is accused or suspected of a crime is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.



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Another Democratic Scheme To Establish Absolute Political Power.  Democrats don't support open borders for humanitarian reasons.  They want the lines erased because they see every illegal alien as a likely Democratic voter crucial to their political power grab.  But there's another reason:  They want to increase the populations of Democratic states to boost their representation in Congress and the Electoral College.  Apparently it's not enough for Democrats to have become authoritarians, they have to be corrupt, too.  Of course this is no surprise.  Only the corrupt become authoritarians.  Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek showed in chapter 10 of "The Road to Serfdom" why socialist systems never have decent people in charge.  "Bad men," Hayek explained in Why the Worst Get on Top, have no inhibitions about running other peoples' lives.  It is "the unscrupulous and uninhibited," he wrote in 1944, who "are likely to be more successful in a society tending toward totalitarianism."

Bidenana Republic.  Readers may believe calling America a banana republic is an exaggeration but think about it.  Congress is in the midst of passing what is laughingly called a budget.  Half the money comes from taxpayers.  Half the money is borrowed.  All the money goes to special interests.  The FBI provides the muscle.  In 2016, it investigated Hillary who sent 33,000 emails to a trucking company in Red China.  The FBI granted immunity from prosecution to her staff and helped destroy key evidence.  Jimmy the Weasel Comey said that since she didn't mean to break the law, he would recommend not prosecuting.  He made that recommendation days after his boss, Loretta Lynch, and Bill Clinton had an impromptu 45-minute talk on an airport tarmac.  Clinton said they discussed their grandchildren.  By grandchildren, he meant that vacancy on the Supreme Court.  At the same time, the FBI tried to con a judge into approving wiretapping of Donald Trump.  In a rare act of courage, the judge turned them down in June but in October the judge caved in and the FBI spied.  A lot.  We do not know if the FBI ever stopped spying.  There sure seem to be a lot of leaks about what The Donald is doing.  When the FBI isn't covering up crimes and spying for Democrats and RINOs, it is entrapping civilians.  Democrat Governor Whitmer was in jeopardy of losing her job when an FBI informant convinced four losers to hatch an asinine plot to kidnap her.  This is why many people believe that the FBI and Capitol Police enticed people to enter the Capitol, which was closed to the public at the time, on January 6, 2021.  This allowed Nancy Pelosi and the rest to recast a rally on the National Mall as an insurrection.  This led to a post-presidency impeachment trial.  These people are nuts.  But these people are in power.

Who will take the fall for Afghanistan?  One of the Marine Corps principles of leadership is to accept responsibility for your actions.  In most Western cultures, those who fail spectacularly then resign.  Traditional Japanese military culture demanded that those who failed commit suicide out of shame and honor.  In modern Democrat party political culture, there is no true individual responsibility for one's own actions, either in public or private life.  Everything that goes wrong is either someone else's fault or society's fault.  It's a victimology cult.  A hollow, ritualistic statement of "the buck stops here" is then usually accompanied by the non sequitur of blaming someone else.  This is what President Biden did yet again in recent days.

So You Don't Like President Donald Trump?  We are told that style matters.  How a politician speaks in public, how he talks about other Americans, how he tweets.  We have been told that this election is about "character."  So let's talk about character, shall we?  What is the character of a man who drives drunk with his mistress, crashes the car, and walks away, allowing the young woman to drown?  And what is the character of a political elite that knows what he did, covers for him, and then builds that man up to become "the lion of the Senate"?  What is the character of a man who, as vice president, frequently used the "n-word" to describe his fellow Americans who happened to be black and who, he believed, he could simply buy with a massive expansion of the welfare state he called the "Great Society?"  What is the character of a man who, not only has credible allegations of sexual assault and even rape made against him as governor and state attorney general, but when elevated to the presidency, has sex in the Oval Office with an intern 27 years his junior?  And what is the character of the media and political elite that says such a transparent sexual abuse of power and degradation of the most sacred office in the world is just a "private" issue?

The virus is all they've got and they're clinging to it.  [Scroll down]  Now with just a few weeks until the election, the Biden family's corruption is coming into full view, despite social media's rapacious attempts to squelch the news of Hunter's career as an influence peddler.  How has all this ill-gotten wealth escaped the notice of the IRS?  The same way the many millions of the Clintons' ill-gotten wealth was overlooked by the IRS.  Outside of D.C., little people go to prison for a fraction of the crimes committed by the Bidens and the Clintons.  That is how the world works these days.  Powerful crooks like the Clintons, the Bidens, the Feinsteins, Pelosis, et al, operate on a plane reserved for the likes of their ilk.

The Re-Rehabilitation Of The Clintons.  The Clintons are helpful to Democrats again, at least right now.  They have a lot of liberal friends with very deep pockets, and Democrats will do anything for money.  Remember Ed Buck?  If that name doesn't sound familiar that's because he was a huge Democratic Party donor in California who had a problem with young gay black men overdosing in his house and the national media did all they could to cover it as quickly as possible and move on.  The party that loves identity politics and accusing people of racism, largely ignored this rich white guy's penchant for victimizing gay black men because his checks cleared.  Same reason people like George Stephanopoulos went to Epstein's "welcome home dinner" after being released from prison on child sex charges a few years ago — if you have money, or can provide the party access to people who do, Democrats will forgive or ignore anything.

Eliminating the 1%.  Some righteous businessperson gets fed up with the corruption in Washington and decides to leave his career and run for office to make a change.  He gets elected.  When he get there, he discovers that if he doesn't play the game, all of his efforts get stonewalled.  You have to go along to get along.  He doesn't want to be unproductive, so the compromise.  It's called the moral arc of Washington:  1. Idealism 2. Pragmatism 3. Ambition, and 4. Corruption.  Once they compromise, they get cooperation.  After learning the ropes, they get good at it.  Then they start playing for keeps (ambition).  Have you ever noticed how many people leave a job making $90k a year to do a few stints in Washington making six digits as a public servant, only to retire as a multimillionaire?  Weird.

Exposing the RINO Underground By Smoking Out the 'Never Trumpers' One-by-One.  [Scroll down]  [C]oncerns about Trump's personal-character flaws are fair.  But as so many prominent theologians throughout the G-d-conscious Christian community and the Orthodox Jewish community realize, our Presidents often have profound failings of character.  Obama was a brazen liar, a financially corrupt cheat who got rich with the help of the felon Tony Rezko and who consorted with the worst racists in America:  Louis Farrakhan, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Al Sharpton.  Clinton's private life was a stain on the American fabric.  John Kennedy was a dossier that even Christopher Steele could not compile.

Democrats' Trump impeachment focus sends voters clear message:  We don't care what you think.  [Scroll down]  You got that?  "No one is above the law," explain the very same people who spent all day making excuses for illegitimate government spying on American citizens.  But never mind.  Literally, no one is above the law.  Democrats say that over and over and over again.  Yeah, it's pretty simple.  You don't need a law degree to understand it.  Nobody is above the law.  Nobody — except for the more than 20 million illegal aliens whom the left tell us have every right to be here, ignoring our laws.  And shut up, racist, if you disagree.  Also, the so-called homeless shooting up and defecating and living full-time on our sidewalks.  The law does not apply to them or to subway jumpers in New York or to Hunter Biden.  But other than that, absolutely nobody is above the law, meaning Trump.  And that's why they're impeaching him.

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Right.  No one is above the law, except Hillary Clinton seems to be above the law (Whitewater, Travelgate, Cattle futures, spoliation of evidence).  And the guy that broke Jeffrey Epstein's neck seems to be above the law.  And the people who rubbed out Vince Foster, Ron Brown, Gareth Williams, Shawn Lucas, Seth Rich, Suzanne Coleman, and Mary Caitrin Mahoney seem to be above the law. 

For Peace in America, We Must Return to the Rule of Law.  The Left has simply become evil.  That is not to say all registered Democrats or Democrat politicians are necessarily evil, but the national-level leadership of the party and their primary backers represent a genuinely evil, oppressive, authoritarian, and — not coincidentally — anti-Semitic program (under the thin veneer of vicious, rabid anti-Zionism).  They either represent this mindset outright (e.g., vice DNC chairman Keith Ellison, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, etc.) or are unwilling to summon the elemental courage to oppose these trends effectively in their own party (e.g., Pelosi, Schumer).  What is more, almost uniformly among their leaders — to include the likes of Pelosi and Schumer — they will stoop to any level of dishonesty and corruption in order to obtain or maintain power (e.g., the Stalinesque Kavanaugh "show trial" hearings, the vote fraud spectacles we saw in Florida and California this past midterm election, advocating for illegal aliens to vote, advocating lowering the voting age to 16, etc.).

The Left Will Make 2019 a Dark Year.  There is nothing Trump or any member of his administration has done that is comparable to Hillary Clinton's use of her own email server while U.S. secretary of state, or her destroying tens of thousands of emails after they were subpoenaed by Congress, or foreign governments' and corporations' paying vast sums of money to Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.  Nor is there anything Trump or anyone in his administration has done comparable to the Obama Administration's use of the IRS to suppress conservative nonprofits; its selling guns to Mexican drug cartels, at least one of which was later found at the scene where a Border Patrol officer was killed; or the lies it told about the cause of the murder of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi.  Yet any suggestion by Republicans that these activities be investigated is effectively shouted down by the Democrats and the media.

Top congressional corruption miscreants exposed, and guess which party dominates.  What is most noteworthy about this list?  The high presence of Democrats and the culture of impunity that allows them to go unpunished over and over.  There it is, on display, and we haven't even heard any reports yet about the ones who "suddenly" found themselves millionaires on their congressional salaries after insider stock trading and other machinations described by Peter Schweizer in his superb book, Throw Them All Out.  Seriously, it's five of the six on the list, while the GOP leadership and the ex-candidate have corruption of other categories.  These people are cover-up artists, pocket-liners, and political opportunists.

Why is Brett Kavanaugh being barbecued by the US Senate, while Bill Clinton goes unscathed?  The biggest thing that didn't happen this year was the final collapse of Bill Clinton's reputation.  The former US President, and his warmongering and strangely supportive wife Hillary, have somehow managed to escape the great ultra-feminist frenzy that has brought down so many men from their pedestals of power and reputation.  Personally, I'm not especially troubled by Bill's survival.  Against my own will, I almost like the terrible old monster.  I was once bathed in his chicken-fried charm for a delightful, unforgettable minute when I slipped uninvited into a White House event and asked him an awkward question about Ireland.  Ah, I thought, so this is what they mean by charisma.  He may have helped the IRA to win, but he didn't invade Iraq.  There are worse men, and worse women.  In any case, I'm not in favour of ruining people's lives on the basis of ancient, uncorroborated claims.  And I'm less and less interested in other people's sexual doings.

The Top 50 Liberal Media Bias Examples.  [#36] Name That Party: [...] Here is how it is played:  every time a Democrat is caught in misconduct, the media will either "accidentally" forget to mention his party affiliation or will bury it at the tail of the article were fewer people will see it — you see, the media knows that more people quit reading an article before they get to the last paragraphs than finish reading to the end.  On the other hand, when a Republican is caught in a crime his party affiliation either leads the piece or even appears in the very headline of the report.  The Republican Party is associated immediately with wrongdoing while the Democrat Party's part in the story is buried or ignored.

The Left as Crime Family.  The early Clinton escapades weren't the outcome of being Boy Scouts.  Using political influence to do a land deal in Arkansas, or to gain $100,000 in the commodity market for being the governor's wife, was a pretty good sign of who they are — as were Bill's early sexual predations and Hillary's early persecution of the women he used.  The thuggishness of Barack was clear early on.  There was his land deal, wherein he enriched himself with Tony Rezko in Chicago.  All his political wins came by nefariously taking out his political opponents rather than beating them fairly in the arena of ideas.  Everyone should have known.  They all got away with their less than honest early deals but were awarded more power as a result of their nefarious actions.  The left loved their ability to lie as they skated through the finish line unscathed.  The next big step up the ladder for the Clintons was becoming president.

Americans Learning to Live with Treason.  [Scroll down] 
  •   Benghazi — Obama and his administration [told] the American people that a video caused the horrific massacre.  President and allies openly engage in cover-up.
  •   FBI investigation on Hillary Clinton — Comey announces Hillary's guilty on all counts, then the judgment, and she walks.  A two-tier justice system; Hillary's above the law.
  •   CNN caught giving to Hillary Clinton.  Democrats rig debates.  Democrats cheat Bernie Sanders out of the nomination.  Democrats rig elections.
These are just a few of the unacceptable transgressions by our corrupt leaders.  Each time, outraged conservatives demand that the perpetrators be brought to justice.  Each time, the press gaslights the American people with a media blackout, acts as though the incident never happened.  Each time, the cabal rides out the news cycle until the story fades, and everyone's home free.

In Defense of Masculinity.  The irony is that in many of these situations the ones being exposed (pun intended) reside within the warm cocoon of the liberal cultural elite.  Most of these people have spent a lifetime — and a great deal of effort and money — sneering at and debasing the culture of practiced faith, respect for women, the institutions of traditional marriage and family, all the while portraying men of that "debased lifestyle" they disparaged as unenlightened peasants and troglodytes.  Now it appears the men who mounted these assaults — both literally and figuratively — are nothing but patriarchal misogynistic perverts.

Time to Criminalize Tyranny.  Some people are calling for "reconciliation" after Trump's election.  Some even say that Hillary shouldn't be prosecuted.  The reality is that if we allow liberals to constantly misuse government power and break the law with no consequences, they will never stop.  Like little children, they need a spanking to keep them in line.  President Trump should set up a special prosecutor to dig up all the government workers, from Hillary on down, who used government power to further tyranny.  People like Lois Lerner, who used the full power of the IRS to silence voices that disagreed with her political leanings, should not just be able to retire and collect a pension.  So long as liberals know they can misuse the power of government and get away with it, they will continue to wage war against the American people while being paid by the American people.

Breathtaking Criminality in Washington.  Recent revealed emails within that broad criminal conspiracy known as leftism show just how utterly dependent those sock puppets like Obama and Hillary are upon the nefarious intertwined collusion of the leftist media, the agencies of the Executive Branch, the Clinton campaign, and the DNC.  The depth of this criminal conspiracy, as these latest emails show, is stunning.  Consider the network news programs that gave Hillary the questions days before she was asked in a presumably spontaneous interview.  Giant corporations are not supposed to give free campaign resources to candidates.  That violates federal election laws unless the economic value of these actions are reported as corporate contributions to the Clinton campaign, which, of course, these are not.

A Sporting Event Where Only One Team Obeys the Rules.  After eight years of the most blatant and obvious corruption, we watch current events as if we have a splinter in our eye.  An entire political party is so morally bankrupt that it no longer feels any need to hold its members to any rules at all. [...] The IRS commissioner still uses the IRS to target conservatives.  The Obama administration is literally turning illegal aliens into citizens to unlawfully alter the outcome of the upcoming election, as Democrats have always done.  They are rewarding criminals with early release from prison and restored voting rights simply to tip the scales.  They are flooding our country with Muslim Syrians, whose culture is antithetical to ours, knowing the inevitable outcome will be an eventual conflict between those who believe in forcefully imposing Islamic theocracy and those few who still know and believe in the American Constitution.  They are making secret alliances with our enemies, or merely surrendering to them out of abject cowardice or belief in common principles.  They protect terrorists, who are the ultimate rule-breakers, while demonizing Americans, who cannot figure out what they may have done wrong, having done nothing but exist.

Will Hillary Break The Criminal Conduct Glass Ceiling?  Voters in Massachusetts deserve a special category of ignominy having sent Barney Frank to Congress for twelve terms after his implication in a male prostitution ring; for re-electing Gerry Studds six times after his censure by Congress for having gay sex with an underage congressional page; and of course for returning Ted Kennedy to the US Senate five times, after he narrowly escaped a grand jury indictment over Mary Jo Kopechne's asphyxiation death in his abandoned Oldsmobile off Chappaquiddick Island.  Massachusetts is the role model, notwithstanding stiff competition from Illinois, where Democratic Party ideology and loyalty excuses criminal conduct.

The Stench of Corruption Stalks Harry Reid.  Honestly, the level of corruption in the Democratic Party is just stupefying.  They don't even try to hide it anymore.  From Bill Clinton, whose mentor in Arkansas was the Prohibition gangster Owney Madden; to Nancy Pelosi (Baltimore mafia princess) to the Chicago Mob stooge Barack Obama to Reid — the living embodiment of Sen. Pat Geary himself — the party is run by criminals for criminals.  Is there not a single lawyer expert in the RICO statutes on the GOP side?  Or is the Stupid Party too dumb to notice what's happening?

Lying Democrats: Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder have no shame.  Something happens to men and women when they gain a proximity to power.  Most in public service, one can only assume, begin with noble purpose:  to serve, to change and improve the world — whether that be a small town or, literally, the world.  Soon enough, many — not all, but many — want only to stay in that position of power, and will do what it takes, whatever it takes, to stay there.  Where once they talked only of their dreams and ambitions, not for themselves, but for those they served, soon enough they spend their days tearing down — their campaign foes, opposing political parties and, in the end, anyone who doesn't think like them.

5 Signs Of Societal Degeneration In America.  [#4]  Politics: As a society, we moved from expecting politicians to be better than the rest of us to expecting them to be more degenerate than the rest of us.  Ted Kennedy left a woman to die in a tidal pool and was reelected.  Marion Barry was reelected after being caught smoking crack.  Barack Obama is the first President to be elected after admitting he used cocaine.  Barney Frank had a prostitution ring run out of his apartment.  Just this last election cycle, Jesse Jackson, Jr. was reelected from the Mayo Clinic.  Because of the partisan leans of states and gerrymandering, for a majority of politicians, they have lifetime appointments and elections are mere formalities.


Timely news and commentary:


DOJ Moves to Drop Lawsuit Against Dish Network After Donation to Biden Campaign.  The great thing about America is that the right people can buy all of the justice they can afford.  And if you can afford $113,000 in justice, there is no end to what you can accomplish.  For instance, last week the Department of Justice dismissed a $3.3 billion civil lawsuit against Dish Network.  Coincidentally, toward the end of last year, Dish Network founder Charlie Ergen and his wife donated just over $113,000 to the Biden-Harris campaign.  In what I am sure is another startling coincidence, in January, Dish was given a $50 million grant to expand 5G coverage across the nation.  That grant was courtesy of the Biden administration and came from a $1.5 billion fund created as part of the CHIPS and Science Act.

Leading Wisconsin Democrat Kimberly Zapata Found Guilty on All Counts Against Her in Voter Fraud Scheme Involving Military Ballots.  In November 2022, Rep. Janel Brandtjen, then Chair of the Assembly on Campaigns and Elections, sent out an election fraud alert.  Rep. Brandtjen received three authentic military ballots to her home addressed to "Holly," a woman who has never lived there.  Brantjen believed this was part of a scheme to steal votes in Wisconsin.  The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on this 2020 voter fraud scheme in several battleground states where military ballots shockingly went almost entirely to Joe Biden.  We posted evidence that this occurred in Michigan, Arizona and Georgia.

Democratic Senator Called to Resign as Finance Committee Chairman.  Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is facing calls to step down after it was reported his wife owns millions of dollars in stocks for tech companies he is tasked with regulating.  In a letter last week, members of the New York Young Republican Club noted the potential conflict of interest and asked the senator to step aside.  Rolling Stone reported that Nancy Wyden has been cashing in on the tech industry for years in a Feb. 24 article in which the outlet noted her powerful husband is widely viewed as "an ally of the tech industry."

More Evidence Emerges of Congress Members Engaging in Insider Trading.  Fresh evidence has emerged that shows members of Congress have continued to engage in insider trading — a practice that would land members of the public in jail.  Business Insider reports that new evidence has been found supporting the allegation that Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other members of Congress are engaged in insider trading. [...] The claim has been that some members of Congress — most notably Pelosi — have profited tremendously from insider, non-public, knowledge that they have obtained through their government positions.

Longtime Newsom Donor Owns Panera Bread, Which is Exempt From California Minimum Wage Increase.  California Gov. Gavin Newsom fought to exempt fast-food chains from the new minimum wage increase if the company baked its own bread and sold it as a standalone item.  The minimum wage will increase to $20.  But why?  The first and only restaurant you think of is Panera Bread. [...] [Panera Bread owner Greg] Flynn is a regular donator to Newsom.  He gave $100,000 to fight against the recall.  Newsom got another $64,800 during his 2022 reelection campaign.  People close to Flynn told Bloomberg News he "has been known to tout his relationship with Newsom" and bragged "he can reach the governor via text."

FBI probes misconduct of 'gangster' Illinois 'super mayor,' poster gal for 'crooked Dem'.  Democrat Mayor Tiffany Henyard has made headlines for her corrupt rule over the small village of Dolton, Illinois and now her gangster-like conduct has caught the attention of the FBI.  Henyard's extravagant spending habits have made her into a poster gal for crooked Democrat politicians but it is her alleged shakedowns of local business owners that seem to have landed her on the feds' radar.  Henyard, who has lived large on the taxpayer dime since her landslide 2021 election win, has been accused of using her power to retaliate against enemies and some of the perceived victims have spoken to federal agents amid mounting allegations of corruption.

Women in power abuse it.  NBC reported on February 27, 2020, "Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for a children's book scam that funneled money into her personal accounts and campaign coffers.  "Pugh, 69, will also have to serve three years of supervised release once she's out of prison, according to the sentence handed down by U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow.  "The disgraced former mayor was also ordered to pay $411,948 in restitution and to forfeit $669,688, including property in Baltimore and $17,800 from her Committee to Re-elect Catherine Pugh."  She took over as mayor from Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, whose biggest achievement (if you want to call it that) was to order police to stand down as rioters burned cars and looted stores, saying "we also gave those who wished to destroy space to do that as well." [...] She was preceded by Sheila Dixon.  CNN reported on December 2, 2009, "A jury convicted Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon on Tuesday of embezzlement for improperly using gift cards intended for the needy, the chief investigator for the state prosecutor's office said.  "She was found guilty of a single misdemeanor count of fraudulent misappropriation by a fiduciary.  She could be removed from office because it is a theft-related crime, James I. Cabezas said.  "Dixon solicited several cards for her own use from two developers, including Patrick Turner, who testified this month that Dixon asked him to donate gift cards from retailers and have them delivered to her office. [...] But wait.  There's more.  AP reported two weeks ago, "A former top prosecutor for the city of Baltimore was convicted Tuesday on one count of mortgage fraud, concluding a lengthy criminal trial in which Marilyn Mosby testified she unwittingly made false statements on loan applications to buy two Florida vacation homes.

New Mexico's Martin Heinrich Embraced a Struggling Electric Bus Industry.  Campaign Cash from Lobbyists Followed.  When Senator Martin Heinrich's chief of staff Joe Britton left his role, the New Mexico Democrat heaped praise on his former right-hand man, saying Britton would "continue to make a difference in the lives of everyone he meets."  In the years following his departure, Britton did make a difference — to Heinrich's campaign coffers.  After leaving Heinrich's office, Britton launched both a green energy lobbying shop and an electric vehicle trade association, through which he has routinely lobbied the Senate on energy policies that would benefit his clients.  Heinrich in at least one case co-sponsored a bill that Britton lobbied the upper chamber to pass, federal disclosures show.  That bill, the Bidirectional Act, would have propped up an electric bus industry that has since suffered significant setbacks.  One industry leader, Proterra, declared bankruptcy last year, while others have struggled to turn a profit.

Guilty: Disgraced Ex-Baltimore District Attorney Marilyn Mosby Convicted of Mortgage Fraud.  Disgraced former Baltimore District Attorney Marilyn Mosby sobbed in court Tuesday as she was convicted of mortgage fraud — a verdict that could carry decades in prison.  The Democrat served in office from 2015 until she lost her 2022 reelection bid after being indicted on perjury and mortgage fraud charges related to the withdrawal of funds from the city's Deferred Compensation Plan.  Prosecutors believe that in May 2020, Mosby took advantage of the CARES Act — the first coronavirus relief bill — by seeking a $40,000 withdrawal from her city retirement account, reported the Baltimore Sun.  Though she blamed the withdrawal on financial setbacks supposedly suffered due to the pandemic, Mosby's salary had actually increased by $10,000 to a total of $248,000 that year, according to the local publication.

Fani Willis Axed Employee Who Blew Whistle on Misuse of Federal Funds.  Fani Willis may have fired the employee who warned her about mishandling federal funds.  But she didn't deny her allegations.  Less than a year into her tenure as Fulton County district attorney, in 2021, Willis met with Amanda Timpson, an employee in the district attorney's office responsible for giving nonviolent juvenile offenders "alternatives to the juvenile court system."  During their conversation, a recording of which was reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, Timpson claimed to Willis that she had been demoted after attempting to stop a top Willis campaign aide from misusing federal grant money meant for a youth gang prevention initiative.  According to Timpson, the aide, Michael Cuffee, planned to use part of a $488,000 federal grant — earmarked for the creation of a Center of Youth Empowerment and Gang Prevention — to pay for "swag," computers, and travel.

Report: Squad Member Cori Bush Under Criminal Investigation by DOJ.  Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), a member of the far-left "Squad" in Congress, is reportedly under investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for allegedly misusing government funds meant for private security.  Punchbowl News first reported that the DOJ is conducting the criminal probe into Bush.  The outlet cited six sources for the allegation.  On Monday, the Justice Department subpoenaed the House Sergeant at Arms for records related to the misuse of federal security money.

Cori Bush Is Reportedly Under Investigation by the Biden DOJ.  U.S. Representative Cori Bush (D-MO), a member of the "Squad," is reportedly the subject of a criminal probe being run by the federal Department of Justice related to an alleged misuse of funds for security services.  First reported by Punchbowl News based on "six sources familiar with the investigation," the House Sergeant at Arms reportedly confirmed its cooperation with the Biden DOJ in its probe:  ["]The House announced Monday that the Sergeant at Arms had been subpoenaed and was cooperating with the Justice Department.  Punchbowl News scooped that the Justice Department was seeking spending records as part of a probe of a House Democrat.  The spending records they were seeking were in relation to the alleged misspending of security money.["]  As Townhall has previously reported, Rep. Bush has had quite a unique relationship (literally) with her personal bodyguards.  Guy summarized the situation well in a piece on another security snafu last year: [...]

Former DC council member who went to prison for bribery launches bid for Congress.  A former Washington, D. C. council member who was convicted in 2013 of bribery when in office is now running to become a member of Congress.  The ex-District lawmaker, Michael A. Brown, is trying to unseat fellow Democrat Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.  A D.C. delegate can vote on bills in committee but cannot participate in final votes.  The primary is in June.

Fani Willis Accused of Giving Lawyer Lover $654K Contract in Bombshell Legal Filing.  Michael Roman, one of the 18 co-defendants in the Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) case[,] which is centered on and includes former President Donald J. Trump[,] filed an explosive motion today [1/8/2024.]  In it, he claimed the indictment she secured against him on August 14 was unconstitutional because the lawyer she subcontracted to investigate RICO charges, Nathan Wade, is her lover.  Roman requests the court dismiss his indictment and disqualify Willis from the case.

Georgia Court Filing Alleges DA Fani Willis Appointed and Paid Her Lover, Nathan Wade, $654,000 to Prosecute Donald Trump.  In a court filing today [1/8/2024], one of the co-defendants in the Fulton County election case against President Trump is presenting very specific details of an intimate relationship between District Attorney Fani Willis and the Special Prosecutor she hired, Nathan Wade.  At first review, if the allegations are true, DA Willis had a financial motivation to initiate the case against Trump, as her boyfriend was the primary financial beneficiary.  The filing documents how Fani Willis and Nathan Wade took several extravagant vacations and indulged in an exclusive lifestyle as the result of payments Willis's office made to Wade.  If investigated as accurate, this could be very legally problematic for the Fulton County District Attorney and her case against President Trump.  The conflict of interest is very bright under this spotlight.

Convicted Ballot Harvester Gloria Torres Named San Luis Vice-Mayor.  Convicted ballot harvester, Gloria Torres, has been appointed as the new Vice Mayor of San Luis, Arizona.  Torres, who was appointed during the regular city council meeting on December 13, pleaded guilty to ballot abuse in June 2023.  Torres and Nadia Guadalupe Lizarraga-Mayorquin a/k/a Nadia Buchanan were indicted in October 2022, on two Class 6 felonies of conspiracy and ballot abuse stemming from a two-year long investigation by the Arizona Attorney General's Office with assistance from the Yuma County Sheriff's Office.

Elected Democratic Official Fined For Voting Twice In 2020 Election.  An elected Democratic official in Washington, D.C., has been fined by the District of Columbia Board of Elections for voting twice in 2020.  Vanessa Rubio, an advisory neighborhood commissioner in D.C., voted in the District of Columbia and Maryland during the 2020 presidential election, according to NBC 4 Washington reporter Mark Segraves.  She reportedly told the Board of Elections that since DC is not a state, she believed voting twice would be acceptable.  The Board of Elections found that an individual named Vanessa Rubio voted in person in Maryland on Nov. 1, 2020, and then in DC on Nov. 3, according to a photograph of the memorandum opinion and order posted by Segraves.

Trump Prosecutor, Jack Smith's Alleged Role In Extortion Scheme While At International Court of Justice Is Revealed.  My old friend and business partner, John Moynihan, filed a whistleblower complaint with the Department of Justice Inspector General's Office on November 28 alleging that Jack Smith, the Special Prosecutor pursuing Donald Trump, was engaged in an extortion scheme while he was working at the International Court of Justice.  It is no coincidence that Jack Smith, in the wake of that complaint, made an impromptu move on Monday (December 11) asking the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether Donald Trump had immunity to the charges filed by Smith.  Moynihan's complaint was filed on November 28, 2023 and Smith, 13 days later decides to bypass the Appeals Courts.  Smells like politics.  The Moynihan complaint is political dynamite because it provides circumstantial evidence to support Donald Trump's belief that Jack Smith is not only politically motivated but corrupt.  The Trump team wisely has refrained from piling on this news in order to avoid accusations that this was a manufactured hit job.

Politicians' trades perform twice as well as market average.  Investors dedicate countless hours to solving the mystery of how to beat the stock market[,] and many lose millions of dollars in the process.  But the answer might be simple:  Just copy Congress.  A tool which copies trades made by members of Congress and their families has gained nearly 20 percent this year — performing twice as well as the stock market average of eight to ten percent.  And a separate tool which is dedicated to tracking Nancy Pelosi's investments reveals her portfolio has returned a remarkable 50 percent in the last 12 months, vastly outperforming the 17 percent gains of the benchmark S&P500 index of America's top companies.  The tools were created by Quiver Quantitative, which uses public disclosures from members of Congress to mirror their trading activity and track the results.

Jeffrey Epstein flight log subpoena request denied by Democrat-led Senate Judiciary Committee, Blackburn says.  Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., criticized Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., for allegedly blocking her request to file a subpoena for Jeffrey Epstein's flight logs.  "@SenatorDurbin BLOCKED my request to subpoena Jeffrey Epstein's flight logs.  What are Democrats trying to hide?," Blackburn posted on X.  [Tweet]  Blackburn called Durbin's actions a "sad day in the history of the prestigious Judiciary Committee."  "Senate Democrats have long been trying to undermine the Supreme Court and Justice Clarence Thomas, but want to ignore Justice Sotomayor allegedly using her taxpayer-funded staff to coordinate speaking engagements in exchange for selling and promoting thousands of her books.  They also don't want to have a conversation about the estate of Jeffrey Epstein to find out the names of every person who participated in Jeffrey Epstein's human trafficking ring," Blackburn said in a statement.

This Sneaky Senator's Insider Trade Isn't the Most Corrupt Part of This Story.  When a senator who sits on the Health Committee makes a big bet on a small, home-state medical devices company that just happens to get mucho moolah from the federal government, and then that stock goes up more than 40% in the weeks after said senator's big bet, it's the opinion of this mostly humble columnist that there's some real shady stuff going on.  But it gets worse.  Earlier this month — November 8, to be exact — Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) purchased up to $250,000 in shares of Tactile Systems Technology (TCMD).  TCMD shares had been on a real losing streak in 2023, down more than 60% from its 52-week high of $26.11.  The price was down nearly another third, to $10.27 from $12.61, in the 48 hours before Smith made her big buy.  Buy the dip, of course.  What's remarkable is just how quickly TCMD recovered over the next three weeks — up 43% since the Minnesota senator plunked down her big bucks on a Minnesota company in an industry that Smith's committee oversees.  That's just one trade by one senator.

Stock trade of Sen. Tina Smith's husband draws scrutiny.  Archie Smith, the husband of U.S. Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn., has seen some assets in his stock portfolio grow significantly in just the last few weeks.  According to public disclosure reports filed by Sen. Smith, Archie Smith purchased between $100,001 and $250,000 worth of stock in Tactile Systems Technology Inc. on Nov. 8, 2023.  On that day, the stock price for Tactile Systems opened at $9.99 and closed at $10.00.  Since this purchase by the senator's husband, Tactile Systems' stock has increased by 40%.  At close Tuesday, Tactile Systems' stock price was valued at $14.01 per share.  As a result, Archie Smith could have made anywhere from $40,000 to $100,000 since this stock trade.  Quiver Quantitative, a popular tracker of stock trades and an alternative data platform, recently referred to this transaction as "the most suspicious congressional stock trade I've seen in months."

Investigators Reveal Details on Brothel Ring Serving Politicians, Military Officials.  Federal investigators have released further details on a network of "sophisticated high-end brothels" that serviced politicians, military officials, and government contractors, revealing that the alleged ringleaders kept "impeccable" records of their million-dollar operation.  The prostitution ring was busted earlier this month by the Department of Justice (DOJ), with three Korean nationals arrested for their alleged roles in orchestrating the criminal network.  Han Lee, 41, James Lee, 68, and Junmyung Lee, 30, "walked through the border safeguards that have been relaxed by President Joe Biden's border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas," Breitbart News reported after their arrests on November 8.  The new details about the criminal organization, which operated in luxury apartments in Massachusetts and Virginia, were revealed in an affidavit submitted to the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Wednesday by Department of Homeland Security Special Agent Zachary Mitlitsky, the New York Post reported.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams Establishes Legal Defense Fund Amid FBI Probe.  New York City Mayor Eric Adams has created his own legal defense fund, The Eric Adams Legal Defense Trust, amid ongoing investigations surrounding his mayoral campaign.  The purpose of the fund is to enable the mayor to receive donations of up to $5,000 outside of the standard campaign period.  The law requires Adams to disclose contributors who donate $100 or more, and prohibits his government subordinates and anyone doing business with the city from donating.  The fund's creation is in response to a probe by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York related to the alleged influx of foreign funds into Adams's 2021 mayoral race.  An affidavit signed by Adams, posted by the city's Conflicts of Interest Board, says the trust is necessary to cover legal costs linked to these inquiries.  Peter Aschkenasy, a veteran restaurateur who presided over a nonprofit tied to Adams's former Brooklyn Borough President role, will serve as the fund's trustee.

There Might Be More to That Eric Adams Corruption Story.  Over the weekend, we looked at the story of the FBI investigating potential campaign finance fraud in New York City Mayor Eric Adams' successful 2021 mayoral run.  They went so far as to seize three cellphones and two iPads from the Mayor, returning them later in the week.  At issue were a series of donations from Turkey that were allegedly funneled into Adams' campaign coffers through straw donors.  Thus far, that seems to have been the work of top Democratic fundraiser Brianna Suggs, with no indication that Adams was aware of the arrangement.  But now, some of the text messages from Adams' devices show another link to Turkey involving the Mayor's involvement in the approval of a new Turkish consulate constructed near the United Nations complex.  And yet this may turn out to be little more than a wrinkle.

Eric Adams had cell phones, iPad seized by FBI as part of corruption investigation.  The FBI seized Mayor Eric Adams' electronic devices early this week as part of a federal probe into his campaign fundraising, The [New York] Post has learned.  The feds seized the electronics — which included at least two cellphones and an iPad — in connection to an investigation into whether Hizzoner's 2021 campaign colluded with the Turkish government and others to direct money into his mayoral effort, sources told The Post after the news was first reported by the New York Times.  Adams' campaign attorney Boyd Johnson said the mayor was cooperating with federal authorities and had already reported that a review found "an individual had recently acted improperly."  "After learning of the federal investigation, it was discovered that an individual had recently acted improperly.  In the spirit of transparency and cooperation, this behavior was immediately and proactively reported to investigators," Johnson said in a statement obtained by The Post.

Ex-Baltimore prosecutor found guilty of perjury regarding retirement homes in Florida.  Former Baltimore state attorney Marilyn Mosby was convicted Thursday of charges for lying about the finances of a business to improperly access retirement funds during the COVID-19 pandemic.  She got access to the money and used it to purchase two Florida homes.  Mosby was convicted by a federal jury on two counts of perjury, according to NBC News.  Prosecutors argued that she didn't have the right to get those funds due to provisions of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act.

D.C. brothel bust:  Where's the client list?  In a swing district in the Virginia suburbs, something interesting happened on election day yesterday:  Democrat Susanna Gibson, who had been caught posting videos of her sex life on a pornographic website, calling for 'tips' for particular sex acts from the public, didn't win her election for a seat in the Virginia statehouse. [...] Which brings us to the next scandal rocking the Virginia suburbs — that a huge brothel network full of trafficked Asian women got rolled up by lawmen after operating a brisk business in the area.  The brothels had been operating in Boston, and the D.C. suburbs, all very wealthy areas full of government money and lots of Democrats. [...] And sure enough, prosecutors have revealed that the clientele list is pretty influential.  But somehow, they don't want to release the client list.  Unlike what Gibson did, there was a crime here, with foreign women being trafficked, possibly against their will.  But as in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the client list is being protected?  Why the heck should they be protected?  Shouldn't the public know which members of Congress, the Pentagon and other places of power think it's just about sex?  As Gibson demonstrated, there is no shame in that.

Consequences of American Communism.  We have been witness to, and uncomprehendingly struggle to understand, how deeply communist the nation's government has become, but the evidence is there.  It ignored a massively corrupted presidential election that installed someone who staffed the government, all with the aid of senators, with a treasonous bunch of radicals pursuing an agenda of national suicide.  No one has enforced the laws, not during the election, not where immigration is concerned, not by enforcing the limitations of regulation and the power of bureaucracies.  The United States truly was a nation of laws and when the laws were broken, it simply broke the nation rather than the law breakers.

'Squad' Dem pays thousands to husband in 'wage expenses' for mystery role despite backlash.  Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., has continued shoveling campaign cash to her husband, Cortney Merritts, but altered the description of the payments amid scrutiny.  She has sent over $100,000 to him since she added him to the campaign's payroll nearly two years ago.  According to new filings reviewed by Fox News Digital, Bush's committee paid Merritts $12,500 for "wage expenses" between July and August.  Merritts previously gathered money for security services, but the committee switched their characterization in April as they continued to bring headaches for the campaign.  The new cash follows the $30,000 Bush's campaign paid him before the third quarter.  So far this year, Merritts has received $42,500 from the committee.  He's collected $102,500 since he first emerged on its payroll in January 2022.

Of Course Public Offices Are for Sale.  When House speaker Kevin McCarthy finally got around to initiating an impeachment inquiry into Chinese Puppet Joe Biden, he somehow managed to keep a straight face while claiming that America's "public offices are not for sale."  Really?  That must come as a bit of a shock to all the people who regularly purchase them.  Most of our overseas ambassadors hold their prestigious positions not because they are adept diplomats with years of experience under their belts, but rather because they have been longtime supporters of the president and generous party donors.  Cushy cabinet jobs often go to political cronies, competitors cajoled into selling their support, or Mitch McConnell's wife.  The ranks of the federal Judiciary are filled with ideological partisans whose nominations to the bench coincidentally followed years of maxing out campaign contribution limits to lawmakers sitting on powerful committees.  Presidential candidates raise hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars from aristocratic families, corporations, unions, and special interests of every kind — all of whom expect a certain return on their investments.

Fani Willis Linked To Massive Election Fraud And Money Laundering RICO Enterprise!  In a shocking turn of events, a bombshell investigation has uncovered jaw-dropping connections between Fani Willis and a sprawling web of election fraud and money laundering activities.  Fani Willis's involvement will be sure to send shockwaves through the political landscape.  The investigation, which spans across multiple states and multiple jurisdictions, has revealed a complex network of illicit operations aimed at undermining the very foundation of our Constitutional Republic and the rule of law.  Sources close to the matter suggest that Willis was a massive beneficiary in the Federal and Georgia RICO enterprises.  It appears that she is currently playing a key role in orchestrating a systematic scheme to manipulate election outcomes, casting doubt on the integrity of the entire electoral process.

Using the Dictator's — and the Mafia's — Playbook.  I could list numerous recent examples of Democrats who committed election manipulation (Most recently, across the country in 2020, hundreds of election procedures were changed by unelected bureaucrats because of COVID — almost all were done unconstitutionally); of how the Dems have weaponized the justice system and law enforcement against their opponents (For example, Hillary and Biden had classified documents, nothing happened to them.  But Trump was arrested for legally possessing classified documents.); and of Dems who seized unauthorized power to implement draconian edicts on the populace (Think of the hundreds of authoritarian lockdowns during COVID).  I could give hundreds of examples of Dems being hypocrites by doing exactly what they accuse others of doing or doing what they've made illegal.  However, none of that matters.  The Dems and their media do not care about any of that.  They don't care that they're hypocrites and they don't care if anyone discovers their hypocrisy.  Why should they?  They control all the power institutions in the country and are wielding that control to maintain power.

Los Angeles politician sentenced to 42 months on corruption charges, latest in city scandals.  Former Los Angeles City Council Member and Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas was sentenced to 42 months in prison on conspiracy, bribery as well as mail and wire fraud convictions on Monday.  Ridley-Thomas was convicted in March for a scheme that was executed with former University of Southern California School of Social Work Dean Marilyn Louise Flynn wherein the then County Supervisor sent the school county contracts in exchange for, "direct and indirect financial benefits."

The National Scandal That Is Too Big to Break.  Conservatives looking to expose the full extent of the Biden family's corruption have a problem:  the scandal might be too big to break.  Typically, there are three main entities involved in taking down a politician over a corruption scandal.  First, there is the media, which broadcasts the details of the scandal, eroding public support.  Second, there is law enforcement, which investigates and, if necessary, presses criminal charges.  Third, there is the party establishment, which ultimately abandons the politician as a matter of self-preservation, signaling that it's "game over."  But what happens when a scandal is so big that the people responsible for breaking it are implicated in it as well?  That is the situation which now faces the mainstream media, the federal intelligence bureaucracy, and the Democrat Party.

Biden's crime family is all of DC.  Obama didn't wrest the nomination in 2008 from Hillary because he was "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean," as Joe Biden put it.  No, no, no.  Obama had Chicago money and the Cook County Democrat machine behind him.  In 2016, the money and the machine helped Hillary swipe the nomination from Bernie Sanders.  And that same money and machine bought off Sanders and the rest of the pack to pave the way for Biden in 2020.  I am convinced that Ukraine is Chinese for money laundering.  How else can you explain why a weird province of Russia (come on, Kyiv was once the capital of Russia) attracts so many American political consultants after our presidential elections end?

The Socialists in Congress sure are lucky when they engage in capitalism.
Ro Khanna's Trusts Dumped BlackRock Stock Weeks Before Announcement Of Congressional Probe.  Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna, who sits on the Congressional Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, recorded selling large quantities of BlackRock shares just weeks before the committee announced a probe into the company.  Khanna's disclosure forms state that trusts associated with both his children and spouse offloaded BlackRock stocks totaling between $32,000 and $130,000 between June and March 2023.  The Select Committee notified the financial giant in early August that it was under investigation for involvement with over 60 Chinese companies flagged for human rights or national security concerns, The Wall Street Journal reports.  Trusts linked to Rep. Khanna sold between $1,000 and $15,000 of BlackRock shares on both March 14 and March 24.  Further separate amounts between $15,000 and $50,000 of BlackRock securities were sold on June 26 and June 29 by trusts linked to Rep Khanna.

Democrats Are Dancing the Totalitarian Two-Step.  [Scroll down]  Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Stacey Abrams, and most Democrat members of Congress and cable news anchors should be indicted for conspiracy to challenge previous elections, defrauding the U.S.  Let's add other names of high government officials who participated in the Russian collusion hoax.  Richard Nixon wiretapped DNC headquarters and was forced to resign.  James Clapper, James Comey, John Brennan, President Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Susan Rice, and many others wiretapped Trump Tower, spied on an opposing political campaign, its transition team, and its administration.  They lied to FISA courts for surveillance warrants, gaslit the media and American people, and are rewarded with book deals, university faculty appointments, television commentary gigs, none receiving even a slap on the wrist.  They all conspired to rig or overturn an election with no special counsels and no indictments.  Such propaganda and elimination of political opposition fits the definition of totalitarianism.

Prosecutors drop another charge against FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried.  Federal prosecutors dropped a campaign finance charge against Sam Bankman-Fried, the second time they have narrowed the indictment against the founder of crypto exchange FTX.  Prosecutors told Judge Lewis Kaplan on Wednesday that they were dropping the charge of conspiracy to make unlawful campaign contributions because they had failed to obtain permission from the government of the Bahamas for that charge when Bankman-Fried was extradited from the island nation in December.

Biden's DOJ drops campaign finance charge against Democratic megadonor Sam Bankman-Fried.  The Department of Justice has dropped its campaign finance violation charge against disgraced FTX founder and Biden donor Sam Bankman-Fried.  Following the November 2022 collapse of his former cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Democratic megadonor Bankman-Fried was hit with eight charges of fraud and conspiracy, including a campaign finance charge. [...] Bankman-Fried reportedly donated $10 million to then-candidate Joe Biden in 2020.  The crypto hustler reportedly also hired a network of "political operatives" and spent at least $39,826,856 in an effort to help Democrats win their House races in the November 2022 midterm elections.

Biden Democrats and Crypto Donor Sam Bankman-Fried Get Huge Legal Gift from Feds.  Sam Bankman-Fried is still the Left's golden boy.  On the same day that UFO coverage and the Hunter Biden plea deal collapse captured the attention of the media, the destroyed and disgraced crypto billionaire convinced Southern District of New York prosecutors to drop a huge charge against him.  Democrats to whom the accused Ponzi schemer shoveled millions during the 2022 election cycle were the biggest winners.  Before it imploded, the billion-dollar crypto exchange FTX was a triple threat.  On one hand, the Adderral-fueled Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and his band of sexually promiscuous mates manically shook down Hollywood and other glitterati from their Bahamas base to keep the alleged grift going.  When the money came pouring in, they gave Democrat political friends nearly $40 million in campaign donations during the 2022 election cycle.  Sam Bankman-Fried was the Democrats' dream boat donor.  They called their giving Effective Altruism.  Truer words were never spoken.  Being altruistic with the Democrats was effective.

Rule of law?  What rule of law?  Lots of people are convinced that Trump ran roughshod over the Constitution, but even in his worst moments he grumbled mightily but followed the law.  Great example:  he campaigned on "Lock her up!"  Yet he never even pushed for an investigation.  Pretty big contrast to how Trump is being treated by Biden, who mumbles about the rule of law yet uses the FBI as his own personal Stasi.  The Democrats, on the other hand, make a fetish of referring to the rule of law, while often simply ignoring both statutes and the Constitutional limits on their power.  Both Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden famously admitted he had no power to cancel student loan debt, and then Biden went ahead and did it anyway.  When the Supreme Court ratified what everybody knew — Biden acted illegally — Biden simply rejiggered his policies and canceled some of the student debt.

Is there a judge anywhere in the US with the courage to say that the Emperor has no Clothes?  Who is the Emperor?  The cabal that is prepared to do anything, no matter how unconstitutional, no matter how evil, to destroy Donald Trump.  That would be Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray, and Jack Smith.  Of course this trio of thugs has many cohorts willing to do their dirty work.  What kind of dirty work?  The kind that has made judges, the mainstream media, and most members of Congress fear being cancelled.  The left's method of coercion is well-known.  Cross us and your career is over.  Read Alan Dershowitz's book, Get Trump.  The elites who believe they are uniquely entitled to run the country will cancel you, harass you, ruin you by any means necessary.  They will go after anyone who dares to deviate from their party line.

On this day 54 years ago...  What is striking about the scandal known as Chappaquiddick is not how disgusting Ted Kennedy's behavior was — he got drunk, took a woman in his car with the intent to ravish her, drove off a bridge, escaped while leaving her to drown, and ran away to his family without notifying anyone.  The whole series of events was utterly depraved.  No, what is striking is that it didn't hurt Kennedy at all.  He faced neither legal consequences nor any political or social consequences.  He remained in the Senate for 4 decades, was a serious contender for the presidency, challenging a sitting president, and retired as the "Lion of the Senate."  Democrats adored him and memory-holed Mary Jo Kopechne as if her life meant nothing at all.  Because to them it did mean nothing.  We saw the same thing with Bill Clinton, whose crimes didn't rise to 2nd- or 3rd-degree murder, but rape was on the agenda, and his accusers were called "trailer trash" and unworthy of any support.  Believe all women.  Except when they accuse Democrats.

Having made her millions, a congresswoman will retire.  Democrat Grace Napolitano of California announced this weekend that she will retire when this term ends in January 2025.  She will be 88.  That you can retire from Congress reflects an electorate that pays scant attention to those who represent them in Washington, as shown by the 98% re-election rate in the House.  Grace went from being poor when she entered Congress after the 1998 election to a net worth of over $5 million.  This coincided with the national debt rising from under $6 trillion when she arrived to more than $32 trillion today.  Congress has overspent its annual allocation of taxes by more than $1 trillion a year during her tenure.  She got rich.  The nation went broke.  As Jerry Reed might sing, she got the gold mine; we got the shaft.  While many are the members of Congress whose wealth explodes while they oversee federal spending and regulate the companies they invest in, Grace was exceptionally good at increasing her net worth.  She did so well, she could be a Biden.

The Left's New Sugar Daddy Alex Soros Had 20 Meetings at Joe Biden's White House (So Far).  Alex Soros, the son and heir apparent to billionaire left-wing philanthropist George Soros, had 20 meetings at President Joe Biden's White House with Biden administration officials, according to the latest White House visitor logs.  According to the visitor logs, the younger Soros has visited the Biden White House 15 times, met with officials 20 times, and attended a state dinner for French President Emmanuel Macron at which President Biden was in attendance.

Eric Adams campaign donors indicted.  We know you're shocked.  This is a headline that you could pull up from the archives over the past twenty years or more.  Just swap out the names and a couple of office titles and the stories seem indistinguishable from one another.  Friends and associates of a high-ranking elected official in New York State or New York City have been indicted on campaign finance corruption charges.  This time it's a group of associates of New York City Mayor Eric Adams.  Six of his cronies, some of whom previously served with him in the NYPD, have been indicted over a scheme where they allegedly set up straw donors to funnel money into the Mayor's campaign coffers.  The group reportedly generated tens of thousands of dollars in donations and used a city matching fund program to amplify that amount significantly.  But the Mayor and his staff somehow knew nothing about any of this, according to his spokesperson.

'America's Darkest Secret': Sex Trafficking, Child Abuse and the Biden Administration.  The criminal practice of trafficking and abusing hundreds of thousands of migrant children who cross the southern border is now, thanks to the open-border policy of the Biden Administration, apparently "normal" inside the US: [...] Currently, at least 85,000 children are believed to be missing.  According to Customs and Border Protection statistics,  "[T]he number of UACs [Unaccompanied Alien Children] who arrive at the border has swelled from 33,239 in fiscal year 2020 to more than 146,000 in fiscal year 2021 and 152,000 in fiscal year 2022.  So far in fiscal year 2023, there have been more than 70,000 encounters of unaccompanied children."  Many of those children are raped, used for forced labor, and forced to undertake brutal jobs ostensibly to "work off" their debt by the criminal cartels who reportedly now control the Mexican side of the border and brought the children in.

What is there to be said about Jill Biden?  [Scroll down]  So, with help from James Clyburn, Biden it was; the most hapless, moronic and corrupt man to hold office for fifty years in Congress.  His reward for being exactly that, moronic and corrupt, was to fail upward, to be illegitimately installed as President.  And now, as a result of massive election theft, the ordination of the most incompetent, the most corrupt member of Congress, the man owned by China, Ukraine and perhaps even Romania, is our President.  He is the man that withdrew from Afghanistan in the most catastrophic pro-China manner possible, the man who on day one of his presidency opened our southern border to all comers, the man who has purposefully increased the ease with which the drug and sex trafficking cartels can operate within and without America with impunity.

The Traitor Class.  What America is up against is unlike anything we have ever encountered or experienced.  It has the potential of being more bloody than the Civil War and more threatening than both world wars.  But now we face an army of traitors... a traitor class, domestic enemies working behind the scenes in shadow.  They are dividing our country, destroying our freedom, our democratic republic, our sovereignty, our Judeo Christian values, our morality, the family unit, our culture, even our monuments to American heroes.  They are spending us into oblivion as Cloward and Piven envisioned.  The traitors are accomplishing this because they are getting no opposition.  A lot of people are confused.  They think it is just politics.  It is not just politics.  The Left is planning to deliver The United States to the New World Order in the next very few years and they are on schedule.  They are globalists, more loyal to their political party and to globalism than they are to their country.  They number in the many hundreds, maybe thousands.  They have taken over the Executive Branch, the Justice Department, certainly the FBI.  Half of the Senate and half of the House.  Almost the entire school system is teaching values contrary to our culture and religion

'Someone's got to go to prison'.  Our despicable and corrupt AG Garland will defend the criminals who are making our cities unlivable just as the equally corrupt Alejandro Mayorkas of DHS will continue to import millions of migrants from around the world no matter how devastating the damage to those same cities and to our economy.  These America-hating officials are only continuing the Obama-approved agenda of taking America down a few pegs.  Now they are in full destruction mode as are the Democrats in Congress.  Not one of them has broken with the party on immigration, on the irresponsible spending that will bankrupt us sooner rather than later, or on the cruel idiocy of transgenderism.  They have elevated their beloved LGBT activists above veterans, above the nuclear family, above all religious faiths.  They have made us a morally corrupt nation on its face, a gross insult to all law-abiding, America-loving citizens.

Living in a Media World.  Our country is now divided into two numerically equivalent ideological blocs.  Not surprisingly, those in the leftist bloc have been generally impervious to what conservatives and Republicans have exposed as scandals in their camp.  And there have been lots of them.  This long train of abuses would include Hunter Biden's acceptance of bribes from foreign governments, his father's likely involvement in Hunter's influence-peddling, the Democrats' weaponization of the administrative state against both political opponents and religious Christians, the witch hunt against Trump carried out on the basis of the discredited Steele dossier, and Biden's and Hillary Clinton's scandalous treatment of classified material.  Democratic iniquities might also include promoting programs to sexualize children, the championing of LGBT and CRT indoctrination in public schools and the military, our humiliating setbacks in foreign affairs, and the sacrifice of American energy independence in pursuit of a Green New Deal benefiting Communist China.

House Republicans Censure Adam Schiff for Falsifying Intelligence Information to Public.  Congressman Adam Schiff was the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence from 2015 through 2019, then Chairman of that same committee from 2019 through 2023.  In his leadership position on the HPSCI, Schiff was also a member of the congressional Gang of Eight who received classified intelligence briefings on all U.S. intel matters.  Adam Schiff used his position on the HPSCI to fabricate information from the HPSCI, leak information to media, and falsify statements during public appearances.  Following the 2020 midterm election result, Schiff was forcibly removed from the committee by Speaker Kevin McCarthy.  Today the House of Representatives censured Schiff for his lies and manipulative conduct and submitted him to an ethics investigation by the House.

Adam Schiff's Censure Is The Bare Minimum.  Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., has been at the center of every left-wing hoax orchestrated against former President Donald Trump since 2016. From the trumped-up claims of Russian collusion to a fabricated scandal over military aid in Ukraine to the conspiracies surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot as a desperate effort to impeach, Schiff has been the primary conductor.  So on Wednesday, hours after John Durham detailed the special counsel's findings in the Russia hoax investigation before the House Judiciary Committee, the lower chamber formally censured Schiff, who is presently seeking a seat in the Senate.  The resolution passed 213-209, with all Republicans voting in favor except for six who voted "present."  Democrats erupted in the well of the House, chanting "shame" and "disgrace" as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy slammed the gavel upon the vote.  The resolution forced Schiff to stand before lawmakers embarrassingly and requires the House Ethics Committee to probe the congressman's "falsehoods, misrepresentations, and abuses of sensitive information."

Revamped Schiff censure resolution to get vote on Wednesday.  The House is set to vote on a revamped resolution to censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Wednesday after the chamber blocked a similar measure targeting the California Democrat last week.  Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) called the revised measure to the floor as a privileged resolution on Tuesday, which forces the House to take action on the measure.  Democrats are expected to make a procedural motion to table the measure when it comes to the floor for a vote on Wednesday, which would require majority support.  The move from Luna comes after the House blocked her initial Schiff censure resolution last week.  Twenty Republicans joined Democrats in supporting a motion to table the measure which was enough to block the resolution from coming to the floor for a vote, effectively killing it.  Luna, however, made a number of changes to the resolution from last week to this week, and she said she now has enough votes for the measure to be approved.

Maybe it's not "disproportionate".  According to multiple sources, the suspect driver who fled is Derrick John Thompson, 27, the son of former DFL State Representative John Thompson.  Derrick Thompson previously pleaded guilty to fleeing police and causing a crash in Montecito, Calif. in September 2018, according to local media.  In that case, Thompson, who was 22 at the time, was fleeing from Ventura police and struck a pedestrian before bailing on foot. [...] [His father, f]ormer Rep. John Thompson, who became an activist after the police killing of his coworker Philando Castile in 2016, won a seat representing Saint Paul's east side in 2020. The next year, questions mounted as to whether or not Thompson actually lived in the district he was representing after police cited him for a July 2021 traffic violation in Saint Paul and he presented a Wisconsin ID.  Multiple allegations of domestic abuse surfaced and Minnesota House DFL voted to expel Thompson from its caucus.

Why Do We Tolerate Crime?  I wrote yesterday about the appalling murder — call it what it was — of five young Somali women by a career criminal named Derrick Thompson.  Derrick is the son of John Thompson, a former DFL legislator who is best known as an anti-police activist, and who also has a considerable criminal record, largely related to traffic violations.  Derrick Thompson was clocked at 95 to 100 mph on Highway 35W, probably the Twin Cities' busiest highway.  Before the Highway Patrol could pursue him, he exited the highway off a down ramp to Lake Street and immediately ran a red light, essentially vaporizing a car containing the five innocent young women.  [Video clip]  Twin Cities media outlets are focusing on the less-than-vital question of how that video leaked to the press.  That seems to be of more moment, in their eyes, than the five lives that were lost, and the left-wing criminal justice system that made the whole thing possible.

Prosecutors Quietly Drop Five Charges Against Democrat Megadonor Sam Bankman-Fried, Likely To Walk.  The crypto founder who stole $4 billion and gave half of it to Democrat candidates.  If he were a Republican he would be in federal prison for life.  This is Democrat justice.  Legal Analyst: "The prosecution is busily dismantling their own case to a degree that's obvious.  Someone doesn't want SBF to get any jail time."  [Tweet]

The Editor says...
If he goes to jail, he might start singing.

Charges Against FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Severed in High-Stakes Trial.  In a surprising turn of events, federal prosecutors in New York have made the decision to sever a number of criminal charges against FTX crypto executive Sam Bankman-Fried, with the possibility of trying him on those charges at a later date.  This decision comes in response to a recent ruling in the Bahamas, where Bankman-Fried can challenge the additional charges.  In a ruling on Thursday, a judge granted the request from prosecutors to split the high-profile criminal trial into two separate proceedings due to concerns that a Bahamian court's review could cause delays.

Cabinet secretary admits to lying under oath - why does she still have her job?  Jennifer Granholm is the Secretary of Energy, a high-level position in the Biden administration.  She sent a letter to Congress on Friday admitting to lying during her testimony under oath addressing her ownership of individual stocks.  Top government officials in charge of policy-making are not supposed to own stocks in companies that may present a conflict of interest.  Not only did she not completely divest all the stocks she owned, but she also kept six that were in her portfolio.  During her confirmation process, she told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that she did not own any individual stocks.  She did so under oath.  She didn't mention the six she held on to.  She sent a letter to the committee leadership on Friday in which she admits that she made a "mistake" in her testimony.

It's Past Time For Republicans To Impeach Biden And All His Top Officials.  We now have more evidence that Joe Biden is a criminal than Democrats faked in order to spy on and then impeach Donald Trump twice, hamstringing his entire four years in office.  Yet Trump has become the first president in U.S. history to be raided by the FBI and now indicted — over documents the Department of Justice will not identify, even to courts.  The indictment is a scam, on every level.  It is pure treachery designed to make a mockery of the American justice system to persecute Democrats' top political enemy.  Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Mike Pence, and Barack Obama all had "documents disputes," and none of them were indicted despite several of their offenses being clearly far worse than what's on the table with Trump.  The indictment is a farce.  And it's a dangerous one, as a very public and high-level weaponization of America's legal system for political purposes.  This is banana republic behavior, folks, and it's destroying what's left of the American constitutional order that preserves for all of us a way of life unparalleled in human history.

This is a joke that will be repeated over and over by the media and other Dems: 'No one is above the law'.  Here is a short list of people who have essentially been above the law no matter how many lies they tell under oath or how many crimes they commit.
  •   Hillary Clinton
  •   Lois Lerner
  •   Eric Holder
  •   James Clapper
  •   Adam Schiff
  •   Fifty-one former intelligence officials who vouched for a fictitious document to elect a corrupt Democrat.
  •   Andrew McCabe
  •   James Comey
  •   Joe Biden
They can commit fraud by lying to the FISA Court to illegally spy on political opponents.  They can lie to Congress and hide documents and the corrupt Justice Dept will let them off.  They can illegally target political opponents at IRS[.]  They can mishandle classified documents and destroy computers if they want, and corrupt officials will say that no one will prosecute such crimes.

Biden Energy Secretary Granholm Lied to Senate Under Oath About Stock Ownership.  It has just been revealed that Biden's Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm lied to the Senate under oath about the stocks she owns.  She admitted in a letter that she 'mistakenly' misinformed the Senate about her stock ownership and that her spouse owns stock in Ford, a company that is directly impacted by her work.  Will there be investigations and arrests?  After all, no one is above the law.  Isn't that what we're being told every day?

Recipe for Disaster: A Democrat President and a Democrat Senate.  Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security who keeps insisting the southern border is secure, intervened to help obtain a sentence commutation for the son of a major Democrat Party donor.  The son was a convicted drug dealer.  Then U.S. attorney Mayorkas approached the White House in 2000 on behalf of Carlos Vignali, a convicted drug trafficker whom prosecutors said was a leading figure in a drug ring with nearly three dozen members that stretched from California to Minnesota.  Vignali's father was a wealthy real-estate developer and a substantial donor to California Democrats.  He persuaded more than nine important Democrat politicians to approach Bill Clinton on his son's behalf.  He increased his political donations as his son's trial began, then donated ever-increasing amounts to the Democratic National Committee during their convention in Los Angeles.  The Vignali family also contributed to Xavier Becerra's political campaigns prior to his advocacy for Carlos.  Becerra is currently the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Kentucky Democrat Who Lost Bid to Unseat McConnell Fined $10K for Ethics Violations.  The Executive Branch Ethics Commission of Kentucky has finally completed its investigation of Democrat Alison Grimes, a former secretary of state who ran an unsuccessful campaign for Senate against Sen. Mitch McConnell in 2014.  The commission, in a unanimous vote, has fined her $10,000 for abusing "her position and influence" to provide 18 Democratic candidates with official, confidential voter lists in violation of state law in an obvious attempt to aid their political campaigns.  The commission opened its investigation in 2021, after her father, Gerald "Jerry" Lundergan, a former state representative and former chairman of the Kentucky Democratic Party, was convicted of violating federal campaign finance laws.  Along with a political consultant, who was also convicted, Lundergan illegally funneled more than $200,000 from one of his companies to his daughter's Senate campaign.

Corruption Of President Biden — And Of The Justice Department, And Of The Media.  On Wednesday [5/10/2023] Congressman James Comer and some colleagues held their.long-promised press conference detailing new information about corruption of the President of the United States.  I happened to be driving at the time (not common for Manhattanites like me) and so listened to a portion of the event.  The oral presentation was expressed in general terms that mostly reiterated things that we already knew.  Added to our previous knowledge was information from recently produced and analyzed bank records that enabled pinpointing exact dates, sources and amounts of various payments from foreign entities to intermediary shell corporations and thence on to various Bidens. [...] And thus little by little we learn more details about our current President accepting large amounts of money from multiple foreign countries, one of which is our most significant geopolitical adversary.  I don't think I'm the only one whose jaw drops when I find out that our "leaders" at the very highest levels — in other words, the President — think that it's perfectly OK to take millions from foreign governments that include global adversaries, hide it with intermediaries and shell companies, and refuse to answer questions of any kind.  Wasn't there a time when the United States was a place where this kind of thing just was not done?

Puppy Dog Republicans [are] Afraid to Act.  Once again, virtually every phony charge against President Trump was proven to be false, virtually every claim he made about being spied on was proven true and the FBI has been revealed — again — to be a politically unethical organization far more concerned with tipping the electoral scales in favor of the Democrats than they are concerned with fighting crime.  The Durham Report is just the latest in a long line of negative findings about prominent Democrats that never seems to result in any of them paying any tangible penalty for their wrongdoing. [...] The examples of Democrat Party malfeasance go on and on, through the three-letter acronym agencies Like the FBI, CIA, and IRS, Democrat politicians like Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell, and Elizabeth Warren who intentionally introduce false evidence into official government proceedings, have illicit affairs with hostile foreign operatives, and willfully misrepresent themselves to gain unfair professional advantage.

Is Adam Schiff About to Be Expelled From Congress?  In the aftermath of Special Counsel John Durham proving Congressman Adam Schiff lied to the American people for years about so-called "Russian collusion," House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is demanding accountability and hinting the California Democrat could be on his way out. [Tweet]  Late Tuesday evening, Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna submitted a resolution expelling Schiff from the House of Representatives.  [Tweet]

Liberal Justices Had Political Entanglements That Were Largely Ignored By Democrats.  Between 2004 and 2018, justices collectively disclosed taking 1,306 trips paid for by others, including 219 taken by Breyer, some of which were paid for by a wealthy Democratic donor family, according to Open Secrets.  Three of Breyers trips in 2018 were funded by the Chicago-based Pritzker family, which has donated millions of dollars to Democratic causes.  Breyer, who serves on the Pritzker Prize for Architecture jury, took two of those trips as part of that role.  Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz highlighted Breyer's travel during Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Supreme Court ethics.  "In 2019, [Justice Breyer] traveled to New York City, to Vancouver and Paris," Cruz said.  "In 2018, Justice Breyer traveled to Ireland and Spain.  In 2016, he traveled to New York, Spain and France.  In 2013, he traveled to Norway, Sweden and Denmark.  In 2012, he traveled to Beijing and to London — all of this paid for by the Pritzker Foundation."  "I'm not suggesting that he is corrupt," Cruz continued.  "What I am suggesting is this committee is corrupt."

Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman Sold up to $15,000 in Bank Stock Two Days Before Value Plummeted.  Democrat Rep. Daniel Goldman (NY) sold up to $15,000 worth of stock in PacWest Bancorp just two days before the bank's stock took a significant plunge, according to his financial disclosures.  Goldman sold his PacWest Bancorp stock on March 6, when the institution's stock was valued at $27.40.  However, the value plummeted two days later amid news of Silicon Valley Bank's failure.  PacWest Bancorp's stock is currently valued at $3.42, a decline of more than 87 percent, as the Washington Free Beacon noted.

While we're talking SCOTUS ethics ... what about Sotomayor's?  Senate Democrats, led by Dick Durbin, seem obsessed these days with supposed appearances of impropriety by conservative Supreme Court justices.  Does that concern over the integrity of the court extend to its liberal wing — perhaps to its senior member taking in millions from a conglomerate with repeated cases before the court?  A justice who never bothered to recuse herself from them? [...] Sotomayor's defenders will push back on this by claiming that she at least disclosed those payments, while Clarence Thomas never disclosed his travel arrangements and other personal gifts from Harlan Crow.  That is a red herring, however.  In the first place, the disclosure rules for the Supreme Court didn't require Thomas to make those disclosures, although they do now.  In the second place, Crow didn't have business before the Supreme Court, so there was no conflict of interest at all.  To claim that Thomas is an equal or worse violator of ethics as Sotomayor is to invert the entire purpose of disclosure and ethics.

Liberal SCOTUS Justice Took $3M From Book Publisher, Didn't Recuse From Its Cases.  Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor declined to recuse herself from multiple copyright infringement cases involving book publisher Penguin Random House despite having been paid millions by the firm for her books, making it by far her largest source of income, records show.  In 2010, she got a $1.2 million book advance from Knopf Doubleday Group, a part of the conglomerate.  In 2012, she reported receiving two advance payments from the publisher totaling $1.9 million.  In 2013, Sotomayor voted in a decision for whether the court should hear a case against the publisher called Aaron Greenspan v. Random House, despite then-fellow Justice Stephen Breyer recusing after also receiving money from the publisher.  Greenspan was a Harvard classmate of Mark Zuckerberg's who wrote a book about the founding of Facebook and contended that Random House rejected his book proposal and then awarded a deal to another author who copied his book and eventually turned it into the movie The Social Network.  In 2017, Sotomayor began receiving payments each year from Penguin Random House itself, which continued annually through at least 2021, the most recent disclosure available, and totaled more than $500,000.

Liberal SCOTUS Justice Caught in Scandal That Blows Up Recent Left-Wing Attacks.  There's one certainty in politics.  If a Democrat is accusing a Republican of doing something, it is the Democrat who is inevitably actually doing it.  That dynamic played out again Wednesday after a major revelation about Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor called into question all the recent left-wing attacks on Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch. [...] These attacks have been absolutely ridiculous, but that didn't stop Senate Democrats from calling a hearing to furiously wag their fingers.  Well, they are going to have to call another hearing because it's been revealed that Sotomayor took $3.6 million from a book company that did have business before the court at the time.

Democrat Lawmaker Lois Frankel Sold First Republic Stock Before It Crashed by 80%.  Investor Matt Allen posted an interesting tweet on how one Democrat lawmaker was able to wade through the collapse of First Republic Bank.  Congresswoman Lois Frankel sold First Republic Bank in March before the stock dropped 80%[.]  After she sold First Republic, she bought JP Morgan Chase which just bought First Republic.  She clearly had inside information.

GOP Arizona State Representatives File Formal Ethics Complaint Against House Democrat Who Was Caught Red-Handed Stealing Bibles.  Three GOP Arizona State House members have filed a formal ethics complaint against Democrat Arizona State Rep. Stephanie Stahl-Hamilton, citing " for unethical conduct and behavior undignified of a Member of the Arizona House of Representatives."  This comes after the Representative admitted last week to stashing bibles around the House members-only lounge in order to hide them from other members.  As The Gateway Pundit reported, Representative Stephanie Stahl-Hamilton, a so-called ordained minister, was caught by a security camera earlier this month hiding Bibles by stuffing them in couch cushions and the refrigerator of the House members-only lounge.

MTG Roasts Swalwell For Sleeping With Chinese Spy During Hearing.  In 2020, Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Eric Swalwell, confirmed his past relationship with a woman named Fang Fang (or Christine Fang), who was suspected of being a Chinese intelligence operative.  On Wednesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene hilariously roasted Swalwell after he spoke during a congressional hearing, saying, "That was quite entertaining from someone that had a sexual relationship with a Chinese spy.  And everyone knows it!"

Dem Rep Listed As 'Co-Chair' Of Yet Another Nonprofit With Ties To Chinese Communist Party.  California Democratic Rep. Judy Chu is listed as the "co-chair" of an organization that includes several members with ties to alleged Chinese Communist Party (CCP) overseas influence operations, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation found.  In 2014, Chu, who the DCNF previously discovered was listed as a member of two other nonprofits with apparent ties to Chinese intelligence, joined the "International Federation of Chamber of Commerce [sic]" (IFCC), an organization that shares a website and personnel with the California-based 501(c)(6) nonprofit U.S.-Chinese General Chamber of Commerce (UCCC), according to UCCC's website and images from IFCC's launch.  Chu is currently listed as "co-chair" on UCCC's website.  By its own admission, UCCC and IFCC have cooperated with Chinese government agencies and CCP bureaus that the U.S. government has identified as influence operations, and since 2014, at least six of their leaders have variously served as members of the CCP, the Chinese government and/or alleged Chinese intelligence front groups.

Biden White House Is So Polluted With Sleaze It Should Be a Superfund Site.  There used to be a lot of talk in America about "respecting the office of the presidency" even if one found the current officeholder objectionable.  For most of my adult life, I've tried to do just that.  Then the questionable COVID-19 election gave us a president whose pudding brain is being run by a bunch of far-left psychos who don't respect the office at all.  Joe Biden's handlers have turned the office of the presidency into a cesspool of graft that makes Richard Nixon look like a soloist in a boys' choir by comparison.  It truly seems as if the mission statement of the Biden administration is to corrupt everyone in the Executive Branch on its way to destroying trust in our institutions and eventually the Republic itself.  The worst aspect of this Constitution-shredding presidency has been the way it transformed the Federal Bureau of Investigation from being a domestic security agency to a taxpayer-funded organized crime goon squad.  What little faith conservatives had in government has been shattered by that, and it's not going to be coming back.

Reports of Hundreds of Thousands of Likely Illegal Donations to Democrats — Totally Ignored by Republican Party.  Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent off a letter to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) demanding an investigation into the hundreds of thousands of small donations adding up to millions of dollars given to Democratic fundraising giant ActBlue in the past two elections. [...] The Gateway Pundit was the first to report that ActBlue was raising money using BLM as its front group.  ActBlue is the Democrats' funding apparatus.  We know this from our early reporting and from the fact that BLM later admitted this.  In 2022 Black Lives Matter announced in February 2022 that the organization was deactivating its fundraising pages on ActBlue.  This was after the Washington Examiner exposed that BLM was still accepting donations on the Democratic platform despite claiming it had stopped amid questions about its finances.  The Daily Caller confirmed that ActBlue was using BLM to raise money.

The Democrats Don't Want You to Read This Article About Their (Alleged) Money Laundering Scam.  Public records show some Democrat supporters appear to have been donating multiple small amounts of money — sometimes dozens of times per day — that add up to tens of thousands of dollars.  Naturally, the Department of Justice seems to be too busy to look into what is likely a colossal money-laundering scheme.  While the DOJ spends its time chasing "terrorist" parents who attend school board meetings and mother-daughter "insurrection" teams, individual straw donors are — apparently unwittingly — being used to make thousands of donations every year worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more.

San Diego county supervisor sex scandal blowing up.  Back in January, I painted a little picture for you of what a socialist, woke hellhole the formerly idyllic San Diego had become.  Between banning natural gas, proposed mileage taxes, and rigging the scales so the votes of Democratic supervisors and their reps from populated sections of the county were weighted more than the rest, it certainly has meant good times for the ruling progressive junta.  There seems to have been seismic shaking going on over the past week and a half, with so many major Democratic players involved who have their fingers in so many plums in this pie, it'll take a minute to explain it all.  But what it might wind up doing is giving citizens of SanDiego a chance to get some of their own back.  We'll see.  Lemme try to sort it out.  Nathan Fletcher is the name of the county supervisor for District 4.  The former state assemblyman and Qualcomm exec is one half of a Southern California power couple, married in 2017 to a former Democratic assemblywoman now union boss named Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher.  He was, at one time, a Republican but got whipped twice running for San Diego mayor and realized what side his bread was buttered on.  His wife, already a major player, had lots of butter in 2018 with which to advance her new hubby's career.

Son of billionaire George Soros has visited the White House 14 times in just over a year.  The son of billionaire philanthropist George Soros made more than a dozen trips to the White House last year as he follows in his father's footsteps as a prolific Democratic networker.  Alexander Soros, 37, frequently posts shots of himself with Democratic politicians including Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and Sen. Chuck Schumer — whom he called a 'good friend.'  And recently-updated White House logs reveal he has visited at least 14 times since December 2021.

The Democratic Party's Foreign Sugar Daddies.  The Democratic Party may not be any good at cultivating a healthy economy, governing, or protecting the rights of average Americans, but they excel in all forms of election cheating.  Case in point:  Campaign finance fraud.  We've already covered [a recent] illegal campaign contributions indictment.  But don't think Democrats are content with merely sucking up illegal American contributions.  No, Democrats have also mastered the art of illegally sucking up illegal campaign contributions from foreigners abroad.

Leo DiCaprio's sworn testimony is a gross reminder of how the D.C. Establishment makes the sausage.  Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio recently testified at the trial of rapper Pras Michel, who stands accused of accepting money from Malaysian fugitive tycoon Jho Low, to influence U.S. politics.  First a bit of a background about Michel and Low.  Michel was a member of the hip hop band Fugees.  Low allegedly embezzled $4.5 billion from Malaysia's state investment fund, making it the biggest scandal of its kind in history.  Michel allegedly received over $100 million from Low.  Low allegedly recruited Michel to funnel the money to Obama's reelection bid using an illegal network of third parties paid for by foreign funds.  (Foreigners cannot donate to U.S. campaigns under federal election law.)  The prosecutors have accused Michel of receiving $21.6 million in payments from foreign accounts linked to Low, funds which the rapper then paid out to roughly twenty straw donors between June and November 2012.

Ari Fleischer: Conservative Prosecutors Have to Go After Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Hunter Biden.  Some conservatives have suggested that the Democrat persecution of Trump won't stop until conservatives start going after Democrats in the same way.  Former George W. Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer is now one of them.  Last night on the Hannity show, he suggested that conservative prosecutors need to go after people like the Clintons and Hunter Biden.  [Video clip]

Rep. James Comer says two county attorneys have asked him how they can 'go after the Bidens'.  Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., said that two county attorneys from Tennessee and Kentucky have asked him how they can "go after" the Biden's following Former President Trump's indictment.  Comer made the comments on Wednesday on Fox & Friends.  "And I'll tell you, one of the things that I don't think it's been picked up a lot that's going to be a problem.  And I had two calls yesterday, one from a county attorney in Kentucky and one from a county attorney in Tennessee.  They were Republican, obviously, both states are heavily Republican.  They want to know if there are ways they can go after the Biden's now," Comer said.  He added that the Democrats have "opened a can of worms."

Exposed: RICO Election Crimes in Washington State.  If you think that the Organized Racketeering (RICO) Elections Crimes being exposed around the country (Arizona, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and other states etc.) are not happening in Washington State, then you are sadly mistaken.  We are on to them, and are finding many ways the criminals are illegally manipulating (stealing) our elections.  As just one example, to see how large scale and serious the election fraud is in our state, go to the Federal Election Commission Website [elsewhere], on the left side of the page type in ANY Zip code in the provided field, and Not Employed in the Employer filter.  You will then see a screen of the names of the Contributors, notice the vast majority of their donations (.01 to $20) end up going to ActBlue (Dem Operatives).  The problem being, the record reflects that many of the individual donors are EACH donating, in many cases, hundreds or THOUSANDS of times between 01/01/2021 and 12/31/2022.

Indict One — and All?  The Left repeatedly breaks laws and long-held customs with impunity by weaponizing federal offices and bureaus, whether defined in the legal sphere by mostly exempting 120 days of mass rioting, looting, arson, mayhem, and lethal violence in the summer of 2020, or procedurally by denying the House minority leader the right to nominate his party members to committees, or ceremonially having the speaker of the House tear up the presidential State-of-the-Union Address on national television.  By any fair application of past tradition and the law, Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas should be impeached for their deliberate efforts to subvert U.S. immigration law for political purposes.  By any just measure, Joe Biden should be the target of a special counsel's investigation to ascertain how and why the Biden family received hidden funds from foreign governments and whether Biden himself paid taxes on such large sums.

Forget 2,000 Mules; O'Keefe Points to 2,000 Donors.  Remember the documentary 2,000 Mules, where it was alleged that Democrats were illegally stuffing drop boxes by hiring agents to drop off ballots in the middle of the night?  Well, turns out that's not the only way Democrats have been manipulating elections.  James O'Keefe brings a new allegation of illegal campaign work.  This time via donations.

If 'No One Is Above The Law,' Democrats And Their Partisan Pawns Would Be Arraigned, Not Trump.  The same people who love lording "no one is above the law" over Americans are the ones who think they are above any semblance of oversight or law, or constitutionality.  If Democrats truly valued rule of law, illegal border crossers, Russia hoaxers, Jeffrey Epstein's clients, pro-abortion vandals, rioters, and the people who run corrupt government agencies like the Department of Justice, the FBI, the NSA, and the Manhattan DA's office would be the ones standing in court next week, not Trump.

Democrat Party's Prosecutorial Abuse Crusade to Rig 2024 Election Has Only Begun.  There are 19 months between now and Election Day 2024.  Trust me, what the Democrats have in store to rig the 2024 presidential election through prosecutorial abuse has only just begun.  To begin with, you have to remember just how vile and depraved the Democrat party has become.  To appease their demonic base, Democrats like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi openly advocate for child mutilation, gay porn in elementary schools, mentally ill men invading the girls' locker rooms, and exposing little kids to the kind of depraved drag queens who want to expose themselves to kids.  What's more, to hold on to a U.S. Senate seat, Democrats were willing to kill John Fetterman.  Additionally, Democrats have openly aligned with the rioters, murderers, and cop killers in Antifa and Black Lives Matter.  Democrats are so eager for power and to replace Americans with more compliant illegal immigrants, they are willing to flood our country with the poison of fentanyl and enable sex trafficking, including the trafficking of children.

U.S. charges FTX's Bankman-Fried with paying $40 mln Chinese bribe.  U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday unveiled a new indictment against Sam Bankman-Fried, accusing the founder of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange of paying a $40 million bribe to Chinese officials so they would unfreeze his hedge fund's accounts.  The new bribery conspiracy charge adds to the pressure on the 31-year-old former billionaire, who now faces a 13-count indictment over the November collapse of FTX.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm praises China.  What at first would appear to be a head-scratcher comes sharply into focus only when you understand that China is constantly increasing its greenhouse gas output without U.S. rebuke.  Its output is now greater than all the other developed nations combined!  Nothing the rest of the world (i.e.  America and Europe both committed to net zero) does will achieve Biden's stated goals to "save" the planet.  China greenlights two coal plants a week while the U.S. and Europe shutter their own, risking brownouts and people dying from the cold!  Why are we such zealots for dumping our traditional sources of energy with nothing on the near horizon to replace our needs?  Granholm knows what's going on, and, like our President, both are in the tank for an ever-ascendant China.

House Democrat Caught Running $30 Million Offshore Nonprofit in Tax Haven Islands.  Newly disclosed financial documents show that a House Democrat leading the charge against income inequality has stashed over $30 million in a tax-free international haven to support his nonprofit.  The Richard W. Goldman Foundation, which for a decade has provided charitable efforts on behalf of the disadvantaged, reported holding $32.2 million in investments harbored within the Cayman Islands, a renowned haven for wealthy individuals and corporations seeking to relieve tax burdens.  The organization was founded in 2012 by Democratic Congressman Daniel Goldman of New York.  Documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission list Goldman as financial director for the Goldman Foundation, giving him control over where and how its assets are managed.

Democratic Congressman Daniel Goldman of New York Holding $32+ Million in Cayman Island Bank Account.  Here's a fun little bit of datamining by the folks at TrendingPolitics.  Apparently, former DOJ apparatchik and current New York Representative Daniel Goldman is holding $32+ million in a Cayman Island bank account.  Goldman was one of Los Tres Amigos conscripted from the DOJ who was enlisted by Mary McCord to run the public face of the House impeachment effort against President Trump.  More recently sketchy Goldman attempted to run defense for the Mueller-Weissmann team during testimony about the Twitter files.  Considering his legal exposure to the multiple frauds he assisted and perpetrated, it seems part of his financial risk mitigation is to keep his bank accounts in the Cayman Islands.  Curiously interesting, because it's always worth noting what ammunition the Fourth Branch carries to keep their toadies in line.

A lot of major Democrat donors have a couple things in common.  Besides being major contributors to Democrats over the years, what else do the following people have in common?
  •   Alex Murdaugh
  •   Bernie Madoff
  •   George Soros
  •   Jeffrey Epstein
  •   Samuel Bankman Fried
  •   Mark Zuckerberg
  •   Marc Rich
They were all involved with serious crimes.  Besides committing murder, Murdaugh, was a serial thief.  Why hasn't the media demanded that Hillary, Biden, and others send back their contributions in order to help pay the victims?  Bernie Madoff was a career criminal who stole billions and some of that money went to politicians who were mostly Democrats.  I don't believe the politicians gave the money to a victim's fund.  George Soros was convicted of a felony in France and served no time.  He spends massive amounts of money on radical leftist causes to remake and destroy America, including supporting radical soft-on-crime prosecutors. [...] Marc Rich was on the most wanted list for a long time but all he had to do to be above the law was donate to the Clintons.

Democratic Corruption Revealed.  The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has been urged by an advocacy organization to look into payments made by Rep. Cori Bush to her spouse for personal security services during a campaign.  The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) requested that the FEC investigate whether Rep. Cori Bush and the campaign team might have misappropriated campaign money for their own use in a petition.  This request was lodged to Lisa Stevenson, the FEC's acting legal director, on Thursday [3/2/2023].  Bush's campaign paid Cortney Merritts, who is currently married to her, $60,000 in 2022 for security services, ignoring the fact he did not possess a personal security certification, which is required to offer these services in the St. Louis area.

Cori Bush Married Her Unlicensed Security Guard While Calling To Defund Police.  Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., married her unlicensed security guard to whom she funneled campaign cash while condemning police protection for poor people, according to a new report from Fox News.  Bush, a member of the left-wing "squad" in the lower chamber, dished out $60,000 for private security last year provided by her now-husband, Cortney Merritts.  Merritts, however, has no private security license, and a Fox News open-records request with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department turned up empty.  "When asked if Merritts ever had a private security license, the administrator said that the 'last security license issued to that individual expired in 2012,'" Fox News reported.  "The records search — which covered the city of St. Louis and its neighboring St. Louis County — encompasses Bush's entire congressional district."  Local regulations stipulate official security must be registered with authorities.

Cori Bush Paying Her Now-Husband $60,000 for 'Security' Just Turned Into a Bona Fide Scandal.  As RedState reported, Cori Bush recently got married.  But the fact that she found someone to put up with her wasn't the surprising part.  Rather, it was that the man, Courtney Merritts, was previously paid $60,000 by Bush's campaign to provide security services.  Even at first glance, the situation seemed suspicious.  Was this really just a serendipitous example of workplace love?  Or was Bush using the relationship as a way to funnel money back to herself?  Well, that question just got [...] a lot more complicated because Fox News is reporting that Merritts does not have a security license in Missouri.

Stacey Abrams Charity Has a $500,000 Problem In Its Latest Tax Filing.  Over half a million dollars is missing from the New Georgia Project, a discrepancy which experts say is grounds for state and federal investigations into the Stacey Abrams-founded group and the woman Abrams tapped to run it.  The New Georgia Project filed its 2021 Form 990 financial disclosure in January, two months after the form was due to the IRS, and three months after the charity's board chairman fired CEO Nse Ufot, Abrams's hand-picked leader for the group.  In the disclosure, the New Georgia Project reports a $533,846 consulting payment and a $67,500 grant to the Black Male Initiative, an obscure charity run in part by Ufot's brother, Edima, a former New Georgia Project employee.

Experts call for investigation into Stacey Abrams charity over missing $500,000.  Experts are calling for an investigation into a Stacey Abrams-founded charity over a large financial discrepancy.  The New Georgia Project, a minority-focused democracy advocacy group founded in 2013, was run by Nse Ufot, hand-picked by Abrams, until she was fired in October.  The group filed its 2021 Form 990 financial disclosure three months later, when the form was two months overdue, an investigation by the Washington Free Beacon found.  The group reported a $533,846 consulting payment and $67,500 grant to an obscure charity called the Black Male Initiative, run by Ufot's brother.  However, the group claims it never received any such payment.  The group provided its Internal Revenue Service filings to the outlet, which show $0 in consulting fees and just $255,000 from all sources.

Biden Family Values: They like to live large.  Joe Biden likes to advertise himself as ordinary 'Scranton Joe' who's a family man and "devout" Catholic to the public.  A look at news rolling out about Biden's extended family in the wake of recent scandals suggests a different story.  Far from being Lunchbucket Joe, House Biden is more like Venezuela's Maduro family, or Chavez family, or Cuba's Castro oligarchs. [...] All we have to do is look at the latest story from the Daily Mail about how Joe used his "pull" to get his ne'er-do-well niece Caroline a fancy new job she'd never have otherwise gotten as a convicted criminal on probation for a $100,000 credit card theft. [...] How [...] she managed to avoid prison for that is as mysterious as how Hunter Biden got into Yale.  That kind of stuff happens When You're A Biden, which almost sounds like a Broadway song.  What other Scranton Joe family has a "big guy" who can get every relative, down to nieces and nephews, out of any jam they get themselves into.  It wasn't just her.  Hunter Biden was time and time again spared charges and jail time over his tax evasion, his falsification of his gun permit application, evidence of bribery and influence peddling, and his numerous drug incidents.  He lived a wild and free-spending life at Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood as recently as 2018, around the time when he was occasionally driving old dad's Corvette from the Biden family garage where the misplaced classified documents were held.  He seemed to have gotten a sweet deal in his string of homes around the Venice, California area.

Schiff hit with ethics complaint one day into Senate campaign for using Trump impeachment video.  An ethics watchdog group on Friday asked the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) to investigate Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., for using footage from the Senate floor in an ad announcing his run for the Senate.  The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) sent a complaint to the OCE's chief counsel that asked for an immediate probe into whether Schiff "abused official resources for political purposes" by using the video.

How the Deep State Destroyers Threaten Your Way of Life.  The Destroyers know they have limited time to do their mischief before they're found out.  Once light shines on them, like cockroaches, they'll scurry to the darkest recesses they can find.  These people know that the clock is ticking, and it is getting harder and harder to hide the damage they are doing to us all. [...] Those working to destroy us don't want — they even fear — a strongly ethical country.  We always come back to the obvious:  morality and ethics are essential to keep society on the straight and narrow.  We live in a world where 1 + 1 no longer equals two, and where doing the right thing can make you an object of ridicule or, even worse, see you sued, beaten up, or prosecuted.  Prosecutors aren't even prosecuting theft, hit and run, or assault in some jurisdictions.

Bipartisan coalition making new push to ban congressional stock trading.  A bipartisan group of lawmakers is making a new push to ban members of Congress from private stock trading.  It's an attempt to "demonstrate that lawmakers are focused on serving the interests of the American people — not their own stock portfolios," Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a Virginia Democrat, said in reintroducing the measure along with Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy.  After failing to get a floor vote when last introduced in 2021, the "TRUST (Transparent Representation Upholding Service and Trust) in Congress Act," gained increasing support across the political spectrum in 2022 with 75 cosponsors, and its backers say that the number will grow even larger this time around.

Time to Impeach Biden.  When it was reported that Joe Biden had classified materials in his "office" at the University of Pennsylvania my first thought was wondering if Joe even knew where this "office" was.  Joe likes to lie about having been a professor at Penn, but everyone not him knows that's a pile [of] garbage — the guy never taught one course, just hammered massive checks (from money we now know came from the Chinese communist government).  But in the reality inside Biden's vacuous head he wears a cape to work and women clamor to be shoved against a wall and violated or simply to have their hair sniffed.  In the real world, we've spent the last year being lectured about the importance of handling classified materials.  Even Adam Schiff, who you'd think makes his living leaking classified materials to the media from the House Intelligence Committee, and Eric Swalwell, the moronic, gaseous boob who fell for the Fang Fang communist Chinese honey trap even a blind man could see coming, had stern words for Trump's actions.  Now, curiously, they're both silent over what Biden did.  Not because they have been booted from the Intelligence Committee by Republicans (Democrats had no problem with leaking classified materials and were likely so shocked that anyone would sleep with Swalwell, even a spy, that they let it slide), but because they simply are not honest people, nor do they care all that much about protecting the interests of the United States.

Bankman-Fried met with White House officials at least four times before FTX collapse.  Sam Bankman-Fried was no stranger to the White House.  The embattled cryptocurrency mogul, who has been accused of bilking FTX customers out of billions of dollars, met with Steve Ricchetti, a senior adviser to President Biden, on Sept. 8, according to Bloomberg News.  Visitor logs also show Mr. Bankman-Fried was at the White House at least three other times, including a pair of meetings on April 22 and May 12 with Mr. Ricchetti, and the following day with White House deputy chief of staff Bruce Reed.

Bankman-Fried: The worst-case scenario.  The widespread observation that "Sam Bankman-Fried didn't kill himself" demonstrates the level of cynicism about the fate of well-connected insiders when faced with the opportunity to spill their guts and incriminate the most powerful people in return for a lenient sentence.  The example of Jeffrey Epstein's death hangs like a cloud over Bankman-Fried. [...] If Ellison and Wang receive lenient or no punishment and Bankman-Fried also gets a merciful deal, the case will undeniably indicate that our system of justice is a joke.  When that perception is embraced by all levels of society, we regress to a state of nature where the powerful prey on the weak with no restraints.

Secret Backchannel Between White House and FTX Operative Revealed, Raises Serious Questions About Biden Involvement.  Sam Bankman-Fried, the man at the center of the FTX scandal, is back on US soil after having been extradited from the Bahamas to face federal charges.  Naturally, because our justice system is about as coherent as a two-year-old quoting Shakespeare, the notorious fraudster was immediately granted bail and is now spending the holidays with his family.  The American oligarchy is alive and well.  But I digress, there's a lot more to the FTX scandal than just Bankman-Fried's fate, and one of the more interesting aspects of the entire ordeal is just how close many Democrats were to him.  In fact, according to Politico, a Democrat operative and close advisor to Bankman-Fried named Sean McElwee had a direct backchannel setup with the White House.  [Tweet]

A Biden and Bankman-Fried connection emerging?  Thomas Lifson and other observers have noticed the strange kid-glove treatment that accused crypto-fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried has been getting since his arrest in the Bahamas after reportedly misappropriating and losing billions in customer funds.  It was natural to note the huge campaign funding Bankman-Fried delivered, particularly to Democrats, at least $40 million, making him their second-largest donor. [...] If Biden or his surrogates were talking to this guy, then it merits a congressional investigation as soon as the House changes hands.  The public has a right to know why this enterprise was shielded from regulation, saw its founder given the kid-glove treatment upon his arrest, and somehow managed to rip off billions undetected, with the only thing he needed to do was throw money at Democrats.  Note that most Democrats have yet to return their funds from his bad operation, and arguably won elections based on the stolen cash.

Reports of a quarter billion dollar 'bond' for Bankman-Fried are almost as fraudulent as the crimes of which he is accused.  The public is being bamboozled about the conditions for pretrial release of accused mega-fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried.  It is the worst possible signal to those who fear that his scores of millions of dollars of political donations have bought him kid-glove treatment by the judicial system.  The stories you read and hear from the media would have you believe that a "record" bail of $250 million has been paid to ensure that he doesn't flee the country or otherwise evade prosecution.  Where that figure comes from, I don't know, but this account from The Hill suggests that the federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York had a hand in it: [...] Bankman-Fried stated in an interview with Andrew Ross-Sorkin of the New York Times at a public event that he had about $100,000 in funds available, so he was incapable of posting any bond beyond that amount.  And it turns out, it was his parents who signed a lien on their equity in their home in Palo Alto, California to guarantee payment of the quarter billion-dollar bond should Bankman-Fried forfeit his bond by fleeing to Dubai or some other trick.  Palo Alto real estate is extremely expensive, but I seriously doubt that their home is worth more than a small percent of the publicized amount of the bond.  But the media mostly do not report this fact, or if they do, they bury it.

The curious timing of 'scammy' Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto-bust.  When alleged crypto-fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried finished testifying at a congressional hearing last December, Democrat Maxine Waters, chair of the House Financial Services Committee, blew him a kiss as he walked by.  And why not, since the shambolic 30-year-old former multibillionaire is acknowledged to be the second-biggest donor to the Democrats, after George Soros.  He helped bankroll Joe Biden into the White House and had promised to donate $1 billion to help the party win the 2024 presidential election.  There are those, such as Elon Musk, who allege that SBF, as he is called, already has funneled $1 billion of stolen customer funds to Dem causes via various dark money PACs.  Others on Wall Street put the number lower, at maybe $500 million.

The Dinkins Magic Voting Machines.  Just days before voting in the 1993 David Dinkins/Rudolf Giuliani election, the New York Times reported that a number of voting machines had been found in a closed Manhattan school.  All the machines were loaded with votes for Democrat incumbent David Dinkins.  Voting proceeded without the help of those machines, and of course Rudy was elected.  But that was the end of it.  As far as I've been able to learn, there was no investigation, no inquiries, or, for that matter, any further reportage on it.  A Democrat attempt to steal the NYC mayoral election was flushed down the memory hole.

Elon Musk claims disgraced FTX crypto exchange CEO Sam Bankman-Fried donated more than $1 billion to Democrats and asks 'Where did it go?'.  Elon Musk has suggested that disgraced crypto exchange billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried donated more than $1 billion to Democrats before FTX's collapse.  Musk's allegation, if true, would mean SBF donated significantly more than the initially reported $40 million figure to Democratic politicians, ahead of his business's total meltdown.  On Friday, healthcare tech startup CEO Will Mandis tweeted:  'SBF donating $40m to not go to jail for stealing $10b+ is one of the highest ROI trades of all time,' referring to the known number in donations to Democratic politicians.

Sam Bankman-Fried: Why isn't that guy in jail?  Democrat mega-donor Sam Bankman-Fried, whose cryptocurrency platform FTX just collapsed in a hail of fraud allegations, pretty well walks around free to do what he pleases, out in the palmy Bahamas.  That raises questions as to what is going on here, why that guy isn't, like Bernie Madoff or the assorted Enron characters, in jail for his misappropriation of customer funds from his cryptocurrency exchange, FTX, through a secret "back-door," to his Alameda Research hedge fund, run by his kinky-weird ex-girlfriend, Caroline Ellison.  FTX did, after all, insist to its cryptocurrency platform customers that it would never use their deposits for speculative trading purposes.

Keywords:  Buying votes, money laundering, slush fund, graft.
Oakland Will Send Taxpayer Dollars To Residents So They Can Donate To Politicians.  Oakland, California, is set to give adult residents vouchers to donate to candidates for local office every other year, according to The San Francisco Chronicle.  Nearly 74% of the city's voters approved Measure W, mandating that the city biannually send four $25 dollar vouchers to residents 18 years of age and older for donations to mayoral, City Council or school board candidates, the outlet reported.  The program will be paid for with city general funds and include legal permanent residents who lack U.S. citizenship.

Recording Shows Warnock Campaign Calling Out-of-State Residents for Votes.  The Georgia runoff election is quickly approaching, with Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock battling it out for the last undecided, US Senate seat of the cycle.  Naturally, that means electioneering is in full swing.  Warnock has famously received a metric ton of out-of-state cash, and now, he's apparently contacting out-of-state voters to vote for him.  Yeah, I'm as confused as you are.  Dom Lucre, who is a resident of Tennessee and hasn't lived in Georgia in years, was called by the Warnock campaign, and he recorded the entire exchange.  Here's what it sounded like.  [Tweet]

Handy dandy guide to media coverage of the FTX/Sam Bankman-Fried scandal.  The legacy media, especially those outlets that accepted donations from San Bankman-Fried, really wish the case would just go away. [...] Even those who were not on the take from the fraudster are uncomfortable with all the connections of the criminal conspiracy to funding Democrats, a few RINOs, Ukraine, and other sacred cows.  A lot of the best investigative digging is going to come from independent journalists, often self-publishing on Substack.

A Grand Unified Theory of the FTX Disaster.  So far as I can tell, everyone has this story wrong.  Many people put together some frame of the puzzle just fine, but this can be a dangerous distraction, so I'd like to take a shot at sorting it out. [...] Now, if you're thinking this is just a story of a bunch of narcissistic brats who lost a bunch of money, I understand your reaction.  But know that this misses the larger points.  You need to dig deeper. [...] As Whitney Webb has been pointing out in interviews, the story of Jeffrey Epstein is about much more than the lurid details of his sexcapades with underage girls.  Epstein was a specialist in financial crime — something the mainstream media somehow always fails to delve into.

FTX Donated $1 Million to McConnell-Aligned Super PAC Weeks before Declaring Bankruptcy.  The now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX donated $1 million to the Senate Leadership Fund, a Super PAC associated with Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), two weeks prior to declaring bankruptcy.  FTX first filed for Chapter 11 protection two weeks ago.  During the 2020 presidential campaign, now-former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried donated over $5 million to Joe Biden.  During the 2022 midterm election cycle, Bankman-Fried doled out $40 million dollars to mostly Democratic politicians, making him the party's second-largest financial backer after George Soros.  According to FTX's latest filing with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the cryptocurrency exchange also gave $750,000 to Congressional Leadership Fund as well as an additional $150,000 to the American Patriots PAC, both of which support House Republican candidates.

Why did an FTX affiliated business park millions in a microscopically small rural bank?  [Scroll down] A quick interjection about cryptocurrencies.  They were billed as a new currency shared amongst a vast network of interlinked computers (blockchain).  This system protected the money from government control or interference.  However, I view it as a post-modernist dream, one that saw wealth created from nothing.  One needs real money to buy into crypto coin buyers are left with bytes while the real money (that is, government-backed currency tied to a country's wealth) goes to people like... Sam Bankman-Fried.  Crypto's value was tied to investor enthusiasm.  Think:  Tulipmania in Holland in the 1630s, or land in Florida in the 1920s.

Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX Cronies Gave $300k to House Committee Members Investigating Him.  Sam Bankman-Fried and executives at his cryptocurrency firm contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to members of the House committee that will hold hearings next month on the company's collapse.  Bankman-Fried and his co-founders at FTX contributed $300,351 to nine members of the House Financial Services Committee, according to Federal Election Commission records.  Some of the largest contributions were to Democrats on the committee's Digital Assets Working Group, which worked on regulation of the crypto industry.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.), who chairs the committee, announced a probe this week into FTX's collapse after the company declared bankruptcy, wiping out billions of dollars in customers' portfolios.

John Fetterman Disavowed 'Dirty' Corporate Money.  Then Came Sam Bankman-Fried.  Senator-elect John Fetterman (D., Pa.) disavowed "dirty money" from corporate interests in his Senate campaign.  Crypto scam artist Sam Bankman-Fried was an apparent exception, according to campaign finance records.  Web3 Forward, a pro-crypto super PAC funded heavily by Bankman-Fried, spent more than $210,000 on ads portraying Fetterman as a blue-collar hero who would not "get schmoozed by lobbyists," the New York Times reported.  Bankman-Fried, his crypto firm FTX, and one of his cofounders gave nearly $4.1 million to GMI PAC, another tech-oriented group that is the sole funder of Web3 Forward.

FTX had "substantial amount" of assets stolen, diminishing odds users will get their money back.  Lawyers for FTX Trading disclosed Tuesday that a "substantial amount" of assets has been stolen from accounts on the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange, diminishing the odds that its millions of users will get their money back.  The admission came Tuesday during FTX's first court appearance since the company declared bankruptcy.  Such hearings typically happen days after a filing, but this one was delayed because FTX's collapse came suddenly and management kept few if any records.

Raphael Warnock Campaign Covered in Controversy Heading into Runoff Election.  Sen. Raphael Warnock's (D-GA) campaign is covered in controversy stemming from his church's apartment building, his personal life, and his campaign spending habits, with less than three weeks until his runoff election in Georgia against Republican Herschel Walker.  Although Warnock earns a $7,417 monthly housing allowance from Ebenezer Baptist Church, the low-income apartment building his church owns is reportedly threatening to evict tenants for as little as $192 in unpaid rent.

Was FTX a Democratic Slush Fund?  Failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX was yet another Democratic money-laundering scheme, pundits claim.  Its now-disgraced former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) catapulted himself to the echelons of Big Finance after founding the company in 2019.  He quickly became one of the youngest billionaires in the world — at least in reputation — and a darling of Democratic Party fundraisers.  Earlier this month, however, Bankman-Fried's $16-billion net worth imploded overnight when FTX's supposed $32-billion valuation evaporated.  Its rival Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, had planned to buy FTX but instead uncovered a liquidity crisis in the company and its hedge fund, Alameda Research.  Bolstering Alameda's balance sheet were billions in counterfeit FTX tokens (FTT) that propped up the trading firm's market value and made it appear liquid.

The Strange Morality of the Bay-Area Billionaire Left.  The FTX Bitcoin empire of 30-year-old CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is in shambles.  Or more specifically, his "dumb game" cryptocurrency exchange has destroyed thousands of lives.  Electronically, he may have robbed perhaps a million investors, and along with them hundreds of large institutional investors.  Mysteriously, only after the conclusion of the midterm elections, did we suddenly learn that this left-wing "philanthropist" and benefactor of Democratic politics, this megadonor to the quid pro quo puff-piece media, this con artist protected from federal securities regulators, had drained off, lost, hidden, or spent billions of dollars of other people's money.  As a result, the Bahamas-basking, tax-avoiding, polyamorous sybarite, and heartthrob of progressive moralists, now claims he has no wherewithal to honor his financial commitments to his own investors.

Is the IRS Letting Sharpton Run His Own Personal Piggybank?  Al Sharpton was BLM before there was a BLM and its grift is closely modeled on his work and that of Jesse Jackson.  Sharpton's habits aren't news to anyone.  The latest developments just reaffirm that the National Action Network is not only Sharpton's political platform, but maintains his lifestyle. [...] New York AG Letitia James, who has illegally targeted Trump and the NRA, would not be likely to investigate.  But Sharpton's habits do raise legal questions.  The National Action Network is a 501(c)(4) and while C4s have more leeway than C3s, they're not supposed to be the personal piggy banks of an executive or a group of them.

All the best crooks are Democrats.  [Scroll down] I am quite certain Republicans have taken money from frauds and moral midgets, but a pattern has emerged that is difficult to deny:  all the best frauds know how to curry favor, and they know that the best bet is to ally with the people who control almost all the levers of power in government.  That would be Democrats, even when Republicans are nominally in charge.  Democrats control the commanding heights of power and influence in America, and aren't afraid to use that power to clean up financially.  The schemers donate to Democrats, who use the money to gain power, use that power to protect the schemers, and the circle of life continues.

Gov Cuomo's New York Fraudulently Lost $11 Billion In Taxpayer Cash During Pandemic.  An audit found that "at least $11 billion in taxpayer cash" was handed out fraudulently during the Covid-19 pandemic, in New York alone.  Jobless claims soared then-Governor Andrew Cuomo's shutdowns and regulations handicapped the state.  According to Tom DiNapoli's audit of the mess the $11 billion loss was aided by "an already crumbling state unemployment system" and "loosened eligibility rules."  Perhaps even more shocking is that DiNapoli suggests there will likely be even more fraud uncovered.  "There was a good intent to get as much money out the door — but the problem was that it made the system even more susceptible to fraud, particularly with regard to identity theft," the comptroller said.

The Dem's FTX Scandal Is Only Just Beginning.  Not only was crypto-billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried's company, FTX, allegedly a fraud, but it spent huge sums on recent elections to get Democrats into office.  Was this a case of massive election fraud?  If so, it isn't just Bankman-Fried who should be punished.  In case you're not caught up on all this, FTX, a futures exchange for crypto-currencies including its own, exploded into the public's attention just after the election.  That's when it was revealed that FTX had questionably transferred or "loaned" some $10 billion to its sister company, Alameda Research, to "fund risky bets," a highly questionable move seemingly to shore up Alameda's finances.  And yes, FTX was a big deal.  It's [sic] name is on an NBA arena.  Its commercials featured NFL GOAT Tom Brady, as well as "Seinfeld" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" creator Larry David.  That brought media reports about some of the money, around $1 billion, simply "disappearing."

Check Out The Elites Tied Up With FTX Con Artist And Mega-Democrat Donor Sam Bankman-Fried.  Not that long ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was on top of the world.  Sporting a net worth of approximately $15.6 billion, Bankman-Fried was the CEO of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange platform launched in 2019 that had accumulated more than a million consumers by 2022.  At 30 years old, he was extremely successful — that is, until last week when he was exposed as a con artist.  After a Nov. 2 article from the digital currency news site Coindesk revealed that FTX and Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency trading firm Alameda Research had notable overlaps on their balance sheets that called into question FTX's liquidity, users proceeded to withdraw $6 billion from the company, leading to its bankruptcy.  As Gizmodo reported, Bankman-Fried has "admitted to funneling billions of dollars in customer funds to his own hedge fund," which "upend[ed] the entire cryptocurrency sector."  Since his FTX's collapse, Bankman-Fried has lost nearly all of his accumulated wealth.

The Covid/Crypto Connection: The Grim Saga of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried.  [Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced CEO of FTX, the once high-flying but now belly-up crypto exchange, [...] had the whole game going:  a vegan worried about climate change, supports every manner of justice (racial, social, environmental) except that which is coming for him, and shells out millions to worthy charities associated with the left.  He also bought plenty of access and protection in D.C., enough to make his shady company the toast of the town.  As part of the mix, there is this thing called pandemic planning.  We should know what that is by now:  it means you can't be in charge of your life because there are bad viruses out there.  As bizarre as it seems, and for reasons that are still not entirely clear, favoring lockdowns, masks, and vaccine passports became part of the woke ideological stew.

Disgraced FTX Founder Donated To Six RINOs Who Voted To Impeach Trump.  As most are well aware by now, the disgraced founder of FTX Sam Bankman-Fried was the Democrat party's second-largest donor just behind George Soros.  As reported by The Gateway Pundit, in the 2020 presidential election, Bankman-Fried dished millions to the Biden campaign and followed it up by handing out over $40 million dollars to democrats in the 2022 primaries and midterms.  Forbes reported last year that Bankman-Fried also donated to six RINOs who voted to impeach President Trump.

Enron Liquidator Overseeing FTX Bankruptcy Speechless: "I Have Never Seen Anything Like This".  [Scroll down] Because how else would one describe it when FTX's new CEO and liquidator, John Ray III, who also oversaw the unwinding and liquidation of Enron, admits that "Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here."  And just in case his shock at FTX's fraud of epic proportions was not quite clear enough, he adds that "from compromised systems integrity and faulty regulatory oversight abroad, to the concentration of control in the hands of a very small group of inexperienced, unsophisticated and potentially compromised individuals, this situation is unprecedented."

Josh Hawley Warns Merrick Garland and Major Federal Regulators to Preserve All Communications With Failed Cryptocurrency Behemoth FTX.  Missouri Senator Josh Hawley has sent a letter to three officials appointed by the Bide White House demanding to know what they know about the diversion of customer funds into Democrat campaign contributions by cryptocurrency behemoth FTX even as that company was hurtling towards bankruptcy.  How much effect this letter will have remains to be seen.  Senator Hawley will still be in the minority when the new Senate meets.  Chuck Schumer has no interest in investigating a Democrat donor who gave $20 million to Joe Biden, spent $32 million in the midterms, and has pledged to spend $1 billion in 2024.  FTX went full Chornobyl last week, leaving a shaken cryptocurrency market and at least $2 billion in client investments without a trace; [...]

Ill-Gotten Gains: Crypto Kingpin's Donations Put Democrats in the Hot Seat.  The embattled crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, who is now under federal investigation and suspected of defrauding his investors, spent the election season shelling out cash to Democrats:  $865,000 to the Democratic National Committee, $1 million to Sen. Chuck Schumer's (D., N.Y.) Senate Majority PAC, and $6 million to the House Majority PAC.  With each passing day, it looks more and more like FTX's customers won't get their money back.  But Democrats won't say whether they're going to hang on to the cash.  The Democratic National Committee, Senate Majority PAC, and House Majority PAC did not respond to requests for comment about Bankman-Fried's donations.  The White House has also not weighed in on Bankman-Fried's $5 million contribution to Future Forward PAC, which spent $74 million in support of Biden in 2020.

Sam Bankman-Fried Is Not Alone: Some of History's Greatest Monsters Were Democratic Megadonors.  Sam Bankman-Fried, the digital guru who earlier this year pledged to spend as much as $1 billion in support of Democratic candidates, is under federal investigation after the cryptocurrency exchange he founded declared bankruptcy amid accusations of fraud and financial mismanagement.  Bankman-Fried is the latest in a long line of Democratic megadonors to be accused of egregious criminal acts.

The $32 Billion Crypto Scammer.  "The Next Warren Buffett."  That's how Fortune magazine dubbed Sam Bankman-Fried, the crypto wunderkind who wore shorts, schlubby socks, and sneakers on stage with Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.  But Bankman-Fried, worth an estimated $32 billion at his height, wouldn't just be a financial oracle like Buffett.  He would also be the second-coming of George Soros:  By the end of this midterm election cycle, he'd become the second largest donor to the Democratic Party.  Over the past few days, all of that has come spectacularly undone.  Now, Bankman-Fried looks, at best, like the original storyline for Michael Saylor of Microstrategy during the Dotcom bust.  Or, more likely, like Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos infamy.  Or, with increasing plausibility, like a less civic-minded Bernie Madoff.  Tens of thousands of people who invested their savings on various FTX exchanges have likely been wiped out.  FTX employees have quit en masse.

Ukraine 'partnered' with top Dem donor's crypto company FTX as Biden admin funded war effort: report.  The multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency company FTX, run by CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, the second biggest Democrat donor right after George Soros, collapsed last week as details emerged regarding their financial practices, which led to a run by customers on FTX.  FTX did not have the funds to pay out.  It was also revealed that FTX had partnered with Ukraine to process donations to their war efforts within days of Joe Biden pledging billions of American taxpayer dollars to the country.  Ukraine partnered with FTX as the Biden administration funneled funds to the invaded nation, and FTX then made massive donations to Democrats in the US.

Relationship Among FTX, Ukraine, and Democrats Sparks Speculation.  Is there a questionable relationship between Sam Bankman-Fried's bankrupt FTX, Ukraine, and the Democrats? [...] Bankman-Fried was the second-largest Democratic donor for the 2021-22 cycle, donating $39.8 million.  This was behind George Soros's total donations of $128 million.  Bankman-Fried gave the most amount of money to the Protect Our Future PAC, a group that "endorsed Democratic candidates such as Peter Welch, who won his bid to become Vermont's next senator, and Robert J. Menendez of New Jersey, who secured a House seat," according to Fortune.  But this past summer, Bankman-Fried suggested that he could've spent $1 billion on the midterm elections to support the Democrats, although he stepped away from this proposition.  In the first half of 2022, he contributed $865,000 to the Democratic National Committee, $66,500 to the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, and $250,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.  In addition, Bankman-Fried made multiple visits to the White House.

Crypto 9/11 is now under way — a "controlled demolition" event to usher in HEAVY regulation.  9/11 was a catastrophic event that, in many ways, was allowed to take place in order to justify the expansion of the Patriot Act which legalized intelligence community spying on the American people.  It also set off decades of expansion of the U.S. police state that has since morphed from a "war on terror" to a war on the American people.  This was always the plan, of course.  9/11 was allowed to take place so that public outrage would accompany legislative and executive efforts to enslave the American people under a surveillance state.  Now, a similar play is being run in the crypto space.  The FTX collapse was engineered from the get-go.  It was an inevitable outcome of the crypto exchange platform which primarily functioned as a slush fund money laundering operation to fund Democrat election campaigns as part of the 2022 mid-term rigging ops.  Now that FTX has collapsed — an event that was engineered into the company's operations from the very start — the calls for heavy-handed regulation are emerging right on cue.

Cancelling cash.  Many governments want to gradually phase out cash and are aiming for purely digital currencies in the future.  European citizens have long feared this step towards the abolition of cash and tighter controls:  in public consultations, almost every second response was concerned about the protection of privacy.  The fact that this course is quite controversial was made clear recently by the new Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni — she announced that she wanted to increase the upper limit for cash payments in Italy from the current 2000 to 10 000 euros, the same amount as in Germany.  WEF-star, The Netherlands, meanwhile is marching full steam ahead in the opposite direction.  If Finance Minister Sigrid Kaag has her way, all transactions over 100 euros will be monitored by the banks in the future — a massive invasion of privacy.  In addition, unsurprisingly, the minister is campaigning for the introduction of the digital euro.

FTX + Ukraine = Money Laundering?  The details are beyond me, but the concept seems pretty simple.  The legislature of a powerful government — call it 'the US Congress' — authorizes payment of tens of billions of dollars to the Ukrainian government to help them fight Russia.  Ukraine skims at least some of that money — remember, it's tens of billions — and sends the skim to FTX, which is already active sending bitcoin to Ukraine.  FTX, through its founder Sam Blankman-Fried, then becomes a major donor (second only to George Soros) to the dominant political party of that powerful foreign government (call the party 'Dems') that supported Ukraine.  That's a pretty tight, circular flow of money, and it's popularly known as a kickback. [...] There are some circumstantial connections, however — beyond Ukraine being the most corrupt government on earth and the Dems, which long corrupt ties to Ukraine, being the most corrupt political party on earth: [...] Whether or not FTX was a total fraud isn't the important question for our purposes.  The important question is, Where did FTX get all that money that FTX founder Sam Blankman-Fried sent to the Dem campaigns?

Alice in Crypto Land.  Unregulated crypto was nice while it lasted.  Meet Sam Bankman-Fried, 30, the youthful nouveau-riche "founder" of a bizarre Ponzi scheme concealed behind stacks of opaque buzzwords and constructed on a mountain of lies, political shenanigans, deep-state hanky-panky, and of course Ukrainian mega-fraud. [...] Sam Bankman-Fried started FTX in May, 2019, a few months after his mother started her own PAC, and thirteen days after Joe Biden announced his presidential campaign.  The new company would become so successful so quickly that Bankman-Fried would become the second-largest Biden donor, right behind our good friend George Soros.  FTX is headquartered in the Bahamas, where Sam lives in a luxury penthouse suite with ten roommates.  Or, "lived" until quite recently.  Fox News reported that Bankman-Fried was the second largest democrat donor in this election cycle, blasting at least $38 million at leftist causes, PACs, and candidates.  Earlier this year, Sam told reporters he planned to spend between $100 million and $1 billion on the presidential election in 2024, to help keep democrats in the White House.

Dem Megadonor Under Federal Investigation Bankrolled Lawmakers Overseeing The Agency He Was Lobbying.  Sam Bankman-Fried, prolific Democratic donor and ex-CEO of now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, funded the campaigns of members of Congress overseeing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), one of the key bodies tasked with regulating the crypto industry and the subject of Bankman-Fried's aggressive lobbying.  Bankman-Fried's FTX is currently under investigation by the CFTC and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after Bankman-Fried allegedly moved $10 billion in client assets from his crypto exchange to his trading firm Alameda Research, and a liquidity crisis at his exchange which prompted the company to file for bankruptcy.  However, prior to the agency's probe, Bankman-Fried aggressively courted the CFTC — and funded several key lawmakers charged with overseeing the agency, pouring cash into their campaign coffers.  The CFTC is charged with regulating certain elements of the crypto marketplace, including digital assets that are commodities as well as crypto exchanges and clearinghouses.

Tens of Billions of US Dollars Were Transferred to Ukraine and then Using FTX Crypto Currency the Funds Were Laundered Back to Democrats in US.  Did you ever wonder where all those billions of dollars were going in Ukraine?  Did you ever wonder why anyone was trusting the elites in US politics like the Bidens with billions in funds going to Ukraine?  Today it turns out that these were excellent questions.  We have information that the tens of billions of dollars going to Ukraine were actually laundered back to the US to corrupt Democrats and elites using FTX cryptocurrency.  Now the money is gone and FTX is bankrupt.  As reported earlier, the FTX crypto company gave at least $40 million to Democrat candidates and causes in the midterms.  Sam Bankman-Fried is Biden's second biggest donor.

FTX founder and two senior execs are 'under observation by authorities' holed-up in luxurious Bahamas resort.  The founder and former CEO of collapsing crypto trader Sam Bankman-Fried is said to be holed up with members of his inner circle in the Bahamas while his empire collapses around him.  Bankman-Fried, 30, resigned from FTX on Friday, as the crypto exchange filed for bankruptcy and reports emerged that up to $2 billion in client funds had vanished from the company's books in recent weeks.  According to Coin Telegraph, the disgraced former CEO is holed up at the Albany Tower alongside FTX co-founder Gary Wang and the company's director of engineering Nishad Singh.

Yes, Your Taxpayer Dollars Were Filtered Through Ukraine, Into FTX, and Then Used to Fund Democrat Campaigns.  They say we should follow the money.  Some people did and it led them in one big circle that started in the Biden-Harris regime, lined pockets in Ukraine, got sent to failed crypto company FTX, and then into the coffers of Democrat campaigns and super PACs.  And yes, this is very much illegal.  We covered this in part yesterday but there needs to be more context.  According to The Post Millennial:  ["]The multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency company FTX, run by CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, the second biggest Democrat donor right after George Soros, collapsed last week as details emerged regarding their financial practices, which led to a run by customers on FTX. FTX did not have the funds to pay out.  It was also revealed that FTX had partnered with Ukraine to process donations to their war efforts within days of Joe Biden pledging billions of American taxpayer dollars to the country.  Ukraine invested into FTX as the Biden administration funneled funds to the invaded nation, and FTX then made massive donations to Democrats in the US.["]

Ukraine, a Ponzi Scheme, and a Top Democrat Donor Raise Serious Questions.  As RedState reported, crypto-exchange FTX collapsed after its much-lauded founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, appeared to make improper transfers of customer money.  Somewhere between $1-2 billion of that amount has now gone missing and Bankman-Fried also has disappeared.  What makes this so interesting, though, isn't just that a lot of really wealthy people got scammed.  It's that Bankman-Fried also happens to be one of the top donors to the Democratic Party.  In fact, outside of George Soros, no one has done more to bankroll Democrat efforts since the 2020 election.  Joe Biden alone received a whopping $5.2 million.  But here's where things get even weirder.  Apparently, while the United States was bankrolling Ukraine and its war effort, that country's leaders were investing money into FTX. [...] There are so many questions that arise from this.  For example, why is Ukraine, which we are all assured is broke and needs US taxpayer money, playing around with a Democrat-linked crypto company?  This wasn't just about accepting donations through the portal.  The report specifically says that Ukraine actively invested money in FTX.

Catching Up With Crypto And The Burgeoning FTX Scandal.  This FTX story may have some legs, although the usual suspects are probably already busy covering the trail.  The principle governing this is, again, a simple one.  Crypto is a fraud, probably designed as such for special purposes.  Therefore, expect fraud almost everywhere you look in that field, and especially when large amounts of money are involved. [...] There's a history here, and it looks like political connections and political fundraising were part of the mix from the get go.  Major red flag, when coupled with unregulated money and Zhou.

It sure looks like the Democrat nominee for Oklahoma governor violated state laws.  Joy Hofmeister, Oklahoma superintendent of public instruction, is the Democrat nominee for governor.  She is challenging incumbent Republican Governor Kevin Stitt.  No one is more surprised than I am that Oklahoma's gubernatorial race is even in play.  It's currently listed as a toss-up by Real Clear Politics aggregated averaging, with Hofmeister up over Stitt by 1 point in the most recent poll.  Oklahoma gubernatorial race is one of the midterm election cycle's sleeper races.  Recent polls have not been good news for Stitt.  As I wrote last week, Hofmeister was a Republican until she decided to run against Stitt for governor.  She switched to the Democrat Party in order to run.  If she wins, she will be the first Democraat to win a statewide office in Oklahoma since 2006.

A Powerful Pritzker Administration Insider Cashed In as a Consultant.  Shortly after she left her state job as a senior adviser to Gov. J.B. Pritzker, longtime political operative Nikki Budzinski collected more than $500,000 in consulting and other fees in 10 months, including more than $80,000 from a Springfield lobbyist Budzinski helped while working for the governor.  At least $100,000 of that payday came from progressive organizations that don't disclose their donors — despite Budzinski now running for Congress downstate as a Democrat in the 13th District on a platform that includes getting "dark money" out of politics, a Better Government Association examination of government records found.

Soros Bucks, Private Jets Found in Pennsylvania AG Josh Shapiro's 11,000-Page Campaign Finance Report.  The campaign finance report for Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, Democrat gubernatorial candidate, is tall enough to ride a rollercoaster.  It would take 22 reams of paper to print all 10,983 pages of his most recent campaign finance report.  That's 55 inches tall.  Within those pages are three contributions totaling $120,000 from the family of far-left billionaire George Soros, who has funded the campaigns of soft-on-crime district attorneys now in office in major cities across the nation.  On June 29, George Soros' son, Jonathan Soros, who lives in New York, gave Shapiro $10,000.  The next day, June 30, Jennifer Soros, Jonathan Soros' wife, contributed $10,000.  On Aug. 8, Andrea Soros, George Soros' daughter, gave Shapiro $100,000.  The large number of special interest donations may explain why Shapiro has raised significantly more than state senator and Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano.

Top Democrats enrich themselves and their family members with campaign funds.  Just yesterday [10/18/2022], Fox News reported about top House Democrats such as Maxine Waters and James Clyburn generously paying family members from campaign funds.  Karen Waters, Maxine's daughter received more than $1.2 million from Waters's campaign for the past two decades.  What was Karen's function?  Her firm, 'Progressive Connections' organized 'slate-mailing operations' to bolster Maxine's re-election in 2003.  A Federal Election Commission (FEC) notice filed by Citizens for Waters shows that Karen Waters received a total of $16,000 from the committee this quarter for "slate mailer management fees."  Slate mailing is a practice where campaign pamphlets with a list of candidates and the issues they stand for are mass-mailed to voters.  Critics have branded them deceptive and misleading.  In 2004, the Los Angeles Times revealed that the Waters campaign had paid $1 million to other family members for the past eight years.

Top House Dems continue paying family members thousands of dollars using campaign funds.  Top House Democrats Maxine Waters and James Clyburn have continued to shell out tens of thousands of dollars in campaign funds to their family members ahead of the November midterm elections.  The re-election campaign for Waters, the U.S. House Financial Services Committee chairwoman, paid a total of $16,000 to the congresswoman's daughter in four separate payments in July and September of this year.  Karen Waters, who has been organizing slate-mailing operations to bolster her mother's re-election since 2003, and her company, Progressive Connections, have received more than $1.2 million from Waters' campaign over the past nearly two decades.

Where is all of Stacey Abrams' PAC money going?  After Stacey Abrams lost her 2018 bid to be the next Governor of Georgia (not that she admitted the loss until recently), she founded a political action committee named Fair Fight PAC that was intended to "combat voter suppression" in the Peach State, which she blamed for her loss or unacknowledged victory, depending on which day you asked her.  Fair Fight PAC has since raked in a considerable flow of cash from liberals around the nation who sympathized with her unfair treatment at the hands of the corrupt Republicans in Georgia or whatever.  But where has all of that money been going?  A recent investigation by Fox News dug into some of the PAC's financial disclosure statements and came up with some very curious results.

Critics say NYC Parks Department is a patronage mill for Mayor Adams' pals.  The Adams administration has quietly tapped a City Council member's wife and another top Bronx Democratic supporter to fill two, high-ranking, $177,000-a-year Parks Department jobs, The [New York] Post has learned.  The Parks Department in August gave Jessenia Aponte, wife of Councilman Rafael Salamanca (D-Bronx), a huge promotion that comes with a $72,000-plus raise, naming her Bronx borough commissioner.  In another under-the-radar move, the agency last month handed Anthony Perez, former executive director of the Bronx Democratic Party, the job of Manhattan borough commissioner.  Both Salamanca and Perez campaigned heavily for Eric Adams during his successful 2021 mayoral run, helping him lock up key Hispanic voting bases, especially in the Bronx, according to multiple sources.

Georgia Officials Are Probing Raphael Warnock's Church.  Georgia is investigating a charity run by the church where Democratic Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock is a pastor due to concerns about its legal status, according to The Washington Free Beacon.  The Ebenezer Building Foundation is soliciting charitable contributions and operating as a charitable organization but isn't registered as one in the state of Georgia, according to a letter from the Securities and Charities Division Georgia Secretary of State office.  The letter urged the organization to register by Nov. 2 and noted that it could be subject to administrative penalties.  Ebenezer Baptist Church attempted to evict poor tenants from a building it owns while Warnock publicly railed against evictions in 2020, reports revealed earlier this week.  The building was listed as a home for the mentally disabled and chronically homeless in a grant application.  The revelation triggered an investigation into the nonprofit status of the Ebenezer Building Foundation, the charity run by Warnock's church.

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell vows to return $30,000 she blew on first-class flights after saying it was 'unsafe' for a black woman to fly economy.  LaToya Cantrell, the controversial Democratic mayor of New Orleans, has said she will repay the city for $30,000 she claimed in city cash for first class flights after living rent-free in a government apartment just three miles from her house.  The mayor was forced to pay for the flights after a city attorney was brought in who determined that Cantrell, as a city employee, was obliged by policy to seek the cheapest fares or reimburse the city for deluxe expenses.  Cantrell spent around $10,000 on her own flat bed seat and blew a similar amount on a first-class return to France earlier this year — while her aides traveled in coach.

NOLA mayor finds herself in hot water... again.  This woman is a magnet for corruption investigations.  Let's do a quick tally.  New Orleans was named as the city with the highest per capita murder rate.  Then, due to a shortage of police, [Mayor LaToya] Cantrell spit balled that she may have to cancel Mardi Gras over safety and security concerns.  That didn't go over well.  So, almost immediately, she walked that threat back.  Next thing you know, there's a recall petition being organized.  There was a big hullabaloo over the fact that the mayor flies first class to go overseas and yet her staff and security fly coach.  So, there's an investigation into this and calls for her to reimburse the city for the ticket price differences ($30,000).  She refuses to do so, saying she has to fly first class because it's really dangerous for black women to travel, or something.  And, finally, there is an investigation being launched into a non-profit Cantrell founded.  She's racking up quite a list of no-nos.  Oh yeah, I almost forgot — she attended the trial of a juvenile in a mentorship program who was charged with carjacking.  She supported him over the victim.

After Seattle protests, texts from mayor's phone were deleted, court filing shows.  A newly disclosed forensic analysis has found that 191 texts were manually deleted from an iPhone of former Mayor Jenny Durkan in the months after her administration's controversial response to racial justice protests in June 2020, according to the latest filings in a federal lawsuit.  The previously unknown manual text deletions from Durkan's phone — along with other new details, including that "factory resets" were performed on phones of six other city officials in fall 2020, resulting in the deletions of thousands of other text messages — are among the revelations contained in the findings of an expert's 32-page report completed in April.  The expert's report, along with a host of other exhibits, was filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle late Wednesday to bolster new arguments raised by attorneys for several businesses and residents suing the city for damages they say were caused by Seattle's weekslong tolerance of a sprawling protest zone two years ago.

Ex-Democratic congressman sentenced to prison in years-long Pennsylvania election fraud scheme.  Expelled former Democratic congressman Michael "Ozzie" Myers has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for federal election fraud dating back to 2014, the Justice Department said Tuesday, and was immediately taken into custody.  Myers, 79, pleaded guilty in June to conspiracy to deprive voters of civil rights, bribery, obstruction of justice, falsification of voting records, and conspiring to illegally vote in a federal election as part of scams to stuff ballot boxes for certain Democratic candidates in Pennsylvania elections between 2014 and 2018, the DOJ said in a news release.  Prosecutors said some of the candidates were running to be judges and had hired Myers, who would use portions of "consulting fees" from his clients to pay others to interfere with election results.

Democrat Rep. Elissa Slotkin Implodes When Pressed on Residing in Lobbyist's Home.  Vulnerable Democrat Rep. Elissa Slotkin (MI-08) imploded during a television debate when a Michigan news anchor pressed her about the recent bombshell report revealing she resides in an apartment owned by a "lobbyist" and campaign donor, who is also registered — with his family — to vote at the same address and works for a company receiving tens of million in government funding.  WDIV-TV held a television debate on Sunday between Slotkin and her Republican opponent state Sen. Tom Barrett.  The anchor in charge of asking questions brought up the recent report that revealed Slotkin moved into a residence owned by Jerry Hollister, an executive at a Lansing-based company that received tens of millions in federal funding and has donated to her campaign.

House Democrats Kill Resolution to Investigate Hunter Biden.  House Democrats on the Oversight Committee on Tuesday voted against a Republican resolution that would have ordered President Joe Biden's administration to turn over documents about Hunter Biden's business deals.  The "resolution of inquiry," led by Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the top Republican on the Oversight Committee, would have ordered Biden's administration to provide a plethora of documents about the Biden family's overseas business deals, including those involving the president's son, Hunter.  Although all 19 Republicans voted in favor of the resolution, 23 Democrats voted to kill the resolution after just two hours of debate, according to CNN.

FBI, LA County Sheriff Raid County Hall of Administration, LA Metro Offices in Corruption Probe.  As we reported, a search warrant was executed at the home of longtime Los Angeles politician and former child actor Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica) around 7 AM local time Wednesday morning.  In an impromptu interview with Fox11 Los Angeles about an hour later, Kuehl quickly cast the incident as a "bogus search" spurred by an "obsessed" former LA Metro employee that LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva simply went along with.  However, it was soon reported that the warrant related to "an ongoing public corruption investigation" and was executed by LASD and federal agents, and that warrants were concurrently served at the home of LA County Civilian Oversight Commissioner and Friend-of-Kuehl Patricia Giggans, the LA County Hall of Administration, the headquarters of Giggans' non-profit, Peace Over Violence, and LA Metro Headquarters.

97 members of Congress or their families bought or sold stock that may have been a conflict of interest.  Nearly 100 members of Congress bought or sold financial assets that intersected with the work of the committees they sit on, according to a New York Times report.  Of the 435 House members, 183 traded stocks through themselves or their immediate family members from 2019 to 2021.  At least 97 bought or sold stocks, bonds or other financial assets through themselves or their spouses that directly intersected with their congressional work.  US lawmakers are not yet banned from making any stock trades, though insider trading is illegal for everyone.

Hochul gave COVID test contract to campaign donor that charged taxpayers double.  Gov. Kathy Hochul had New Yorkers pay twice as much for COVID tests from a company tied to nearly $300,000 in donations to her campaign compared to other state vendors, a new report details, raising fresh concerns of alleged pay-to-play behavior ahead of the Nov. 8 election.  "Whether it was pay-to-play or total incompetence — New York taxpayers and then the federal taxpayers got massively ripped off," John Kaehny, of the good-government group Reinvent Albany, said of the Digital Gadgets deal funded by New York taxpayers with the help of federal relief aid.  While some companies charged the state just $5 for rapid tests, the N.J.-based Digital Gadgets got as much as $13 per unit in a total of $637 million worth of no-bid deals for millions of tests as Hochul pushed schools to stay open amid the omicron wave last year, according to the Times Union[.]

Raphael Warnock Voted for COVID Stimulus that Sent $75K to Group Run by His Church.  Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) voted for a coronavirus stimulus package that handed $75,000 to a social justice group his church founded.  The group, the Martin Luther King Sr.  Collaborative, is run by the church, which compensates Warnock $120,000, according to the Washington Free Beacon.  The money flowing to the Martin Luther King Sr.  Collaborative raises questions about whether Warnock personally benefited from the American Rescue Plan while taxpayers shouldered the $1.9 trillion price of the bill that likely fueled 40-year-high inflation.

Ex-Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez busted in bribery scheme with banker, former FBI agent.  Former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez was arrested Thursday in a bribery scheme in which she allegedly pushed out a high-ranking government official in exchange for more than $300,000 to help her 2020 campaign.  Vázquez, 62, is accused of working out the bribes with conspirators who included a former FBI agent, a Venezuelan Italian bank owner and a political consultant, according to the Department of Justice.  "Public corruption erodes the people's trust in our institutions and fuels civil unrest," Joseph González, special agent in charge of the FBI San Juan Field Office, said in a statement.  "No one is above the law and the victim of this crime, the People, deserve better."

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"No one is above the law" is a toothless and obsolete cliché.  It has been demonstrably false for at least 30 years.  Almost any adult can name half a dozen political VIP's who should have gone to prison years ago.

Couple from Medicaid firm awarded millions in NY contracts delivered over $300K in donations to Hochul, Cuomo.  A couple with ties to a firm that's been awarded hundreds of millions in Medicaid transportation contracts over the years has driven more than $300,000 combined into the campaign coffers of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and current Gov. Kathy Hochul, records reviewed by The [New York] Post reveal.  Critics say the donations are a textbook case of Albany's pay-to-play culture that allows bidders and contractors to give massive campaign contributions to the governor whose agencies oversee them.  By comparison, New York City law limits donations from bidders and contractors to the mayor and have business Big Apple agencies to $400.  The firm, Medical Answering Services, founded by president Russ Maxwell in 2004, was awarded eight contracts totaling $403.7 million by the state Health Department from 2011 through 2018.  Four of the contracts don't expire until next year.

Records show more Democrat politicians using campaign funds to pay family members.  Foremost among the numerous catastrophes that Joe Biden has presided over is inflation which has risen to a 40-year high.  This has caused prices of fuel, energy, food, and all everyday commodities to skyrocket, wreaking irreparable havoc on the budgets of regular people.  Most citizens have no option but to postpone or even cancel purchases they can avoid.  However, these hassles seldom apply to the denizens of Washington D.C.  The Daily Caller reported that Democrats such as House Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina, and Connecticut Rep. Jahana Hayes, are using their campaign fund to enrich family members.

Stacey Abrams Purchased Two Homes Valued At $1.4 Million After Reporting Massive Debts In 2018.  Former Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams purchased two homes worth a combined $1.4 million following her failed 2018 bid to lead the state, public records reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation show.  Abrams purchased the homes despite reporting in a financial disclosure in early 2018 during her gubernatorial campaign that she owed the IRS $54,000 in back taxes on top of $174,000 in credit card and student loan debt.  Abrams purchased a 3,300 square foot home in Stone Mountain, Georgia, for $370,000 in September 2019, according to Nexis real estate records.  The home is now worth $425,000, according to Redfin.  Just over a year later, in October 2020, Abrams sold an Atlanta townhome she purchased in 2004 and bought a 4,100 square foot home in the city for $975,000, Nexis records show.  Her new Atlanta home is now valued at just over $1 million, according to Redfin.

The Biden White House caters to the rich just as Obama's did.  BlackRock has $10 Trillion under management and holds great power with Biden's Whitehouse.  They are a big pusher of the green agenda.  The green agenda is destroying America with rampant inflation, especially the poor, middle class, and small businessesm but BlackRock has done great. [...] After Biden and Michelle got out of the White House, they got a huge kickback from Netflix despite having no product or experience.  I wonder why Netflix is having financial trouble today?  Most of the media has never [cared] about the Clinton, Obama, or Biden corruption, which is massive.  There is more evidence every day about the connections of Joe to Hunters' kickbacks from China, Russia, and Ukraine, yet the media is virtually silent.  It is no wonder that there is so much corruption and such deep economic problems throughout the country when the media has been complicit in infecting the public with the pandemic of the Biden Administration.  We learn new information everyday about the sewer of despicable and corrupt behavior of Joe and Hunter and it's as if almost all of the media has buried their heads in the sand so the public doesn't see it.  Can anyone imagine the interest if Trump had wired thousands of dollars to Don, Jr. or Eric so they could support their Russian hooker habit?

A South Carolina Democrat strategizes about sleepers in Republican campaigns.  Project Veritas has done it again, this time with a video of a South Carolina Democrat candidate for the United States Senate strategizing with a prisoner to put Democrat sleepers into the Republican line-up as fifth columnist candidates.  Mixed in with whining, incoherence, and obscenities (often racial ones), Matthews articulates a foul plan for destroying democracy in a fight she feels is impossible to win by fair means. [...] It turns out, though, that Matthews isn't above "toxic politics" when it comes to plotting a Democrat takeover of South Carolina's strong Republican leanings.  We know that because Project Veritas Action obtained a recording of a February 15, 2022, phone call that Matthews had with David Solomon Ballard, an inmate at Perry Correctional Institution.  [Audio clip]

Leaked Call with Prison Inmate Reveals Democrat Senate Candidate Calling For "Secret Sleepers" to Infiltrate South Carolina Republican Party.  Project Veritas on Sunday [6/26/2022] released leaked audio of a Democrat US Senate candidate's phone call with an inmate at Perry Correctional Institution calling for "secret sleepers" to infiltrate the South Carolina Republican party.  "We need some secret sleepers.  Like you need them to run as the other side, even though they for our side.  And we need them to win," Krystle Matthews, a Democrat South Carolina State Rep. running for US Senate said in the leaked audio.  "We need people to run as Republicans in these local elections.  This is the only way you're gonna change the dynamics in South Carolina."

South Carolina Senate Candidate Caught on Tape Advocating to Deploy Georgia Election Strategy.  Project Veritas Action, a subsidiary of Project Veritas, has released a leaked audio from South Carolina Democrat Krystle Matthews, promoting a political strategy where blacks infiltrate the republican party and use drug money to fund organized political changes. [...] What South Carolina Senate candidate Matthews is outlining in the leaked audio sounds remarkably similar to the prior successful operation of Georgia democrats and republicans.  The networks of the AME church and the political activists within the Black Lives Matter movement, coalesce by infiltrating the republican party and then working to support the agenda of the Democrat political apparatus.

Democrat Senate candidate recommends leftist 'sleepers' contesting as Republicans for the mid-terms?  An audio clip released from Project Veritas Action yesterday [6/26/2022] revealed that South Carolina Democrat State Representative and candidate for U.S. Senate, Krystle Matthews, has some unconventional tactics to win the midterms.  [Audio clip]  The audio purportedly originated from a recorded conversation on Feb. 15, 2022, that occurred between Matthews and an inmate at Perry Correctional Institution.  It is troubling that Matthews is seeking campaign advice from a convicted criminal.  But that is the least problematic aspect of this revelation.  We hence focus on the content of the conversation. [...] These utterances prove the Democrats' proclivity for crime when they stand to gain.  It also reveals Matthew's bigotry of low expectations, she expects her fellow African Americans to be nothing more than dope dealers and criminals.  Matthews then proceeds to display her bigotry towards both her fellow African Americans and other races.  This smug feeling of superiority over regular people is synchronous with Democrat thinking.

This Kansas Dem Wants To Ban Congress From Owning Stocks.  She Owns Shares of Green Energy Firms That Want Congressional Subsidies.  Rep. Sharice Davids (D., Kan.) has called for a total ban on members of Congress owning stocks in order to "restore trust" in the government.  So it's puzzling that Davids owns shares of three green energy firms that regularly lobby Congress for subsidies.  Her investments in FuelCell Energy, Maxeon Solar Technologies, and SunPower Corporation total up to $17,000.  All three companies lobby Congress for green energy tax credits and other incentives, and Davids is in clear position to implement policy that impacts her investments — the Kansas Democrat sits on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, which has helped shape the Biden administration's green-friendly infrastructure spending initiatives.  Davids has said she would use her position on the committee to explore investments in infrastructure projects as "an effective way to combat the effects of climate change."

Report: Biden Admin-linked Special Interests Got More PPP Loan Forgiveness.  A report released Tuesday by the Functional Government Initiative (FGI) suggests that Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) recipients with ties to Biden administration personnel received loan forgiveness at a higher rate than the general population.  The FGI, a new research organization dedicated to "improving the American public's awareness about the officials, decisions, and priorities of their government," compiled a database on loan forgiveness using the government's own data. [...] The report does not directly allege that specific government officials intervened directly to help firms or organizations connected to them.  However, it notes a pattern, and lists several high-ranking officials — including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm — as among those linked to recipients of PPP loan forgiveness.

Three Democrat St. Louis City Leaders Indicted by Federal Grand Jury For Taking Cash Bribes.  Three top Democrat St. Louis city leaders were indicted by a federal grand jury for taking cash bribes.  Lewis Reed, Alderman President, John Collins-Muhammad, recently resigned 21st Ward Alderman and Jeffrey Boyd, 22nd Ward Alderman, were all accused of taking cash in exchange for political favors and land deals, KMOV reported.

Anaheim Mayor Resigns Amid Federal Corruption Probe.  Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu, a Republican, resigned effective Tuesday [5/24/2022] amid a corruption probe by the Federal Bureau of Investigation over the land sale of Angels Stadium — a probe that's already resulted in money laundering charges being brought against one of Sidhu's political allies, former Anaheim Chamber of Commerce CEO Todd Ament.  In an affidavit, an FBI agent says that Sidhu shared inside information with the Angels in order to hopefully make a deal that would lead to $1 million in campaign contributions from Angels executives[.]

60 members of Congress have violated a law designed to stop insider trading and prevent conflicts-of-interest.  Insider and several other news organizations have identified 60 members of Congress who've recently failed to properly report their financial trades as mandated by the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012, also known as the STOCK Act.  Congress passed the law a decade ago to combat insider trading and conflicts of interest among their own members and force lawmakers to be more transparent about their personal financial dealings.  A key provision of the law mandates that lawmakers publicly — and quickly — disclose any stock trade made by themselves, a spouse, or a dependent child.  But many members of Congress have not fully complied with the law.  They offer excuses including ignorance of the law, clerical errors, and mistakes by an accountant.  Insider has chronicled this widespread nature of this phenomenon in a new project, "Conflicted Congress."

Spygate Researchers Said Claim Russians Hacked The DNC Could Have Relied On 'Spoofed' Data.  The Georgia Tech cyber security experts ensnared in the Alfa Bank hoax conducted a retrospective analysis of the Democratic National Committee hack, according to the Department of Defense.  While the results of that analysis have yet to be made public, internal documents obtained by The Federalist reveal that Georgia Tech's computer scientists believed CrowdStrike's approach to investigating computer intrusions relied on the use of easily "spoofed/impersonated" signals of traffic.  In June 2016, about one month before WikiLeaks released a trove of internal communiques revealing top DNC officials plotted to destroy Bernie Sanders' presidential ambitions in favor of their preferred candidate, Hillary Clinton, the DNC publicly confirmed that its server had been hacked.  In the Washington Post article breaking the story, the DNC maintained that the private security firm it had hired to investigate the hack, CrowdStrike, had concluded two Russian military intelligence groups, branded Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear, bore responsibility for the intrusions.

Biden administration under fire over big contracts for boosters.  The White House and President Joe Biden are facing scrutiny over millions of dollars' worth of government contracts and loans going to big Democratic donors.  The Biden administration has established a pattern of doling out taxpayer money to businesses associated with donors, according to a group of House Republicans calling for more information about the White House's process for awarding contracts.  "Awarding lucrative government contracts to companies led by large Democratic donors is becoming a troubling Biden Administration pattern and raises questions about whether political contributions play a role in the decision to award federal taxpayer dollars," reads a letter GOP members of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform sent to White House Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young.

Texas is success and Illinois is failure.  Since I was born four Illinois governors, three Democrats and one Republican, have served time in federal prison.  No Texas governors have suffered that indignity.  Last month, Michael Madigan, who was Illinois' most powerful politician until he was ousted as Illinois speaker of the House in 2021, was indicted on a whole slew of racketeering charges.  Madigan, except for two years in the 1990s, served as House speaker beginning in 1981.  From 1998 until 2021 Madigan was also chairman of the Illinois Democratic Party.  Overlooked in the rundown of Boss Madigan's career by journalists after his indictment is this ironic nugget:  his predecessor as speaker was George H. Ryan, a Republican, who is one of Illinois' felon governors.

US congressman reveals seats on committees are 'literally' bought.  In a video that circulated online on Friday, Alabama Representative Mo Brooks told supporters that an entrenched system of corruption prevents Congress from passing legislation that would benefit the average American.  Brooks said that both parties charge their members $1 million and beyond for chairmanships of committees, and that only those taking donations from lobbyists can afford these seats.  "Special interest groups run Washington, and I don't mean that metaphorically.  I mean literally," Brooks told supporters at an event in March, video footage of which was shared on Friday by conservative pundit Lauren Windsor.  [Tweet]  According to Brooks, lawmakers who want to be chairman of a major committee "have to purchase it."  Either the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) or Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) will charge members of Congress a fee to chair a committee for two years.  The fee varies depending on how important the committee is, but bidding for a top-tier chairmanship starts at $1 million, Brooks claimed.

Stacey Abrams Increased Her Net Worth 3,000% in Less than 4 Years — What Is the Real Source of Her Income?  Stacey Abrams has increased her net worth by 3,000% in a couple of years.  How did this happen?  In the age of corruption and stolen elections, Stacey Abrams may have eaten the cake. [...] The Daily Caller reports that Abrams received $5-6 million in speeches and book deals.  (This is one way Democrats launder money to their politicians.)  The Caller also notes that Abrams has been paid, "paid $700,000 over her three years as executive director of the Southern Economic Advancement Project".  And,it is unknown how much Abrams has received from related entity[,] Fair Fight Action.

How Did Stacey Abrams Multiply Her Net Worth In Just A Few Years?  Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has become a millionaire.  Abrams is worth $3.17 million, according to the state disclosures she filed in March, The Associated Press reported Tuesday.  When she first ran for the Georgia governorship in 2018, Abrams was dealing with a "hefty bill from the IRS" and was worth only $109,000, the outlet noted.  The "hefty" tax bill from the IRS was $54,000, with a further $410,000 in liabilities, according to Fox News.  She owed $96,000 in student loan debt and $83,000 in credit card debt, AP reported.  Abrams' personal financial issues led Republicans and some people in Georgia to question how she could possibly be able to manage a state budget while she struggled to stay atop her own, AP reported.  Abrams subsequently lost her 2018 bid for Georgia's governorship.

Complaint: Interior Department Won't Release Documents On Potential Ethics Violations At Secretary Haaland's Wedding.  The Interior Department is faced with a new lawsuit over its refusal to comply with a request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) probing potential government ethics violations surrounding Secretary Deb Haaland's August wedding.  The lawsuit, filed Thursday by the government-transparency group Protect the Public's Trust (PPT), seeks to compel records requested by FOIA days after the event to examine whether improper gifts or influence peddling took place over the ceremony.  According to the complaint, the Department of the Interior dismissed the group's inquiries four times when following up on the request now submitted more than 220 days ago.

Yes, government schools have a huge pedophile problem.  National awareness of the grooming problem in public school classrooms is rising, thanks to the campaign opposing Florida's law prohibiting sexualizing the youngest students in grades K-3.  The hysteria of the law's opponents has served notice on the public that an active movement exists in schools and the media to indoctrinate the young in the notion that one's sex is a matter of preference, not biology, and even to facilitate homosexuality and transgenderism in pre-pubescent children.  Helping public awareness rise is the number of online videos, especially on Tik Tok, where public school teachers proclaim their goals.

A regime based on fraud and media collusion.  The unmasking of Dr. Anthony Fauci is the straw that I think will break the back of the camel of an evil cabal.  Everyone in the United States was directly and personally affected by the fraud and cover-up that obscured the origins of COVID-19 in the laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, imposed unnecessary lockdowns, and denied effective therapies to those infected with the virus.  It brought home to Americans the untrustworthiness of the ruling class and its media servants that have covered up numerous frauds in recent years:
  •   Fast and Furious: [...]
  •   Benghazi: [...]
  •   Pay to Play by Hillary: [...]
  •   The bathroom server: [...]
  •   Comey's presser:  The FBI director indicted Hillary and then said no intent could be shown.  These charges do not require intent [...]
  •   Bill Clinton met on the Phoenix Airport tarmac with A.G. Lynch just before Comey's exoneration of his wife.
  •   Russiagate never was anything other than a domestic disinformation operation run by the CIA with the FBI doing the grunt work.  Comey, Clapper, and Brennan also lied to Congress.  Hillary had to have an excuse for why she lost.  She was a very poor candidate, and Trump ran circles around her. [...]
The election was a full-court press using COVID as an excuse to illegally allow mail-in ballots with no identity verification on ballots to be cast.  Where is Hunter Biden's laptop that was put in the memory hole in the FBI, that the FBI is apparently not doing anything about?  And there's the issue of Ukraine and China with the big guy, Uncle Joe.  And let's not forget that Eric Swalwell and Hunter Biden were both compromised by Chinese honey traps.  How many others are there?

Harris Co.  Judge Lina Hidalgo's Chief of Staff, 2 former staff members indicted.  The $11 million COVID communication deal Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo once vigorously defended has just triggered a half dozen felony criminal indictments against three members of her inner circle, including the judge's chief of staff, Alex Triantaphyliss.  "Bring it on!  Bring it on!  Because there is nothing here," said Hidalgo at Commissioners Court on August 24, while defending the controversial contract.

Kathy Hochul's terrible judgment leads to one terrible day.  Gov. Kathy Hochul rushed to the microphones Tuesday to reassure New Yorkers following the Brooklyn subway shootings.  She should've stood in bed.  Out tumbled a jumble of half-thoughts, unfocused and haltingly delivered, underscoring what has been apparent for some time now — which is that New York's latest accidental governor would be out of her depth in a Buffalo mud puddle.  Which, in a manner of speaking, is where she came from.  Hochul's horrible day also included news that her handpicked, staunchly defended lieutenant governor, Brian Benjamin, had just been arrested on federal corruption charges.  Benjamin would be gone by day's end, of course, but the matter will linger.  Actually, the scandal could have been predicted by anybody who pays even cursory attention to New York politics.  But Hochul, it seems, doesn't pay attention to much.

NY Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin Resigns Following Arrest in Campaign Finance Fraud Case:  Hochul.  New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin has resigned after he surrendered to authorities to face campaign finance fraud-related charges in connection with a past campaign, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced.  "I have accepted Brian Benjamin's resignation effective immediately.  While the legal process plays out, it is clear to both of us that he cannot continue to serve as Lieutenant Governor.  New Yorkers deserve absolute confidence in their government, and I will continue working every day to deliver for them," Hochul said in a statement Tuesday afternoon.

New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin [has been] arrested on campaign finance fraud charges, sources say.  New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin was arrested on charges related to a campaign finance fraud investigation, officials announced Tuesday [4/12/2022].  Benjamin surrendered to authorities and appeared before a federal judge in New York City on Tuesday, the U.S Department of Justice said in a statement.  His arrest comes after reports that Manhattan federal prosecutors and the FBI were investigating whether Benjamin knowingly engaged in a campaign finance fraud scheme.  They were also looking into whether Benjamin, in exchange, helped distribute state money to contributors and their projects.  An indictment alleges that Benjamin was given campaign contributions from a Harlem real estate developer.  In exchange, Benjamin obtained a $50,000 state grant for the developer's business, although the money was never delivered, the indictment states.

New York Lt. Governor [has been] Arrested.  On Tuesday morning, New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin surrendered to authorities "to face fraud-related charges in connection with a previous political campaign," according to a report from The Daily Beast.  Benjamin was arrested on multiple charges, including bribery, over an alleged plot to get campaign contributions in exchange for a state grant.

The Democrats have a pedo problem.  Pick a deep blue state at random — say, Oregon.  A former longtime mayor of Beaverton, Dennis "Denny" Doyle, was recently charged with possession of child pornography.  But that was nothing new in the Beaver state.  There was also popular Portland mayor Sam Adams, who relished pederasty with underage boys.  Oh, there was also Democrat governor Neil Goldschmidt, who committed statutory rape against a 13-year-old girl and went on sexually abusing her for many years afterwards.  Goldschmidt's victim's life was destroyed, and she died decades later at age 49, with drugs, alcohol, and mental illness as contributing factors.  Unlike Dennis Hastert, none of these progressive figures went to prison for his crimes of molesting children.  They all got a free pass.  And most voters and politicians living near Oregon's deep blue I-5 corridor between Portland and Eugene didn't (and don't) care.

The Democrats have a pedo problem.  Progressives have a pedophilia problem.  Full stop, as the Barack Obamas of the world might say.  From CNN producers to Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) station chiefs and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) field agents; from the woke Disney corporation to Democrat donors; from Hollywood to the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA); from Facebook/Meta to the Lincoln Project to America's public school system — the progressive Left has a demonstrated prurient interest in underage children.  This is not guilt by association, innuendo, or conjecture; it is a firmly established fact pattern.  And this is not to suggest that no Republicans have ever espoused or committed similar atrocities against children; extremely rare countervailing exceptions like Republican Dennis Hastert (who, unlike Democrats, was actually imprisoned in part for his crimes of child molestation) prove the rule that many Democrats have a strong affinity for pedophilia and the normalization of the same.

Illinois Governor Invested in Company With $2.6 Billion In State Contracts.  Amid the national debate over whether members of Congress should be able to trade stock, the governor of Illinois is demonstrating how prevalent conflicts of interest are for elected officials who own securities.  In 2020, Gov. JB Pritzker's trust bought stock in the health insurance company Centene Corp.  That same year, Illinois gave $2.6 billion worth of Medicaid contracts to Centene Corp.  An investigation by the Better Government Association, a nonprofit Illinois watchdog, uncovered these interesting investments.  Even though Pritzker's investments are in a blind trust, which means that Pritzker is not privy to investment decisions, they demonstrate why blind trusts can't prevent conflicts of interest.  Each year, Pritzker receives a copy of his current investments from his fund managers, which have the potential to influence the state contracting process.

The COVID Hall of Shame — So Far.  It was known from the outset that COVID was most often fatal for elderly people in poor health.  A locus of fatalities in March 2020 was a single nursing home in Washington State — it was right there on the Johns Hopkins website.  Yet, Democrat governors Wolf, Cuomo, Witmer, Murphy, and Newsom ordered chronically-ill senior citizens with COVID discharged to nursing homes.  The staff inevitably carried the illness to others during their normal course of duty.  The only apt analogy is the distribution of smallpox-ridden blankets given to Native Americans by the British during the French and Indian War.  In July 2020, the .7% of Pennsylvania's population who were nursing-home residents accounted for 69% of COVID deaths there.  This action by Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf and his colleagues can't be chalked up to stupidity.  Governors aren't that stupid.  To what end was it done?  We cannot know.

Tennessee state senator is handed probation after striking plea-deal for $600,000 fraud.  A disgraced Democrat state senator dodged jail thanks to a plea deal over a $600,000 fraud which saw her spend federal cash on her wedding, honeymoon — and subsequent divorce.  Katrina Robinson, 41, struck the plea deal Friday which saw her admit just two of the 20 counts she was facing, with a value of $3,400.  Sentencing guidelines could have seen the former Tennessee lawmaker face up to 10 months in prison for those counts.  But US District Judge Sheryl H Lipman decided to let Robinson off with a slap on the wrist, and sentenced her to just a year of probation after claiming that the swindler had suffered enough already.  Robinson, who was removed from office by a vote in February, managed to defraud the government out of the $600,000 by applying for the cash for a nursing school called The Healthcare Institute that she ran, then using it for her own ends.

The Hater's Guide to Woodrow Wilson.  If you were dragging getting out of bed to start this week, thank Woodrow Wilson.  Daylight saving time is just one of a battery of ways that Wilson and his presidency changed America, most of them for the worse.  I come now not to explain Wilson, but to hate him.  A national consensus on hating Wilson is long overdue.  It is the patriotic duty of every decent American.  While conservatives have particular reasons to detest Wilson, and all his works, and all his empty promises, there is more than enough in his record for moderates, liberals, progressives, libertarians, and socialists to join us in this great and unifying cause. [...] In my youth, and perhaps yours, Wilson was presented in history books as a tragic hero whom the unthinking American people didn't deserve.  He was often placed highly on academics' rankings of the presidents.  Princeton University named its school of international relations for him.

Democrat Sen. Cortez Masto Took Thousands from Nordstream 2 Russian Pipeline Lobbyist.  Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), a Democrat who has consistently opposed measures to make America energy independent, took thousands in donations from lobbyists for the Russian Nordstream 2 pipeline.  As gas prices surged to the most expensive ever recorded on Monday, the revelations about Cortez Masto could severely jeopardize her 2022 reelection campaign.  Gas prices on Monday soared in Nevada to at least $4.590 per gallon — the second-highest in the nation behind Hawaii — and even as this happened, the Democrat senator has regularly opposed initiatives that would reduce gas prices and increase American energy independence.

The corrupt Madigan Enterprise and the Illinois Democratic Party.  Last week, [...] Boss Michael Madigan was indicted on 22 corruption counts.  I was a common assumption that Madigan never used email — after all, the feds might be reading those messages.  But the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois, led by a Donald Trump appointee, John Lausch, got the job done[.]  Coded language didn't work.  Madigan cronies, in secretly recorded conversations, would avoid Madigan's name, referring to him as "our friend" or "a friend of ours."  Ironically, the mafia name for themselves is "La Cosa Nostra," which roughly translates from Italian into "our thing" or "this thing of ours."  I've written about Madigan many times at Da Tech Guy.  In short, he's the man who destroyed Illinois. [...] Corruption is rampant in Illinois.  And Illinois faces a millstone with Madigan's dirty fingerprints all over it, unfunded state pension obligations, among the worst among the fifty states.  Madigan was more interested in rewarding his public-sector union pals than properly funding their pension plans.

Prosecutor who indicted ex-Illinois speaker makes ominous warning.  Northern District of Illinois U.S. Attorney John Lausch, a holdover from the Trump administration, stayed on after President Joe Biden took office at the behest of U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Springfield. [...] In the summer of 2020, Lausch's office revealed a deferred prosecution agreement with utility ComEd, in which the company admitted to a bribery scheme involving several individuals and agreed to pay the government a $200 million fine.  Madigan was labeled "Public Official A" in the ComEd document as the clear target of the federal corruption probe.  In Wednesday's [3/2/2022] news conference announcing the indictment of Madigan on racketeering and other charges, prosecutors alleged Madigan's political operation was a criminal enterprise that sought to keep the former speaker in power and financially benefit himself and his associates.  In announcing the indictment against Madigan Wednesday, Lausch said he will continue to be on the job as long as Biden allows.

Former Illinois Democrat Speaker Michael Madigan has been indicted.  On Wednesday [3/2/2022], the federal government filed a RICO claim against Michael Madigan, the former Illinois House Speaker.  The 106-page indictment accuses Madigan of engaging in bribery, extortion, and racketeering, all with an eye to maintaining Madigan's power and rewarding his political allies, workers, and associates, and to generate income for everyone involved in these criminal activities.  Considering how powerful Madigan was, I'd like to say this strikes a devastating blow against corruption in Illinois politics, but no one would believe me if I said that.  Michael Madigan came up in Chicago's political ranks as a protegee of Mayor Richard J. Daley and a friend of Daley's son, Richard M. Daley.  In 1969, by the time he was 27, Madigan was a ward precinct committeeman, at which time (according to Wikipedia), he controlled the "most disciplined" ward organization in Chicago.

One of the Senate's Richest Members [has been] Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Stock Trades.  A watchdog group is calling for an ethics investigation into Sen. Richard Blumenthal's (D., Conn.) sale of shares of Robinhood, the brokerage company at the center of the "meme stock" speculation frenzy last year.  The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) on Monday requested that the Senate Select Committee on Ethics probe Blumenthal's sale of Robinhood shares worth up to $2.5 million.  Blumenthal, one of the wealthiest members of the Senate, failed to disclose the trades within the 45 days required under federal law, the Washington Free Beacon reported.  "Blumenthal's stock trades raise conflict of interest concerns, and to make matters worse, Blumenthal failed to disclose his trades as required by the very laws intended to reveal conflicts of interest," Kendra Arnold, the executive director of FACT, wrote in a letter to Sens. Chris Coons (D., Del.) and James Lankford (R., Okla.), respectively the chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Ethics panel.

Pete Buttigieg accepted $250,000 and gifts from mayoral campaign donors who were later awarded $33 million in city contracts.  Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg's top political donors received millions of dollars in city contracts after giving thousands to his campaigns while he was mayor of South Bend, Indiana.  Buttigieg's political action committees took money from 23 companies who then got jobs from South Bend's Board of Public Works on which he was seated, documents obtained by DailyMail.com reveal.  On two occasions, the former presidential candidate received donations the same day the companies were awarded contracts.  Other city contractors [gave] the mayor cigars, alcohol and golf trips worth hundreds of dollars.

Baltimore State Attorney who faces perjury charges over COVID hardship claim tries to have case thrown out.  A Baltimore State Attorney facing a $1million perjury lawsuit for fudging financial numbers while taking out a loan for a pair of holiday home purchases in Florida has tried to get the case thrown out, claiming she's being targeted due to the fact that she's black and progressive.  In their most recent filing in the federal case, attorneys for Marilyn Mosby, 42 — who is charged with two counts of perjury and two counts of submitting false statements on loan applications to make the purchases, which amounted to $1.02million — accused federal prosecutors of having a personal vendetta against their client, claiming one of the legal eagles even spread rumors she cheated on her husband. 'Since its inception, the prosecution against State's Attorney Mosby has been driven by malicious personal, political, and even racial animus on the part of the prosecutors,' Mosby's attorneys wrote in motion to toss the case filed Friday.

Biden Had [a] Firm at [the] Center of [the] Trump Hacking Scandal on [his] Campaign Payroll.  The Biden campaign paid nearly $20,000 to a cybersecurity firm at the center of Special Counsel John Durham's investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe.  The campaign paid Neustar Information Services in 2020 for accounting and compliance work, according to Federal Election Commission records.  According to Durham, Neustar's chief technology officer, Rodney Joffe, accessed sensitive web traffic data that the company maintained on behalf of the White House executive office in order to collect "derogatory" information about Donald Trump.  Joffe allegedly provided the information to Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who in turn gave it to the CIA during a meeting in February 2017. Durham charged Sussmann in September with lying to the FBI about his investigation of Trump.  The Biden campaign's payments raise questions about whether Joffe continued snooping on Trump in the most recent election.

Biden's National Security Advisor Could Be in Trouble Next.  The latest filing from Special Counsel John Durham is not only problematic for Hillary Clinton but threatens the Joe Biden administration as well.  Biden's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, was a senior adviser to Clinton's presidential campaign in 2016 and played a key role in pushing the bogus Trump-Russia collusion narrative, as well the allegations of a secret line of communication between Trump and the Kremlin via Alfa Bank, cited in the latest motion filed by Durham — which also wasn't true.

All three Architects of "SAFE Act" Disgraced with Corruption.  In 2013, New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, and Governor Andrew Cuomo conspired to pass rigid and likely unconstitutional restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms by residents of New York State.  The law was passed with a rushed vote under a controversial measure in the New York Constitution which gives the Governor and legislative leaders enormous power.  The members of the legislature were forced to vote on it without any time to read it. [...] Large parts of the SAFE act have proven to be impractical to implement.  Some pieces have been ruled unconstitutional.  One part was so idiotic the state legislature, with the agreement of the governor, repealed it very quickly.  There is no evidence the act has had any effect on the New York violent crime rate.  New York has been the poster child for infringing on Second Amendment Rights to protect organized crime since 1911.  It is not surprising corrupt politicians want to disarm their constituents, who will often be their victims as well.

Company Traded Robinhood Stock On Behalf Of Sen. Blumenthal's Wife While He Was Demanding Investigation Of App.  A privately-held corporation associated with Democratic Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal and his wife bought and sold securities in the stock trading platform Robinhood while the senator and his colleagues called for investigations of the popular app.  Blumenthal, one of the wealthiest members of Congress, reported that a limited liability corporation bought and sold Robinhood shares on behalf of his wife in February, October, November and December 2021.  Blumenthal failed to report the December trades in a timely fashion, violating a federal law that mandates reporting of financial activities.  Robinhood has been in the crosshairs of federal regulators since the January 2021 meme stock craze, when day traders primarily associated with the WallStreetBets subreddit used the app to drive up the price of stocks like GameStop, AMC and BlackBerry.

Nancy Pelosi u-turns on members buying stock shares despite her husband raking in millions.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now on board with a potential ban on members of Congress trading stocks, but wants it to include all branches of government including the Supreme Court, she said Wednesday [2/9/2022].  The powerful Democrat has shot down the idea multiple times in the past, despite criticism over her husband raking in millions on the stock exchange.  But the California legislator is now working with other Democratic leaders on how to get it done, according to Punchbowl News, after caving to pressure from both sides of the aisle and both chambers of Congress.

Stacey Abrams and Voter Suppression.  Most conservatives are well aware of the Democrat's Alinsky tactic of accusing Republicans of whatever criminal, immoral, or unethical activities they themselves are engaged in.  [Numerous examples omitted for brevity.]  But there's a variation of Alinsky's projection ploy that's even more insidious:  accuse Republicans who dare secure the ballot box against illegal votes of engaging in voter suppression.  The Democrat's field general this tactic is their former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.  Abrams lost a close 2018 election to Brian Kemp and promptly accused Kemp of suppressing the black vote despite the fact that blacks voted in significantly higher percentages than whites.  She continues, without evidence, to insist that that election was stolen from her and the same Democrats who are now accusing Trump of threatening our democracy still claim she is the rightful governor of Georgia.  Abrams, who was neck deep in tax and credit card debt, has turned her voter suppression scam into a lucrative position as head of a non-profit, the ironically named Fair Fight Action, that raked in tens of millions from leftist billionaires and major corporations terrified of crossing the woke mob.

Fed Scandal Bigger Than Watergate?  Fed Chair Powell — who is supposed to serve in the public interest and avoid even the appearance of conflicts — traded millions in personal stocks and bonds while obstructing required public disclosures about those trades for years.  Yet, the information that has slipped out is [bad].  It shows Powell made trades during the restricted blackout period for pivotal Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings.  This is a shocking revelation and constitutes grave and inexcusable misconduct by a high-ranking U.S. government official.  Moreover, Powell directed policy decisions that directly advantaged his personal bond holdings despite longstanding federal conflicts of interest law, 18 U.S.C. § 208.  And then he apparently told a brazen lie about it to the press by suggesting the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) said his holdings posed no conflict.  FOIA requests confirm that OGE provided no such guidance in writing.

Rep. Jamie Raskin slapped with ethics complaint over failure to report wife's huge stock payout.  Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin was hit Monday with an ethics complaint over his failure to properly disclose stock shares that his wife — President Biden's nominee to be the Federal Reserve's top banking regulator — received for her work at a Colorado-based financial technology company.  The American Accountability Foundation, a conservative ethics watchdog, said in a complaint to the Office of Congressional Ethics that Raskin had violated federal financial disclosure reporting obligations by waiting too long to report a huge stock payout that his wife, Sarah Bloom Raskin, received in December 2020.

America's crime spike goes much deeper than policing or the lack of it.  When I was a teenager, I watched as Bill Clinton lied to congress in front of the entire nation when he was questioned about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.  He knowingly committed felony perjury and adultery when he was a sitting President of the United States and there were absolutely zero consequences for his actions.  The entire time he was in office, there was scandal after scandal and he was never held accountable for any of it.  The Bush and Obama administrations were no better.  You can look back over the years at Whitewater, Vince Foster, WMDs, Benghazi, ATF gun-walking, the Russia hoax, and so many more blatant crimes by people sitting in the District of Columbia.  The scandals were and are never-ending and there is never any accountability for any of them.  And these same scandalous men nominate our Supreme Court Justices.

Tennessee Senator Katrina Robinson Says She Feels Beat Up After Expulsion.  Democratic Tennessee state Senator Katrina Robinson said she feels beat up due to her expulsion from the Tennessee Senate on Wednesday in the first instance since at least the Civil War of the Legislature expelling a lawmaker.  The GOP-led Senate passed a motion in a 27-5 vote to expel Robinson, according to Nashville's WTVF. [...] Robinson had been convicted of wire fraud involving federal grant money at a school for health care school workers she ran in Memphis before being elected to the state Senate, the Associated Press reported.  Robinson and other Democrats said that her expulsion was premature, pointing to the fact that many of the initial charges against Robinson were dropped and that she has not received sentencing in connection to two remaining counts. [...] In 2020, Robinson and two others were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, according to Memphis' Commercial Appeal newspaper.  Robinson was originally charged with 48 counts involving $600,000 in federal funds meant for scholarships.

Report: Chuck Schumer Receives Campaign Donations from Russian Pipeline-Linked Affiliates.  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who helped block sanctions on Russia's Nord Stream 2 project, received campaign donations from corporate PACs affiliated with two of the European companies that helped fund the pipeline, according to a report from the Washington Free Beacon.  The corporate political action committees of ENGIE North America and BASF Corporation, two affiliates of European companies that are associated with the funding for Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline, gave $2,500 campaign contributions to Schumer's campaign in September, according to records with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the report stated.  Reportedly, the parent company for ENGIE North America and a subsidiary for BASF are part of the group of five businesses that financed the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to transport natural gas from Russia to Germany.

Biden Administration Official Broke Stock Trading Law Nine Times Last Year.  Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm broke the STOCK Act — a law that requires top federal officials to disclose their asset transactions within a 45-day window — nine times last year. [...] The report occurs as Congress debates new restrictions on stock trading — especially for shares in individual companies, as opposed to index funds that track market movements as a whole.  At the end of last year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) — whose husband, Paul, frequently trades large volumes of assets — avoided questions as to why lawmakers should be allowed to trade stocks in individual companies given lawmakers' high degree of restricted knowledge relevant to certain industries.  "Because this is a free market and people — we are a free market economy," Pelosi said during a news conference.  "They should be able to participate in that."  On Thursday, however, Pelosi appeared to change her tune.  She said that she has "great confidence in the integrity of my members" — yet will remain open to new regulations.

Nancy Pelosi Calls House Dem's the 'Greatest Collection of Intellect and Integrity.  Nancy Pelosi isn't known for her intellect or honesty, but lately she has made even more idiotic statements than usual.  Not only has she declared Joe Biden as one of the greatest presidents and thinks he's doing a fantastic job, she also believes that house Democrats are the greatest collection of intellect and integrity. [...] Pelosi has made over $100 mil engaging in insider trading and selling America's secrets to whoever will foot the bill.  She has robbed Americans of tax dollars by funneling billions to her own district, only for that money to be dispersed to her allies.  Democrats have as much integrity as the criminal who gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar and then plays the victim.  [Video clip]

Energy Secretary Granholm Violated STOCK Act 9 Times In 2021, Spox Blames 'Clerical Error'.  Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm blamed a "clerical error" for serial violations of the law that governs the reporting of securities transactions, according to Insider.  Granholm violated the STOCK Act nine times in 2021, Insider first reported Thursday.  The secretary filed two reports with the Office of Government Ethics on Dec. 15 and 16 detailing nine stock transactions that she conducted between April 30 and Oct. 26.  All nine transactions fall outside the 45 day window that the STOCK Act mandates government officials report their trades within, according to Insider.  "This was an inadvertent clerical oversight on reporting stock sales that ethics officials previously determined did not pose a conflict in her role as Energy Secretary and the Secretary paid the late filing fee," an Energy Department spokeswoman said of Granholm's transactions.

The Editor says...
Tell it to the jury.

FBI agents descend on Rep. Henry Cuellar's mansion in an 'ongoing investigation'.  FBI agents searched the Texas home and campaign headquarters of United States Representative Henry Cuellar as part of a 'court-authorized' investigation.  Federal agents were seen inside and around Cuellar's mansion in Laredo on Wednesday, where they took photos of trucks parked in the circular drive out front, The Monitor reported.  FBI agents were seen loading boxes, bins, bags and a computer from Cuellar's home into their vehicles.  The FBI also executed a separate search at the same time at an office where Cueller's campaign is headquartered on Washington and Davis Avenue in Laredo, reported KGNS News.  In a statement, the FBI remained tight-lipped about the reason for the visit, but confirmed that it was part of an 'ongoing investigation.'

Nancy Pelosi is wrong — members of Congress have no reason to trade stocks.  A decade ago, Congress passed the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act.  This law was supposed to do what it sounds like it would do — stop members of Congress from enriching themselves using inside knowledge that others lack.  But unfortunately, the law is toothless, imposing tiny fines for violations.  Some lawmakers from both parties want to fix this problem by simply banning members of Congress and their families from trading individual stocks on the stock market.  They are right to pursue this goal, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is wrong to block them.

67% of Americans support bill to ban stock trading by members of Congress, even as Pelosi resists.  A poll has found a sweeping majority of voters in favor of banning members of Congress from trading stocks, adding to arguments in favor of regulating lawmaker's trades after an Insider investigation.  According to new polling conducted by the progressive firm Data for Progress, 67% of voters support such a ban, a figure that increases to 74% when respondents are given arguments in favor and against the idea.  Asked if they would support or oppose a bill that would ban members of Congress and their senior congressional staff from buying and selling individual stocks, 43% of voters said they strongly supported a ban, while another 24% were somewhat supportive.

Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby federally indicted on perjury, false mortgage application charges.  Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of perjury related to a COVID-19 financial hardship withdrawal and a false statement on a loan application.  A federal grand jury returned the indictment Thursday charging Mosby on federal charges of perjury and making false mortgage applications, relating to the 2020 purchases of two vacation homes in Florida.  A federal grand jury returned the indictment Thursday charging Mosby on federal charges of perjury and making false mortgage applications, relating to the purchases of two vacation homes in Florida.  According to the four-count indictment, on May 26, 2020, and Dec. 29, 2020, Mosby submitted "457(b) Coronavirus-Related Distribution Requests" for one-time withdrawals of $40,000 and $50,000, respectively, from the city of Baltimore's Deferred Compensation Plans.

Social Media Users Track Stock Trading As Congress Considers Member Ban.  Some social media users have begun tracking the stock trades of several elected officials in an effort to beat the market, as bipartisan attempts to ban members from trading have begun to heat up.  35 members of Congress outperformed the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, an index fund that tracks the 500 most valuable stocks in the world, according to a chart that circulated on several social media platforms, including the notorious WallStreetBets subreddit.  The member who most outperformed the S&P 500 index in 2020, Republican Georgia Rep. Austin Scott, briefly trended on Twitter after the report was released by Unusual Whales, a website that monitors the stock trading habits of members of Congress.

Former Space Company Executive Alleges Serial Lawbreaking By Democratic Governor.  A former aerospace company executive accused embattled Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Monday, as well as several of her appointees, of retaliating against him after he filed a whistleblower complaint.  Zach DeGregorio, the former Chief Financial Officer of Spaceport America, alleges that one of Grisham's political appointees, Alicia Keyes, encouraged him to falsify an economic impact study.  He also alleges that Keyes mishandled a bond refinancing for the purpose of defrauding the state.  When DeGregorio attempted to report the wrongdoing, he claimed, he was threatened with investigations and a firing.  DeGregorio resigned from his position at the company in June 2020, shortly after he filed a complaint alleging that Spaceport America Executive Director Daniel Hicks violated several state laws, which led to "possible waste and abuse of taxpayer funds."  In the lawsuit, DeGregorio adds that Hicks attempted to break into his email account and accessed emails DeGregorio sent to Keyes about Hicks' involvement in alleged procurement fraud.

Ron Wyden (D) Blocked a Forced Labor Bill; Received Money from Nike Prior to Vote.  On December 15th, 2021, a bill largely expected to pass in both the House and the Senate was blocked by Oregon's Ron Wyden (D).  The bill in question "would require companies that import products from factories in the Xinjiang province of China to provide [']clear and convincing evidence['] to U.S. customs authorities that the products had no ties to forced labor.["] [...] There's absolutely no bad optics on this bill.  It's one of the few bills that unites Republicans, Independents, and Democrats within nearly every chamber our government.  Slavery = bad.  There's really no other way to look at it.  But alas, one Democrat claimed that he would not support a Forced Labor Bill.  You'd think he'd have a good reason, but he doesn't.  Even from the standpoint of trying to twist someone's arm into giving you what you want, this was a bad call for the Wyden.

High-profile Houston Democrats face corruption allegations.  Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo are each battling similar but separate controversies involving millions of dollars in government contracts awarded to politically connected individuals.  The high-stakes drama engulfing the political scene in the nation's fourth-largest city has so far escaped national media coverage.  Hidalgo has faced intense scrutiny over an $11 million vaccine outreach contract to Elevate Strategies, which is run by Felicity Pereyra, a Democratic political insider with ties to the county commissioners court.  Pereyra also worked on Hillary Clinton's campaign.  Pereyra's company was a one-woman operation until recently and only had existed for two years before being awarded the contract.

Schumer, Who Accused Trump of Russian Collusion, is Getting Paid by Putin.  "A single, ominous question now hangs over the White House:  What could possibly cause President Trump to put the interests of Russia over those of the United States?" Senator Schumer insinuated in 2018.  Why is Schumer putting Russia's interests ahead of those of the United States by blocking Nord Stream 2 sanctions on Putin's pet pipeline into Europe?  Schumer, along with a number of other top Democrats, is a beneficiary of campaign contributions from top Democrat fundraiser Vincent Roberti whose lobbying firm was paid over $8.5 million by Nord Stream 2 which is owned by Putin's state-run Gazprom energy monopoly.  Roberti, a former Dem politician, has maxed out his donations to Schumer and to Rep. Eric Swalwell, who may have been cheating on Fang Fang with Vladimir, and threw in a generous $171,000 to the DCCC, as part of the over $545,000 donated to the Democrat political machine.

Biden Energy Secretary Subject of Ethics Complaint for Promoting Electric Company She Held $1.6 Million in Stock.  President Biden's Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has received an ethics complaint for promoting an electric bus company she sat on the board of and held over a million dollars of stock in.  She did so all while being a part of the executive branch in Biden's administration.  Breitbart reports Granholm, "who oversees moving the country toward an electric vehicle transportation system and enjoys newfound powers after the passage of Biden's infrastructure package — is facing scrutiny for promoting Proterra, a Burlingame, California-based electric bus company she sat on the board of and held 240,520 shares of stock in, which garnered her $1.6 million when she finally divested them 157 days after her nomination."

If GOP wins in 2022, they must investigate Biden family corruption.  As Republicans and Democrats are examining the results of the November elections, including Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin's convincing victory in Virginia, it is clear that campaigning on issues close to the heart of the American people will bring real political results in 2022 and 2024.  However, the Republicans should not ignore the matters of integrity and government transparency and questions about corruption at the highest levels of U.S. politics.  Jimmy Carter had his brother Billy, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi's registered foreign agent.  Similarly, Roger Clinton, Bill Clinton's half-brother, was paid by the Gambino mafia family figure, for whom he allegedly tried to arrange a pardon, and was then himself pardoned by his half-brother Bill for a videotaped cocaine sale to an FBI agent.  Until professionally resolved by an honest investigation, Hunter Biden's business adventures in Ukraine and China will degrade the image of transparency and integrity in his father's administration.

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Hmmm.  What else do Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Joe Biden have in common?

Maryland Democrat Mayor Is Charged With 50 Counts Of Revenge Porn.  A mayor in Maryland who was arrested Monday and charged with 50 counts of distributing revenge porn is accused of posting nude photos without the victim's consent to the online forum Reddit, prosecutors said.  Andrew Bradshaw, 32, the mayor of Cambridge, in Dorchester County about 60 miles southeast of Annapolis, is accused of creating multiple accounts on Reddit and posting nude photographs captioned with racial slurs and sexually explicit language, State Prosecutor Charlton T. Howard III said in a statement.  [Video clip]

Not Suspicious at All:  Top NJ Democrat Says They 'Recently Found' 12,000 Ballots.  Leah has covered this New Jersey race extensively.  It's a state senate seat so it doesn't get much attention but if you live in the Garden State, this is a huge upset.  This is the New York Giants beating the Patriots in Super Bowl 42.  New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney appears to have been beaten by a no-name Republican Edward Durr, who spent less than $100 to beat Sweeney.  I'm deducting the $67 he spent at Dunkin' Donuts.  I've lived in New Jersey for most of my life.  Sweeney owns South Jersey.  He's the labor union's top guy there.  He controls that campaign cash.  No governor can get much down without his blessing either.  To get clipped likes this, really highlights the miserable election night Democrats had this cycle.  So, why hasn't he conceded yet?  Well, 12,000 ballots just magically appeared.

Powerful New Jersey Democrat, Steve Sweeney, Will Not Concede Election Because He Just Found 12,000 Ballots.  New Jersey Democrat President Steve Sweeney was stunningly defeated by a truck driver named Edward Durr in last Tuesday's elections.  However, Sweeney has refused to concede the election.  When questioned about why he refuses to concede, the most powerful Democrat in the New Jersey legislature said his campaign just found 12,000 ballots to help him.  They don't even try to hide the corruption anymore.

McAuliffe raked in cash from donor who funded anti-vax effort, falsely calls Youngkin anti-vax.  Terry McAuliffe has repeatedly and falsely called his gubernatorial opponent, Republican Glenn Youngkin, "anti-vax," but the former Virginia governor has raked in tens of thousands of dollars from a donor who funded an anti-vax effort, campaign finance records show.  Albert Dwoskin, a real estate developer who bankrolled an institute that pushed anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, supplied the McAuliffe campaign with $53,400 worth of travel expenses in the form of in-kind contributions, or non-cash goods or services, Virginia campaign finance records show.  Dwoskin also pushed $27,500 in cash to the campaign this cycle and sent $10,000 to McAuliffe's Common Good VA PAC in 2020.  The PAC kicked nearly $1.6 million to McAuliffe's campaign coffers in December, filings show.

Huawei reportedly paid Democrat lobbyist $1M.  New reports are shedding more light on well-known Democrat lobbyist Tony Podesta's involvement with Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei.  According to reports on Thursday, Podesta was paid $1 million by Huawei to promote them to the Biden administration.  The amount is double what Podesta said he had received earlier this month in his third quarter lobbying report.  However, it has been found that he may have been given the $1 million in two separate installments across June and September.  This comes as the Biden administration has been advised to keep Huawei on the trade blacklist.  One White House official said, "President Biden and this administration believe digital infrastructure equipment made by untrustworthy vendors, like Huawei, pose a threat to the security of the U.S., our allies, and our partners.  Export controls against Huawei remain in place."

Team McAuliffe emails reveal effort to 'kill this' Fox News story.  Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe's campaign raised eyebrows by spending nearly $60,000 to hire a high-profile attorney known for masterminding election-related legal challenges.  When Fox News sent the campaign a request for comment, the McAuliffe campaign scrambled to "kill" the story, according to emails mistakenly sent to Fox News.  Less than a month before Election Day, McAuliffe's campaign spent $53,680 on the services of the Elias Law Group, a firm that Marc Elias started earlier this year, Fox News previously reported.  When Fox News reached out to the McAuliffe campaign for comment, McAuliffe spokesperson Christina Freundlich responded to the email with a message apparently meant for colleagues, not for Fox News.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland Claims Conflict of Interest Ethics Rules Do Not Apply to Biden Administration.  Representative Mike Johnson (R-LA) questioned U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland about his clear conflict of interest today surrounding the Attorney General's instructions for FBI agents to investigate parents who question school board curriculum.  Merrick Garland's daughter is married to the co-founder of the Critical Race Theory educational material being purchased by the school boards.  The exact CRT material being directly challenged by the parents Garland has instructed the FBI to investigate.  In a clear conflict of interest, Merrick Garland is using his office to protect the income and investments of his son-in-law's business.  However, when questioned about this conflict today, Merrick Garland says he will refuse to accept any ethical review of his conduct.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is covering up Democratic misdeeds.  More evidence emerges that Attorney General Merrick Garland has allowed the Department of Justice to become outrageously politicized on behalf of liberal interests.  Indeed, the nation's chief law enforcement officer is breaking the law.  Nine months into the Biden presidency, Garland has yet to comply with a perfectly legitimate order issued by former President Donald Trump on his last day in office.  The order, made in the worthy cause of public transparency, would declassify much of the material from the investigation into Russia's efforts to help Trump win the presidency.

Panorama Education, Co-Founded By U.S. AG Merrick Garland's Son-In-Law, Contracted With 23,000 Public Schools & Raised $76M From Investors.  Last week, AG Garland sent a memo to the head of the FBI, directing him to work with local law enforcement "to address threats against school administrators, board members, teachers and staff."  Critics say that Garland made the move in response to parents vocally opposing mask mandates and race-related teaching implemented by local school boards.  Nevertheless, the move by Garland to have the FBI investigate parents at school board meetings quickly put his son-in-law's nationwide education business in the spotlight.  Garland's son-in-law is Xan Tanner, co-founder, board member, and president (2012-2020) of Panorama Education.  Panorama Education sells surveys to school districts across the country that focus on the local "social and emotion climate."  These surveys are then used as justification for new curriculum from other providers that some parents call critical race theory and find objectionable.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell sold up to $5 million worth of stock options just before Dow Jones tanked last year.  Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell sold between $1 million and $5 million worth of stock options that he owned just before the stock market tanked last year because the government failed to pass a stimulus measure, it has been reported.  Powell's stock sale was reported just weeks after two top officials with the central bank resigned and a third came under fire for making multi-million dollar stock trades during the COVID-19 pandemic.  He made the stock sales on October 1, 2020 — just as talks between Congress and the Trump White House over a new stimulus package broke down while COVID case counts, deaths, and hospitalizations were spiking, according to Prospect.

Corrupt democrat Los Angeles city councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas indicted in federal corruption probe.  The New York Post is reporting that a high-level Los Angeles Democrat has been indicted in a federal corruption probe.  Councilman Mark Ridley Thomas, 66 along with former dean Marilyn Louise Flynn, 83 are expected to be arraigned in the next few days on charges of conspiracy, bribery, honest services mail fraud and honest services wire fraud.  The charges carry decades in prison if they are convicted, although honestly at their age, the chances of any type of lengthy sentence is questionable.

Los Angeles:  Corruption as far as the eye can see.  Here's the story from Los Angeles as the New York Post reports:  [" ...] Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas, 66, and Marilyn Louise Flynn, 83, were expected to be arraigned in the coming days on charges of conspiracy, bribery, honest services mail fraud and honest services wire fraud.  They face decades in prison if convicted of all charges.["]  This one's interesting, because Ridley-Thomas was no two-bit politician in Los Angeles.  He was a powerful county supervisor for many years before moving into his current slot at the Los Angeles City Council. [...] In what's been called a "political earthquake," it turns out he was caught taking at least one bribe that we know of, according to the FBI indictment, from the now former dean of the University of Southern California's school of social work, Marilyn Louise Flynn.  His price was steep:  $100,000 plus admission with full scholarship to the school for his worthless son (who was being drummed out of the state assembly for sex harassment), complete with a professorship at the university afterward.  It's actually not known if he completed that degree on that full scholarship, according to news reports, but it is well known that university professorships are convenient dumping grounds for wokester leftists who ought to be pariahs.

Tennessee senator Katrina Robinson seeks acquittal after fraud conviction.  Katrina Robinson's legal team is seeking an acquittal after the state senator was found guilty of four counts of fraud.  In a filing Friday [10/8/2021], Robinson's attorneys argue prosecutors misrepresented evidence and changed their legal theories mid-trial.  That two-week trial ended Sept. 30 with a jury finding Robinson guilty.  If not an outright acquittal, Robinson's attorneys ask the judge to grant a new trial.  Robinson was initially served with a 48-count indictment Aug. 11, 2020, alleging she illegally used $600,000 in federal funding meant for her school, The Healthcare Institute.  Prosecutors said she used the money for personal expenses including food, makeup, and entertainment for a wedding.

Delaware's top anti-corruption official 'paid her daughter $19,000 and her best friend $7,700 to do no-show job at government agency'.  Delaware's top anti-corruption official paid her daughter $19,000 and the girl's best friend — both high school seniors — more than $7,700 to do no-show temporary jobs even as other workers were laid off due to the pandemic, according to an indictment.  Kathleen McGuiness, 58, who as Delaware's state auditor is responsible for rooting out government fraud, waste and abuse, was indicted Monday on public corruption charges.  An indictment issued by a New Castle County grand jury charges McGuiness with felony counts of theft and witness intimidation, and misdemeanor charges of official misconduct, conflict of interest and noncompliance with state procurement laws.

Garland son-in-law's education company recommends book featuring Bill Ayers.  The left-wing education company co-founded by Attorney General Merrick Garland's son-in-law recommends that teachers read a book in which the first essay is written by Bill Ayers, the former domestic terrorist group leader and Chicago educator who helped lead the Weather Underground.  Panorama Education, co-founded by Xan Tanner, claims it has made its way into thousands of schools in the United States, selling race-focused student and teacher surveys and conducting training on systemic racism and oppression, white supremacy, implicit bias, and intersectionality, all under the rubric of "Social-Emotional Learning."

Watters probes Pelosi's wealth explosion, says she and husband seem to 'always know what the right investment is'.  As of 2020, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, and her husband, real estate developer Paul Pelosi, had accumulated a combined $315,000,000 in wealth, and according to an investigation by Fox News host Jesse Watters, something about this doesn't seem right.  During a segment Saturday on Fox News' "Watters' World," he dug deep into her and her husband's past and discovered nuggets of information suggesting corruption may be afoot.  He started by noting that sometime after Pelosi's husband opened the real estate and venture capital investment and consulting firm Financial Leasing Services, Inc., he used his newly made "connections" to push her into politics, "helping her get elected to Congress in 1987."  Following her election to office, their wealth exploded. [...] The most recent wealth explosion occurred after she became House speaker again in 2018.  "That year, her financial disclosure report revealed a net worth of over 114 million.  Then in 2019, Pelosi's assets totaled up to a whopping 271 million.  And in 2020, those numbers went up even more to as high as 315 million bucks.  Quite a lot of crumbs," Watters said.  He then asked the question on everyone's mind:  "Where's the money coming from?"

Rochester Mayor to step down as part of guilty plea in shocking plea deal.  Lovely Warren, the Mayor of Rochester, New York, has been in the hot seat for quite a while now.  It all began with her mishandling and blame-shifting after the death of Daniel Prude in police custody.  She was simultaneously facing accusations of campaign finance law violations from her last election.  Then it was revealed that her husband had been a suspect in an investigation into a major drug trafficking ring.  Things came to a head when both she and her husband were arrested on child endangerment and illegal weapons charges after a police raid on the couple's home found the child left alone in a house with tens of thousands of dollars worth of drugs in it and an unsecured, loaded handgun.  Through it all, Warren continued to protest her innocence in all matters, insisting that she had no idea what her husband had been up to and that the campaign finance questions were all just a "misunderstanding."

Because They Are Evil.  There are a great many things coming from Biden, Fauci, the CDC, the State Department, the military, the Justice Department, and basically the Deep State that make no sense.  From Biden and the Deep State, we are getting executive orders, mandates, guidelines, decisions, policies, and edicts that just do not make any sort of intellectual sense.  It is not just a difference of opinion.  It is not just different politics or a different point of view.  Decisions, guidelines, policies, and proposed laws are coming out of Washington D.C., Biden, and the Deep State that one just can't figure out in an intellectual, factual, common-sense sort of way.  The only way to explain what is coming from the placeholder at the White House and the Deep State elites is that they are just evil.  They are doing what they're doing because they are evil.  No other answer makes sense.

Somebody Paid $3.7 Million Cash for CA Gov Newsom's Estate — But Who?  Somebody paid $3.7 million cash, through an LLC, for a 12,663 square foot, 8-acre estate in December 2018 that was then transferred (or gifted) to California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife shortly before the First Couple obtained a $2.7 million cashout mortgage loan on the property.  A year after originally breaking that story we still don't know who that somebody is and whether the transaction was legal or not.  Newsom's spokesperson, Nathan Click, has given two diametrically opposed explanations as to the origin of the cash, and neither hold up to scrutiny.

Hunter Biden:  A legend in the art community.  What do Hunter's art sales have in common with the Clinton Foundation?  The former is not selling priceless works of art, and the latter is not helping those in need.  They are both selling influence.  The art and the foundation are merely instruments to launder bribes.  We know this to be true because the donations to the Clinton Foundation dried up when the Clintons no longer had influence to peddle.  Likewise, I predict that Hunter's art will suddenly become less valuable as soon as Joe leaves office.

One Payoff in the Infrastructure Deal Is So Blatantly Corrupt That You Almost Have to Respect the Hustle.  While Nancy Pelosi's machinations may have put the infrastructure deal in jeopardy, the smart money still resides on its passing at some point.  There are just too many Republicans who seem too gung-ho, and you'd only need a few crossovers in the House to overcome the socialist wing.  With that said, the contents of the bill are becoming public, revealing the absolute boondoggle that this hastily written bipartisan compromise is.  Yet, there's one corrupt payoff in it that really stands out among the rest.  Enter Sen. Joe Manchin, who has been one of the key players in formulating and moving forward the infrastructure deal.  Given that, you knew he'd be getting his palms greased.  Even still, I'm not sure I expected it to be this blatant.  [Tweet]  Who is Gayle Manchin?  Well, that would be Joe Manchin's wife, who was appointed as co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission by Joe Biden.  In this infrastructure bill is a $1 billion expenditure to that commission.

Mayor of major U.S. city to pay nearly $23,000 for ethics violations.  San Francisco Mayor London Breed will personally pay $22,792 in fines imposed by the city's Ethics Commission for violating ethics standards while in office, according to various reports.  London Breed agreed to pay the fines imposed by the Ethics Commission, calling them "fair," the San Francisco Chronicle reported.  The commission said the fines were "significant," as Breed had misused her mayoral title for her personal benefit.  The Ethics Commission fined Breed for several violations, including asking then-California Gov. Jerry Brown in October 2018 to release her brother Napoleon Brown from prison, where he was serving a 44-year sentence for involuntary manslaughter and armed robbery, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.  Breed and family members sent the letter to Brown in October 2018, asking for the release of her brother for crimes for which she said he had faced excessive punishment.

Is Eric Swalwell A Chinese Spy?  If you have followed the saga of Congressman Eric Swalwell and his Chinese paramour Fang Fang you will know that:
  •   Fang Fang is a Chinese spy working for the Ministry of State Security, which is the rough equivalent of the CIA.
  •   Fang Fang and Swalwell had an intimate relationship.
  •   Fang Fang helped Swalwell raise money to run for Congress.
  •   Fang Fang left the country years ago. [...]
In short, you will know nothing.  Spies do not work alone.  They do not wander around having casual relationships with targets and then drift away.  They work at the direction of a government.  They report to superiors.  They write reports on everything they do.  They often work in teams — even if those teams are invisible to the casual observer.  Fang Fang did not just "bump into" Swalwell.  She was directed to target him.  She did not help Swalwell get started in politics, raise money for him and provide an assistant to work in Swalwell's office, because she saw something promising in his dull, boyish demeanor.  She did all this at the direction of a hostile, totalitarian state hell-bent on the destruction of the United States.

Who are the two biggest scoundrels among Democrats?  I don't know.  That covers a lot of territory.  But if we limit the inquiry to very famous Democrats, the answer might be Andrew Cuomo and Hunter Biden.  They have much in common.  Both are sons of very famous fathers.  Neither, in all likelihood, would have become prominent but for what their fathers accomplished.  That's certainly the case with Hunter Biden.  Both are the subject of sex scandals, albeit of somewhat different sorts.  Andrew Cuomo has been accused of sexual harassment by several women who worked in his administration.  Hunter Biden apparently was a fixture in the VIP lounges of various D.C. "gentlemen's clubs" where, allegedly, he did crack cocaine with strippers.  One stripper says he fathered her child.  And both Cuomo and Biden are under federal investigation.

Illinois Dem Admits to Bribing Prospective Opponent.  Democratic congresswoman Marie Newman (Ill.) acknowledged in court that she promised a six-figure job to a would-be political rival — an apparent bribe that may violate federal law.  Newman's taxpayer-funded attorneys conceded to a federal judge that the Democrat promised a top job in her office to a local Palestinian activist, which he said aimed to keep him from running in a 2020 primary, legal filings obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show.  The admission came after the activist, Iymen Chehade, sued Newman for breach of contract when the Democrat did not follow through with the job offer.  While the pair reached a settlement in late June that led to the suit's dismissal, the development does not end Newman's potential legal woes.  Both federal law and House rules prohibit candidates from promising a job to gain political support, and congressional investigators could now use facts from the civil case against Newman, Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust executive director Kendra Arnold said.

Swalwell spent thousands of campaign dollars on booze and limo services, $20K at hotel where his wife worked.  Prominent Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California appears to have spent tens of thousands of campaign dollars on booze and limousine services, as well as over $20,000 at the luxury hotel where his wife used to work.  The tens of thousands of campaign dollars include limo services, luxury hotels, high-end restaurants and alcohol delivery services over the course of the second quarter, according to FEC records reviewed by Fox News.  The California congressman appears to have been driven in style with his FEC records showing the campaign spending over $10,000 on 26 rides from various limousine and luxury car services.  Swalwell's campaign also spent over $26,000 on luxury hotels.

Revealed: Eric Swalwell spent $20K in campaign funds at the hotel where his wife Brittany works.  California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell spent more than $20,000 in campaign funds at the hotel where his wife worked and also splashed out on booze and limo services, FEC filings suggest.  The filings show Swalwell, 40, spent money at the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay, California, where his wife Brittany was the director of sales between 2015 and November 2019, according to her LinkedIn profile, and dropped $7,000 at restaurants and steakhouses in D.C. during the second quarter of 2021.  The tally includes 13 meals at restaurants including Charlie Palmer Steak, O-Ku Sushi and STK Steakhouse in downtown New York City.

23 High-Ranking Officials in Biden Administration All Came from the Same Shadowy Firm.  Many of the highest-ranking members of the Biden administration came from the same shadowy firm.  It is a relatively new name among revolving-door power brokers in Washington D.C., which makes it all the more surprising.  Founded in 2017, WestExec describes itself as a "diverse group of senior national security professionals with the most recent experience at the highest levels of the U.S. government.  With deep knowledge and networks in the fields of defense, foreign policy, intelligence, cybersecurity, international economics, and strategic communications, our team has worked together around the White House Situation Room table, deliberating and deciding our nation's foreign and national security policies."

Biden's pick for German ambassador is president of university that paid him nearly $1M.  President Biden's nominee to be the next ambassador to Germany is an Ivy League president whose university paid him nearly $1 million for an honorary professor gig where he was seldom seen, it was revealed Friday [7/2/2021].  University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, who has headed the Philadelphia-based institution since 2004, is the first envoy to a G-7 nation to be nominated by Biden.  If confirmed by the Senate, the 71-year-old Gutmann would be the second woman to serve as America's chief diplomat in Berlin.  (Robin Quinville has served as acting US ambassador to Germany since June of last year.)

Quid Pro Joe?  Biden's Pick for Ambassador to Germany Raises a Lot of Questions.  As we previously reported, Hunter Biden's emails revealed that when Joe Biden was vice president, Joe and Hunter used his office as a way to advance his son's business deals, even using Air Force Two to fly one of the business associates and Hunter to Mexico for a "gigantic" business deal.  Giving access to meet the big guy paid off very well for Hunter.  Even with all the emails and pictures of Joe Biden meeting with Hunter's business associates, Joe Biden still claimed during the campaign that he knew nothing about his son's business.  Imagine the nerve that takes to say that, when he knew he was doing all this and that the evidence was likely out there.

Watchdog group files complaint alleging Florida Democratic Rep. Demings committed ethics violation.  A watchdog group has filed a complaint to Congress alleging Florida Democratic Rep. Val Demings violated congressional ethics rules by using taxpayer-funded resources for campaign purposes.  The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust says Demings used her official Twitter account, with more than 300,000 followers, to direct people to her campaign account, which the conservative-leaning group is calling an "ongoing ethics violation," according to the Washington Free Beacon.  The complaint to the Office of Congressional Ethics more specifically argues that by using her official account, Demings violated House rules banning the use of taxpayer-funded resources for campaign use.

Nepotism abounds in Biden administration.  Soon after becoming president, Joe Biden promised that no member of his family would be involved in the federal government.  It was an easy promise for Biden to make considering all the money his son and brother had already made off of Joe's name and office in the private sector.  You can't get rich in the federal government like you can peddling influence in countries like Ukraine and China.  Still, the federal government isn't a bad place in which to make a buck and enhance a resume.  Thus, senior members of the Biden administration are finding places in government for their children, spouses, and siblings.

Biden's Policies Feed a Criminal Monopoly.  Mexican criminal cartels — not U.S. border communities, nor illegal immigrants — are the beneficiaries of President Joe Biden's open border policies.  Biden's neglect of border security is feeding the money-making machine of the Mexican cartels, a criminal enterprise that exploits immigrants by taking their money — and sometimes their lives.  "[The cartels] have the northern border of Mexico sealed," Jay Whetten, a rancher residing in Cochise County, Arizona, told me in an interview.  "Nobody comes through that border illegally without their authorization."  In May 2021, Border Patrol encounters with illegal immigrants from the Mexican border increased 674% as compared to May 2020, demonstrating the magnitude of the increase in business for Mexican cartels.  And, according to a veteran Department of Homeland Security law enforcement officer, these are only the crossings of which Border Patrol is aware.

DOE Grants Manchin Donor's Company $1 Million.  A major donor to Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) received a $1 million grant from the Department of Energy ahead of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm's trip to West Virginia to lobby the senator on the administration's $2 trillion infrastructure bill.  The U.S. Research Impact Alliance, an incubator for energy startups, received $1 million as part of the Department of Energy's "grant funding for research and innovation projects," Manchin and Granholm announced during the energy secretary's two-day visit to West Virginia late last week.  The company's treasurer is West Virginia businessman Michael Green, a longtime political ally and donor to Manchin.

Seattle Times sues city of Seattle over Mayor Jenny Durkan's missing text messages during protests.  The Seattle Times filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that the city of Seattle mishandled requests from reporters for officials' text messages during a tumultuous period last summer when police abandoned the East Precinct and used tear gas on protesters.  The complaint, filed in King County Superior Court, follows a whistleblower investigation that found Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan's office violated state public records laws in its handling of requests after discovering the mayor's texts were missing for a 10-month period.  Four Seattle Times reporters were among the requesters affected.  Their requests were largely focused on officials' communications surrounding a series of events last summer, including fatal shootings in the Capitol Hill Organized Protest area that formed following the precinct's abandonment and the resignation of former Police Chief Carmen Best.  None of the reporters were informed that the mayor's texts had not been retained.

Just How Rigged is the "Rigged Game"?  [Dennis] Kucinich described a Cleveland City Council that correctly viewed itself as servants, in office to execute the needs of the financial interests that installed them.  When he arrived telling a tale of having spent two years knocking on every door in his district, the members didn't believe it, and kept asking questions like "Where'd you get your money to get elected?" or "Who put you here?"  One after the other, they welcomed him to the job, telling him there were "legitimate ways" to make money once there, that "you're on the inside now, not on the outside," and that the world generally could be his, if he followed one rule.  "All you have to do," one attorney-legislator told him, "is play ball."  He learned the racket:  "You gotta vote right."  Many of the things the Council voted on turned out to be cons and guaranteed profit schemes that directly transferred cash from voters to donors.  For instance, an "urban renewal" bill that was pitched as a multi-million-dollar cleanup for one neighborhood but was actually a scam to force thousands of homeowners to take out high-interest-rate private bank loans to repair their properties.

Supremely Anti-Gun NY Mayor's Husband Is Arrest For Drugs And, Wait For It, Illegals Guns In House.  Rochester, New York, is governed by Mayor Lovely Warren, and one of the mayor's pet peeves is guns — particularly the illegal kind.  At BearingArms.com they noted Warren, who is a Democrat, frequently advocates for getting guns off the city's streets.  She also supports New York's tough gun-control laws.  And recently announced a gun buyback initiative so, as the mayor put it "our residents can feel safe in their neighborhoods and live the lives they deserve."  Under that plan, people would be paid $150 for pistols and $250 for "assault" weapons.  [Video clip]

Anti-Gun Mayor Says She's The Victim After Husband Busted On Drug, Gun Charges.  What's an anti-gun mayor supposed to say when police raid her home and find illegally possessed firearms and illicit drugs inside?  In the case of Rochester, New York mayor Lovely Warren, the answer is to claim that you're the victim of a political investigation and an attempt to derail your re-election campaign. [...] "Tim" is Timothy Granison, Warren's husband and the alleged owner of an unregistered handgun discovered in the couple's home earlier this week (a modern sporting rifle was found as well, though so far police haven't said if was registered with the state as required under New York's SAFE Act set of gun control laws).  Warren's correct in noting that she's not currently facing charges in connection with the drug investigation, though the mayor is facing felony charges of her own in a case involving alleged violations of the state's campaign financing laws.

Court Rules Michigan Recall Effort Against Governor Can Proceed — Gretchen Whitmer Responds With Implied Violence.  A Michigan court has ruled that a recall effort against Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a woman with no moral or leadership character, can proceed.  That's good news.  However, it is the response from the governor that appears to be the buried lead.  Specifically because the statement also included "courts" and the "ballot Box", the third line of attack from the governor's office implies acts of violence "on the streets" against her political opposition.

Only because she got caught:
Whitmer's campaign will pay for controversial Florida flight.  A Michigan chemical company that arranged for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to fly to Florida in its private jet is under scrutiny from the Federal Aviation Administration, prompting a change in how the flight will be paid for, Whitmer's campaign disclosed Thursday [5/27/2021].  Whitmer's reelection campaign will pay PVS Chemicals of Detroit for the $27,521 cost of the flight to visit Whitmer's father, not a nonprofit corporation that Whitmer controls, as announced earlier, Whitmer campaign attorney Christopher Trebilcock said in a letter obtained by the [Detroit] Free Press.  Trebilcock made the new disclosures in a letter to state Rep. Steve Johnson, R-Wayland, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, who had sent the governor a list of questions about the March trip.

Florida Private Jet Scandal Threatens Gretchen Whitmer's Political Future.  Dishonesty and hypocrisy surrounding Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's (D) secret "personal" trip to Florida are threatening the one-time rising star's political future.  Like other Democrat governors, Whitmer opted to impose harsh restrictions in an attempt to deal with the coronavirus in 2020.  After a spike in cases towards the end of the year, she reimposed many orders through her Department of Health and Human Services after her executive orders were ruled unconstitutional in October.  In early April 2021, as coronavirus variants were growing around the country, Whitmer warned Michiganders not to go to Florida for spring break.  But what she did not say at the time was that on a Friday morning, March 12, the governor who previously was on Joe Biden's shortlist for vice president, took an unannounced trip to Florida for four days.  She returned Monday evening, March 15.

Gretchen Whitmer Story Unravels:  Florida Plane Not Authorized for Charter Flights.  The private jet Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said she chartered for her secret trip to Florida in March is not approved to be chartered, the FAA told the Detroit Free Press Monday [5/17/2021].  The new problems arose when Whitmer's chief of staff, Joanne Huls, attempted to explain away the flight Friday by saying a related 501(c)(4) so-called dark money group paid for the flight.  It was determined the cost of the roundtrip was $27,521, and Whitmer personally reimbursed the fund just $855 for her seat.  It was not clear how they arrived at either figure.

Gretchen Whitmer's private flights draw attention of Michigan Legislature and FAA.  Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's use of a private plane to travel out of state in March could soon be facing multiple investigations.  Rep. Steve Johnson, the chairman of the Michigan House Oversight Committee, said there may even need to be an inquiry into the financial arrangements behind Whitmer's visit to her father, who is reportedly chronically ill, if her administration is not forthcoming should a letter be sent with questions.  "If they refuse to [answer the questions], maybe, at that point, we will do hearings.  It's definitely something in consideration," the Republican told the Detroit News.  "I would like to give the administration the opportunity to answer questions before we go down that road."  After Whitmer's chief of staff, JoAnne Huls, said last week the administration used "a chartered flight for this trip," a Federal Aviation Administration representative said Detroit-based Air Eagle, the company whose plane carried Whitmer to Florida and back, doesn't hold a certificate authorizing charter-type services.

Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant admits violating ethics code, fueling recall effort.  As Henry Bridger arrived on Capitol Hill on Saturday [5/8/2021] to gather signatures for a ballot initiative to recall Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, he trumpeted an admission by the politician that he predicts will help persuade voters to oust her.  In a Friday settlement agreement with the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission, Sawant admitted to improperly using city money, employees and other resources to support a proposed ballot measure.  She also agreed to pay the city $3,516, about twice the amount of city funds she spent to advance the measure to create a payroll tax on big businesses like Amazon.  Sawant's admission that she violated city ethics and elections codes confirms one of three charges now being made by the recall effort.

A Major Biden Administration Scandal Is Brewing.  As RedState reported weeks ago, there are serious issues surrounding millions of dollars in stock owned by Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm.  That stock is in Proterra, an electric vehicle company that is being actively promoted by the Biden administration.  Further, Granholm being the Secretary of Energy means she gets to make regulations that can directly enrich herself.  Now, the story has gotten worse as Granholm appears to have reneged completely on her pledge to sell her stock and leave the board of the company in question.

The Editor says...
It's not a scandal if the news media ignores it.  At least that appears to be the plan.

Former Democrat Speaker of House in Oregon Arrested for Sex Trafficking.  Dave Hunt represented Clackamas County in the Oregon House of Representatives from 2003 through 2013. Hunt was the former Democratic Leader, Majority Leader, and Speaker of the House for the State of Oregon.  As a legislator, Hunt the sponsor of a bill criminalizing sex trafficking in 2007.  Hunt is currently a lobbyist working to influence the very chamber he left.  However, even more ironic in 2011, Dave Hunt use his position to support and vote for HB 2714.  That bill created the crime of commercial sexual solicitation, the exact crime police used to charge Hunt when he was arrested and cited.

Stacey Abrams Is On The Board Of A Group Collaborating With The Chinese Communist Party.  Stacey Abrams serves on the board of the Center For American Progress, which has participated in exchanges with a premier Chinese Communist Party-linked propaganda organization for over a decade, even co-authoring reports with the group, The National Pulse can today reveal.  Among its Democratic board members is Abrams, who remarked she was "honored to be joining the board of the Center for American Progress," as it "has been at the forefront of progressive policy development and activism for years."  What's more, the left-wing activist spoke at the group's 2019 conference to outline "solutions to combat voter suppression efforts."

Nancy Pelosi's Husband Buys Microsoft Ahead of Big Govt Contract.  Here are recent Pelosi Insider Moves.  [Link]  The list shows the Microsoft call options.  And here is a list of Senate Transactions you may be interested in.  [Link]  If you had knowledge of this deal and made a similar trade, then got caught, you would be fined, lose all your profits, and potentially be thrown into jail.

Corrupt ex-mayor of NY town running for [his or her] old seat thanks to state loophole.  Two crooks want to become mayor of Spring Valley in Rockland County — but only one is eligible to run, a state judge ruled Wednesday [4/14/2021].  In an only-in-New York story, former Spring Valley Mayor Noramie Jasmin, who was ensnared in a federal corruption scandal tied to former state Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith, is running for her old job after serving four years in prison.  Jasmin was found guilty in 2015 of mail fraud and extortion.  She got caught peddling her support for a local community center in exchange for $5,000 cash and 50-percent ownership in the development.  But that's only half the story.  One of her wannabe opponents in the Democratic primary, Vilair Fonvil, a former Spring Valley trustee, was convicted of felony state crimes for stealing $11,000 from a summer camp program run by the village.  The crimes included grand larceny, corruption and official misconduct.

Parallels between Biden's border policy and Cuomo's nursing home scandal.  Some friends of mine have been making interesting comparisons of the parallels between the completely unnecessary crises created by President Biden (at the border) and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. [...]
Spreading COVID
  •   Biden requires CBP to allow COVID positive illegal migrants into our country and is spreading them across the country
  •   Cuomo sent COVID-positive elders into nursing homes, killing almost 15,000 vulnerable seniors there
Predictability of a self-created crisis
  •   The Biden border crisis was not only predictable but he was warned about what would happen
  •   Cuomo was warned by doctors who work in nursing homes about the risks to the other residents
Coverup
  •   Biden is refusing to allow the media and American people to see the conditions in which illegal immigrants are held, especially children, and has delayed releasing the numbers of illegals allowed entry or not
  •   Cuomo notoriously and probably illegally covered up the number of nursing home deaths
Refusing to use Trump-provided solutions
  •   Biden abandoned Trump's successful border security arrangements with Mexico, his safe third country agreements with Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras to apply for asylum in their home countries, and ended border wall construction
  •   Cuomo didn't take advantage of the Federal assistance in creating hospital facilities in the Javits Center and the USNS Comfort hospital ship
Lack of preparation
  •   Biden issued executive orders on the border without being prepared in terms of personnel, procedures, or facilities to deal with their consequences
  •   Cuomo left nursing homes being unprepared and unequipped in terms of personnel, procedures, and facilities to isolate those admitted with COVID or otherwise protect the other residents
Family separation
  •   Biden encouraged family separations by encouraging unaccompanied minors
  •   Cuomo caused permanent family separations with elders' deaths while isolated from their family in long-term care facilities

For 20 years, Democrat sexual predators have run the state of New York.  For 13 years, the terms of the last three Democrat governors, sexual harassers have held down the office.  And for 20 years, Democrat attorney generals who were sexual predators ruled.  It's quite an achievement for a national and state party that claims to protect women.  "There is a disrespect for women that this administration chronically exemplifies.  After the #MeToo movement, they did absolutely nothing when it came to sexual harassment," Governor Cuomo ranted about President Trump during the Kavanaugh nomination.  That was the same year that Cuomo had halted an investigation into Manhattan DA Cy Vance's mishandling of the Weinstein case back in 2015, six days after Cuomo got a $25,000 check from the law firm that had represented Weinstein in 2015, which had donated $10,000 to Vance.  Vance's office had also asked a judge to reduce Jeffrey Epstein's sex offender status so low that he wouldn't be listed as a sex offender.

New York's Corrupt and Venal Leaders Must Go.  Writing as someone who was slightly acquainted with the late Mario Cuomo and considered him a substantial political force — not out of place among the many distinguished men who have held the historic office of governor of New York, from General George Clinton and John Jay to the Roosevelts, Al Smith, and Nelson Rockefeller — I have always found both of the present public Cuomos unutterably obnoxious.  The only positive thing about the present governor is that he is an improvement on Eliot Spitzer, an apparently megalomaniacal incarnation of the concept of malicious and reckless prosecution when he was state attorney general.  With that said, the cascade of demands that Andrew Cuomo resign over the allegations of improprieties against him launched by present or former female co-workers is piffle.  There is something particularly nauseating about the cowardly antics of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as he attacks Cuomo and demands his resignation.

Has Joe Biden Sold America out to the Mexican Drug Cartels?  I've said for two years now on my national radio show that the best thing that could ever happen for the Mexican drug cartels would be a Democratic presidential victory.  Mexican drug kingpins have waited their entire lives for this fantasy.  They must be singing, dancing and toasting champagne right now, because President Joe Biden is the greatest gift ever bestowed upon the Mexican cartels.  Experts estimated the money made on drug trafficking by the cartels at around $500 billion a year.  That's half a trillion dollars a year — "trillion" with a T.  Who quotes that figure?  Republican senators.

Why the Left Hates Cuomo.  In contrast to his predecessors, the accusations against Cuomo are so flimsy, they almost — but not quite! — make you feel bad for the guy.  David Patterson had an affair with a state employee while a married state senator.  Eliot Spitzer resigned in disgrace after being caught paying $5000 a night for young prostitutes; a few years later the New York Post revealed that he had a fetish for crawling around barking like a dog while a prostitute led him with a collar and a leash.  Nelson Rockefeller died of a heart attack in 1979 while doing a bit of horizontal exertion with a "secretary" almost fifty years younger than he.  The accusations against Cuomo amount to little more that the fact that he creeped out a few women by trying to be friendly with them.  Yet Cuomo deserves every bit of the grief he is getting, simply because he is — and always has been — a creep.

DC Mayor Bowser & Cabinet Picks Met With Top 'Influence' Arm Of Chinese Communist Party.  Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and her appointees have repeatedly met with and hosted leaders from a leading organization in the Chinese Communist Party's United Front.  The United Front functions as China's premier influence and propaganda organization, raising flags with the U.S. government's Economic and Security Review Commission.  It seeks to "co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party" and coerce American leaders "to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing's preferred policies."  What's more, the State Department has described the group as seeking to "directly and malignly influence" U.S. state and local leaders.

America's Last Machine Boss Goes Down.  The Chicago machine turned out some of the most notorious names in American public corruption, including Anton Cermak, Richard J. Daley, and Ed Kelly.  The machine also turned out Mike Madigan, who ruled over Illinois politics for 50 years, 36 of which he spent calling the shots as House speaker.  Most people thought Madigan would only leave office in handcuffs or a casket.  Most people were wrong.  For the first time since 1970, "the Velvet Hammer" is not representing Chicago's southwest side in the state capitol:  Madigan announced his resignation on Feb. 18, just weeks after losing his spot as House speaker when his Democratic caucus abandoned him.  Madigan is the most skilled politician you've never heard of and the most powerful state-level official in American history.

Biden Fires Chicago U.S. Attorney Hot on the Trail of Democratic Corruption.  You've probably never heard of Chicago's U.S. attorney John Lausch.  For the last two years, he has been going after some of the biggest, most powerful Democrats in the state of Illinois. [...] In fact, it's believed Lausch has targeted some other high-profile Democratic politicians in other investigations.  It's a target-rich environment and Democrats in Illinois have gotten extremely nervous about who Lausch will go after next.  Now it appears, that bringing down corrupt Democratic politicians will be the job of the next U.S. attorney.  Along with 56 other U.S. attorneys named by former president Trump, Lausch will lose his job — fired by Joe Biden.  "It's tradition," said Biden supporters.  This is true.  But it's also "tradition" to keep prosecutors in place who were pursuing high-profile cases.  Lausch certainly qualified under that criteria.  Biden's firing hasn't gone down well in Illinois.

New Mexico Governor Grisham Caught Using Taxpayer Money to Pay for Her Groceries, Tequila and Whiskey.  In March of 2020 New Mexico Governor Michelle Grisham locked down her state due to the coronavirus threat.  New Mexico was ranked 39th out of the 50 states in coronavirus cases at that time.  But after Grisham locked down the state she made a private call to her favorite jewelry store to make a purchase.  Of course, she was able to do this because she is the Democrat governor.  But she got caught and started changing her story.  Now this:  The far left governor was recently caught using taxpayer money to pay for groceries, whiskey and tequila.

Anti-Trump Lincoln Project was warned married co-founder was 'serial harasser targeting male staff,' but did nothing, investigation reveals.  Last June, the Lincoln Project was on a high. [...] But within the organization, a grave threat was emerging.  In June 2020, members of the organization's leadership were informed in writing and in subsequent phone calls of at least 10 specific allegations of harassment against co-founder John Weaver, including two involving Lincoln Project employees, according to multiple people with direct knowledge of the situation.

Things that are not graft:  [#1] Outrageously generous book deals to present and former officials.  The Obamas' $65 million book advances still lead the way to the most lavish, though the notion that even Democrat politicians' relatives, like Chelsea Clinton, would offer ghostwritten pap worth anything is something you just have to believe.  [#2] Generous speaking fees.  The $25 million the Clintons garnered for just six months of speeches in 2014 and 2015, you must regard not as bribes for access and influence, but as well-earned compensation for minutes worth of pearls of wisdom.  Not just former presidents and would-be presidents are the recipients of such largesse. [...] [#4] Congressional Stock Trading:  If you believed Hillary Clinton made so much money investing shrewdly in cattle futures and not out of some manipulation, you will certainly agree that speaker Nancy Pelosi's $1 million investment in Tesla stock call options shortly before the Biden administration announced it planned to make the federal automobile fleet (645,000 cars) electric was just another example of stock trading genius by a high-ranking politician.

Is Cocaine Mitch Abandoning His Homies?  The results of this latest election truly shocked and surprised all of us, though in hindsight what other recourse did Democrats have?  They lied to the American people, Congress, the FBI, the intelligence agencies, the FISA court, Mueller's task force, and most likely themselves trying to convince themselves that they'd never be found out.  They made fools of themselves and had only electoral deceit and fraud to fall back on to get the win in 2020.  Not just at the top of the ticket, either; this corruption goes right to the bone.

Biden Breaks Fundraising Records For "Uniquely Corrupting" Donations, But...  Bad news, Republicans — Democrats figured out The Secret of Citizens United.  At least that seems to be the outrage over this report about Joe Biden's record-breaking advantage in "dark money," amplified by Fox News today from a Bloomberg report over the weekend.  Fox's Megan Henney leans heavily into the hypocrisy angle of a political party taking money through channels it opposes. [...] There's nothing hypocritical about playing by the same rules as your opponent, albeit there might be something hypocritical about denouncing the mechanism at the same time you're leveraging it.  Especially if you keep griping about it being "uniquely corrupting."

DOJ will not criminally charge Sen. Richard Burr for stock trades he made after getting Covid intelligence.  The Justice Department will not criminally charge Sen. Richard Burr in connection with stock trades that the North Carolina Republican executed on the heels of being briefed about Covid-19 last year, shortly before the coronavirus pandemic rocked the U.S. economy.  The probe of Burr had included the highly unsusual seizure of his cell phone by the FBI in May, and led to his stepping aside as chairman of the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee that same month.  "Tonight, the Department of Justice informed me that it has concluded its review of my personal financial transactions conducted early last year," Burr said in a statement Tuesday night.

A Severely Compromised Senator Mark Warner is About To Become Chairman of The Senate Intelligence Committee.  Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) is about to become the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), and regardless of his current disposition the deepest part of the deep state will have full blackmail control over every aspect of his activity.  To understand just how severely compromised Senator Warner is it becomes necessary to review why, when and how his corrupt legislative engagements with the intelligence apparatus took place.

Do Not Believe These People.  When it was learned that Congressman Eric Swalwell, who has access to this nation's most important national security secrets as a member of the House Intelligence Committee, had a long-term connection with a Chinese communist spy, and that she helped him fundraise for his reelection in 2014 even though she was a college student (which should seem weird how a foreign national college student could have enough contacts to be a political money bundler), the networks barely touched the story.  CNN had him on for a short, softball interview, and The New York Times, to this day, hasn't mentioned it once.

Biden inaugural returns cash from ex-senator-turned-foreign agent.  President-elect Joe Biden's inaugural committee will refund a donation from former Sen. Barbara Boxer after the California Democrat registered as a foreign agent for a Chinese surveillance firm accused of abetting the country's mass internment of Uighur Muslims, officials tell Axios.

Why I Am Joining The Jan. 6 DC March For Trump.  I am angry.  It's not a passing emotion brought on by a single circumstance.  This anger is a deep, painful, abiding anger created by a mix of frustration, despair, hopelessness, and injustice. [...] I'm angry because I've been playing by the "rules":  paying my taxes, being civil and tolerant of my neighbor, accepting without protest the election of past presidents I didn't support, and never threatening physical violence, using name-calling, canceling careers, using government goons to unlawfully spy to invent reasons for impeachment, or using media to misreport, misrepresent or otherwise create dissension and anger.  Yet the other side has carte blanche to do all this and more without condemnation, conviction, or retribution of any kind.

How to Steal an Election in Four Steps.  Note the scope of what has happened.  When government agencies fake the lethality of a disease, isolate people, impose lockdowns, and try to cause a recession, when they deceive via unconstitutional laws, fake polls, mail-in-voting, and rigged software, when the fraud enlists the Centers for Disease Control, the FBI and CIA, high-level plants within other agencies, state governors & attorneys general, the broadcast media, & social media — all to take down one man because he's the choice of the people — that's not "voter fraud."  It's an organized coup.  Are the Democrats that you know capable of this?  Could Pelosi, AOC, Swalwell and the rest pull this off?  Or are just politically-aligned order-takers, like our media and social media, from, likely, Soros and China, a pair that often work together because they share a common enemy?  Today's Democrats are controlled by far-left Alinskyites who produce tension & chaos, then blame capitalism, racism, & Trump.  Look what they did to us this year.  How many Americans did they isolate to sell the virus lie?  How much depression and loss of income did they cause?  How many breakups and divorces?  How many elderly people had to die alone to serve the Left's narrative?  They even suppressed the effective covid drug hydroxychloroquine for months — they kept medicine from people who needed it — solely because President Trump had said the drug was effective and they could not allow Trump to seem to be right about anything.  As noted, they suppressed the vaccine as well.  The party is no longer a political opponent; it is a US enemy and the most retrograde force in America.

Hey, GOP: This is Your Do or Die Moment.  If Democrats, the corporate media, and foreign interests can steal a presidential election, they can steal any congressional or gubernatorial election, easily.  If a thief can rob Fort Knox with ease, any bank on Main Street will be child's play.  If they can weaponize the CIA, FBI, IRS, and DOJ to target their political enemies, without punishment, why won't they double down next time?  For the left, crime does pay.  There has been no reckoning or accountability for the stolen 2020 presidential election.  What's to stop every subsequent election from being stolen in the same way? [...] Does anyone seriously believe that the Biden FBI or DOJ will lift a finger to investigate voter fraud?

Ossoff Promoted Chinese Propaganda Outlet After Stint as 'National Security Aide'.  Georgia Democratic Senate hopeful Jon Ossoff promoted a Chinese state-run media outlet that has rebuffed U.S. lawmakers' demands to register as a foreign agent.  Months after leaving Rep. Hank Johnson's (D., Ga.) office — where he spent five months serving as a "national security aide" with top-secret clearance — in August 2012, Ossoff urged his Twitter followers to read Xinhua News Agency, a Chinese Communist Party-run propaganda organ.  "Esp. during 18th Party Congress, #follow @XHNews (Xinhua — Chinese state media)," Ossoff wrote.  The Democrat has struggled to fend off GOP senator David Perdue's criticism of his ties to China.  In July, Ossoff quietly disclosed receiving a payment from a Chinese-backed media giant, but has since refused to release private financial information from his foreign film company, Insight TWI.  In addition, Ossoff's father — who has bankrolled the Democrat's political career — met with Chinese "dignitaries" after commissioning a 60-foot yacht from a China-based shipbuilder tied to Communist Party Officials.

Losing Democratic Candidate Who Is Asking House To Intervene In Election Was On Chinese Payrolls, Financial Disclosures Show.  Losing democratic candidate for Iowa's 2nd District Rita Hart was on the payroll of two Chinese companies while running for the seat, financial disclosures show.  Hart received $3,180 from Confucius International Education in 2020 and $2,135.23 from Pangaea International Academy in both 2019 and 2020, according to two financial disclosures.  The records were first reported by Accuracy in Media.  Confucius International Education Group (CIEG) is funded by a Chinese state-run leasing company Far East Horizon, according to cieg.com.  Far East Horizon has ties to a Youth Communist League through shareholders, according to Accuracy in Media.

Iowa House candidate on payroll for two Chinese companies.  The latest financial report from Democrat Rita Hart, an Iowa candidate locked in one of the closest Congressional elections in decades, reveals Hart is on the payroll for two Chinese companies including one that is indirectly owned by the Chinese government.  Hart is currently personally appealing to Nancy Pelosi to ignore the will of the voters and overturn the election results in her race.  Hart received income — not campaign donations — from Confucius International Education ($3,180) and Pangaea International Academy ($2,135.23), according to the report, which was released in May.  Accuracy in Media made these discoveries while investigating an FEC complaint against Hart.

Georgia Senate candidate accused of keeping secrets about foreign income.  Democratic Georgia Senate candidate Jon Ossoff is keeping secrets about his foreign income, including details of a payment he got from a news agency tied to the Chinese Communist Party, reports the Washington Free Beacon.  The Ossoff campaign declined a request to review documents about the Chinese payment, telling the Washington Post "the particulars of our annual finances are confidential."  The report, however, said Ossoff "quietly disclosed" getting at least $5,000 from PCCW, a media company in Hong Kong that is owned in part by the Chinese Communist Party.

Ossoff Refuses to Release 'Further Financial Information' After Controversial Payments Surface.  Even after a number of controversial payments to Jon Ossoff's foreign film company surfaced in September — including one from a Chinese-backed media giant — the Georgia Democrat refused to release additional financial documents from the company.  In a recent interview with the Washington Post, Ossoff declined the outlet's request to "release further financial information" relating to his company, noting that "the particulars of our annual finances are confidential."  The refusal comes months after Ossoff quietly disclosed receiving at least $5,000 from PCCW, a Hong Kong-based media corporation owned in part by the Chinese Communist Party.

Nullification Isn't Just for Democrats, Anymore.  Since the 2016 election, Democrats have made all kinds of nullification standard fare, but more pernicious than displaying a disagreeable temperament, or contrary opinion; more than First Amendment-protected civil disobedience.  Instead, making that which is legitimate, illegitimate; making what is illegitimate, legitimate.  Making what is decent, abhorrent; making what is grotesque, glorious — all enjoying approbation from a fawning media.  Any and all tactics, now including election fraud, and covering up bribery of a president to-be, are used unapologetically, with no subterfuge, and with impunity.  Truth now is subjective, conditioned on identity and whether it will be canceled by the mob, or approved by the neo-aristocracy.

I Served 8 Months for a Campaign Contribution.  Will Zuckerberg Get Punished for His $500M?  [Video clip]

The Democrats Are in Bed with China, Literally.  The fact is that Red China is delighted by the opportunity to get back to business as usual with a Democrat administration — and in the case of a potential President Biden*, that's literally business as usual.  The garbage media didn't think his crack-huffing, loser spawn being owned by Chinese intel — you think they don't have tape of him living out his X-rated video of David Bowie's 80s hit? — was significant enough to tell us about.  But then, like the rest of the establishment, the media's corporate owners are all wrapped up with the Chi-Coms.  When's the last time you saw Hollywood take a stand against the Chinese commies?  That would be about the last time you saw Richard Gere on the big screen, since his career died when he did a movie pointing out their oppression of Tibet.

Ossoff's Father Met With Chinese 'Dignitaries' While Touring His China-Built Yacht.  Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Jon Ossoff's millionaire father met with Chinese "dignitaries" while touring a 60-foot yacht he purchased from a China-based shipbuilder tied to Communist Party officials.  Richard Ossoff, who has bankrolled his son's upstart political career, commissioned China-based Jet-Tern Marine to build the custom vessel in 2008, U.S. Coast Guard records show.  Before shipping the yacht to the United States, the company held a "sea trial" for "customers Heather and Richard Ossoff, of Atlanta, Georgia, USA," in order to test the million-dollar vessel's performance, with "many" Chinese dignitaries in attendance.

The Supreme Court and the Electoral Coup.  Prior presidents had generally accommodated Washington corruption, and it naturally grew over time.  A major contributing factor that compelled Trump to run was that under the Obama administration corruption became egregious.  First Amendment rights were violated in new ways with surveillance conducted on select media reporters who criticized Obama, and with muzzling of some 160 patriotic conservative groups by Lois Lerner in her position as director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the Internal Revenue Service.  Then there was the outrageous saga of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband and ex-president Bill who played tag team in shaking down foreign governments for nearly a billion dollars, which got shoveled into the Clinton Foundation.  All the while Secretary Clinton flagrantly violated U.S. Code § 1924 that prohibits the private storing of classified documents and confidential state matters, which she circumvented by use of an unsecure private server and email system.  That was obviously implemented to cover up her conflicts of interest while serving as secretary.

A Hill To Die On.  Voter fraud is as old as our Republic.  But it hasn't always been widespread and well-organized. [...] Historically, the Democrat machine in Chicago perfected voter fraud.  The dead voted in large numbers.  Street people were recruited with cigarettes, lunch, and sometimes a little walking around money to go vote for the Democrat candidates.  They organized buses and rode herd on them.  Other big cities with a large labor union presence were also able to organize in a similar fashion, and naturally the Mafia had it's fingers in this pie, too.  The 1960 Presidential Election was, until now, the biggest and most outrageous example of American election fraud.  Kennedy won because of fraud in Texas, Illinois, and West Virginia.  Lyndon Johnson organized an efficient voter fraud machine in Texas to get himself elected to Congress years earlier.  He used that to bring Texas into the fold for John F. Kennedy in 1960.  The Chicago Machine was easy to engage on JFK's behalf — all it took was a few phone calls and a lot of cash.

Crime Hiding Crime:  A Motive for Stealing the Election.  The 2020 presidential election, however it is finally decided, will be important for what does not happen as well as what does.  I have no doubt that Democrats were highly motivated in the election in order to pursue their socialist, anti-American agenda.  But they were also powerfully motivated by fear.  Consider some of the things that will not happen should Joe Biden assume the presidency.  John Durham.  Remember John Durham?  He's the fellow who has spent months and months and months investigating the investigators, looking into the cesspool of corruption and partisan malfeasance that underwrote what I have called the greatest political scandal in American history.  I mean the whole Russia Collusion Delusion, featuring Robert Mueller G-man extraordinaire, and a host of supporting actors from James Comey, Christopher Steele, Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, John Brennan, and James Clapper on down.  Poof.  Gone.  The Durham investigation would be gone.

How a Trump Prosecutor Took Down a Third of the Cincinnati City Council.  "As Donald Trump returns to Cincinnati today, I think it's important to say in my role as an elected leader for the city that he does not represent our values - not anywhere close.  Indeed, he undermines them daily," Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld tweeted two years ago.  Now, P.G. Sittenfeld, the leftist mayoral candidate, whose Senate bid had been funded by Obama and Biden backers, was arrested on corruption charges.  In some places that might be a shameful distinction, but in Cincinnati it just means a third of the city council has been busted.  Or 40% of the 'Gang of Five', the five Democrats who had illegally colluded on city business via text messaging resulting in $101,000 in fines and attorney fees to be paid for by taxpayers.  When Democrat politicians violate the law, it's the taxpayers who still end up on the hook.

Rudy and Sidney's Krakentastic Spectacle, and What It Could Mean.  [Scroll down]  There are lots of elements to the case, but essentially it boils down to this: the Biden campaign, in league with nefarious actors both domestic and foreign who are invested for various reasons in replacing Donald Trump as the president of the United States, engaged in a rather brazen smash-and-grab of the 2020 presidential election.  No.  Not brazen.  That's not a correct description. Desperate is more accurate.  Because what was done in the counting of votes in the election on Nov. 3 and days following is best explained, as Giuliani suggested, as sloppiness derived from a frantic struggle to produce votes for Biden at Trump's expense in key states.  Initially it was thought that those states were six — Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada.  Now it appears New Mexico and Virginia might be added to the mix following investigations of irregularities there.

Democrats, scared straight by election results, poised to oust political boss of the nation's most corrupt state.  One of the most significant emerging Democrat defeats appears to be underway in Illinois, where donkey state legislators — pols that escaped with their seats — are scared of voters' wrath over their party's boss of bosses.  The man who has run that state for decades — a far more powerful than any governor — may be losing his perch.

Of Course The Party Of Moral Authoritarianism Would Cheat On Elections.  We and many others were warning months ago that the Democrats were going to try to steal the 2020 election.  When the counting, recounting, and lawsuits are done, they might well have succeeded.  It's simply in their nature to do whatever they believe is necessary to further their agenda.  The belief in one's own moral superiority eventually erases the conscience.  After all, if one is morally superior to others, then no conscience is needed.  All actions and behaviors are acceptable because they're done in an effort to make the world a better place. [...] Just a few of the many screeds, rants, and tweets that have been issued since Election Day are evidence that the Democrats and progressive left feed on their moral narcissism.  They are convinced that their ideas are so righteous, their judgment so impeccable, their understanding so deep that anyone who disagrees with them must be cast aside, redeemed only after being re-educated.  Their moral narcissism is to be imposed on the rest of us by a moral authoritarianism.

The Philadelphia Story:  Stealing an Election in Plain Sight.  Everyone with even a minimal grasp of reality can see what is happening in the Democrat-ruled confines of what was long ago known as the City of Brotherly Love.  In a grotesque paradox, the undoubtedly distorted tabulation of presidential votes is happening both in plain sight and behind closed doors.  Tens of millions of people feel sure that this is true and are witnessing it in real-time.  Effectively unmonitored and unaccountable election workers dutifully carried out the plan.  They take their orders only from the Democratic bosses who hire them and provide their marching orders.  Poll watchers [notwithstanding,] they just keep counting votes and rendering each one a part of the soon-to-be permanent and official record.  It matters not that everyone knows the vast and deep history of election fraud in Philadelphia. [...] The power brokers, such as those in Philadelphia, have granted themselves license to do as they please without reservation — even with the eyes of the entire world upon them.  This renders the legitimate outcome a matter of idle speculation.  And that is exactly how the Democratic machine wants it.

Rod Blagojevich:  Dems Stealing Elections [is] a 'Time-Honored Tradition'.  In the wake of President Donald Trump sounding the alarm on potential voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D) on Friday [11/6/2020] accused Democrats of stealing elections for a long time.  Blagojevich told Newsmax TV's "John Bachman Now" that Democratic stronghold cities changing vote counts overnight, and controlling polling places is a "time-honored tradition."  He went on to say that Democrats "stealing the presidency" is "incredibly dangerous to our democracy."

American Coup Victims Will Not Go Quietly.  This was a Coup.  It lacked, at least for the moment, the spilled blood often associated with a classic coup d'etat but make no mistake about it — this was a coup.  A record number of Americans fought an unusual number of hardships to make certain their voices were heard in the selection of our next president.  And, given the stark difference in the candidates' visions for America's future and the growing national divide, that choice was surely not made lightly.  So, when we on the right observed one "irregularity" after another on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, what we needed were answers and transparency.  What we got were evasions and coverups.  Keep in mind that we have endured over the past 4 years a seeming century's worth of dishonesty, hoaxes, threats, wild conspiracy theories and widespread corruption from those on the left.  Indeed, Liberals appear to have made sport of treating Donald Trump and his supporters much like a cat treats a litter-box.  And we got the message:  There is no limit to just how low they are willing to sink.

It truly appears that the fix is in.  What we're seeing happening in Michigan and Wisconsin is nothing short of election theft.  That is unambiguous to anyone who is paying attention.  But they're having trouble revealing it to other Americans because, on cue, it's being censored across the board.  The President's Tweets are being hit.  Prominent conservatives' Facebook and Twitter posts are being suppressed.  For those who are just coming in on the topic I'm conspicuously dancing around, it appears that the election really is being stolen right before our eyes.  Michigan and Wisconsin are seeing voting totals materialize overnight that make it clear the fix is in.  And they're not even trying to hide it.  In Michigan, an overnight vote update added 138,339 votes to Vice President Joe Biden's totals.  That same [update yielded] ZERO votes for President Trump.

The Bidens: A Delaware mafia.  [Scroll down]  Hunter was a principal in pay-to-play on a global scale.  Recent electronic and documented evidence confirms years of scuttlebutt that suggested that Hunter Biden, and Uncle Jim, were trading and profiting on the name and office of the "big guy."  Throughout, Joe claims he knew nothing of any family pay-to-play hustles in Oman, Luxembourg, Romania, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Russia, Guatemala, and China.  The ignorance defense is an instant replay of Clinton family tactics; deny, deny, deny, and when denials are no longer plausible, depend on Deep State Democrat Party Beltway hacks to cover or come to the rescue. [...] Withal, the Biden exposé is, by any metric, a day late and a billion dollars short — at best a pyrrhic victory for critics.  The Justice Department and the FBI have had the goods on Biden for some time, yet official Washington is still mute and inert.  Inertia at justice is a symptom of a much larger problem:  institutionalized federal double standards.  A Republican might be indicted by an ambiguous phone call while Democrats, like the Clintons and Bidens, get a pass on obvious felonies.

Wisconsin Republican Party Says Hackers Stole $2.3 Million from Trump Reelection Account.  The chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party said Thursday that hackers have stolen $2.3 million from the party's account.  Chairman Andrew Hitt said the Wisconsin Republicans noticed suspicious activity on Thursday of last week and the next day alerted the FBI, which Hitt said is investigating the matter.  Less than a week before the presidential election, Democratic nominee Joe Biden and President Trump are still in a tight race to win Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes.  In 2016, Trump won the state by fewer than 23,000 votes.

Deep in the Heart of Texas, Dangerous Extremists Are Propping Up Democrat's Campaign.  In Texas' 22nd District outside of Houston, an extremist group that has killed thousands of innocents is helping fund the campaign of Democratic candidate Sri Preston Kulkarni.  The leaders of a radical Hindu nationalist faction based in India, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), are donating to Kulkarni to protect their interests in Indo-American relations and advance their extremist and sectarian agenda in India.  The RSS has orchestrated mob violence against Muslims and Christians across India, advocated for ethno-religious cleansing to promote "Hindu-ness" and purity on the subcontinent, and praised both Hitler and Gandhi's assassin.

A Bizarre and Revealing Biden Interview.  [Scroll down]  Biden's evident belief that he deserves to be wealthy stood out in a 2008 New York Times story that explained how a man living on a public servant's salary was able to live like a Bourbon king:  "Biden has been able to dip into his campaign treasury to spend thousands of dollars on home landscaping," the Times explained, and also rich businessmen filtered their support of Biden through other means: "the acquisition of his waterfront property a decade ago involved wealthy businessmen and campaign supporters, some of them bankers with an interest in legislation before the Senate, who bought his old house for top dollar, sold him four acres at cost and lent him $500,000 to build his new home."  He sold the house he had bought in 1975 for top dollar to — get this — the vice-chairman of MBNA, who gave Biden $1.2 million for it.  MBNA has showed its gratitude to Biden's support in a number of ways:  by giving over $200,000 to his various campaigns, by hiring Hunter Biden, by flying Biden and his wife to a retreat in Maine, etc.  Mother Jones dubbed Biden "the senator from MBNA."

This Is How the Left's Power Structure Collapses.  [Scroll down]  Corruption.  Full grown.  Oozing its way into America.  It's everywhere on the left.  The Biden family.  Clintons.  The Democratic Party.  The FBI.  The CIA.  The mainstream media.  The tech giants.  It's a full-out plague, aided and abetted by their demonic philosophy, all of them gone astray.  All of them corrupt.  The New York Post story has been there for about a week now.  The Democrat-media complex has ignored it entirely; the tech giants went into overdrive removing all evidence from their platforms.  Google.  Facebook.  Twitter.  Instagram.  The whole lot of them.  Covering up a story that deserved universal distribution and condemnation.  Instead, they covered up the most damning story to their side, their chosen side.  All of them colluded to bury this mounting evidence of wrongdoing.

Baltimore elected officials charged for somehow forgetting to pay their taxes.  Now that a new Mayor is on the way to City Hall in Baltimore, Charm City will soon put its unpleasant history of corrupt elected officials behind them and begin a new era of honesty and transparency in politics.  Gone will be the days of Mayors and other top municipal officials going to prison for racketeering, embezzlement, and tax evasion.  And once that's accomplished, they'll be able to focus on quashing their massive gang violence and murder problems.  Trust me.  It's going to be glorious.  Oh, wait... there might be a couple of final wrinkles to iron out of this plan.  It seems that the city's top prosecutor, Marilyn Mosby, and her husband, incoming City Council President Nick Mosby, have received some unpleasant news from the IRS.  The power couple allegedly "forgot" to pay a significant amount of their federal income taxes.  For at least three years.  And now a lien for nearly $50K against them has been placed by the taxman.

The Stench Of Corruption Is Overwhelming.  In short, Biden's response to any and all questions concerning Hunter's role with Burisma has been to dismiss such allegations as debunked conspiracy theories pushed by his political opponent.  No one did anything wrong.  There is nothing to explain, and he is not about to try.  Inconveniently, for Joe, though, the story will not go away.  Just today [10/14/2020] the New York Post broke the news that they were in possession of an email from a senior official from Burisma to Hunter Biden which makes a specific reference to Hunter's role in setting up a meeting between the official and then Vice-President Joe Biden.

Rudy Giuliani Describes the Bidens as a Crime Family.  Here's Why We Should Listen to Him.  Rudy Giuliani is all over the news these days, detailing the emails and documents on that MacBook Pro laptop purported to have belonged to Hunter Biden.  According to Giuliani, only about 5% of the hard drive's relevant content has been published.  That 5% already paints Joe Biden as either the figurehead or director of a conspiracy to use his political positions to generate millions of dollars from dubious and even hostile foreign sources, with son Hunter as the prime conduit.  The money goes to the Biden family.  It's an explosive charge.  The Democratic Party's presidential nominee could be the head of a syndicate trading on U.S. power as a product.  Such would also greatly endanger American national security and corrupt our government at the very highest level.

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Joe Kennedy III's campaign improperly spent $1.5 million on failed Senate bid.  U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III's campaign improperly spent $1.5 million earmarked for the general election during the Massachusetts congressman's failed bid to capture the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat, he said Friday [10/16/2020].  Kennedy said in a statement to The Boston Globe that he did not know about the improper spending before the Sept. 1 primary election, and has since reimbursed the campaign with his $1.5 million of his own money.  He and his campaign self-reported the violation to the Federal Election Commission last week, he said.

Durham's Investigation Has Taken an Interest a Person Named Daniel Jones — The Implications Are Uncertain at This Point.  [Scroll down]  Enter Daniel Jones.  Jones spent nine years as an investigator with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, starting in 2007, and became the key Committee staff member for Chairperson Diane Feinstein. [...] He also worked on the Committee's investigation of the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes.  Since leaving the Senate, he has formed three outside businesses with noble sounding names and stated business purposes, but what they are in reality are left-wing Democrat Party political "hit squads."  The Penn Quarter Group is simply an opposition research outfit that works for Democrat party candidates to dig up dirt on opponents.  Jones has told Senator Charles Grassley that PQG has been funded by 7-10 wealthy individuals located primarily in New York and California (Schumer and Feinstein), in an amount of approximately $50 million.  In 2017 Jones formed a new company, The Democracy Integrity Project, a nonprofit company — which paid Jones $380,000 in 2017 to be its CEO — which is an advocacy group that purports to investigate interference in American and international elections by hostile foreign powers.  TDIP has been linked in its business operations with FusionGPS and Christopher Steele.

How The DNC Hired CrowdStrike to Frame Russia for the Hack.  On March 19, 2016, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, surrendered his emails to an unknown entity in a "spear phishing" scam.  This has been called a "hack," but it was not.  Instead, it was the sort of flim-flam hustle that happens to gullible dupes on the internet.  The content of the emails was beyond embarrassing.  They showed election fraud and coordination with the media against the candidacy of Bernie Sanders.  The DNC and the Clinton campaign needed a cover story.  Blaming Russia would be a handy way to deal with the Podesta emails.  There was already an existing Russia operation that could easily be retrofitted to this purpose.  The problem was that it was nearly impossible to identify the perpetrator in a phishing scheme using computer forensic tools.  The only way to associate Putin with the emails was circumstantially.  The DNC retained a company that called itself "CrowdStrike" to provide assistance.  CrowdStrike's chief technology officer and co-founder, Dmitri Alperovitch, is an anti-Putin, Russian expat and a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.  With the Atlantic Council in 2016, all roads led to Ukraine.

Adam Schiff-Ukraine connection comes under scrutiny.  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who has played a leading role in investigating the Trump-Ukraine scandal, is facing questions about his own connection to a Soviet-born businessman who has raised money for his campaign and whose company has received lucrative defense contracts from Ukraine's government.  That man is Igor Pasternak, the founder and CEO of Worldwide Aeros Corp., which makes blimps for military and commercial customers.  His business has also been involved in weapons manufacturing, working with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense to produce a modified version of the M4 and M16 rifles, according to reports.

Rochester Mayor Indicted in Felony Campaign Finance Fraud.  Rochester, N.Y. mayor Lovely Warren has been indicted on charges she broke campaign finance rules and committed fraud during her 2017 reelection campaign, the Monroe County District Attorney announced Friday.  One charge is for a scheme to defraud in the first degree, while another is an election law offense for illegally coordinating activities and expenditures, the Democrat and Chronicle reported.

NC Democratic Senate Nominee Cal Cunningham Caught in Sexting Scandal, Chuck Schumer Hardest Hit.  Earlier this week I wrote about how North Carolina Democratic Senate nominee Cal Cunningham was widely mocked after posting a staged photo of himself in a freshly-ironed campaign-approved apron standing next to a grill talking about how "there's nothing better than BBQ."  The reasons why this was such a (humorous) scandal in North Carolina are explained in detail [elsew]here, but as it turns out goofy photos posted to Twitter are the very least of his problems right now.  Late Friday evening [10/2/2020], Cunningham admitted to sexting with a California woman while in the middle of his campaign for the U.S. Senate.

Affidavits Allege Democrat Officials Planning Colossal Illegal Ballot Harvesting Scheme.  New affidavits filed in the Texas Supreme Court allege a massive illegal mail-ballot harvesting scheme is underway in Texas' most populous county, and "elite" Democrat officials are leading the effort.  Harris County has received attention over the past several weeks for its proposed plan to send mail-in ballot applications to all 2.37 million voters in the county regardless of eligibility, thereby inviting fraud and abuse into the process.  New testimony suggests that may only be the tip of the iceberg.  As part of a new lawsuit filed in the Texas Supreme Court against Harris County Democrat County Clerk Chris Hollins by the Harris County Republican Party, Dr. Steve Hotze, Wendell Champion, Sharon Hemphill, and Al Hartman, two affidavits claim a massive illegal ballot harvesting operation is being prepared for the county.

Biden's Texas Political Director Implicated in Massive Mail-In Ballot Harvesting Scheme in Harris County.  A Biden Campaign operative in Texas is attempting to rig the 2020 election with the help of others in a massive ballot harvesting scheme, according to two private investigators who testified under oath that they have "video evidence, documentation and witnesses" to prove it.  With the help of mass mail-in ballots, the illegal ballot harvesting operation could harvest 700,000 ballots, one Harris County Democrat operative allegedly bragged.  The investigators — a former FBI agent and former police officer — claim that Biden's Texas Political Director Dallas Jones and his cohorts have been "hoarding mail-in and absentee ballots" and ordering operatives to them fill out for people in Harris County illegally, "including dead people, homeless people, and nursing home residents in the 2020 presidential election," Patrick Howley of the National File reported.

Former New Mexico Democratic Governor Bill Richardson is accused of raking in hundreds of thousands in bribes and kickbacks.  The scandal plagued former governor of New Mexico — who Virginia Roberts claimed she had underage sex with on Jeffrey Epstein's orders — has been dragged into the mud once again.  Career politician Bill Richardson has been accused of raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and kickbacks while in office — money which allegedly funded a luxury and debauched lifestyle including 'sexual services and favors', according to a recently unsealed legal complaint obtained by DailyMail.com.  According to the lawsuit, Richardson ran a scam dubbed the 'Richardson Ring' which saw the one-time governor benefiting from money he grafted from business investments into the state of New Mexico in the early 2000s.

Democrats Are Truly Sick People.  The idea of a Joe Biden presidency is a scary proposition.  He never really stood for much of anything, he simply parroted whatever positions were necessary for him to obtain power.  Joe's been the ultimate weathervane — a bandwagon jumper of the highest order.  His whole government career seems built on avoiding ever having to get a real job and turning a blind eye to how his family has gotten rich off his name.  That Joe claims to have never talked to his son about how he's repeatedly fallen [backward] into lucrative jobs and piles of cash in industries he has no knowledge in strikes me as implausible.  If your idiot, drug-addled son starts making more money per month than many small towns generate after he's tossed out of the military for cocaine use, I'd hope you'd have some questions.

Florida AG Looking Into Bloomberg Felon Fine Payoff.  Florida's attorney general Ashley Moody is requesting that the FBI and state law enforcement investigate billionaire Michael Bloomberg for paying the outstanding fines and fees of convicted felons in Florida so they could regain their right to vote ahead of the November election, The Hill reports. "Today, I sent a letter to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Federal Bureau of Investigation into potential violations of election laws," The Republican attorney Moody said in a statement provided to Fox News.  "I have instructed the statewide prosecutor to work with law enforcement and any statewide grand jury that the governor may call," she said.

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When I was in junior high and high school, in the late 1960s, several of my teachers made it clear that a felony conviction leads to permanent loss of voting rights, not to mention a lifetime of social stigma.  Just knowing that served as a crime deterrent.  The criminal lobby on the left wants to lower the country's standards and let felons vote.  That's because felons are far more likely to vote for Democrats.

Did Bloomberg Commit A Crime In Paying Off The Debts Of Black and Hispanic Former Felons To Allow Them To Vote?  Billionaire Mike Bloomberg has pledged to pour $100 million dollars in Florida alone to elect Joe Biden as part of his earlier pledge to pump hundreds of millions into the election.  The role of billionaires like Bloomberg and Sheldon Adelson in pouring hundreds of millions into the election for each side remains controversial, though many past critics of such windfall campaign financing are now demanding more support.  Bloomberg however is now under fire for pledging to pay off the debts of Black and Hispanic former felons to allow them to vote.  The Washington Post reported that the funding of only Black and Hispanic former felons was due in part to the fact that they are more likely to vote for Biden.

Florida attorney general calls for investigation into Michael Bloomberg.  Florida's attorney general asked state and federal law enforcement on Wednesday to investigate possible election law violations after billionaire and former Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg helped raise more than $16 million for Florida felons to pay their debts so they can vote in the presidential election.  Attorney General Ashley Moody sent letters to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the FBI saying that further investigation is warranted.  Governor Ron DeSantis and House Rep. Matt Gaetz had asked Moody to review allegations that Bloomberg and the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition had violated the law by offering incentives for voting.

Rep. Matt Gaetz Calls for Election Bribery Probe Against Mike Bloomberg for Paying Florida Felons' Fines for Biden Votes.  As reported earlier former New York City Mayor and billionaire Mike Bloomberg raised $16 million to pay off the fines for 32,000 black and Hispanic Florida voters so they can vote for Joe Biden in the 2020 election.  Basketball icon Lebron James is also looking to pay convicted felons' fines so they can vote for Joe Biden.  Legal analyst J. Christian Adams argued that Michael Bloomberg is breaking federal and likely Florida state law by buying votes from felons.

Hunter Biden Received Millions From Wife Of Ex-Moscow Mayor, Paid Suspects Allegedly Tied To Trafficking, Had Contacts With Individuals Linked To Chinese Military, Senate Report Alleges.  A bombshell report from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (HSGAC) and the Committee on Finance makes a series of damning new allegations against Hunter Biden, the son of Democrat presidential nominee.  The investigation launched after Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) publicly raised conflict-of-interest concerns about the sale of a U.S. company to a Chinese firm with ties to Hunter Biden a month before Congress was notified about a whistleblower complaint that was the catalyst for Democrats' impeachment of President Donald Trump.  The Senate's investigation relied on records from the U.S. government, Democrat lobbying groups, and interviews of numerous current and former officials.

Sen. Johnson, Sen. Grassley release report on conflicts-of-interest investigation involving Hunter Biden.  US Senators Ron Johnson (R-WI), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, released a report revealing millions of dollars in questionable financial transactions between Hunter Biden, his associates and foreign individuals.  The foreign individuals include the former mayor of Moscow and individuals with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

Senate GOP's controversial Biden report.  Republicans on Wednesday [9/23/2020] released a report on their investigation focused on former Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, a move they hope will put fresh scrutiny on the former vice president just weeks from the election.  The controversial probe is spearheaded by Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).  It is focused broadly on Obama-era policy and Hunter Biden's work for Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings.

GOP-led Senate committees issue report on Bidens and Ukraine.  Two Republican-led Senate committees issued a politically charged report Wednesday on the work Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's son did in Ukraine.  Biden's campaign immediately panned the report, released six weeks before the election, as an effort by an ally of President Trump to damage his election opponent.

A year after impeachment, Hunter Biden's Ukraine activities come home to roost.  A year ago this month, Democrats began their impeachment crusade against President Trump because he had sought an investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden's activities in Ukraine.  And the rallying cry then was that any concerns about the Bidens were pure, discredited conspiracy theories.  What a difference a year makes.  The GOP-led Senate Finance and Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committees plan to release a joint report as early as this week disclosing the results of a year-long probe into Joe Biden's stewardship of Ukraine anti-corruption policy while his son earned big money as a board member at the corruption-plagued Burisma Holdings gas firm.

Senate report slams Bidens for conflicts of interest, flags possible criminal activity.  A year-long Senate investigation concluded Wednesday that Hunter Biden's efforts to cash in on foreign business deals during his father's vice presidency raised alarm among U.S. government officials, who perceived an ethical conflict of interest and flagged concerns about possible criminal activity ranging from bribery to sex trafficking.  The long-awaited joint report by the GOP-led Senate Homeland and Government Affairs and Senate Finance Committees delivered several blockbuster revelations less than two months before Election Day, suggesting Obama administration officials ignored clear warning signs about ethical conflicts and possible extortion risks involving Joe Biden's family.  Perhaps the most explosive revelation was that the U.S. Treasury Department flagged payments collected overseas by Hunter Biden and business partner Devon Archer for possible illicit activities.

Democrats' ActBlue Reportedly Cannot Validate If Donations Are from US or Foreign Donors!  The Gateway Pundit reported on May 30th that the recent riots in Democrat-led cities around the country were coordinated and linked to domestic terrorists, foreign entities, and other radical groups and Marxists linked to the Democrat Party.  Black Lives Matter (BLM) was one of these groups.  The Gateway Pundit was also the first to report that ActBlue was raising money using BLM as its front group.  The Daily Caller confirmed this and reported that BLM is not a non-profit organization and instead nonprofit organization (Thousand Currents) said it provides 'fiduciary oversight, financial management, and other administrative services to BLM'.  Candice Owen reported on the BLM — ActBlue relationship and was targeted by a bogus fact-checker.

The Biden Hoax.  [Scroll down]  The convenient forgetting of Biden's corruption is another aspect of the hoax.  If Biden is upright than crooked is straight.  Caught on videotape, Biden bragged about strongarming the Ukrainians. [...] We know about Hunter and associates raking in millions of dollars from the Chinese.  Merely coincidental, goes the party line.  Joe confabbing with Xi Jingping and other Chinese oligarchs just days ahead of Hunter and company inking a deal with a state-owned bank there is pure chance.  Where were the packs of reporters hounding the Bidens?  No calls for congressional investigations from CNN or CNBC talking heads.  Instead, shrugs and offhand dismissals of Joe Biden's highly suspect role.  What would be the point of Joe influence-peddling?  To make Hunter rich?  Any curiosity about a Biden skim?  Like the Clintons, Biden, now useful, is granted generous license.

The Background of the "Harris-Biden" Ticket.  The Black Grievance Industry (BGI) is an assembly of two larger groups.  Group-one is the Black Lives Matter group, modern and extremist.  Group-two is the AME church network, more traditional and with a larger network.  The BLM group originated during the terms of the Obama administration.  The AME network has existed for many decades before. [...] Immediately before the South Carolina primary, Barack Obama (BLM network) and the traditional racial apparatus (AME network) realized they were about to lose control to Bernie Sanders.  Their response was to quickly coordinate a club move to swing the election away from the Sanders camp.  An urgent assembly of all party control officers was called.  The power brokers within the DNC Club designed a plan around using James Clyburn (AME network) as the official spark for Joe Biden to take back control of the primary outcome.  Former President Obama contacted all candidates and informed them when and how they would quit the race and fall-in-line behind Joe Biden.  James Clyburn was then triggered to initiate his endorsement and begin the rapid-fire process.  Within 48 hours all members of the club and candidates had their instructions and proceeded to follow-through on the plan.  They had no choice.  If they did not comply they would suffer the consequences of a fully aligned club hierarchy who would target them personally and financially.  The plan worked flawlessly.

What everyone's missing from the ActBlue 'unemployed' donor scandal.  [Scroll down]  Action Fund President John Pudner:  "We found it took other vendors only a matter of hours to switch their system to allow verification of donations and thus prevent the possibility of illegal foreign money being moved into campaigns.  Choosing to use an untraceable system has a higher cost in terms of the risk of credit card fraud and also tends to incur higher bank fees.  And this untraceable system allows someone with a gift card to make donations in anyone's name, even if that person never actually made that donation, or even if that person doesn't exist at all."  48.4% of the Democrats' ActBlue donors last year were allegedly unemployed.  By comparison, Republican-affiliated WinRed only listed 4%, which happened to be the national unemployment rate at the time, of their donors as unemployed.  While everyone seems focused on the risk of foreign donations, I pointed out that it's really the rich domestic donors who should be concerning us the most.  Regardless of whether it's foreign or domestic entities piling in donations under fake names, it's illegal.

Former FL Guv Candidate Andrew Gillum: 'I Do Identify as Bisexual'.  Andrew Gillum, who ran for governor of Florida in 2018, says he is bisexual.  "I don't identify as gay but I do identify as bisexual.  And that is something that I've never shared publicly before," the Democrat said on The Tamron Hall Show Monday [9/14/2020].  It's the first time that Gillum has addressed his sexuality since March, when he was found with two men in a Miami Beach hotel room by police called to a suspected overdose.  He appeared on the show with his wife, R. Jai, who said she believes sexuality exists on "a spectrum" and that all she cares about is what "agreement" she and her husband have.

Over two dozen Mueller team phones 'accidentally' wiped before DOJ could review them.  A number of cell phones belonging to members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team were "accidentally" wiped before the devices could be reviewed by the Justice Department inspector general.  That's according to 87 pages of DOJ records released Thursday under a Freedom of Information Act request from the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch.  The records show the phones were wiped of data before the DOJ's Office of Inspector General could review the devices because of forgotten passcodes, irreparable screen damage, loss of the device, intentional deletion or other reasons, Fox News reported.  At least 27 phones were reportedly wiped of data, with some reset to factory settings and others wiped "accidentally" after entering the wrong password too many times.

Dozens Of Cell Phones Used By Mueller Team Were 'Accidentally Wiped' Before DOJ Could Review.  Numerous cell phones from special counsel Robert Mueller's team were "accidentally wiped" before the Department of Justice inspector general was able to review the devices, according to newly released government records.  "The records show at least several dozen phones were wiped of information because of forgotten passcodes, irreparable screen damage, loss of the device, intentional deletion or other reasons — and came before the DOJ's Office of Inspector General (OIG) could review the devices," Fox News reported.  "The OIG opened an investigation into possible bias in the origins of the Russia Investigation, but determined that the FBI complied with policies in launching the politically explosive probe.  Still, the OIG flagged 'significant concerns with how certain aspects of the investigation were conducted and supervised.'"

Judicial Watch Obtains DOJ Records Showing Top Mueller Team Repeatedly, 'Accidentally' Wiped Phones.  Judicial Watch announced today [9/11/2020] it received 87 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that show senior members of Robert Mueller's Special Counsel's Office (SCO) repeatedly and "accidentally" wiped phones assigned to them.  The records were produced in response to Judicial Watch's September 2019 Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed against the Justice Department and FBI over December 17, 2018, FOIA requests for:
  •   All records related to the hardware, software and contents of mobile phones issued to FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page for their use while they served on the investigative team of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
  •   All records of communication (whether on government or non-.gov email accounts and whether using real names or aliases), with FBI officials relating to the hardware, software and contents of mobile phones issued to FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page for their use while they served on the investigative team of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
In a table that appears to be a tabulation of Special Counsel's Office reviews of phones used by Robert Mueller'steam for records-preservation purposes, 27 phones were reported wiped clean of all data prior to the review having taken place.

Sidney Powell Discusses Weissmann/Mueller Special Counsel Destroying Evidence of Their Conduct.  Michael Flynn defense attorney Sidney Powell appears for an interview with Liz MacDonald to discuss the developments in the Flynn case (note:  Sullivan's court appointed amicus response brief is due tomorrow), and the background information recently highlighted.  As you review this interview, retain the 30,000/ft perspective.  Ms. Powell also discusses the Weissmann/Mueller special counsel erasing evidence by wiping phones and hiding evidence of their corrupt activity.  Additionally, Liz Mac circles back to the 2017 FISA report by Rosemary Collyer to support the most recent 2019 opinion filed by the FISA court showing the NSA database search abuse is ongoing.

DOJ records show members of Mueller's team 'wiped' phones during Trump probe.  Newly released records from the Department of Justice show that the cell phones of multiple people on then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigative team were "wiped" for various reasons during the probe.  The records show at least several dozen phones were wiped of information because of forgotten passcodes, irreparable screen damage, loss of the device, intentional deletion or other reasons — and came before the DOJ's Office of Inspector General (OIG) could review the devices.  The documents show that Mueller deputy Andrew Weissman "accidentally wiped" his phone twice after entering the wrong passcode too many times in March 2018.  Lawyer James Quarles' phone "wiped itself" without his intervention, the records say.

Republicans demand answers on Mueller team wiping phones, suggest 'anticipatory obstruction of justice'.  Congressional Republicans demanded answers on Friday [9/11/2020] as to whether there "was a widespread intentional effort" to wipe the mobile devices of multiple people on former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team during the Russia probe, and suggested this could amount to "anticipatory obstruction of justice."  The calls come after newly released records from the Justice Department showed that at least several dozen phones belonging to members of Mueller's team were wiped of information because of forgotten passcodes, irreparable screen damage, loss of the device, intentional deletion or other reasons — all before the Justice Department inspector general's office could review the devices.

Reference material:
Spoliation of evidence.  The spoliation of evidence is the intentional or negligent withholding, hiding, altering, or destroying of evidence relevant to a legal proceeding. [...] The spoliation inference is a negative evidentiary inference that a finder of fact can draw from a party's destruction of a document or thing that is relevant to an ongoing or reasonably foreseeable civil or criminal proceeding:  the finder of fact can review all evidence uncovered in as strong a light as possible against the spoliator and in favor of the opposing party.

Spoliation defined
Black's Law Dictionary, 1991, page 1401.

Mueller Russia hoax prosecution team destroyed evidence of their cell phone text messages and calls.  The excuses being used for destruction of evidence by the Mueller team are about as plausible as a mob accountant purportedly committing suicide by shooting himself in the head three times.  The posse of Trump-hating prosecutors that sought and failed to find evidence of "collusion" between Russia and his campaign managed to completely wipe out their text messages — the kind of evidence that revealed the bias and illicit sexual relationship of Lisa Page and Peter Strzok — as well as call records on their government-issued cellphones.  We only learned of this yesterday, two years after these public records were demanded by Judicial Watch and a year after a lawsuit was filed.  At least 15 cellphones, and possibly as many as 30, were completely wiped clean of all records.  This stinks.  Even worse, as with Hilary Clinton using Bleachbit to destroy her private server hard drive that was used for official State Department communications and then smirking about wiping it "with a cloth," they are likely to get away with it.

At least 15 phones belonging to Mueller's team had their information 'wiped' before handing them over to the Inspector General in Russia probe.  More than 15 phones belonging to the investigative team of then-Special Counsel Robert Mueller were wiped before they were handed over to the Office of the Inspector General to be examined for proof of potential bias.  Mueller and his team were investigated by the Department of Justice for alleged biased in its pursuit of any proof that Trump or his administration colluded with Russia.  The investigation concluded that there was no bias but as part of it, Mueller's team was told to hand over cellphones but many had been wiped of their data.

Weissmann uses a phone for months then forgets the passcode?  The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, 18 USC 1519, passed in wake of Enron prosecution — in which Weissman had a lead and very unsalubrious role described by Sidney Powell in Licensed to Lie — prohibited destruction of documents in anticipation of federal investigation.

18 U.S. Code § 1519. Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in Federal investigations and bankruptcy.  Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsifies, or makes a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States or any case filed under title 11, or in relation to or contemplation of any such matter or case, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.

De Blasio donor scored $120M in city COVID-19 contracts, board seats.  A big-bucks donor to Mayor Bill de Blasio's political campaigns not only scored $120 million in no-bid coronavirus contracts — he also won seats on two influential city boards.  Manhattan resident Charles Tebele, who owns the New Jersey-based computer business Digital Gadgets, has showered Hizzoner with at least $22,750 in political contributions since 2016 including $12,800 to de Blasio's failed 2020 presidential bid, records show.  Those contributions to de Blasio were Tebele's first to a federally regulated campaign since he gave to 2012 Connecticut congressional candidate, Dan Roberti, who lost the Democratic primary that year.

New DA in Portland admits he is 'old buddies' with an Antifa militant.  Newly-elected District Attorney Mike Schmidt, who refuses to prosecute Portland rioters, admits he is "old buddies" with an Antifa militant campaigning to defund the police, abolish prisons, and demand reparations. [...] The hour-long July 21 interview with Schmidt is a first in the series of "social justice leaders" features conducted by a self-described "Anti-Fascist" and "old time buddy" of Schmidt's, social media personality Awkword.  Awkword leads the Ten Demands for Justice movement, "a roadmap for the defunding and then full abolition of police and prisons."

Longtime IL Democratic state senator and member of ethics committee charged with tax evasion.  Illinois state senator Terry Link (D-Indian Creek), who had been in office since 1997, resigned today [8/13/2020] after being charged with federal tax evasion. [...] In little over a year three Illinois state senators, all Dems, have been charged with crimes.

'Fair Tax' Supporter Indicted for Tax Evasion.  State Sen. Terry Link, D-Indian Creek, was indicted Aug. 13 on tax evasion charges accusing him of filing false income taxes in 2016.  He appears to be prepared to plead guilty, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.  Last fall, Link was identified as the state senator who wore a wire for the FBI and captured former state Rep. Luis Arroyo offering him a bribe.  It was believed Link agreed to wear the wire in exchange for a lighter sentence on his own pending charges.  Link until Aug. 13 served on the Legislative Ethics Commission, which the former legislative inspector general said blocked her from pursuing wrongdoing by lawmakers.  Link resigned from the commission after he was charged.

Voters Give Fulton County DA The Boot After Corruption Allegations, Charges Against Police.  Looks like the strategy of charging two police officers for shooting a suspect that had assaulted them and then tried firing a Taser at them has backfired on Paul Howard.  Voters in Fulton County booted the longtime DA from office in Tuesday's primary, with challenger Fani Willis leading by forty-five points.  Willis becomes the first female Fulton County DA, and the first new DA since 1997.  Howard's not going to be done in court, however.  In fact, he might be making more personal appearances at the bench than ever before.

Justice Democrats candidate accused of inappropriate sexual behavior.  Three groups of college Democrats in Massachusetts disinvited left-wing congressional primary challenger and Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse from all future events alleging that he showed a pattern of using "his platform and taking advantage of his position of power for romantic or sexual gain, specifically toward young students."  The email, sent on Thursday and signed by College Democrats of Massachusetts, U-Mass.-Amherst Democrats, and Amherst College Democrats alleged that Morse, who is challenging House Ways and Means Chairman Richie Neal, had "sexual contact" with students at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where he was a lecturer on political science.

FBI Raids U.S. Company With Ties to Ukrainian Oligarch.  A U.S. company affiliated with the Ukrainian billionaire Igor Kolomoisky that has been accused of participating in an international fraud scheme was raided by the FBI in two locations on Tuesday [8/4/2020].  Agents conducted "law enforcement activity" in Cleveland and Miami at addresses that correspond with the offices of Optima Management Group, according to FBI Special Agent Vicki Anderson.  No arrests were made, she said.  Photographs published by the Cleveland Plain Dealer show agents taking boxes from the Cleveland location.  Optima was part of an international scheme in which billions of dollars were siphoned from a Ukrainian bank by Kolomoisky to buy U.S. real estate, according to a civil lawsuit filed last year in Delaware.

Ukrainian Oligarch Paid $700,000 To The Husband Of A House Judiciary Committee Democrat.  Robert Powell, the husband of Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Fla., reportedly took $700,000 from a Ukrainian oligarch named Igor Kolomoisky.  Mucarsel-Powell sits on the House Judiciary Committee, the committee that drafted two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump for his alleged abuse of power with regards to Ukraine.  In 2018, the Daily Beast reported that a number of businesses linked to Kolomoisky hired Powell as an attorney.  One of those firms paid Powell at least $700,000 over two years, according to public records.

Point.  If you are a big trader — like Soros, Gates, Goldman Sachs, or a major bank — having inside information is a freebie — no risk — goldmine.  If you are a greedy political family like Pelosi, Clinton, Bushes, Feinstein, Burr, McCain, Obama; Biden Family — inside information is a freebie no risk goldmine for the entire family.  I guess if you are John Brennan or a foreign intelligence service, and you want to finance a nefarious off the books black op operation FOR FREE, outside of your normal budget, you can use inside information and stock trades to finance your operations.

Spending on Christmas parties among allegations in ethics report on Sanford Bishop.  Rep. Sanford D. Bishop Jr. may have used thousands in campaign funds for personal expenses on gas fill-ups for him and his family, greens fees at country clubs, luxurious trips and school tuition.  Further, the Georgia Democrat also may have spent more than $16,000 in taxpayer money for joint Christmas parties — featuring a saxophonist and DJ equipment — with his congressional staff and his wife's employees, according to an Office of Congressional Ethics report released Friday [7/31/2020].  The OCE report was released because the House Ethics Committee decided to further extend its investigation into Bishop.

An only-in-Illinois story:  ComEd bribery scheme hearing is run by daughter-in-law of alleged key player in the case.  Nearly two weeks after admitting to a bombshell bribery charge, ComEd executives outlined their ethics reform plan to a panel of state regulators led by the relative of an alleged player in the criminal plot.  Illinois Commerce Commission Chairwoman Carrie Zalewski, whose agency oversees utility rates and safety practices, opened Wednesday's meeting with demands for "transparency" and "accountability" in light of federal court records that allege ComEd engaged in a "yearslong bribery scheme" involving jobs, contracts and payments to allies of House Speaker Michael Madigan.  One of the Madigan associates that prosecutors say got such a job?  Carrie Zalewski's father-in-law, former 23rd Ward Ald.  Michael Zalewski.

Tennessee State Sen. Katrina Robinson charged with theft, embezzlement involving government programs and wire fraud.  Tennessee State Sen. Katrina Robinson is facing federal charges of theft and embezzlement involving government programs and wire fraud, according to U.S. Attorney Michael Dunavant.  Robinson was elected to represent the 33rd District in Shelby County in 2018, and is the director of The Healthcare Institute (THI) — a provider of educational and training programs for jobs in the health care field.  According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Healthcare Institute received over $2.2 million in federal grants from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) between 2015 and 2019.  During that time, Robinson reportedly stole more than $600,000 from THI by compensating herself well above what was allowed under the terms of the HRSA grant and by using Institute funds for payments and purchases for her own personal benefit and that of her immediate family.

Brookings Institution Flush with Qatari Cash, NeverTrump Donors.  One would be hard-pressed to name a more influential think tank than the Brookings Institution.  The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit routinely ranks at the top of the list of the best think tanks in the world; Brookings scholars produce a steady flow of reports, symposiums, and news releases that sway the conversation on any number of issues ranging from domestic and economic policy to foreign affairs.  Brookings is home to lots of Beltway power players:  Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen, former chairmen of the Federal Reserve, are Brookings fellows.  Top officials from both Republican and Democrat presidential administrations lend political heft to the organization.  From 2002 until 2017, the organization's president was Strobe Talbott.  He's a longtime BFF of Bill Clinton; they met in the 1970s at Oxford University and have been tight ever since.  Talbott was a top aide to both President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Gavin Newsom's $3.7 Million Estate Was Gifted to Him in 2019; 3 Months Later He Got a $2.7 Million Tax Free Cash-Out.  One thing that's become extraordinarily clear to Californians in 2020 is that there's one set of rules for Gov. Gavin Newsom, and there's another set of rules for the rest of us.  He preaches that we're all in this together and that we have to sacrifice to "meet this moment," yet he's not missing a paycheck.  As California businesses struggle, he sends a $1 billion contract for masks to a Chinese company.  When he shut down wineries throughout 80 percent of California, he kept his open.  While the dream of owning a home is increasingly out of reach for California's families, it appears that Newsom received a $3.7 million estate from an LLC owned by his cousin then, a few months later took out a $2.695 million (tax-free) cash-out mortgage on it — and didn't report the gift on any of his financial disclosure forms.

Feds Accuse Ex-Philly Congressman Michael J. 'Ozzie' Myers Of Stuffing Ballots.  A federal grand jury indicted a disgraced former Pennsylvania congressman, accusing the well-connected Philadelphia Democrat of election fraud during primary elections in 2014, 2015 and 2016.  The indictment charges former U.S. Rep. Michael J. "Ozzie" Myers — expelled from Congress after he was caught taking bribes in the Abscam sting investigation in the 1970s — with paying cash to an elections judge to fabricate votes for his clients.

D.C. Mayor Bowser Partners With FBI-flagged Chinese Communist Front Group.  Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and her administration are official partners of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-funded Confucius Institutes, a propaganda front through which China instills American students with a pro-China worldview.  Bowser, who recently made waves when she renamed a street adjacent to the White House "Black Lives Matter Plaza," has been Confucius Institutes Partner since at least 2019, The National Pulse found.  Both Bowser's D.C. office and D.C. public schools are identified as partners of Confucius Institute U.S. Center (CIUSC) on the organization's annual report.

Disgraced Dem Congressman Released From Prison Without Explanation.  The United States Bureau of Prisons released a disgraced Democratic ex-congressman Thursday without explaining why he should not be out of prison with more than five years left on his sentence.  Former Pennsylvania representative Chaka Fattah was convicted on charges of bribery and corruption connected to his failed Philadelphia mayoral campaign, in which he accepted an illegal $1 million loan.  But the Bureau of Prisons has not offered an explanation for the release, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.  Fattah's time in Congress came to an end in 2016 when he, along with several associates, was indicted on federal racketeering and influence peddling charges.  Fattah resigned from his seat in Congress following the indictment.  A federal judge sentenced him to 10 years in prison on a wide range of charges including money laundering, racketeering, and bank fraud.

Huge Illinois utility paying $200 million to settle bribery case implicating the real boss of Illinois politics, House Speaker Michael Madigan.  Anyone who understands politics in the corrupt state government of Illinois realizes that the power of Michael Madigan, Speaker of the state House of Representatives since 1983 except for two years, dwarfs that of the state's governor.  He's been called "the most powerful Democrat politician in the country" with good reason, and over the years AT has covered him (here, here, and here for instance) for his power, and lately for the appearance that federal investigators have been wiretapping associates and maybe, just maybe closing in on him.  News released in Chicago yesterday by federal prosecutors indicates that that the noose is closing on him, though he still has not (yet) been indicted.

ComEd Charged With Bribery For Steering Jobs, Other Benefits For Speaker Michael Madigan.  Speaker Denies The Feds' Claims.  Commonwealth Edison on Friday [7/17/2020] stated that it has steered jobs, contracts and payments to people connected to Public Official A, who's later referred to as the Illinois House speaker in a highly explosive court filing released Friday morning.  Michael J. Madigan has been the speaker of the House for all but two years since 1983.  He has not been charged with wrongdoing.  The U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago had been investigating whether ComEd hired politically connected contractors — some with ties to Madigan — in order to win favorable government actions, including electricity rate increases.  Friday's agreement came less than a year after WBEZ first disclosed the nature of the probe and Madigan's connection to it.

There's Nothing New About Roger Stone Clemency.  Perhaps [Mitt] Romney has forgotten the way-back time of 2001, when President Bill Clinton, on his last day in office, pardoned his old Arkansas business partner Susan McDougal.  In 1996, McDougal was convicted of fraud and other felonies in connection with the Whitewater business enterprise that she and her husband entered into with Bill and Hillary Clinton.  President Clinton testified in the trial.  The Whitewater independent counsel, Kenneth Starr, raised the possibility of a reduced sentence for McDougal if she testified against the Clintons.  Specifically, Starr's prosecutors asked McDougal, "To your knowledge, did William Jefferson Clinton testify truthfully during the course of your trial?"  McDougal refused to answer.  She demanded that Starr resign.  And then she lapsed into total, determined silence.  A federal judge jailed her for 18 months for contempt of court.  Starr later charged her with criminal contempt, a case which ended with a hung jury.  Through it all, McDougal steadfastly refused to say whether Clinton had testified truthfully at her trial.  Then, on Jan. 20, 2001, the day he left the White House, Clinton pardoned McDougal.

Remembering Joe Biden's Newest Fan, Angela Davis.  Last night, 76-year-old radical Angela Davis was trending on Twitter due to her endorsement of 77-year-old presidential hopeful Joe Biden. [...] "Why isn't Angela Davis asked for commentary on major news channels?" wonders the Washington Post's Wajahat Ali.  Well, I've can think of a few reasons.  [#1] Davis is an unrepentant champion of domestic terrorists and murderers.  In the early 1970s, Davis famously bought two of the guns used in a 1970 Marin County courtroom kidnapping-shootout perpetrated by Black Panthers, in which a superior court judge and three hostages were murdered.  After being charged with "aggravated kidnapping and first-degree murder," Davis went into hiding.  Even after the FBI caught up to her, and even after evidence showed that she had been in correspondence with the planners and well aware of their violent disposition, she was acquitted in 1972.  Davis never stopped defending convicted Black Panther murderers, including those who had tortured a teenager to death, and yet she is still treated as celebrity.

Angela Davis confirms all that conservatives have been saying about Biden.  This is what conservatives have been saying all along, warning for months that Joe Biden is a weak, addle-pated, nearly senile vessel who will serve as a perfect mask for drawing in voters who imagine he's still a moderate Democrat and still sentient.  Fact is, he's got a big extreme political machine behind him, snaking into the void to seize power and set the agenda to a level no witting American would elect if such a wild-eyed agenda were presented openly.  We know it.  They know it.  Now they've said it.  And when would-be tyrants tell you who they are, believe them.

Liberals howling over Roger Stone's commuted sentence should remember the Obama years.  The media, other Democrats, and some Republicans like Mitt Romney are feigning outrage that Trump commuted the sentence on Roger Stone.  They aren't outraged at all that the whole Russian collusion scam that entrapped Stone, Flynn, and others was a pure hoax.  They aren't outraged that the Obama administration used massive amounts of government personnel and taxpayer money to illegally spy on Trump and his allies in order to destroy Trump and elect Hillary.  They aren't outraged that Holder, Comey, McCabe, Lynch, Lerner, Rice, Clapper, Brennan, and others committed perjury and got off without being charged.  They weren't outraged that Hillary, her aides, and many others committed major crimes, destroyed records, and obstructed justice and got off scot-free.  They weren't outraged that Biden, Power, and many others illegally unmasked people and information of people surrounding Trump.  But they are outraged that Trump commuted Stone's sentence.

Weinstein, Epstein, and the Democrats.  After Republicans swept the 2016 election, the media and entertainment industries went into hysterics, having paid steep dues to an organization that could no longer protect them.  New York and Los Angeles launched an offensive in the form of the Women's Marches, events which claimed that Trump's election had normalized sexual assault.  Of course, there would be no surge in sexual assaults during the Trump administration, but there was an avalanche of revelations that such crimes were commonplace — in the media and entertainment industries.  The case of Harvey Weinstein is infamous, but few know the full context.  As a powerful movie producer and Hollywood gatekeeper, Weinstein was extraordinarily successful in collecting donations for the Democratic party from Hollywood elites.  Knowing that his friends in high places would protect him, he would put naïve young starlets in compromising situations and sexually assault them. [...] Weinstein had been safe during the Obama administration and would have been safe under a Hillary Clinton administration, being one of Clinton's largest campaign bundlers, but the unexpected Trump victory meant he was out in the cold.

Only after being caught:
Florida Democrats return PPP money amid scandal.  The Florida Democratic Party announced late Wednesday [7/8/2020] that it was returning at least $780,000 in small-business loans after its own lawmakers criticized the acceptance of the money as highly questionable if not illegal and unethical.  The party immediately applied for the loan after Congress first passed the $670 billion Paycheck Protection Program, known as PPP, even though there was discussion at the time that the money should go to neither lobbyists nor political causes.

Democratic candidates benefit from PPP loans they criticized.  Several Democratic Senate challengers in key races who criticized the distribution and transparency of government Paycheck Protection Program loans indirectly benefited from the funds.  Last month, Cal Cunningham in North Carolina, Mark Kelly in Arizona, and Sara Gideon in Maine all took swipes at the program, which was created as part of the emergency coronavirus relief CARES Act and intended to help small businesses through the pandemic-related economic downturn.  The program did not adequately distribute funds to the most in-need businesses or communities, they argued.  But the candidates appear to be fine with loans going to companies they are connected to, which were not widely known until the Small Business Administration disclosed all the companies that received loans on Monday [7/6/2020].

Four Democratic Members Of Toledo City Council Accused of Accepting Bribes In Exchange for Votes.  Four members of the Toledo City Council, all Democrats, have been arrested and charged with allegedly accepting bribes in exchange for their votes.  The four council members — Larry Sykes, Yvonne Harper, Gary Johnson, and Tyrone Riley — were among the five people charged in Toledo, Ohio, on Tuesday morning [6/30/2020] as part of an investigation into a bribery scheme with the city council, local ABC News affiliate reported.  All four were charged with bribery in connection to programs receiving federal funds and extortion under the Hobbs Act.

One-third of Toledo's City Council arrested on bribery, extortion charges.  The FBI on Tuesday [6/30/2020] arrested a local attorney and four members of the city council in Toledo, Ohio, for their alleged participation in a bribery and extortion scheme.  Tyrone Riley, Yvonne Harper, Garrick "Gary" Johnson, Larry Sykes and Keith Mitchell were charged with bribery and extortion in a federal criminal complaint after a two-year investigation, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Toledo City Council arrests
Four Toledo City Council members accused of accepting bribes in 2 year FBI investigation.  Four members of the Toledo City Council have been accused of accepting bribes while in office, according to court documents obtained by 13abc on Tuesday.  At least three of those council members have been placed into federal custody.  13abc crews were on the scene as council members Larry Sykes and Yvonne Harper were placed into custody.  Federal documents also implicate council members Gary Johnson and Tyrone Riley.  According to a criminal complaint filed with the U.S. District Court, Councilman Sykes faces complaints of "Reciept of Bribe by Agent of Organization Receiving Federal Funds" and "Hobbs Act Extortion Under Color of Official Right."  In the affidavit filed along with the complaint, council members Harper, Riley, and Jonson are also named as subjects.


Indictments Likely Coming Down in Durham Probe and Antifa Financing Probe, Former Fed Says.  A former federal prosecutor said Tuesday [6/23/2020] that he believes that the reason congressional Democrats are working so hard to smear Attorney General William Barr is to "preempt" what will soon be coming down in two Department of Justice investigations.  Jim Trusty, formerly the Chief of the Organized Crime Section at the DOJ, now a partner at Ifrah Law, said Dems are doing "damage control" because U.S. Attorney John Durham's investigation into the origins of the FBI's Russia probe, and a DOJ investigation into antifa's financing are about to result in some "bombshell" indictments.

LA Councilman Charged In Massive Bribery Case.  NBC reports many of the facts of the case, but leaves readers to guess which party the alleged bribe-taker belongs to. [...] Makes one wonder if their Verification Unit was too busy to deploy Google search. [...] When his home was raided in November 2018, [Jose] Huizar had the gall to float the idea of his wife running for the seat to replace him.  He's term-limited after 2020.  That didn't quite work out the way he'd planned.  Huizar is a lifelong Democrat.

Why Can't Big-City Democrats Reform the Police?  The Democratic Party of the late 1950s and 1960s was principally a blue-collar political movement.  It dominated northeastern and midwestern cities through powerful local political machines dispensing patronage to supporters — including plum positions in police departments.  Corruption was endemic, and it often occurred at the expense of black residents.  Those conditions set the stage for some of the most explosive riots of that period.  In July 1967, two Newark police officers arrested a black cab driver and dragged him into a precinct house, where he was beaten.  Protests erupted and swiftly turned violent, lasting four days and costing 26 lives.  Investigations in the aftermath uncovered widespread corruption.  Newark's mayor, Hugh Addonizio, had returned from serving in Congress to run the city because, he reportedly said, "There's no money in Washington, but you can make a million bucks as mayor of Newark."

Black Lives Matter Website, 'Defund The Police' Donations Go to 'Act Blue', The 'Biden For President' Campaign's Top Source of Donations.  The National Pulse can reveal the Black Lives Matter website — the organization spearheading nationwide "defund the police" campaigns — is partnered with ActBlue, a Democrat fundraising platform that is the top donor to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, responsible for raising nearly 99.64 percent of the Biden for President effort.  While the Biden campaign insists it doesn't support efforts to defund the police, it may happily profit from Black Lives Matter (BLM) efforts, and is complicit in taking money from an organization partnered with those spearheading the dangerous policy that has already taken root in Minneapolis, New York, and Los Angeles.

BUSTED! DNC Gets Caught Laundering Money Through Black Lives Matter.  The Democratic National Committee and the Democrats are really as corrupt as they come.  It is absolutely unreal what they get away with.  Last year, we learned about a lot of overseas donations from foreign entities to Democrats including former presidential candidates such as Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, and Adam Schiff, but ther were a number of others as well.  It appears as though the BlackLivesMatter.com website that it is an international money laundering scheme and a front for the DNC to generate money from people across the world.

Hickenlooper Guilty on Ethics Charge.  A state ethics committee ruled on Friday [6/5/2020] that former Colorado governor and current Senate candidate John Hickenlooper (D.) violated a ban on accepting gifts while in office.  The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission decided that Hickenlooper's flight on a campaign donor's private jet, as well as his attendance at a conference in Italy, violated the ban, according to the Colorado Sun.  Hickenlooper initially refused to appear at the hearing, prompting the condemnation of a federal judge and members of the commission.

Ex-Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick set to be released from prison due to pandemic, lawmaker says.  Disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will be granted early release from a federal prison where he is serving a 28-year sentence for corruption and currently in quarantine due to the coronavirus, according to a Michigan state lawmaker.  State Rep. Karen Whitsett, a Detroit Democrat, told WJB-TV that she was notified by President Trump of Kilpatrick's impending release during his Thursday [5/21/2020] visit to Michigan.

Democrat Congressman Steven Horsford Admits Sex Scandal With Ex-Senate Intern.  Resignation Calls Grow.  Calls for Democrat Rep. Steven Horsford (NV) to resign from the U.S. Congress exploded over the weekend after he admitted to having an affair with an intern who worked for former Senator Harry Reid (D-NV).  Gabriela "Linder said the affair began in 2009, when she met Horsford — then the majority leader of the Nevada state Senate — during her time as an intern in former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's Nevada office," the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.  "They had a sexual relationship that continued intermittently until September 2019, Linder said, though the two remained in contact until April.  Linder never worked for Horsford in any capacity."

A Time to Hate.  [Scroll down]  There is something so evil in a society that tolerates a dual standard of justice, dual standards of everything.  On the one hand, we political conservatives harbor profoundly deep feelings, but we do not destroy people's lives based on abstract politics.  Yes, we oppose them and expose them, and we hope that contemporary society and history judge them for the evil they represent.  But we do not destroy them in their lives.  They get away with everything.  Hillary Clinton spoliated 33,000 emails amid a federal probe, a federal crime that always ends up with prison time — but not for her.  It is a federal crime to lie under oath to Congress.  Comey, Clapper, Brennan — how have they all avoided prison time?  Strzok, Page, the whole bunch of them?  Adam Schiff.  The outliers on the Mueller team.  Not one single slime among them in the swamp has been brought to justice.

Whitmer: I don't know how we awarded that contract to my campaign vendor who just went dark.  Earlier this week we looked at the major snafu going on in Michigan, where Governor Gretchen Whitmer's administration awarded a lucrative contract to one of her campaign's vendors to trace coronavirus cases.  The contract was given to Great Lakes Community Engagement, who was set to turn the work over to long-time Democratic consultant Mike Kolehouse.  After alarm bells started going off over the idea of such a liberal outfit collecting that amount of personal data about Michigan voters, the contract was canceled.  Now, in the aftermath of the entire mess, Whitmer is claiming that she has no idea how Kolehouse ended up with that sweet arrangement.  It must have been the decision of the state's Health Department.  And wait until you hear what's going on with Kolehouse himself. [...]

Top Dem Operative David Brock Accused of Illegally Profiting From His Political Empire.  A conservative group has filed complaints with the IRS accusing leading liberal activist David Brock of illegally profiting from the vast network of groups he has built within the Democratic Party's infrastructure.  The complaints, which were filed by the Patriots Foundation, a right-leaning nonprofit, and reviewed by The Daily Beast, detail a series of transactions that, the group says, show the injection of money from a tax-exempt group Brock founded into a private, for-profit news business that he owns.  "These complaints we filed provide damning indictment of serious allegations about how his organizations have circumvented rules and exploited the tax-exempt status of the organizations for personal benefit and partisan political purposes, and potentially siphoning millions for improper purposes," Patriots Foundation co-founder Craig Robinson told The Daily Beast in a statement.

Dem Operative Goes Dark as MI Lawmakers Question Coronavirus Contract.  The Democratic operative who was awarded a coronavirus-related contract by Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer's administration has deleted his website and removed identifying information from social media platforms.  Democratic consultant Mike Kolehouse scrubbed his online presence as state lawmakers push for oversight into Whitmer's handling of the pandemic, voicing concerns about hiring political operatives to run a public health project.  GOP state representative Shane Hernandez sent Whitmer a letter Tuesday [4/21/2020] demanding answers on the contract.  House speaker Lee Chatfield said the legislature would convene Friday to create an oversight committee examining the state's coronavirus response.

After pushback, Whitmer cancels coronavirus tracing contract awarded to Democrat political intel giant.  As Disrn reported Tuesday afternoon [4/21/2020], Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer had awarded a coronavirus tracing contract to a noted Democratic consultant and information firm called NGP VAN, raising concerns that the commission, which is meant to help track and halt the disease's spread in the state, was poised to harvest political intel for the Democratic Party from its gathering of COVID-19 data.

Facing Criticism, Whitmer Rescinds Contract Awarded to Dem Consulting Firm.  Democratic governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan announced late Tuesday [4/21/2020] that the state was rescinding a contract to track the spread of the coronavirus that she had awarded to a Democratic consulting firm, according to Crain's Detroit.  The organization, Great Lakes Community Engagement, is run by Democratic political consultant Mike Kolehouse, who planned to use a software vendor affiliated with a Democratic data firm that is working for the governor's reelection campaign.  Whitmer's decision to hire Democratic political operatives to run a public health project sparked immediate backlash, the Washington Free Beacon reported just hours before Whitmer's office said she had terminated the contract.

Was Trump the Only One in Washington Innocent of Russian Collusion?  [Scroll down]  Consider just how much of DC ended up taking part in the lie.  Brennan and the CIA constructed fake Russian spy rings throughout Europe;  Nellie Ohr passed this same imaginary Russian intel to her husband, Bruce, and the FBI;  Lynch, Comey, and McCabe used this elaborate but fake Russian conspiracy to file fraudulent FISA applications and pursue Section 702 bulk surveillance on anyone and everyone who ever worked near or for Donald Trump;  Robert Mueller used all this American-made kompromat to bully Trump campaign associates into accepting unethical plea deals, while hiding real Russian collusion by the Clinton campaign;  Senator Feinstein repeatedly covered for Fusion GPS's perjury by leaking confidential transcripts, while her former intelligence staffer, Daniel Jones, worked to raise funds for Fusion GPS's defense and continued counterintelligence operations against President Trump;  Richard Burr joined Mark Warner on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence to give our intelligence agencies cover by justifying their illegal spying on a domestic political campaign;  Adam Schiff spent the last four years doing the Russians' bidding by further dividing the country with reckless and wholesale lies that the sitting president is a Russian agent; and the whole apparatus of the American press spun this fantastic tail of Russian collusion, while giving each other First Amendment prizes for their bravery, acumen, and Jayson Blair-like persistence.  Only in Obama's America could a hoax as fraudulent and unsubstantial as this one come to fruition.

Democratic Group Received $100,000 From Tech Firm With Links To Chinese Communist Government.  Prominent Democratic oppositon research and activism firm, American Bridge, received an "anonymous" donation of $100,000 worth of stock in the Chinese search engine company, Baidu, which has direct links to the Chinese Communist government, according to the Washington Free Beacon.  American Bridge calls itself a "progressive research and communications committed to holding Republicans accountable for their words and actions and helping you ascertain when Republican candidates are pretending to be something they're not," but it operates largely as a campaign arm, providing Democratic candidates with opposition research meant to destroy Republican opponents.  Its leader and founder, David Brock, is a well-known progressive activist and it has connections to everything from Democratic super PACs to the leftist media "watchdog," Media Matters for America.

Our Crooked Congress.  The behavior on display is somewhere between deeply immoral and evil, but also feels like par for the course.  Throw on top such things as, say, the insider trading elected representatives of both parties and staff now stand accused of, and you might think the swamp is more a steamy sewer of absolute corruption funded by the hard work of American taxpayers.  The people in Congress were granted privileged, classified information regarding the state of our markets in closed-door briefings.  With that knowledge, instead of protecting the American people, they protected the security of their own pockets.  As a reminder, the Commodity Exchange Act, better known as the Stock Act, became law in April 2012.  It prohibited this very thing — though let's be honest, the fact that such an obvious breach of ethics had to be codified in order for us to recognize it as unlawful is semi-shocking.  But don't worry, though:  the Stock Act was gutted in 2013 and now its penalties serve as a mere slap on the wrist.

How do you solve a problem like Pelosi?  Nancy Pelosi has long been a thorn in the side of not just conservatives but the House itself.  For reasons no Republican could ever grasp, she is a heroine to the left, despite her many serious failures.  She is a traitor to her own district; she has never lifted a finger to deal with San Francisco's catastrophic homeless disaster.  She does not even admit it exists!  She seems to think she is some kind of monarch, a queen bee.  In fact, she is a vicious elitist.  She and her husband, like Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her husband, are the ultimate inside traders who have become very rich over their years in public office. [...] The Pelosi family are like the Gambino crime family.  They get their way, they get rich, they care about nothing else.  Nancy may pretend she cares about climate change but she flies across the country weekly and charges the taxpayer not only for her private jet but for her massive liquor bill.  She pretends to be a practicing Catholic but is rabidly pro-abortion.  In short, she's a nasty piece of work.

The Democratic Party Is Wounded And Dangerous.  The Democrats and the Deep State have spent the last four years constructing the greatest wag-the-dog spectacle America's ever seen in an attempt to cover up the malfeasance and criminality of the last administration, while preventing the current one from achieving too many victories.  Considering that Brennan and Comey are still free and Obama and Hillary are still smiling, they've been remarkably successful.  But the Mueller obfuscation and Schiff circus are behind us, the dance music of delay is dying down, and the Democrats' and Deep State's ability to keep pushing back their day of reckoning is coming to an end.  If they don't win in 2020, they cannot keep justice at bay, regardless of how stacked in their favor it has always been in the past.

Establishment-Backed Democrats Accused of Campaign Finance Violations.  Two establishment-backed Democratic candidates face accusations of illegally coordinating with a liberal dark money group, according to ethics complaints filed as voters prepare to cast ballots in the Super Tuesday primaries.  VoteVets has spent tens of millions of dollars backing Democrats in key 2020 Senate races, including Cal Cunningham in North Carolina and M.J. Hegar in Texas.  The dark money group spent over $7 million supporting the pair in February.  The seven-figure ad blitz has helped Cunningham and Hegar secure their frontrunner status ahead of contested Super Tuesday primaries.  The ad blitz also drew scrutiny from watchdogs who accuse Cunningham and Hegar of illegally coordinating with the dark money group in ethics complaints obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Here's a Devastating, Little-Known Story About Bernie Sanders.  Why Haven't His Rivals Exploited It?  As someone who follows politics quite closely, I'm often fascinated when a potent piece of opposition research against a major candidate for office percolates below the radar for years, yet never quite breaks through.  Have you ever heard of 'Sierra Blanca,' as it relates to Bernie Sanders?  Neither had I.  Neither had hardly any voters, I'd wager. [...] Bernie drew up an environmentally-controversial proposal to dump nuclear waste in a Latino community, then refused to meet with the people it impacted.  Oh, and he managed to secure a little sweetheart deal to enrich his wife in the process.  Funneling public and campaign money to his spouse (no stranger to financial scandal) has been something of a pastime for this socialist, who was a jobless deadbeat before becoming a career politician who is now a millionaire with three homes.  This episode is problematic for Bernie on the subjects ranging from environment, to race, to his "man of the people" persona, to graft.

Socialism and corruption:  Joined at the hip in Florida.  Bernie Sanders has said the American dream is more likely to be realized in socialist Venezuela than the United States.  Maybe he'd like to explain this version of the American dream found in a massive money laundering operation by Venezuelan Chavistas who've been busted for looting their country in order to retire in mansions and condos on Miami Beach. [...] The hellhole poverty, loss of freedom, and flight of millions are often brought up as the inevitable side effects of modern socialism (as if firing squads, gulags and expropriation were too much), but here's a fourth thing:  Corruption. [...] Now we've got it in Venezuela where a gargantuan money-laundering corruption case has finally given Miami investigators the Swiss bank records they have sought for years.

The Democrats' Russian Roulette.  In 2016, when they claimed that Trump was Russia's choice and had secured his election, they ended up with highlighting to voters what the media had covered up:  It was Hillary Clinton who approved the Uranium One sale of 20% of U.S. Uranium.  It was Hillary who received assistance to this end from the Russian-paid lobbying firm APCO Worldwide.  It was her husband who was paid $500,000 for a short talk in Russia by a bank connected to the Kremlin.  It was Hillary's foundation that received $145 million from companies connected to the Russian nuclear company Rosatom.  It was Hillary who was responsible for not providing security to our diplomats in Benghazi and who bald-faced lied about the murder of our ambassador and his defenders.  It was Hillary who prompted the murder of Qaddafi after he was cooperating with us on nuclear disarmament and set off the greatest wave of refugees since World War II.

Why's Nancy Pelosi ignoring Adam Schiff and Ted Lieu's Ed Buck Problem?  Not long ago known pedophile and sex trafficker Ed Buck of West Hollywood, CA. was arrested on multiple charges of sex trafficking and solicitation of underage male prostitutes by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, FBI and U. S. Marshals Service at his West Hollywood home.  What I'd like to know is why Speaker Pelosi and Democratic Leaders continue to ignore a very real and serious relationship between California Congressmen Ted Lieu and Adam Schiff to this pedphiliac monster Ed Buck?  Why is this problem deliberately and effectually ignored?  Adam Schiff, Ted Lieu and countless other California Democrats have taken $100s of $1ks of U. S. Dollars of Buck's for years according to reports I've read and been following closely from the LA Times and CBS News Los Angeles.  Clearly knowing Buck's well-documented pecadillos with underage male prostitutes, lavish drug parties and weapons issues?

Why Obama May Be Terrified by Trump Commuting Blagojevich's Sentence.  Ever since President Trump commuted the sentence of disgraced former governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich, I've been asking myself why he would do such a thing.  I have a theory about what might have contributed to the decision, and if I'm right, Barack Obama should be concerned.  When Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, it was then-Governor Blagojevich's responsibility to appoint someone to fill the seat.  But, Blagojevich didn't just want to give it away, he wanted something for it.  "A Senate seat is a [very] valuable thing.  You don't just give it away for nothing," Blagojevich said at the time.  In 2011, Blagojevich was sentenced to 11 years in prison on corruption charges.  Of course, he wanted a pardon from Obama, but never got one.

Adam Schiff Had A Super-Shady Ukraine Connection.  The ringleader of the bogus Impeachment circus was Adam Schiff, who pointed his bony finger at Trump, alleging wrongdoing and shady behavior in Ukraine.  But Schiff, who had shady Ukraine connections, conveniently, was never cross-examined.  Schiff pushed back hard against Trump inviting Ukraine to look into Ukraine corruption that implicated Americans — could Schiff have connections to some big-ticket corrupt Ukraine officials of his one?  Paul Sperry thinks he's found some.  It was bad enough that he ran totally roughshod over the rights of the accused.  Trump was allowed zero opportunity to call witnesses in his own defense.  Schiff even buried testimony of the one witness they called that would have (as we are told by those present) helped Trump make his case.

Judiciary Committee Dems hit with ethics complaints over 'suspicious' conduct.  Three Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee were hit with ethics complaints Wednesday, connected to a slew of alleged violations related to campaign fundraising.  Nonprofit watchdog group Americans for Public Trust filed complaints with the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) against Reps.  Madeleine Dean, D-Pa., Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Lucy McBath, D-Ga., calling for investigations of possible violations of House rules and federal law.  The organization, founded by former National Republican Congressional Committee research director Caitlin Sutherland, also filed complaints against Dean and McBath with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

NSA Whistleblower Binney Says There Was No Russian Hack, as Stone Prosecution Claims.  Bill Binney, a 32 year National Security Agency expert, has made a sworn declaration that Wiki-leaks did not receive stolen data from the Russian government, intrinsic metadata shows that the data in question was put on a thumb drive and physically taken from the DNC.  National File received a copy of the three page sworn declaration made by leading intelligence community expert Binney for Roger Stone, in which he makes a convincing case that neither Russia nor any other foreign country hacked the DNC emails during the 2016 Presidential election.  In the testimony, Binney, a 32-year National Security Agency expert, says that Wiki-leaks did not receive stolen data from the Russian government.  Rather, intrinsic metadata shows that the data in questions was put on a thumb drive and physically taken from the DNC.

Two-Tiered Justice System on Full Display.  This was not a banner week for the idea that justice is alive and blind in America.  Three separate stories converged to drive home the obvious truth that America has a two-tiered justice system: the Justice Department's decision to not indict the guilty-as-sin plotter Andrew McCabe, the attempt to give Roger Stone an outrageous jail sentence, and the Army's decision to shrug that one of its officers attempted to orchestrate the removal of his commander-in-chief.  Even in the unlikely scenario that the Barr-Durham investigations send the full stable of coup-plotters to jail for decades, it will not erase the obvious fact that it pays to be a Democrat if you are going to commit crimes, particularly if they are political.  There are a couple of simple reasons for this.  The most obvious reason is that the entire federal bureaucracy is one giant Democrat machine.  This cannot be repeated enough.  Nearly every member of almost every single department is a Democrat.

It's the Server, Stupid; Do All Roads Lead Back to the DNC and CrowdStrike.  [Scroll down]  CrowdStrike determined that the server had been hacked by the Russians and issued a report stating their conclusions.  Oddly, the DNC had refused to allow the FBI or the Department of Homeland Security to conduct their own analysis of the server.  The FBI was forced to accept the report from CrowdStrike.  I've just read a piece written by American Greatness' Michael Thau in which he focuses on the Democrats' refusal to give oxygen to any discussion of the hacking of the DNC server prior to the 2016 presidential election which he sees as the most "crucial" question we should be asking.  "Why did the DNC repeatedly reject FBI and Department of Homeland Security requests to examine their supposedly hacked machines?"  Whenever this issue is raised, Democrats assert that this issue has been settled.  The Russians hacked the DNC's servers to help Trump win the election.  Case closed.  Anyone who questions this conclusion is labeled as a conspiracy theorist.

5 Times Barack Obama Protected His Allies from Justice and Democrats Didn't Care.  [#3] Senator Robert Menendez:  In 2012, just days before the November election, ICE agents were ready to arrest an illegal immigrant and registered sex offender, but were ordered by the Department of Homeland Security to wait until after the election.  Why?  The suspect was a volunteer intern for Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and there would be "significant interest" from Congress and news organizations about the arrest.  Menendez was seen as vulnerable in the 2012 election, and the delay of the arrest saved him from a potentially politically damaging scandal on the eve of voting.  All the while letting a sexual offender avoid justice for six weeks.

'Walls Are Closing In' on the Democrats.  [Senator Chuck] Schumer's contention that the president's acquittal (which he now implicitly acknowledges is a foregone conclusion) will be "meaningless," coupled with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's insistence that the "stain" of impeachment will "forever" be attached to the name of Donald Trump, prompts me to suggest a few courses of action the president might take in his second term (some parts of which might be started even now).  First, to discourage such frivolous, wholly partisan efforts to overturn the results of a free, open, and democratic election, people who have committed felonies by leaking classified material or lying under oath should be prosecuted.  A dozen or so indictments would have a clarifying and salutary effect.  I'd start with a few of the women who perjured themselves when lying about Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings.  I'd follow up with some people involved in the "Russian collusion" hoax.

In San Francisco, the smell of poop overpowered by the stench of leftist corruption.  One-party blue city San Francisco has a corruption problem.  Turns out the sewage on the streets isn't the only thing filthy about San Francisco.  Its man in charge of that clean-up, Mohammed Nuru, was busted with a septic tank full of corruption charges.

San Francisco official in charge of cleaning up city's filthy streets arrested.  The head of San Francisco Public Works, which is in charge of cleaning up the city's feces-filled streets, has been arrested by the FBI on suspicion of public corruption.  San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru was arrested Monday [1/27/2020] alongside Nick Bovis, the owner of a popular sports bar in Fisherman's Wharf, Lefty O-Doul's.  Sources told NBC Bay Area that Nuru was arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes for airport concession contracts.  Both Nuru and Bovis were released on bond following their arrest.

SFO Public Works Director, a/k/a "Mr. Clean," Arrested by FBI on Corruption Charges.  The man responsible for keeping the streets of San Francisco clean (who's obviously a miserable failure) was arrested by the FBI Monday afternoon on charges relating to bribery/kickback schemes.  Mohammed Nuru, a Willie Brown protege, is the city's Public Works Director.  He first became an executive in the department in 2000 and was appointed Director by Mayor Ed Lee in 2011.  In an indictment unsealed Tuesday afternoon [1/28/2020], federal prosecutors allege that Nuru and Lefty O'Doul's owner Nick Bovis engaged in a scheme to bribe a San Francisco International Airport commissioner to help Bovis obtain an airport restaurant license.  That scheme failed when the commissioner said she didn't need the money, but the scheme doesn't have to be complete for the men to be found guilty of the crime they're charged with, honest services wire fraud.

Ethics reform in Illinois?  Go after party leaders or go home.  Almost a decade has passed since questions over lobbying influence erupted into fisticuffs on the floor of the Illinois Senate.  In 2011, a senator who questioned a conflict of interest between a lobbyist and a lawmaker — a father-son duo — got punched in the chest and admonished.  How dare the senator question the grease that eased the bill's passage, out loud. [...] Fast-forward to now:  Even as federal investigations swirl through city and state governments, the playbook is the same:  A scandal stokes embarrassment among politicians, leading to a task force, leading to a weak piece of legislation, leading to an inconsequential tweak of state law, leading to elected officials finding a way around their mess.  We're on Step 3 currently as lawmakers and ethics boards around the state examine laws regulating lobbyist and lawmaker relationships.  Why?  Because the latest corruption scandals involving cozy relationships are making politicians jumpy.

'Profiles in Corruption' Contains 1,126 Endnotes, No Unnamed Sources.  Instead, it is based on hard evidence and documents, including:  foreign and domestic corporate and legal records, tax liens, lobbyist disclosures, property records, White House visitor logs, federal bankruptcies, and federal criminal trial records.

The War For The Democratic Party Will Destroy Lives And Change Our Country.  The far-left of the Democratic Party is out of the spotlight.  Out of the spotlight, but clearly still within the crosshairs of their colleagues.  Its young congressional leaders, Reps.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar, the fresh-faced consciences of the swamp, are all-three the targets of finance investigations.  Two are tangled in credible accusations of anti-Semitism, and one is mired in a hard-to-believe incestual infidelity scandal with a married man on her payroll.  Their outside support, which so successfully took media credit for gathering hundreds of thousands of liberals who'd booked non-refundable hotels and plane tickets to Her D.C. inauguration and became the Women's March, has collapsed amid credible accusations of racism and, you guessed it, anti-Semitism.  And the New York/D.C. media that ran glowing profile after fawning profile months ago don't seem to visit any more.

Amazon Crowns 'Profiles in Corruption' the 'Most Anticipated' Nonfiction Book.  Slated to hit bookstores nationwide on January 21, Profiles in Corruption by Government Accountability Institute President and Breitbart senior contributor Peter Schweizer hit #1 in Amazon 10 days before its official release.  The book is said to contain never-before-published revelations about Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Eric Garcetti, Kamala Harris, Sherrod Brown, and Amy Klobuchar — several of whom are featured on the book's cover.

Democrats Nervous as 'Profiles in Corruption' Book Looms.  Top Democrats are signaling not-so-subtly that they are nervous as a forthcoming book from Peter Schweizer that will expose widespread corruption in the Democrat Party drops in just ten days.  The cover features photos of 2020 Democrat presidential frontrunners former Vice President Joe Biden, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), as well as fellow 2020 candidates Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Cory Booker (D-NJ), and former 2020 candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA).  Schweizer is a Breitbart News contributing editor and the president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI).  He has written multiple bestselling books exposing corruption in Washington.

The parallels between Hunter Biden and Paul Pelosi are absolutely eerie.  [Scroll down]  But here's where things get odd:  Go through the ownership of this building and you feel like you've been slipped some of that hallucinogenic toad poison.  This structure has passed between a goodly number of entities — and yet, per the documents, no transfer taxes have been paid.  Pelosi said he has no equity in the building and never has.  "It's not my business.  I never got paid.  I never expected to get paid."  And yet there he is, listed in 2015 as the Chief Financial Officer of Feng RE, Inc., the entity that owned 1312 Utah.  Can't make this up.

Morality and the Presidency.  [Scroll down]  President Trump has been accused of "womanizing," but such behavior was rampant with John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton.  What is more, even if the accusations against Trump are true, one would be hard-pressed to argue that they somehow threatened the security of the United States or compromised his presidency.  This was not the case with John Kennedy.  Kennedy was purportedly on the precipice of being compromised as a result of his cavorting with an East German communist spy (and others with connections to organized crime) while he was president.  Had this been publicly disclosed it would almost certainly have ended his presidency.  It could be argued that Kennedy fell in the only way that allowed Camelot to rise.  That image inspired a generation.  President Kennedy did not die in disgrace, but had he lived he may well have been forced to resign the presidency in disgrace (or suffer defeat in the 1964 election).

A media that fails to report the biggest stories is no fit custodian.  We've all heard the accusations that President Trump won 2016 with dodgy money, that fake donors were funneling cash into his campaign, and that he basically won by cheating.  No one has yet provided evidence or made a credible accusation that could be brought to the courts regarding these claims.  Not so for Democrats.  A court filing unsealed on December 3 that received almost zero media attention was that a number of folks have now been charged with sending illegal campaign contributions to ... you've guessed it... Democrats.  Ahmad "Andy" Khawaja of Los Angeles, California, used his online platform to hide excessive donations and to anonymize those who should have been listed publically.

The Hellish Legacy of the Dingell Family.  The Dingell clan has held a congressional seat outside Detroit since 1932.  Their 87-year tenure has not coincidentally coincided with the decline of a thriving industrial city into a post-apocalyptic wasteland.  But it's been good for the Dingells, three of whom have sat in their congressional seat since the days of Herbert Hoover, the rise of Hitler, and the radio age, and fattened their pockets on its sinecures.  Dingell Sr. was the son of Polish immigrants who started out in politics as a union boss, jumped into a newly created seat, and kept it through eleven elections before passing it on to his son.  Dingell Jr, outdid daddy by becoming the longest serving member of Congress in American history.  Before he died, he passed on the seat to his second wife, whom he married when she was 28 and he was 55 years old.  She was a GM lobbyist who married the Congressman from GM.  What was good for GM was good for the Dingells.  By 2014, Dingell Jr. was listed as the third richest member of Congress from Michigan with a net worth of $3.5 million.

CAIR Pennsylvania Poster Girl Resigns in Shame.  Movita Johnson-Harrell seemed to take pride in her position as the first Muslim woman elected to the Pennsylvania State Legislature.  Now that record will forever have an asterisk next to it as Johnson-Harrell has turned herself in to Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro's Office, pleading guilty on charges of perjury, record tampering, and embezzling over $500,000 in Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security disability funds, as well as donations to Motivations Education and Consultation Associates (MECA), a charity she established to allegedly serve the mentally ill and drug addicted poor in her predominately African-American neighborhood.  In a press conference, Attorney General Shapiro described Johnson-Harrell's actions as "brazen corruption... her theft knew no bounds."

When Hate Becomes an Agenda.  The left-wing loathing of Trump has now tainted almost every Democrat's agenda and unhinged most of the party's major players.  Impeachment has turned into a cruel caricature of a rare constitutional remedy for presidential criminality.  Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report proved a compendium of FBI lying, fraud, and vendetta.  There is not a single prominent figure in Horowitz's lengthy report who has not left a written or video trail of anti-Trump bias (James Comey, Peter Strozk, the Ohrs, Lisa Page, Kevin Clinesmith) or has had some sort of questionable financial relationship with the Clintons or their affiliates (Alexander Downer, Andrew McCabe).  Meanwhile, the progressive presidential field is in a sort of collective meltdown, as candidates begin recalibrating and trading accusations as they fear their own early anti-Trump agendas have little public support.

DOJ Catches Democrat Party in Multi-Million Dollar Illegal Foreign Campaign Donations Scheme.  On Friday The Gateway Pundit reported on the news that Democrat operative and Robert Mueller chief witness George Nader was indicted for his involvement in illegal campaign contributions from foreign entities to the Hillary campaign in 2016[.] Nader was one of Mueller's top witnesses and he is a top Democrat donor and convicted child molester.  But there is more to the story.  Bill Barr on Friday indicted eight individuals for illegally funneling millions of dollars in foreign money to Adam Schiff, Hillary Clinton and several Democratic senators.

Pa. Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell, charged with stealing more than $500,000 from her own charity, will resign.  State Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell, a West Philadelphia Democrat, said Wednesday [12/4/2019] that she would resign after prosecutors charged her with stealing more than $500,000 from her own nonprofit and spending it on family vacations, designer clothing, furs, personal bills — and her bid for the legislature.  State Attorney General Josh Shapiro said Johnson-Harrell engaged in "brazen corruption" and systematically tried to cover up her crimes by falsifying records and financial statements.

Al Sharpton's charity skirts scrutiny thanks to clout with Dems: critics.  The Rev. Al Sharpton's troubled charity, the National Action Network, has dodged scrutiny paid other nonprofits — despite paying him $1 million last year — thanks to his political clout, insiders and experts say.  "There are certain things that are universally true in New York:  the sun rises in the east, it sets in the west, the subway is late and no one wants to pick a fight with Al Sharpton," said one top Democratic insider.  "Where's the political benefit to doing it?"  Sharpton's teflon provides a sharp contrast to the vigorous investigations state Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance mounted against President Trump, including his troubled charity.

Nixon's Lessons for the Would-Be Impeachers.  For those who do not remember or have not studied him, Richard Nixon was twice elected vice president (with General Dwight D. Eisenhower, having helped secure the nomination for him over Republican Senate leader Robert Taft in 1952).  He was likely cheated out of the 1960 presidential election by the supporters of John F. Kennedy in Chicago, Texas, and elsewhere, causing JFK to remark, "Thank God for a few honest crooks."  When the votes in Alabama cast for Dixiecrat candidate Senator Harry F. Byrd are deducted from the Democratic total, Nixon won the popular vote.  Though encouraged by Eisenhower to contest the election, Nixon chose not to do so, for the benefit of the country.

Al Sharpton's 'nonprofit' deserves the same scrutiny as Trump's.  State Attorney General Letitia James was quite proud of herself for winning a $2 million judgment against President Trump for misusing his Trump Foundation charity.  But surely the Rev. Al Sharpton's nonprofit merits similar scrutiny.  As The [New York] Post's Melissa Klein and Georgett Roberts reported last weekend, Sharpton sucked in more than $1 million last year from his National Action Network charity:  salary of $324,000, a $160,000 bonus and $563,000 in "other compensation" — which NAN says it owed him for a stretch from 2004 to 2017 when it supposedly underpaid him.  NAN claims it hired an executive-compensation firm that found it shorted him $1.25 million over those years. [...] [W]hat a convenient finding for the Rev, who runs the group that hired the firm.

Ex-Mass. officials say Patrick fired them for their efforts to get his brother-in-law on sex offender registry.  Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's entry into the 2020 Democratic presidential race is drawing renewed scrutiny toward his efforts to oust officials who had tried to put his brother-in-law, a convicted rapist, on the state's sex offender registry.  Patrick's brother-in-law Bernard Sigh was first convicted of spousal rape in 1993 and was again convicted of raping Patrick's sister earlier this year, The Washington Post reported.  Patrick in 2014 said that he had forced out two Sex Offender Registry Board officials over their attempts to overturn a hearing officer's decision to keep Sigh off the registry, arguing that the officials' actions were not appropriate, according to the Post.

The silly sanctification of Marie Yovanovitch.  Until a month or so ago, virtually no one outside of the seven circles of hell that is the State Department had heard of Marie Yovanovitch.  Even the intrepid John Solomon had not heard of her until March of this year.  He had interviewed Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko who told him that Yovanovitch gave him a "do not prosecute" list the first time he met with her. [...] John Solomon has been doing some great reporting on all this, so much so that now he is a target of a smear campaign by the left.  That's what the left does:  They are not interested in facts if they run counter to their preconceived narrative.  In this case, what Solomon has uncovered with regard to Ukraine is catastrophic to all of their invented scenarios meant to destroy the Trump presidency.  For example, the Bidens are neck-deep in the corruption that has long plagued Ukraine.  So are quite a few other children of the swamp.

Rhode Island's Gov. Raimondo Pushes No-Bid Billion-Dollar Video Lottery Terminal Contract.  Did the Rhode Island governor's chief of staff openly threaten a company the state regulates?  And why is Rhode Island entering into a $1 billion no-bid contract to manage its video lottery terminals (VLT)?  As states legalize gambling and conduct state-run lotteries, gambling and gambling technology have become big business — a multi-billion-dollar business.  There are many companies capable of managing Rhode Island's VLTs.  But Rhode Island is only considering one company, and appears poised to award that company a 20-year contract worth more than a billion dollars.  And unless something changes, Rhode Island's contract award will happen without any competitive bidding.

Liberals enabled powerful sex abusers.  Yes, it was a big week for MeToo denial.  But it wouldn't be complete without a mention of the late predator Jeffrey Epstein.  Sure enough, a TV news producer was sacked last week over suspicions (which she denies) that she leaked the hot-mic video of ABC News anchor Amy Robach complaining that the network spiked her Epstein scoop, which implicated Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew.  The thread that links all these libidinous men is the power of the progressive-Hollywood establishment and the protection racket that fuels it.  As long as they paid homage to favored causes, abortion, LGBTIQ rights, open borders, the Clinton Foundation and the Democratic Party, these men bought themselves protection from scrutiny and negative publicity. [...] Epstein, too, supported obligatory progressive causes, including the Clinton Foundation and elite universities.

Convicted Sex Offender Elected to Virginia Senate.  One of the many Democrats elected to the Virginia Senate on Tuesday [11/5/2019] is a convicted sex offender and disbarred lawyer, according to Breitbart.  Joe Morrissey was jailed and lost his license to practice law after being convicted of having sex with his 17-year-old secretary.  He pled guilty to a misdemeanor in the ensuing court case and served for only three months in a "work-release term."  He was also forced to resign from his seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, but then ran again in the special election to retake the seat and was re-elected.

Harvey Weinstein weakened but unwavering two years later.  It's a fall day in midtown Manhattan and a man is seen shuffling along a sidewalk, gripping his walker.  His facial expression is vacant, his skin is a pale shade of gray and his clothes are ill-fitting.  A passerby might never guess that he used to be one of entertainment's most powerful, a man whose infamous arrogance would make those around him shudder.  This man is Harvey Weinstein.  Since initial bombshell reports by The New York Times and The New Yorker in October 2017, more than 80 women have accused Weinstein of sexual abuse ranging from harassment to rape.  He is charged with predatory sexual assault, a criminal sexual act, first-degree rape and third-degree rape.  Weinstein's impending criminal trial, which is set to begin January 6, has depleted him, members of the former film executive's small inner circle told CNN.

So Hunter Biden followed his dad around to Romania, too?  Hunter Biden was quite the devoted little sproutling, following his dad around wherever he went. [...] Hunter Biden followed his dad around — to China, Ukraine, and now Romania — and somehow always came away with big-dollar business deals.  Kind of the way then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton used Bill Clinton as her bagman to scarf up donations to the Clinton Foundation after Hillary made some foreign policy decision.

Corrupt Senators Took Ukraine Cash.  While Democrats are pushing the bogus Trump-Ukraine quid pro quo story invented by that great storyteller, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, two groups of Democratic senators have been colluding with Ukrainian interests to advance their own agenda and political careers. [...] This is corruption and hypocrisy raised to a new level.  President Trump, as the transcript of his call to Ukrainian President Zelensky showed, pressured no one to dig up dirt on a political opponent.  There was no quid pro quo, only a request that the Ukrainians look into the real crime Joe Biden confessed it — leveraging U.S. financial support to get a prosecutor investing his son's company, Burisma, fired.  And if you want real collusion with a real trail of evidence of people trying to do real things interfering with the 2016 campaign, try Hillary Clinton's collusion with the Ukraine to derail and besmirch Team Trump.

California Democratic Party paid $380,000 to settle sexual misconduct suit against former chair Bauman.  The California Democratic Party has spent more than $800,000 on legal costs stemming from three lawsuits alleging discrimination and sexual misconduct by former chair Eric Bauman.  The sum includes more than $430,000 in attorney's fees alone, including payments to law firms representing Bauman.  According to a Times review of state and federal campaign finance filings, the state party has paid $378,348 in legal settlements to Alton Wang, William Rodriguez-Kennedy and Kate Earley.  The trio originally filed suit in January, alleging a culture of harassment and sexual misconduct that was "well-known and apparently tolerated" by top officials.

Political Parentage?  The Ukraine's enrichment of Pelosi and Biden's sons.  Unfortunately, the force for personal and family enrichment is strong with Democrats.  Nevada's Reid has a history of enriching nepotism.  Paul Pelosi's, son of Speaker Nancy Pelosi benefited from his mother's position as a California senator.  Then there is Hunter Biden.  This ain't Ukraine Jake.  Searching for Democrats that personally enriched their families, a good place to start is Harry Reid, the Democrat Senator from Nevada, now retired. [...] Additionally, Reid's campaign bought nearly $17,000 in merchandise from his granddaughter's jewelry business.

The Ukraine Hoax is About Protecting the Side Hustle.  What?  There is no 28th Amendment you say?  Well, this one isn't actually written down or ratified but it's very real.  It explains how much of Washington actually works.  If it were reduced to writing, it might read, "Thou shalt not mess with another swamp creature's side-hustle."  The 28th amendment might have originated after the 1978 ABSCAM scandal in which one senator and six congressmen accepted or solicited bribes from undercover FBI agents.  What a bunch of amateurs!  Everyone in Washington knows that you don't act as your own bag man when selling favors!  Corruption in modern D.C. is shaped like a triangle.  A person or entity seeking a favor doesn't hand the money directly to the politician or public official.  Instead, the money goes to a trusted family relation under a vague "consulting" or "speaking" arrangement.  This golden triangle of corruption appears over and over again in the Russia collusion hoax.

The Madness of Progressive Projection.  Projection as a Leftist symptom came to the fore during the Mueller investigation when Mueller's dream team of progressive attorneys began pressuring a number of minor Trump former campaign officials, and eventually his national security advisor, on trumped up charges — from leaking sensitive documents, to obstruction of justice, to lying to federal officials, to collusion (whatever that non-legal term denotes) with foreign governments and in particular Russia.  In each case, Mueller ended up hunting down possible misdemeanors while ignoring likely felonies.  Leaking?  By James Comey's own admissions he had leaked confidential presidential memos he composed for the expressed purpose of later using them as insurance policies against Trump, some of which material was classified as secret.

Nixon:  Victim of a Media Riot.  [Richard Nixon] was a loyal, devoted Veep and should have been an easy sell to be POTUS after Ike.  But JFK and his bottomless stash of money wrecked that deal.  Nixon clearly had the 1960 election stolen from him by crooked politicians in Illinois and Texas.  Unlike today's politicians, he did not sue, did not go on TV and raise a ruckus.  He just bled profusely in private.

Atlantic City mayor admits to stealing $87,000 from youth basketball team.  The mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey has resigned after admitting in federal court on Thursday that he stole $87,000 from a youth basketball team he founded.  The admission puts the mayor on a long line of corrupt leadership in the city, which has been riddled with chronic budget problems.

Ruling Class vs. 'The Others'.  Should any of us violate the laws, we can expect to have the book thrown at us.  But for them, it's more a slap on the wrist, if anything at all.  We see this in the behavior of the Clintons, deep state actors, and even the Bidens.  No one seriously thinks that Hunter Biden's Ukrainian and Chinese business "activities" are above board.  But even more troubling, consider that a sitting vice president of the United States was potentially involved in pay-to-play with foreign nations.  The ruling class apparently believes the law is whatever it says it is.  It is whatever is convenient for them.

Obama, the Bidens, the Clintons, the IMF and Others Pillaged Ukraine.  President Obama, his Vice President Biden and his son, Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Foundation, Mueller, the Podestas, the IMF and others all pillaged the Ukraine and then delayed loans to the country before forcing Ukrainians to pay grossly inflated natural gas prices.  Now these vultures claim they are innocent.

The wall of propaganda that hides the actions of America's ruling class.  Asking for the assistance of our global friends and allies to help reveal the wrongdoing of the American ruling class is now an impeachable offense.  Investigating their wrongdoing is wrongdoing.  Exposing their corruption is corruption.  In the Clown World we currently inhabit, the president of the United States must be removed from office for daring to ask they be investigated abroad.  The events of this week reveal the new standard.  Like sharks to a whale carcass, our elites routinely feast upon precarious situations in other nations:  The Podesta Group, Hunter Biden, and others were content to make a buck off the tensions in Ukraine along with Paul Manafort, just as the Clintons and others were happy to take tens of millions of dollars from Russian oligarchs.

FBI raids Illinois Democrat's Capitol, district offices.  FBI agents carried materials in bankers' boxes and grocery bags out of the Illinois Capitol building on Tuesday [9/24/2019], and multiple media outlets reported that and other raids were linked to a Democratic state senator.

Did Jerry Nadler lie to a federal judge?  As Congress returns from recess, impeachment talk is once again in the air.  Speaker Nancy Pelosi doesn't want a vote on impeachment because she recognizes that it is so unpopular outside the deep blue districts where Trump hatred rules that it could unseat many of the swing-district Democrats whose 2018 victories handed her the speaker's gavel.  Nonetheless, House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler is desperate to appear to his constituents as though he is fighting for impeachment and making progress, with a vote scheduled on formalizing procedures for an impeachment inquiry.  The reason for Nadler's desperate pandering to the impeachment fever swamp faction of the party is clear.  He is scared to death that he will follow the fate of Joe Crowley and be defeated in the primary election by an attractive young female who is mounting a well financed campaign against him.

Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Hit with Bar Complaint For 'Openly Threatening' Supreme Court.  Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch hit Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse with a bar complaint after he openly threatened the Supreme Court.  A couple weeks ago several Democrat Senators issued a stunning warning to the Supreme Court — "heal" or face drastic restructuring.  The demand came in an amicus brief filed in court two weeks ago by Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Richard Durbin (D-Il), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) regarding New York's current gun laws.  Judicial Watch filed a bar complaint and alleged Senator Whitehouse "violated the Rhode Island Rules of Professional Conduct by attacking the federal judiciary and openly threatening the U.S. Supreme Court."

5 things the Republican Party can learn about politics from Donald Trump.  [#1] Gaffes are only gaffes if you care:  My friend Ben Howe suggested that one and it's a lesson liberals learned long ago.  It's how Ted Kennedy survived leaving a woman to drown to death in his car, how Bill Clinton gets a pass from feminists, how people can say with a straight face that the Obama administration had "no scandals," and how Ralph Northam (among a number of other liberals) got a pass for his blackface pictures.  Trump rather famously doesn't do apologies and goes on the offensive when he's attacked, which is a wonderful change from the usual Republican strategy of apologizing, fretting about what the media will say, and then looking for any excuse to throw whoever is involved under the bus.  If Trump had taken that approach, he would have been destroyed a 100 times over by now, [...]

Ted Kennedy died 10 years ago.  It's time for liberals, and America, to reassess his life and crimes.  [Scroll down]  The Chappaquiddick episode did not particularly chasten or sober Kennedy.  A 2019 book, The Kennedy Heirs:  John, Caroline, and the New Generation — A Legacy of Triumph and Tragedy details frantic, but futile, pleas decades later by his three adult children to quit drinking amid his deteriorating health.  Alcohol played a prominent role in other Kennedy scandals.  GQ reported a lurid tale of an attack in 1985 by Kennedy on a waitress at a Washington restaurant.  In 1991, Kennedy's nephew, William Kennedy Smith, was charged with rape (later acquitted), compelling his uncle's testimony in court.  The sitting senator became an object of scorn and ridicule after admitting he had rousted his son and nephew to go drinking, and later in the evening, with several women present, walked around their compound sans pants.

The Left's Neverland.  You see, in Neverland the only important thing is how its inhabitants feel.  What actually is — I speak here of data, of facts, of actual — as opposed to virtual — experiences.  In Neverland there are no pesky absolutes, no facing up to Almighty God, no bearing the consequences of our choices.  In Neverland one can indulge one's strangest and most disgusting sexual fantasies and the Neverlandiers will cheer you on and protect you.  Isn't that what happened at Michael Jackson's mansion of the same name?  Isn't that what happened to the blue dress in the Oval Office?  Isn't that why Jeffery Epstein is dead?  There in that prison cell, he got too close to reality.

I am combing through all the Epstein files.  You asked for it.  Here it is.  [Scroll down]  Since many of you also keep asking, yes you can share this content.  Do what ever you want with it.  Copy and paste, save it, put it on your own blogs, use it for your own research, make a video out of it, make fun of it.

Jeffrey Epstein's life of evil and [the] demand for justice.  Apart from the very questionable circumstances of Epstein's apparent suicide, the outcry, especially from the victims, is regret.  Regret that Epstein has avoided justice for his abhorrent behavior.  The assumption that once a person dies, and especially by suicide, his troubles are over.  There can be no justice, no further punishment.

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Let me assure you that Mr. Epstein's punishment has now begun, and will never end.

Jeffrey Epstein signed a will just two days before he died by suicide, court records say.  Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein signed a will just two days before he died by suicide in a New York jail, new court records show, leaving behind an estate valued at more than $577 million, including more than $56 million in cash.  The 66-year-old's death was ruled a suicide by hanging last week by New York's chief medical examiner.  The will was filed last week with court officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands and listed no details of beneficiaries, according to the New York Post.

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I wouldn't want to be one of Mr. Epstein's beneficiaries, considering the way he apparently made his money.

Jeffrey Epstein's computers seized during FBI raid on private island.  Drone video shows FBI agents and NYPD cops seizing computer equipment from Jeffrey Epstein's mansion on a private island in the Caribbean, according to a report Tuesday [8/13/2019].  The video was shot Monday during a raid on Little St. James, the 70-acre island Epstein owned in the US Virgin Islands, CNBC said.  It shows at least two desktop computers and an Apple computer were packaged and marked for transport, CNBC said.

The feminists seem to be totally silent about this.
"They're Nothing, These Girls": Unraveling the Mystery of Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's Enabler.  Is it possible prosecutors have lost track of Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's alleged co-conspirator in his pedophile ring?  For the past few weeks, rumors have circulated that she's 400 pounds and living in Florida, or that she's living the high life in London or the Continent, but according to the Washington Post, authorities are having a hard time locating her.  Those who know her say that it's possible she is as much of a Houdini as Epstein.  Both of them liked having secrets, and the way those secrets kept people off balance.

William Barr Has A Message For Jeffrey Epstein's Co-Conspirators.  Attorney General William Barr said Monday that he was "appalled" by Jeffrey Epstein's apparent suicide over the weekend, but urged that the millionaire pedophile's co-conspirators "should not rest easy."  "This sex trafficking case was very important to the Department of Justice and to me personally," Barr said during a speech before the National Fraternal Order of Police in New Orleans.  "Let me assure you that this case will continue on against anyone who was complicit with Epstein.  Any co-conspirators should not rest easy."  [Video clip]

Ted Williams tells powerful Epstein associates: 'You're really not off the hook'.  More witnesses could come forward and inform on associates of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein now that the financier is dead, Fox News contributor Ted Williams said during a Saturday appearance on "America's News HQ."  "I would say to these powerful people:  You're really not off the hook because it [Epstein's death] may now have freed a lot of the witnesses who would not have come forward because they may have been intimidated by Epstein," said Williams, a former homicide detective turned criminal defense attorney.

With Epstein Gone, Will Focus Turn to Ghislaine Maxwell?  Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite on Jeffrey Epstein's arm, was, for many years, the financier's right-hand woman and best friend.  She was also, allegedly, his lure, go-between, and fellow abuser of young women, as newly unsealed documents allege.  With Epstein's death, by suicide, in a Manhattan jail cell this weekend, thousands of questions may never have satisfactory answers and focus is likely to intensify on his collaborators, co-conspirators, enablers, and friends.  Where is Ghislaine?

Alleged Trafficking Victim Names Two Democrats in Jeffrey Epstein Case.  An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking scheme named two prominent Democrats as part of a group of men with whom she was forced to have sex, unsealed documents revealed Friday [8/9/2019].  The more than 2,000 papers released by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York allege that Virginia Roberts Giuffre, 33, claimed in May 2016 that she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein to have sex with and give erotic massages to several politicians, foreign leaders, and businessmen, Fox News reported.

From Clinton to Cosby, Jeffery Epstein's little black book full of liberal elites.  This morning, accused pedophile Jeffrey Epstein is found dead of an alleged suicide.  Only his death will not stop the release of the names, or the civil lawsuit against the Epstein estate from continuing.  The cunning of Bill and Hillary Clinton is not a well-kept secret.  And Epstein's death will not provide them any cover.  And there is a lot to cover up.  Pilot logs and Jeffrey Epstein's Little Black book among them.

Alleged Epstein victims eye civil cases after suicide ends criminal case: 'We're just getting started'.  Several of Jeffrey Epstein's victims may pursue civil cases against the alleged sex trafficker after his apparent suicide Saturday morning ended the criminal case against him, according to lawyer Lisa Bloom.  The billionaire was awaiting his trial on charges of child sex trafficking next year.  After he reportedly hanged himself in his jail cell, the criminal case against him came to an end as no one else had been charged.  An official cause of death has not yet been confirmed.

Baltimore's Battered Face.  We see the greatest abuses from our elected officials in Baltimore city.  Former mayor Shelia Dixon was fired for stealing Christmas gift cards from the city's needy.  Her successor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, ordered police to give "space" to rioters and looters to destroy parts of Baltimore during the 2015 riots.  Last May, Mayor Catherine Pugh resigned amid a kickback scandal.  And there's Rep. Cummings, whose 23 years in Congress have brought only continued decay and nothingness.  These and other liberal Democrats have demoralized the people of Baltimore and they are fleeing; Baltimore city has lost about 40% of its population since the 1960s.

Timing Is Everything.  On the very same weekend when American astronauts successfully landed on the moon, Ted Kennedy, leaving a campaign party late at night, drove off a narrow bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Cape Cod MA, plunging into shallow water of Poucha Pond, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, a young campaign staffer. [...] The entire incident stands as concrete proof that Kennedy's only real concern was professional self-preservation.  Kennedy cared only for himself.  Had this not occurred when the world's attention was transfixed on the moon landing, Kennedy's actions would have been under the microscope of the media and the American public to a far greater degree than they were.  It's doubtful that his political career would have survived.  An America without Ted Kennedy's influence would be a very different place today.  Robert Bork would have been appointed to the Supreme Court in 1987.  Any number of liberal causes and bills which Kennedy helped shepherd through over the years would not have made it.  This country would be a much different — and better — place absent Kennedy's presence in politics from 1969 onwards.

Biden's Corruption Problem.  Joe Biden is being portrayed as the Democrats' safest potential presidential nominee, despite his obvious flaws as a candidate.  But one wonders how Biden's history of swamp corruption will play if he actually faces the scrutiny of a national run.  Biden's family has gotten wealthy, like those of so many low-paid "public servants" — Tom Daschle and Harry Reid are obvious examples.  How does that happen?

House Dems Get Dark Money Group After Introducing Bill Against Dark Money.  After introducing a bill that contained provisions geared towards tackling dark money in politics, House Democrats have a new dark money group in their corner.  House Majority Forward, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that will not have to disclose its donors, was established in March.  It marks its charitable purpose in North Carolina filings as promoting "economic growth and opportunity, environmental stewardship, and democracy in the United States of America."  The group plans to raise at least $20 million throughout 2019 to back Democrats and attack Republicans, and will begin airing the first of its digital and TV ads this week as part of a larger $10 million advertising blitz for the year, Politico reports.

Democratic Party has become a Continuing Criminal Enterprise.  Today, the longest serving — 50 years — Chicago City Council member, Alderman Ed Burke, is under indictment for corruption.  The longest serving Speaker of the Illinois House, Michael Madigan, is also reportedly under investigation.  Both are life-long Democrats.  Their story is largely ignored by the liberal media outside of Chicago — where the local Chicago media has long been aware of the depth of city government corruption.  Cheatsheet.com lists the 15 most corrupt cities in America.  Thirteen of the 15 mayors are Democrats.  The Democratic Party excels in corrupt municipal governance.

The Honey Trap on E 71st.  [Scroll down]  A respected former CIA official, Phil Giraldi has come right out and accused Epstein of being an Israeli agent of influence.  Epstein was let off with a slap on the wrist on his first child abuse charge, says Giraldi, because of his powerful Israel connections.  To Giraldi and this writer, the Epstein 'massage' operation was a classic intelligence operation designed to blackmail men of influence into doing Israel's bidding.  Clinton had reportedly already fallen into this trap years earlier while still president.  Now watch this stinking pile of corruption be hurriedly covered up.

De Blasio used state account he controls as campaign slush fund.  Strapped for cash, Mayor Bill de Blasio turned to a state political account he controls to buy plane tickets, pay rent and purchase digital advertisements for his nascent presidential campaign — potentially violating campaign finance regulations, campaign finance experts told The [New York] Post.  De Blasio's presidential campaign disclosed it owes his NY Fairness PAC $52,852 — a tally that includes purchases made after Hizzoner officially announced his run, his staff confirmed.

Chappaquiddick Ted Kennedy to Ilhan Omar: 50 years of leftist free passes.  Fifty years ago today, Democrat Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy got drunk (allegedly) and drove over a bridge (really).  Kennedy left his female passenger Mary Jo Kopechne to die.  He never answered for leaving Kopechne to die.  Fifty years ago today began the tradition of the liberal media covering up everything bad that liberal Democrats did.  Thus allowing liberals to become more emboldened.  Benghazi and "Fast and Furious" just two of many examples of getting innocent people killed, then covering it up.

Epstein's real Palm Beach enablers.  Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter and Detective Joseph Recarey risked their careers for the sake of the community they served.  That risk centered on a case in which they gathered evidence supporting allegations that a multi-millionaire suspect living in a $12.5 million mansion on Palm Beach's fashionable barrier island was trafficking in underage girls for sex.  That man was hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein.

FBI makes arrests in Puerto Rico corruption scandal, prompting calls for governor's ouster.  The FBI on Wednesday [7/10/2019] arrested two former senior officials who served in administration of Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló, leading the chair of the House committee that oversees Puerto Rico to call for the governor to step down.  The arrests also spurred concerns on Capitol Hill about the billions of dollars in aid that Congress has approved for the island.  The federal indictment says the former officials illegally directed federal funding to politically-connected contractors.  The arrests come about a month after Congress approved a controversial disaster aid bill that earmarked additional funding for Puerto Rico's recovery from Hurricane Maria in 2017, which were tied up in part because President Trump called Puerto Rico's officials "incompetent or corrupt."

Schumer suddenly decides Jeffrey Epstein's money is tainted.  Senator Chuck Schumer of New York has known since 2008 that Jeffrey Epstein was a sex offender, thanks to the plea bargain he reached in Florida that year.  But he was content to hold onto the multiple campaign donations that he received from the very same Jeffrey Epstein, as the New York Post reported: [...]

Are Prosecutors Finally Taking Down Accused Child Trafficker Jeffrey Epstein In An Effort To Get Trump?  Jeffrey Epstein had every reason to feel that his decades of seeming immunity would continue indefinitely when federal officials intercepted him on his way back from a trip to Paris.  He was finally arrested on sex trafficking charges in Teterboro Airport in New Jersey after disembarking from one of his private jets.  After he escaped justice for decades, parents of young girls have reason to hope for overdue justice for an operation court documents say recruited and sexually exploited children.  You might not have heard of Epstein, but you will likely know some of the powerful figures he called friends — names like Clinton, Trump, and the duke of York.  As noted by Business Insider, Epstein is a college dropout who tutored the son and possibly dated the daughter of the chairman of Bear Sterns.  Now reputed to be a billionaire, Business Insider described his path to wealth as "vague" and "murky."

Schumer got thousands in donations from Jeffrey Epstein.  Sen. Chuck Schumer — who called on Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta to resign and said President Trump should "answer" for his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein — accepted thousands of dollars in donations from the alleged pedophile throughout the 1990s, The [New York] Post has learned.  Federal Election Commission records show that Schumer received seven $1,000 donations from Epstein between 1992 and 1997, first as a US congressman from New York and then when he was vying to be the state's senator in 1998, an election he won.

Jeffrey Epstein's Lolita Express and the art of unequal justice.  Jeffrey Epstein's arrest on federal charges of sex trafficking minors has all the features of a tabloid extravaganza: money, sex, power, and serious crimes.  No one deserves the notoriety more.  The billionaire financier was already convicted of similar crimes in 2008 and received a very light sentence.  Epstein's plea bargain ended the earlier investigation before any of his friends were implicated.  That won't happen again.  The floodlights are on this one. [...] As blogger David Burge put it, 'It's always the billionaire convicted pedo with private Lolita Express jets to his own orgy island that you least expect.'  Droll but accurate.  How did the Department of Justice manage to miss this ongoing scandal for years?  The likely answer is that Epstein has lots of rich and powerful friends.

Jeffrey Epstein Should Cancel the Culture's Humbert Humberts.  Hugh Hefner fired up a flare lighting the way to an almost anything-goes view of female sexuality, and it reached its apex at the 2003 Oscars.  Under the regime of Hefnerism, conservative prudes and often the law stood charged with being uptight and repressive about sex involving girls just over or even under the age of consent.  That [Roman] Polanski became an exile from this country after his crime made him Hollywood's favorite martyr.  The Academy was eager to give him the Oscar both to showcase its view that he had been victimized by prudery and to dunk on conservatives.  Attendees didn't just applaud, they let out a mighty whoop of approval when Polanski's Oscar was announced by a smiling Harrison Ford.  Meryl Streep, Martin Scorsese, [Harvey] Weinstein, and others all jumped to their feet to participate in a chilling standing ovation.  Jack Nicholson, at whose house Polanski's assault took place, looked confused and joined in the applause, but remained seated.

Did someone mention Jeffrey Epstein?

Democrats Hid Gifts From A Notorious Foreign Meddler.  Six Democrats took an all-expenses paid trip paid for by the government of Qatar in December, but two of them did not disclose it, annual ethics forms reveal.  Democratic Reps.  Donald Norcross of New Jersey and Jim Himes of Connecticut did not report taking the trip to Doha, Qatar, on their mandatory disclosure forms, but Buzzfeed said they were there at the elaborate Doha Forum gathering in December.

Liberal Media Blackout:  Bill de Blasio's Wife Cannot Account for $850 Million Collected from Taxpayers.  The mainstream media in America can not be trusted, Period.  I noticed an article from The Daily Mail (UK) trending on Voat this evening and was shocked to learn that the story is actually months old, and not shocked to find that only a handful of conservative sites covered the story.  It seems that Mayor Bill de Blasio's wife (Chirlane McCray) headed a taxpayer funded project called ThriveNYC and now she can not, or will not, account for $850 million in taxpayer money.

Federal subpoena demands records on Andrew Gillum and his campaign for governor.  Andrew Gillum is a focal point of a recently issued federal grand jury subpoena that demands information on the former Democratic candidate for governor, his campaign, his political committee, a wealthy donor, a charity he worked for and a former employer.  The subpoena, obtained by the Tampa Bay Times and previously unreported, could reflect a new level of federal inquiry into Gillum, the former mayor of Tallahassee who narrowly lost to Republican Ron DeSantis last year.  Throughout his campaign last year, Gillum insisted he was not a target of a sprawling FBI investigation of Tallahassee City Hall, which has taken at least three years and resulted in three arrests.

Andrew Gillum hit with federal grand jury subpoena, report says.  A federal grand jury has issued a subpoena seeking information about Andrew Gillum's 2018 campaign for governor and his associates at non-profits he's worked for, according to a report from the Tampa Bay Times.  The Times obtained a copy of the subpoena, which asked for information on John Jackson, president and CEO of the Massachusetts-based Schott Foundation for Public Education, where Gillum was a board member until 2017; Opportunity to Learn Action Fund, where Gillum was president until at least 2017; Donald Sussman, who donated $1.5 million to Gillum's campaign; and Sharon Lettman-Hicks, CEO of the National Black Justice Commission, a black LGBTQ advocacy group.

FEC: Beto O'Rourke Funneled $110,000 in Campaign Funds to His Web Development Company.  Democrat 2020 presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke funneled roughly $110,000 in campaign money to a private web development company he and his wife owned at one time while he served as a congressman, according to FEC rules.  O'Rourke's campaign, Beto for Texas, donated money to Stanton Street Technology Group in several different election cycles.

Second Hassan Staffer Allegedly Helped Aide Steal Massive Amounts of Senate Data.  A second former aide to Sen. Maggie Hassan is implicated in former IT staffer Jackson Cosko's massive data-theft scheme that was ultimately used to "intimidate" Republican senators by "doxxing" them during a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, prosecutors said.  Samantha G. DeForest-Davis, at the time a staff assistant to Hassan, was the aide who allegedly helped Cosko conduct his scheme, a source with knowledge of the situation told The Daily Caller News Foundation.  Court records show a case naming her has been opened, and the source confirmed it relates to her alleged role in the data theft.

Former Sen. Hassan Aide Stole Gigabytes Of 'High Value' Data.  A former IT aide to New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan mounted an "extraordinarily extensive data-theft scheme" against the office, the culprit's plea agreement states.  The plot included the installation of tiny "keylogging" devices that picked up every keystroke.  Between July and October 2018, former IT aide Jackson Cosko worked with an unnamed accomplice, a then-current Hassan employee, who repeatedly lent him a key that he used to enter the office at night and who allegedly tried to destroy evidence for him.  Cosko accepted responsibility for the events revealed by federal prosecutors in court Friday [4/5/2019].

The joy of Left Privilege.  Karl Marx was right:  When you run the schools and the organs of propaganda you can do anything. [...] Here's only a partial list of Left-Privileged demagogues in today's America:
  [#1]   Without left privilege Hilllary would be in jail.
  [#2]   Sandy O is a complete creation of Left Privilege.  Every ignorant word she utters is treated as Holy Scripture... because of Left Privilege.
  [#3]   Obama and Michelle may be thinking of another eight years in the White House, because nobody can go after their misfeasance and malfeasance in office... since they've got L.P.
  [#4]   LP insists that the Robert Mueller investigation, which has wasted years of time and millions of taxpayer dollars to no useful result, is a "national treasure" that must be protected at all costs.
  [#5]   LP also protects and funds Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Bruce and Nellie Ohr, James Comey, and Andrew McCabe, who ought to be doing hard time instead.

Obama WH counsel faces possible prosecution in Mueller-initiated probe.  Former Obama White House Counsel and Clinton-linked attorney Greg Craig may soon be charged by the Justice Department for engaging in illegal unregistered overseas lobbying, in a case initially probed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller — a development that would make him the first Democrat to face prosecution amid the long-running Russia investigation.  The case centers on lobbying work that Craig performed in 2012 for the Russian-backed president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, while Craig was a partner at the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.  Craig allegedly never registered as a foreign agent under a U.S. law known as the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA, which requires lobbyists to declare publicly if they represent foreign leaders, governments or their political parties.

Long Before Ilhan Omar, Politicians Could Get Away With Murder As Long As They Were Democrats.  All my life I've watched with interest as the label "Democrat" has insulated individuals from reprehensible behavior.  Women who claim to care about women and their struggles as a sex rallied around Clinton for years, knowingly protecting a womanizer — and, more importantly, a man credibly accused of rape  — because he was a warrior in their crusade to continue killing the unborn.  My interest in politics emerged and blossomed when I was in my twenties.  At that time, two men sat in the Senate chamber whose pasts should have, and would have, prevented them from being elected to public office had they not had a (D) attached to their name.  I am speaking of former senator Ted Kennedy and former senator Robert Byrd.

So where is Nancy Pelosi's 'speedy' teen-molestation investigation of Rep. Tony Cardenas?  Democrats have always spoken with forked tongues on assorted #MeToo cases, calling for swift judgment on accused (and innocent) conservatives such as Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, while dragging their feet on allegations involving their own.  John Conyers, Keith Ellison, Al Franken, Bob Menendez — they all have had their #MeToo issues, as does the Virginia clown show crew, yet somehow Democrats aren't quite treated the way Republicans are.  And it's really obvious in the case of California Rep. Tony Cardenas, who's been credibly accused of drugging and molesting a teenage girl in his care and now is being sued for it in a California court.

Black leaders call for forgiveness, second chance for Northam.  "Redemption."  That word was used repeatedly as five black leaders from across Virginia gathered Monday urging state legislators to rescind statements calling for Gov. Ralph Northam's resignation following his blackface photo scandal.  On the steps of the Capitol, former Richmond City Council Member Henry "Chuck" Richardson read a prepared statement, saying that racial issues in the U.S. still permeate virtually every aspect of American life.

Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax employer puts him on leave after multiple sexual assault allegations.  Democratic Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax's employer placed him on leave pending investigation after two women levied allegations of sexual assault against the lieutenant governor.

The Democrats' Identity Meltdown.  Democrats need an identity-politics intervention.  Having unleashed race, gender, sexual orientation and class as the defining issues of American politics, these furies are now consuming their authors. [...] Every national Democrat of note is demanding that Virginia Governor Ralph Northam resign for appearing in blackface in 1984 and for offering different explanations for an offensive photo on his medical college yearbook page.  But Mr. Northam is refusing to go.

Progressives Bearing Gifts.  Governor Ralph Norman started off justifying infanticide in clinical vocabulary, an assurance with which his radical and generous Planned Parenthood donors would be pleased.  But then he was caught with college yearbook photos of a Klansman posing by a white buffoonish character in blackface.  Northam at once denied, then admitted, next hedged, and finally confirmed the entire story — only to bookend it by admitting that he once upon a long time ago also dressed up in black shoe polish to emulate Michael Jackson (who usually did his best to wear white makeup).  The lying-in-wait Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax, an ascendant African-American Democrat, seemed ready to take over from the sure to be Twitter-lynched Northam.  But then his own sudden fame prompted latent accusers to emerge. [...] The larger point, however, was simple:  a party that non-stop smears Trump as a sexual assaulter and racist seems incapable of dealing with alleged racists and sexual assaulters among its top state officials.

Virginia, a Dignified Disaster.  Virginia is a state that for historical reasons has always imagined its political institutions and leaders as possessed of special virtue.  Now they are known for uncommon vice.  With widespread demands for the resignations of both Gov. Ralph Northam, embroiled in controversy over a racist blackface photograph, and Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, an African-American politician facing on-the-record allegations from two women accusing him of violent sexual assault, Virginia state government is facing a comprehensive meltdown.

Virginia official accused of rape will have to resign if allegations are true: governor.  Virginia's embattled governor insisted he would not resign over a racist yearbook photo, but said the state's lieutenant governor would have to step aside if sexual assault allegations against him were found to be true.

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That will give the governor a chance to appoint another Democrat to take his place when he resigns.

VA State Delegate Announces Plans to file Articles of Impeachment Against Fairfax.  A Democratic Virginia state delegate announced his intention to file articles of impeachment for Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax after a second woman came forward and accused him of sexual assault Friday evening [2/8/2019].

Virginia Madness Continues — Democrat Lawmakers [are] Demanding Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax Must Resign.  Virginia politics has twice circled back through crazy and now enters a bizarro hall of mirrors.  The #1 official, Governor Northam, and the #3 official, Attorney General Mark Herring, have admitted to wearing blackface.  The #2 official, Lt. Gov. Fairfax, who is black, is accused of rape.  It now looks like the two blackface white guys will hang on to office and the black guy accused of sexual assault will be removed.

Virginia Lt. Governor's accusers willing to testify at impeachment proceedings, attorneys say.  The two women accusing Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault said they would be willing to testify at possible impeachment proceedings against the Democrat.  Attorneys for Vanessa Tyson and Meredith Watson released statements Saturday [2/9/2019] saying the women would testify against Fairfax, who has faced calls from members of his own party to resign.

The Ku Klux Krats.  The racist antics of Virginia governor Ralph Northam ought not to surprise anyone.  The Democratic Party has long been marinated in racist thinking. [...] The Democratic Party was even more deeply committed to racism against blacks, and the Ku Klux Klan was simply the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party, which drove Republicans out of the South and compelled blacks to join the Democratic Party, where they were denied the right to vote in primaries or participate in caucuses to choose the Democrat nominee for offices.  Blacks who gave in to this terrorism and became Democrats were said by disgusted black women to be "crossing the Jordan" and were referred to as "Uncle Tom," which is how that derogatory name from Uncle Tom's Cabin entered the American political lexicon.

'Monster' that Dems created at Kavanaugh hearings will 'devour them' with Fairfax allegations:  Marc Thiessen.  As Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax fights off allegations of sexual assault, American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Marc Thiessen insisted Friday that those accusations fail to match the allegations made last year against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.  The ongoing turmoil in Virginia took yet another turn Friday when Meredith Watson accused Fairfax of rape when they both attended Duke University in 2000.

Impeachment ahead for Fairfax if he doesn't resign by Monday, Virginia Democrat warns.  Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax was faced with the threat of impeachment proceedings just hours after a second woman accused the Democrat of sexual assault.  Patrick Hope, a fellow Democrat and member of the Virginia House of Delegates, announced Friday [2/8/2019] that he intends to introduce articles of impeachment against Fairfax unless he resigns by Monday [2/11/2019].  "On Monday, I will be introducing articles of impeachment for Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax if he has not resigned before then," Hope wrote on Twitter.

Democrats mute calls for Va. resignations with power at risk.  Prominent Democrats came down hard on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam after he apologized for a racist photo.  But they were quieter as two more scandals — one involving race, another a sexual assault allegation — rocked Virginia's statehouse.

Florida Commission Finds Probable Cause to Investigate Gillum for Ethics Violations.  A Florida ethics commission announced Friday [1/25/2019] that there is sufficient evidence to proceed with an investigation into former Tallahassee mayor and Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum's decision to accept gifts while on a trip with a local lobbyist in 2016. [...] Erwin Jackson, the Tallahassee businessman who filed the complaint against Gillum, told reporters that the commission found probable cause to investigate five out of six possible ethics violations, according to the Tampa Bay Times.

Democrat Abigail Spanberger Worked at 'Terror High,' Which Promoted Violence Against Non-Muslims.  Democrat Abigail Spanberger, running against Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) in Virginia's Seventh District, worked at a Saudi Arabia-owned school known as "terror high," which had a curriculum that included the promotion of violence against non-Muslims.  Spanberger worked at the Islamic Saudi Academy, funded by the government of Saudi Arabia, between 2002 and 2003 after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Andrew Gillum's Family Under Investigation; May Have Engaged in Voter Fraud.  Less than a year before gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum publicly denounced President Donald Trump's efforts to investigate the threat of voter fraud, Gillum's brother, Marcus Gillum, voted in the 2016 general election in Tallahassee, Florida while a resident of Chicago, Illinois.  According to Florida law, you must be a legal resident in Florida to vote in elections.  Casting an illegal vote in Florida is a third-degree felony.

The Democrats' Nomination Contest Promises Great Fun for Conservatives.  This may be the election cycle where we watch identity politics destroy itself live on stage. [...] The Democrats' dramatis personae is a veritable list of timebombs ready to explode and offend the hypersensitive liberal dispensation.  The list of charges:  Joe Biden's rakish hands; Beto O'Rourke's campaign staffer's rape accusation; Elizabeth Warren's appropriation of a minority identity; the recently uncovered sexual harassment settlement of one of Kamala Harris's top aides; multiple sexual harassment allegations on Bernie Sanders's 2016 campaign; Cory Booker admitting to once groping a blotto girl; Kirsten Gillibrand railroading Al Franken out of the Senate; Julián Castro palming off delinquent mortgages to Wall Street hedge funds.  Then there's any Democrat who did so much as accept a handshake from Bill Clinton.  No Democrats who wants to win are going to ignore the baggage strapped to their competitors, especially when the TV cameras are rolling.

Gillette Conveniently Overlooked the Real Toxic Masculinity.  Start with a former president, Bill Clinton, credibly accused of rape, impeached over perjury about sexual harassment, and carrying on an affair with a young White House intern.  Or his predecessor John Kennedy, with a string of affairs while president.  Perfect examples of the "sexual aggression" in the Urban Dictionary definition.  Across town in Congress we have former Senator Al Franken, caught on film moving to grope a sleeping comely female.  John Conyers resigned after reports surfaced of him attending staff meetings in his underwear.  Former Congressman Anthony Weiner was chatting and sending selfies of his private parts to an underage girl, using the same laptop which contained thousands of classified emails belonging to his wife's boss, the Secretary of State.  Keith Ellison, former Congressman, now Minnesota's Attorney General, was credibly accused of beating up his ex-girlfriend.

The Democrats' Blueprint for Impeachment.  Democrats colluding with Russians is an old story, though the Russians have usually been communists and I guess you would have expected Democrats to collude with communists in years gone by. [...] More recently, a Democratic president was caught on a live mike telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that "I'll have more flexibility after the election" to handle contentious issues such as missile defense.  Is this not collusion?  But President Obama was not telling a joke.  He was serious.

Twenty Things You Probably Didn't Know about Kamala Harris.  [#17] Late last year, Los Angeles city officials asked why "armed, plain-clothes LAPD officers were dispatched to California cities outside of Los Angeles at least a dozen times to provide security for U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris at public events."  LAPD officers traveled with Harris to San Francisco, Sacramento, Fresno, and San Diego.  Los Angeles taxpayers covered about $28,000 of the cost for airline tickets, hotel stays, car rentals, and meals in an arrangement that retired law-enforcement officers called "unprecedented."

Here Are The Six Most Corrupt Congressmen Of 2018, According To A Watchdog Group.  A conservative-leaning watchdog group says House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are the biggest congressional scofflaws of 2018, for their anemic handling of the settlement slush fund that used an unlimited pot of taxpayer money to pay off congressional staff in exchange for signing legal papers barring them from taking public their claims of sexual harassment and other mistreatment by their congressional employers.  Congress members briefly claimed to be shocked at the victim-gagging slush fund when the media reported on it, but in reality, members of both parties in the House's leadership oversaw it for years.

Meet The Candidate Suing Debbie Wasserman-Schultz For Election Fraud.  Tim Canova, the independent challenger to Debbie Wasserman-Schultz in her 2018 re-election race in Florida, is suing the former DNC chairwoman for election fraud.  Canova joins us to discuss the evidence that he has compiled that the vote count was rigged, and talks about what the future might hold for Broward County.  One thing is clear:  Tim Canova is a brave man.

Why won't the AG even look into Al Sharpton's latest dubious deal?  Why isn't state Attorney General Barbara Underwood looking into that bizarre $531,000 payment to the Rev. Al Sharpton by his own nonprofit for his "life story"?  Tax and film-industry experts contacted by The [New York] Post all raised their eyebrows after learning the details.  And Sharpton's long history of dubious fiscal management and hefty tax liens — not to mention two mysterious fires that conveniently consumed his financial records — doesn't exactly inspire confidence that all this is on the up and up.

Reveal the Congressional Hush Fund Hypocrites.  Which is worse: candidate, businessman, and then still private citizen Donald Trump using his own money to make what Hillary Clinton might call "bimbo eruptions" go away to protect his brand and himself from personal embarrassment, or Congress using taxpayer money in a slush fund to pay off those sexually harassed by sitting officeholders?

Dem Rep. Paid Sister's Firm Nearly $200,000 From Campaign Funds During Midterms.  A Democratic representative disbursed nearly $200,000 from his campaign funds to a law firm that is owned by his sister throughout the 2018 election cycle, according to a review of Federal Election Commission filings.  Rep. William Lacy Clay Jr. (D., Mo.) made the payments from his campaign committee, Clay Jr. for Congress, to the Law Office of Michelle C. Clay, LLC, a law firm owned by his sister, Michelle, that does not have a website and whose address appears to be a residential home in Silver Spring, Md., just outside of Washington, D.C.  The first payment to the firm this past cycle was in the amount of $9,000 and was made on Jan. 4, 2017, for professional services fees including fundraising and compliance.  In addition to the fundraising and compliance services, the payments to Michelle Clay's firm were marked for community organizing, legal counsel, and record keeping.

Kamala Harris, taking 'I don't recall' to new heights.  MeToo loudmouth and Bay Area Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris of California has gotten herself into yet another scrap, this one claiming she knew nothing about a $400,000 payoff for a sexual harassment case brought on by one of her top staffers.  How very ironic, given how she stuck it to spotless Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh over sex harassment phony claims during his confirmation hearings and tried to make herself the figurehead for being sterling tough against sex harassment.  The hypocrisy is thick.

Harris: Totally unaware of $400K settlement for harassment, retaliation involving longtime senior staffer?  Kamala Harris lost a key aide yesterday, but may have more problems retaining her credibility.  Larry Wallace worked for Harris during her time as California's attorney general as well as in her Senate office as a senior advisor.  Between those two jobs, his assistant filed a complaint over sexual harassment and retaliation for Wallace's actions during the transition.  The state of California quietly paid $400,000 to settle the lawsuit, but it didn't stay quiet permanently.  The Sacramento Bee reported it yesterday afternoon [12/5/2018].

Top Kamala Harris Aide Resigns After $400K Harassment Settlement Surfaces.  A senior adviser for Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) reportedly resigned on Wednesday evening [12/5/2018] after the Sacramento Bee "inquired about a $400,000 harassment and retaliation settlement resulting from his time working for Harris at the California Department of Justice."  Larry Wallace, the top Harris staffer who resigned, reportedly "served as the director of the Division of Law Enforcement" at the California Department of Justice while Harris was the Golden State's attorney general in 2016.  Harris reportedly then hired Wallace to be a senior adviser in her Sacramento Senate office.

Another Turbulent Week with Some Big Mysteries.  While the President was out of the country the FBI raided the office of Chicago Alderman Ed Burke, a guy who controlled the city and state finances.  The Feds ordered everyone to leave, placed brown paper over the doors and went through the files in Burke's office.  Is this Trump striking back?  Is Obama's cover coming undone?  The Chicago field office offered no comment.  It's not clear they were even in the loop respecting this raid.

Federal agents show up at Ald. Ed Burke's City Hall office, paper over windows.  Federal agents showed up unannounced at the City Hall office of Finance Committee Chairman Ed Burke, kicked everyone out and papered over the windows Thursday morning.  The exact nature of their visit was not known, but Ald. Burke (14th) has dodged dozens of federal investigations over five decades in Chicago politics.  A source told the Sun-Times the raids were in response to new allegations, and not prompted by any past controversies that have swirled around Burke.

Dem wanting social media scrutiny for gun-license applicants has violent, tax-delinquent past: reports.  Be careful what you tweet, if you hope to someday lawfully own a firearm in New York state.  A Democratic state lawmaker from Brooklyn has submitted a bill calling for all gun-license applicants to let the government review their social media posts going back three years and their internet searches going back one year.  Investigators would then look "any good cause for the denial of a license," such as racial slurs, threats of violence and terrorism-related posts.  But the bill's sponsor, state Sen. Kevin Parker, has a history of his own legal skirmishes.

Top California Democrat takes leave of absence amid inquiry into sexual misconduct allegations.  The California Democratic Party announced Monday [11/26/2018] that chairman Eric Bauman will take a leave of absence until an outside investigation concludes examining allegations of sexual misconduct against him.  The decision was made after Bauman used the "the holiday weekend to consider the most constructive path forward for the work of the California Democratic Party," according to California Democratic Party spokesperson Mike Roth.

The New Crooked Congressional Black Caucus.  In the last decade, every single House Democrat sent to prison for financial crimes was a Congressional Black Caucus member.  In the last twenty years, it's been over 80%.  After the midterms, the CBC has grown past a record 50 members.  But that doesn't mean it's getting better.  Power makes it worse.  Rep. Ilhan Omar is the most famous freshman member of the CBC in the 116th Congress.  The CBC's PAC boasted that she is "the first Somali-American and first Muslim woman elected to Congress".  She's also the first member of Congress who had to deny being married to her brother.  As historical "firsts" go, alleged incest in the House is far more historic than being an immigrant from a failed state and then crawling into Congress on the strength of the Ellison voters in Little Mogadishu.  Omar has denied being married to her brother, even though evidence suggests that she was.  A complaint was even filed accusing Omar of abusing taxpayer money to divorce her own brother.

Cindy Hyde-Smith and the Media Lynch Mob.  Every election cycle the legacy media accuse any and all southern Republicans of reviving Jim Crow, while studiously ignoring the inconvenient fact that it was the Democrats who presided over the era of racial segregation.  During the recent midterms, for example, they dubbed Illinois native Rick Scott, "Florida's Jim Crow governor."  In Georgia, they claimed without evidence that GOP gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp had suppressed the black vote while secretary of state.  And now the media lynch mob has gone to Mississippi, where they hope to string up GOP Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith for transparently meritless and frivolous charges.  Hyde-Smith was Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce when appointed last March by Governor Phil Bryant to replace ailing U.S. Senator Thad Cochran.  She is now defending that seat against Clinton crony Mike Espy.  The media have devoted little coverage to Espy's ouster for corruption from his position as Agriculture Secretary, and even less to his lobbying efforts on behalf of war criminal Laurent Gbagbo.  They have found plenty of space for a 1975 photo in Hyde-Smith's high school year book, her visit to a Mississippi historical site, and a semi-audible video in which she allegedly discusses voter suppression.

Former Senior Ohio Lawmaker Arrested for Murder of His Estranged Wife, Media Plays 'Guess the Political Party'.  A former senior Ohio lawmaker who had served as assistant minority whip in the Ohio legislature was arrested this past weekend for the murder of his estranged wife.  He had previously served nine months in state prison for assaulting her in 2014 while a common pleas judge in Cuyahoga County — a position he had been appointed to by then-Gov. Ted Strickland (D).  But would you ever know that Lance Mason was a Democrat?  Not if you relied on the media reporting.

Democrat Losers:  Undignified and Dangerous.  For Democrats like [Florida Senator Bill] Nelson, the Kennedy era represents the good old days when Republicans were disinclined to draw attention to Democrat fraud.  When, for example, Kennedy "won" the 1960 presidential election with a little extra help from corrupt Illinois and Texas Democrats, the Republican who actually received the most legitimate votes refused to contest his loss because it would have undermined voter confidence in the system.  That gentleman, his name was Nixon, was by no means perfect.  He did, however, understand that some things are more important than winning or losing.

Crooks And Communists Fight to Lead House Democratic Caucus.  The chair of the Democratic Caucus is one of those influential positions that nobody thinks twice about.  In 2016, Rep. Linda Sanchez got to be the vice-chair of the Democratic Caucus and her appointment was touted as an identity politics first.  To get the job, Rep. Sanchez had to beat out Rep. Barbara Lee, an admirer of murderous Communist dictator Fidel Castro.  And Sanchez only beat out Lee by two votes.  Together with sister, Loretta Sanchez, who had warned, "the Vietnamese and the Republicans are... trying to take this seat", the Sanchez sisters were also the only disgraceful sister duo in the House.  Rep. Sanchez had set her sights on serving as the chair of the Democratic Caucus, a position formerly held by luminaries like Senator Bob Menendez, Rep. John Larson, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and Dan Rostenkowski, sent to prison for mail fraud.  But then her husband was indicted on corruption charges.  Sanchez announced that she was dropping out of the contest to due to "an unexpected family matter."

Never Forget:  Whistleblower Investigating Fraud in Broward County Shot Himself in the Head — But No Gun Was Found.  A federal prosecutor's body was discovered on a Hollywood, Florida beach in May 2017.  Beranton J. Whisenant, Jr. was handling several visa and passport fraud cases in Debbie Wasserman Schultz's district in Broward County at the time of his death.

Dead Men Tell No Tales in Broward County: 3 Recent Whistleblowers Who Ended Up DEAD.  Controversies arise regularly in Debbie Wasserman Schultz's 23rd district and those who seek justice sometimes meet an untimely demise.  Below are the stories of 3 men who dared challenge the establishment and soon after paid with their lives.

When People Wonder Why Broward County, Florida Is Allowed To Be So Corrupt Show Them This.  More and more are asking why the Broward County Elections Office, which has amassed numerous legal rulings against them both past and present, is allowed to continue largely unimpeded by any real oversight.  Well, there are places in the United States where government corruption is part of a community's DNA:  Detroit, Chicago, Austin, Sacramento, Baltimore, etc., and yes, Broward County, Florida.  All of these examples and more are afforded protection from on high from the masters of the anti-American Progressive movement so long as they do one thing — help Democrats to win elections.

Rep. Linda Sanchez's husband indicted for corruption.  The U.S. attorney in New Haven, Connecticut announced that a federal grand jury has returned two indictments charging five people with the theft of federal funds.  One if the individuals charged is James Sullivan, who is married to California Democratic Rep. Linda Sanchez.  According to a government release, the U.S. attorney alleges that the defendants conspired to misuse an account that held funds provided by federal grants to the Connecticut Municipal Electric Energy Corporation (CMEEC), a public corporation that allows municipal electric utilities in Connecticut to provide electricity.

Sen. Menendez wins re-election amid corruption allegations.  New Jersey voters held their noses Tuesday [11/6/2018] and re-elected corruption-plagued Democratic US Sen. Bob Menendez.  In one of the most brutal and closely watched races of the season, Menendez beat out retired millionaire pharma exec and former Trump delegate Bob Hugin, who had faced an uphill battle for the seat despite his foe's ethically challenged past.  The state has not elected a Republican to the Senate since 1972.

Will the DOJ Go After the Beto Campaign for Diverting Campaign Funds to the Caravan?  The Department of Justice has developed a reputation for targeting Republican politicians through election laws.  Republicans are often sent to prison, while Democrats frequently get nothing more than a fine.  Even though a Republican president is in power, with his appointee Jeff Sessions heading up the DOJ, the Deep State is entrenched in the agency, continuing to target Republicans.  But this is finally all coming to light, as Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team zealously goes after those connected to President Trump.  Last week, Project Veritas caught staffers on the campaign of Beto O'Rourke, who is running against Ted Cruz for Senate, on video saying the campaign spent money on supplies for the caravan of people from Central America headed to the U.S.  This is a clear violation of law.  But will the campaign be prosecuted?

Secretary of State's office:  Investigation underway into failed hack by Democratic Party of Georgia.  The Georgia Secretary of State's Office says it is investigating a failed attempt to hack the state's voter registration system by the Democratic Party of Georgia, the office said in a news release.  The state has not said what evidence they have that a hack occurred.  "While we cannot comment on the specifics of an ongoing investigation, I can confirm that the Democratic Party of Georgia is under investigation for possible cyber crimes," said secretary of state office press secretary Candice Broce.  "We can also confirm that no personal data was breached and our system remains secure."

Beto O'Rourke's Campaign Self-Destructs.  In just the last three weeks, Democratic candidates for office, such as Tennessee Senate candidate Phil Bredesen, Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, Arizona Senate candidate Krysten Sinema, Florida Governor candidate Andrew Gillum, Virginia House candidate Abigail Spanberger, had undercover journalists who were embedded within their campaigns release highly damaging videos.  The videos show campaign staff and sometimes the candidates themselves lying about their real positions on key issues, openly discussing how they have to lie about their progressive views in order to trick voters into supporting them.  And now with it's latest video expose, Project Veritas has uncovered potentially illegal activity as well as the usual politically motivated lies.  On the night of Thursday, Nov. 1, O'Keefe posted a new video made by one of his undercover reporters that allegedly showed top staff members of the O'Rourke campaign discussing using donated campaign funds to aid recently arrived illegal migrants from Honduras and hiding it from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) by claiming the money went to fund campaign Halloween events and other expenses.

New Jersey should vote out corrupt Menendez.  For the first time since 1972, New Jersey Republicans find themselves with a real chance to elect a US senator — and rightly so, since incumbent Bob Menendez stands exposed as blatantly corrupt.  Which is why The Post is happy to endorses GOP challenger Bob Hugin.  Hugin probably wouldn't stand much chance in deep-blue Jersey.  But Menendez has richly earned his massive unpopularity with Garden State voters.  Hugin promises New Jersey "a senator we can be proud of."  And Menendez is anything but that — simply put, he's an embarrassment.

Say no to re-electing crooks.  For a liberal Democrat and a conservative Republican, Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez and New York Rep. Chris Collins have a lot in common — namely, huge ethical problems that they're hoping the voters will ignore for the sake of ideology.  Menendez's corruption is indisputable:  He took six-figures gifts and donations from his "friend," Dr. Salomon Melgen — and in exchange intervened with federal regulators who were trying to stop Melgen's Medicare fraud.  He also arranged visas for a host of the doctor's "girlfriends."

Democrat Andrew Gillum Billed FBI Undercover Agent $4,386 For Fundraiser, Never Disclosed In Finance Reports.  The Andrew Gillum campaign continues to implode, now with reports that he failed to disclose $4,386 of an "in kind contribution" made by an undercover FBI agent who had been investigating the campaign.  Campaign finance laws require all candidates to report all campaign contributions and expenditures to be listed with the state disclosure portal.  While there's usually a 30 day window to file these reports, the FBI agent's contribution is from 2016.

Records show FBI agents gave Andrew Gillum tickets to 'Hamilton' in 2016.  Undercover FBI agents paid for Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum's hotel room and his ticket to the Broadway musical Hamilton during a 2016 trip to New York City, according to a bombshell trove of records that raises new questions two weeks before the Nov. 6 election for Florida governor.  Among the records released Tuesday [10/23/2018]:  photos, a video and dozens of text messages between Gillum, who is the Democratic nominee for governor, former lobbyist Adam Corey and an undercover FBI agent.  They appear to contradict Gillum's explanation for the expenses, which have been made an major issue by his Republican rival, Ron DeSantis.  Gillum's campaign has maintained — and continued to do so Tuesday after the records were released — that Gillum's brother, Marcus, handed him the ticket the night of the show.  But text messages at the time of the trip show Gillum was told the tickets came from "Mike Miller," an FBI agent looking into city corruption who was posing as a developer.

Where does Andrew Gillum go from here?  Tuesday's [10/23/2018] release of private emails and text messages by a former friend detailing the mayor's trips to Central America with lobbyists and to New York with federal investigators couldn't have come at a worse time for Gillum.

Senator Cory Booker Accused of Sexual Assault by Gay Man.  A gay man who describes himself as a liberal Democrat is accusing New Jersey Senator Cory Booker of sexually assaulting him in 2014.  Booker is considered a leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.  The man, who wishes to remain anonymous for now, penned a lengthy open letter that was posted on Twitter.  In the letter he describes the assault that occurred in a bathroom following a meeting at his workplace, where the two met.

Victim Details Accusations of Sexual Assault by U.S. Senator Corey Booker.  In a rather remarkable and detailed anonymous posting on social media a man details his encounter with New Jersey Senator Corey Booker, and how Booker sexually assaulted him in a restroom.  According to the victim he reached out to #MeToo champion Ronan Farrow who has done little — so far — to support him.

Andrew Gillum's Family Under Investigation; May Have Engaged in Voter Fraud.  Less than a year before gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum publicly denounced President Donald Trump's efforts to investigate the threat of voter fraud, Gillum's brother, Marcus Gillum, voted in the 2016 general election in Tallahassee, Florida while a resident of Chicago, Illinois.  According to Florida law, you must be a legal resident in Florida to vote in elections.  Casting an illegal vote in Florida is a third-degree felony.

Texas Democrats [are] asking non-citizens to vote.  The Public Interest Legal Foundation has alerted the Justice Department to a gambit by Texas Democrats to get non-citizens to vote.  The state party sent out a voter registration form asking non-citizens to sign up, with the citizenship box already checked "yes." [...] This is an open invitation for voter fraud on a large scale, and the way the Democrats went about it defies belief: [...] How many other state Democratic Parties send out similar requests to non-citizens and haven't been caught?  Are we to believe that one party in one state came up with this idea all on its own?

Texas Dems ask noncitizens to register to vote, send applications with citizenship box pre-checked.  The Texas Democratic Party asked non-citizens to register to vote, sending out applications to immigrants with the box citizenship already checked "Yes," according to new complaints filed Thursday asking prosecutors to see what laws may have been broken.  The Public Interest Legal Foundation alerted district attorneys and the federal Justice Department to the pre-checked applications, and also included a signed affidavit from a man who said some of his relatives, who aren't citizens, received the mailing.  "This is how the Texas Democratic Party is inviting foreign influence in an election in a federal election cycle," said Logan Churchwell, spokesman for the PILF, a group that's made its mark policing states' voter registration practices.

McCaskill Scandal.  How about the scandal involving Sen. Claire McCaskill's husband, who's been accused of using a federal program intended to help the poor to enrich himself in the 10 years since McCaskill joined the Senate?  McCaskill is in a tight race in Missouri against challenger Josh Hawley, in a year when control of the Senate is up for grabs.  So, a juicy scandal like this would normally be irresistible to reporters.  Except McCaskill is a Democrat.  And as the MRC found, this story got zero coverage on the big three networks.  Then there's the scandal involving a former staffer for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who was arrested and charged with several felonies, after he disclosed personal information on Republican Senators on the Judiciary Committee during the Kavanaugh hearings.  The networks completely ignored this story.

Manchin's luxury yacht may be investigated.  The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust asked the Senate ethics committee to investigate Democratic Senator Joe Manchin for failing to disclose his ownership of a limited liability company that holds a $700,000 yacht he lives on while he is in Washington.  If the committee takes up the complaint, Manchin will be the first West Virginian in Congress to be investigated for ethics violations in eight years.

More Bribery:  Kamala Harris hands $400,000 to Heidi Heitkamp.  Democratic senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota went against her own voters' sentiment, which supported Judge Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court by about 60%; voted against the man in a bid to sink his confirmation; and suddenly found herself with a flood of campaign cash, courtesy of Sen. Kamala Harris, who raised her a $400,000 payday.

Oregon Governor Busted By Undercover Video.  Oregon Democrat Governor Kate Brown's Facebook page is claiming that the liberal administrator's former campaign manager is "not a credible source," following an undercover video released by Project Veritas Action Fund, exposing alleged graft and corruption in her office.  Michael Kolenc ran Brown's campaign in 2016, and claimed criminal acts against her.  Conservative Daily Post asked the Governor's staff to confirm that 'unofficial comments' on the Facebook page asserting that her former campaign manager is "not a reliable source" is the only defense the Governor is offering, to the allegations which could cost her the election or her freedom.  There was no response at first, but they finally added that they 'couldn't respond.'  Kolenc was captured on tape candidly discussing his relationship with the Governor's office.  The first potential violation of state law he mentioned was focused on the "direction and use of government personnel," as reported by Veritas.

Is there even a single decent Democrat in Congress?  Now we know for sure.  There is not a single decent person among the Democrats in Congress.  Because not one Democrat has had the fortitude to stand up and admit that what they are doing to Judge Brett Kavanaugh is obscene and grossly indecent, we must admit that there is not one of them with the moral sense to know that destroying a man for politics is wrong.  It's not only wrong, but depraved.  Not one Democrat member of the Senate, not one in the House.  Those on the Judiciary Committee are particularly venal.  Not one among the 95% of the leftist media has come to Kavanaugh's defense.  Instead, they too are on a mission to ruin his life and keep him off the Supreme Court.  They do not report the many inconsistencies in Christine Blasey Ford's vague account of her alleged encounter that effectively render it a lie.  NBC never even mentioned Rachel Mitchell's report because it so seriously undermines Ford's narrative.  It is doubtful there ever was such an incident.

People are starting to recall that time Chuck Schumer called a flight attendant a [nasty name].  Before Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer transformed into a #BelieveAllWomen activist who believes that anyone who questions a woman's claims — no matter how unsubstantiated those claims might be — is a sexist and misogynist, he used to be, well, an actual sexist and misogynist.  Case in point:  Guess how Schumer responded nine years ago when a U.S. Airways flight attendant politely asked him and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to discontinue their phone calls so the flight could take off.

Report: The Dem Staffer Arrested Doxxing Republican Senators Wasn't An Intern.  A Democratic staffer arrested last week on charges that he revealed the personal information of several Republican Senate Judiciary Committee members was not an "intern" for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), as originally reported.  The 27-year-old career staffer, Jackson Cosko, was, instead, reportedly a "fellow" paid by an "outside institution" who served as a primary adviser in Lee's Congressional office.  According to the Tennessee Star, "[w]hile [Lee] claims Cosko was an 'unpaid intern' in her office, the Washington Post reports that Cosko was actually a 'fellow.'  This was confirmed by Cosko's lawyer, who said his client was a 'fellow' in Jackson-Lee's office and that he was being paid by an 'outside institution.'"

Capitol Police Arrest 27-Year-Old Democrat Staffer Jackson Cosko For Doxxing 3 GOP Senators.  Capitol Police arrested v27-year-old Jackson Cosko of DC for "allegedly posted private, identifying information (doxxing) about one or more United States Senators."  Many Republicans on the Senate Judiciary had their home addresses and phone numbers published on their Wikipedia pages last Thursday [10/4/2018].  Shortly after Lindsey Graham went off on Senate Democrats for destroying Kavanaugh's life in order to derail his confirmation, Republicans were doxxed.  The victims included Republican Senators Mike Lee, Orrin Hatch of Utah and Lindsey Graham, reported the Washington Times.

Intern for Democratic congresswoman arrested for 'doxxing' GOP senators.  An intern for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, has been arrested for posting personal information of Republican senators on the Internet, Capitol Police said Wednesday [10/3/2018].  Jackson Cosko, 27, faces charges of making public restricted personal information; witness tampering; threats in interstate communications; unauthorized access of a government computer; identity theft; second-degree burglary; and unlawful entry.

Sheila Jackson Lee's Intern Arrested For Posting GOP Senators Private Info Online.  The Congressional intern that was behind the doxxing of several GOP Senators has been revealed.  And looky-looky, it was a long-time Democrat intern.  Who could have guessed?  Jackson Cosko, 27, an unpaid intern for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), has been hit with several charges relating to the publishing of private information like home addresses and phone numbers on the Wikipedia pages of three Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senators Lindsey 'Actually Spartacus' Graham (R-SC), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Orrin Hatch (R-UT). It is unclear if Cosko was involved in revealing the information of all the Senators, but the charges are related to 'at least one' of them.

Cosko Is Not An Unpaid Intern.  Capitol Police on October 3 arrested 27-year old congressional staffer Jackson Cosko for posting on Wikipedia the private addresses of three members of the Senate Judiciary Committee — what's known as "doxxing" (a word derived from the shorthand for "document").  Cosko is facing serious charges that include illegally posting private information of public figures, witness tampering, threats, identity theft, and unlawful entry.  In the mainstream media, Cosko is being portrayed as a hapless overzealous intern who didn't even have the smarts to cover up his criminal act.  His former boss — Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas) has denied she knew anything about Cosko's activities.  In a press conference held this week, Jackson-Lee explained that she fired Cosko and is cooperating with officials investigating the crimes. (Interestingly, cameras recorded Jackson-Lee passing an envelope to Christine Blasey Ford's lawyer just before her testimony got underway.)

Staffer who 'doxed' GOP senators faces nearly 50 years in federal prison.  The former Democratic congressional staffer who posted personal information about Republican senators online faces nearly 50 years in prison.  Jackson Cosko, a 27-year-old Washington, D.C., resident, was arrested Wednesday [10/3/2018] by U.S. Capitol Police when he was caught sneaking into the offices of Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., after 10 p.m.  Tuesday and using an aide's computer and log-in.  He was charged with five federal offenses: making public restricted personal information, making threats in interstate commerce, unauthorized access of a government computer, identity theft, and witness tampering.

Police: Staffer accused of 'doxxing' senators caught after sneaking into Sen. Maggie Hassan's office.  Jackson Cosko, the Democratic staffer accused of "doxxing" Republican senators during the Kavanaugh confirmation fight, was caught after he sneaked into a Senate Democrat's office earlier this week and tried to use one of their computers, police said in an affidavit made public Thursday [10/4/2018].  Mr. Cosko, 27, now stands accused of a number of federal and local crimes after police say he posted personal addresses and telephone numbers of senators to their Wikipedia pages over the last couple of weeks.  He appeared for an initial hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., and was ordered detained until a hearing Tuesday.

Kavanaugh Drank Beer?  He Can't Hold a Candle to Obama's Pot and Cocaine Use.  While liberals express outrage over the fact that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh drank beer — reportedly sometimes to excess — in high school and college, they and the leftist media have largely ignored the extensive partying of former President Barack Obama, who has confessed to heavy pot smoking and cocaine use in high school and college.  Given the drinking limits being set retroactively for Kavanaugh by his leftist critics and arguments therefrom that he is not suited for the high court, it is reasonable to conclude that Barack Obama's extensive illegal drug use would preclude him from a seat on the Supreme Court, or on any federal bench.  Revelations of Obama's partying and drug use are presented in the book Dreams From My Father:  A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama and in the New York Times bestseller Rising Star:  The Making of Barack Obama by Pulitzer Prize-winning author David J. Garrow.

Fight Together or Fall Apart.  [Scroll down]  The Democrats could not defeat Brett Kavanaugh on the merits, because for all practical purposes he is unimpeachable as a candidate, so they must manufacture fake accusations and go back to his high school years to divine a weakness of character not inherent in his history but magically ascertainable from the fact that he likes beer and acted as a teenager when he was a teenager.  The ones who climb the wall of justice and probity to ascertain Kavanaugh's fate include:  A woman who had a Chinese spy working for her for twenty years; a man who lied about serving in Vietnam; a guy who readily admits that at 17, he committed the very same crime they collectively were accusing Kavanaugh of (and who has a make-believe friend named T-Bone; a woman who began her political career by having an affair with Willie Brown; and a woman who, echoing rape apologists of the past, thinks men should "shut up" and take it.  Yet, Feinstein, Blumenthal, Booker, and Harris serve on the Senate Judiciary Committee with little appreciation for irony and a total lack of shame.  The rest of the party is no better; the documented offenses too many to list.

Beto O'Rourke Will Not Get the Kavanaugh Treatment.  We await the next shoe to drop in the Judge Kavanaugh saga.  Rest assured that if there's a rumor that, in third grade, young Brett yanked on the ponytails of the girl in the second row (war on women!), the New York Times, NBC News, and phalanxes of their journalistic colleagues will be all over it.  Meanwhile, Representative Beto O'Rourke had a pair of felony arrests in his mid-to-late 20s, including a reckless drunk-driving incident in which he crashed into a car and allegedly tried to flee from the scene.  The cases appear to have mysteriously disappeared without serious prosecution, notwithstanding that O'Rourke continues to deny basic facts outlined in at least one police report.  So, what really happened?  We don't know.  See, Representative O'Rourke is a Democrat.  Not just that.  O'Rourke is the Democrat running for a Senate seat against Ted Cruz, the Republican incumbent who is a favorite of grass-roots conservatives.

Beto O'Rourke's false claim that he did not try to leave the scene of a DWI.  During a debate with his rival, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), O'Rourke was asked pointblank about a drunk-driving incident when he was 26 years old:  Did he try to leave the scene of the accident?  The House Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News had recently obtained the police reports of the incident and reported he had done so. [...] O'Rourke's assertion that he did not try to leave the scene of the accident, however, is disputed by the police records.  So that's worthy of a fact check.

Beto O'Rourke Denies Trying to Flee Scene of Drunken Car Crash, Challenging Police Reports.  Democratic Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke during Friday night's debate denied trying to flee the scene of a 1998 drunken car crash, despite police reports to the contrary.  Police reports published by the Houston Chronicle on Aug. 30 show that the witness who called 9-1-1 told officers that O'Rourke "attempted to leave the scene" after losing control of his car and hitting a truck.  The witness "then turned on his over head lights to warn oncoming traffic and to try to get [O'Rourke] to stop," the responding officer wrote.  O'Rourke, who is running against Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, was asked about the Chronicle's report during the debate at Southern Methodist University.

Ellison grilled over abuse allegations in Minnesota AG debate.  Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison was grilled Friday [9/21/2018] during a televised debate over allegations of domestic abuse, an issue that has dogged his run for Minnesota attorney general despite drawing scant national coverage.  Republican candidate Doug Wardlow cited the accounts by Amy Alexander and Karen Monahan, both of whom have accused Mr. Ellison of becoming physical after losing his temper, which he has denied.  "I think two credible, strong allegations of domestic abuse is enough," said Mr. Wardlow, prompting Mr. Ellison to counter, "There's not two.  There's zero."

Corruption Junction — Desperation Amid Democrat Members of The Intelligence "Gang of Eight".  I've probably reviewed thousands of congressional letters, and intelligence committee letters from oversight, along with even more executive agency responses.  In fact, CTH has shared hundreds of outlines covering granular details within many of the internal memos and correspondences.  However, I have never seen anything like this before.  The combination of arrogance, hubris and desperation within a letter from the four Democrats on the intelligence oversight Gang of Eight, is palpable even in text format.  Legislative branch members:  Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff and Mark Warner write a letter today [9/18/2018] to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, and FBI Director Christopher Wray, demanding the executive branch cabinet members withhold information from the White House.

Democrats, Kavanaugh, and 'The End of Civilization'.  Back in 1969, Senator Kennedy had recklessly caused the death of a young woman, not his wife, by driving her off a rickety bridge on Chappaquiddick Island as they sped away from a booze-soaked bacchanal.  Kennedy managed to save himself by swimming to safety.  He then abandoned the scene for hours, failing to alert police and rescue workers while Mary Jo Kopechne, submerged in the car, eventually drowned.  Ms. Kopechne did not live to see "Me Too."  That "movement," in which the Left is front and center, was not forged until long after leftists had raised the notoriously lecherous Kennedy to "Lion of the Senate" status.  Indeed, it was not forged until 20 years after Democrats, prominently including women's-rights advocates, closed ranks around President Bill Clinton, Kennedy's equally lascivious political ally.  According to the victim's credible accusation, Clinton had raped Juanita Broaddrick in 1978.  That was before Brett Kavanaugh could even have pondered hitting underage beer parties.  Clinton, at the time, was the 32-year-old attorney general of Arkansas.

Broaddrick: FBI Probe Ford Allegation?  Then 'Investigate My Rape Allegations' Against Clinton.  Commenting on Christine Blasey Ford's allegation that Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her at a beer party some 36 years ago and that the FBI must investigate the matter now before she will testify about the supposed incident, Juanita Broaddrick tweeted that if the FBI goes back that far then it must also "investigate my RAPE allegations against Bill Clinton, too."  "If you want the FBI to go back that far @HillaryClinton @MSNBC to investigate Ford's allegations .... let's investigate my RAPE allegations against Bill Clinton, too.  Seems only fair," Broaddrick tweeted on Sept. 18.  Juanita Broaddrick, a retired nursing home administrator, has long maintained that Bill Clinton, when he was the Arkansas Attorney General, raped her — a "forcible, brutal rape" — in a hotel room in Little Rock, Ark., on April 25, 1978.  At the time, Broaddrick was 35, Clinton was 31.

The left has dictated, dominated our culture for a generation — time's up.  With Judge Kavanaugh, the left has hit a new low.  They want Sen. Susan Collins of Maine to vote "no."  To get the no vote, they are offering her a financial incentive, an inducement.  Some would call it a bribe.  Here's how it works.  If Collins votes "yes" on Kavanaugh, a crowdfunding website will give $1 million to her opponent in 2020.  Her opponent will not get the money if Collins votes "no."  Vote the way we want, or we'll spend big bucks to beat you next time around.  As of Tuesday afternoon [9/11/2018], 37,000 people had handed over their credit card information and pledged $1,041,000.  The pledges are activated if Collins votes "yes."  I don't care whether this is legally a bribe or not.  It amounts to buying a vote, and it shouldn't have any part in our politics.

Keith Ellison faces and navigates controversy, again.  Keith Ellison is well-versed in campaigning with political baggage.  The Minneapolis lawyer and politician climbed the Democratic political ranks, from the Minnesota Legislature to Congress and Democratic National Committee deputy chairman, while contending with controversies — from decades-old ties to the Nation of Islam to one-time public support for a federal fugitive.  Now, as he mounts a bid for Minnesota attorney general, he is trying to move past an allegation of domestic abuse from a former girlfriend.

Kamala Harris's $50,000 LAPD guards not her first corruption rodeo.  California's Sen. Kamala Harris, the leftist Democratic presidential wannabe who got herself in the news after piously posturing against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, has now been caught with her hand in the till, traipsing around California with a Los Angeles Police Department bodyguard detail in tow, at a taxpayer-paid cost of nearly $50,000. [...] A new police chief found out about the unprecedented freebie from the people of Los Angeles and put a stop to it.  The mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, says he never heard of it and laid the blame squarely on recently retired LAPD chief Charlie Beck.  One thing is certain:  it's never been done before.

The Circus of Resistance.  The resistance to Donald Trump was warring on all fronts last week.  Democratic senators vied with pop-up protestors in the U.S. Senate gallery to disrupt and, if possible, to derail the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.  U.S. SenatorCory Booker (D-N.J.) played Spartacus, but could not even get the script right as he claimed to be bravely releasing classified information that was already declassified.  I cannot remember another example of a senator who wanted to break the law but could not figure out how to do it.

Congressional candidate vows to stay in race while jailed.  A congressional candidate from Georgia says he's ordering campaign signs and sending surrogates to meetings while he serves a jail sentence that could keep him locked up through Election Day.

Is Menendez Too Crooked Even for New Jersey?  New Jersey may very well be in play this year because the Democrats have renominated Senator Robert Menendez, easily the most crooked member of the upper chamber today, and one who must rank in the top tier through its whole history (which is really saying something!).  Last year, Menendez went on trial for corruption over his cozy relationship with Dr. Salomon Melgen, a Florida ophthalmologist who is himself serving a lengthy sentence for defrauding Medicare to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.

Mueller, Comey, and the Deep State Rescue of Sandy Berger.  In April 2005, a Republican-led Department of Justice did something quite unusual.  After catching a Democratic operative stealing and destroying highly relevant classified documents, the DoJ punished him as though he had stolen the Snickers bars from the office vending machine. [...] The attorney general at the time, the feckless Alberto Gonzales, had been on the job less than two months when the Berger deal went down.  Gonzales's deputy attorney general, James Comey, however, had been on the job for more than a year.  It was under Comey's supervision that the DoJ reviewed the case against Berger.  It was a doozy.  In the nerviest of his criminal acts, Berger stole highly classified documents and stashed them under a trailer at a construction site during a break.  He retrieved the documents at the end of the day and admittedly used scissors to cut them into little pieces before throwing them away.  He then lied to investigators about what he had done. [...] I have a suspicion of what those documents were.  Suffice it for now to say they had to contain information damaging to both Clinton and Berger sufficient for Berger to risk his livelihood, his reputation, and his very freedom.

Draining the Swamp, Building the Wall, Repealing ObamaCare.  The history of American government has never been free from scandals and corruption of one sort or another.  However, what we're witnessing today makes these past incidents seem like mere peccadillos.  The millions and billions of dollars involved in the Clinton Foundation pay-for-play deals, the Uranium 1 deal Hillary Clinton arranged for Putin and Russia, and the millions and billions in contracts the FBI, under the directorship of supposedly squeaky-clean Robert Mueller, awarded to Lockheed-Martin after his old buddy, James Comey, left the FBI and become their General Counsel, and who was then personally compensated with millions of dollars, are just a few examples of the financial crimes that appear to be committed regularly by denizens of the Swamp, and conspicuously ignored by the Department of Justice.

Prominent Kentucky Democrat Indicted for Illegal Campaign Contributions.  Prominent and powerful Kentucky Democrat Jerry Lundergan was indicted Friday [8/31/2018] for making a series of illegal campaign contributions to his daughter's campaign.  Federal prosecutors allege that Lundergan made corporate contributions that exceeded the $25,000 limit to Alison Lundergan Grimes' failed 2014 Senate campaign against Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.).  Lundergan has been indicted on 10 counts, while fellow political operate Dale Emmons was indicted on six.

Report: Andrew Gillum's Brother Paid by Undercover FBI Agents Posing as Developers.  A story from Tallahassee Reports published Thursday [8/30/2018] offers details about an FBI investigation into possible corruption in the city of Tallahassee while Andrew Gillum, the Democratic nominee in Florida's upcoming gubernatorial election, was mayor.  According to the story by Steve Stewart, FBI agents posing as developers made payments to Andrew Gillum's brother, Marcus Gillum, as part of an effort to show they were seeking business with the city of Tallahassee.  "The payments were said to be in the thousands of dollars per month," Stewart wrote.  "The length of the engagement was not known."

Police Report:  Beto O'Rourke Tried to Flee Scene of Drunk-Driving Crash.  It has long been a matter of public record that Beto O'Rourke was arrested for driving while intoxicated in 1998, but a police report recently obtained by the Houston Chronicle reveals that the Democratic Senate candidate crashed and tried to flee the scene before his arrest.  O'Rourke, then 26, was driving at "a high rate of speed" on a Texas highway roughly ten miles from the New Mexico border when he crashed into a truck and spun across the median into oncoming traffic.  A witness whom O'Rourke passed shortly before crashing later told police he personally prevented O'Rourke from fleeing the scene.  The unnamed witness "turned on his overhead lights to warn oncoming traffic and to try to get the defendant [O'Rourke] to stop," according to the report.

Beto O'Rourke's drunk-driving crash is not at all like George W. Bush's DUI.  Drunk driving is bad.  Like, very bad.  Don't do it.  You put others' lives in danger if you do.  There's no excusing it.  There's no downplaying it.  What's ridiculous, though, is the attempt to compare former President George W. Bush's 1976 DUI to Texas Democratic Senate candidate Beto O'Rouke's 1998 DWI, especially in light of new reporting on the latter.  There's no comparison between the two. [... In O'Rouke's case,] The court eventually dismissed the DWI charges, for reasons hard to fathom.  The influence of his politically connected family (his father is an El Paso judge) could have been a factor.  O'Rouke, who is polling closely in his race against Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, did not deny the allegations Friday [8/31/2018], including that he tried to flee the scene of his drunk driving-induced crash.  Rather, he reiterated that he's sorry for drunk driving.

What Happened To The DNC Investigation Of Keith Ellison's Alleged Domestic Abuse?  Two weeks after the Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced a review of domestic abuse allegations against Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison, the public still has scant information about the probe.  The DNC has offered no details on who exactly is running the probe, what evidence they have uncovered or when they expect to have enough information to either affirm or withdraw their support for Ellison.  Ellison, the deputy chair of the DNC and Democratic nominee for Minnesota attorney general, is accused of physically and emotionally abusing his ex-girlfriend, liberal Sierra Club activist Karen Monahan.  The DNC announced Aug. 14 that it was "reviewing" the allegations against Ellison.

D'Souza: The 'gangsterization' of the Democratic Party.  The Democratic Party remains relentless in their effort to "pin the racist and fascist tail on the Republican elephant," author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza maintains — adding that they are quick to proclaim "Trump is a racist!  Trump is a fascist!"  The purpose of these incendiary accusations is to not only delegitimize President Donald Trump, but in effect overturn the result of a democratic election, D'Souza contends.  In his latest film and the accompanying book of the same title, Death of a Nation, he reveals that the Democrats have actually been the party of fascism and racism — not just historically but also in the present.

Hillary Clinton lost, so ignore her 84 million dollar shell game.  Geller Report:  It was "an unprecedented nationwide scheme to violate federal campaign finance law in which $84 million was effectively laundered over more than a year by the Hillary Victory Fund through dozens of state political party committees to the Democratic National Committee and, ultimately, to Hillary for America" during Election, 2016, alleged the Committee to Defend the President (CDP) in a lawsuit [04/16/18] "to compel the Federal Election Commission to take action."

Hillary Clinton lost, so ignore her 84 million dollar shell game.  It was "an unprecedented nationwide scheme to violate federal campaign finance law in which $84 million was effectively laundered over more than a year by the Hillary Victory Fund through dozens of state political party committees to the Democratic National Committee and, ultimately, to Hillary for America" during Election, 2016, alleged the Committee to Defend the President (CDP) in a lawsuit [04/16/18] "to compel the Federal Election Commission to take action." [...] [T]he Federal Election Commission apparently does not want to fulfill its mission:  An "independent regulatory agency charged with administering and enforcing the federal campaign finance law."  A federal judge could order the Commissioners to conduct a vote and /or conduct an investigation.  The result could be a slap, if any, on the wrist.  After all, there is a two-tiered justice system in which some are not held to account, such as Hillary Clinton, and, generally, members of the Deep State.

If Hollywood is going to strip Trump of his Walk of Fame star for sexual misconduct then when will Spacey and Cosby lose theirs?  [Scroll down]  Then there's liberal fury over Trump's sexual behaviour, which is perfectly reasonable given his own unedifying admission that he's treated women like pieces of meat.  When playing 'Whataboutery' however, I wonder why the same liberal fury is not extended to Democratic presidential legends Bill Clinton and JFK, whose treatment of women made Trump look like a choirboy?

Sheldon Silver, former New York Assembly speaker, gets 7 years in prison.  Sheldon Silver, a former New York Assembly speaker who brokered legislative deals for two decades before criminal charges abruptly ended his career, was sentenced Friday [7/27/2018] to seven years in prison by a judge who said political corruption in the state must end.

Club for Growth targets female voters in savage ad against Claire McCaskill.  Bare-knuckle politics from the Club for Growth, a conservative PAC focused primarily on tax cuts.  In Missouri, a state that voted for Trump by an 18-point margin, the Club for Growth is attacking Senator Claire McCaskill as unresponsive to female victims of domestic violence as she was to accusations of domestic violence from the ex-wife of her husband.  McCaskill is presented as feathering her wealthy husband's nest with federal dollars.  Not that the Club for Growth is against wealth, per se.  But Joseph Shepard, McCaskill's husband, has been on the receiving end of 131 million federal dollars, mostly for subsidized housing (Section 8), and his business has flourished while his wife is in the Senate.

Husband's millions may doom Democratic incumbent.  Now a report in the Kansas City Star reveals that businesses tied to McCaskill's husband, Joseph Shepard, have received more than $131 million in federal subsidies since she took office in 2007 ($62 million in her first term, $69 million in her second).  The report says while Shepard doesn't personally pocket that money, he has benefitted from profits from the housing projects he's invested in that received those funds.  McCaskill claims she has no role in how the money is awarded or in her husband's business interests.  OneNewsNow contacted Cathie Adams, who serves as first vice president of Illinois-based Eagle Forum.  "I think that when our president said that he was going to drain the swamp, this is exactly the swamp that he was referring to:  when a spouse can make millions of dollars on businesses," she offered.

Is Senator McCaskill's lucky streak over?  Senator McCaskill's "I knew nothing" story just doesn't add up.  Is she saying she never asked her husband about all of that business success that he was having?  Didn't it occur to the senator that someone someday might raise the issue of her husband's success?  Watch for Senator McCaskill to play every card known to the Democratic Party, from race to gender to whatever else they have on the shelf.  However, it's going to be very difficult to persuade voters that her husband got all of those "federal subsidies" by chance.

Liberal Senator Claire McCaskill and Hack Reporters at The Daily Beast Are Already Blaming Russian Hackers for Her Impending Loss.  Earlier this week the Kansas City Star (NOT a conservative paper) reported that businesses tied to Senator Claire McCaskill's family received $131 million in federal dollars while she has been US senator.  In June Claire McCaskill was caught ditching her bus tour across the state and taking her private plane to many of the stops.  The woman ALWAYS votes with Schumer, Maxine Waters and Pelosi and NEVER for Missouri families.  McCaskill is in deep trouble in Missouri.

The Top 50 Liberal Media Bias Examples.  [#5] Edward Kennedy:  One word explains how the Old Media covered for Senator Edward Kennedy throughout his political life:  Chappaquiddick.  How is it possible that a sitting senator could be involved in the death of a young woman and never really face any consequences for that crime?

Behind bars for 2 murders, he's running for US Senate seat in Minnesota.  A Minnesota man serving a life sentence without parole after being convicted of two murders is now vying for a U.S. Senate seat.  Leonard Richards, 75, has found a loophole that has allowed him to legally run for federal office, despite his criminal record. [...] He is now seeking the nomination of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party, which will hold its primary Aug. 14.

What Kind Of America Does Maxine Waters Want?  My question is:  Does Waters wants America to return to those divisive, intolerant days, similar to when Southern Democrats routinely segregated and harassed our fellow black American citizens?  Fortunately, this time around, intolerant Democrats like Waters are not targeting Americans due to their racial heritage.  Sadly, they are instead targeting them solely due to their political affiliation, no matter how loose that affiliation might be.  They are denying their fellow human beings the freedom to eat a meal, purchase gasoline or watch a movie in peace.  Think about that.  Shockingly, they are even distributing personal home addresses, so that liberal mobs can harass innocent families within their residential neighborhoods.

If Hillary And Democrats Laundered $84 Million In 2016, They Should Face Justice.  Hillary Clinton's days of political relevance may be behind her, but her scandals are not.  While Clinton's years at the State Department were marred by scandal after scandal, they pale in comparison to her time running for higher office.  In 2016, the Democratic presidential candidate may have presided over the largest campaign finance scandal in U.S. history.  A lawsuit based on federal records alleges the Clinton machine laundered $84 million in excessive six-figure contributions through the Hillary Victory Fund, to dozens of Democratic state parties, on to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and ultimately to Clinton's campaign.

The Left Achieves Perfection.  Modern leftists believe that there are some people who are above the law and that the law can be applied differently to those whom the left likes and those whom the left dislikes.  The left, for example, believes that because Antifa is supposedly fighting fascism, it's okay for them to break the law and use violence to shut down speech its people don't like.  The left thinks it's okay for Hillary to break the law and grossly mishandle highly classified data while a sailor who took some personal photos where he shouldn't is thrown in the brig.  The left thinks Trump Jr. talking to a Russian about dirt on Hillary is a crime, but that Hillary paying a Brit who probably paid Russians for dirt on Trump and then using that dirt during the campaign is okay.  The left thinks that the government spying on the Trump campaign to "protect" him, though it never told Trump there was a problem, is fine, but a failed burglary at the DNC headquarters was the crime of the century.  The left condemns Dinesh D'Souza for violating campaign finance laws, but those same leftists are not bothered by the fact that Rosie O'Donnell violated the same law to a much greater extent than D'Souza did and is not in jail.

8 Times Obama's Intelligence Agencies Set People Up To Fabricate The Russia Story.  The intelligence bureaucracies spied on the Donald Trump campaign:  Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants were granted because of a Hillary Clinton-funded and unverified document, national-security letters were issued to allow warrantless spying, and the unprecedented but not-illegal-per-se unmasking of Trump officials' conversations with non-U.S. persons was shockingly routine.  Yet the news of a CIA-connected human source operating as far back as April or May of 2016 is about more than just spying.  It is the latest example in what now looks to be a long line of attempted setups by the Clinton team, many times aided and abetted by our intelligence bureaucracies.

Trump Can't Drain The Swamp And Pardon Blagojevich.  President Trump entered into the presidency with plans "to drain the swamp."  The revolving door of political insiders becoming high-paid consultants would turn into a thing of the past, he promised.  Government offices would operate with transparency and efficiency.  This promise resonated with Americans who were tired of seeing those too rich, too connected, and too powerful for consequences skirt the law.  How successful Mission Drain the Swamp has been is up for debate.  Recently, Trump told reporters that he was considering commuting the sentence of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.  That action places his promises — at least in spirit — in jeopardy.

Harvey Weinstein and the Clinton Protection Racket.  A New York Times article on Weinstein's court appearance noted how the "ground shifted" last year, finally ending the "code of silence" surrounding powerful men. [...] Did Harvey lose his money and connections "last year"?  Nope.  But "last year" was the first year of Trump's presidency, or as I like to think of it, the first year of Hillary not being president.  Ever.  The liberal protection racket for sexual predators was always intimately intertwined with the Clintons.  The template used to defend Bill Clinton became a model for all left-wing sexual predators.

Why the Mueller probe is really five scandals, not one.  [Scandal #4]  Documents requested by the Senate Judiciary Committee were heavily redacted for supposed national security reasons — which turned out to have nothing to do with national security (including the fact that the FBI had spent $70,000 on a conference table).  Meanwhile, more than 1 million documents were withheld from the House Judiciary Committee for so long that the committee had to issue a subpoena.  The reason for this deep state resistance is simple.  Transparency is going to get a lot of people in trouble — and it goes to the very top.  When Lisa Page wrote Peter Strzok in September 2016, "POTUS wants to know everything," there is good reason to believe President Obama was the one she was referring to as POTUS.  If President Obama wanted to know everything, given the way his White House worked, it is very likely his senior adviser Valerie Jarrett knew everything.  The more we learn, the bigger the scandal web gets.

Hillary Clinton Just Said If You Believe in the Rule of Law, Vote Democrat.  Hillary Clinton, the poster child for corruption, scandal, pay-for-play, lying to the American people, and of course, illegally using private email servers to handle classified information, believes the Democrat Party is the way to go if you respect "the rule of law."  Not only did she say it, but she said it with a straight face.  "If you believe that standing up for evidence and reason and respecting the rule of law is critical to our democracy," Clinton claimed, "you've got to vote for Democrats."

This is Rich:  Crooked Hillary Clinton Says if You Want to 'Stand for Rule of Law' You Have to Vote Democrat (Video).  On Wednesday [5/23/2018] Trump attorney Jay Sekulow announced the American Center for Law and Justice uncovered thousands of documents showing Clinton Foundation pay-to-play with Hillary's State Department through a FOIA lawsuit.  [Video clip]

We Have Uncovered Thousands of Docs Showing Pay-to-Play Between Hillary State Department and Clinton Foundation.  Newly released documents show Doug Band served as a liaison for Clinton Foundation donors looking for favors and official acts from the Clinton-run State Department, the ACLJ reported.  Doug Band was the 'go-to' guy for Clinton Foundation donors.  If they needed anything from Hillary Clinton, they would email Doug Band and within minutes he would forward the message to Huma Abedin and or Cheryl Mills to help expedite the favor.

Progressives on the Brink.  If it is true that President Obama ordered Attorney General Lynch and Director Comey to avoid bringing charges against candidate Clinton and to spy on the Trump campaign with the intention of throwing the election to Clinton, and if high officials at the FBI knowingly requested a FISA warrant on the basis of evidence known to be false, these actions will represent the most serious political crimes in the history of the country.

Can We Hope To Keep Our Republic When One Of The Parties Supports Tyranny?  Think about this — a significant portion of our country, including a majority of its elite, thinks that it's A-OK for a Democrat administration to spy on a Republican candidate.  Think hard about that.  And think about whether or not we can ever put the pieces of our shattered republic back together again if we can't even agree that using government power against our political enemies is a bad thing.  But the terrifying truth is that liberals and their Never Trump enablers actually think this kind of tyranny is a good thing.  You see, they think Normal Americans are so transcendently awful (and, even more importantly, that the elite's power so precious) that all is fair in order to stifle their opponents' collective voice.

Florida judge rules ballots were illegally destroyed in Wasserman Schultz race.  A Florida Circuit judge ruled Friday [5/11/2018] that that the state's second-most populous county violated state and federal laws by destroying ballots from a 2016 Democratic primary race which Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz won.  Circuit Judge Raag Singhal decided that the records were wrongly destroyed because the laws require elections offices to keep the ballots in federal elections for 22 months.  Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes destroyed the ballots just after 12 months, the Sun-Sentinel reported.  The judge also noted that because the ballots were subject to a lawsuit, only a court order should have allowed their destruction.

Sheldon Silver guilty in multimillion dollar corruption case.  The ex-speaker of the New York state Assembly Sheldon Silver was found guilty on Friday of selling his office for $4 million in kickbacks — affirming a 2015 conviction on the same charges that had been overturned on appeal.  A jury of seven women and five men found Silver, 74, guilty of all seven counts against him, including two counts of honest services mail fraud and money laundering.  He faces as much as 130 years in prison when sentenced on July 13.

Let's all hope Sheldon Silver stays guilty this time.  A jury of his peers has found former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver guilty of corruptly abusing his office — again.  Let's hope it sticks this time.  It took less than 24 hours for the jurors to reach guilty verdicts on all seven counts of trading legislative favors for legal referral fees — via cutouts such as an asbestos doctor and various law firms.  Of course, Silver was first convicted in this case back in 2015, but a later US Supreme Court ruling led to the tossing of those verdicts and (eventually) this retrial.  He drew 12 years' hard time then, and should get much the same come his new sentencing on July 13.  Since he's 74, there seems little need to push for the maximum 130 years that he could face — though it might send a good message to his former colleagues up in Albany.

Gerry Studds spotlighted in abuse lawsuit.  It's beyond dispute that the late Massachusetts Congressman Gerry Studds was a sexual predator.  And now, thanks to a lawsuit filed last week, even more details about his unspeakable behavior around young boys are on the public record.  In 1983, Studds was censured by the House of Representatives in a 420-3 vote after he plied a 17-year-old male Congressional page with vodka and then sodomized him.  In some states, it would have been statutory rape.  In Massachusetts, Studds was easily reelected six times.  Studds felt no shame.  As the X-rated details of his sordid conduct were read into the record on the floor of the House, he turned his back on his colleagues.

How Do These Liberal Monsters Hide In Plain Sight?  It was a devastating story that took out one of the most powerful men in Hollywood in a matter of days and exposed an entire industry's complicity in his sexual perversions, but it didn't come from a major news network, organization, or famous journalist, it came from a mildly popular magazine and a reporter more famous for who his parents are than his reporting.  That reporter, Ronan Farrow, and that magazine, The New Yorker, struck again Tuesday [5/8/2018], this time exposing the most powerful state Attorney General in the country, causing his resignation in disgrace in a matter of hours.  But more than exposing hypocritical Democrats as the misogynistic monsters they are, these stories and their aftermaths exposed just how incestuous and complicit the mainstream media is in all of it.

Make Hillary New York's New AG?  No, Eric Schneiderman's disgraced exit should not open the door for Hillary Clinton to challenge President Donald Trump as the next attorney general of the Empire State, despite the trial balloons going up from loyal Clintonistas in the media and the geriatric wing of the Democratic Party.  Instead, the vacuum created by Schneiderman's abrupt departure and the fact that his predecessor as attorney general, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, did little to attack corruption or boost the private sector, may usher in a true contest of constructive ideas inside New York at a time that a real New Yorker in the White House is proving that disrupting the Establishment is desperately needed.

It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy.  As Attorney General of the State of New York, Eric Schneiderman has posed as a liberal crusader.  Among many other things, he has accused Exxon Mobil of committing securities fraud in connection with "climate change," filed a civil suit accusing Trump University of fraud, and initiated more than 50 lawsuits seeking to block Trump administration environmental regulations.  Schnedierman has also endorsed the #MeToo campaign and has gone after Harvey Weinstein.  So I confess to being gratified by the fact that four women have accused Schneiderman of assault.

Schneiderman Scandal Should Be a Spiritual Crisis for Democrats.  "What did they know and when did they know it?" and "It's not the crime; it's the cover-up" are two of the biggest journalistic clichés of our time.  But clichés or not, sometimes they are true and they both apply (and then some) to the astonishing Eric Schneiderman situation.  This appalling scandal should be nothing less than a spiritual crisis for the Democratic Party and so-called liberals and progressives everywhere.  It should.  But it probably won't be, even though the level of hypocrisy is stratospheric.  And that is the essence of the problem.  When The New Yorker published the report that the New York state attorney general was a serial batterer — indeed a batterer who seemed to prefer beating women to having sex with them, a genuine sociopath in the position of New York's highest law enforcement official — the AG was defenestrated from his post by Governor Cuomo in the proverbial (apt in this case) New York Minute.

Alleged Abuse Victim [was] Urged to Keep Quiet to Protect 'Democrat' Schneiderman.  In the bombshell New Yorker piece that resulted in Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's resignation over multiple allegations of sexual misconduct Monday night, one of his accusers claims that she was urged to keep quiet about his alleged physical abuse because "Schneiderman was too valuable a politician for the Democrats to lose."  "After the former girlfriend ended the relationship" the New Yorker's Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer report, "she told several friends about the abuse.  A number of them advised her to keep the story to herself, arguing that Schneiderman was too valuable a politician for the Democrats to lose."

Eric Schneiderman's Inevitable Fall.  New York State attorney general Eric Schneiderman has resigned, just hours after it was reported that he had been accused of violent assaults on women he had dated.  These allegations, which include threats that Schneiderman made to stalk and kill the women if they told on him, came as a shock — except to anyone who has followed his career in politics.  Schneiderman's louche ethics have been well known.  You didn't need an "in" at Albany watering holes; just reading the newspapers would have told you plenty.

All New York Democrats are crooks and creeps.  You think the Chicago Democrat machine is bad.  Honey, that's nothing.  That's just one city.  The New York Democrat machine spans the entire state.

Accused Women Abuser Eric Schneiderman a Prime Mueller Team Member.  With the resignation of New York Attorney General Democrat Eric Schneiderman, the roof has fallen in on the Robert Mueller III-led special counsel. [...] Schneiderman was able to ride the victory of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, in which he was the talk of the town.  Being able to hoist his profile as a vociferous voice against sexual misconduct, he finds himself cornered.

Schneiderman accusations show how he was shielded to protect Dem brand.  The allegation that New York Attorney General and #MeToo champion Eric Schneiderman assaulted several women has New York and the Democratic Party reeling.  The stories are horrific and, in this time of #MeToo, disgustingly familiar.  Within a few hours of the Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow New Yorker Magazine allegations going public, Mr. Schneiderman denied the accusations and then tried to explain himself by saying he engaged in consensual "role playing" with sex partners.  An unbelievable excuse for many, and directly refuted in the story itself, that evening he announced his resignation, effective the end of Tuesday.

Schneider schadenfreude surplus.  For those who haven't been following the story that broke yesterday, Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer of the New Yorker published a blockbuster expose of Schneiderman's alleged abuse of several ex-girlfriends, including "beatings, at least two death threats, violence racism, and threats to use the power of his office to pursue his prey," as the New York Sun summarized.

AG Eric Schneiderman resigns after magazine reports allegations.  State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman abruptly resigned Monday [5/7/2018] following a report in the New Yorker magazine that four women claimed he had physically assaulted them.

Eric Schneiderman, New York's Attorney General, Resigns.  Eric T. Schneiderman, the New York State attorney general who rose to prominence as an antagonist of the Trump administration, abruptly resigned on Monday night hours after The New Yorker reported that four women had accused him of physically assaulting them.

NY Gov calls for Schneiderman's resignation over assault allegations.  New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has resigned, following a report on allegations of assault by multiple women in The New Yorker.

North Carolina Medicaid Scandal Broadens on Dem. Gov. Cooper's Watch.  The political backstory to this tale begins with [Governor Roy] Cooper surprising the pollsters and his opponent — incumbent Republican Gov. Pat McCrory — in November 2016 by winning a narrow victory.  Through deft sleight-of-hand, and taking advantage of a quirk in state law, Cooper arranged an early swearing-in for himself just minutes after midnight on January 1, 2017.  That legerdemain allowed Cooper just 12 days later to appoint [Dr. Mandy] Cohen, at the time Obama's Chief Operating Officer of Medicaid, to head the North Carolina DHHS before Barack Obama left office.  Thus was set the stage for the Cooper Administration to bring to a screeching halt what had been one of his predecessor's top priorities — rolling back years of reckless spending by North Carolina Democrats.

State of the Resistance.  The evidence continues to accumulate that not just former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, but his boss James Comey, and the partisan intelligence directors James Clapper and John Brennan will all be facing perjury charges, and that those responsible for the phony surveillance warrant on Carter Page (including the former attorney general, Loretta Lynch, and her chief collaborators) and ultimately a considerable swath of the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration will all be responding to serious allegations.  It is at that point that the Resistance will have to show whether it has any backbone, and not just an ability to orchestrate the bigotry of the media and the stunned, dethroned solidarity of the OBushinton joint-incumbency under which the political confidence of the country largely eroded.

Pennsylvania Rep. Patrick Meehan resigns from Congress after taxpayer settlement to aide.  Pennsylvania GOP Rep. Patrick Meehan said Friday [4/27/2018] he plans to resign from Congress amid revelations of a taxpayer-funded settlement to a former aide who claimed he sexually harassed her.  Meehan announced in January he wouldn't run for re-election to Congress after the settlement became public.  On Friday, he said he was resigning now, instead of finishing his term, to spare his staffers from an Ethics Committee investigation.

Leftist Propaganda Thwarts Unity.  The Americans who listen to the Washington Post, the New York Times, and all the networks are being systematically lied to. [...] One key aspect of the propaganda machine is that Republicans are always shown in a bad light, and Democratic scandals are minimized.  We all remember the MSM trying to make us think Bill Clinton was impeached because of his sex scandals and not because he lied under oath in order to minimize his risk of having to pay a settlement for sexually harassing an Arkansas government employee.  Similarly, a Democratic senator was on trial for seven weeks recently for corruption, and the MSM ignored it.  When a Republican senator was on trial years ago, there was extensive coverage.

DNC on Verge of a Nervous Breakdown with Russia Lawsuit.  The transparency here is the DNC approaching a nervous breakdown.  They're seeing things and are in panic mode.  What could be more transparent than that?  And they should be.  Their Russia collusion delusion is coming down all around them — it's amazing it lasted so long — with many of their stalwarts, from Andrew McCabe to a slew of high-ranking FBI and DOJ officials, and even, though less likely, some Obama insiders, fighting to stay of out the slammer.

Oregon's Liberal Dem Governor Kate Brown Accepted Large Soros Donation Three Days Before She Refused to Send National Guard to Protect US Border.  Liberal Democrat Governor Kate Brown accepted a large donation from George Soros only days before announcing that she will not send Oregon's National Guard to the Southern border to help protect the country from illegal aliens.

GOP Rep. Farenthold resigns amid sexual harassment scandal.  Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) announced Friday [4/6/2018] that he is resigning from Congress immediately after facing a backlash over using $84,000 in taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment claim.  "While I planned on serving out the remainder of my term in Congress, I know in my heart it's time for me to move along and look for new ways to serve," Farenthold said in a statement.  The abrupt resignation is effective as of 5 p.m. on Friday, according to his office.  His official congressional Twitter account appeared to have been deleted as of that time.

Blake Farenthold resigns abruptly from Congress after revelations of lewd and abusive behavior.  Corpus Christi Republican Blake Farenthold abruptly resigned from Congress Friday afternoon, less than four months after dropping reelection plans under siege for crude and verbally abusive office behavior.  In an emotional five-minute video on Dec. 14, Farenthold apologized for the lack of professionalism on his staff, and for his own fits of rage with aides.  He made no mention on Friday of any of the allegations that ended his congressional career, and made no apologies for using $84,000 in taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment suit.

Pressure mounts for Democratic Esty to resign over violent abuse accusations against top staffer.  The pressure on Connecticut Elizabeth Esty to resign over her handling of harassment and abuse claims against a top staffer mounted this weekend, with fellow Democrats calling on her to leave office.  The three-term House member has been under fire since Thursday, following reports in The Connecticut Post and the Washington Post that state Esty allowed a chief of staff to remain employed despite knowledge of allegations that he physically harmed and threatened to "kill" another staffer.

Largest Connecticut Newspaper Calls on Dem Rep to Resign for Covering up Abuse Allegations.  The Hartford Courant, the largest newspaper in Connecticut, called on Elizabeth Esty (D., Conn.) to resign Friday [3/30/2018] over allegations she kept her chief of staff Tony Baker on the payroll for three months after finding out he left a voicemail threatening the life of one of her former female aides.  Baker is accused of physically abusing and sexually harassing Anna Kain, a former Esty aide that he once dated.

The Democrats' Long History of Making Incriminating Documents Disappear.  Fifteen people, including Bill [Clinton]'s successor as governor, were convicted of Whitewater-related crimes.  The Clintons' records were subpoenaed — and vanished.  Two years later, just two days outside the statute of limitations, the records materialized in the White House residence.  In "Filegate," hundreds of FBI files on Republicans were somehow transported from the Bureau's offices, to be found in the White House.  "It appears to have been a completely honest bureaucratic SNAFU," President Clinton explained.

New York's Corruption Pit.  As usual, New York is flush with political corruption scandals, with a number of trials and investigations in progress or gearing up.  Alain Kaloyeros, the nanotech Svengali and Andrew Cuomo associate who had been in charge of hundreds of millions of dollars of state funds, is accused of rigging bids for personal gain.  Retrials are scheduled to begin in the cases of former state assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and former state senate president Dean Skelos; both men's corruption convictions were overturned.  Cuomo aide and close friend Joseph Percoco was convicted in March of influence peddling, and the trial of Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano for accepting bribes has revived allegations of corruption that have haunted Mayor Bill de Blasio, whom a key witness in the Mangano case has pleaded guilty to bribing.

House ethics panel orders payments from U.S. Reps.  Bobby Rush, Luis Gutierrez.  Ending congressional investigations pending for years, the House Ethics Committee on Thursday [3/22/2018] determined that, in separate cases, U.S. Reps.  Luis Gutierrez and Bobby Rush, Illinois Democrats, violated House rules and ordered payments made to the U.S. Treasury.  The Rush reviews had been prompted by a Better Government Association / Chicago Sun-Times investigation of the congressman's paying zero rent on a campaign office in the Lake Meadows strip mall on the South Side for 20 years.  The 10-member House ethics panel — evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats — also handed Rush and Gutierrez each a public reprimand called a "reproval."

Chappaquiddick: The Kennedy Cover-up.  After his brothers were tragically assassinated, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy had to carried the weight of his family's political ambitions.  It was expected Ted would run for President, but the car accident we know as Chappaquiddick changed everything.  [Video clip]

DOJ: Inspector General Examining Whether McCabe Was Promised Promotion to FBI Director by Hillary Clinton.  Andrew McCabe may have revealed to his inner circle an inside plan to replace his friend James Comey as FBI director if and when Hillary Clinton was elected president of the United States, according to top officials in the Justice Department. [...] If those discussions about a promotion to FBI director with co-workers and McCabe's inner circle were anything more than bravado, that certainly is troubling.  And given the fact that McCabe's wife Jill was given more than $1.25 million in Hillary-backed campaign donations to run for state senate in Virginia, it could spell additional legal woes for her husband.  McCabe was in charge of the Hillary Clinton email investigation at the FBI at the same time his wife ran for office.  At the same time he and his wife struck a deal to run for office with Hillary consigliere and Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who was allegedly under investigation at the time by the FBI for a public corruption case.

Russians wanted Hillary Clinton to be President and Adam Schiff is their Number One Shill.  Democrat Adam Schiff is a shill of the Russian government and I'm going to tell you why.  It is Schiff who is a propagandist for the Russian government despite his spinning on all these left-wing TV shows.  He put out a list of 30 more interviews he wants to do even though the Republicans on the committee said there's no collusion. [...] He didn't say we should subpoena Hillary Clinton even though it was the Hillary Clinton campaign that laundered money through a law firm in this Fusion GPS to do what?  To corroborate and collude with the Russians with their phony dossier.  He didn't ask for a single Hillary Clinton campaign official.  Why is that, Mr. Schiff?  We know they colluded!  He didn't ask for the former head of the DNC.  I don't know if that was Wasserman Schultz or Donna Brazile, he doesn't want to subpoena them and question them.  Where did their money come from?  That money that they laundered through that law firm to Fusion GPS to the Russians.  That's something he doesn't want to talk about.

Andrew Cuomo's Corruption Circus Rolls On.  Tuesday's conviction of Andrew Cuomo's close associate Joe Percoco deals a sharp blow to the Governor's 2020 Presidential hopes and may even jeopardize his reelection prospects this year.  Percoco was Cuomo's executive deputy secretary and longtime confidant.  He was found guilty of soliciting and accepting bribes from top management of two companies with state business.  This was quite a downfall for Percoco, a man so close to the Cuomo family that Andrew had once referred to him as his father's "third son".  The companies who paid the bribes — Competitive Power Ventures, an upstate NY a clean natural gas provider, and COR Development, a Syracuse real estate firm — were integral parts of Cuomo's effort to revive the moribund Upstate New York economy via crony capitalism initiatives or, as he would put it, public-private partnerships.  Instead of jump-starting a depressed economy, these programs have brought a corruption circus.

Why Doesn't Mainstream Media Demand Democrats Denounce Farrakhan?  Sometimes media bias has nothing to do with what reporters say, but what they don't say.  Recently, we've learned additional members of the Democratic Party have a relationship with the racist and anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan, whose hatred has been a well-known fact for well over a decade.  But when Farrakhan released new hatred this past weekend the MSM did not question his relationship with the party.

More about Louis Farrakhan.

More Ties Between Democrats and Russian Oligarchs Poised for Exposure.  The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is requesting an interview with a Washington-based lobbyist who served as an intermediary between a Democratic senator and two key figures in the Russia investigation, dossier author Christopher Steele and Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.  "The nature and extent of the relationship between Mr. Steele, Mr. Deripaska, and you are of potential relevance to the Committee's work," Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote Monday [2/26/2018] to the lobbyist, Adam Waldman.  Waldman emerged earlier this month as a figure in the Russia investigation after it was revealed that he exchanged text messages last year with Virginia Sen. Mark Warner regarding Steele and Deripaska.

No 'We remember Mary Jo' at the women's marches.  We remember mid-July 1969 because Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.  I watched it in the living room with my parents and my brother and sister.  We also remember Chappaquiddick, the tragic story of Mary Jo Kopechne.  There is a new film about to be released, and I'm looking forward to it.

Jury Finds Texas Democrat Guilty of Multiple Felonies Including Fraud.  On Thursday afternoon [2/22/2018], a Democratic Texas state senator was found guilty on 11 felony charges, including "multiple counts of fraud and money laundering," reports the Texas Tribune.  State Sen. Carlos Uresti was charged last year for his role in what authorities called a "Ponzi Scheme" involving a bankrupt oilfield services company called FourWinds Logistics.  Uresti, the Texas Tribune says, "used his prestigious reputation to lend credibility to an unknown company; several investors testified that Uresti's presence reassured them that their money would be safe with FourWinds."

Obama appointee to senior ICE post pleads guilty.  Raphael A. Sanchez has switched roles in the chronicle of Obama administration appointments.  No longer an ornament on the Obama diversity Christmas tree as a Hispanic senior legal official, the top attorney for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Seattle has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Obama Knew.  Former President Obama wanted "to know everything" the FBI was doing in its investigation into claims that Russia was interfering in the 2016 election, a new report suggests, raising the specter of a sitting president becoming involved in a plot to rig the 2016 election.  It was a year ago the outlines of a Watergate-like conspiracy emerged in which a term-limited Democrat president used the privacy-invading apparatus of the state to spy on a Republican presidential candidate.  Watergate differed in that President Nixon didn't get involved in the plot against the Democratic National Committee until later as an accomplice after the fact.  But this new evidence suggests Obama may have been part of a sinister anti-democratic cabal from the beginning.

When is a bribe not a bribe?  NYC mayor says he did no wrong.  Harendra Singh [...] donated thousands of dollars to the mayor's election campaign and, as a result, got a meeting with top city officials in which he hammered out a more favorable lease.  Singh ultimately pleaded guilty to a federal bribery charge.  The man he admitted to bribing, Mayor Bill de Blasio, was not prosecuted.

Democracy's Highest Crime and Misdemeanor.  Every week brings new revelations and details about a cabal in the federal government whose actions border on both sedition and conspiracy.  The evidence suggests that specific high level officials in the Justice Department and the FBI colluded to violate the law in unprecedented ways for the singular purpose of subverting the will of the people both before and after the 2016 election.  The United States is now at a defining moment.  Will there be a restoration of the rule of law, or will Washington's elite continue to give cover and a pass to fellow members of the Ruling Class (a descriptive phrase coined in these pages by Angelo Codevilla)?  The question:  Is there sufficient decency and courage in the midst of Washington's swamp to compel the pursuit of justice wherever in the Ruling Class it leads and then to prosecute the lawbreakers — whomever they are?

The Idiots That Don't Concede Elections.  Here in America, the Democrats have failed to concede the last two normal change elections that went against them:  the 2000 presidential squeaker election and the 2016 election.  But you will search long and hard among your liberal acquaintance for anyone that understands how serious this is.

Hallandale Beach mayor accepted illegal checks from Russians, prosecutors say.  Joy Cooper knew the value of her political power.  On a summer day in 2012, the Hallandale Beach mayor met in her City Hall office with two men she thought were wealthy landowners from California as well as a close acquaintance, South Florida attorney and lobbyist Alan Koslow.  The landowners — FBI agents working undercover — would help finance Cooper's re-election run.  In return, she would push their construction project through the city commission.

Corrupt Florida Democrat Mayor Busted For Money Laundering In FBI Sting.  Joy Cooper is the Democrat mayor of Hallandale Beach, Florida.  She's in big trouble after being caught money laundering by the FBI in what was basically a sting operation.

Mayor sought illegal funds for political allies, records allege.  Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper, who was removed from office Friday [1/26/2018] after being snared in an FBI sting, solicited illegal campaign contributions not only for herself but for two political allies, court documents say.  Gov. Rick Scott suspended Cooper on Friday, a day after she was arrested and accused of accepting contributions funneled through Alan Koslow, a once prominent attorney who has since been disbarred after a conviction on federal charges.  In August 2012, undercover agents handed Koslow a Dunkin' Donuts bag filled with $8,000 in cash — all in $100 bills, investigators said in court records.

Corrine Brown's requests to delay reporting to prison denied.  The 71-year-old Democrat was sentenced to five years in prison for fraud as well as lying on her tax returns and congressional financial disclosure forms about income from a purported charity for poor students that she used as a personal slush fund.

Convicted Dems Corrine Brown and Chaka Fattah Still Receiving Taxpayer-Funded Pensions.  Former Democratic representatives Corrine Brown (Fla.) and Chaka Fattah (Pa.) are still receiving taxpayer-funded federal pensions despite being convicted and sentenced to prison on corruption charges.  The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon that Brown is still receiving Federal Employees' Retirement System annuity benefits even though she was sentenced to prison for wire fraud and tax evasion — actions that stemmed from a sham charity founded by the former congresswoman.

John Conyers III Officially Running For His Father's Seat.  John Conyers III, an alleged domestic abuser and the son of disgraced former Democratic Michigan Rep. John Conyers Jr., has filed paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission to officially launch his campaign to fill his father's seat.  Conyers Jr. resigned in disgrace last month following several sexual harassment accusations against him.  The outgoing congressman endorsed his son as his appointed successor.  Conyers III's campaign comes despite his own history of allegedly mistreating women.  Conyers III was arrested in February 2017 after he allegedly body-slammed his girlfriend, spat on her and sliced her arm with a knife.

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How nice that Junior is learning the family trade.  But aren't these the same people who groused about the Bush Dynasty and hereditary political offices?

Obamagate timeline.  The Obamagate timeline is a record of known facts about President Obama's misuse of foreign intelligence gathering for domestic political spying, media manipulation, wiretaps, intimidation of journalists and critics, use of government intelligence agencies to influence domestic elections, efforts to thwart the election of President Donald Trump, subversion of the new administration's personnel and agenda, and to delegitimize and undermine his presidency.  During and immediately after that the 2016 Presidential election CIA director John Brennan targeted Donald Trump.  This covert disinformation campaign became widely known in the fake news mainstream media as Trump-Russia, alleging collusion between Trump and associates with Russia.  The side that actually colluded with foreign powers was that of Hillary Clinton.  After President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, seditious activity and an unwillingness to accept the results of a democratic election by Obama holdovers in the US Intelligence Community came to light.

Where Do We Get Such Losers?  [O]ver the last six years, Senator Bob Menendez has gone through two criminal trials and an ethics investigation.  During all these legal proceedings, there was very little disagreement about the facts:  Menendez received hundreds of dollars in gifts and favors from Dr. Salomon Melgen — a doctor who is now sitting in the hoosegow for 17 years for Medicare fraud.  These gifts include sexual tourism trips to Central America, where Menendez later used his office to try and get his concubines into the United States as residents.  The list of sordid activities is long and not in dispute:  But Menendez successfully convinced enough people that he was just doing favors for a friend, and vice versa.  Thus, it was within the bounds of the law.  Enough people (and jurors) bought it that he is up for re-election in a few months.

Feds to retry Senator Bob Menendez in bribery case.  The Department of Justice announced Friday it intends to retry New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, two months after a federal judge declared a mistrial in the high-profile bribery case.  "Today, the United States filed a notice of intent to retry Sen. Robert Menendez and Dr. Salomon Melgen and requested that the court set the case for retrial at the earliest possible date," Department of Justice spokesperson Wyn Hornbuckle said in a statement.  "The conduct alleged in the indictment is serious and warrants retrial before a jury of citizens in the District of New Jersey."  Hornbuckle said the decision to retry the case was "based on the facts and the law, following a careful review."

Justice Dept intends to re-try Menendez in corruption case.  The Justice Department announced Friday [1/19/2018] that they intend to re-try Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) on corruption charges after a deadlocked jury resulted in a mistrial in November.  "Defendants Robert Menendez and Salomon Melgen have been indicted for bribery and corruption by two separate grand juries properly empaneled in the District of New Jersey," the department said in a notice filed in U.S. District Court.  "The first trial ended in a mistrial with a deadlocked jury.  An early retrial date is in the best interests of the public, and the United States is available to schedule a retrial at the Court's earliest convenience."

New Report Says FBI Fraud Probe into Bernie's Wife Has Deepened, Cites Grand Jury Action.  Back in June, we highlighted an awkward television exchange in which Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders really, really didn't want to answer questions from CNN anchor Erin Burnett about a federal bank fraud investigation targeting his wife — and in which he himself was also implicated.  It wasn't the first time the Socialist lawmaker got testy on the subject, which he's cynically tried to dismiss as a "pathetic attack" that was "launched by" a Trump supporter against his wife.  As explained at the time, this FBI probe into financial misconduct was actually kicked off by the Justice Department during the Obama era, and Jane Sanders — a grown adult and active political figure in Bernie's orbit — isn't above criticism for alleged criminal acts.  And once again, part of the investigation is reportedly examining whether the Senator abused his power and influence to help secure the fraudulent bank loan for the now-defunct college that his wife ran into the ground.  In other words, there could be serious trouble afoot for both halves of this left-wing couple, who saw fit to honeymoon in the Soviet Union.

Maryland Democrat confessed to taking cash, prosecutors say.  A Maryland state senator has confessed to taking cash payments in exchange for conducting official business, federal prosecutors said last week.  State Sen. Nathaniel T. Oaks, a Democrat, is scheduled to stand trial in the spring on charges of bribery and obstruction of justice.  Oaks has pleaded not guilty.

Corinne Brown asks for prison reprieve.  Slated to report to prison Jan. 29, former Congresswoman Corrine Brown is asking a federal appeals court to allow her to remain free while she continues to fight her conviction on charges related to a charity scam.  Brown's attorney, William Mallory Kent, filed a 37-page document Friday at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that seeks to keep her out of prison while an appeal is pending.  The request is based on what will be a key issue in the appeal: whether U.S. District Judge Timothy Corrigan improperly removed a juror who said during deliberations that the "Holy Spirit" told him Brown was not guilty[.]  Kent wrote that the issue could lead to the reversal of Brown's conviction and, as a result, she should stay out of prison during the appeal.

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Isn't that interesting.  A bunch of Democrats — the people who constantly wail about the "separation of church and state" when the church interferes with the government — are now willing to have a criminal case overturned based on a second-hand rumor from the Holy Spirit.  That's called playing on both sides of the fence.

Dem Congressional Candidate Shaun Brown Charged With Fraud, Theft.  A congressional candidate in Virginia may have an uphill battle going into 2018.  A federal grand jury charged Democrat Shaun Brown with fraud, theft, and embezzlement that allegedly took place back in 2012.  If convicted, she faces a maximum of 20 years in prison.  According to the indictment, Brown was accused of filing fraudulent claims with the Summer Food Service Program as part of the JOBS Community Outreach Development Corp. by inflating the number of children from low-income families in their records in order to receive more money.  Her organization received roughly $803,000.  She has denied any wrongdoing.

Fmr. Dem Congressional Candidate Indicted for Fraud, Theft From Low-Income Children's Food Program.  A former Virginia Democratic congressional candidate was charged with fraud on Wednesday for stealing from a government program meant to help children from low-income households.  The 2016 candidate, Shaun Brown, was charged with wire fraud and theft of government property, the Daily Press reported.  If convicted, Brown could face a penalty of 20 years in prison.  Brown was unsuccessful in her run for Congress, losing in the 2nd Congressional District race to Republican Rep. Scott Taylor (Va.) by 23 percentage points.  The former candidate has been accused of submitting fake paperwork for the JOBS Community Outreach Development Corp's Summer Food Service Program that provides free lunches through the Department of Agriculture for children from low-income households.

Free advice:  Get somebody else to start your car.
Jailed Russian says he hacked DNC on Kremlin's orders and can prove it.  A jailed Russian who says he hacked into the Democratic National Committee computers on the Kremlin's orders to steal emails released during the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign now claims he left behind a data signature to prove his assertion.  In an interview with Russia's RAIN television channel made public Wednesday, Konstantin Kozlovsky provided further details about what he said was a hacking operation led by the Russian intelligence agency known by its initials FSB.  Among them, Kozlovsky said he worked with the FSB to develop computer viruses that were first tested on large, unsuspecting Russian companies, such as the oil giant Rosneft, later turning them loose on multinational corporations.

Corrupt Democrat Loses Bid To Stay Out Of Jail During Appeal.  Corrupt Florida Democrat Corrine Brown has been sentenced to jail.  She is set to start her sentence in January but wanted to be released from jail until then.  A judge just told her no deal.

Concord State Rep. Pleads Guilty To Assault Charge.  A local Democrat and state representative pleaded guilty this morning [12/22/2017] to assaulting a political opponent during a state Senate ballot recount in November 2016.  State Rep. Katherine Rogers, D-Concord, 61, pleaded guilty to the assault charge as part of a plea deal that would help her avoid jail time as well as a fine so long as she stays out of trouble during the next year and attends anger management classes during the next 90 days.

Memphis mayor should be hauled out of city hall in handcuffs.  For the past several years progressives have been waging a culture jihad across the nation, turning our nation's heritage into a pile of rubble.  They've been bulldozing our history much like the Islamic Radicals have been doing in Iraq.  Sadly, my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, has suffered a similar fate.

Hillary Clinton campaign, DNC accused of 'corrupt' money scheme in new FEC complaint.  A new legal complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission alleges that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee used state chapters as strawmen to circumvent campaign donation limits and laundered the money back to her campaign.  The Committee to Defend the President, a political action committee, filed its complaint with the FEC on Monday with the allegations that the Hillary Victory Fund (HVF) solicited cash from big-name donors, including Calvin Klein and "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane — money that was allegedly sent through state chapters and back to the DNC before ending up with the Clinton campaign.

Pa. House Democrats pay $248K to settle sexual harassment complaint against 40-year lawmaker.  Pennsylvania House Democrats spent nearly a quarter-million dollars in taxpayer money to secretly settle a sexual harassment complaint against a 40-year lawmaker, according to a document obtained by the Inquirer and Daily News and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  A payment of $248,000 went to resolve a complaint in 2015 against State Rep. Thomas Caltagirone, a Democratic lawmaker from Berks County, by a longtime legislative staffer.  The settlement included a nondisclosure agreement, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Rep. Ruben Kihuen won't seek reelection amid sexual harassment allegations.  Rep. Ruben Kihuen (D-Nev.) will not seek reelection next year amid allegations that he sexually harassed women, making him the seventh — and youngest — member of Congress felled by reports of misconduct since October.  Once considered a rising star in Democratic politics, Kihuen announced Saturday [12/16/2017] that he will leave Congress at the end of his first term.

California Democratic Party official resigns after rape, misconduct allegations.  A regional director has resigned from California's Democratic Party following accusations of rape and inappropriate behavior.  Craig Cheslog, 46, allegedly "acted in an inappropriate and sexually aggressive manner" toward a 23-year-old woman after an executive board meeting Nov. 18, according to a letter that party leaders sent to the party's secretary, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Dem Rep. Kihuen won't seek re-election amid sexual harassment claims.  Rep. Ruben Kihuen, D-Nev., announced Saturday that he would not seek re-election in the wake of multiple sexual harassment allegations against him.  "I want to state clearly again that I deny the allegations in question," Kihuen said in a statement.  "However," the freshman congressman added, "the allegations that have surfaced would be a distraction from a fair and thorough discussion of the issues in a reelection campaign."

Pelosi's super PAC keeps donations from owners of prostitution website Backpage.  The uproar over sexual harassment that began with the Harvey Weinstein scandal has intensified the scrutiny of political contributions linked to Backpage, which law enforcement officials say is the chief platform for activities far worse than harassment, including sexual slavery and child prostitution.  Mrs. Pelosi isn't the only Democrat struggling to deal with the piles of cash that Backpage's owners spread around to candidates and state Democratic parties over the years.  Even Ms. Harris, a California Democrat who is now a U.S. senator, ducked the issue.  Her office wouldn't respond to repeated emails about Backpage money going to House Majority PAC and other Democratic organizations.

Dem Rep. Bobby Rush Sued for $1 Million to Collect Unpaid Loan for Church He Founded.  Democratic representative Bobby Rush is being sued for $1 million after failing to make payments on a loan he received for a church he founded in his home district in Illinois.  A wellness center linked to the church has also collected more than $2.6 million in taxpayer-funded government grants in 2017 and more than $17 million in grants since 2008, according to records.  Rush founded the Beloved Community Christian Church, a nondenominational Christian church, in Chicago in 2002 with the intent of helping disadvantaged people in his community.

Democrats forgave Rep. Studds for preying on teen boys, hailed as gay rights pioneer.  Massachusetts voters stood by Democratic Rep. Gerry Studds even after he was censured by the House in 1983 for his sexual relationship at age 36 with a 17-year-old male congressional page, as well as making sexual advances toward two other teenage pages.  Far from dooming the Democratic Party, the episode barely registered at the ballot box.  Democrats kept their House majority and gained Senate seats in 1984, while Studds was re-elected in his liberal Cape Cod district with 56 percent of the vote.

Retiring Dem Rep. Gutierrez Paid Wife $430,000 From Campaign Funds Over Past Seven Years.  Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez (Ill.), who announced last week that he will not seek reelection after spending 24 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, will no longer be able to pay his wife hundreds of thousands of dollars from campaign funds once he officially departs from Congress.  Soraida Gutierrez, his wife, has collected more than $430,000 from Gutierrez for Congress, Luis's campaign committee, since 2010.  Soraida is the top recipient of expenditures this year.  Soraida, who was a registered lobbyist in Illinois prior to appearing on the campaign's payroll, has been listed as the campaign's office manager, fundraiser, and treasurer for the past seven years.

Jail for Fla.  Rep. Who Blasted Feds for Investigating Her Instead of Orlando Terrorist.  The disgraced Florida congresswoman who suggested federal agents could have prevented the Orlando terrorist attack if they weren't preoccupied investigating her is headed to prison.  This week a federal judge in Jacksonville sentenced Democrat Corrine Brown, who served 12 terms in Congress, to five years in jail for fraud and tax crimes involving an $833,000 phony education charity.  In a 24-count federal indictment, prosecutors called the fake charity (One Door) Brown's "personal slush fund."

Democrat Accused Of Sexual Harassment:  Pelosi Knew And Did Nothing About It.  A first-term Democratic congressman accused of sexual harassment said that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi knew about the allegations while he was running for office and supported him anyway, putting millions of dollars behind his 2016 congressional campaign. [...] Pelosi was quick to demand [Nevada Rep. Ruben] Kihuen's resignation after the allegations became public, but she actually has known about the harassment allegations for a while, Kihuen told ABC News.

Lawmaker behind secret $84K sexual harassment settlement unmasked.  Rep. Blake Farenthold used taxpayer money to settle a sexual harassment claim brought by his former spokesman — the only known sitting member of Congress to have used a little-known congressional account to pay an accuser, people familiar with the matter told POLITICO.  Lauren Greene, the Texas Republican's former communications director, sued her boss in December 2014 over allegations of gender discrimination, sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment.

Disgusting Democratic Dirtbags Duck Discipline.  [Scroll down]  I'm a live-and-let-live sort of guy, and my libertarian self says that if one old dude wants to pay a young woman to consensually shove a █████ up his ███ and walk him around on a leash in the privacy of his expensive New York hotel room, the state shouldn't get involved.  But in addition to the (alleged) assault, remember that this is a guy who not only broke the law by hiring prostitutes while he was attorney general and governor, but also chastised Americans for not having being willing to sacrifice for the common good, so yeah, I have no problem further exposing this hypocrite's freak fetish.

Woman Says Democratic Congressman Harassed Her During Campaign.  A woman who worked as the finance director for Democratic Nevada congressman Ruben Kihuen's 2016 campaign told BuzzFeed that Kihuen made several unwanted sexual advances toward her.  Kihuen repeatedly asked the woman, identified only as "Samantha" by BuzzFeed, whether or not she would cheat on her boyfriend, touched her thighs without her consent, and suggested the two of them get a hotel room together, among other violations.  Samantha was 25 at the time, while Kihuen was 35.  This is his first term in Congress.

House Ethics opens sweeping probe into secret harassment payouts.  The House Ethics Committee signaled Friday [12/1/2017] it has begun a sweeping probe into misconduct of lawmakers and staff that resulted in taxpayer-funded settlements.  The 10-member bipartisan panel ordered the Office of Compliance to turn over "all records... related to any claims of sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation or any other [prohibited] employment practice," by House lawmakers or congressional staff.

Report: Congress Paid Out $100K Of Taxpayer Money To Settle Male Staffers' Harassment Claims Against Disgraced Democrat.  The Congressional Office of Compliance paid out just under $100,000 in taxpayer funds to two male staffers to settle sexual harassment claims against disgraced former Democratic New York Rep. Eric Massa, according to a new report.  Massa resigned in 2010 following allegations that he groped and sexually harassed his male staffers.  The secret settlement payments took place in 2010 following Massa's resignation, ABC News reported on Thursday [11/30/2017].

Top Democrat:  Politicians Shouldn't Have To Resign Over Sex Assault Allegations.  A reporter asked [11/29/2017] why men in Congress are taking much longer to step down from office than men in the private sector, whose careers have gone down in flames pretty swiftly after allegations against them became public knowledge.  "You'd have to give me some examples," said Rep. Cedric Richmond, a Congressional Black Caucus member and its former chairman.  The reporters responded with a list of men who have lost their prominent roles in media in recent weeks due to allegations of sexual assault and inappropriate behavior:  Harvey Weinstein, NBC's Matt Lauer, and Charlie Rose.  "Who elected them?" Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) shot back.  [Video clip]

Thanks to Conyers, Identity politics finally is splitting the Democrats.  Normally, Democrats sweep under the rug the obvious clashes among the interest of the various identity groups — for example, the homosexual lobby and the courting of Muslims, whose religion calls for the death penalty for homosexuals.  With the support of the MSM, they get away with it by demonizing Republicans as the real enemy.  However, we are in the midst of a form of hysteria driven by long repressed anger.  Women have been abused in the workplace in the media and political bastions of Democrats for as long as anyone can remember.  The party even united behind supporting the obvious abuse that Bill Clinton practiced in Arkansas and brought with him to the White House, where the Oval Office itself was defiled by inducing a young intern to deliver sexual acts along with pizza.

Taxpayers funded $50G settlement to aide who complained of House Democrat's drinking, report says.  A female aide on Capitol Hill was paid nearly $50,000 in a taxpayer-funded settlement in 2015 after complaining about the drinking and office environment of a Democratic member of Congress, according to a new report.  The Washington Times reported this week that an unnamed former congressional aide threatened a lawsuit against Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva two years ago by accusing him of being frequently drunk and fostering a hostile work environment.  The House Employment Counsel negotiated a $48,395 severance — the equivalent of five months additional salary — for the aide, the report said.  The accuser, who worked for Grijalva for three months, dropped her complaint after the settlement, the newspaper said.

Congressman Slept With And Then Sued Allegedly Drug-Addicted Staffer.  Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green had sex with a staffer who he said was a drug addict and then sued her when she threatened to go public with claims she suffered a hostile work environment, saying he "will not be extorted or blackmailed."  Lucinda Daniels, his onetime district director, claimed she suffered a hostile work environment, claimed sexual harassment and demanded $1.8 million.

Why Have Liberals Been Such Horrendous Hypocrites on Women's Rights?  To ask the question why liberals have been such hypocrites about their treatment of women and about women's rights is not to say that conservatives haven't been.  They have.  And some of their actions have been pretty bad.  But by comparison, GOP hypocrisy in this area has been quite literally dwarfed by the Democrats.  Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton are the most recent spiritual fathers of this atrocious behavior.  Both extreme sexual predators — Teddy to the extent of walking away from the corpse of Mary Jo Kopechne and other improprieties, Bill for, well, practically everything from rape to cigars — they were revered as American heroes for decades by their party with but glancing and forced (in Clinton's case) attention to their abhorrent, often illegal, personal behavior and complete disrespect for and objectification of women.

FBI Investigating House Democrat For Paying His Opponent To Drop Out Of The Race.  The FBI is investigating Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Bob Brady for conspiracy, false statements and campaign fraud in relation to payments his campaign allegedly made to 2012 primary opponent Jimmie Moore in order to persuade him to drop out of the race, court documents reviewed by The Daily Caller show.  FBI special agent Jonathan R. Szeliga filed a search warrant request on November 1 in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for all emails associated with Brady's campaign email, [...] Szeliga asserted he had "probable cause to believe that Kenneth Smukler, Robert Brady, Donald 'D.A.' Jones, Jimmie Moore, and Carolyn Cavaness and others known and unknown have committed violations" including charges of conspiracy, false statements, producing false records, causing false campaign contribution reports and violating limits on campaign contributions and expenditures.

Democrat Congressman Bob Brady Accused of Rigging Pennsylvania Election.  Pennsylvania Congressman Bob Brady is a ranking member of the Committee on House Administration which oversees settlements paid by Congress for sexual discrimination and harassment complaints.  Additionally, representative Brady is also under FBI investigation for false statements, conspiracy and campaign fraud, according to FBI documents revealed on Tuesday [11/21/2017].

Let The Left Destroy Its Own.  The left used to protect sexual predators like Bill Clinton and Roman Polanski while mercilessly going after conservatives like Justice Clarence Thomas with false allegations of sexual misconduct.  Today, accusations of "sexual assault" and misconduct against liberal men are finally seeing the light of day.  Harvey Weinstein and other Hollywood liberal darlings have been exposed.  Producer Brett Ratner and music mogul Russell Simmons face new allegations of sexual assault and misconduct.  "Live with Kelly and Ryan" co-host Ryan Seacrest took the pre-emptive move of denying an accusation before it went public.  Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., was outed as a creep for his lewd behavior toward Leeann Tweeden.  For decades, feminists and their supporters in the Democratic Party have been engaged in a scorched-earth strategy to destroy white, Christian, conservative men with power.  While they still engage in political attacks and target good men like Judge Roy Moore, they're also taking down their own.

Two kinds of truth: actual and political.  It was the New York Times's journalistic equivalent of a nuclear bomb that revealed what thousands of people had known for three decades:  that Harvey Weinstein has been a sexually abusive monster.  Everyone in the "business" knew it but kept quiet.  His politics were "correct," so no one reported his many crimes against women.  He was a huge donor to Democrats, especially to the Clintons.  To be in bed with the Clintons is to be above the law and corrupt to the core.  All of which means that, as night follows day, the Hollywood/Weinstein level of predation is probably rampant in Congress as well.  Some of the journalists who viciously demeaned Bill Clinton's victims in the 1990s are crawling all over themselves now, to say that they were wrong to defend him. [...] Just as everyone in Hollywood knew Weinstein was a barbarous abuser of women, every member of Congress knew the same about Ted Kennedy.

Let's All Savor The Democrats' Pervgate Pain.  Sure, we have an issue of our own, but is it unfair to point out that Judge Jailbait was a Democrat back when he was cruising malls for teen action?  Yeah, it's probably unfair.  Too bad. [...] And Senator Al Franken (D-Medellin) continued his unbroken dumbness streak by actually letting someone photograph him while he made a play for the only kind of woman who digs him, an unconscious one.  That made it a bit hard to deny, though he did troop out seven women to assure us that he never harassed any of them.  Of course, most of us could probably round up seven people we didn't molest.  Not Bill Clinton, but most of us.

Creeping, Gripping, Groping, and Griping:  The Year of Al Franken.  By now, we are well aware of the extraordinary predilection that certain prominent liberal Democrats — and their bagmen, donors, and fundraisers — have for sexually harassing women, objectifying women, using women as playthings and sex objects, even while giving the other kind of lip service to the "dignity of women."  From the vehicular bridge spans of Ted Kennedy to the antics within the John Kennedy White House, from the Bill Clinton state house in Little Rock to his oval office and under his desk in D.C., from the Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey movie and television sets to the John Edwards saga and the editorial offices of the New Republic, we find an extraordinary consistency of deceit and hypocrisy.  "We support women.  We respect a woman's right to choose."  And then, when the camera lights are off and the microphones removed, the abasement and defilement of women begins.

McConnell calls for ethics probe of Menendez.  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Thursday that the Senate Ethics Committee should investigate Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) after his bribery and corruption trial ended in a mistrial.  "Because of the seriousness of these charges, I am calling on the Senate Ethics committee to immediately investigate Senator Menendez's actions which led to his indictment," McConnell said in a statement.  He added that "Senator Menendez was indicted on numerous federal felonies.  He is one of only twelve U.S. senators to have been indicted in our history."

The Uses of Disgrace.  In 1983, two congressmen, one a Democrat and the other a Republican, were censured by the House.  Both had admitted to having affairs with 17-year-old pages.  The Republican, Daniel Crane, represented a conservative Illinois district.  His constituents sent him packing the following year, despite his apology and request for forgiveness.  The Democrat was Gerry Studds, who represented a liberal Massachusetts district.  His relationship had been with a young man.  He admitted to a "very serious error in judgment," but seemed to imply that he was owed more latitude because he was gay.  "It is not a simple task for any of us to meet adequately the obligations of either public office or private life, let alone both," Studds said in an address to the House.  "But these challenges are made substantially more complex when one is, as I am, both an elected public official and gay."  He was reelected seven more times and retired voluntarily in 1997.

Democrats Applauded Accused Rapist Bill Clinton After His Impeachment.  Immediately following his impeachment on December 19, 1998, Democrats stood behind disgraced former President Bill Clinton and applauded him despite his having been charged under articles of impeachment by the House of Representatives for obstruction of justice and lying under oath to a federal grand jury.  Clinton, accused of committing sexual crimes against multiple women, lied about having an inappropriate sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.  Despite this, Democrats applauded Clinton after his impeachment and portrayed him as the victim of "politics of personal destruction."  [Video clip]

Every Democrat Presidential Candidate In 25 Years Had Pedophile Ties.  [Scroll down]  Even years later in the governor's mansion, Hillary thought that getting a 12-year-old girl's rapist off the hook was the funniest thing ever.  Roy Reed, the great media hero of the civil rights movement, never wrote about it.  There were no outraged stories in the New York Times or Esquire.  Just like Harvey Weinstein's associates.  They knew.  They knew and they said nothing.

Menendez could remain in Senate even if he's convicted.  As the bribery case against Sen. Bob Menendez concludes, Senate Democrats could face a stark question — how long will they stick by the New Jersey Democrat if he's convicted?  Menendez's lawyers have a final chance Monday in their closing arguments to persuade the jury hearing his case in Newark that the veteran lawmaker is not guilty.  With Menendez's fate likely to be decided within days, Democrats are already quietly strategizing on how to respond if he's found guilty.

Obviously a public school student.
Bob Menendez juror interrupts deliberations to ask judge, 'What is a senator?': Report.  A juror taking part in the bribery trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., interrupted deliberations Tuesday [11/7/2017] to ask the presiding judge for the definition of a senator.  U.S. District Judge William Walls denied the juror's request for a transcript of the closing argument from Menendez's attorney, Abbe Lowell, in which he argued that Menendez never pushed through legislation to help a friend, per Bloomberg and CNN.  Instead, the federal judge instructed the jurors to rely on their individual and collective memories to define the role of a senator and remember important points from Lowell's final address.

Down the Memory Hole:  Obama Stole the 2008 Primary with Help of DNC.  Obama's illegal shenanigans in the 2008 Democrat primaries were far worse than Clinton's — and will never be widely reported.  It's an odd experience to dig this information out of the memory hole.  No Democrat cares:  no party leaders, no members of Congress, no journalists, and no ordinary people.  Democrats do not care about rule of law or fair elections.  All of them feel morally entitled to win.  That is the corrupting influence of their identity politics that tars political opponents as moral reprobates.  Democrat primaries show us who they are:  their will to power trumps every other value.  Progressives want permanent power, not a functioning republic.  They don't accept fair and free elections — witness their dirty attempts to overturn the last one and deprive Trump voters of their victory.

Honchos at Bankrupt DNC [were] Kept 'Fat and Happy' With Perks While Clinton Ran [the] Show.  Hillary Clinton's Brooklyn-based campaign controlled the Democratic National Committee (DNC) while its neutered leadership was kept "fat and happy" with needless perks paid out by the bankrupt party committee, according to a new book by former interim DNC head Donna Brazile: [...]

Menendez corruption trial goes to jury.  The fate of Sen. Robert Menendez is now in the jury's hands.  With the New Jersey Democrat's career and freedom hanging in the balance, his defense lawyer said Monday that Menendez's relationship with Salomon Melgen, a wealthy Florida ophthalmologist, was a longstanding friendship — not a corrupt connection, as claimed by the Justice Department.  "This case is not about what was done, it's about why it was done," Abbe Lowell said in his closing argument of the bribery trial, the first in a generation involving a sitting senator.  "Friendship explains that."

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Awwww...   His only crime is being a friend!  We should just let him go!

So the Steele dossier was bought cheap.  What did the other $12 million pay for?  Fusion GPS, the Washington "opposition research" smear firm, produced its salacious "dossier" on President Trump on the cheap, paying only $168,000 to an oddly-chosen British subcontractor to falsely depict Trump as a [...] pervert in Moscow hotel rooms.  It's cheap given the large amounts of money that changed hands from the Democratic National Committee, the Hillary Clinton campaign and President Obama's Organizing for Action, all of which paid the same Washington lawyers at Perkins Coie for their efforts to beat Trump during the election.  Perkins Coie paid Fusion GPS to produce the dossier and obscured its payments through attorney-client privilege.  It's expensive when you consider that what it paid for in the "dossier" is worthless information, a collection of lies that any Trump hater could have made up for free.

Fiery Closing Arguments in Menendez Bribery Trial Draw Yawns from Nets.  "This is what bribery looks like," declared federal prosecutor J.P. Cooney on Thursday as the closing arguments in the long-running corruption trial of Democratic New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez took place.  The trial had seen contentious exchanges between the defense and the judge, claims of a lack of impartiality, and requests for the case to be thrown and for a mistrial to be declared.  The closing arguments themselves were just as fiery, but just as with the rest of the trial, the big three networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) pretended it didn't happen.

DNC Chief Stonewalls Reporters On Payments To Fusion GPS.  Tom Perez, the Democratic National Committee's new chairman, stonewalled reporters Tuesday by refusing to divulge any concrete information about the DNC's financial payments to Fusion GPS, the opposition research company that produced the salacious "Trump Dossier."  In his first national press conference since the DNC payments became public, Perez stoutly defended the DNC's decision to hire Fusion GPS, saying it would have constituted "malpractice" to not retain the opposition research firm.

Menendez files motion for mistrial in corruption case: report.  Sen. Bob Menendez's (D-N.J.) lawyers filed a motion Sunday [10/29/2017] to declare a mistrial in his current trial on corruption charges, Politico reported.  Lawyers for Menendez and Salomon Melgen, the other man facing bribery charges in the case, repeatedly threatened to file a motion for a mistrial during a hearing with U.S. District Judge William Walls on Thursday [10/26/2017].  In their filing on Sunday, the lawyers claim that Walls has blocked them from introducing key evidence in the case, including the testimony of two defense witnesses.

Hill Republicans want more answers from Wasserman Schultz, Podesta about Trump dossier money.  Congressional Republicans on Sunday [10/29/2017] called for Democrats John Podesta and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz to provide further answers about their party paying for a dossier on President Trump's alleged ties to Russia, after telling Senate investigators last month that they had no knowledge of such payments.  Wasserman Schultz is the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Podesta was the chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.  Both groups purportedly paid millions for research that led to the dossier, The Washington Post reported last week.

The Mother of All Scandals.  All of Trump's ducks are lining up.  Trump looks happy when he talks, and has for many weeks.  He is in control.  He sees the long game, and knows he is holding all the cards.  It appears he has entrapped them all in this scandal called Uranium One.  The FBI and the Deep-State.  James Comey.  Eric Holder.  Loretta Lynch.  The Clintons.  Barrack Obama.  The leftist news media.  Real collusion, with a real crime.  And it really is the mother of all scandals.  Allowing the sale of 20% of US uranium for money.  The biggest breach in national security since the Rosenbergs gave away the atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union.

Hillary's Dossier.  After much pain — after much lying, Clinton style — the Washington Post reported on Tuesday evening [10/24/2017] that the Trump Dossier was commissioned by the smear outfit GPS Fusion at the behest of the Clinton campaign.  It was funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.  Tom Perez, the current chairman of the Democratic National Committee wants it to be known that the DNC's "new [post-election] leadership" (Perez and Minnesota's own fast-talking hustler Keith Ellison) know nothing.  They all sound like Mafia types.  Nobody knows anything.

Yes, There WERE Russian Ties to Election Via Hillary and DNC.  The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about Donald Trump's connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, people familiar with the matter said.  Marc Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington, D.C., firm, to conduct the research.  Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community.

With FBI Actions Now Under Suspicion, WSJ Editors Call on Special Counsel Mueller to Resign.  In my earlier analysis of the latest dossier/collusion developments — which have taken an abrupt turn in the last week, to the dismay of many liberals — I wrote that newly-revealed and -confirmed details raise serious and uncomfortable questions for both the Democratic Party and the FBI.  In a house editorial published today [10/26/2017], the Wall Street Journal's editors explicate several of those questions that demand a full accounting.

There is really no need for derisive mockery ... LIKE THIS:
Happy Birthday Hillary Clinton!  HAHAHAHA.  After nearly a year of cries of Russia, Russia, Russia against Donald Trump who absolutely obilerated Hillary Clinton in the electoral college in last year's election, the Russia collusion scandal has done a complete turn out and it pointing at Hillary Clinton, her rapist husband, Hussein Obama, Eric Holder, James Comey and Robert Mueller.

Clinton and DNC Paid Almost $10 Million for Russia-Trump Dossier.  The corrupt Hillary Clinton campaign paid $5.6 million and the just as corrupt Democratic National Committee paid $3.6 million for the dossier coming to a grand total of $9.1 [million].  That's how much the corrupt Democrats paid for their debunked, [...] dossier.  No wonder the DNC is in the hole when it comes to fund raising and no one is donating to the Clinton Crime Foundation anymore.  I wonder how much of the money Clinton paid for the dossier came out of the Haiti "earthquake relief" fund.

The Lawyer Behind The Trump Dossier Testifies At Menendez Trial.  Marc Elias of Perkins Coie, the Democratic lawyer and Clinton ally who hired Fusion GPS to compile the notorious Trump dossier, was scheduled to testify Thursday in New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez's ongoing corruption trial.  Defense lawyers hoped Elias would rebut charges that Menendez lied on financial disclosures forms for failing to disclose a number of free airplane rides on a donor's private plane.  Federal prosecutors claim that the donor, Dr. Salomon Melgen, purveyed a stream of benefits for Menendez, who took various actions to bolster Melgen's medical practice in exchange.  U.S. District Judge William Walls ultimately blocked Elias' testimony, concluding it was inadmissible hearsay.

With DNC's Trump dossier payoffs, what foul people the Dems have crawled into bed with.  Revelations that the Democratic National Committee paid for the Russian-produced "Trump dossier" of phony, gross, stories unprintable in a family newspaper, have left some pretty disgusting conclusions about them, their ethics, and the company they keep.  According to a fairly good analysis from Aaron Blake of the Washington Post, one of the most important reasons why the news matters is that it's clear that Democrats, not their supporters, paid for the report.  Effectively, that's Hillary Clinton herself.  And second, we all now know that Democrats are willing to pay foreign powers — including enemy powers — big bucks in their quest to win elections at any cost.  That amount may have been more than $9 million, if this report has it right.  And what a coincidence — it's almost exactly the amount the Democrats found themselves in the hole for around the same time.  It sounds as though they paid for that dossier out of money they didn't even have.

How Corrupt Are American Institutions?  In 2009, the Obama Justice Department began investigating a Russian plan to expand Russia's atomic energy business by acquiring uranium in the United States.  Through bribery, kickbacks, money laundering and extortion, the Russians were able to acquire 20% of the uranium mining rights in the United States.  Shareholders in the Russian firm Rosatom funneled $145 million to the Clinton Foundation in the months leading up to the Obama administration's approval of the transaction.  The sale was officially approved in 2010 by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), whose members included both Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder.  Apparently neither Holder nor Clinton informed the other members of the committee just what an historic act of corruption they were participants to. [...] The government informant at the heart of the case was (and remains) forbidden to speak to Congress by an Obama Justice Department gag order (that gag order has yet to be lifted by the Trump Justice Department).  If this story is true, then all our worst fears have been confirmed, and we are indeed living in a banana republic, with one set of rules for the rich and powerful, and another set of rules for everybody else.

Massive criminal conspiracy unravels:  Hillary Clinton took $145M from Russians to sell out the U.S. uranium supply to America's enemies.  We have truly reached the point in American history where criminal indictments need to be immediately leveled against James Comey, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Robert Mueller and a dozen other high-ranking officials who are now known to have been complicit in one of the most treasonous criminal cover-ups in American history.  Although the entire left-wing media is running a campaign of complete silence on this story, the rest of the media is now widely reporting that, under President Obama, the FBI had documented an exhaustive trail of corruption, bribery and treason that involved Hillary Clinton, State Department corruption and Russia-linked mining companies that acquired rights to U.S. uranium supplies.

Media Silence:  New Jersey Democratic Congressman Bob Menendez Is Still On Trial For Corruption.  After the prosecution concluded their case Friday [10/13/2017], Menendez's lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the case, claiming that prosecutors couldn't tie Menendez's friendship with Melgen to any of Menendez's specific actions, and that any meetings Melgen had with Menendez were simply friendly chats that just happened to lead into offers of help.  Judge Walls didn't see it their way.  "This court concludes that a rational jury could deduce that the defendants entered into a quid pro quo agreement," Walls said in his decision Monday morning.  "The jury is at liberty to accept or reject."  That means Menendez must now launch a defense.  A quick rundown of court filings will tell you that won't be an easy task.

Condemning Harvey, Still Clinging to Bill and Teddy.  Amidst the flurry of demands that Harvey Weinstein be extinguished from the liberal memory, Democrats keep turning up at institutions and award ceremonies named after serial exploiters of women.  The other day John Kerry took a break from the denunciations of the bloated mogul to pick up an honor from the "Edward Kennedy Institute."  Barack Obama sent his fraternal greetings to the august gathering.  Needless to say, memories of Teddy Kennedy's exploitation of waitresses and campaign volunteers didn't figure into the high proceedings.

The Overlord of Oscar Bait.  Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein was a celebrated figure during the (perhaps now finally concluded) Bill and Hillary Era.  In particular, he was the central string-puller of the insufferable orgy of virtue-signaling that the Academy Awards have become. [...] Harvey's downfall is revealing how The Narrative is molded:  Follow the money.  Harvey was a master of vertical integration, bribing journalists to be his coconspirators in promoting his movies and covering up his misdeeds.  Despite his close ties with existing periodicals such as Vanity Fair, in 1999 Harvey's Miramax firm cofounded its own slick magazine, Talk.  Harvey hired away Tina Brown, editor of The New Yorker, and gave her roughly $50 million to blow during Talk's short lifespan.  Talk put Hillary on its first cover and used its magazine to promote Miramax stars like Gwyneth Paltrow.  While Brown was happy to help with Harvey's overt propagandizing, she soon discovered a sub-rosa aspect.  Harvey's modus operandi was to bribe reporters, witnesses, and victims with magazine assignments, book contracts, and movie deals.

Why Hollywood is the perfect hunting ground for pervs.  At last check, 47 women have now said they were sexually harassed and/or assaulted by the producer Harvey Weinstein.  That number is certain to grow. [...] These astounding numbers do not suggest, as many now are, that Weinstein is a representative figure of American maleness in our time.  It's precisely the opposite:  His is a story of demonic excess that is so horrifying because it is so exceptional.  In that sense, it tracks precisely with the story of Bill Cosby, who stands accused by dozens of women of having drugged and then molested them.  These are habitual and repetitive fetishistic behaviors that make Weinstein and Cosby more akin to serial killers than to the handsy creep down the hall or the sleaze who dangles a job prospect even as he's asking for a date.

Complaint Filed Against DNC Chair Perez With FEC Over Donations.  A complaint has been filed on Tuesday [10/17/2017] with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) by a watchdog group over donations from DNC Chairman Tom Perez's campaign account to former opponents.  The complaint was made by the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) where they allege the donations may have been illegal, Fox News reports.  The allegation is that the donations were only made by Perez's team to opponents after they dropped their bids for DNC chair and then supported Perez.

Judge refuses to throw out case against New Jersey senator.  In a big defeat for Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez, the judge at his corruption trial Monday refused to throw out any of the charges against him in light of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling narrowing the definition of bribery.

PedoWood Braces For Weinstein Backlash As More Wonder If PizzaGate Was Real.  The now "breaking" Harvey Weinstein story has been around for decades.  His abusive behavior, his penchant for singling out and intimidating up-and-coming talent, his threats, intimidations, payoffs, it has long been a running inside joke among the Hollywood elite.  So why now?  And what of the longstanding financial links between Mr. Weinstein and Washington D.C.?  Some readers might recall the shocking claims of child sex trafficking abuses that are said to be rampant among the globalist elites, stretching from private clubs in London, to high-rise New York, and yes, the scripted caverns of PedoWood and all points between.  Mr. Weinstein bounced around often from LA to New York to London, Italy, Germany, and Paris, among other places.  He has longstanding connections to China's ruling class, billionaire Saudi investors, and of course, U.S. politicians like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Contradictions and Condescension.  When a decent old stiff such as Mitt Romney talks earnestly about looking for suitable female job candidates and clumsily distills the effort into the phrase "binders full of women", all the smart sophisticated types jump on it and make it a punchline for an antiquated condescension that only confirms how irredeemably misogynist the GOP is.  By contrast, when Harvey Weinstein corners a TV reporter in the corridor of his restaurant and [...]

Abortion Activist Harvey Weinstein is a Sexual Predator and Major Planned Parenthood Donor.  Hollywood, the Land of Make-Believe and Botox injections, loves to inject its "moral" authority into every social issue.  But, like everything Tinseltown produces, it's all duplicitous.  They do give rousing performances, especially at their self-awarding ceremonies where they applaud their "courage" for groupthink.  They love to lecture America on a host of their choice inequalities: income, racism, elitism, LGBT-ism, and feminism.  From a demographic where many spend millions changing their biologically-given face to a surgically altered one, is it any wonder they're two-faced about all of these issues? [...] Speaking of sexual appetite, I wonder if Planned Parenthood will return Harvey Weinstein's $100k donation given back in May.  The Harvey Weinsteins of the world love supporting "women's rights" (while stripping women of their dignity) and ensuring the continued existence and violence of Planned Parenthood.  The nation's leading abortion chain has, since Roe, been the enablers of sexual predators and the daily perpetrators of violence against women (and their unborn children).

Report: NBC News Passed on Ronan Farrow's Bombshell Report of Weinstein Rape Allegations.  NBC News passed on a story by contributor Ronan Farrow that it allegedly possessed in August about three separate rape allegations against Harvey Weinstein that eventually appeared in the New Yorker Tuesday, according to a report.  According to the Huffington Post, Farrow's bombshell Tuesday report — in which three women, including actress Asia Argento, accused the movie mogul of rape — "was in NBC's hands as recently as August, according to multiple sources both inside and outside the network."

Trump talked the talk; Weinstein and Clinton walked the walk.  Hillary "What Happened" Clinton finally weighed in after days of silence.  I suspect she didn't realize all the fuss was about Weinstein, thinking instead that accusations of rape and abuse against a powerful Democrat meant her husband, making it awkward for her to weigh in.  This is especially noticeable after her campaign tweet, "Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported."  That applies except when the perp is a famous Democrat.  Like Harvey Weinstein.  Or Bill Clinton.  Or Anthony Weiner.  Or Ted Kennedy.

The Left's Collusion with Harvey Weinstein.  The fleshy, repellent, sinister look of Harvey Weinstein, akin to the brutal indifference on the face of an overfed badger before devouring his prey, is proof of the unity between body and soul.  If beauty adorns virtue, ugliness adorns vice.  The horror stories about Weinstein continue to multiply and now include tales of criminal flashing and sexual assault.  Out of the mushrooming scandal has come a blast of dirt, from which particles are settling on top officials in the Democratic Party, starting with the Clintons and the Obamas.

Harvey Weinstein is not the nastiest thing going on in Hollywood.  As more (and more) revelations come out about slimeball and (alleged) serial rapist Harvey Weinstein, there is a more sinister conspiracy still hidden in the Hollywood hills:  pedophilia.  It seems that, for a decade and more, courage was in short supply in Hollywood, as dozens (maybe hundreds) of people knew of Harvey's predilections (for starlets) and did absolutely nothing.  It has now been reported that as far back as 2004, the N.Y. Times was aware of at least some of the extent of Harvey Weinstein's sexual abuse and, one suspects for political reasons, decided to spike a story that would have exposed and possibly put a stop to his deviancy.  How many women were sexually assaulted or even raped between 2004 and today?  It's been reported that Matt Damon and Russell Crowe were part of a group that pressured the Times not to report on these salacious activities.  Are they, in part, culpable for subsequent assaults?  How about all of the dozens of Miramax employees and others who sent young women to Harvey to be exploited and abused?  Sadly, Harvey Weinstein's act isn't the darkest in Hollywood's repertoire — at least that we know of.  As has been reported, the women Harvey sexually abused were adults.  But did Harvey rape or sexually abuse any minors?

Weinstein Collateral Damage:  The Obamas.  Barack Obama, whom his campaign bundler Harvey Weinstein once introduced to Hollywood elites as "the Paul Newman of American presidents," came out with his "shocked, shocked" statement now that Weinstein is exposed and down and every celebrity and his brother is making Weinstein-was-a-pig statements for the press. [...] It's as if Obama never gummed up traffic in Los Angeles during rush hour to raise campaign funds and schmooze with celebrities of Weinstein's ilk over the long course of his presidency. [...] So now we are expected to believe that the Obamas were "disgusted"?  Where were they when all this was going on, and why are they only speaking out about it now that Weinstein is down and not in a position to hold Democratic fundraisers anymore?  And with all their post-presidential millions, why aren't they giving any of it back?

Harvey Weinstein Has Destroyed Hollywood — Now What?  Hollywood's politics have always been a self-serving charade, a liberal masquerade for a rapacious and lubricious lifestyle.  But now, thanks to the Weinstein scandal, we see it more clearly than ever.  And it couldn't be more repellent.  (I had always thought Bill Clinton would have made the greatest studio executive of all time.  Now I'm convinced of it.)  If conservative investors had any courage, this would be the time to make a hostile takeover of the movie business.  Unfortunately, they don't.

Hillary's election would have shelved Weinstein story.  Amanda Carpenter threw cold water on the media feeding frenzy over the revelation that for decades Harvey Weinstein preyed on women in Hollywood.  She pointed out that if we elected Hillary president, he would be home free.  The New York Times would have protected him just as it did in 2004 when Sharon Waxman tried to break the news.  But Trump is president, and Weinstein is expendable.  So the Times dusted off a 13-year-old story and poof, he is gone.  Hooray for the Times, right?  Well, except for the part where he continued to victimize women for 13 years.

'Disgusted' Obamas were star-struck by Hollywood mogul Weinstein's access, cash.  Barack and Michelle Obama now say they are "disgusted" by Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment accusations.  But as president and first lady, oh my, how they loved the movie mogul's cash and Hollywood glitz.  As a powerful pipeline to the Democrats' cash machine in the entertainment industry, Mr. Weinstein raised millions of dollars for Mr. Obama's presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012.  He and his wife, Georgina Chapman, hosted Mr. Obama for a high-end fundraiser at their home overlooking Long Island Sound in Westport, Connecticut, in August 2012.  Other guests included actress Anne Hathaway, Vogue editor Anna Wintour and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin.

The Democrats cannot ignore their Harvey Weinstein problem.  [Scroll down]  It took the two most dominant Democrats of the past 17 years five days to cook up responses that could have been written in 10 minutes after the first New York Times bombshell appeared.  It's a demonstration of stunning political incompetence.  More than that, it's a failure of leadership from the two top leaders in which the Democratic Party invested itself over the last generation.  It appears that both Obama and Clinton hoped to skate past a moment of outrage without alienating a formerly powerful Hollywood ally, which demonstrates just how beholden the entire party has become to the entertainment industry for their cash and star power.  That is a big problem for the Democratic Party.  If this scandal expands past Weinstein — and there are already suggestions it might — then the next generation of leadership may have to figure out how to compete without the baggage Hollywood carries.

High-Ranking Dem[ocratic] Sen[ator]s Gave Campaign Cash to Menendez After Indictment.  A number of high-ranking Democratic senators combined to contribute tens of thousands of dollars to Sen. Robert Menendez's (D., N.J.) campaign committee this year, a review of Federal Election Commission records shows.  Menendez, who was indicted in April 2015, is currently facing 12 counts of corruption charges that include bribery.  Prosecutors have said that the senator had a "corrupt pact" with Salomon Melgen, a wealthy Florida eye doctor, a previous donor to Menendez's campaign.  Menendez himself has contributed to the campaigns of a number of top Democratic senators this year from his leadership PAC, the New Millennium PAC, the Washington Free Beacon previously reported.

Obama speaks out on Harvey Weinstein allegations.  Former President Barack Obama has issued a statement on the series of reports of sexual harassment and sexual assault allegations against movie mogul — and major Democratic donor — Harvey Weinstein.  "Michelle and I have been disgusted by the recent reports about Harvey Weinstein," Mr. Obama said in the statement.  "Any man who demeans and degrades women in such fashion needs to be condemned and held accountable, regardless of wealth or status. [...]"

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Such behavior is not to be permitted — unless the perpetrator's name is Bill Clinton.

Why the Media Covered for Harvey Weinstein.  At the 100th anniversary of Planned Parenthood, honoring Hillary Clinton, the recently defeated candidate, drinks named "Toxic Masculinity" were being served.  Also on the scene was Harvey Weinstein.  And Harvey had his thick wallet open to the tune of $100K for the abortion organization.  Harvey was sitting with Hillary.  Not to mention Meryl Streep and Shonda Rimes.  The A-list celebs in attendance knew exactly what and who Harvey was.  His habits were no secret.  If you look carefully enough at certain TV shows and movies, they are referenced and winked at.

Why the Harvey Weinstein Story Is Worse Than You Think.  The New York Times last week broke the story of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's long record of sexual harassment. [...] The details were so jarring and the trail of abuse so long, that it was impossible to read the story and not come away wondering:  How did no one know what he was doing?  But of course people knew about Harvey Weinstein.

The Harvey Weinstein scandal and the silent left's stunning hypocrisy.  "Who is Harvey Weinstein?" is a perfectly acceptable question in light of a bombshell story The New York Times broke Thursday [10/5/2017] that reports decades of his alleged serial sexual harassment and settlements with women in Hollywood.  Putting it bluntly, Harvey Weinstein, for a time, was the most powerful producer and studio head in Hollywood.  He is almost singlehandedly responsible for the indie-to-mainstream film explosion in the 90's (backing "Pulp Fiction," "Good Will Hunting" and "Shakespeare in Love" to name just a few examples).  His influence in Hollywood is unparalleled.

Michelle Obama In 2013: Harvey Weinstein Is 'A Wonderful Human Being'.  At a film workshop for students from across the country in 2013, then-first lady Michelle Obama praised Harvey Weinstein as a "wonderful human being."  Weinstein has come under fire after The New York Times reported the Miramax head has been paying women to keep quiet about sexual assault allegations against him for decades.  The film mogul has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats for years.  CNN reports that Weinstein has made more than 185 donations to Democratic candidates and liberal organizations totaling more than $350,000.

Democrat Muslim IT Spy Scandal Spreads to Pelosi and Clinton.  This goes all the way to the top.  Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's top information technology (IT) aide was arrested Monday attempting to board a flight to Pakistan after wiring $283,000 from the Congressional Federal Credit Union to that country.  The Democrats have paid the Muslim IT spy ring $4 million since 2009.  FBI agents seized several hard computer drives that had been smashed from the home of former Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz's information technology aide.

Menendez has set a new low for blatant corruption in the US.  The bribery trial of senior New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez has it all.  Menendez is facing charges that he sold his US Senate office to a Palm Beach, Fla., eye doctor, his co-defendant Salomon Melgen, for bribes in the form of private jets stocked with Menendez's favorite beverages, a private villa at one of the lushest resorts in the Caribbean, and a Paris hotel suite for which Melgen spent 650,000 American Express points.  The two men met in 1993 when Melgen contributed $500 to Menendez's first House re-election campaign at a South Florida fundraiser — his first political contribution.  In the decades since, Melgen became a major high-dollar Democratic donor, and when Menendez was appointed to the Senate in 2006, they already had an extraordinarily close relationship.

Weiner and his wife have lied again, again and again.  Standing before a federal judge Monday morning [9/25/2017], Anthony Weiner sobbed as he faced sentencing for sexting a 15-year-old girl.  He had hit rock bottom, he told the judge.  He was making amends to his wife, Hillary Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin, and their 5-year-old son, Jordan.  Public approbation no longer mattered to him, nor did his now-ruined political career nor his public reputation.  He was once mentally diseased, but since his arrest in May by the FBI, no more.  The judge didn't buy it, sentencing Weiner to 21 months in prison.  It wasn't for lack of trying on Weiner's part, though.

N.J. voters overwhelmingly want Sen. Bob Menendez to resign if he is convicted of bribery.  New Jersey voters overwhelmingly want Sen. Bob Menendez to resign if he is convicted of bribery charges, and those with an unfavorable opinion of the Paramus Democrat outnumber those with a favorable view by more than 2-to-1, a Suffolk University poll conducted for the USA TODAY Network in New Jersey found.  Menendez, 63, went on trial Sept. 6 in U.S. District Court in Newark for allegedly taking bribes over a period of years to use his office to benefit the business and personal interests of his longtime friend and codefendant, Dr. Salomon Melgen, also 63, of North Palm Beach, Fla.

CNN Once Called Menendez Trial 'Big Deal,' So Where's the Coverage?  Since it began more than two weeks ago, CNN has provided a paltry 14 minutes and 11 seconds of coverage to the corruption trial of Democratic Senator Robert Menendez.  In fact, the 24-hour cable news network has mentioned the trial only once since September 7.

CNN Loves To Cover Corruption Trials Of Senators, Unless The Senator's A Democrat.  The ongoing trial of Sen. Bob Menendez is a big deal.  But you wouldn't know that from the scant coverage it has received from CNN.  The Democratic senator and his co-defendant face a collective 18 counts of bribery and fraud for a scheme involving private plane rides, luxury vacations, $750,000 in campaign contributions, and Medicare fraud.  If Menendez is found guilty and steps down from office, Republican Gov. Chris Christie could choose his successor — potentially altering the political makeup of the U.S. Senate.

Is This Why 50 Percent of NJ Voters Want Menendez Gone?  We've had almost a month of media silence on the corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ).  The New Jersey Democrat is accused of allowing his office to be used to help longtime friend Dr. Salomon Melgen in exchange for campaign contributions and lavish gifts, including paid vacations and over $700,000 in campaign contributions.  And it's not just the bribes.  USA Today had the rundown of the unethical allegations undertaken by Menendez that includes using his office to fast track visas for Melgen's girlfriends, stopping the Department of Homeland Security from donating cargo screening equipment to the Dominican Republic, and placing pressure on DHS to allow Melgen's company do the security.

Witness says Menendez lived large at Dominican resort.  Robert Menendez's stays at the luxurious Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic gave him access to white-sand beaches, a marina filled with expensive yachts and five golf courses, a resort executive testified Monday [9/18/2017] at the New Jersey senator's corruption trial.  The seven-acre gated community on the Caribbean Sea also boasts the top-rated golf course in the Dominican Republic, six international restaurants, a security staff of 800, and access to elite sports like pheasant shooting, Andres Pichardo Rosenberg, the resort's president, told a Newark federal jury.  "We import the eggs and cultivate them," Rosenberg explained when the judge asked, somewhat incredulously, if there are pheasants in the island nation.  "You cultivate the eggs to shoot them?" the judge said in disbelief.

Electing to Investigate Voter Fraud.  Broward County Election Supervisor Brenda Snipes' non-efforts to prevent voter fraud are typical of Democrat officials.  She sounds like your run-of-the-mill, corrupt Democrat capo from Philly or Pittsburgh whose primary objective is maintaining Democrats' power without regard for the rule of law or maintaining a civil society.  Both social norms and the Constitution are targeted by the nihilist, communist left/Democrat Party for annihilation. [...] Leftist apparatchiks like Snipes are vital to the Joey Stalins of the Democrat Party, the malevolent Schumer and abortionist Pelosi.  Snipes most likely considers Antifa to be a community organizing group; in fact, it is — like ACORN and Black Lives Matter — violent, anti-American, communist, and darlings of the mainstream media.

Senator's Corruption Trial Reveals State Department Favors.  For the first time in nearly four decades, a sitting U.S. senator is on trial for federal bribery, and he's dragging the State Department into his legal quagmire.  Sen. Bob Menendez's trial for bribery is shining an uncomfortable light on the lawmaker's efforts to pressure State Department, including allegations he helped settle a dispute over a lucrative foreign contract in favor of a friend and campaign donor.  That's just one of a dozen other bribery and corruption charges being levied against Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey.  Prosecutors also allege that the senator helped acquire U.S. visas for several of the donor's foreign girlfriends, citing official State Department records and emails between the senator and his staff.

Democrats Have a Pedophilia Problem.  Today, pedophile Seattle Democrat Mayor Ed Murray was forced to resign after a fifth person (his younger cousin) came forward and accused him of child molestation.  Ed Murray isn't the only Democrat pedophile out there.  Joe Biden who routinely liked to fondle kids during members of congress swearing in has gotten away with it for years.  Anthony Weiner sexted teen age girls with his four year old son next time him.  But those aren't the only Democrat pedophiles either.

Elite Epidemic:  At Least 10 US Mayors Accused of Child Sex Crimes in Just the Last Year.  As TFTP reported yesterday [9/13/2017], Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has resigned after a fifth victim has come forward and alleged the mayor raped him as a child — it was his cousin.  While this is certainly a massive revelation, it is important to note that Ed Murray is only one name on a long list of mayors accused of child sex-related crimes since 2016.  According to a scathing report from the Daily Caller, at least 10 current and former mayors have been accused of unspeakable crimes against children.  Ranging from child porn to rape, some of the victims were as young as four-years-old.

Cory Booker Gave $20,000 to Menendez's Legal Expense Fund.  Democratic Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.) gave $20,000 to the legal expense fund of Sen. Robert Menendez (D., N.J.), who is now on trial for corruption charges, records show.  Salomon Melgen, the wealthy Florida doctor prosecutors say had a "corrupt pact" with Menendez, and his wife also donated tens of thousands to a prior legal expense trust that was established by Menendez.  Booker appeared at the opening day of the corruption trial last week and sat in the first row behind his Democratic colleague.  Booker said he expects "some serious appeals" if his mentor is convicted.

Witness: Sen. Menendez Helped Me Get A Visa After My Rich Boyfriend Gave Him Money.  A Dominican woman testified on Tuesday [9/12/2017] that Sen. Bob Menendez, who faces felony corruption charges, helped her with her U.S. visa application after her alleged ex-boyfriend, who is also on trial, asked the Democratic senator to intervene.  Rosiell Polanco-Suera told the court her visa application was initially denied in 2008, but after her wealthy ex-boyfriend — Dr. Salomon Melgen, who was convicted of Medicaid fraud earlier this year — asked "the senator" to intervene, her application was green-lighted, the Associated Press reports.

If Bob Menendez is guilty, boot him:  No place for a senator on the take.  New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez stands trial in federal court, credibly charged with trading lavish gifts for government favors.  If convicted, he must be swiftly ejected from office by a bipartisan vote of his peers — never mind the collateral damage to the Senate Democratic caucus of which he is a part when Jersey's governor, currently Republican Chris Christie, gets to tap a successor.  Minority Leader Chuck Schumer ought to waste no time making that ethical standard clear.

Gay Democrat Seattle Mayor resigns after five claims of child molestation.  It took FIVE accusations to get this gay mayor to finally quit his job.

Democratic Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigns after fifth child sex-abuse allegation.  Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigned Tuesday, just hours after new allegationsthat he sexually abused a younger cousin decades ago in New York.  Murray, a former Democratic state legislator elected mayor in 2013, said in a statement he is resigning effective 5 p.m.  Wednesday [9/13/2017].

Seattle's Anti-Trump Democrat Mayor Resigns After Multiple Allegations Of Sex Abuse.  Seattle's Democrat Mayor Ed Murray has resigned his position after a fifth person came forward to accuse him of sexual abuse in the past.  This scandal has been unfolding since the spring but it finally caught up with him.

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray to resign.  Mayor Ed Murray is expected to resign at 5 p.m.  Wednesday [9/13/2017] amid allegations from five sex abuse accusers.  Murray made the announcement in a written statement at 1:07 p.m.  Tuesday, roughly two hours after a fifth man accused him of sexual abuse.

Democrat Sentenced to 21 Years in Prison For Running Ponzi Scheme.  Democrats embody the "Culture of Corruption," as Nancy Pelosi used to say, but have remained silent on the matter since for the past few years, so many of them have been placed behind bars.  And on Wednesday [9/6/2017], the first prosecution for a US Senator is taking place as Sen. Robert Menendez goes to court over $750,000 in contributions and gifts in the biggest corruption trial since ABSCAM.  Legal experts are expecting a conviction for Menendez and Dr Melgen on bribery charges.  Dr Melgen has already been convicted on fraud charges related to Medicaid fraud.  He has not been sentenced yet.  That could mean they are waiting to see how cooperative he will be against Menendez.

When Is A Scandal Not A Scandal?  When There's A Democrat Involved.  A sitting U.S. Senator is currently on trial for bribery, and if he's found guilty it could have major political ramifications.  Haven't heard about this case?  That's because the Senator in question is a Democrat.  A CNN story this week about the opening of the trial against New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez noted that "Democrats are eager to avoid the subject of Menendez's bribery trial."  That headline would have been just as accurate if it said "Reporters" instead of "Democrats."  Menendez in on trial for allegedly having sold his office in exchange for luxury vacations, private flights, and piles of campaign cash.

The Bob Menendez corruption trial sure won't be boring.  For the first time in nearly four decades, a sitting US senator goes on trial Wednesday on federal bribery charges in a case that could have profound political impact.  Prosecutors have laid out a strong case against New Jersey Democrat Robert Menendez in their indictment.  But in the two years since it was unveiled, the Supreme Court has made it much harder to win a conviction.  The senator is charged with taking nearly $1 million in personal gifts and campaign cash from a longtime friend, allegedly in return for political favors.

Judge Rejects Menendez's Request To Delay His Corruption Trial Because He's A Senator.  A federal judge in New Jersey rejected Sen. Bob Menendez's request to allow breaks in his criminal trial in order to fulfill his Senate duties, excoriating the senator for seeking "special treatment."  Menendez's lawyers filed a motion requesting that his upcoming criminal trial take recesses any time the senator is needed in Washington on official business.  They argued that forcing the senator to leave an ongoing trial to attend to congressional business would violate his due process rights.

Prosecutors: Menendez bribery scheme went on for years.  Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez allegedly starting taking bribes from a wealthy donor shortly after he entered the Senate in 2006, federal prosecutors assert in a new document.  Menendez's bribery and corruption trial is set to begin next week.  In preparation for that, Justice Department prosecutors filed a new document Wednesday laying out their case against the New Jersey senator, as well as Dr. Salomon Melgen, his alleged co-conspirator.  Melgen has already been convicted in a separate case of bilking Medicare but has not been sentenced yet.

Networks Hide Senator Bob Menendez's [D-NJ] Corruption Trial.  Federal prosecutors are currently trying to put away Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) on corruption charges, but in the world of the mainstream media, the trial isn't even going on.  If found guilty, Menendez's replacement could increase GOP control in the upper chamber of the legislature.  However, despite the high stakes, broadcast news networks have barely even mentioned the senator's name this year, let alone the trial.

NYT Article on Senator's Corruption Trial Omits the Word Democrat.  A "trivial detail."  But if the story was about a "Republican" senator, the word Republican would be in the headline... with "Conservative" thrown in too.  And probably in every sentence of the article.

Where's Coverage of Democratic Senator's Corruption Trial?  Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., is scheduled for trial on corruption charges on September 6, 2017.  The jury selection in that trial starts today.  While local newspapers like the NY Times and local television stations have covered jury selection, cable networks have been eerily silent.

Anti-Trump AG Raked In Campaign Donations From An Oil Tycoon With Ties To Putin.  One of the attorneys general who has sought probes against the Trump administration has accepted large individual campaign donations from an energy tycoon with connections to Russian President Vladimir Putin.  New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has accepted more than $60,000 in small donations from Leonard Blavatnik, a Ukrainian-born energy billionaire with ties to Russian oligarchs, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation examination of the Democrat's financial disclosure reports.  Blavatnik plowed $25,000 into Schneiderman's political war chest in January of 2017 — his generous contribution was one of the largest individual donations given to the New York Democrat this year.

Half of Detroit's 8 mayoral candidates are felons.  Half of the eight mayoral hopefuls on Detroit's primary ballot next week have been convicted of felony crimes involving drugs, assault or weapons, a Detroit News analysis shows.  Three were charged with gun crimes and two for assault with intent to commit murder.  Some of the offenses date back decades, the earliest to 1977.  The most recent was in 2008.  Political consultant Greg Bowens said there are candidates with past hardships in every election cycle.  It's not something unique to Detroit or the political arena in general, he said.

Four convicted felons seek to become Detroit mayor.  Half of the eight candidates in Detroit's mayoral primary are convicted felons, mainly for crimes involving drugs, firearms or assault with intent to commit murder.  Could make for exciting council meetings.  Other than that, Tuesday's voting in the nation's 23rd largest city is just another contest among Democrats for municipal control of a decaying big city.

Jeff Sessions Orders Look into 'DOJ Slush Fund' Payments to Leftists.  An internal Department of Justice memorandum obtained by Breitbart News Friday indicates Attorney General Jeff Sessions is trying to get to the bottom of the DOJ "slush fund" for left-wing groups he dismantled in June.  The memo asks all components of the DOJ to recount the last ten years of payments made to non-governmental organizations as third parties in settlements and provide that information to Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand, the number three Justice official.  These "cy pres" payments were a long-standing policy of having mostly corporate defendants, for example in a civil rights suit, agree to pay into charities as part of their settlement with the government to avoid further prosecution.

Jane Sanders's Little College That Couldn't.  Burlington College closed in 2016, crushed under the weight of debt it took on in a 2010 real estate deal.  In its last five years, this tiny liberal arts school of fewer than 200 students occupied the former St. Joseph's Orphanage (and its 33 acres, including the last virgin lakefront in town) overlooking Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks.  A $10 million acquisition from the cash-strapped Catholic diocese was made while Jane Sanders, the wife of Vermont's most famous socialist, was president of the college.  The site offered just what Sanders needed to fulfill the promise she made in 2004 to be a "transformative president."  The college's operating budget at the time was just $3.6 million, and it had no endowment.  The deal was made with a mortgage from the diocese, tax-exempt bonds, and a bridge loan from a 99-year-old philanthropist.  Twelve years and three administrations later, the last president penned a letter blaming Sanders, whom the board dismissed in 2011, for sealing the college's fate with an "appallingly inappropriate business deal."

Democrat Bob Brady Under Federal Investigation — Media Silent.  Another corrupt Democrat, this time Pennsvania Democrat Rep. Robert "Bob" Brady is under federal investigation over allegations his campaign illegally paid a primary challenger to drop out in 2012.  As is typical, Democrats circle the wagon and protect their own as Nancy Pelosi tried to defend the corrupt Brady.

Russia probe:  Democrats block key witness against shadowy firm Fusion GPS.  Senate Democrats used a parliamentary maneuver Wednesday [7/26/2017] to cut short a high-profile hearing, where a key witness was set to testify on Russia's misdeeds and also raise fresh allegations against the company behind the infamous anti-Trump dossier.  Bill Browder, the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital, was set to tell the Senate Judiciary Committee that the co-founder of the firm Fusion GPS was hired to conduct a "smear campaign" against him.

Dem Rep. Luis Gutierrez Has Now Paid His Wife More Than $400,000 From His Campaign Funds.  Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez (Ill.) has disbursed tens of thousands of dollars in campaign funds to his wife this year, bringing her total compensation to more than $400,000 since she first appeared on his campaign's payroll.  Gutierrez, who was first elected to Congress in 1992, recently grabbed headlines for saying that Democrats would "eliminate" Trump as president if they take back the House of Representatives.  It appears the one thing Gutierrez won't eliminate anytime soon is the lucrative campaign payments to his wife.

'Kerosene' Maxine Waters:  How Much Longer Will Her District Tolerate Her?  For the 2018 midterm election, Waters has a Republican challenger.  His name is Omar Navarro, born and raised in her district, one that is now 46 percent Hispanic and 24 percent black.  Navarro ran against her the last election cycle, getting only 24 percent of the vote.  But that was before Waters became the "face of the resistance."  Some tacticians argue that with Waters leading the "Trump Is Public Enemy No. 1" brigade, the Republican Party is better off.

FBI probe of Bernie Sanders' wife closely tracks Hillary's secret campaign plan.  The FBI and U.S. Attorney in Vermont are investigating Jane O'Meara Sanders for her role in a failed 2010, $10 million college land deal that she orchestrated during her seven-year stint as president of Burlington College in Vermont.  According to a series of 2015 emails to and from Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta, leaked to and published on Wikileaks, the Clinton team wrote an extensive political opposition memo entitled "Sanders Top Hits-Thematics."  The memo details Mrs. Sanders' role in the college's financial failure, and parallels the ongoing FBI investigation, now before a grand jury, into the scandal.

McAuliffe's Former Electric Car Company Audited for $6.4M in Repayment to Mississippi.  Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe's (D.) former electric car company has been audited to repay $6.4 million of public funds to the state of Mississippi.  GreenTech Automotive, which McAuliffe left in 2012, was unable to deliver on its promise to create jobs in the state of Mississippi, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.  Now Mississippi State Auditor Stacey Pickering is asking for the full sum of $5 million in public loans, along with interest and recovery costs, to be repaid in full within 30 days.  He warned GreenTech CEO Charles Wang that failure to pay could result in the state filing a lawsuit against the company.

Jane Sanders land deal:  Federal probe reportedly seeking grand jury testimony.  A federal probe into allegations that Sen. Bernie Sanders' wife fraudulently obtained a nearly $10 million loan for a land expansion at a Vermont college has intensified, with prosecutors reportedly calling a state official to testify before a grand jury.  The federal investigation is focused on actions by Jane Sanders in 2010, when she was president of Burlington College.  At the time, she sought a multi-million dollar loan for a new campus on 33 acres along Lake Champlain.  Sanders reportedly told college trustees and bank lenders that the college had millions of dollars in donations that could be used to repay the loan.

FBI trailing 'socialist' Bernie Sanders and wife over bank loan deal.  U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and his bride, Jane, have become the Bonnie and Clyde of national Democratic politics — the law is hot on their trail as the lovebirds restlessly move from one hideout to another.  The difference, of course, is that Bonnie and Clyde were dirt poor, while Sen. Sanders, the 75-year-old Social Justice Warrior, reported an income of $1,052,000 last year.

Claire McCaskill Used Undisclosed Foundation to Pay for Dinner at Russian Ambassador's House.  Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill (Mo.) used a personal foundation to pay for a dinner she attended at Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak's Washington, D.C., residence.  The senator had failed to disclose her role in the foundation until earlier this month.  McCaskill came under fire this March after she told the Washington Post she never had a "call or meeting" with Kislyak even though she had publicly announced both a call and meeting with him.  This week, CNN reported that McCaskill also attended a black-tie reception at Kislyak's D.C. residence in November 2015.  McCaskill's attendance at the dinner was accompanied by an $873 payment to the American-Russian Cultural Cooperation Foundation, where Kislyak serves on the board of directors as honorary chairman.

Will She Resign?  Democrat Sen Used Undisclosed Charity to Pay Russian Ambassador's Foundation.  An official secret connection between U.S. government officials and Russia has been discovered... and it's a Democrat who is the guilty party!

Bernie's Daughter [was] Paid $500k To Teach Woodworking At Jane's Bankrupt College.  Burlington College prided itself on catering to "non-traditional students," such as veterans and adults, and had a relatively small enrollment — about 200 students.  It also offered degrees in unconventional fields such as woodworking, but when Jane Sanders arrived at the college in 2004, it didn't offer any sort of program for woodworking.  That's when things get a little... corrupt.

Bernie Sanders Doesn't Like Being Asked About His Wife's FBI Investigation.  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) has reacted with dodging or hostility to questions about the reported FBI investigation into his wife Jane Sanders surrounding her tenure as head of the now-defunct Burlington College.  The couple has retained legal counsel amid the probe into allegations of bank fraud, Politico reported.  A federal investigation is probing allegations that Jane Sanders fraudulently obtained a bank loan for the college while she was at the helm, while the senator himself is being looked at for using his influence to pressure the bank to approve the loan.

Here's why the feds are investigating Bernie Sanders' wife Jane.  Because [Bernie] Sanders hasn't ruled out a presidential run in 2020, any federal investigation has the potential to become disastrous or, at the very least, politically embarrassing.  And because the scandal touches on the themes of education costs and six-figure severance packages — two issues that were central to Sanders' populist message — discussing the investigations at all could tarnish his brand as a champion of the little guy.

Bernie Cries Political Witch Hunt Over FBI Fraud Probe of Wife.  In an uncomfortable exchange with CNN's Erin Burnett Tuesday night [6/27/2017], Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) twice dismissed reports the FBI is actively investigating his wife, Jane Sanders, for fraudulent activities as president of Burlington College.  "My wife is about the most honest person I know," claimed Sanders, cutting off Burnett's initial line of questioning.  "When she came to that college it was failing financially and academically.  When she left it, it was in better shape than it had ever been."

[Recent events do not bode well] for the Democrats.  The Russia collusion story is now in full blowback mode, with obvious questions being asked about the Obama administration, which failed to take action against what the Democrats now hype as a veritable Pearl Harbor, an "act of war."  Watching Dems talk their way out this one will be fun.  Coming attractions:  the multimillion-dollar donations to the Clinton Foundation after Hillary approved sale of 20% of our uranium reserves to Russia, and then-president Obama's open mic comment telling Russia's then-president that he would have "more flexibility" after the election, which looks a lot like outright collusion.

Trump is not under an FBI investigation.  Bernie Sanders is.  The irony here is rich.  Democrats have rallied to Bernie Sanders as the leader of the opposition against Donald Trump.  He attracts huge crowds across the nation.  One of his acolytes tried to assassinate members of Congress.  And Bernie Sanders is under investigation by the FBI, unlike the president.  In fact, Sanders and his wife are both under investigation stemming from a bank loan.  The FBI is investigating whether Sanders used his position to pressure the bank to give a college in Vermont a loan.  His wife is the president of the college and signed the paperwork.  So President Trump did not pressure James Comey, but Bernie Sanders might have pressured a bank.  The FBI is now investigating.  And still the left will rally to Sanders because they really do not care about the allegations.  They just hate Donald Trump.

Bernie Sanders' Wife Lawyers Up Amid FBI Probe Of Alleged Fraud.  Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' wife, Jane Sanders, has hired two well-known attorneys amid an ongoing investigation into allegations she defrauded a bank while serving as president of the now-defunct Burlington College.  Jane Sanders served as president of Burlington College from 2004 until 2011 and is blamed for leading the school into bankruptcy by falsifying a loan application.  Rich Cassidy, a lawyer based in Burlington, Vt., and Larry Robbins, an attorney from Washington, D.C. who previously defended politicians on both sides of the aisle, are representing Jane Sanders against the allegations, a representative for Sen. Sanders confirmed to Politico.

Can We Talk About Bernie Sanders And His Wife Being Under FBI Investigation?  In 2016, reports about Sen. Bernie Sander's (I-VT) wife, Jane, running the college into the ground, coupled with his tax plan, made for some good cannon fodder against the self-described democratic socialist's financially reckless agenda during the 2016 primaries.  Yet, what was missed was the fact that the FBI began peering through the financial records of the college, which had secured a $10 million loan to expand the campus along Lake Champlain.  The local Catholic archdiocese had owned the property and had just settled on sexual abuse charges that totaled over $17 million.  They were eager to sell.  Still, the college's plan to expand seemed lofty.  It only had an enrollment of around 200.  In short, this expansion project sunk the college, but the loan to secure the purchase involved Sen. Sanders, who reportedly placed pressure on the People's United Bank for the loan.

Jane Sanders Hires Lawyers in DOJ Probe of Burlington College Land Deal.  Jane Sanders, wife of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), has hired attorneys to represent her in a Department of Justice probe of her time as president of Burlington College.  A former Burlington employee who coordinated the school's response to an FBI subpoena in February 2016 said that she was contacted by Sanders's lawyers, VT Digger reports.  The probe concerns a land deal Sanders conducted while she was president.  Coralee Holm, the former employee, said that the lawyers "wanted information on what I had been asked by the FBI.  They were trying to get clarification on what the accusations are because they had not been contacted by anybody as to an investigation."  She received a call from Burlington attorney Rich Cassidy in late April or early May.

Bernie and Jane Sanders, under FBI investigation for bank fraud, hire lawyers.  Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and his wife, Jane Sanders have hired prominent defense attorneys amid an FBI investigation into a loan Jane Sanders obtained to expand Burlington College while she was its president, CBS News confirms.  Politico Magazine first reported the Sanders had hired lawyers to defend them in the probe.  Sanders' top adviser Jeff Weaver told CBS News the couple has sought legal protection over federal agents' allegations from a January 2016 complaint accusing then-President of Burlington College, Ms. Sanders, of distorting donor levels in a 2010 loan application for $10 million from People's United Bank to purchase 33 acres of land for the institution.  According to Politico, prosecutors might also be looking into allegations that Sen. Sanders' office inappropriately urged the bank to approve the loan.

Jane and Bernie Sanders Under FBI Fraud Investigation Begun During Obama Administration.  At the end of 2010, Mrs. Jane Sanders took out $10 million in loans on behalf of Burlington College to purchase a 32-acre swathe of land from the Roman Catholic diocese, which put the land up for sale to help cover the costs of a $17 million sexual-abuse settlement.  As Ms. Sanders pursued financing for the land acquisition, she repeatedly said that Burlington College had received more than $2 million in fundraising commitments and pledges, according to numerous records.  However, in fiscal year 2011, Burlington College raised only $279,000, though the college had earlier claimed to have secured $1.2 million in confirmed pledges.  The college almost immediately fell short on its financial obligations as the fundraising pledges and commitments Ms. Sanders cited in loan agreements never materialized.  Less than a year after leading Burlington College into massive debt, Ms. Sanders resigned, taking with her a $200,000 severance package.  The college was forced to close in 2016.

Sessions drains a slush fund.  Firing Pheet Bharara as United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York was the first step toward ending a corrupt slush fund scheme and restoring a constitutional government.  Bharara was crooked politician who instead of sending corrupt CEO to prison for their misdeeds accepted payoffs.  Oh not directly.  He was not that stupid.  No, Bharara allowed the crooked CEOs to buy their way out of jail by "giving" billions to Democratic Party-approved "charities."  This scheme dodged the Constitution, which holds that Congress writes the budget, not the president.  (This is why the opposition always declares a presidential budget proposal DOA, because by definition it is.)

Janet Napolitano is sorry she got caught trying to rig a state audit.  In a contentious four-and-a-half-hour legislative hearing yesterday [5/2/2017] in Sacramento, Janet Napolitano, president of the University of California, made a pro forma apology for conduct that should have gotten her fired. [...] And she still has her job.  Despite the bipartisan anger that was expressed at the hearing.  And nobody cares that she has dodged any responsibility for the safety of the Berkeley campus, despite her background as secretary of homeland security.  Nobody has even asked her about it, so far as I know.

Sen. Robert Menendez's (D-NJ) No-Good, Awful, Very Bad Day.  The walls are closing in on Senator Robert Menendez.  With Dr. Salomon Melgen's conviction today, it's clear Menendez isn't long for the Senate.  It's time for Senator Schumer to see that too.  Menendez's political career was handed a massive setback today.  One of his key partners — Dr. Salomon Melgen — was convicted on all 67 counts of Medicare fraud.  It's now apparent that Menendez's days in the Senate are numbered... possibly in the single digits.

Draining the Swamp in NYC.  This city that I was born and raised in is at the nadir of its history with only a 20% voter turnout and our state has over 30 corrupt officials who've either quit in disgrace or who've been arrested.

Andrew Cuomo manages to earn $738,000 from a book that sold only 3,200 copies.  Andrew Cuomo seems like someone who could teach Donald Trump a few things about making a deal.  Or else he is corrupt and has been bribed.  Which explanation fits the facts better?

John Podesta slaps the Daily Caller with a cease-and-desist letter.  John Podesta slapped the Daily Caller with a cease-and-desist letter on Wednesday [3/29/2017] after the conservative news outlet published a story about the former Clinton campaign chairman and Obama counselor.  The letter sent to publisher Neil Patel by Podesta's counsel, Marc Elias, singles out a March 26 article titled, "EXCLUSIVE: John Podesta May Have Violated Federal Law By Not Disclosing 75,000 Stock Shares."  In it, reporter Richard Pollock wrote that Podesta "may have violated federal law by failing to disclose the receipt of 75,000 shares of stock from a Kremlin-financed company when he joined the Obama White House in 2014."

Podesta Still Hasn't Explained Where 41,000 Stock Shares Went.  John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign chairman, has not accounted for thousands of shares he was given by a company where he served on the board of directors with three powerful business figures with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.  "Your letter does not respond to the substance of the article, which concerns the whereabouts of 75,000 shares of stock in Joule that Mr. Podesta was entitled to receive," The Daily Caller News Foundation's publisher, Neil Patel, said.  "The fact that Mr. Podesta, a senior national political figure, apparently sat on the board of Joule with Russian state-owned entities only elevates the importance of this matter."

Peter Schweizer Details How John Podesta May Have Violated Federal Law.  Tuesday [3/28/2017] on Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Breitbart editor at large Peter Schweizer, the author of "Clinton Cash," detailed how the former chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign John Podesta may have violated federal law by failing to disclose stock shares he owned from a Kremlin-funded company.  Schweizer said, "In 2011, John Podesta joins the board of this very small energy company called Joule Energy based out of Massachusetts.  About two months after he joins the board of a Russian entity called Rusnano, puts a billion rubles which is about 35-million-dollar into John Podesta's company.  Now, what is Rusnano?  It's not a private company, Steve.  It is a fund directly funded by the Kremlin.  In fact, the Russian science minister called Rusnano, Putin's child.  So you have the Russian government investing in one John Podesta's businesses in 2011, while he is an advisor to Hillary Clinton at the State Department."

Democrat Lobbyist Podesta Made $500K Lobbying For Chinese Firm Convicted Of Illegal Sales To Iran.  Democratic super-lobbyist Tony Podesta grossed more than $500,000 to represent a Chinese company criminally convicted in March of sending illegal shipments of telecom equipment to Iran, The Daily Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group has learned.  The seriousness of the illegal sales to Iran were so extreme and continued for so long — from 2010 to last year — the Department of Justice (DOJ) imposed a record $1.19 billion fine on the ZTE Telecommunications company, making it the largest penalty ever imposed in a U.S. sanctions case.  The Chinese firm hired the Podesta Group, one of Washington's biggest and best-connected lobbying companies in the nation's capital, in January 2016.  ZTE retained Podesta's personal help as negotiations intensified for a final resolution with DOJ during the final year of President Barack Obama's tenure in the White House.

Hillary Clinton and John Podesta's Troubling Ties to Russia.  Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and the author of "Clinton Cash," explained on Fox News Tuesday how a Russia connection to the Clinton campaign and Obama presidency is much bigger and more troubling than anything Democrats have accused Team Trump of.  During his appearance on "Fox & Friends," Schweizer alleged that Clinton campaign chair John Podesta probably violated federal law when he failed to disclose his stock holdings in a Kremlin-funded company.

How Local Citizens Can Take Up the Fight Against Public Corruption.  New York might be the epitome of a state where corruption and abuse have run wild.  Politicians here have long failed to live up to their promises to fix things.  The New York Legislature and governor have passed "ethics reforms" year after year of late, yet New York remains one of the most corrupt states in the nation.  According to a University of Missouri study, New York has been home to the most corrupt officials in the U.S. over the past decade or so.  Waste and favor-trading is part of this culture of corruption, and it goes right down to the local level.  On Long Island, one town official in Oyster Bay was convicted of tax fraud surrounding a scheme where he secretly guided taxpayer-backed contracts to a paving company, where he also worked.  These examples are just the tip of the iceberg.

De Blasio decision [is] a huge win for corrupt officals everywhere.  He beat the rap, so Bill de Blasio needs a campaign song to celebrate.  I humbly recommend a twist on a 1960's hit, "I fought the law and the law won."  The mayor could boast a different ending:  "I fought the law and the law lost."  The decision by federal and state prosecutors not to file criminal charges against de Blasio is a huge victory for him — and for corrupt officials everywhere.  In plain English, the statement by prosecutors boils down to this:  You can avoid the law, you can evade the law and you can do your big donors' bidding.  The only thing you can't do is put money in your pocket.  Everything else is legal, especially when your expensive private lawyers say it is.  That's a very low hurdle for public service.

Congressional Black Caucus PAC Spends Big on Luxury Resorts, Restaurants.  The Congressional Black Caucus PAC (CBC PAC) spends lavishly on upscale resorts and hotels, catering at exclusive restaurants, and on fundraising and Broadway tickets, according to a review of campaign finance records.  The CBC PAC, which is the fundraising arm of the Congressional Black Caucus, puts far more money towards administrative and fundraising purposes than it donates to candidates, the intended purpose of the political action committee.

Feds will question de Blasio about campaign fundraising.  Mayor de Blasio will be questioned by federal prosecutors Friday morning as part of the wide-ranging investigation into his campaign fundraising, sources told The [New York] Post.  The long-anticipated sit-down with prosecutors from Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara's office will take place at the Midtown offices of the mayor's lawyer, Barry H. Berke of Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, sources said.  The feds have been probing whether de Blasio and his aids traded favors in exchange for donations to his 2013 campaign or to his shuttered nonprofit, the Campaign for One New York.

Chilling New Scandal Hits House Democrats; Media Stays Silent.  The Democrats are in another pickle that has to do with technology after shady congressional aides have been caught taking $100,000 from an Iraqi politician; all while they still had administrator level access to the House computer network, according to The Daily Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group which analyzed court documents.

Democrat Caught Having Sex with 17-Year-Old Boy at Rest Stop.  Democratic leaders in Minnesota are demanding a state lawmaker withdraw from his re-election bid after police claim he admitted to having sex with a 17-year-old boy at a rest stop.  While Rep. Kerry Gauthier, 56, will lose support from fellow Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party members if he continues with his campaign, party leaders stopped short Monday [2/27/2017] of asking him to immediately resign.

Iowa Moves Against Democratic Party Slush Funds.  Iowa, like so many other states, has gone Republican.  What happens when you have a Republican legislature and a Republican governor?  The corrupt public sector union spigot gets turned off.

The corruption cloud over Mayor de Blasio just got darker.  Mayor de Blasio set Monday [2/13/2017] for his State of the City address, but possibly more worrisome is the state of his personal finances — at least when it comes to financing his mounting legal bills.  Last week, we noted problems with de Blasio's plan to set up a legal-defense fund to pay the lawyers representing him in several corruption probes.  Those problems may be worse than we thought.

Washington Post demonstrates importance of voter ID laws.  Little agitates Democrats more than claims of voter fraud.  Such fraud is a hardy perennial of American politics.  Our history is full of examples, such as Mayor Daley's Chicago.  Yet, Democrats want us to believe that, notwithstanding solid evidence to the contrary, it's not a problem in modern American politics.  The reason is obvious.  Democrats don't want laws and procedures to protect against voter fraud because they want to preserve their ability to engage in it.

Liberals Now Getting a Taste of How the Obama Years Felt for Conservatives.  Voter fraud?  Now you're talking Mom and apple pie to the Alinsky left.  Obama himself never bothered to win a real election in Illinois, always managing to blackmail his opponents into resigning before the vote was ever taken.  Obama learned his politics under the tutelage of Emil Jones, the godfather of the Illinois machine.  There are hundreds of jokes about the dear departed voting for Democrats in Boston, Chicago, Philly, and New York.  Today we have millions of illegal voters — foreign nationals with unknown loyalties — voting wherever paid Democrat thugs can intimidate the wrong American voters.

Trump's Got a Big Job Reining In Voter Fraud.  Fraud long has been an ugly element of American politics, and it has been almost exclusively the dominion of Democrats.  From the reckless corruption of the Boss Tweed and the Tammany Hall thugs in New York during the mid-1800s through the heavy-handed precinct politics favored by Mayor Richard J. Daley and his successors in Chicago during much of the 20th century, to the wide-spread graft of today, the Democratic Party has virtually sole claim to the mechanisms of election corruption.  The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), of which former President Barack Obama has had a close working association and heavy funding for his campaign coffers, has a 40-year rap sheet of widespread voter registration fraud.  Untold thousands who went to their just rewards years ago are resurrected on each election day to cast one more ballot for their favorite Democrat pol, while an estimated 2.8 million are registered to vote in more than one state and often do.

Rep. John Lewis and Top Aide Hit With Ethics Complaint.  A watchdog group is asking congressional ethics officials to investigate Rep. John Lewis (D., Ga.) and his chief of staff over apparent violations of House ethics rules, according to a letter released on Monday [1/30/2017].  The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust's letter is asking the Office of Congressional Ethics to probe Lewis chief of staff Michael Collins' dual roles in the congressman's Washington office and as the treasurer for his 2016 reelection campaign.  Ethics rules bar senior House staff from serving in any fiduciary role for a political organization, and specifically mentioned campaign treasurers as a prohibited position for such staffers.

Former Clinton Superdelegate Chaka Fattah Begins 10-Year Prison Sentence.  Former Rep. Chaka Fattah (D., Pa.), who was a superdelegate for failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, has reported to prison to begin his 10-year sentence stemming from numerous corruption charges.  Fattah reported Wednesday [1/25/2017] to the Federal Correctional Institution-McKean in western Pennsylvania near the New York border, CBS Philly reported.

How Illinois Violates Voting Rights.  Rule 4 has stolen the authority of the state governor to veto bills since the bills are vetoed by the speaker.  The governor can only sign or pass bills passed, not by the two chambers of the state legislature, but only those that the Speaker of the House allows to appear for a vote.  This strategy, of denying the people a voice in legislation, is a violation of the one person one vote concept that has been repeatedly affirmed by SCOTUS.  The votes of not just one person but all people in Illinois are stolen by one person, the House Speaker.  The autocratic rule practiced by Obama then can be understood because he comes from Illinois.  This has led to a one-man government in Illinois.  All financial issues handled by the legislature are then controlled by one person and his political party.

Top Aide to Rep. John Lewis Again Skirts Ethics Rules.  The top aide to Rep. John Lewis (D., Ga.) served dual roles in the congressman's office and on his 2016 reelection campaign, possibly running afoul of House ethics rules, public records show.  Michael Collins, Lewis' chief of staff, served as the campaign's treasurer in 2015 and 2016, according to Federal Election Commission records.  Ethics rules bar senior House staffers from working in any fiduciary role for a political organization, including congressional campaigns.  Senior staff "may not receive any compensation for either providing legal services to a political organization, or for serving as an officer (such as treasurer) of such an organization," according to the House ethics manual.  That rule applies to all members of Congress and employees who earn the "senior staff" rate of pay; the salary threshold in 2015 was $121,956.  According to congressional research service Legistorm, Collins made $167,000 that year.

Why Term-Limiting People Like John Lewis Would be Good for the Nation.  John Lewis has been a Representative for Georgia's 5th district for 28 years.  The 5th district of Georgia, which is mostly the city of Atlanta, has seen 5,203 commissions of violent crime in 2015, with 94 murders, 170 rapes, almost 2,000 robberies, almost 3,000 aggravated assaults and 25,556 total property crimes according to the FBI.  Trump is right, Atlanta is crime-ridden.  But not only is Atlanta a pretty dangerous city, it has become more dangerous since it has become a major drug-trafficking hub for Mexican drug cartels.

Maxine Waters' Daughter Profits From Lucrative Campaign Operation.  The daughter of Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) was paid nearly $70,000 by her mother's campaign during the 2016 election cycle.  Karen Waters has been on the payroll of her mother's campaign committee, Citizens for Waters, since 2006.  She has pulled in more than $600,000 for her services since that time.  Karen is in charge of endorsement mailers, known as "slate mailers," for her mother's campaign.  The slate mailer operation has generated hundreds of thousands of dollars for Waters' federal campaign committee in recent years.

The law was bent and broken to keep Clinton in the game.  [Scroll down]  Democrat voters also should be questioning the legitimacy of Clinton's nomination because the rule of law was corrupted to preserve her political viability.  Her candidacy should have ended when the email server story broke.  (Really, it should have ended with the publication of Clinton Cash, but the Democrats incorrectly believed their controlled media could insulate her from the fallout of those astounding revelations.)  The politicized Obama Justice Department did Democrats no favors by staving off indictments that would have taken Clinton out of the game, or by slow-walking the email investigation until her replacement became prohibitively difficult.

Former governor fined $5 million for 2011 financial scandal.  Former Democratic New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine was fined $5 million today [1/5/2016] by a federal judge for his role as head of a brokerage firm that took $1.2 billion from its clients — mostly farmers and ranchers — amid its impending collapse.  Recall that his brokerage, MF Global, lost big money betting on European sovereign debt.  When it happened, the firm's officers began dipping into clients' money in a futile effort to prevent its collapse.  In the end, all of the money was returned to the clients, but the firm's breach of trust was unlike anything that had happened in the history of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the regulatory entity that took Corzine to court.

Communism Doesn't Pay:  Two Grand Juries Circling de Blasio And His Administration.  The walls must be closing in on New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-NY).  Out of the five(!) separate investigations into de Blasio and the shakedown operation masquerading as an administration he runs, two have moved forward to the extremely serious step of presenting evidence to a grand jury.  The two criminal grand juries, one federal and one state, represent, the "strongest indication" yet that criminal charges are forthcoming, according to the New York Times, which broke the story.

Mayor de Blasio fined over $47G for violating campaign finance regulations.  Mayor de Blasio was hit with over $47,000 in fines for violating campaign finance rules — including having his partially taxpayer-funded campaign pick up the tab for a makeup artist for his family and a six-figure payout to his buddy's PR firm that appeared unwarranted.  The huge fine is one of the highest on any of the 2013 campaigns.  The Campaign Finance Board, in a determination released Thursday [12/15/2016], levied most of the $47,778 in fines against the mayor for what it called "impermissible" post-election spending.

Judge orders Fattah to prison despite appeal.  Former Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) will have to appeal his corruption conviction from prison starting in January, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday [12/20/2016].  Fattah, 60, was sentenced last week to 10 years in prison on charges of fraud, bribery and money laundering after a jury convicted him on more than 20 counts.  He has been ordered to report to prison by Jan. 25.  Fattah had argued a Supreme Court ruling earlier this year that limits the legal definition of bribery would likely help his appeal, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Ex-Congressman and Gun Control Advocate Found Guilty of Corruption.  Former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah was sentenced Monday [12/12/20167] to a 10-year prison term by a judge who said he was "astonished" that a veteran legislator would steal government and charity funds to pay his son's debts and buy a vacation home.

Former Philadelphia Congressman Chaka Fattah sentenced to 10 years in prison.  Former U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah was sentenced Monday [12/12/2016] to 10 years in prison, one of the longest terms of incarceration ever imposed on a member of Congress for federal corruption crimes.  The Philadelphia Democrat remained stoic as U.S. District Judge Harvey Bartle III announced the prison term — half as long as the two decades Fattah spent in Congress.

Democratic ex-Congressman Chaka Fattah sentenced to ten years in prison.  Former Democratic Representative Chaka Fattah has been sentenced to ten years in prison after being found guilty of a litany of federal corruption charges.  Fattah, 60, was convicted in June for 22 charges including racketeering, money laundering, and mail and wire fraud.  On Monday [12/12/2016] he received ten years in prison.  That was the end result of a long campaign of corruption designed to pay back the illegal $1 million loan he took when trying to become mayor of his hometown of Philadelphia, CBS reported.

Andrew Cuomo's Top Aides and Donors Indicted On Corruption Charges.  An array of figures from Gov. Andrew Cuomo's inner circle — including a confidante so close the governor called him "my father's third son" — got slapped with a sweeping 14-count federal indictment today, which alleges they colluded in a pair of schemes to solicit bribes for state assistance and to rig economic development contracts for companies that gave to Cuomo's campaigns.  A grand jury gave crusading U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara the go-ahead to prosecute his case against Joseph Percoco, the governor's former campaign manager, deputy executive secretary, political fixer and body man, on charges he solicited bribes and a "low-show job" for his wife from two major Cuomo contributors.  In return, the federal government alleges Percoco pressured executive agencies and entities to offer assistance and loosen regulations for the companies' operations in New York State — and lied about the arrangement on disclosure forms.

NY Governor's top aides indicted on sweeping corruption charges.  We've discussed U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara here many times in the past.  His pursuit of government corruption wherever it may be found and the prosecution of those who betray the trust of the public has become legendary.  That's why, when he told reporters earlier this year that he detected an "air of corruption" in the executive branch of New York's state government people were rightly looking over their shoulders.  Now his work in that area is moving into high gear.  Bharara has made his case to a grand jury and been given the green light to take eight top aides and associates of Governor Andrew Cuomo to trial on charges of corruption.

Meltdown at Justice:  Attorney General Lynch Abdicated Her Duty in the Clinton Probes.  Fewer than three of 10 Americans trust government to do the right thing always or most of the time, Gallup reports, and the years since 2007 are "the longest period of low trust in government in more than 50 years."  The details emerging about the multiple investigations into Hillary Clinton explain a lot about this ebbing public confidence in institutions such as the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Feds Open Criminal Probe of Thornton Law Firm, Major Democratic Fundraiser.  Federal prosecutors in Boston have opened a grand jury investigation into potentially illegal campaign contributions from lawyers at the Thornton Law Firm, a leading donor to Democrats around the country, according to two people familiar with the probe.  The U.S. Attorney's office is one of three agencies now looking into the Boston-based personal injury firm's practice of reimbursing its partners for millions of dollars in political donations, according to the two people.  The law firm has insisted that the donations were legal, but, soon after the Globe and the Center for Responsive Politics revealed the firm's practice, politicians began returning hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations.

"Fast Eddie," ex-Chicago alderman, indicted again.  It's the second time for this guy, and he's a big deal, the former boss of the Cook County Regular Democratic Organization, otherwise known as "the Machine," Fast Eddie Vrdolyak. [...] The onetime 10th Ward alderman later switched to the Republican Party and he contributed to the destruction of the GOP in suburban Cook County, where it was once a potent political force.  Do you wonder why Illinois isn't trending red like Wisconsin and Michigan?  Fast Eddie is one of the reasons.

Massachusetts law firm donated $1.6M to Democrats including Hillary Clinton and received bonuses that matched their political donations in massive 'straw-donor scheme'.  A Massachusetts law firm has been accused of funneling funds to the Democrats through an massive and illegal straw-donor scheme.  A growing number of party politicians are now returning donations from Thornton Law after it was found that the firm's partners received bonuses that matched their political donations in what may be one of the largest schemes ever revealed.  An investigation found that partners donated nearly $1.6 million to mostly Democratic committees and candidates, including Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, from 2010 through 2014.  During that same period, the lawyers received $1.4 million listed as 'bonuses,' including more than 280 in amounts that precisely matched their donations.

Clinton Email Scandal Evokes Berger Burglary.  A Sandy Berger quality colors Hillary Clinton shielding her State Department emails from FOIA requests and Congressional subpoenas, but not foreign hackers, on a private server.  More than a decade ago, the late national security advisor to President Bill Clinton shoved documents from the National Archives down his pants and in his socks.  Under the guise of needing privacy for cell phone calls, he absconded from the archives with the material regarding terrorism and hid it under a construction trailer.  Later, he retrieved the papers to destroy the embarrassing contents.  Library larceny isn't normal behavior for an official at the highest level of government.  Neither is shielding public business on a private server.

Boston law firm accused of massive straw-donor scheme.  A small law firm that has given money to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Harry Reid, President Obama and many others is accused of improperly funneling millions of dollars into Democratic Party coffers.  The program was exposed by the Center for Responsive Politics and the same team of Boston Globe investigative reporters featured in the movie "Spotlight."  The Thornton Law Firm has just 10 partners, but dollar for dollar, it's one of the nation's biggest political donors, reports CBS News correspondent Tony Dokoupil.

Hold Democrats Strictly Accountable for the Clintons.  The Democratic Party needs to pay an agonizing price for robust support of Hillary (Obama, too, for breaching national security by being on Hillary's private servers and lying about it). There's no wink and a nudge "this is just politics" excuse for Democrats.  You know, Reid and Democrats claiming just to be good soldiers.  That works in Washington, a city wallowing in cynicism — and with every new revelation, a capitol city riddled with corruption.  But elsewhere?  Not where honest citizens live.  The Democrats are colluding.  They're knowingly aiding and abetting Hillary's criminal conduct — multiple criminal actions, in fact.  Grave breaches of the law that very likely seriously compromised national security.  That's your safety and your family's.  The violations are obvious.  Democrats have no plausible excuses for backing the Clintons.

A $72-million apartment project.  Top politicians.  Unlikely donors.  No one is registered to vote at the run-down house on 223rd Street.  The living room window has been broken for months.  A grit-covered pickup sits in the dirt front yard with a flat tire.  Yet dozens of donations to local politicians — totaling more than $40,000 — have come from four of the people who have lived there over the last eight years.  Victor Blanco, a repairman originally from El Salvador, gave the most:  22 donations totaling $20,300 since 2008, according to contribution reports.  More than half that money went to U.S. Rep. Janice Hahn (D-Los Angeles) while she was pursuing local, state and federal office, according to contribution reports.

WikiLeaks: Tax Form Reveals John Podesta Continued Ties to Russian Energy Company After Claiming He Divested.  New WikiLeaks emails show Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta apparently maintained his connection to Russian government-backed Joule Unlimited long after he claimed to have severed ties and divested from the energy company.  As Breitbart news previously reported, Podesta obtained "75,000 common shares" from his membership on Joule's executive board.  He transferred those shares to his daughter, Megan Rouse, and designated her Dublin, California residence as the address for Leonidio Holdings LLC, the Delaware-based holding company that Podesta used to transfer his Joule shares.

A Warning, A Reminder, The Final Ten Days.  [Scroll down]  [T]here is nothing they will not do to retain their power.  Every social media platform that brings sunlight represents an existential threat to them.  Every voice that shares reality must be shut down, controlled and removed.  There is nothing they will not do to retain themselves.  There are trillions of dollars at stake.  You've seen it play out with censorship on Facebook and shadowbanning on Twitter.  However, that's small potatoes considering the scope of what they are capable of.  Shutting down YouTube to block visibility of Trump Rallies, and the voice therein, is no different.  Any action that can be taken to overwhelm the truth telling will be deployed.

They Knew:  The End of the Clinton Lies Begin.  When in doubt, the Clintons take refuge in the final lie that you may be able to prove that they did wrong, but not that they meant to do wrong.  That was Hillary's final email defense to the FBI.  Spliced with claims of memory loss due to a concussion was that old Sergeant Schultz favorite, "I know nothing."  But that defense completely falls apart once you prove that they did know.  That is what the leaked emails have begun doing.  They are establishing that the Sergeant Schultz defense is utterly hollow.  Cheryl Mills knew.  John Podesta knew.  Barack Obama knew.  And Hillary Clinton knew.  When Obama told a lie that could easily be disproven while trying to distance himself from Hillary, Mills quickly fired off a warning that he had better get his story straight.  And his people did.  That makes Obama complicit before and after the fact.  He knew what Hillary was doing when she was doing it.  And his people participated in the effort to cover it up afterward, not just to protect her, but to protect him.

Democrat Corruption is Much Worse Than Trump.  This week the [Wall Street] Journal revealed that Clinton crony Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe — no stranger to suspicious fund-raising irregularities — funneled more than half a million dollars to the unsuccessful state senate campaign of the wife of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.  McCabe, whom the Journal describes as FBI Director James Comey's "right-hand man," was deeply involved in the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server — an investigation that found Mrs. Clinton in clear violation of the law but unindictable because... well, just because.  Fortunately, Mr. McCabe has investigated himself and found himself completely innocent of any wrongdoing!

Hillary Clinton's chain of command for dirty tricks.  If you put together data from James O'Keefe's two videos for Project Veritas Action (transcripts [elsew]here), you can see the actual organizational structure used by the Democratic Party for vote-stealing dirty tricks.

Kathleen Kane gets 10 to 23 months in jail, judge chides her for political 'ego'.  Former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane was sentenced to up to two years behind bars followed by a probation that will keep her under court supervision for nearly a decade for crimes she committed in pursuit of retribution against political foes.  "This case is about ego — ego of a politician consumed with her image from Day One," Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy said during Kane's sentencing Monday in Montgomery County Court.  "And instead of focusing solely on the business of fighting crime, her focus was on defeating these perceived enemies."

Former Pennsylvania Democratic AG Sentenced to 10-23 Months in Jail.  Pennsylvania's former Democratic Attorney General Kathleen Kane was sentenced to 10 to 23 months in jail for perjury and obstruction of justice that was a part of a political retaliation feud.  Kane, 50, had illegally disclosed details from a grand jury investigation to embarrass a rival and then lied about the incident under oath, local ABC affiliate WTAE reported.  The former attorney general was also sentenced to eight years of probation by Montgomery County Judge Wendy Demchick-Alloy.  "This case is about retaliation and revenge against perceived enemies who this defendant ... felt had embarrassed her in the press," Demchick-Alloy said during the sentencing.

Republicans claim 'collusion' after email appears to show DOJ, Clinton campaign contact.  Republicans accused the Hillary Clinton campaign and Obama Justice Department of "collusion" on Tuesday [10/11/2016] after an email surfaced from the latest WikiLeaks document dump indicating the Clinton camp got a heads-up from the DOJ about one of the former secretary of state's court cases.

November 8, 2016: America's First-Ever National Refenderum on Government Corruption.  If you would like to know how a Hillary Clinton administration would operate, remind yourself of how her email scandal was handled, not just by Hillary and her aides, but by the Obama Department of Justice, the FBI and the Republicans in Congress — one might say they are all unindicted co-conspirators in a cover-up.  It is a scandal punctuated by government lying and stonewalling and a conspicuous absence of moral courage by those in a position to do the right thing. [...] The efforts taken by the Clintons to avoid transparency by setting up a private server and the quantity of money flowing to them dwarfs any previous government scandal.  During Hillary's public service, about $250 million went to the Clintons directly and about $2 billion to the Clinton Foundation, an entity seemingly designed to intentionally evade the laws preventing foreign interests from influencing American politics and policy decisions.

Trump Foundation Probe Shows NY AG Uses Office to Protect Clinton, Attack Her Political Foes.  Despite what you may hear from political talking heads, there is no question that this move by the Democratic New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office is simply an extension of an ongoing, politically motivated probe into Donald Trump's charity.  It has previously been reported that it is no secret Schneiderman is a Hillary Clinton supporter.  Disclosures from 2015 show he donated $2,700 to Clinton's campaign, the maximum amount allowed under federal law.  He also serves on the Clinton campaign's leadership council for the state of New York.

Bridgeport State Rep. Christina Ayala arrested on 19 voting fraud charges.  State Rep. Christina "Tita" Ayala, D-Bridgeport, was arrested Friday [9/30/2016] on 19 voting fraud charges.  Ayala, 31, is accused of voting in local and state elections in districts she did not live, the Chief State's Attorney's Office said in a press release.  The arrest warrant affidavit also alleges Ayala provided fabricated evidence to state Election Enforcement Commission investigators that showed she lived at an address in a district where she voted while actually living outside the district, according to the release.  Ayala, who represents the 128th District, was elected in 2012, replacing her cousin, Andres Ayala, who was elected to the state Senate.  She chose to run for reelection earlier this year, despite the voting fraud investigation, but lost a four-way primary in August.

Tennessee Congressional Candidate Busted for Growing A Ton of Weed.  Flo Matheson wants to be elected to the 6th District congressional seat in Tennessee.  She also wants to smoke a [lot] of marijuana.  So now the question raised by Matheson is this:  Can she have it both ways?!?  On May 20, police officers in Crossville, Tennessee, raided the home of Matheson, a Democrat who is running in that state's Congressional primary.  According to authorities, they became aware of an indoor pot-growing operation on Matheson's property and therefore obtained a search warrant that covered her residence and a barn on her land.  The investigation turned up more than 180 marijuana plants and various kinds of equipment, says Steve Harrington, someone who lives on Matheson's property and admitted to growing the drug.

John Kerry Knew The State Department Funneled Millions To His Daughter's Charity.  Secretary of State John Kerry lauded a program run by his daughter's nonprofit as he announced an extension of its non-competitively awarded Department of State funding in 2014, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.  "What we're talking about here is a multi-million dollar effort that will strengthen the capacity of healthcare workers to deliver lifesaving HIV services," Kerry said in December 2014, at a World AIDS Day event.  "[I]t will build on the Global Health Service Partnership with Peace Corps and Seed Global Health."

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Hillary campaign accused of fraudulent charges to low-income donors' credit cards.  You know those horrible people who take your credit card information, supposedly for a one-time purchase or a single donation, then turn around and charge it again multiple times beyond what you authorized?  Scam artists!  Criminals!  Who are these people and where do they get the nerve to prey on people like that?  For one thing, it is usually people who know how to fly under the radar screen.  For instance, if they know that no one investigates thefts under $100, they'll steal $99, or something less than that.  People who know how to break the law without ever having to pay a price for it.

Bill Clinton and the Selling of America's National Security.  This may be the greatest scandal in 50 years of American history.  It makes Watergate look like a jay walking charge.  It makes the Iran Contra affair look like a small time operation.  This is what House Republicans should have Impeached Bill Clinton for instead of lying about a White House Intern [...] in the Oval Office.  It's called treason.

22 signs of Democrat Voter Fraud in 2012 Election.  [#1] According to the Election Protection Coalition, voters across the United States reported more than 70,000 voting problems by 5 PM Eastern time on election day.  [#2] There were 59 voting divisions in the city of Philadelphia where Mitt Romney did not receive a single vote.  In those voting divisions, the combined vote total was 19,605 for Barack Obama and 0 for Mitt Romney.  [#3] The overall voter turnout rate in Philadelphia was only about 60 percent.  But in the areas of Philadelphia where Republican poll watchers were illegally removed, the voter turnout rate was over 90% and Obama received over 99% of the vote.  Officials in Philadelphia have already ruled out an investigation.

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Accused of Rigging Florida Primary.  Professional Clinton crony Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was forced to resign as head of the Democratic National Committee after Wikileaks released emails from the party which showed that she rigged the presidential primaries for her friend Hillary Clinton, is now being accused by her local rival, Tim Canova, of rigging her own primary.  Tim Canova, a law professor and Democrat candidate running for Wasserman Schultz's House seat in Florida, sounded off on Twitter this afternoon [8/22/2016] where he accused his opponent of trying to influence people's votes and undermining his campaign.

Clinton-Connected Pennsylvania AG Found Guilty of 9 Felonies.  A jury on Monday night [8/15/2016] found Pennsylvania's Democratic attorney general Kathleen Kane guilty on nine felony counts stemming from her attempt to leak confidential information aimed at embarrassing Republican political rivals.  Kane, who became a rising political star thanks to support from Bill and Hillary Clinton, has been asked to resign by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D.), and prosecutors say they are considering recommending prison time for Kane.

Chris Matthews Fails to Identify Disgraced Pennsylvania AG as a Democrat.  Imagine that a Republican state attorney general had been forced to resign after being convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice.  Now imagine how the story would have been played on MSNBC.  Fair to assume that the word "Republican" would have featured in the story's first sentence?  But in a stand-alone segment on today's Hardball on the forced resignation of Kathleen Kane, the Pennsylvania AG who was convicted on nine charges, host Chris Matthews failed to ever mention, and the screen graphics never revealed, that Kane is a Democrat.  Kane had illegally leaked secret grand jury documents to harm a rival prosecutor, then lied about it under oath.

Pennsylvania Democrat AG Kathleen Kane Found Guilty on All Counts in Perjury/Obstruction of Justice Prosecution.  Then she immediately began leaking derogatory information about the judge, bailiffs, and jurors.

Jury convicts Attorney General Kathleen Kane.  Attorney General Kathleen Kane, the state's top law enforcement officer and once an ascending star in politics, was convicted by a jury Monday [8/15/2016] of perjury and related charges for covering up a grand jury leak she orchestrated.  Gov. Tom Wolf called on Kane, 50, of Scranton to resign immediately.

Democrat AG, Kathleen Kane, Found Guilty on Nine Criminal Charges — Criminal Conspiracy, Perjury.  A Pennsylvania Jury found Democrat Attorney General Kathleen Kane guilty on nine criminal counts last night including conspiracy and perjury.  Elected to office in 2014, found guilty of criminal conspiracy in 2016.

PA Attorney General Kathleen Kane Faces Prison Time After Being Convicted of 9 Criminal Charges.  Pennsylvania's top prosecutor, Kathleen Kane, was found guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice on Monday evening [8/15/2016].  A jury found Kane guilty of a total of 9 criminal charges.  Kane, who once was a rising star in Democratic party, is facing mounting calls to resign as Pennsylvania Attorney General.  "We will continue this litigation we will continue this fight because we believe that our client has been wrongfully accused of misconduct," her defense attorney Gerald Shargel told media outside the court, according to CNN.

Historic! Another Top Clinton Supporter is Under Federal Investigation.  It's really weird how all these Democrats mysteriously find themselves under federal investigation during a Democrat administration.  It's almost as if they think they're above the law.

Feds investigating Mayor de Blasio's involvement in sale of Long Island College Hospital.  U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is looking into Mayor de Blasio's involvement in the sale of Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, the [New York] Daily News has learned.  Bharara's office recently issued a subpoena to the State University of New York, which had owned the hospital, seeking all communications between the university system and City Hall regarding the sale of LICH dating to Jan. 2, 2014, when de Blasio took office, said two sources familiar with the matter.  One source close to SUNY confirmed the subpoena and said "the clear target seems to be de Blasio."  But the specifics of what Bharara is looking into were unclear.

DNC Shared Its Donor Appointment List With White House.  New details have emerged about a possible "pay-to-play" scheme that surfaced in the Democratic National Committee documents released by Wikileaks last week.  The Democratic National Committee's national finance director sent a White House official who handles personnel matters a list of Democratic donors that the DNC hand-picked for appointments to federal boards and commissions.  The Daily Caller reported earlier this week that Jordan Kaplan, the DNC finance director, sought guidance from his colleagues on what donors to choose for federal appointments.  Names were collected, and a spreadsheet entitled "Boards and Commissions" was created.

DNC Breaks Federal Law; Violation of Sec. 8 U.S. Code § 1324.  In their bizarre showcase of illegal aliens on the first day of their convention, Democrats not only shamelessly used a little girl for crass political reasons, they also managed to break federal immigration law — twice.  Karla Ortiz has appeared on television and in commercials telling Hillary Clinton how scared she is that her illegal immigrant mom will be deported.  In the ad — and again Monday night — we hear that Hillary told her that she would do the worrying for Karla.  Aww.  Karla then appeared Monday night [7/25/2016] on stage at the Democratic National Convention with her illegal-immigrant mother, Francesca.  In addition being a disgusting display of political pandering, this is also a violation of 8 U.S. Code § 1324.  The law makes it a felony to "conceal" or "harbor" any "alien" "including any means of transportation."

Lawyers Repeatedly Flagged Illicit Politicking by Dem Legal Strategy Group.  Democratic Party lawyers had to step in repeatedly to prevent illegal or prohibited political fundraising by a new Democratic National Committee group designed to coordinate legal strategy with hundreds of friendly attorneys, internal documents show.  Multiple proposed fundraising pitches by the new Democratic Lawyers Committee (DLC) invoked the names of high-ranking administration officials in what would have been violations of federal laws and White House policies against political activity by administration officials, according to emails between the group's top staffers and their attorneys.

Wasserman-Schultz's Opponent to File Complaint Accusing Her of Using DNC Resources for Reelection.  It seems that Debbie Wasserman-Schultz has been through quite a week.  Following the release of Wikileaks emails that show the DNC's general disdain for Bernie Sanders, Wasserman-Schultz will step down from her role as the chair of the DNC at the end of the convention.  In addition, she has minimized her role at the Democratic convention currently happening in Philadelphia.  Now, she faces a new challenge.  This time from her primary opponent in Florida, Tim Canova.  Canova has begun the process of filing a legal complaint against Wasserman-Schultz claiming that she misappropriated DNC resources to help in her reelection campaign in Florida.

A Guide to Buying Access at the Democratic National Convention.  Corporations, labor unions, and wealthy individuals can buy access to top Democratic policymakers at the party's convention in Philadelphia this week, according to internal documents detailing the perks that the party is offering to its wealthiest donors.  Political action committees that gave $90,000 to the Democratic National Committee between January 2015 and June 2016 will get two tickets to an "exclusive roundtable and campaign briefing with high-level Democratic officials," the documents reveal.  Political groups that donated at least $150,000 will get four tickets instead of two.  Native American tribes can get five tickets, but they must have donated at least $200,000.  PACs that gave at least $30,000 will also get access to "business roundtables and industry panels throughout the Convention."

Debbie Fired For Collusion and Corruption — Instantly Hired By Hillary.  You can't make this stuff up!  Debbie Wasserman Schultz steps down/gets fired for colluding with the media and others to crush Bernie.  She becomes the picture of all things corrupt, but Hillary instantly hires her on for the campaign.  That is the kind of resumé Hillary appreciates.

Leaked DNC Documents Show Plans To Reward Big Donors With Federal Appointments.  Democratic National Committee documents recently released by WikiLeaks include spreadsheets and emails that appear to show party officials planning which donors and prominent fundraisers to provide with appointments to federal boards and commissions.  The documents, which were circulated among top DNC officials in April, could raise legal questions for the party, says Ken Boehm, the chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group.  "The disclosed DNC emails sure look like the potential Clinton Administration has intertwined the appointments to federal government boards and commissions with the political and fund raising operations of the Democratic Party," Boehm told The Daily Caller.

Team of Grifters:  Tim Kaine Reinforces 'Crooked' Hillary's Weaknesses on Cronyism, Corruption.  Hillary Clinton may have selected Sen. Tim Kaine (R-VA) as her running mate to help her appeal to blue-collar men, but her selection only reinforces her biggest weaknesses with voters.  In an election cycle in which voters are revolting against career politicians like Clinton who play by a different set of rules and are associated with cronyism and corruption, Kaine is none other than a lifelong politician who accepted lavish gifts while he was Virginia's governor and lieutenant governor.

Kaine accepted clothes, vacation as gifts.  Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine took advantage of the state's lax gift laws to receive an $18,000 Caribbean vacation, $5,500 in clothes and a trip to watch George Mason University play in the NCAA basketball Final Four during his years as lieutenant governor and governor, according to disclosures he filed.  Now a leading contender to be Hillary Clinton's running mate, Kaine reported more than $160,000 in gifts from 2001 to 2009, mostly for travel to and from political events and conferences, according to disclosures compiled by the Virginia Public Access Project.  The givers included political supporters, a drug company that soon after bought a facility in Virginia, and Dominion, the state's biggest provider of electricity.

Hillary Veep Pick Eagerly Accepted $160,000 in "Gifts" as Virginia Governor.  Has there ever been a more corrupt, venal and destructive ticket than this particular Democrat offering?

Mike Brown's Mom Robs & Beats Her Mother-In-Law, Still Slated To Speak at DNC.  Look who is going to be speaking at the DNC this year for Hillary.  This isn't too surprising, considering the fact that the Democrats have a criminal openly running for President.

Labor Secretary Misrepresented Grandfather's Ties to Dominican Dictator.  Labor Secretary Tom Perez, one of Hillary Clinton's top choices for vice president, misrepresented his grandfather's relationship to a Dominican dictator, according to a report.  Perez has lauded his grandfather, Rafael Brache, for "standing on the right side of history" against the brutal regime of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic.  He said that Brache was expelled for speaking out against the regime, but a new Wall Street Journal investigation revealed that Brache exited the country after years of support for the regime.  "In his comments, Mr. Perez rarely, if ever, mentions that Mr. Brache was one of the dictator's champions during at least the first five years of his repressive three-decade regime, a fact documented in dozens of cables, letters and memos in public archives in the U.S. and the Dominican Republic," the article states.

Clinton Foundation Corruption Should Be Next for the FBI.  North Florida-based Congresswoman Corinne Brown is the latest Clinton superdelegate to receive an indictment for corruption and ethics violations.  Brown allegedly received $800,000 from an organization called One Door For Education under false pretenses that the funds would be used for charitable purposes.  One Door For Education touts itself as a nonprofit, but is not legally registered as such.  Brown is just one of several Clinton superdelegates to recently be exposed for fraudulent activity.  Late last month, Congressman Chaka Fattah was convicted on charges of racketeering, corruption and stealing charitable funds.  Sen. Bob Menendez, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Gov. Dannel Malloy and the former Virginia governor who served as Clinton's 2008 campaign chair, Terry McAuliffe, are also in the midst of corruption probes.

NYC could be on verge of making the worst kind of history.  As they seek to prove big crimes, prosecutors must present large amounts of evidence, some of it complex.  But persuading juries also requires a simple theory of the case that shows how the evidence fits together, and the best way to do that is it give jurors catchy details to help them understand the narrative — and find the defendants guilty.  By that standard, prosecutors are hitting the motherlode in the ballooning New York corruption scandal.  Among the seal-the-deal details are elves and hookers, garbage bags and fancy Italian bags, a private jet and a private lane in the Lincoln Tunnel.  Prosecutors allege, for example, that a cash kickback was delivered in a Salvatore Ferragamo bag, and that businessmen wearing elf hats delivered expensive Christmas presents to police officers' homes.

Congressman Chaka Fattah receives his walking papers.  Earlier this week, John [Sexton] covered the end to the Pennsylvania trial of Congressman Chaka Fattah and his conviction on multiple counts of racketeering and fraud.  One would expect that with such a result, Fattah would quickly depart the scene, sparing his constituents and his colleagues in the lower chamber any further embarrassment.  But Fattah initially offered his resignation for October 3rd, the day before he's to be sentenced.  That didn't sit well with the Speaker of the House, and facing the possibility of more severe measures, he quickly suggested some sort of compromise might be in order.

Congressman Chaka Fattah guilty on all charges in corruption case.  The veteran Pennsylvania congressman was convicted Tuesday [6/21/2016] in a month-long racketeering case that largely centered on various efforts to repay an illegal $1 million campaign loan related to his unsuccessful 2007 mayoral bid.

Clinton Superdelegate Chaka Fattah Found Guilty on Corruption Charges.  Rep. Chaka Fattah (D., Pa.), a Hillary Clinton superdelegate, was convicted on Tuesday on corruption charges stemming from a racketeering conspiracy in which the congressman and four associates misappropriated thousands of dollars from federal, campaign, and charitable sources.  Fattah and four associates were indicted in July 2015 on 29 corruption charges including racketeering, bribery, money laundering, mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, and falsification of records, among other charges.  The Department of Justice said Fattah took an illegal $1 million loan from his failed Philadelphia mayoral bid in 2007 and disguised it as a loan to his consulting company.

Leaked Memo Teaches Clinton Staffers How To Break Campaign Finance Laws And Get Away With It.  A leaked 2015 memo appears to give Hillary Clinton staffers advice on how to solicit large-sum donations for super PACs without breaking campaign finance laws restricting that behavior.  According to the Intercept, the memo in question was uncovered in Guccifer 2.0's recent hack of the DNC and was written by Marc Elias, who now serves as general counsel to Clinton's campaign.

Luis Gutierrez Paid His Wife Over $300,000 From Campaign Funds.  Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D., Ill.) has paid his wife and daughters hundreds of thousands of dollars from his campaign's coffer since 2010, according to campaign finance data.  Gutierrez, who was first elected to Congress in 1993, brought his wife, Soraida Gutierrez, onto his campaign's payroll six years ago to act as his office manager, treasurer, and fundraiser.  Soraida Gutierrez was a registered lobbyist in the state of Illinois from 2003 to 2009 before joining Gutierrez for Congress.  She has since raked in more than $300,000 for her work on behalf of the committee while being the top recipient of campaign cash in three cycles since stepping into her role.

4 NYPD officials busted in de Blasio fundraising probe.  Four NYPD officials — including three high-ranking cops — have been busted as part of the sweeping federal corruption probe rocking the police department and Mayor Bill de Blasio's office, federal prosecutors announced Monday [6/20/2016].  "It is a heartbreaking thing," Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara said.  "An officer who betrays his badge betrays every honorable officer."  Deputy Chief Michael Harrington, Deputy Inspector James Grant and Sgt. David Villanueva were arrested at their homes at 6 a.m.  Monday by FBI agents and hauled into 26 Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan, sources said.  Officer Richard Ochetal has already pleaded guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for expediting gun permit applications, prosecutors revealed.

Former DC mayor returns to council after federal probes.  Two years after he lost his bid for a second term as District of Columbia mayor amid a federal corruption probe, Vincent Gray has assured himself a return to elected office in the nation's capital.

Al Sharpton still too busy to pay his taxes.  MSNBC host and perpetual race agitator Al Sharpton certainly gets around quite a bit.  Any time there's any sort of Black Lives Matter protest or urban unrest with a race relations twist, Sharpton seems to appear within hours as if by magic.  So busy is the man's schedule that he apparently still can't find time to sit down with an accountant and clear up more than a half million dollars in unpaid taxes which the IRS has been pestering him about for some time now.

The Rule Of Law Is Dead.  Note that this is not just about possible security problems; there is apparently evidence that Hillary and Bill used their "family foundation" to sell influence including to foreign entities and in fact there are people speculating that she won't just be indicted related to mishandling classified information (which I remind you can and often does get people killed) but possibly on racketeering charges — that is, just like the mob!  Yet 71% of Democrat voters say this doesn't matter and she should keep running even if indicted on such charges.

50% Say Clinton Should Keep Running Even If Indicted.  Most continue to believe likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton is a lawbreaker, but half of all voters also say a felony indictment shouldn't stop her campaign for the presidency.  The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 43% of Likely U.S. Voters think Clinton should immediately stop campaigning if she is charged with a felony in connection with her use of a private e-mail server while secretary of State.  Fifty percent (50%), however, think she should continue running until a court determines her guilt or innocence.

Under investigation, Mayor de Blasio's administration is acting like it has plenty to hide.  As investigations of New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's administration deepen, his denials and obfuscations are becoming increasingly disconnected from reality.  The first-term Democrat is now retailing straight balderdash and trying to bluster his way through a thickening bramble of ethical questions.  The besieged mayor continues to defend his use of the Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit that took millions of dollars from his progressive allies, many of whom sought (and received) favors from the city.

Why Are the Clintons Always Under Investigation?  [Scroll down]  The Clintons, it might be noted, are not the only ones to be involved in a fresh time of troubles.  They extend to their former consigliere Terry McAuliffe, who is Governor of Virginia and former head of the Democratic National Committee.  McAuliffe was a dynamo as a fundraiser for the Clintons.  Now he's under federal investigation for campaign contributions.  The Justice Department, as part of its investigation, is apparently examining McAuliffe's work as a board member of the Clinton Global Initiative, itself a dubious organization that has accepted contributions from some very questionable customers.  Apparently 120 donors gave to both McAuliffe and the Clinton foundation.

FBI investigation of McAuliffe leaked: why?  The stunning news that the FBI has been investigating Virginia Governor (and key Clinton Machine operative) Terry McAuliffe for a year is widely seen as an ominous sign for Hillary Clinton's campaign. [...] A former chair of the Democratic National Committee, McAuliffe raised a then-unprecedented $275 million for the Clintons in the 20th century, and set a record for a single night fundraiser with $26 million.  He also personally guaranteed the mortgage on the Chappaqua mansion purchased by the Clintons for their post-presidency residence, when they were, according to Hillary, "dead broke."  The term "bagman" has been applied to him for years, particularly since he has made no secret of his pattern of mixing politics and his personal business interests.

McAuliffe: That Donation from a Chinese Parliament Member Was Totally Legal!  Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe said his reaction was "shock" when he learned the FBI was investigating donations to his 2013 campaign.  He must be the only person in Virginia who was.

McAuliffe Shields Clintons: 'This Has Nothing to Do With the Clinton Foundation'.  The governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, is responding to news of him being under federal investigation by shielding his close associates, Hillary and Bill Clinton.  McAuliffe told reporters, "this has nothing to do with the Clinton Foundation.  This was an allegation of a gentleman who gave a check to my campaign.  I didn't bring the donor in.  I didn't bring him into the Clinton Foundation.  I'm not sure if I've ever met the person."

First 'Clinton Cash' Domino to Fall:  FBI Investigating Hillary Bagman Terry McAuliffe.  Close Clinton operative Terry McAuliffe is under federal investigation for campaign contributions from a Chinese billionaire who has also donated $2 million to the Clinton Foundation.

People Putting 'Huge Amounts of Money' In Clintons' Pockets Had 'Strong, Rich Ties With Oppressive Forces'.  [Scroll down]  [Stephen K.] Bannon added a hat tip to [Peter] Schweizer by pointing out that Clinton Cash was also released about four weeks before the FBI investigation began, putting years of research on the Clinton's financial dealings into the public domain.  "We like to think that the two are connected, and the areas of investigation hit on the exact point that we reported on in Clinton Cash, which is that money flows to the Clintons in exchange for official favors," Schweizer agreed.  "I think that the leak Terry McAuliffe is under investigation is only the beginning, and I have always believed that the email investigation is important, but really that is just an ancillary to the larger question of the Clintons getting paid off," he said.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe under federal investigation for campaign contributions.  Virginia Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the FBI and prosecutors from the Justice Department's public integrity unit, U.S. officials briefed on the probe say.  The investigation dates to at least last year and has focused, at least in part, on whether donations to his gubernatorial campaign violated the law, the officials said.  McAuliffe wasn't notified by investigators that he is a target of the probe, according to the officials.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe under investigation by DOJ over possible illegal campaign contributions.  Federal officials are investigating whether Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe's 2013 campaign accepted illegal campaign contributions, sources familiar with the investigation confirmed Monday [5/23/2016] to Fox News.  The Democratic governor and Clinton ally is the target of a Justice Department investigation into whether he violated campaign finance laws.  The probe, first reported by CNN, involves a $120,000 donation from Chinese businessman Wang Wenliang through his U.S. businesses.  U.S. election law prohibits foreign nationals to donate to political races.

13 Incompetent Failures in the Obama Administration.  [#4] Well before he became secretary of State, John Kerry profited from the Obama administration.  While he was helping to craft Obamacare, the Massachusetts senator bought stock in a pharmaceuticals company which would benefit from the law.  He also bought shares in a medical device manufacturer — a company whose stock rose 71 percent when the bill passed.  Finally, Kerry and his wife sold off their investments in United Health and Wellpoint, two of the healthcare providers which ended up losing big from Obamacare.

De Blasio shields cronies in 'corruption' coverup.  Besieged by federal and state investigators, Mayor Bill de Blasio turned Nixonian Thursday and declared five of his closest outside confidants exempt from public disclosure laws when they advise him on running the city.  His administration extended the stunning "agents of the city" privilege to BerlinRosen co-founder Jonathan Rosen; Hilltop Public Solutions partners Nicholas Baldick and Bill Hyers; and AKPD partner John Del Cecato.  All four worked on de Blasio's political campaigns.  Also included was Patrick Gaspard, US ambassador to South Africa and a former political operative at SEIU Local 1199.

Pa. Democrats set to host national convention amid 'endemic' party corruption in state.  Pennsylvania Democrats, no strangers to corruption, are surpassing their own dirty reputations as they prepare to host the Democratic National Convention this summer in Philadelphia.  There's Rep. Chaka Fattah, an 11-term Democrat from Philadelphia whose trial opens Monday [5/16/2016] in federal court on charges of bribery, concealment of unlawful campaign contributions and theft of charitable and federal funds.  Voters took the rare step in the Democratic primary last month of voting out Mr. Fattah, the longest-serving black congressman in Pennsylvania's history.

Alan Grayson Loses it on MSNBC Host for Bringing Up Ethics Violations.  Alan Grayson is a hero of online liberals — or at least, he was the last time I read a liberal blog, which has been some years. [...] He's also running for the Florida Senate Seat as an "insurgent" candidate against establishment favorite Patrick Murphy.  Grayson went on MSNBC today with how Joy Reid — hardly a hostile interview for liberals — and absolutely lost his smarmy mind when Reid asked him some basic questions:  [Video clip]

Flint: Never let crisis dollars go to waste.  Death and taxes are said to be life's only certainties, but you can also pretty much count on bureaucrats to care little about doing their jobs well and on politicians to cash in on every crisis.  Government had already let down Flint, Mich. badly enough.  But a new lawsuit alleges that Mayor Karen Weaver, hailed as a champion for her city during its water crisis, siphoned money out of a pool intended to fix the city's tainted water problem into her political action committee.  This accusation will be tested in court.

Feds want corrupt ex-Sen. John Sampson to spend 87 months in jail.  Federal prosecutors are recommending a jail term of 87 months for ex-state Sen. John Sampson when he is sentenced next week in Brooklyn Federal Court.  The once-powerful Democrat was convicted last year of obstructing a mortgage fraud probe involving a deep-pocketed crony of Sampson's who had loaned money to the Brooklyn politician, and lying to the FBI.

Corruption probe into Cuomo, de Blasio expands.  There'[s] been an interesting twist in the ongoing corruption investigation swirling around New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo.  The Mayor has apparently had enough of all these pesky questions and he's no longer going to cooperate with any such lines of inquiry.  That might not normally be newsworthy since these are no doubt uncomfortable questions to answer, but the unique aspect of the story is who the Mayor is blaming.

Ex-NY Speaker Sheldon Silver sentenced to 12 years in prison for corruption.  Sheldon Silver, longtime Democratic politician and former speaker of the New York State Assembly, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for corruption by a federal judge on Tuesday [5/3/2016].  Silver was also ordered to pay $1.75 million in fines.  The 72-year-old lawyer and longtime representative of Lower Manhattan was found guilty last November of fraud, extortion and money laundering.  In addition to trading favors with local real estate developers, it was determined that Silver found jobs for two women he had extramarital affairs with.

From Albany to Prison:  Ex-Lawmakers on Life Behind Bars.  In May, three more corrupt New York State lawmakers are expected to join the jumpsuited ranks, three more cautionary tales from a State Legislature with no apparent shortage of them.

De Blasio staffers slapped with subpoenas as scandal deepens.  Mayor Bill de Blasio received a rude awakening from federal investigators — who slapped City Hall, including three members of Hizzoner's inner circle, with subpoenas amid a growing probe of his shady fundraising, sources confirmed to The [New York] Post on Wednesday [4/27/2016].  De Blasio's most trusted aide, Emma Wolfe, his top fundraiser, Ross Offinger, and a consulting firm that has run his campaigns were all served with the legal papers, sources said.

How de Blasio ran political campaigns out of City Hall.  Bill de Blasio and his team brazenly ran political campaigns straight out of City Hall, according to state investigators.  The administration was still reeling Saturday from a state Board of Elections memo that alleged City Hall made "willful and flagrant" violations of campaign finance law by steering unions and deep-pocketed donors to indirectly funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to three upstate Democrats running for the state Senate.  The big-money donors would cut six-digit checks to county Democratic committees, which would then send the money to the campaigns, thus circumventing legal caps on contributions.

The mayor is going down!  Less than a week ago, Mayor de Blasio was offering aid to Ecuadorians after the earthquake there.  Now a political earthquake is rocking City Hall and the mayor is the one who needs help.  The report from the state Board of Elections that accuses him and his team of "willful and flagrant" violations of campaign-finance laws immediately changes everything.  The veneer of business as usual is shredded.

De Blasio team skirted campaign donation limits; investigators found 'willful and flagrant' violations 'warranting prosecution'.  The head investigator for the state Board of Elections probed the 2014 fundraising efforts by Mayor de Blasio and his team on behalf of the Senate Democrats and found enough "willful and flagrant" violations to warrant a criminal referral to the Manhattan DA's office.  The Daily News obtained a bombshell memo state Board of Elections Chief Enforcement Officer Risa Sugarman sent to the board's four commissioners on Jan. 4 recommending the referral.

Ex-Congressman Mel Reynolds, facing tax charges, gets locked up.  A misdemeanor tax case against an ex-congressman delivered yet another twist Wednesday [4/20/2016] when a federal judge locked up former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds.  U.S. District Judge John Darrah gave Reynolds six days last week to find a place to live where he could be put on electronic monitoring.  Reynolds said Wednesday he had failed to do so, but he asked for time to keep looking.  He also announced plans to represent himself.

NYPD officers shared prostitute in private jet funded by businessman in corruption probe, reports say.  Several New York police officials have been accused of having sex with a prostitute dressed as an air hostess while travelling on a private plane paid for by a city businessman at the heart of a federal corruption probe.  The prostitute is said to have enacted a "Coffee, tea, or me?" routine during both legs of a return trip to Las Vegas, informed sources told the New York Post.  The private plane was reportedly paid for by Jona Rechnitz, one of two businessmen with ties to Mayor Bill de Blasio who is being investigated over gifts made to five high ranking police officers.

City Hall squirming as corruption scandal widens.  Well, that didn't take long:  Mayor de Blasio has now lawyered up in the ever-widening federal corruption probe by US Attorney Preet Bharara.  To be sure, attorney Barry Berke officially represents the mayor's 2013 election campaign, and he was officially asked only to reach out to Bharara's office and offer to help "in any way that we can.  But it's another sign that things may be getting increasingly uncomfortable for the folks at City Hall.

De Blasio handling corruption scandal like a true scoundrel.  [Scroll down]  Cops are all-too familiar with double standards.  They're usually held to the highest test of integrity while also considered the most expendable in a political crisis.  That strikes me as foolishness compounded.  Yet corruption has little to do with fairness and everything to do with power.  And to hear de Blasio talk, he is far too big to be held to the same rules as the little people, cops included.

NYPD corruption scandal leads straight to de Blasio.  As Bob Dylan told us long ago, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."  These days, a foul wind blows from City Hall.  With subpoenas issued, investigations spreading and at least one federal grand jury at work, the question isn't whether Bill de Blasio's administration has a corruption problem.  The questions are how big is the problem, how many agencies are tainted and how high up the pecking order does it go?  The preliminary answers are worrisome.  A small army of investigators, including the FBI, is on the hunt, and all roads appear to lead straight to Mayor Putz.

Office of Congressional Ethics calls for full investigation of Alan Grayson.  Last month Ed [Morrissey] noted that the House Ethics Committee was opening an investigation into apparent moonlighting by Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson.  Tuesday, the Office of Congressional Ethics published a 74-page report detailing its findings recommending the committee undertake a full investigation of multiple allegations against Grayson.

Ethics report: Florida Democrat Grayson likely violated House rules.  A congressional review panel said Tuesday [4/5/2016] that Florida Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson likely violated House rules in his business activities and use of congressional staff, as the separate House Ethics Committee moved to extend its probe.  Grayson, who is running for the Senate seat being vacated by ex-GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio, is being scrutinized regarding a hedge fund he started when he was not a member of Congress and for allegedly using his congressional staff for unofficial business.

Dem Donors Plead Guilty to $33 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme.  Five individuals who have donated to Democratic politicians pleaded guilty to a scheme that drained Medicare out of $33 million dollars.  Two physicians and three owners of hospice and home care companies based out of Detroit, Mich., were charged on June 18, 2015 as part of the largest Medicare fraud case in history for submitting fraudulent claims for home health care and hospice services that were either not provided or deemed medically unnecessary.  The elaborate operation revolved around Muhammad Tariq, Shahid Tahir, and Manawar Javed — the owners of the home health care and hospice companies — paying kickbacks and bribes to physicians for referrals to their companies that included A Plus Hospice and Palliative Care, At Home Hospice, and At Home Network Inc.

Clinton superdelegate disbarred while awaiting prison sentencing - still a superdelegate.  Just a quick update on the superdelegate situation for the Democrats this evening.  Normally we'd be talking about which of the army of superdelegates is backing which candidate or how they might make the process a tad bit more democratic in nature, but this story has to do with who will (or more to the point, won't) be attending the festivities in Philadelphia.  You may recall that we earlier talked about one of Hillary Clinton's long time friends and supporters who also happens to be a superdelegate, Sheldon Silver.  The disgraced former Speaker of the State Assembly in New York was previously convicted of a raft of corruption charges and is currently awaiting sentencing where he could receive up to 130 years behind bars.

Australians say they were paid by Labor Party to work for Sanders.  Young Australians say they are being paid to work for Sen. Bernard Sanders' campaign by the Australian Labor Party in what appears to be a violation of U.S. election law, according to an undercover video released Thursday [2/25/2016].  The footage captured by Project Veritas Action shows three campaign volunteers discussing how they received compensation from the Australian Labor Party — including airfare, housing and a daily stipend — in order to help Mr. Sanders' bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Feds Flag Thousands of Illegal Bernie Sanders Contributions.  Thousands of contributions to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders' campaign in January violated federal campaign finance laws, election regulators said on Thursday [2/25/2016].  The Federal Election Commission sent a letter to the Democratic presidential candidate's campaign committee on Thursday with a 90-page spreadsheet listing 3,457 "excessive, prohibited, and impermissible contributions."  The campaign's January financial disclosure filing listed contributions from foreign nationals and unregistered political committees, the FEC said.  Other contributions came from donors who exceeded the $2,700 per-election limit.

The H-Factor in voter turnout.  Think about this situation:  not only do the Democratic Party insist on running a candidate who is hands down the most reviled woman in America, but they insist on doing so in the face of revelations that would already have required any other candidate to step down and retire from all politics.  But those Democrat power brokers are so hell-bent on their party electing the first female president that they'll even support a candidate who, were she Jane Doe, would be facing multiple federal felony charges and likely serious prison time.  Hillary has had a lot of time since Bill left office to make lucrative promises to a lot of powerful people, so that those folks have a clear interest in seeing her made president, criminal or no — in fact, probably even better if she is, because she'll be easier to manipulate.  And that, folks, is who the Democrats think should be our next president.

Ex-Calif. State Sen. Leland Yee, gun control champion, heading to prison for weapons trafficking.  On the surface, the story of Leland Yee looks like a precipitous fall from grace.  The 67-year-old had risen steadily in the ranks of Bay Area politics since the late 80s, when he was elected to the San Francisco School Board.  He then went on to sit on the city's Board of Supervisors and in the state Assembly.  The latter role saw him become the first Asian American speaker pro tem in 2004, making him the second-highest ranking Democrat in the California assembly at the time.

Ex-state Sen. Leland Yee gets 5 years in prison in corruption case.  A federal district judge sentenced former state Sen. Leland Yee, a San Francisco Democrat, to five years in prison Wednesday [2/24/2016] for trading political favors for campaign contributions.  He was also fined $20,000.  Yee admitted in a plea deal that he was part of a racketeering conspiracy that involved exchanging official acts for money, conspiring to traffic in weapons and money laundering.  Specifically, Lee promised an undercover FBI agent favors in return for campaign contributions.

Iowa Democratic party altered precinct's caucus results during chaotic night.  In Grinnell Ward 1, the precinct where elite liberal arts college Grinnell College is located, 19 delegates were awarded to Bernie Sanders and seven were awarded to Hillary Clinton on caucus night.  However, the Iowa Democratic party decided to shift one delegate from Sanders to Clinton on the night and did not notify precinct secretary J Pablo Silva that they had done so.  Silva only discovered that this happened the next day, when checking the precinct results in other parts of the county.  The shift of one delegate at a county convention level would not have significantly affected the ultimate outcome of the caucus, but rather, it raises questions about the Iowa Democratic party's management of caucus night.

That Smell Isn't the Ethanol.  Sixteen years after the chad-diviners of Florida we now have the coin-flippers of Iowa.  The Des Moines Register, which endorsed Hillary Clinton pre-caucus, is post-caucus calling for a "complete audit" of the vote to establish whether she actually won it — as the maniacal cackler has been going around bragging about ever since.  I would say it is almost certain that she did not win it.  But whether anyone can know for sure is more doubtful.  The Democrats run their end of the Iowa caucus as a folksier version of the union block vote in the old British Labour Party.  No actual vote tallies are released, just the numbers of SDEs — or "state delegate equivalents".

The Iowa Democratic Party Chair Refusing To Review Caucus Results Is A HUGE Hillary Supporter.  The Iowa Democratic party chair who is refusing to release raw vote totals from Monday's state caucuses is a long-time Hillary Clinton supporter who donated to the politician's various campaigns and who reportedly drives a Buick with the license plate "HRC 2016."  Dr. Andrea "Andy" McGuire has shot down calls to review vote tallies from Monday's contest despite Clinton's razor-thin win over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.  The former secretary of state squeaked by the democratic socialist, hauling in 49.9 percent of state delegate equivalents versus Sanders' 49.6 percent.

The Bill Clinton effect: Behind the left's sex-harassment problem.  News of rampant sexual harassment at a leading progressive public relations firm seems to have surprised some on the Left:  How can enlightened liberals, so staunchly committed to women's equality and progress, allow old-school sexism and abuse of power to persist?  How could FitzGibbon Media, which represented MoveOn.org, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and the AFL-CIO, have a CEO sending text messages asking for dirty pictures from female underlings?  Conservatives shouldn't start throwing stones:  There are plenty of cads in every political party.  Yet progressives really shouldn't be surprised that such behavior exists in liberal enclaves; in fact, there's reason to suspect there may be more mistreatment of women by the Left than the Right.  It's a phenomenon I call "the Bill Clinton effect."

The Clinton Curse returns.  The FBI's investigation is finding so much additional evidence of wrongdoing by the Clintons and their Clintonistas that the copious evidence is actually impeding the bureau from recommending indictments.  No sooner does the bureau think it has wrapped up one set of indictments than it trips across another category of malfeasance.  For instance, it seems that the FBI has now found the Clintons to have co-mingled their foundation's interests with Hillary's State Department work, and then there is her campaign fundraising, Bill's exorbitant lecture fees, and — who knows — the needs of the Clinton Library.  If Hillary and Bill are lucky, the FBI investigations will be mired in new evidence for months to come.

90 percent of New Yorkers think Albany is corrupt.  Ninety percent of New Yorkers believe Albany is corrupt and two-thirds believe there are problems with the elected officials representing their hometowns and cities. [...] Some 84 percent of voters want to take pensions away from pols who are convicted of crimes related to their official obligation to serve the public.  Sixty-two percent of voters polled want the state to close an LLC loophole that allows companies to skirt campaign contribution limits by setting up shadowy limited liability corporations that donate to candidates and increase influence on lawmakers.

Supreme Court will review corruption conviction of former Va. governor Robert McDonnell.  The Supreme Court will decide whether former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell was rightly convicted of corruption for his efforts on behalf of a businessman who bestowed money and gifts on the governor and his family.  The court announced Friday [1/15/2016] that it would intervene in the long-running saga of McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, and the case provides the justices a fresh opportunity to define what kind of political conduct crosses the line into criminal behavior.

Update:
Prosecutors will drop case against former Va. governor Robert McDonnell.  Federal prosecutors will not attempt to retry former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, on corruption charges, ending a years-long saga that rocked the commonwealth's political class and cut short the rise of a Republican Party star.  The conclusion came unceremoniously, as prosecutors filed one-paragraph documents telling a federal appeals court they would move to dismiss the indictments.  It means that the McDonnells — who have always maintained they did nothing illegal — will avoid criminal convictions and prison time.

Sanders and Wife Steered Campaign, Nonprofit Money to Family and Friends.  Bernie Sanders and his wife have on numerous occasions steered money from organizations under their control to friends and family members, public records show.  The payments benefitted the wife of the Democratic presidential candidate, his stepdaughter, and the son of a former colleague in city government whom Sanders has described as a close friend.  Sanders, a self-described socialist, is now running for the presidency on an anti-corruption platform, decrying public officials' attempts to use their positions for personal financial gain.  Following 16 years as a member of the House, Sanders was elected to the Senate in 2006.  His political campaigns were an early vehicle for payments to his family members.  According to Jane O'Meara Sanders, the senator's wife, Sanders' House campaigns paid her more than $90,000 for consulting and ad placement services from 2002 to 2004.  She pocketed about $30,000 of that money.

Clinton donors use Maine Democrats to skirt campaign cash limits.  A Cuban-born sugar tycoon.  A California-based registered foreign agent for the government of Sri Lanka.  A Chicago billionaire.  All of them are recent large donors to the Maine Democratic Party via a complex fundraising scheme called the Hillary Victory Fund.  The fund exploits recent court decisions and weakened campaign finance laws to maximize political contributions and funnel them to the Democratic National Committee.

Liberalism and Optional Law.  The sad reality is that rule of law — that the laws apply equally to all Americans — no longer exists in America.  Obama's imperial presidency, sanctuary cities, and the liberal establishments refusal to enforce laws they don't like means that the law does not apply equally, even in principle, to all Americans.  Some cite the Constitutional remedies such as impeachment but the reality is that the liberal politicians have no honor and will support their own no matter what, as they did when Bill Clinton committed perjury to protect himself from sexual-harassment charges.

How Political Machines End.  Ross Douthat, writing in the New York Times ruefully writes "I simply do not believe that the Obama Justice Department is going to indict the former secretary of state and Democratic front-runner for mishandling classified information, even if the offenses involved would have sunk a lesser figure's career or landed her in jail."  The observation is almost tantamount to arguing that the rule of law no longer exists; that the political class can literally do whatever it wants.

Albany's protection racket could be straight out of the Mafia.  New Yorkers who are cynical about the cesspool otherwise known as Albany are getting vindication these days.  The separate but simultaneous corruption trials of the former leaders of the Legislature are revealing a culture even more rotten than we knew.  Democrat Sheldon Silver, the former speaker of the Assembly, and Republican Dean Skelos, the former Senate majority leader, stand accused of being greedy serial manipulators who used their power to enrich themselves and their families.

Morning Joe Panel Says [the] DNC [is] Rigging [the] Primary for Hillary Clinton.  The panel on MSNBC's Morning Joe harshly criticized the Democratic National Committee on Monday [11/21/2015] for trying to protect Hillary Clinton and ensure she receives the Democratic party's presidential nomination.  While discussing Saturday night's Democratic presidential debate, co-host Mika Brzezinski asked, "There isn't really a nomination fight, is there?  The way this is set up."  Her co-host Joe Scarborough shook his head in agreement before saying to BBC's Katty Kay, "If the Democrats, I think, for the first time in the history of modern politics — and I'm serious — you had a political party take every measure they could for Americans not to see their candidates."

Dean Skelos, Ex-New York Senate Leader, and His Son Are Convicted of Corruption.  Dean G. Skelos, the former majority leader of the New York Senate, and his son were found guilty of federal corruption charges on Friday [12/11/2015], a quick and devastating follow-up punch to the State Capitol, which has seen two entrenched leaders convicted and removed from office in less than two weeks.  The jury in Federal District Court in Manhattan took roughly eight hours over two days to reach its verdict against Senator Skelos, 67, and his son, Adam B. Skelos, 33, finding them guilty of all eight bribery, extortion and conspiracy counts.

New Mexico secretary of state resigns, enters guilty plea.  New Mexico Secretary of State Dianna Duran pleaded guilty to embezzlement and other charges Friday after abruptly resigning amid a fraud investigation that alleges she siphoned thousands of dollars from her election account and withdrew the money at casinos around the state.

The So-What Democrats Shrug Off A Serious Charge.  Hillary Clinton has not been charged with a crime.  But the appearance of wrongdoing is strong enough to warrant an investigation.  Yet Democrats just brush it all off, saying there's nothing here to see. [...] Even if Democrats believe Clinton did nothing wrong with her email, shouldn't they have some concerns about how she handled the terrorist attacks in Benghazi?  They should.  But they don't.

Why isn't this a bribe?  This story has all the elements of Democrat establishment corruption:  an entrepreneur seeking affirmative action preferences, a congressman who is also a preacher, and a nonprofit organization receiving the money.

America's Six Worst Attorneys General.  State attorneys general (AGs) are their state's chief lawyer, tasked with representing state agencies in court, defending state laws, and giving legal advice to state officials.  But in recent years, many AGs have taken on a role as self-serving politicians who neglect these duties and instead seek to expand their own power — from using their office to enrich themselves or their trial lawyer friends to filing lawsuits attacking political opponents or law-abiding businesses.  These and other AG abuses are chronicled in the Competitive Enterprise Institute's latest report, The Nation's Worst State Attorneys General 2015, which names six of the worst offenders.

Has the DOJ Silenced Bob Menendez on the Iran Deal?  On Monday night [8/24/2015], the Department of Justice brought the hammer down on Senator Bob Menendez.  Reportedly in response to the senator's frequent dismissals of the indictment against him as being based on flimsy evidence and FBI's systematic efforts to mislead a New Jersey grand jury, the DOJ submitted a blistering filing that could — and quite possibly should — imperil the Garden State senator's career.

DOJ: Menendez corruption 'clear and unmistakable'.  The Justice Department is slamming Sen. Bob Menendez's push to get corruption charges against him dropped, saying that the "quid pro quo outlined in the indictment is clear and unmistakable."  "The charges in this case are the result of a careful and professional investigation," federal prosecutors said in court documents submitted Monday [8/24/2015].

Something's Happening Here.  Clinton is now immersed in what could very well be the scandal of the century.  There's no way to wriggle free of the mishandling of classified data.  You can finesse financial laws and ethics rules.  You can't finesse this stuff.  News reports suggest there may be dozens of people who have violated the law and conspired to hide their involvement.  This is Watergate level stuff given her position.

Group accuses McCaskill of violating federal campaign finance laws.  A conservative group filed a complaint against Sen. Claire McCaskill on Thursday [8/13/2015], accusing her of violating federal campaign finance laws to beat Todd Akin in Missouri's 2012 Senate race.  The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, a conservative government watchdog group, submitted a complaint to the Federal Election Commission saying that McCaskill attempted to illegally influence who would be her opponent in the Senate race by sharing valuable polling data with the Akin campaign.

Group backing Clinton gets $1M from untraceable donors.  Hillary Rodham Clinton told a cheering crowd at her largest rally so far that "the endless flow of secret, unaccountable money" must be stopped.  Two weeks later, the main super PAC backing her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination accepted a $1 million contribution that cannot be traced.

Corruption probes hitting Dems across the country.  A wave of corruption arrests and investigations is roiling Democratic politicians, posing a potential image problem in an election year.  The latest were a pair of arrests earlier this week, snagging Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon, who later resigned, and California state Sen. Leland Yee.  The latter involved a tangled web of allegations including claims that the gun control-pushing lawmaker tried to connect an undercover agent with an international arms dealer.  So far, these cases are confined to the state and local levels, so it remains to be seen whether Democrats running in the congressional midterms will be tarnished.

Pennsylvania's top prosecutor arraigned on criminal charges.  Pennsylvania's top prosecutor barely spoke at her arraignment Saturday on charges including a felony count of perjury, but her attorney stressed afterward that she has no plans to resign, despite growing pressure even among her fellow Democrats.

Kathleen Kane charged with perjury, obstruction of justice, abuse of office.  Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane is being charged with perjury, obstructing administration of law and other charges that allege she orchestrated a campaign to leak secret information, then lied to a grand jury about it.  Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Ferman said Kane is accused of a scheme in which "we allege she orchestrated to leak confidential investigative information and secret grand jury" information, then lied to a grand jury about that.  Kane, a Democrat who swept into office in 2012 in a decisive victory, has been mired in skirmishes with former staffers and faced a grand jury investigation into leaks of sealed information from her office.

Feds Indict Pennsylvania US Rep. Fattah in Racketeering Case.  A longtime Philadelphia congressman who was indicted Wednesday [7/29/2015] paid off a campaign loan with charitable donations and federal grants, funneled campaign money to pay down his son's student loan debt and disguised a lobbyist's bribe as payment for a car he never sold, federal prosecutors said.  Democratic U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah and four associates were charged with racketeering conspiracy.  They also were charged with bribery, conspiracy to commit wire, honest services, bank and mail fraud, and money laundering, among other things.

Democratic Rep. Chaka Fattah Indicted in Racketeering Conspiracy.  The Justice Department indicted Democratic Rep. Chaka Fattah of Pennsylvania and four of his associates for their involvement in a racketeering conspiracy "to further their political and financial interests," U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger said Wednesday [7/29/2015] at a press conference for the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.  The charges within the 29-count indictment include accepting illegal contributions, bribery, creating sham contracts, and misappropriating campaign funds to pay off Fattah's son's college loans.

Drip, Drip, Drip.  With the drip, drip, drip of the many conflicts of interest which enrich the Clinton family and bedevil Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, one refrain remains constant among the liberal punditry:  "These stories are not hurting Hillary's support among Democrats."  Even if the claim were true — which appears increasingly dubious — what does persistently strong support for Mrs. Clinton in the face of endless stories of the Clinton Foundation accepting money from foreign countries that had important business before Hillary's State Department say about Democratic voters?

Democrats criticize government audit of Healthcare.gov.  Ordinarily you would think that members of Congress would be happy when the federal auditor, the General Accounting Office, reveals that a program is vulnerable to fraud of Biblical proportions. [...] If the program we're talking about is ObamaCare, you would be wrong.  It is the signature program of The LightWorker, their Precious, and therefore, it is beyond criticism.

Former mayor of Pa. capital charged with 499 criminal counts.  The former longtime mayor of Harrisburg, Pa., was arrested Tuesday [7/14/2015] and charged with nearly 500 criminal counts, in part stemming from allegations he illegally used hundreds of thousands of dollars from city agencies to purchase historical items, the Harrisburg Patriot-News reported.  Stephen R. Reed, 65, whose term as Democratic mayor of Pennsylvania's capital city spanned nearly three decades, was arraigned on 499 counts stemming from 17 criminal charges before Magisterial District Judge William Wenner.

Former Illinois congressman Reynolds indicted on tax charges.  Former U.S. Representative Mel Reynolds, already convicted of having sex with an underage campaign worker, was indicted again for failing to file income tax returns for 2009 through 2012, federal prosecutors said on Friday [6/26/2015].

The Show Me the Money State.  Missouri's second highest elected official blasted Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon for accepting lucrative union campaign donations after vetoing right to work legislation.  Nixon received $50,000 from the United Auto Workers union just days after vetoing legislation that would have ended the practice of coercive unionism in the state.  Republican Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder demanded a refund, criticizing the seeming quid pro quo.

Massachusetts House Launches Investigation Into Deval Patrick's Hidden Accounts.  Massachusetts House investigators are looking into whether former Gov. Deval Patrick diverted state money to secret funds for travel, advertising and other off-the-books expenses.  The Boston Herald first broke the story of the money transfers earlier this week.

Heilemann: If A GOPer Had Written Bernie Sanders' Rape Tale, It Would Be A 'Huge Scandal'.  Heilemann also told "With All Due Respect" co-host Mark Halperin that journalists need to hold Sanders to the "same standard" as a Republican and ask him "tough questions" about the essay.  "I know we both agree about this, which is that if a Republican, any Republican candidate wrote an essay like this, whether they were 16 years old and high on dope or whether it was two weeks ago, it would be a huge scandal," Heilemann said.  "So I think we need to hold Bernie Sanders to the same standard, and people need to ask him tough questions about it."

Judge Roy Moore: Impeach Ginsburg for Marrying Two Men Ahead of SCOTUS Ruling on Gay Marriage.  On May 17, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg officiated the marriage of two men and used the occasion to cite her constitutional right to do so.  In June, the high court — including Ginsburg's vote — will announce its decision on whether homosexual marriage is guaranteed by the Constitution.  That's grounds for impeachment, Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore told CNSNews.com in an exclusive interview.

Green Car Co. Tied to Visas Obtained Under False Pretenses - and Democrat Operatives.  GreenTech Automotive.  Backed by the political elite (Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's brother Anthony Rodham, former Louisiana Governor Katherine Blanco, and former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour) funded by foreign nationals (namely exiled Chinese businessman Charles Wang), and nearly as profitable as Solyndra.  Yes, that Solyndra.  But it gets worse.

Exclusive: Bernie Sanders' Wife May Have Defrauded State Agency, Bank.  Documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation indicate that the wife of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders may have been able to use her clout to get away with loan fraud, nearly bankrupting the small college she was president of and collecting a sizable severance package in the process.  These revelations come amid growing speculation that Sen. Sanders, a self-described socialist who has blasted the U.S. government as an oligarchy run by billionaires and railed against the golden parachutes received by top corporate executives, will contend for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Role of Hillary Clinton's brother in Haiti gold mine raises eyebrows.  Drive down the rutted dirt road a couple of miles to the guardhouse, then hike 15 minutes up to the overgrown hilltop, and there it is:  a piece of 3½-inch-wide PVC pipe sticking out of the ground.  This is what, at least for the time being, a gold mine looks like.  It also has become a potentially problematic issue for Hillary Rodham Clinton as she considers a second presidential run, after it was revealed this month that in 2013, one of her brothers was added to the advisory board of the company that owns the mine.

Rand Paul: Foreign donations to Clinton Foundation [are] 'thinly veiled bribes'.  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told POLITICO on Friday that foreign contributions to the Clinton Foundation are "thinly veiled bribes," and said Hillary Clinton should return any donations from Saudi Arabia or other countries that abuse the rights of women.  "The normal Clinton response is to cover up, deny, refuse to acknowledge," Paul said in a telephone interview as he was being driven through New Hampshire.  "But the question is whether the country will rise up and respond to the unseemly nature of accepting foreign donations. "

Dianne Feinstein's Husband Awarded Massive Fortune in Rail Boondoggle.  What a remarkable coincidence.  A guy who was just handed $1 billion of other people's money in the latest rail boondoggle happens to be married to someone we know: [...] The purpose of government spending in a socialistic corruptocracy like ours is to "spread the wealth around" — i.e., confiscate it from those who create it for redistribution to our rulers and those in their favor.  For this reason, it is totally unnecessary for rail and green energy projects to make any economic sense whatsoever.  All by itself this explains why capitalism works and socialism does not work.

Dianne Feinstein's husband wins near-billion dollar California 'high speed rail' contract.  To the surprise of absolutely no one familiar with the ways of Corruptifornia, the one-party state completely in the hands of the Democrats, a consortium whose lead firm is controlled by Richard Blum, husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, was awarded a nearly billion-dollar contract for the construction of the first phase of the so-called high-speed rail line to link San Francisco and Los Angeles.  Those paying attention to the project call it the "half-fast" rail line because it will share trackage with conventional commuter rail trains in the sprawling Los Angeles and San Francisco areas, lowering its average speed to levels achieved by American railways a century ago.

Jane Harman: $500K Unreported Donation to Clintons 'Got Lost In System'.  Former Congresswoman Jane Harman (D-CA) takes a "guess" on Fox News Sunday, that the unreported $500,000.00 Algerian donation to the Clinton Foundation "got lost in the system," and was never submitted to the State Department for approval.  Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State at the time, and the buck would have, or should have, stopped at her desk for final approval, had it been questionable, which it surely was.  Political candidates are not allowed to take money from foreign governments.  Algeria is "foreign," is 99 percent Sunni Muslim with 99 percent Berber/Arab ancestry.  She was not a political candidate, at the time, you are saying?  Hillary Clinton has been a political candidate since she followed Bill into the White House in January 1993.

Virginia Dem Party Chair Arrested for Trying to Hire Hit Man to Kill Girls He Molested.  The former Chairman of the Falls Church, Virginia Democrat Party who has been charged with sexually molesting two young girls is now also accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill the young girls before they could tell police their story.  Loudoun County prosecutors say that Democrat Michael Gardner, who is about to stand trial for the molestation charges, tried to find a hit man while in prison.

NY prosecutor basically calls Governor Cuomo a liar.  As we recently discussed, there's a bit of a tug of war going on inside New York's state government, as Governor Andrew Cuomo dodges around to stay out of the corruption investigation net which has already swept up former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.  While there is no word as to whether or not Silver will roll for the prosecutors and give up the governor, the media has gotten essentially nothing from the big guy.

John Kitzhaber controversy: Cylvia Hayes fighting order to release her emails.  Former Oregon first lady Cylvia Hayes declared Wednesday that she will go to court to block a state order requiring her to turn over emails related to her public service.  Portland attorney Whitney Boise, representing Hayes, notified The Oregonian/OregonLive and the state Justice Department of her intent to sue in Marion County Circuit Court.

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber submits resignation.  Long-time Democratic Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber has announced his resignation amid allegations his fiancée used her relationship with him to enrich herself.

The Tree-Hugging Femme Fatale Who Brought Down Oregon's Governor.  By now, you may know that disgraced Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, a Democrat, was brought low this week by a scandal concerning his fiancée's dealings with green energy groups.  You may not be aware, however, of exactly the extent to which Kitzhaber's fiancée, Cylvia Hayes, is a corrupt, serial-marrying tree-hugger with a background of scandals galore.  The green energy scandal involved consulting and policy work conducted by Hayes.

Dems urge Oregon governor to resign, top official reveals 'strange' behavior.  Embattled Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber faced stiff pressure from top-ranking fellow Democrats to resign on Thursday [2/12/2015], shortly after the state's No. 2 official issued a statement describing the governor's recent behavior as "strange" and contradictory.  The latest calls to resign — in the wake of influence-peddling allegations involving his fiancee Cylvia Hayes, a green-energy consultant — came from the upper echelons of Oregon's government.  Senate President Peter Courtney told reporters Thursday afternoon that he and House Speaker Tina Kotek have asked for Kitzhaber to step down.

John Kitzhaber must resign.  No doubt, the governor does intend to do the job Oregonians gave him, which, simply put, is to pursue the interests of his constituents.  That intention, however, is no match for an ugly reality of his own making, whose sordid elements keep surfacing with dispiriting regularity, most recently this week thanks to the work of Nick Budnick and Laura Gunderson of The Oregonian/OregonLive.

Oregon's largest newspaper calls on governor to resign over fiancée controversy.  The Oregonian, the largest newspaper in the state, said in an editorial on Thursday that Gov. John Kitzhaber "can no longer lead Oregon effectively and should resign."  Kitzhaber, a Democrat in his fourth term as governor, has been under attack since revelations that his fiancée, Cylvia Hayes, was being paid to lobby on behalf of the clean energy industry while at the same time holding the title of Oregon's first lady and filling the role of unpaid policy adviser in the Kitzhaber administration.  The Oregon Government Ethics Commission is investigating whether Hayes' consulting work was a conflict of interest, but the Oregonian says the evidence is clear.

Oregon AG: Allegations Against Governor Are 'Troubling' And 'Very Serious'.  [Governor John] Kitzhaber, naturally, is refusing to step down.  He's probably convinced himself that he genuinely hasn't done anything wrong.

Tom Steyer's Deep Ties to Oregon Corruption Scandal.  An executive at one of Steyer's nonprofit groups and a political vendor who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the hedge fund manager's political operations helped run the group, which is accused of influencing state energy policy through undisclosed payments to Oregon's first lady.  The controversy centers on Gov. John Kitzhaber's fiancée, Cylvia Hayes.  She was paid $118,000 by the Clean Economy Development Center (CEDC) to advocate for environmentalist policies in Oregon.  Hayes never disclosed those payments, despite acting as an informal adviser to the governor as he pushed a low-carbon fuel standard for the state.

Oregon's juicy governor/girlfriend scandal: Why the media yawned.  Imagine the following scenario:  The governor of New York is mired in a scandal.  Not just any scandal, but one that turns on humiliating revelations involving his girlfriend.  The governor is embarrassed as it turns out his fiancée has been married before and didn't bother to tell him.  Worse, it was a sham marriage to get a green card for an Ethiopian immigrant, which netted her $5,000.  Then it turns out that the governor's fiancée was lobbying him for the green energy interests she represents as a consultant, and may not have disclosed all her fees.

Kitzhaber Scandal Exposes The Seedier Side Of Clean Energy.  The story of the fallen Oregon governor is an account of corruption and a revelation into the nasty affairs of renewable energy. John Kitzhaber resigned this week from the governorship under a cloud of scandal that was darkened by his fiancee, Cylvia Hayes, who, according to Politico, has "earned at least $213,000 on contracts closely tied to her work in the Kitzhaber administration."

Dem Mega Donor Tied to Oregon Governor Scandal.  Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber was forced to resign over allegations that his fiancee received money from green organizations and companies who wanted to influence the state's environmental policies.  The Washington Free Beacon has uncovered a web of connections between some of those green organizations and Democratic Party mega donor Tom Steyer.  The hedge fund billionaire funded at least one of the groups seeking contracts from the state of Oregon, and several of his associates worked for the organization implicated in the scandal.

Dem Lawmakers Accept Most Private Trips in 2014.  Members of Congress embarked on the most privately funded trips last year since the practice was curtailed in response to a high-profile lobbying scandal, and Democratic lawmakers topped the list, Roll Call reports.  Private groups financed 1,942 trips — some domestic and others overseas — for lawmakers and their staffs last year, which cost a total of $5.1 million.  Congress put more restrictions in place on such trips in 2007 after lobbyist Jack Abramoff was convicted of bribing public officials.  Rep. Mike McIntyre (D., N.C.), who retired last year, accepted the most trips with a total cost of $67,295.

Albany's Corruption Cauldron.  The federal corruption case against Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has prompted more calls for reform of the legislature, which has seen more than two dozen members (and counting) leave office under ethical or criminal clouds in the past 15 years.  With U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara hinting that more state officials may be in hot water, the bandwagon is likely to gain even more momentum.  But what, exactly, would effective "reform" entail?  Good-government groups such as Citizens Union have a standard checklist, including more thorough disclosure of outside incomes, greater transparency in state grant-making, a ban on the use of campaign funds for legal fees and other personal purposes, and tougher penalties for violations of the public trust.

Why Is the United States' Economic Freedom Ranking So Low?  Every year, the Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal release a detailed, country-by-country policy guide known as the Index of Economic Freedom.  The news for the United States had been getting a little worse each year over the last several editions.  Notice I said "had."  The steady decline charted by the United States since 2008 was, I'm glad to report, halted this year.

Sheldon Silver gave horndogs free rein.  In the end, it was money, not sex, that brought down New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.  And that's a giant slap in the faces of women who've toiled long and hard in the state capital in Albany.  "Don't our lives matter? one female Albany veteran asked me.  Of course not!  Over the decades, Silver, who plans to step down from his powerful post as speaker, likely on Monday [2/2/2015], orchestrated payoffs to four women who accused his pals and cronies of sexual harassment or egregious intimate abuse.  But this series of scandals (Silver has been accused of enabling, not committing, sexual offenses) had nothing to do with his fall from grace.  This proves that our Legislature remains a sexual sewer.

A Criminal Organization Masquerading as...  One of the reasons is that Democrats and Leftists in general have a high tolerance for corruption as long as it benefits their side; they're a "party" with no principles except personal self-enrichment and the acquisition of power in order to boss other people around.  They dismiss wrongdoing with a good-natured shrug and a "whaddya gonna do?" smirk on their lips.

The most corrupt states in America
Here Are The Most Corrupt States In America.  A new chart sheds light as to how corrupt state governments are in four different categories.  The list documents: corruption convictions (1976-2010), convictions per capita (1976-2010), ratings according to political reporters who cover each state, and quality of anti-corruption laws in each state.

Who's running the Illinois Lottery? No one seems to know.  Who's in charge of the huge Illinois Lottery — and under what contract terms are they working?  Anyone who knows the answer to those questions isn't answering them today in the wake of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan's surprise move Jan. 23 to scuttle a "termination agreement" between the Lottery and Northstar Lottery Group, the private firm that manages its operations.  Madigan said in her opinion that the termination pact, announced in the final days of Pat Quinn's administration, was illegal and would have cost taxpayers millions in extra fees and charges.  But the opinion omitted lots of details about who, what and how much.

Everyone knew about Silver, but no one cleaned it up.  The Empire State's capital is corrupt to the core, and has been for a very long time. Virtually nothing happens there that isn't driven by self-dealing.  It is a cesspool unworthy of respect or trust and now stands naked in disgrace.  The roster of convicted crooks is approaching 40 public officials, but Silver's case is unique.  As speaker for 20 years, he was at the center of every piece of legislation written and every taxpayer dollar collected and spent.  He ruled the Assembly like a private fiefdom, and, governors notwithstanding, he was called the most powerful man in the state for good reason.  Nothing moved without his say-so, and according to the federal charges, he turned that power into personal wealth.

Sheldon Silver arrested for corruption.  Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver lined his pockets with nearly $4 million in bribes and kickbacks in a stunning abuse of power dating to at least 2000, federal authorities charged Thursday [1/22/2015].  The Manhattan Democrat, acknowledged as the second-most powerful Democrat in the state, was hit with five felony charges involving fraud, extortion and conspiracy that each carry up to 20 years behind bars.

Sheldon Silver, New York Assembly Speaker, Faces Arrest on Corruption Charges.  Federal authorities are expected to arrest Sheldon Silver, the powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, on corruption charges on Thursday [1/22/2015], people with knowledge of the matter said.  The case is likely to throw Albany into disarray at the beginning of a new session.

Law Firm at Center of Silver Scandal Donated Huge Sums to Dems.  The plaintiffs law firm Weitz and Luxenberg, which employed Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, is said to have provided Mr. Silver with $5.3 million in referral fees, despite his having "never performed any legal work whatsoever," according to the prosecutors.  If millions of cash for no work sounds like a generous arrangement, it's not the first time the firm has shown its generosity.

NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver indicted in $6 million bribery and kickback scheme, taken into custody.  Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver declared his innocence Thursday [1/22/2015] after facing bombshell federal corruption charges of soliciting $4 million in dirty money over the last 15 years.  "I am confident that after a full hearing and due process, I will be vindicated of these charges," a relaxed Silver announced after his release on $200,000 bond following a Manhattan Federal Court hearing.

Sheldon Silver's Arrest Leaves Cuomo in a Tough Spot.  On Wednesday [1/21/2015], Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo unleashed a lengthy and aspirational oration laying out an ambitious social agenda for his second term.  In 84 minutes, he devoted only about 40 seconds to the issue of cleaning up Albany.  The next morning, Sheldon Silver, the powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly who sat next to Mr. Cuomo before his speech, was in handcuffs, accused by federal prosecutors of abusing his powerful post to obtain $4 million in payoffs.

Silver's law firm rakes in millions from judges he controls.  Sheldon Silver has perverted the courts as well as the Capitol.  His law firm, Weitz & Luxenberg, gets its asbestos cases — and paydays — moved more quickly than those of other attorneys, and reaps a fortune from favorable rulings by friendly judges, charge lawyers and tort-reform advocates.  Silver's East Village firm handles more than half the cases in a special section of Manhattan Supreme Court called NYCAL (New York City Asbestos Litigation).  So dominant is the firm, the court's Web site refers to cases as "Weitz" or "non-Weitz."

Perjury, obstruction among charges recommended against Kathleen Kane.  A grand jury has recommended Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane face charges of perjury, false swearing, official oppression, obstruction of law, according to court records.  The records, ordered unsealed late Tuesday [1/20/2015] by the state Supreme Court and obtained this morning, were related to legal filings in which Kane's defense team asked the state Supreme Court to quash the grand jury.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein's husband is about to make $1B off a government real estate deal.  I know all of you are fans of capitalism in general, and just love seeing hard work and inspiration pay off for the little guy who makes it big.  With that in mind, who wouldn't feel their heart melt over the story of a spunky gal from the left coast who rises from humble roots and winds up helping her husband tuck away a few dollars for retirement?

Ever Wondered How Senators Retire Rich? Dianne Feinstein Shows Us.  It's no secret that many politicians enter Congress humble, fiscally challenged servants of the people, and eventually, as if by some strange magic, retire fabulously wealthy.  One of the examples of this wonderful life lotto machine that Washington, D.C., has become is California Senator Dianne Feinstein.  What's the secret to her financial success?  Why, it's her politically connected husband, Richard Blum.  One of the ways Blum has enriched himself is by bidding on Federal government contracts on behalf of his companies.

Corruption won't be tolerated. Unless it's massive and benefits the Left.  [I]t seems pretty obvious that if [Former Virginia Governor Bob] McDonnell should face time in the cold stony for making a phone call to a state agency after receiving a few thousand dollars in gifts, then what about Barack Obama steering billions of taxpayer dollars into businesses run by political cronies who donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to his campaign?  Or, the Obama administration awarding key policy positions to executives from Goldman-Sachs after receiving hundreds of thousands in campaign contributions?  Or how about Mrs. Hillary Clinton, bopping around the country giving speeches at $300,000 a pop that everybody knows are actually campaign contributions?  What about MSDNC host and Obama Advisor Al Sharpton, who owes over $3 million in back taxes?  I don't see the Obama DoJ or IRS going after him.

Two Pennsylvania Democrat Politicians Indicted for Taking Bribes to Oppose Voter ID Laws.  Two Pennsylvania Democrat state lawmakers have been indicted for taking bribes to oppose the state's voter ID laws, a report says.  The Philadelphia district attorney issued the charges after Obama's Department of "Justice" refused to prosecute the lawmakers for their lawbreaking actions.  Acting in a purely political manner — as they always do — Obama and Holder cared more that an indictment would hurt their case for voter ID laws than they did about prosecuting real lawbreakers.

Message From The Mayor: Vote Early — And Often.  The Democrats say that there is no reason to require voters to present identification, nor is any other measure to curb voter fraud needed.  They should meet one of their own, Opelousas, La., Mayor Don Cravins Sr.  While speaking on Nov. 3, the day before the midterm elections, Cravins told a gathering, "If you 'early voted'" for Sen. Mary Landrieu, "go vote again tomorrow.  One more time's not going to hurt."

Federal probation office recommends 10-12 years for McDonnell.  Former Gov. Bob McDonnell faces a prison term of just over 10 years to 12 years and seven months under federal sentencing guidelines as determined by the U.S. probation office.  A source familiar with the guideline range in a pre-sentence investigation report filed on Dec. 2 confirmed the figures first reported Friday [12/12/2014] by The Washington Post.  McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, were convicted of 11 and nine corruption charges, respectively, following a six-week federal trial that ended in September.

Hagan Put Judge Up for Federal Appointment As Judge Ruled on Husband's Million-Dollar Lawsuit.  Just a week after Sen. Kay Hagan (D., N.C.) recommended a North Carolina judge to President Barack Obama for a seat in the U.S. District Court, the judge ruled in favor of a company partially owned by Hagan's husband.  The senator's husband, Charles T. "Chip" Hagan, was a managing member of Hydrodyne Industries LLC when it sued a regional water authority for drawing water out of a river that had one of its hydroelectric dams built on.  The lawsuit sought millions of dollars in damages and was carried out by Chip Hagan's legal firm.

Obama Donor Blocks Access to Hagan Stimulus Records.  An incumbent senator voted for a massive taxpayer stimulus that just happened to benefit businesses owned by that senator's immediate family members.  That same senator later recommended someone to lead a government agency that is currently stonewalling journalist requests to obtain documents related to that stimulus funding.  Some would call that cronyism.  Either way, it looks pretty bad for Senate Kay Hagan (D., N.C.).

Charlotte's ex-mayor to spend 44 months in prison.  Charlotte's former mayor was sentenced Tuesday [10/14/2014] to three years and eight months in a federal corruption case that stunned North Carolina's largest city.  In a deal with prosecutors, Patrick Cannon, 47, pleaded guilty in June to one count of honest services wire fraud, which carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.  Prosecutors say Cannon accepted nearly $50,000 in bribes between January 2013, when he was a city councilman, and February, three months after he was elected mayor.

Hagan Husband Pocketed Stimulus Savings.  A company owned by the husband of Democratic senator Kay Hagan of North Carolina received taxpayer money for a green energy project through the federal stimulus of 2009, later revising down the project's estimated cost and keeping the difference.

Hagan Passed North Carolina Law that Aided Family's Solar Company.  Sen. Kay Hagan (D., N.C.) fought for the passage of legislation in both the state General Assembly and the United States Congress that has financially benefitted her relatives.  As a member of North Carolina's General Assembly in 2007, Hagan helped pass legislation that required all investor-owned utilities in the state to utilize renewable energy resources for 12.5 percent of their energy needs.  Hagan used her work to pass the law as proof of commitment to renewable energy such as solar panels

Hagan's Husband Used Stimulus Money To Hire His Own Company.  Sen. Kay Hagan's husband and son created a solar energy contracting company in August 2010, and then, using $250,644 in federal stimulus grant funds, her husband hired that same company to install solar panels at a building he owns.  Public records show that Green State Power was formed seven weeks before JDC Manufacturing — a company owned in part by Greensboro attorney Charles "Chip" Hagan III, Sen. Hagan's husband — received the stimulus grant for the solar project at a 300,000-square-foot facility in Reidsville, N.C.

Nunn-Linked Group Under Investigation for Voter Fraud Starts Handing Over Documents.  Georgia secretary of state Brian Kemp launched the investigation of the New Georgia Project earlier this month after receiving "numerous" complaints regarding applications submitted by the group, including forged signatures and applications.  The investigation has turned up 33 fraudulent applications thus far, ahead of the thousands of pages of documents set to be turned over.

Officials' kin on public housing dole.  A Michigan public housing commission is shot through with conflicts of interests, including two top officials with family members benefiting from the federal program, according to a government watchdog.  "The board president had a relative who participated in the program, and the board vice president was a landlord in the program," the Department of Housing and Urban Development said in a report made public Tuesday [9/16/2014].  The Pontiac, Mich., Housing Commission's five-member board oversees that city's federally funded Section 8 voucher.  Besides the top two board members' conflicts, the HUD IG found that three housing specialists employed by the program had relatives participating in it.

America's First Soviet Attorney General Steps Down.  Of all the malfeasances of William Jefferson Clinton the one that would have most justified a removal from office was not the Monica hijinks, even with the attendant lying under oath and absurd parsings of the word "is," but the pardoning of Marc Rich — the billionaire international commodities trader and mammoth contributor to, er, Clinton.  Luckily for Bill, this action occurred on the last day of his presidency, making anything like impeachment moot, even though it was an example of political corruption that would have made Boss Tweed envious.

Ex-Sen. Roland Burris accused of shake down in court documents.  Former U.S. Sen. Roland Burris tried to "shake down" a business for a $250,000 a year job as a financial consultant in return for Burris' help promoting the business' products to the U.S. military, court documents in a trial due to start next week allege.  The explosive allegations emerged Friday at a hearing ahead of the trial of South Sider C. Gregory Turner, who is accused of illegally trying to help lift U.S. sanctions against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's regime.

How Sen. Kay Hagan's husband won stimulus cash.  When Kay Hagan voted for President Barack Obama's 2009 economic stimulus package, the Democratic senator hailed it as "the best way forward for working families across North Carolina."  One of the families that later benefited is her own.

The Plot to Create a Permanent Democratic Majority.  President Obama and his fellow Democrats are scheming to use immigration and housing policy to fulfill their dream to fundamentally transform America forever. [...] There are clues to this plan in the lax enforcement of our immigration laws, the targeting of states and law-enforcement officials that are trying to enforce those very laws, and the abuse of "prosecutorial discretion" to hand out get-out-of-jail-free cards, as well as tax dollars, to lawbreakers.

RNC Chair Priebus to Landrieu: Open Your Books or Pay Taxpayers Back for Private Flights.  Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is demanding embattled Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) either come clean on dozens of allegedly improperly billed private charter flights or reimburse taxpayers for hundreds of thousands of dollars she spent on private jets at taxpayer expense.

Luis Gutierrez, Obama's Poster Boy for Amnesty, and His Unique Family "Fundraising" Business.  Gutierrez's reputation in Chicagoland's politics is not untarnished.  There's that sweetheart deal he got from Tony Rezko in the purchase of a condo for his daughter.  There's the $500,000 plus he paid in taxpayer money over 10 years to a Chicago lobbyist to advise his congressional staff.  And, the 2004 allegation that Gutierrez lobbied Mayor Daley for a residential development owned by a man who loaned Luis $200,000.  The developer was later federally indicted concerning the same development.

Dem Senator's Small Business Experience Was Co-Running Store that Sold Stolen Goods.  Throughout her political career, including during her current race against former GOP Sen. Scott Brown, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D., N.H.) has touted her experience as a small business owner.  Shaheen's small business "experience" was co-running a store that once sold thousands of dollars-worth of stolen jewelry.  "As the former owner and manager of a small retail business, Senator Shaheen knows what it's like to worry about meeting payroll and inventory costs to keep a business going," the Issues section of her Senate website declares. Her Senate biography also describes her as a "former small business owner."  This week, the Shaheen campaign asked voters to compare Scott Brown's small business record against her own.

Ransom: Dems sold top House positions for $100,000; $200,000 for legislation.  House Democrats, panicked after Newt Gingrich and the GOP shocked Washington by winning the House in 1994, became so obsessed with raising money to take back the chamber they even sold off top leadership jobs, according to a longtime Democratic fundraiser.  In an explosive book out next month, Lindsay Mark Lewis said that former House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt's team set a price of $100,000 to be the top Democrat on every House committee, $100,000 on a trade deal and $200,000 for a tax proposal to be considered by the House Ways and Means Committee.  They also demanded that members raise money 12 hours a week and collect $1.5 million per election cycle or be put on a "deadbeat list."

State Sen. Rod Wright Gets 90 Days for Perjury.  Democratic State Senator Roderick Wright was sentenced on Friday [9/12/2014] to 90 days in jail, three years of probation, and 1,500 hours of community service after being convicted on federal perjury and voting fraud charges in January.  Wright is also banned for life from holding public office.

Rep. Stacey Abrams investigated for voter fraud.  An investigation is underway into claims of voter fraud involving the state's highest ranking Democratic elected official.  The Secretary of State Brian Kemp's office launched an investigation after they allegedly received complaints of possible voter fraud from election offices in nearly a dozen counties.  "Our investigators were talking to the counties and to individuals who'd had their names forged on voter registration documents," Kemp said.  "You know that's fraud."

A Crook as the Face of the Democratic Party.  By the standards the establishment media set in covering Todd Akin in 2012 and Christine O'Donnell in 2010, the new national face of the Democratic party should be an 87-year-old, crude, crass crook who sold snake oil to his state's poor while leaving them impoverished.  In an action of gobsmocking amorality, the Louisiana Democratic Party officially has endorsed the felonious former governor Edwin Edwards for Congress in Louisiana's Sixth Congressional District.  This was not a reluctant acceptance of a popular vote, mind you, but a deliberate choice by the party's state committee, even though two other Democrats are running in the jungle primary and the party was not obliged to weigh in at all.

Landrieu claims parents' home as her own, raising questions of Louisiana residency.  In Washington, Sen. Mary Landrieu lives in a stately, $2.5 million brick manse she and her husband built on Capitol Hill.  Here in Louisiana, however, the Democrat does not have a home of her own.  She is registered to vote at a large bungalow in New Orleans that her parents have lived in for many decades, according to a Washington Post review of Landrieu's federal financial disclosures and local property and voting records.

Another Nail in the Dems' Senate Coffin?  Just when pundits were starting to agree that the odds are tipping in favor of the Republicans winning control of the Senate this November, reports of inquiries about potential misconduct by Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu may make the embattled Red state Democrat's re-election fight may be another nail in her party's midterms coffin.  The story, published Friday night [8/15/2014] by the New Orleans Times-Picayune, reveals that in response to charges from her Republican challengers that she has been paying for campaign expenses, including flights, from official government funds rather than her private account, the senator has ordered an inquiry into the records of her office during the last 18 years she has been in the Senate.

Major Car Trouble for Ohio Dem.  Ohio police caught Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ed FitzGerald driving a woman around at 4:30 in the morning without a license two years ago, and FitzGerald now calls the incident "a silly mistake." [...] Police found FitzGerald and the female passenger, who was not his wife, talking in an empty parking lot.  "I let my driver's license expire," he admitted to NBC 4.  "I did, I sure did."  "For five years?" the anchor exclaimed.

The Three Faces of Cronyism.  [R]ampant cronyism is one of the most insidious outgrowths of a government gone wild, and has become a swirling vortex of self sustaining and systemic corruption.  Thus, the focus on cronyism is necessary — but missing from the conversation seems to be a distinction among the three very different genres of cronyism.  And there are at least three very different varieties.

Senator Manchin: What My Daughter Did Should Be Illegal.  You're a United States senator from a state struggling to compete in the world economy.  Your daughter runs a giant drug company with roots in your state, and the firm makes a fortune from taxpayers via Medicare and Medicaid.  Everything's cozy and connected and perfectly Washington — until your daughter renounces the firm's U.S. citizenship to reduce its U.S. taxes.  What do you do?  If you're Joe Manchin, you duck a reporter's telephone call for six days, then emerge for an interview in which you vow to make your daughter's actions, from this day forward, illegal.  Sort of.

Felon, Former Black Panther Party Leader Hosts Fundraiser for Democratic Senate Candidate Michelle Nunn.  The suggested contribution amounts for entry to a Capitol Hill fundraiser held Tuesday evening for Democratic Senate candidate Michelle Nunn rose to $2,600 a head.  The special guest advertised on the invitation was former Democratic senator Sam Nunn, the candidate's father, who represented Georgia in Washington for over two decades.  There was another guest, however, who probably turned more heads.  Among the co-hosts of the of the event was Virtual Murrell, an early leader of the Black Panther Party during its militant phase and later a political consultant who, in the mid 1990s, spent time in jail for using his perch in city government to extort local businesses.

Immigration Criminal Voted for Gun Ban.  Democratic Assemblywoman Rosa — a foreigner, an illegal alien, and now an admitted criminal — co-sponsored and voted for the law that destroyed the Second Amendment rights of 20 million New Yorkers.  Rosa is the fifth Democrat who voted for the law to be indicted or convicted.  Pro-amnesty Republicans who think that illegal aliens are nascent conservatives-in-waiting who will uphold the Constitution and traditional American values are simply barking mad.

Shaheen support, ties to breast cancer research scrutinized.  Senator Jeanne Shaheen has been a strong advocate for spending government money to fight breast cancer.  The New Hampshire Democrat has signed letters since she entered the Senate five years ago seeking $150 million to maintain a Defense Department breast cancer research program — despite objections by some other lawmakers — and last year, she endorsed an initiative to "end breast cancer" by 2020.  But Shaheen has also had a family financial stake in the research.  In 2009, her husband, William, became an adviser to a Southern California startup, Ultrawave Labs Inc., that was developing new imaging technology to detect breast cancer and acquired stock options in the firm.

Maryland's Endemic Corruption: An Object Lesson for the Nation.  Maryland is one of the most corrupt states in our nation.  Nowhere is this fact more evident than with the state's treatment of illegal aliens.  Maryland politicians have literally become lawless in their efforts to cultivate illegals, and this lawlessness flows downhill from the very top.  I will focus on a few of the more egregious examples.  In 2011, we published a report on CASA de Maryland, a Silver Spring-based illegal immigrant advocacy group that parrots ACORN in both its methods and associates — which include the Communist Party USA, FMLN, (a former Salvadoran communist guerilla group, now a political party), ACORN and others.  Yet it is one of the most influential organizations in the state.

Reid and Pelosi Go To The Movies.  Just when you think the Democrats' Koch addiction can't get any crazier, they surprise you.  As it happens, we know all about "Koch Brothers Exposed," which Robert Greenwald released in segments in 2011 and then combined into a single internet video.  Greenwald is a failed Hollywood director whose most famous film, "Xanadu," was one of the biggest flops ever.  He is now reduced to making far-left propaganda videos, financed by a secret group of rich leftists. [... But] using the Visitor Center to screen the Greenwald video is illegal unless both the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration and the House Committee on House Administration have adopted rules permitting use of the Visitor Center for showing partisan propaganda films.  I am skeptical that those committees have done any such thing, and I can't find any public record of such action.

Lawless Order Is How This White House Always Operates.  Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., told a Senate subcommittee Monday [5/19/2014] that until an amnesty-based immigration "reform" gets passed, "every institution in America, including our military, must work around the inability of our federal government and the U.S. House of Representatives to fix our immigration system."  Gutierrez is another Chicago community organizer-turned-politician, and has represented one of the most shamelessly racially gerrymandered congressional districts in the country. [...] According to Gutierrez, illegal aliens are "'Dreamers,' who are American in every way except for a piece of paper."  It's no surprise he wants the U.S. government to violate laws, since he himself was arrested repeatedly during pro-amnesty demonstrations at the White House during Obama's first term.  But as a scofflaw, Gutierrez is minor league compared with this administration.

I'm Sick To Death Of Bill And Hillary.  I am an optimist where the Clintons are concerned.  By that I mean that I am among those who still believe that in the end civic virtue will prevail and justice will be served.  In other words, I remain hopeful that Bill and Hillary will spend their twilight years together in a federal penitentiary.

Voter Fraud: An Existential Threat to America.  It is difficult to describe the enormity of the crime being committed by the Obama administration and their Democratic allies.  They flagrantly flout the law, while simultaneously turning it into a weapon against political opponents, use government agencies to target innocent Americans, attempt to create legal voters through amnesty, and undermine voter integrity measures to facilitate vote fraud, while denying it even exists.  In short, they are corrupting the entire process.

Pennsylvania Democrats Walk Out of Hearing on Members Accused of Taking Bribes.  This morning, the Pennsylvania House State Government Committee held a hearing on the case of the Democrats caught accepting bribes in exchange for voting against voter ID in the state.  The case against the Democrats is well-documented, yet Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane, a Democrat, scuttled it shortly after she took office.  Kane also accused the career investigators who built the case of racism.  That charge doesn't stand up to any level of scrutiny.  The investigation targeted Republicans and Democrats, male and female, black and white.  As it so happens, only Democrats chose to accept the bribes, and those members who did happen to be black.

House ethics panel extends Gutierrez review.  The House Ethics Committee said Monday it would continue to review Rep. Luis Gutierrez's hiring of an Illinois lobbyist who was paid more than $590,000 to perform extensive duties for his congressional office.  The lobbyist, Doug Scofield of The Scofield Company in Oak Park, for years was Gutierrez's chief of staff in Congress.  He left in 2002 to work briefly for Rod Blagojevich when he first won the Illinois governor's job.  But Scofield soon quit and in 2003 began assisting Gutierrez as a contractor paid from $4,500 to $6,000 a month.

Two Dems Accuse Party Leaders in CA-33 of Changing Rules to Favor Wealthy Insiders.  Two Democratic Party candidates in the primary race for California's 33rd congressional district in West Los Angeles have accused local party officials of using an arbitrary fundraising minimum to favor established insiders — then raising that minimum at the last moment to exclude them from a recent candidates' forum.

Hillary's glass jaw.  Do you remember Webb Hubbell, the McDougals, the missing Rose Law firm billing records, Travelgate, or Hillary's surprise acumen at high-risk commodities trading?  Super PACs and other groups will remind voters of all of these case studies of corruption if Hillary proceeds with a campaign.  Democrats are terrified of this likelihood, not because it points to Hillary's distant past, but because it helps illustrate her more recent corrupt behavior — and that of the elite political class she represents.

Major Democratic donor indicted over campaign contributions.  A hotel executive and Democratic fundraiser has pleaded guilty in New York to witness tampering and conspiracy to evade campaign finance laws.  Hampshire Hotels chairman Sant Singh Chatwal appeared Thursday in federal court in Brooklyn.  The candidates were not identified.  Chatwal, whose firm runs hotels around the world, had raised at least $100,000 for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign against Barack Obama.

Hotel Magnate Pleads Guilty to Campaign Finance Fraud.  Hotel magnate Sant Singh Chatwal, who has lavished campaign cash on everyone from Hillary Clinton to Mayor Bill de Blasio, pleaded guilty today in Brooklyn federal court to campaign finance fraud and witness tampering, U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch announced.  Mr. Chatwal, 70, who runs a chain of luxury hotels and other companies, allegedly broke federal law by using straw donors — whom he called "conduits" — to make more than $180,000 in illegal campaign contributions to three candidates in an effort to gain access and influence federal regulations, according to a federal complaint.

Vote Fraud is a Venerable Tradition.  Barack Obama accuses Republicans of threatening the right to vote.  Standing alongside Al Sharpton — the FBI snitch who aided Tawana Brawley's hoax and probably sparked an anti-Semitic riot, Obama spoke before Sharpton's National Action Network.  Obama allegedly said, "[t]he right to vote is threatened today in a way that it has not been since the Voting Rights Act became law nearly five decades ago."  He also declared that, "[a]cross the country, Republicans have led efforts to pass laws making it harder, not easier, to vote."  What are those rascally Republicans doing?  Efforts to require photo IDs in order to vote are probably uppermost in Obama's mind.  He might also have been thinking about moves to limit the times polls are open, cut back on early voting, especially on weekends, curtail the mailing of absentee ballots, and require proof of citizenship in order to vote.  These and other changes to American voting practices are anathema to Democrats, who claim they are efforts to suppress voting by minorities and the poor.

Begich Earmarked Millions for Bankrupt Green Energy Company.  As Sen. Mark Begich (D., Alaska) seeks to shore up his energy policy credentials, a now-bankrupt green energy company to which he steered federal subsidies could cloud his message.  Begich received campaign contributions from a lobbyist for an Alaska geothermal plant after helping the company obtain federal financing.  The company is now bankrupt, but Begich continues touting his support for alternative energy.

Progressive Insurance.  Three miscreant California Democratic state senators — two charged with multiple felonies, one convicted of them — have only recently been put on leave.  They are still receiving their state salaries.  Since they are left-wing and of minority status, the scandals will soon be off the front pages, and calls for their resignations will be muted.

Rizzo gets 12 years in prison, marking end to scandal that rocked Bell.  Rizzo's total compensation as Bell's city manager was roughly $1.5 million — the highest municipal salary in California, and probably the nation.

The Terrifying Implications of the IRS Abuse-DOJ Connection.  [Hooray] for Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George.  His investigation of what turned out to be the IRS abuse scandal may well have saved the Constitution and the nation.  For his fair and impartial investigation into the Internal Revenue Service's abuse of Americans who dissent from President Obama's agenda, Democrats have called for an investigation of him.  George should not be investigated, but perhaps the Democrats who want him investigated — Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) and Matt Cartwright (D-PA) — should be.  Their call for an investigation of the investigator might constitute interference with the ongoing investigation of the IRS abuse scandal.  That would be obstruction of justice, in what may turn out to be the most widespread and damaging scandal in American history.

U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush faces ethics inquiry.  An attorney for Rep. Bobby Rush said Wednesday that the South Side Democrat is cooperating with an inquiry by the Office of Congressional Ethics.  Scott E. Thomas, a Washington lawyer, said Rush had retained his firm, Dickstein Shapiro, and "asked that we be cooperative and provide the information requested."  Thomas, a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, did not disclose the subject of the inquiry.  But he did say:  "We believe that the circumstances being reviewed do not warrant any ethics sanctions, and we are hopeful that this inquiry will be concluded relatively soon."  At the Office of Congressional Ethics, spokeswoman Kelly Brewington had no comment Wednesday.  Rush's spokeswoman, Debra Johnson, did not respond Wednesday to calls and emails from the Tribune.

How Comcast Bought the Democratic Party.  The communications giant Comcast announced in February that it would buy Time Warner Cable for $45 billion, creating the largest cable provider in America, with more than 33 million customers.  That is about one third of the U.S. cable- and satellite-television market.  FCC approval is required for the merger to go into effect.  Critics of the deal say it would lessen competition and lead to even shoddier customer service.  They are probably right, as all of us will soon find out, because there is little chance the merger will be stopped.  Comcast, Time Warner, and their political fixers have spent years preparing for this moment — by buying off the Democratic party.

California Democrats Await Fallout After 3 Are Caught Up in Scandals.  One state senator was charged with conspiring to traffic in arms from the Philippines, and taking bribes from undercover F.B.I. agents including one who posed as a marijuana dealer.  Another was accused of taking bribes from federal agents impersonating Hollywood film executives.  And a third was convicted of perjury and voter fraud after lying about where he lived when he ran for office.  All three are Democratic state senators from California, and their recent legal problems have brought rare bad news to a party that has come to thoroughly dominate politics in this state but now looks besieged by high-profile corruption cases.

Leland Yee's interesting history of cash for votes.  Ever since the recent revelations regarding California state senator Leland Yee's allegedly somewhat unusual approach to capitalist endeavors — to put it charitably — the media has begun digging more deeply into the elected official's past.  And as the LA Times reports, there are more than a few curious votes in Yee's legislative record which, by some amazing coincidence, seem to line up with large political contributions he received.

The poster boy for liberal hypocrisy ignored by national media, but outrages San Francisco.  The liberal media are trying to ignore his arrest, but California State Senator Leland Yee is such an amusing piñata of liberal hypocrisy that even his home town liberal newspaper is joining in the mockery fun. [...] Outlets like CNN which ignore this embarrassment to liberals do so at their peril.

Indicted Charlotte mayor used access to White House in making plans for pay-offs.  Former Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon was indicted on federal corruption charges last week and immediately resigned his position.  Cannon had replaced former Mayor Anthony Foxx, who was tapped in 2013 by the Obama administration to lead the Department of Transportation. News of Cannon's indictment got only passing mention in national news, along with a handful of other corruption charges for Democrats.

Corruption Costs Dems Their Supermajority in California.  Two years ago, California Democrats celebrated victory in a decades-long struggle to win a supermajority in the Legislature, where a two-thirds majority is required for any tax increase.  It was the latest chapter in a long descent into inconsequence by California Republicans, who hold no statewide offices and party registration of only 29.3 percent of the voters.  But corruption has achieved what the Republicans could not.  The supermajority is now down the drain as three of the Golden State's 27 Democratic state senators have within the past two months been convicted or indicted on charges ranging from bribery to gun-running.

Scandal-Weary Voters Boot DC Mayor From Office.  Reeling from allegations by federal prosecutors that he knew about the dirty tricks that helped him get elected four years ago, District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray tried to rally his base.  But his core supporters weren't nearly enough, as a scandal-weary electorate rallied behind a much-younger challenger who promised honest and ethical leadership.

Democrats behaving badly: Scandals taint party in a tough election year.  In a week Democrats won't soon forget, the Democrat-dominated California Senate took the unprecedented step Friday of voting 28-1 to suspend with pay three state senators in their own party accused or convicted of criminal conduct.  State Sen. Leland Yee was arrested Wednesday on federal gun trafficking and corruption charges.  Sen. Ron Calderon pleaded not guilty Feb. 24 to charges of influence-peddling, and Sen. Roderick Wright was convicted Jan. 28 of perjury and voter fraud.

 

Dirty Democrats.  On Wednesday, the FBI raided the offices of three Democrat politicians coast-to-coast on corruption charges.  They include Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon, a Friend of Barack, who allegedly took more than $48,000 in bribes — including $20,000 in cash from an undercover agent, who delivered the bribe, "American Hustle"-style, inside a briefcase in the mayor's office.

Gun Rights Advocates Pretty Impressed with the Mindblowing Scale of Leland Yee's Hypocrisy.  By day, California Democrat Leland Yee was an outspoken gun control advocate.  But by night, he is alleged to have been a broker for Russian arms dealers to arm Islamic militants, for piles of cold, hard cash.  That dual life hasn't been lost on Yee's enemies on gun control. [...] Isn't Leland Yee an excellent argument for keeping and strengthening the Second Amendment?  The Second Amendment is not and never was about hunting.  It's about an armed populace being a check on out-of-control, tyrannical government and also about national defense.  This is a man who used his political power to disarm Americans, while he was allegedly arming America's enemies.  It's treasonous.

Dem gun control advocate charged with gun-running.  The irony police are going to need reinforcements to handle the tsunami being generated in San Francisco.  State Senator Leland Yee appeared in federal court yesterday in shackles, and faced a lengthy indictment for a series of corruption charges, including shocking allegations of gun-running — including shoulder-fired rocket launchers.  An undercover FBI agent met repeatedly with Lee, a prominent gun control advocate who had authored legislation to expand the definition of "assault weapons."

The Big Dreams of Corrupt Politicians.  [Patrick] Cannon was elected mayor of Charlotte in November, which incidentally happened to be almost a year into the FBI's investigation of him.  A former city councilman, it is alleged that the North Carolina Democrat took cash and gifts in exchange for helping with real estate developers secure prime properties along the city's expanding light rail system.

Why did the FBI take so long on Cannon investigation?  As the corruption investigation of former Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon went back underground Thursday [3/27/2014], a nagging question hung over his embarrassed city:  Couldn't this have been known before he was elected mayor in November?  According to an affidavit released this week, the FBI became aware of possible illegal activity of then-City Council member Cannon as early as August 2010.  By the time Cannon was sworn as the city's top elected leader, undercover agents posing as real estate developers had flown him and his wife to Las Vegas and paid him almost $30,000 in bribes, prosecutors say.

Democrats sinking in sea of charges.  Right now, a crime wave is sweeping the nation, and everyone in this out-of-control mob has a D after their names, even if most of the media are loath to report it.  If you are a low-information voter, a [Boston] Globe subscriber, say, you have been told endlessly that the root of all evil in American politics is the Tea Party, better known in your moonbat media as "teabaggers."  Oddly, however, the hacks rounded up over the last few days, well, let's put it this way.  They voted for Obama 100 percent.  They think Obamacare's great.  How could they possibly be guilty as charged?

Calif. state senator arrested for alleged gun-running was gun-control advocate.  California state Sen. Leland Yee (D) was arrested Wednesday at his home in San Francisco and accused of — among many, many other things — offering to procure some seriously illegal weapons.  The irony:  Yee was one of the driving forces behind some of the toughest gun-control legislation in the country during his tenure in the state Senate.

FBI Raids Assemblyman Bill Scarborough's Office.  Federal agents today raided the Albany and city offices of Queens Democratic Assemblyman Bill Scarborough, the FBI confirmed this afternoon.  "The FBI conducted searches today of the Albany and New York City Offices of New York State Assemblyman William Scarborough," FBI Albany spokesman Paul Holstein said in a statement.  "At this time, no further information is being released."

Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon resigns after arrest on corruption charges.  Patrick Cannon, who rose from public housing to become mayor of North Carolina's largest city, was charged Wednesday by federal authorities who said he accepted tens of thousands of dollars in bribes — including $20,000 in cash delivered in a briefcase last month to the mayor's office in a meeting where he solicited $1 million more.  Cannon, a 49-year-old Democrat who took office only four months ago, was arrested when he showed up at a luxury apartment in SouthPark for yet another payoff from what he thought were businessmen needing his influence in city matters, a source confirmed.

California state senator arrested in FBI raids along with Asian gang leader known as 'Shrimp Boy'.  State Sen. Leland Yee and Raymond Chow, were taken into custody after a series of raids by federal and gang task force officials, but the charges against them remained undisclosed.

California state senator Leland Yee arrested in FBI sweep.  A longtime California politician who was praised for his efforts to make government more transparent and authored gun control legislation was arrested Wednesday, accused of conspiracy to deal firearms and wire fraud.  The allegations against State Sen. Leland Yee were outlined in an FBI affidavit in support of a criminal complaint against him and 25 other people.  The affidavit was unsealed on Wednesday, as Yee was scheduled to appear in court.

FBI says Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon took bribes.  Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon was arrested Wednesday on public corruption charges, with the FBI alleging he took tens of thousands of dollars in bribes — including $20,000 in cash delivered in a briefcase last month to the mayor's office where he also solicited $1 million more.  Cannon resigned Wednesday evening [3/26/2014].  In return for the money, trips, hotel rooms and access to a luxury SouthPark apartment, Cannon promised to help agents posing as potential commercial investors with zoning, parking and other city-related issues.

California state senator arrested in FBI sweep.  A prominent California lawmaker was arrested on Wednesday in an FBI sweep that netted 26 people, a high-profile case that could affect statewide elections and brings to three the number of Democratic state senators who face criminal charges this year.

Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon arrested on corruption charges.  Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon was arrested Wednesday [3/26/2014] on public corruption charges, with the FBI alleging he took tens of thousands of dollars in bribes — including $20,000 in cash delivered in a briefcase last month to the mayor's office where he also solicited $1 million more.  In return for the money, trips, hotel rooms and access to a luxury SouthPark apartment, Cannon promised to help agents posing as potential commercial investors with zoning, parking and other city-related issues.  According to officials, Cannon turned himself in to federal marshals after learning of a warrant for his arrest.

Big political corruption arrest in California.  There are encouraging signs that the very corrupt Democrat political machine in the California state legislature may be finally getting exposed, indicted, and, God willing, destroyed.  The state of California is a corrupt banana republic, run by Democrats, and spending a yearly budget in excess of a hundred billion dollars a year.  Evidently, the FBI and federal prosecutors have taken notice, and the arrest last month of powerful Democrat state Senator Ron Calderon was this morning [3/26/2014] followed by the indictment and arrest of another Democrat powerhouse, state Senator Leland Yee.

'A Criminal Organization Masquerading as a Political Party'.  Certainly, at a minimum it's safe to say that Democrats were rather active on the nation's police blotters today.  Since this is one narrative the MSM will never assemble (as they're in on the fun), it's up to the Blogosphere — so here we go.

ABC, CNN, MSNBC, PBS All Skip Political ID for 'Shocking' Corruption By Democrat Mayor.  ABC, CNN, MSNBC and PBS on Wednesday and Thursday all covered the "shocking" corruption involving the Democratic mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina.  Yet, while talking about the tens of thousands of dollars in bribes he sought, none of these networks identified Patrick Cannon's political party. Only a Fox News host referred to him as a Democrat.

No Justice Department Charges Against Ohio Woman Who Voted Six Times for Obama.  Last week Al Sharpton embraced convicted vote fraudster Melowese Richardson at a "voting rights" rally in Cincinnati.  The United States Department of Justice under Eric Holder has done nothing to Melowese Richardson 410 days after she admitted on camera that she committed multiple federal felonies by voting six times for President Obama's reelection.  Federal law makes it a felony to vote more than once for President.  In fact, 42 U.S.C. Section 1973i(e) subjects Richardson to twenty-five years in federal prison for her six votes for Obama.

Philly DA Blows the Whistle on Pennsylvania's State AG.  Prosecutors almost never go to war against each other.  But in Pennsylvania, Democratic attorney general Kathleen Kane is being brutally criticized by Seth Williams, Philadelphia's district attorney and a fellow Democrat.  Williams is upset that last year one of Kane's first acts in office was to decline to prosecute four Philadelphia state legislators and other government officials.  In a sting operation, all had been caught accepting cash or Tiffany jewelry in exchange for votes or favors.  Kane, who is white, has defended herself, saying that the investigation was badly managed and tainted by racism.

Unethical Media Helps Sweep Democrat Bribe-Taking Under the Rug.  So far, the big three networks have yet to cover the major bribery scandal unfolding in Pennsylvania.  In that scandal, state investigators targeted Republicans and Democrats in the legislature and offered them bribes.  But only a few of the Democrats accepted bribes.  The investigation began under a Republican attorney general, but when Democrat Kathleen Kane won the state attorney general's office in 2012, she quickly scuttled that investigation.

Authorities Just Raided The Office of Rhode Island's House Speaker.  FBI, IRS, and Rhode Island law enforcement officials entered the Rhode Island State House on Friday [3/21/2014], apparently to collect evidence from the offices of Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox.  A spokesperson for the Democrat's office said to the AP that his staffers weren't informed why they were asked to leave the premises by state police.

Rhode Island House Speaker resigning after fed and state police raid.  The most powerful politician in my former home State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations is not the Governor.  It's the Speaker of the House.  And Mr. Speaker, Gordon Fox, is stepping down as Speaker after the feds and state police raided his office and home yesterday [3/21/2014].

Bribe-taking convict and accused fraudsters run for office in Illinois Democratic primary elections.  A convicted bribe-taker in President Barack Obama's political backyard, and at least two other public servants accused of felonies, are seeking office in Tuesday's Illinois Democratic primary elections.  Former Chicago city alderman Isaac 'Ike' Carothers spent 28 months in prison for taking bribes, and was released in March 2012.  He's running for commissioner of the Cook County board, among the most powerful positions in the Chicago metropolitan area.  Carothers followed the family legacy established by his father, who once held the same position before going to prison for official corruption.

PA Democrats Took Bribes to Oppose Voter ID: Where is Holder?  Pennsylvania Democrats were caught on surveillance tape reportedly accepting cash bribes in return for opposing voter ID in the Pennsylvania legislature.  Gifts of Tiffany's jewelry were also given to Democrat legislators from Philadelphia, reportedly in exchange for "NO" votes on a Pennsylvania voter ID bill that passed in 2012.  Despite this evidence, Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane has not charged any officials.  Kane is a Democrat.  Kane's excuse for her inaction?  Racism:  some of the legislators caught on tape accepting bribes were black Democrats from Philadelphia.

Report: Pennsylvania Dem took bribe to oppose voter ID law, but never got charged.  Pennsylvania Democrats reportedly were caught on tape accepting cash bribes, including one lawmaker who was paid to vote against a state voter identification law, but Democratic Attorney General Kathleen Kane shut down the investigation.  "Before Kane ended the investigation, sources familiar with the inquiry said, prosecutors amassed 400 hours of audio and videotape that documented at least four city Democrats taking payments in cash or money orders, and in one case a $2,000 Tiffany bracelet," the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

Kane shut down sting that snared Philadelphia officials.  The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office ran an undercover sting operation over three years that captured leading Philadelphia Democrats, including four members of the city's state House delegation, on tape accepting money, The [Philadelphia] Inquirer has learned.  Yet no one was charged with a crime.  Prosecutors began the sting in 2010 when Republican Tom Corbett was attorney general.  After Democrat Kathleen G. Kane took office in 2013, she shut it down.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kane lawyers up.  The decision of Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane to drop the investigation and potential prosecution of Philadelphia Democrats who were recorded accepting cash, money orders, or jewelry certainly seems suspicious.  According to news reports, investigators collected over 400 hours of audio and video of five Democrats, including four state lawmakers, before Kane, also a Democrat, secretly killed the investigation last fall.  When confronted with this troubling story by the Philadelphia Inquirer, Kane cited racism and mismanagement in the investigation, but the detailed descriptions of the recordings certainly seem to indicate that the payments were made.

Dem Who Pled Guilty to Illegal Fundraising for D.C. Mayor Also Contributed to Hillary; Nets Ignore.  A prominent Democrat who illegally funneled $660,000 into the mayoral campaign of Vincent Gray in 2010 also contributed to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, according to the Washington Times.  All three networks on Monday night and Tuesday morning ignored the story.

Federal jury convicts former Arkansas treasurer.  A jury convicted former Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner of federal bribery and extortion charges Tuesday [3/11/2014], saying her acceptance of $36,000 from a bond trader who did business with the state was a felony rather than just a lapse in ethical judgment.

Democratic Donor Pleads Guilty to Illegal Campaign Donations.  A major Democratic donor pleaded guilty on Monday [3/10/2014] to funneling millions of dollars in illegal campaign donations to federal and local politicians, including an unnamed 2008 presidential candidate believed to be Hillary Clinton.  District of Columbia businessman Jeffrey Thompson, who federal prosecutors say financed a "shadow campaign" for D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray in 2010, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate campaign finance laws.  Thompson claimed some of the candidates, including Gray, were aware of the illegal fundraising.

A Real New Jersey Scandal Tied to Democrats Being Ignored by Media.  Even as Newark, New Jersey was laying off policemen and was pleading for more tax money and state bailouts, it has now been discovered that a heavily employed city contractor was stealing millions from the city with crony deals and bribery and it's all tied to people appointed by Cory Booker — the man many Democrats think might be the "next" Barack Obama.  There is even no-work jobs to buddies and other such criminal waste.  All this comes from investigations into a city agency called the Watershed Conservation Development Corporation, an entity that supposedly monitored and managed the city's 35,000 acres of reservoirs and other water resources.

How Cory Booker's Cronies Made Out Like Bandits.  New Jersey state senator Ron Rice, a Democrat, calls it "Newark-gate."  He is referring to a state comptroller's report that details how a contractor swindled the city out of millions in public funds, and to the larger culture of "white-collar crime" that he says former Newark mayor Cory Booker allowed to flourish on his watch.

Don't Give Booker a Pass.  Cory Booker may be the most puzzling man in the Senate.  We don't know where he lives.  We don't know whom, if anyone, he lives with.  And he's been caught in lie after lie about his heroics.  Yet, this enigma of a man has emerged as the king of odd-couple bromance, using selfies and Instagram posts to burnish his stardom even as he appears surprisingly vulnerable in his upcoming bid for reelection.

'Torquemada' John Dingell.  At the height of his powers as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee in October 1991, Representative John Dingell (D., Mich.) was feted by 800 Washington lobbyists — representing Morgan Stanley, AT&T, Merck, and more — who laid out $600,000 to honor the ruthless congressman nicknamed "Torquemada."  I was a young journalist in D.C., and the glitzy Washington Hyatt Regency event was called a "Tribute to John Dingell."  Any other town might have called it a shakedown.

Dewhurst: Investigate Battleground Texas Immediately.  Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst issued a letter to Secretary of State Nandita Berry today [2/21/2014] urging her office to immediately turn over all complaints of Battleground Texas' violations of election law to Attorney General Greg Abbott.  The scandal was revealed after Breitbart Texas released the latest James O'Keefe undercover video on what appeared to be a Battleground Texas illegal voter data-mining operation to help elect Wendy Davis.

Source: Rob Andrews to leave Congress.  South Jersey Congressman Rob Andrews will resign from Congress later this month to take over as head of government affairs at prominent Philadelphia law firm Dilworth Paxson, Andrews announced Tuesday morning [2/4/2014].  Andrews, a Democrat in his 24th year in the House, will leave office Feb. 18. [...] Andrews, 56, has faced an expensive House ethics probe into his use of campaign money for a family trip to Scotland.  The investigation has gone on for more than a year.

Michigan House bill would force candidates to reveal felony convictions.  The new bill, which passed the committee on a 9-0 vote, would add a requirement that any felony convictions from the prior decade be disclosed as a matter of transparency.  Juvenile convictions would not have to be listed.  The bill would not have identified two Flint City Council members who were elected last year without the public being aware that one had been convicted of manslaughter and the other of felonious assault.  Both convictions were more than 20 years old.  But it would have affected state Rep. Brian Banks, D-Harper Woods, who has eight felony convictions, mostly for writing bad checks and credit card fraud, dating to a period of time in 1998-2004.

California Sen. Rod Wright convicted of perjury, voter fraud.  A Los Angeles jury on Tuesday convicted state Sen. Roderick D. Wright on all eight counts in his perjury and voter fraud trial.  The Inglewood Democrat was indicted by a Los Angeles County grand jury in September 2010. [...] In a trial that began Jan. 8, prosecutors accused Wright of faking a move to a rental property he owned in Inglewood so he could run in what was then the 25th Senate District.  They accused him of lying on voter registration and candidacy documents and of casting ballots in five elections he was not entitled to vote in from the Inglewood address.

Neighbors: Cory Booker never lived in Newark.  As Cory Booker looks set to win the junior Senate seat in New Jersey Wednesday, his supposed neighbors in Newark say Mayor Booker doesn't live in the Gateway City.  Multiple residents of Newark told The Daily Caller that the longtime mayor doesn't live at any of the addresses he has claimed as home.  The mayor is believed to live in New York even though he is registered to run for New Jersey's special senate election.

Clinton, Reid, DNC took campaign contributions from deathbed identity thief.  Republican National Committee (RNC) chairman Reince Preibus called for Hillary Clinton, Harry Reid, and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to return campaign donations they received from a man who pled guilty to identity theft of the terminally ill.  Clinton, Reid, and the DNC all received donations from Joseph Caramadre.  Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe invested $47,000 in an illegal business in which Caramadre applied for annuities and bonds with the stolen identities of dying people.

Robert Rizzo must come clean on Bell corruption, activists say.  If Robert Rizzo wants to "make amends" to the city of Bell — as his attorney said Thursday [10/3/2013] — then members of a local activist group are expecting him to disclose more information about corruption in the city and others who may have participated in it.

Bell's Rizzo to serve prison time.  Robert Rizzo, the central figure in the scandal that made the working-class city of Bell a national symbol for government graft, effectively admitted for the first time Thursday [10/3/2013] his role in the corruption scheme.  On the eve of his trial, Rizzo made a surprise appearance in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom and pleaded no contest to 69 felony charges of misappropriating public funds, hiding and falsifying records, perjury and other crimes.

Dangerous Times: The Crisis-Monger.  The Center for Policy Studies has now exposed secret money streams from the Muslim Brotherhood to the Democrats.  That hidden flow of cash explains everything that made no sense before, going back to 9/11/01.  The MBs run layers of shell corporations to hide money for the Democrats from the IRS — which isn't looking very hard.  The Clinton Center is one major conduit.  The Obama campaign is another.

Fmr. Chicago Alderman Convicted of Third Corruption Charge.  Former Chicago Democratic Ald. Ambrosio Medrano was convicted of a third corruption charge Tuesday, the Chicago Tribune reported.  Medrano pleaded guilty "in a 2010 bribery scheme to influence a bandage contract."

For Those Who Don't Believe in Election Fraud.  "Yes, the Rizzo-Royster race turned on vote fraud," admitted the Kansas City Star's Barbara Shelly in a crow-eating column nearly three years after it would do any good.  For years the Star has routinely mocked anyone who dared suggest vote fraud was a problem.  Among those mocked was Will Royster, a retired Navy fighter pilot who seemingly lost in a northeast Kansas City Democratic primary for state representative in 2010 by the final count of one single vote.  The seeming victor, endorsed by the Star, was neophyte J.J. Rizzo, the son of Democratic machine honcho, Henry Rizzo.

The Clintons Can't Shake Their Reputation for Ethical Shadiness.  Last week, businessman Troy White pleaded guilty to federal charges arising from a Clinton for President campaign scheme hatched five years ago with the help of key Clinton supporter Jeffrey E. Thompson.  The scheme was designed to assist Hillary's ground game in the run-up to the March 2008 Texas Democratic Primary — which she ultimately won.  According to the underlying legal documents, more than $608,000 was channeled to White to hire "street teams."  But the saga didn't end with White or Thompson.

Jeffrey Thompson's Tentacles.  National media tend to ignore the corruption that passes as local D.C. politics.  As a consequence, it's missed a city scandal that is now cascading onto the national political scene, with potential fallout for the 2016 presidential election, federal and state politicians, and even the government.

Former Bergen County Democratic chairman indicted on racketeering charge.  Joseph A. Ferriero, the former chairman of the Bergen County Democratic Organization, was indicted today [9/11/2013] by a federal grand jury for allegedly running a racketeering scheme in which he paid lucrative kickbacks to a public official, solicited more than a million dollars in illegal payments and extorted companies wanting to do business in Bergen County.

Grimes Won't Call for Democratic State Rep. Arnold's Resignation.  Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes is declining to call for Democratic State Rep. John A. Arnold to resign, leading her opponents to call her less than genuine about "fighting for Kentucky women."  Arnold is currently facing formal complaints from three employees for sexual harassment.

Senators who backed Syria resolution got 83 percent more defense lobby money than those who voted against it.  Wednesday's 10-7 vote in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee supporting an authorization of military attacks on Syria may have been affected by varying levels of financial support the senators got from political action committees representing the defense industry, and from the companies' employees.  On average, a 'yes'-voting senator received 83 percent more money from defense contractors than one who voted 'no.'

Arrests of 3 Mayors Reinforce Florida's Notoriety as a Hothouse for Corruption.  Even by Florida standards, the arrests of three suburban Miami mayors on corruption charges within a month were a source of dismay, if not exactly a surprise. [...] Not that such situations are unusual in Florida, which led the country in convictions of public officials — 781 — between 2000 and 2010, according to Department of Justice figures.

Democrats and Lawlessness.  President Obama has already seized the power to rule by decree, and is doing so virtually every day now. [...] He is now regularly exercising the power to legislate directly himself, either by announcing on his own supposed authority changes in existing laws that Congress has already passed, or by announcing that he will carry out entirely new laws that Congress never passed, or even refused to pass.  These actions are brazen, lawless violations of the Constitution.

Obama stays silent on Dems mired in scandals.  When President Barack Obama ran for re-election last year, he and his advisers were quick to condemn comments from Republicans that were deemed offensive or demeaning to women.

Democrats' 'war on women' boomerangs as Obama, top leaders fail to condemn bad boy behavior.  Democrats launched the "war on women," but they didn't first sweep their side of the battlefield for land mines.  Anthony Weiner, Eliot Spitzer and San Diego Mayor Bob Filner have dominated the headlines for their atrocious disrespect and sexual harassment of women.  Yet the Democratic leadership is hiding in a foxhole.

Detroit Ran Into The Inviolable Rule Of Economics.  [Detroit's] Cause of death?  Corruption, both legal and illegal, plus a classic case of reactionary liberalism in which the governing Democrats — there's been no Republican mayor in half a century — simply refused to adapt to the straitened economic circumstances that followed the post-World War II auto boom.  Corruption of the criminal sort was legendary.  The former mayor currently serving time engaged in a breathtaking range of fraud, extortion and racketeering.  And he didn't act alone.  The legal corruption was the cozy symbiosis of Democratic politicians and powerful unions, especially the public-sector unions that gave money to elect the politicians who negotiated their contracts — with wildly unsustainable health and pension benefits.

'Culture of Corruption' boomerangs on Democrats as scandals blossom nationwide.  The Democratic Party is battling scandals from New York to San Diego and from city hall to Capitol Hill, as the party finds itself on the defensive over embarrassing lapses ranging from sexual misconduct to multiple scandals ensnaring the Obama administration.  President Obama on Wednesday [7/24/2013] denounced what he called "phony scandals" and "an endless parade of distractions" blocking progress on the economy and other issues, but critics say the controversies underscore the missed opportunities for the president and his party to live up to pledges to clean up politics and break traditional patterns of money, influence and privilege in government.

Only in Chicago ... and the Obama White House.  Each [Chicago] Alderman receives about a million dollars for an "Aldermanic menu" — part of city budgeting for decades.  It's a great slush fund that Aldermen usually use to reward friends and remove annoyances that make voters mad.  There is virtually no accountability and voters have no say in how the money is spent. 

Nancy Pelosi, Creep Enabler.  The most powerful female Democrat on Capitol Hill has turned her back on women.  Again.  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, entrenched 13-term incumbent, refuses to say whether creepster San Diego Mayor Bob Filner should resign amid an avalanche of longstanding sexual harassment allegations, staff resignations and now a lawsuit.  "What goes on in San Diego is up to the people of San Diego.  I'm not here to make any judgments," declared the very same feminist crusader who has spearheaded unabashedly judgmental nationwide attacks on the so-called "Republican War on Women."

High-profile Dems reluctant to weigh in on San Diego mayor groping claims.  Democrats who accused Republicans of being anti-women during last year's campaign are strangely silent now that one of their own — San Diego Mayor Bob Filner — is accused of groping and sexually assaulting women.  "Don't identify him as my former colleague," an agitated House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi reportedly said Thursday night [7/18/2013] when asked about the claims against Filner.  Pelosi worked alongside Filner for 10 years in Congress.

Chicago whistle-blower implicates top state Democrat.  A former Chicago-area executive is blowing the whistle in the latest case to showcase what is derisively known as the "Illinois way" — politicians' practice of doing business by dishing out favors to friends who contribute generously to their campaigns.  This time, a top-ranking Democrat has been implicated.  The case involves Illinois' most powerful Democratic leader — state House Speaker Michael Madigan — and the former head of the Chicago area's commuter rail service, Metra.

How Obamacare Is Being Used to Create a Permanent Democratic Majority.  To a remarkable degree, liberalism has been institutionalized as an official ideology, funded by your tax dollars.  [A recent] editorial in Investors Business Daily explains, in shocking detail, how Obamacare is being used to fund Democratic Party operatives and drive Democratic Party enrollment.

California state senator is targeted in FBI searches.  FBI agents searched offices in the Capitol on Tuesday [6/4/2013] — the first such raid in 25 years — serving warrants and carting away evidence in what law enforcement officials said was a corruption probe that began in Los Angeles County.  As the agents combed the offices of state Sen. Ron Calderon (D-Montebello) and the Latino Legislative Caucus into the evening, a federal law enforcement source said Calderon, a member of the caucus, was "the focus of the investigation."

All in the Family.  A nonprofit connected to Rep. Corrine Brown (D., Fla.) and run by a local political power player overbilled Medicaid by nearly $1.4 million, the Florida Times-Union reported.  According to an audit by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, the Community Rehabilitation Center in Jacksonville overbilled Medicaid by nearly $1.4 million.

McCaskill: Fire Everyone Involved in Obama's IRS Scandal.  Let's be honest:  There's not a single Democrat in Congress who cares if the Obama Administration uses the IRS to target its political enemies.  We're the bad guys to them and they're willing to do anything they can get away with to stick it to us.  That's why nobody at the IRS had been punished for this scandal before it went public and blew up like a nuclear bomb.  However, the situation has now changed because the scandal is getting traction with the public.

A Brief History of Slimy Dem Snoops and Dumpster Divers.  It's always the "low-level" peon's fault, isn't it?  When Democrats get caught red-handed abusing government powers and bullying their political enemies small and large, nobody at the top knows nuttin'. [...] While they pretend to champion privacy rights, top left-wing operatives have routinely ransacked and plundered through the private documents and personal records of conservative groups, business owners and public figures.  Through it all, those on the right standing against government tyranny have refused to stand down.

Dem Candidate Listed Twice on Ballot in South Carolina Special Election.  Elizabeth Colbert-Busch, the Democratic nominee for the South Carolina First Congressional District special election, is listed twice on today's ballot.  Colbert-Busch is also the nominee of the Working Families party.

Dianne Feinstein's Husband Bags High-Speed Rail Construction Contract.  Sen. Diane Feinstein's husband Richard Blum won a construction contract for California's high-speed rail project, reports the California Political Review.  Author Laer Pearce says Perini-Zachary-Parsons, a construction group partially owned by Blum's investment firm, Blum Capital, and their investors, bagged the nearly billion dollar contract.

Junk politics.  So Anthony Weiner is thinking about running for mayor.  The guy's a contemptible liar, a creepy egomaniac and a man of seriously flawed character.  In other words, politics is the perfect profession for him.  Queens Congressman Gregory Meeks, who failed to report (at least until the FBI began an investigation) that he took $40,000 from a felonious businessman who was convicted of running a $50 million fraud scheme, remains in office.  Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington placed Meeks on its list of the most corrupt congressmen.  And Meeks last fall was re-elected to an eighth term in Congress with 75% of the vote.

Soviet Agent Award for Mother Jones Reporter.  As new developments in the McConnell story seem to indicate a political espionage operation against the Senate Republican leader, the prospect of being linked to those behind a campaign on behalf of Bradley Manning — on trial for espionage against the U.S. — could become a public relations nightmare for [David] Corn.  That is, if the media cover the scandal.

Alleged McConnell Bugger Visited White House.  The head of a group accused of illegally taping private meetings of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign visited the White House days before the group's Twitter account began actively attacking the Kentucky Republican, according to White House visitors logs.

Democrat changes story of Progress Kentucky members taping McConnell meeting.  The Democrat who implicated two members of the liberal super PAC Progress Kentucky in the secret taping of a campaign strategy meeting for Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell is changing his story.

Still OK to withdraw welfare benefits at ATMs in Colorado strip clubs.  An attempt by Colorado lawmakers to ban welfare recipients from withdrawing their benefits at ATMs located inside strip clubs was killed by Democrats Thursday night [4/4/2013], even though the state House's third-ranking Democratic legislator supported the measure.

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It is not difficult to restrict the use of food stamp cards in specific ATMs, if the state government wants to do so.  Apparently the Democrats do not want to establish such restrictions.  The message is clear:  This is no longer a program to temporarily help hungry people.  It is an unmitigated handout which the recipients can use for anything at all, and it is provided by politicians who are shamelessly buying votes.

EPA Corruption and Scandal.  The EPA and Ms. Lisa Jackson, its chief, have committed extensive violations of law that should receive in-depth scrutiny from Congress, law enforcement and the American people.  Yes the Obama administration has yet another serious scandal on their hands.  The scandal features a fantasy administrator, 'Richard Windsor', and 'his' email account.  The account was established and used by Ms. Jackson to camouflage controversial EPA processes, discussions, decisions and accountability.

Levin's Last Stand.  Carl Levin's retirement announcement today [3/7/2013] was delicious.  The millionaire Michigan senator who gifted himself a $7,500 tax break to buy his $40,000 2012 Chevy Volt said his Number One priority in his last two years in office is cleaning up fat-cat tax breaks.

The Mysterious Office on Metrocentre Boulevard.  The offices of Dr. Salomon Melgen raided by the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services last week served as the postal address of 11 mysterious companies linked to the ophthalmologist, who is now the subject of two federal investigations into allegations of Medicare fraud and public corruption.

The Democratic Disgrace.  [Scroll down]  A decade later, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held Attorney General Holder in contempt for his cover-up of the Fast and Furious gun-running operation that led to hundreds of deaths.  That made Holder the first sitting cabinet member to be held in criminal contempt of Congress and in another administration that might have led to his dismissal. During the Bush Administration, cabinet members had resigned for much less, but the Democrats had given up even maintaining the pretense of being a law-abiding party.

N.H. Dem Delinquent on Taxes.  Rep. Ann McLane Kuster (D., N.H.) owes nearly $11,000 in overdue property taxes on her two homes, according to WMUR New Hampshire's Political Scoop.

4 of Illinois' last 7 governors went to prison.  Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan will be leaving prison and heading to a halfway house after serving more than five years for corruption.  His departure from prison follows a rich, if ignominious, history in Illinois of ex-governors arriving in and departing from prison.

Va. lawmaker who brandished AK-47 during legislative session was disbarred following assault, death threat.  A Virginia lawmaker who drew gasps from his colleagues when he brandished a borrowed AK-47 during an anti-gun speech Thursday [1/17/2013] was found guilty in 2002 of committing a vicious 1999 assault, was sanctioned for legal misconduct while prosecuting a rape case, spent six months in jail for contempt of a federal court, and saw his law license revoked in 2003.  Democratic Delegate Joseph Morrissey brought the rifle to the floor of the House of Delegates to demonstrate how easy it is to carry firearms in Virginia.

Mass. Dem Resigns after Pleading Guilty to Voter Fraud.  WBZ Boston reports Massachusetts State Rep. Stephen Smith resigned Monday [12/31/2012] after pleading guilty to voter fraud.

Democrat Officials in Maryland, NJ, NY and Massachusetts Face Prison Time for Voter Fraud.  Democratic Congressional candidate Wendy Rosen dropped from her race against Republican Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) in September after it was discovered she had been voting in two states in recent elections — Maryland and Florida.  Rosen said she was saddened to leave the race in Maryland.  She still received 92,000 votes in November.

2012 Illinois Political Hall of Shame: A Bakers Dozen.  Naturally these selections are based upon my own opinions.  But I believe most people would agree that these 13 public figures are at least somewhat indicative of what is wrong with our politics in the State of Illinois; i.e. political corruption, nepotism, ethical lapses and even outright malfeasance. [...] Democrats pretty much act with impunity due to their near absolute power.  And because of that they also happen to take up the most newsprint when it comes to scandals.

Obama Admin Protected Sex Offender, Helping Re-election.  In a new low for Obama corruption, AP reports that the Homeland Security Department "several times" protected a Democratic senator's registered sex criminal aide from arrest before November's election.

Kathleen the Terrible.  Among the gifts Nancy Pelosi brings to the House of Representatives is her ability to draw a hearty guffaw from the most jaded observer of American politics.  This talent for comedy was on display last Wednesday [12/12/2012] when she told a group of toadeaters disguised as journalists that she belongs to the anti-corruption party.  The Orwellian absurdity of the claim, combined with her trademark vapid expression, was enough to make a cat laugh.

Nancy Pelosi pushes Democrats as the anti-corruption party.  How well did Pelosi succeed in "ending the culture of corruption"?  Rep. Shelly Berkley, D-Nev., is leaving D.C. after losing a Senate campaign largely because of ethical problems, including how she used her position as lawmaker to prevent the closure of a kidney care center — a kidney care center that paid her husband almost three quarters of a million dollars a year.

Clayton Luckie: 45 Days in Office with 45 Felony Charges.  Ohio Republican Party Chairman Bob Bennett called on leaders in the Ohio Democratic Party to force disgraced Democrat State Representative Clayton Luckie to stop drawing a taxpayer paycheck and resign, as this week will mark day 45 Luckie has received a paycheck while under indictment.  Luckie is under federal indictment for 49 counts of criminal activity in one of the largest FBI investigations of the Ohio Democratic Caucus in Ohio legislative history.

Convicted former Rep. Mel Reynolds wants Jackson seat in Congress.  Disgraced former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds said he will ask voters to focus on his congressional experience rather than his state and federal criminal record as he announced his bid today [11/28/2012] for the seat held by Jesse Jackson Jr., who has resigned.  At a downtown hotel news conference, Reynolds acknowledged having made "mistakes" in the past.

Useful Liberal Idiots and Vote Fraud.  Among the responses to my recent article on Democrat vote fraud were those of liberals who were happy to hear no evil, see no evil — and be the evil.  Their rationalization-aided attitudes ranged from accusing traditionalists of being sore winners to equating 2012 with Bush-Gore in 2000 to simply denying hard evidence.  Does it matter at all to you, liberals, that Democrats were actually caught on video facilitating and promising to engage in vote fraud?

Trial set for next fall for indicted lawmaker.  Newly elected state Rep. Derrick Smith could serve nearly a year in office before he has to face trial on federal bribery charges. [...] Smith was expelled by the House after he was indicted on the federal charges.  But the Democrat was easily elected last week, defeating an independent candidate.

Vast Majority of Voters Concerned About Federal Government Corruption.  The Breitbart News/Judicial Watch survey of election day voters released today [11/8/2012] showed that the vast majority of voters are concerned about government corruption, but that this issue did not give the Republicans an advantage on Election Day.  Surprisingly, slightly more voters had confidence in the ability of the Democratic Party to limit corruption in Washington than the Republican Party.

Is voter fraud being committed in Ohio?  Two volunteer poll workers at an Ohio voting station told Human Events that they observed van loads of Ohio residents born in Somalia — the state is home to the second-largest Somali population in the United States — being driven to the voting station and guided by Democratic interpreters on the voting process.  No Republican interpreters were present, according to these volunteers.

New Undercover Video: Did Congressman's Son Commit Voter Fraud?  James O'Keefe has struck again. [...] O'Keefe may be controversial in some circles and his tactics have been criticized by some, but you can't argue with the fact that he gets people's attention.  With the liberal mainstream media lacking when it comes to true investigative journalism, these type of videos will become the norm sooner rather than later.

Congressman Jim Moran's son caught on tape teaching vote fraud techniques.  A new undercover video from James O'Keefe and Project Veritas shows Pat Moran, son of longtime incumbent congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) and field director for his father's re-election campaign, instructing a supporter in how to use fraudulent documents to cast a hundred illegal votes.

Pat Moran Relied on Civil Rights Lawyers for Voter Fraud.  Now we know why civil rights groups like the NAACP, ACLU, and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights are so upset about election integrity groups like True the Vote monitoring the polls on November 6.  Pat Moran gave us a clue yesterday [10/24/2012].  Moran revealed on James O'Keefe's undercover video why these groups have been so dishonest, ugly, and desperate to smear True the Vote and keep them out of the polls.  Simply, the "election protection" operation of these civil rights groups was seen, at least to Moran, as the final step in committing voter fraud.

Congressman's son resigns after voter fraud video.  The field director for Virginia Democratic Rep. Jim Moran — his son Patrick Moran — has resigned after being secretly recorded seemingly advising a conservative journalist masquerading as a supporter that utility bills could be used to aid in voter fraud.

Rep. Moran's son caught on tape, quits staff.  Rep. James P. Moran's son Patrick resigned from his father's campaign after being caught on camera earlier this month appearing to give advice on how to commit voter fraud to a conservative video journalist.  Project Veritas, the group headed by conservative activist James O'Keefe, circulated the video Wednesday.  Patrick Moran, who had been serving as field director for his father, a Virginia Democrat, said in a statement that he never took the person videotaping him seriously and was simply humoring him.

Rep. Moran's son resigns from father's campaign amid voter fraud scandal.  Patrick Moran, the son of Virginia Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) and the field director for his father's reelection bid, resigned abruptly Wednesday after a video linked him to voter fraud.

Dem Caught Red-Handed Promoting Election Fraud.  A high-ranking official with Congressman Jim Moran's re-election campaign was recently caught on video encouraging an undercover reporter to forge documents in order to cast phony ballots in the upcoming Virginia election.  The incident is particularly compromising for Congressman Moran, as he has been a vocal opponent of the state's voter ID law, which is designed to protect against voter fraud.  More hypocritically, Moran had been previously caught on film demanding that constituents show their IDs at a local town hall meeting.

Connecticut Democrat jokes about corruption:
Murphy Visits Bridgeport Vote Factory.  Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch is at it again.  The Democrat who presided over a 2010 vote casting and counting scandal in the tight race for governor was caught on video Friday [10/12/2012] guaranteeing Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Christopher Murphy a big result in the state's largest city — even if it takes days to count.  Bridgeport provided a crucial and dubious margin of victory to Democratic and Working Families Governor Dannel P. Malloy in 2010 amidst unprecedented chaos at the city's polling places.  The 2010 Bridgeport assault on democracy included photocopied ballots, altered hours at polling places, a mysterious bag of votes and Finch's abuse of the city's emergency notification system to increase turnout on Election Day.

Probe: Sebelius broke the law by campaigning for Obama reelection.  Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius violated federal law by using her Cabinet position to campaign for President Obama, federal investigators said Wednesday.  The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) said Sebelius broke federal law by saying in a February speech that it is "imperative" to reelect President Obama.  She also used the speech, delivered at a Human Rights Campaign event in Charlotte, N.C., to plug local Democrats.

Pro-Obama speech ruled Hatch Act violation, Sebelius repays travel costs.  The White House stood by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius after federal investigators reported Wednesday that she unlawfully stumped for President Obama while delivering a speech earlier this year.  The Office of Special Counsel found Mrs. Sebelius violated the Hatch Act in February, when she told attendees at a Human Rights Campaign gala in North Carolina that re-electing Mr. Obama was "hugely important."  The law prohibits federal employees from engaging in partisan political activity in their official capacity.

Strictly a local problem?  A candidate for Congress drops out the race because of a scandal and the story goes no further than the local section of the Washington Post.  I suppose it's an improvement that the Democrat is labeled as such in both the headline and the lead paragraph but notice this.  Her wrongdoing is something the media insists is not a real problem — vote fraud.

Candidate Rosen out after voter fraud allegations.  The Democratic candidate scheduled to challenge Congressman Andy Harris in November's election was forced to resign Monday [9/10/2012] amid allegations of voter fraud.  Wendy Rosen was asked to step down as the 1st Congressional District candidate by the Maryland Democratic Party after members allegedly found evidence Rosen registered and voted in more than one state during past elections.

Nationally-acclaimed Arts & Crafts hawker resigns congressional race over serious voter fraud allegations.  Ironically, Rosen is a former Republican, who switched her registration to Democrat in protest of George W. Bush's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Making the situation even worse for the Democrats, the Party cannot replace her on the ballot.  Party lists of candidates were officially certified by the State Board of Elections on Sept. 5.  The only option left for the MD Democrat Party is to run a write-in campaign.

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That's interesting.  She changed her party affiliation because of President Bush's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but doesn't seem to mind Obama's wars in Libya, Yemen, and Afghanistan.

Maryland Democrat quits congressional race amid vote fraud allegations.  A Maryland Democratic candidate quit her congressional race Monday after her own party told state officials that she had committed fraud by voting in both Maryland and Florida in recent elections.

Maryland Democrat Quits Amid Revelations That She Voted in Two States.  Remember when Eric Holder dismissed video evidence of how easy it was to perpetrate voter fraud by calling it 'manufactured'?  A Maryland Democrat was recently revealed to have manufactured the ability to vote in two separate states — Maryland and Florida.  That is illegal.  It is fraud.  And she should be charged.

Congressman took family on $30k trip to Scotland to attend a wedding — and billed it to his campaign.  A New Jersey congressman is under investigation for using campaign funds to cover personal expenses for a luxurious vacation in Scotland for his wife and two daughters.  U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews (D-1st Dist.) splashed out more than $30,000 to attend the wedding of an unnamed donor — an expense that was vetted by his wife who serves as a volunteer compliance officer for the politician.

Whistle-blower, documents: Illinois state workers forced to attend Pelosi, Jesse Jackson Jr. event on taxpayer dime.  Documents and a whistle-blower affidavit obtained by The Daily Caller charge that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Illinois Democratic Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., and Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., participated in an unethical — and possibly illegal — effort to force 76 employees of an Illinois state agency to engage in political activity on the taxpayers' dime.  According to the whistle-blower, Rev. Jackson also encouraged the government employees to load first-generation and low-income college students up with student loan debt — because Democrats in Congress, he allegedly promised, would eventually pass laws to forgive that debt later.  "[T]hose people will continue to vote Democratic," Jackson Sr. said, according to the whistle-blower.

U.S. Congressman 'spent $97,000 of campaign money on 18 trips to California.  A congressional ethics panel says it is looking into the activities of U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews of New Jersey, who has reported using campaign money to pay for at least 18 trips to California, where his teenage daughter has a fledgling career as a singer and actress.  The House Ethics Committee released a statement Tuesday [7/17/2012] saying it would issue a decision regarding Andrews by August 31.  It was the first time the committee has acknowledged a probe of Andrews, a Democrat from Haddon Heights.

Rep. Capps rented room to staffer for years, didn't report income to IRS for over a decade.  In a possible congressional ethics violation, California Democratic Rep. Lois Capps rented a room in her personal home to one of her congressional staffers for years and did not report the income to the IRS — during that time, or for more than a decade — until 2012.  Capps also withheld that information from the proper congressional authorities for five years — from 2001 until early 2006.  The staffer in question was Jeremy Tittle, a "case worker" in Capps' district office from late 2000 until late 2004.  According to Federal Election Commission records, Tittle was also a staffer for Capps' political campaigns from as early as 2001 to as late as 2004.

FBI agents 'all over the building' at Trenton City Hall.  FBI agents flooded into City Hall on Thursday, searching offices throughout the building a day after raiding Mayor Tony Mack's Berkeley Square home.  One city employee said finance department workers were told to turn on their computers and leave the office, but FBI agents also were seen entering other departments.

Feds raid City Hall of New Jersey capital.  Federal agents raided City Hall in New Jersey's capital on Thursday [7/19/2012], one day after they swarmed the home of the city's mayor, his brother and a campaign supporter.  "The FBI is executing search warrants at various offices at Trenton City Hall, pursuant to an ongoing investigation," said FBI spokeswoman Barbara Woodruff.

Ethics Committee launches probe of Dem Rep. Robert Andrews.  The chairman of the Camden County Republican Party in New Jersey asked the Ethics Committee and the OCE to investigate Roberts last November, following a series of articles that appeared in the Newark Star Ledger.  The articles allege the lawmaker used more than $9,000 in campaign funds to pay for a trip to Scotland with his wife and two children, and more than $10,000 to host a party at Andrews' home celebrating his Congressional service and his daughter's graduation.  The paper also stated that Andrews' campaign made a $12,500 donation to a local theater gala, in which his daughter was performing.

In Support of Voter ID.  The only political party sure to benefit from allowing anyone and every one to vote, whether they are dead or alive, citizen or non-citizen, or have voted numerous times at widely separated polling places — is the Democratic Party.  Everybody knows that!  But the stakes for the democrats are so high, they do not seem to mind making complete fools of themselves running a transparent con game right before the eyes of the nation.

Ethics Committee to investigate Rep. Shelley Berkley.  The House Ethics Committee announced Monday that it will formally investigate Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.) over allegations she violated House rules by using her position in Congress to benefit her husband's medical practice.  The decision could have serious repercussions for her Senate bid.  She is challenging incumbent Dean Heller (R-Nev.), and Republicans have hammered her repeatedly on the issue.

Show solidarity for targeted conservative bloggers.  Over the past eight years that I've been blogging and operating Internet media companies, I've witnessed or experienced firsthand some of the most unhinged behavior against conservatives — from individual harassment and intimidation, to e-mail bombs and e-mail hackings, to troll infestations, distributed denial of service attacks, coordinated spam block attacks, and death threats.

Bomber Turned Left Wing Activist, Brett Kimberlin, Tries to Silence Conservative Opposition.  Tip of the hat to Michelle Malkin, whose May 23 column does one of the best jobs I've seen of laying out the convoluted tale of a low-level Democratic activist named Brett Kimberlin and his attempts to shut down those who criticize him.  She applies the "disinfectant of sunshine" to a seamy story that deserves mainstream play.

Brett Kimberlin and the Hall of Fame of Leftist Terrorists.  The Left has a long history of embracing unrepentant, manipulative sociopaths, felons, terrorists, and mass murderers — anything goes, provided that they share the same political ideology.  In fairness, most liberals do not feel affection for the worst of the worst among leftists such as Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Che Guevara, or Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones.  But there are a few domestic radicals who have attained a kind of folk hero status in left-wing circles.

The Conservative Blogosphere Introduces Kimberlin 2012.  The conservative blogosphere today launched a version of the Kony 2012 tactic, introducing readers to a man named Brett Kimberlin and his fellow far-leftists. [...] There is an organizational effort by the institutional left — of which Kimberlin is a well-connected part — to silence conservatives, both in the "real" world and through social networks like Twitter.  As these bloggers note, the best disinfectant is sunlight.  The story is complex and required reading.

A Brownshirt by Any Other Name.  The Patterico outlines a truly shocking campaign of intimidation against him, Stacy McCain, and other bloggers by a leftist convicted felon named Brett Kimberlin, whose non-profit group is funded by George Soros, Teresa Heinz-Kerry, Barbra Streisand, et al.  I'd seen references to this creep, but the story was convoluted and posts on it seemed to start in mid-story, which is why I was glad to see Mark Tapscott at the Examiner offer a brief introduction to Kimberlin's villainy, while Michelle Malkin has aggregated links.

The Left's National Vote Fraud Strategy Exposed.  The Left seeks fundamental structural change to our entire form of government.  In keeping with their amoral, means-justifies-ends philosophy, they will register any voters, dead or alive, legal or illegal, who will then vote as many times as possible, in order to establish a "permanent progressive majority."  As two New York Democrats recently caught in a vote fraud scandal told police, "voter fraud is an accepted way of winning elections..."

Soros' Tides Canada Under Investigation.  George Soros' Tides Foundation in Canada is under investigation by the Canada Revenue Agency after members of the Conservative Party labeled the organization a foreign-funded radical group.

Issa: We have the 'most corrupt' government in history.  House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said he is putting his foot down on "corrupt" government financial dealings in the wake of scandals at the Secret Service and the General Services Administation (GSA). [...] "We are busy in Washington with a corrupt government, with a government that I said perhaps because of the money, the amount of TARP and stimulus funds, was going to be the most corrupt government history, and it is proving to be just exactly that.  "This money going though the hands of political leaders is corrupting the process, whether it is Solyndra, GSA, or a number of other scandals."

Deval Patrick: Taxes are my business.  The governor has steadfastly declined to open up his books since he first ran for governor in 2006.

Leaked Stratfor Emails: Democrats Manipulated The 2008 Election Results.  John McCain's 2008 campaign staff allegedly had evidence that Democrats stuffed ballot boxes in Pennsylvania and Ohio on election night, but McCain chose not to pursue voter fraud, according to internal Stratfor emails published by WikiLeaks.

The Editor says...
Next time, let's nominate somebody who wants to win.

Project Veritas Proves How Easy Voter Fraud Is Without ID.  There are a lot of liberals who think, probably correctly, that the Democratic Party benefits from voter fraud.  They figure it pads their totals across the country on election day by tens of thousands of votes and probably swings a handful of close races their way.  Undoubtedly, they're right about that.  So, in an effort to keep legitimate votes from being cancelled out by fraud, Republicans have started making a concerted push to put voter ID laws in place.

More about Voter ID laws.

The Democrats' Election Forgery Racket.  This week, four Democratic officials in Indiana were hit with felony charges related to petition fraud in the state's 2008 primary.  The prosecutions are a result of the local South Bend Tribune newspaper's investigation last fall into "hundreds of county residents' signatures" forged on petitions used to put Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the Democratic primary ballot.  At least two whistle-blowing government officials came forward to expose the forgery racket, which court documents say was formulated by Democratic Party officials inside local party headquarters.  A veteran county Democratic Party chair, Butch Morgan, resigned in October over the scandal; three employees in the St. Joseph County voter registration office reportedly helped Morgan execute the scheme.

Election fraud 2010:  A repository of the fraud & dirty tricks used by Democrats during the 2010 election cycle.

Former SEIU Member Registers 23,207 Fraudulent Voters.  Former Service Employees International Union (SEIU) member Steve Caddle of Houston, Texas has been caught registering 23,207 fake voters in Harris County alone due to the hard detective work of Catherine Engelbrecht and her "True the Vote" project.  This is one of the best examples of what good citizen activism inspired by Tea Party principles can do for their community.

It's official: Chicago is nation's corruption capital.  A University of Illinois study has found what many probably already suspected:  Chicago is the corruption capital of the nation.  The study — published Wednesday [2/15/2012] as the details of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's Colorado prison assignment emerged — showed that the federal court district that includes Chicago has had 1,531 public corruption convictions since 1976, more than any other district in the nation.

Chicago Called Most Corrupt City in the Nation.  A former Chicago alderman turned political science professor/corruption fighter has found that Chicago is the most corrupt city in the country.  He cites data from the U.S. Department of Justice to prove his case.  And, he says, Illinois is third-most corrupt state in the country.

Global Warming Lefties Commit Identity Theft to Target Conservative Think Tank.  Wednesday [2/15/2012], two left-wing blogs posted confidential information supposedly obtained from the Heartland Institute, a free-market, non-profit think tank with a particular focus on battling global warming hysteria.  They posted supposed donor information, inside financials, and even a "confidential memo" on the Institute's climate strategy — which is a "complete fake," according to a statement from The Heartland Institute.  The way they got the information was blatantly illegal.

Not Just A Democrat Dirty Trick, But A Crime.  A few years ago, as part of its strategy of facilitating voter fraud as a means of winning close elections, the Democratic Party undertook a campaign to secure as many Secretary of State offices in swing states as possible.  From those perches, the Democrats would be in a position to oversee elections and enforce (or decline to enforce) election laws.  That strategy has been quite successful, but the Democrats suffered a setback in Iowa in 2010 when conservative Republican Matt Schultz won an upset victory in the Secretary of State race.  Since then, Iowa Democrats have targeted Schultz.  That targeting has taken a sinister turn — a criminal one, in fact — as the Des Moines Register reports.

Former Obama Staffer Busted for Stealing Iowa Secretary of State's Identity.  Barack Obama's 2008 Iowa New Media Director was arrested Friday for attempting to use the identities of Secretary of State Matt Schultz, and/or his brother Thomas, with the intent to falsely implicate the Secretary Schultz in illegal or unethical behavior.  Zach Edwards, 29, of Des Moines, currently works for Link Strategies, a Democrat-affiliated organization with ties to Iowa Senator Tom Harkin.

Does Iowa Electoral Fraud Scam Lead To White House?  The fact that Soros and various other Democratic heavy hitters made it a priority to take over secretary of state offices suggests that larger forces may be at work.  If Democrats do not come clean on this, immediately, this could well mean that people are being protected.  If they are, we are looking at some of the highest political crimes ever.  Stealing an election by toppling a secretary of state is fundamentally anti-democratic.  A full investigation by a special prosecutor is in order.  If evidence is found of a conspiracy to defraud democracy, someone should go to jail for this, and we aren't just talking about Edwards.

Dead People and Other Voters.  Years ago the Democrats learned that the surest way to win a tight election was to have just the right number of dead people ready to vote.  It worked in Texas in 1948 and Illinois in 1960 and may have worked in South Carolina in 2010 if Attorney General Eric Holder hadn't left well enough alone. ... Holder may soon regret his action which, like nearly everything else done by the Obama Administration these days, is intended to help get Mr. Obama reelected.

Democrats Embrace Voter Fraud.  Already, Team Obama is putting voter fraud policies in effect to tilt the election.  Eric Holder's stance on the right of individual states within the U.S. to require voter identification is the most obvious example.  Several court cases have already upheld the states' right to require voter identification.  Furthermore, many studies have shown that requiring voter identification prevents voter fraud and is no more illegal than requiring identification to obtain Medicare or Medicaid or social security payments. ... More recently, Team, Obama is speeding up the immigration process and rushing illegal aliens to citizenship, often ahead of those who have waited, patiently and legally, for years.

Federal grand jury indicts Indianapolis councilman.  A federal grand jury in Indianapolis on Tuesday [12/20/2011] indicted a City-County Council member and two associates linked to a foundation under investigation for more than two years on multiple counts of wire fraud and money laundering.

Officials Plead Guilty in New York Voter Fraud Case.  A total of four Democratic officials and political operatives have now pleaded guilty to voter fraud-related felony charges in an alleged scheme to steal a New York election.  The latest guilty pleas expose the ease with which political insiders can apparently manipulate the electoral system and throw an election their way, by the forging of signatures of unsuspecting voters that are then cast as real votes.

Voter fraud is real.  The state chairman of Indiana's Democratic Party resigned Monday [12/12/2011] as a probe of election fraud in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary widened.  State law requires a presidential candidate to gather 500 valid signatures in each county to qualify for the ballot.  Barack Obama may not have met it.  Investigators think 150 of the 534 signatures the Obama campaign turned in for St. Joseph County may have been forged.  Yet Democrats say that measures to guard against vote fraud are racist Republican plots to disenfranchise minority voters.

Indiana Democratic Party Head Resigns as Fraud Probe Heats Up.  The chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party announced his resignation Monday [12/12/2011], as investigators probe allegations of election fraud stemming from the 2008 Democratic presidential primary.  Dan Parker, who served for seven years, did not cite the scandal as a reason for his decision.  But the uproar over possible fraud in a race for the White House has already claimed the job of one county Democratic Chairman, who sources say was forced out because of the allegations.

Why It's So Easy To Destroy Republicans.  If one examines the voting patterns over the last few decades it appears that Republican voters are particularly picky and principled about whom they vote for.  Democrats on the other hand are more interested in what's being promised to them than in a candidate's character. ... There is no other explanation for the long careers of Ted Kennedy, (Chappaquiddick - Google it), Barney Frank, Chris Dodd (Countrywide - Google it) Charlie Rangel and last but certainly not least, William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton.  They elected and reelected a president that had more question marks on his character than all the GOP candidates combined and it made no difference at all.

Richardson inquiry quietly brewing.  A federal grand jury said to be investigating former Gov. Bill Richardson is expected to meet again next week in Albuquerque.  After battling repeated scandals in the latter years of his eight-year tenure, the globe-trotting Richardson is back under the microscope.  This time, several news outlets report that the two-term Democratic governor and onetime Cabinet secretary for President Bill Clinton faces accusations that he raised $250,000 from supporters to quiet a woman who had threatened to file a sexual-harassment complaint.

E-mails questioned huge contract for firm with ties to Obama administration.  A series of e-mail exchanges between officials at the Department of Health and Human Services shows growing alarm at the amount of projected profit from a government contract for a drug company whose controlling shareholder is a longtime Democratic Party activist.

Pelosi Leads List Of Conflict Of Interest Dems.  The brewing scandal is complicated, but here's the Reader's Digest version:  After a Pelosi staffer left to lobby on behalf of credit-card giant Visa, Pelosi delayed bringing to the House floor a bill to end lucrative "swipe fees" for Visa and other credit providers.  The bill couldn't have come at a worse time for Visa.  It planned to launch an $18 billion public stock offering, so stalling Hill action became a priority.  The San Francisco-based company curried favor with Pelosi by pumping cash into her re-election efforts, earning its CEO a rare one-on-one meeting with the speaker.  At the same time, Visa offered her husband a VIP cut of the IPO.

Mass GOP to Kerry: 'Come clean'.  The Massachusetts Republican Party today lashed out at Senator John Kerry, saying he should provide a better explanation of stock trades detailed in a recently released book about insider trading by members of Congress.  The book by a conservative researcher at the Hoover Institution says Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, made hundreds of thousands of dollars from trades of shares in medical companies at the same time Kerry was working on health care legislation on Capitol Hill.

'Throw them all out' sounds like a good start.  Hoover Institution scholar Peter Schweizer is making huge waves this week with advance coverage of his book "Throw Them All Out" on "60 Minutes" and in a Newsweek piece by Peter Boyer.  CBS and Newsweek focused on Schweizer's contention that because Congress exempts itself from laws it imposes on the rest of us, senators and representatives can engage in insider stock trading with impunity.  Among the most outrageous examples, according to Schweizer, is that of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who, with her millionaire husband, bought between $1 million and $5 million (members of Congress only have to report such investments in broad categories rather than nickels and dimes like the rest of us) in an initial public offering from Visa.

Comptroller John Liu's fundraiser arrested on fraud charge.  The feds today busted a New Jersey man for allegedly steering illegal contributions to city Comptroller John Liu.  Xing Wu Pan is accused of using phantom or "straw" donors to conceal illegal contributions that that exceeded limits for citywide office, according to the complaint filed by Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara and New York FBI Director Janice Fedarcyk.  Pan is charged with attempted wire fraud and conspiracy.

Pelosi's investments questioned in CBS report.  [Steve] Kroft asked Pelosi why she and her investor husband, Paul Pelosi, bought an initial public offering of stock in Visa, the San Francisco-based credit card company, in March of 2008.  The same month, former House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., introduced the Credit Card Fair Fee Act, which would have given merchants the power to negotiate lower fees with credit card companies.  The bill, hostile to the credit card industry, was passed by the committee but never brought to the floor.  Pelosi was speaker at the time, and controlled which legislation came to a vote.

Shredding Kathleen Sebelius.  If a private health insurer had engaged in the kind of criminal obstruction that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been tied to in her home state of Kansas, it would be a federal case.  Instead, it's a non-story in the Washington press.

California Democrat Party Loses Millions to Fraud.  California Democrat uber-finance guru, Kinde Durkee, apparently has been practicing accounting methods of the Solyndra kind.  As a result, she's been accused of fraud for potentially misappropriating as much as $7.5 million in campaign funds for as many as 53 liberal candidates and issues committees in the Golden State.  The amount is the difference between what California Democrats says has been reported by the bank, and the amount that was reportedly raised by the various campaigns that Durkee was treasurer for.

Fraud Case Rocks Democratic Party.  Kinde Durkee was arrested Sept. 2 and accused by federal authorities of stealing campaign funds and using the money to pay for an array of personal expenses, including mortgage payments, cosmetics and nursing-home care for her mother.  Based in Burbank, Calif., the 58-year-old had long managed money for scores of Democratic campaigns.

The Fall of California Democratic Campaign Treasurer Kinde Durkee.  How did Kinde Durkee, described by Rep. Loretta Sanchez as 'one of us,' go from managing the campaign funds of top Democrats in her state to charges of stealing $7 million from those accounts?

DOE in the headlights.  The Obama administration made $533 million disappear by giving it to a " green" company named Solyndra.  Next came a "green" company named SunPower that manufactured photovoltaic solar panels.  This time the money was upped to $1.2 billion of taxpayer money.  This company was supposed to manufacture photovoltaic solar panels for its California solar valley ranch.  Amazingly it just happens to be that the company had converted an old auto plant to a manufacturing plant for the panels.  Guess where the plant was located, of all things, in the Congressional District of a strong supporter, Rep. George Miller, D.-Calif.  Another surprise was that the lobbyist for SunPower just happened to be the son of Rep. Miller.  But of course that did not influence the senior Miller as he advocated for the loan.

Did someone mention Solyndra?

Pelosi's disclosure belated in husband's land deal.  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's husband, a real estate developer and investment banker, stands to make millions of dollars in a previously undisclosed residential real estate project in California as a partner with the father of a woman Mrs. Pelosi helped become ambassador to Hungary, records show.  Paul F. Pelosi's investment in Russell Ranch is worth at least $5 million and possibly as much as $25 million in a deal put together by his friend and longtime business associate, Angelo Tsakopoulos, patriarch of a multimillion-dollar real estate development firm, according to Mrs. Pelosi's latest personal-disclosure statement.

More solar companies led by Democratic donors received federal loan guarantees.  A Daily Caller investigation has found that in addition to the failed company Solyndra, at least four other solar panel manufacturing companies receiving in excess of $500 million in loan guarantees from the Obama administration employ executives or board members who have donated large sums of money to Democratic campaigns.

Campaigning Philadelphia judges say Democrats sought $10,000 donations.  The city's Democratic Party organization invited 27 Philadelphia judges to a buffet breakfast this week and asked them to pay $10,000 each to assure party support when they face yes-or-no retention votes in November, according to judges who attended.  The figure is double what the party asked from sitting judges two years ago.

$737 Million Green Jobs Loan Given to Nancy Pelosi's Brother-In-Law.  It's increasingly hard to tell the government's green jobs subsidies apart from the Democrats' friends and family rewards program.

Wind Power's Political Payoff.  Tom Carnahan, of the Missouri Carnahans, arguably that state's most prominent political family, is listed on President Obama's campaign website as a host of the St. Louis fundraising extravaganza amid widespread unemployment and tanking markets.  Coincidentally, of course, Carnahan's energy development firm, Wind Capital Group, is the recipient of a $107 million federal tax credit to develop a wind power facility in his state.

Solargate Unraveled.  Corruption is not an energy policy.  Emails released to the Washington Post before Wednesday's hearings on the $535 million stimulus loan guarantee issued to now-bankrupt Solyndra Inc. reveal the extent of, and resistance to, White House pressure to get the loan approved so Vice President Joe Biden could announce it at a Sept. 4, 2009, groundbreaking event.  The White House has denied applying pressure or even monitoring the review process, saying the stimulus loan guarantee was a good "investment."

Is LightSquared the New Solyndra?  Last week, Air Force General William Shelton, Commander of Air Force Space Command, told Congressional leaders in a closed-door session that the White House tried to pressure him to change his testimony to favor a company that turns out to be a major donor to the Democratic Party. ... LightSquared is funded by Harbinger Capital, a hedge fund owned by Philip Falcone, a major donor to the Democratic Party.  LightSquared's CEO, Sanjiv Ahuja, is also a major donor to the Democratic Party.

Document suggests witness tampering by Sen. Tom Harkin's office.  A top aide to Iowa Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin supplied an answer last year to a thorny question a friendly witness would face the next day at a pivotal hearing on for-profit colleges, raising questions of witness tampering, an email obtained by The Daily Caller shows.

Election commission rules Edwards must pay back $2.3 million.  Former Presidential candidate John Edwards will have to pay back over 2 million dollars in federal matching funds given to his 2008 campaign for president, the Federal Election Commission ruled on Thursday.  The commission voted 6 - 0 against Edwards and contends his campaign was in "excess of the Candidate's entitlement."

Obama's Suspicious Connections to Clean Tech Companies Receiving Federal Money.  Having friends in Washington is one of the quickest and dirtiest paths to success, but when President Barack Obama is the one helping you out by discriminately favoring your company's products over others, very few in the media seem to care.

Is Another Ballot Heist Coming?  The integrity of American elections ought to be above reproach.  Unfortunately, recent history suggests that when candidates are desperate, serious hanky-panky is not out of the question.  The 2000 Florida Presidential election was severely marred by Al Gore's botched election robbery.  The massive vote fraud in Palm Beach County stands as immutable proof of the extent that crooked Democrats will go to steal an election.  After botching the robbery in "ballot box boiler rooms," the Democrats resorted to stall tactics, the courts, and endless recounts to steal the election for Gore.  The only mistake the voter frauds made is that they did not destroy enough valid votes.

Cars owned by inmates now belong to Commissioner Price.  In the wake of an FBI investigation of Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, documents uncovered by [WFAA] raise questions about how Price obtained a large number of expensive vehicles, many previously owned by county inmates. ... With at least eight of Price's vehicles there were questions as to who owned the car — questions resolved by a secretive county board that issued him clear title.

Organized medical fraud in Wisconsin.  "Primum nil nocere."  First, do no harm.  This bedrock principle in medicine is a foreign language to most politicians and, sadly, to some Wisconsin doctors, who have violated their oath and the public trust as they have defrauded Wisconsin taxpayers.  Several University of Wisconsin family physicians donned their sacred white coats and were caught distributing fraudulent "sick notes" free for the asking quite literally by the boxful — I wonder who paid for that printing — to teachers and others who skipped work to engage in political protest at the state Capitol in Madison.  Whatever the merits of the teachers' protest, there's a word for what these doctors and teachers are perpetrating:  fraud.

Safeguards must be installed to prevent voter fraud.  [Scroll down]  Of course, voters had solid reasons for doubts for some time before the last two elections.  In the state of Maryland, for example, the voter rolls do not seem to be routinely purged and it is illegal to ask a voter for proof of identity.  Any attempt to add reliability to the system is resisted in Annapolis by the (lamentable and apparently permanent) Democratic majority.  Resistance to reliable electoral reforms is widespread.

Moseley Braun says 'no more drilling down' on her finances despite questions.  Chicago mayoral candidate Carol Moseley Braun today [1/7/2011] said there will be "no more drilling down" about her tax returns despite unanswered questions about where she gets her money and the troubled state of her finances.

Look Who's Counting Votes in California.  The race to determine who will be the attorney general of California is still too close to call.  Democrat Kamala Harris, San Francisco's district attorney, leads Republican Steve Cooley, the DA for Los Angeles County, by 31,000 votes out of nearly nine million cast.  And there are more than 750,000 ballots left to count.  The tabulation process has led to a full-fledged food fight between the candidates and has roped in Dean Logan, the controversial voter registrar of Los Angeles County.

Maryland politician allegedly caught flushing money down the toilet.  Talk about wasteful spending.  A Maryland politician accused of flushing tens of thousands of dollars down the toilet told reporters he was innocent on charges he'd taken kickbacks for years — and he has the facts to prove it.  Jack Johnson, a former prosecutor who has served as the executive of a suburban county near Washington D.C. for the past eight years, is accused of accepting kickbacks after a four-year FBI investigation caught him taking tens of thousands of dollars from real estate developers.

Did widespread corruption cost Democrats the election?  While seemingly everyone is lining up to offer explanations for Democrats' historic defeat last Tuesday, one seemingly obvious reason for the GOP landslide has gone unremarked upon:  Widespread, systemic corruption in the Democratic Party.  Unlike the 2006 election, when Republicans were reeling from major scandals, we heard next to nothing this year about "a culture of corruption," thanks to a Democrat-friendly media and the fear of being publicly called racist for pointing out that the Congressional Black Caucus has a lot of bad apples.  But it's hard to deny an overwhelming amount of scandal during the last year.

ACORN's Get-Out-The-Vote Operative Under State Felony Charges.  Many might recall that Congress turned off the spigot of federal funds flowing into the coffers of the organization responsible for federal election law crimes all across the country.  Many might all recall that ACORN itself eventually said it would shutter its operations.  But even with all that recent history, ACORN's Project Vote is still in operation and one of its main directors is a woman under a cloud of criminal charges in the state of Nevada.

More about ACORN.

Kentucky Scandal:  Did Democrat Conway Tip His Brother About Drug Probe?  The Senate race in Kentucky has been rocked by revelations that Democrat state attorney general Jack Conway's brother was the target of a drug investigation — but no charges were filed against Matt Conway, and two Louisville detectives have been placed on leave after being accused of leaking information about the investigation.

Jack Conway may have tipped brother off about drug investigation.  Jack Conway, the Democratic attorney general of Kentucky who is running for U.S. Senate, says he was not involved in a recent criminal investigation involving his brother and drug trafficking.  But it appears he — along with other law enforcement officials — tipped his brother off about the investigation.  The campaign made a statement distancing Conway from his brother's investigation in a Saturday [10/23/2010] story in Louisville's Courier-Journal.

LMPD probes detectives who tipped off prosecutor under investigation.  A Jefferson County prosecutor was tipped off by Louisville narcotics detectives twice in the past two years that he was under investigation for possible drug use or trafficking, according to police records obtained by The Courier-Journal.  When investigators learned of the leaks and interrogated the two detectives and the prosecutor last March, all three initially gave false or misleading statements about what happened, those records show.

Newly nativist Democrats and their own foreign funny money.  [Scroll down]  In the meantime, GOP candidates who face this ridiculous onslaught must remind voters of all the shady foreign cash that the Democrats and their deep-pocketed donors have pumped into the political system.  Strike back twice as hard:  Remember Obama/Hillary/Democrat top fund-raiser and convicted fraudster/campaign finance crook Norman Hsu.  Remember Obama/Hillary/Democrat top fund-raiser and convicted fraudster/campaign finance crook Hasan Nemazee.  Remember soft-on-China Obama Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, shady Buddhist temple cash collector.  Remember Senate Democrats raising funds in Canada.  Remember Obama's presidential campaign soliciting foreign donations on its website.

In New Jersey, corruption is just another normal day.  In most places, three unrelated, high-profile political corruption trials on the same day would be pretty big news.  New Jersey is not most places.  As politicians from north to south sat in courtrooms Monday [10/4/2010] facing accusations of lining their own pockets, stealing or destroying ballots, and billing personal expenses to City Hall, there was barely a ripple through a state numbed to political corruption.

Prosecutors detail steps Bell leaders allegedly took to hide high salaries.  Court documents accuse former City Administrator Robert Rizzo of ordering an employee to draft false contracts and other records to conceal how much he and council members made.

'Calculated greed' at heart of Bell criminal case, D.A. says.  Eight current and former Bell city leaders were arrested Tuesday [9/21/2010] on charges of misappropriating more than $5.5 million from the small, working-class community as prosecutors accused them of treating the city's money as their personal piggy bank.

This Bell Is the Chime of Freedom.  The saying goes, you get what you pay for.  To the working class citizens of Bell city, California, their hard-earned cash got them a sleazy, overpaid and corrupt government run by Democrats.  The government officials got rich.  Today [9/21/2010], thankfully, eight of them — every single one a Democrat — also got arrested.

Media white-washes Bell, California jail-birds' party status.  They're gone, wearing jumpsuits, all eight former officials of Bell, the modest California city whose citizens, for 25 years, were plundered by shamelessly corrupt Democrats.

Bell, California Corruption — Not a Single Mention of Party Affiliation From Media.  Today, eight city council members were arrested in Bell, California for what Los Angeles County District Attorney labeled "corruption on steroids."  Thus far, every major news outlet that has reported on the story has omitted the fact that all eight individuals arrested are Democrats.  These glaring omissions come only weeks after NewsBusters reported that of the 351 stories on the then-brewing controversy, 350 had omitted party affiliations, and one had mentioned they were Democrats only in apologizing for not doing so sooner.

How Privileged Democrats Pay for Their Houses.  Former senior senator from Delaware and current Vice President Joe Biden has a custom-built house in Delaware's ritziest Chateau Country neighborhood.  It is now worth at least $2.5 million and is the Bidens' most valuable asset.  Biden tapped campaign funds to pay for his compound's lawn needs.  He secured the new estate with the help of a corporate executive who worked for Biden's top campaign donor, credit card giant MBNA.  In 1996, Biden sold his previous mansion to MBNA Vice Chairman John Cochran.  The asking price was $1.2 million.  Cochran forked over the full sum.

The Party of the Rich.  At this moment, two of [the Democratic Party's] leaders from a supposedly disadvantaged minority are about to be tried for ethical transgressions (read: thievery) even Congress couldn't sweep under the rug.  Never mind that these transgressions mostly exploit the very minority these people purport to represent.  It's part of the game.  Convince minorities they should act like victims.  Extort guilt payments from the majority and keep the change.  Meanwhile, nothing improves for the minority because it would interrupt the system.

Rangel Scandal Reveals the Extent of Capitol Corruption.  Four years ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised to "drain the swamp" of corruption in Washington, D.C., but after failing miserably to do so it now appears she's choosing to ignore it — while letting her colleagues sweep it under the rug.

Working 'Sham'-ilies.  A former employee of the Working Families Party says he was so disturbed by the labor-backed group's practices that he walked out after only one week on the job.  In an exclusive interview, Brooklyn resident Patrick Crooks said he was encouraged by higher-ups to falsify names and addresses on sign-up sheets supporting the left-wing party's push to repeal a state law that took rent regulation out of the city's hands and gave it to the state.

Gov wife's biz gets $297M no-bid deal.  Gov. Paterson's administration awarded a $297 million federal contract without competitive bidding or public notice to GHI, the health-care provider whose parent company employs his wife, The [New York] Post has learned.  Legislative investigators are now looking into the huge, 3½-year contract that subsidizes insurance for uninsured individuals with pre-existing health problems — part of President Obama's health-care reform act, state officials concede.

Congress for sale.  As the Senate last week moved to pass President Obama's financial-regulation overhaul, word came that the Countrywide VIP loan scandal on Capitol Hill had just gotten a whole lot bigger.  And that congressional ethics probers are looking into the dealings of eight House members — including New York Reps. Joseph Crowley and Christopher Lee — who raised significant sums of Wall Street money in the 10 days prior to voting on their version of the reform bill.  Any wonder why voters are cynical?

Controversy Surrounding Bank with Obama Ties Grows.  Controversy continues to swirl around the Obama administration's bailout of the politically connected community lender ShoreBank, with new calls for an investigation into how the bank was able to secure tens of millions of dollars in Wall Street cash to stay alive, FOX Business has learned.

Holder ignoring bribes under his nose.  Last fall, the Denver Post reported that somebody in the Obama White House offered a plum job to former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff on the condition that he drop his Democratic primary challenge to Sen. Michael Bennett.  Then in February, Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., told a talk radio program that somebody in the Obama White House had offered him a job in exchange for dropping his Democratic primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter.

More about President Obama's Culture of Corruption.

Obama's Treachery:  Election tampering by Obama treads upon the very foundation of American exceptionalism — free elections in a representative democracy. ... Election tampering and transparent corruption are not business as usual unless you're a Democrat.  Whether it be suppression of the black vote in the south for a hundred years after the Civil War, Tammany Hall politics at the turn of the 20th century in New York, machine politics in Chicago, or bribes and payoffs for votes on health care and stimulus funding, the failure to prosecute polling place intimidation by the Black Panthers in Philadelphia or Acorn voter registration fraud, this is the Democratic Party Way, the Obama Way.

Dereliction of Duty.  The 1974 Budget and Impoundment Act requires Congress to pass a budget resolution by May 15 of each year.  Congress hasn't done so yet in 2010.  But that isn't so unusual.  Delays are common.  They are usually the result of interparty or intercameral disputes.  But this year is different.  Congressional Democrats aren't simply delaying, they're deliberately refusing to offer a budget until after the November elections.  They're simply choosing to ignore the law.

If You Can't Budget, You Can't Govern.  "If you can't budget, you can't govern," Rep. John Spratt Jr., D-S.C., proclaimed in 2006 when the House GOP leadership chose to dispense with passing a budget resolution.  Now that the Dems run the House, Spratt is chairman of its Budget Committee and the April 15 deadline for passing a budget resolution is a niggling detail, easily ignored.  House Democrats have decided to not even try to pass a budget resolution before this fiscal year expires on Sept. 30 — and may well delay passage until after the November elections.

The Senator from Sandy Berger.  In 1934, "Boss" Tom Pendergast handpicked a Jackson County administrative judge to be the next United States Senator from Missouri, and for the next ten years Harry Truman wore the tag, "The Senator from Pendergast."  Truman began to find his own footing after Pendergast was shipped off to nearby Leavenworth in 1939, but until then, he pretty much carried Pendergast's water in Washington.

Deep Cover at Organizing for America.  [Scroll down slowly]  Notice, too, the use of the phrase "take ownership of the community."  Evanston borders Chicago on the north, and they speak the same political language.  In Democrat-ese, "owning the community" means that if you got a problem with trash pickup, talk to the Democratic precinct captain.  If you have a kid who needs a job, talk to the Democratic precinct captain.  If you have trouble with delivery trucks getting ticketed for double-parking in front of your shop, talk to the Democratic precinct captain.  If you need a block party permit, a one-day liquor license, or a building code violation overlooked, talk to the Democratic precinct captain.  Democrats own the community.

Lobbyist bundling:  Money pipeline for Democrats.  Lobbyists bundling campaign contributions, often from clients, to pass on to powerful politicians is exactly the sort of corruption Democrats came to power promising to fight.  But the lobbyists doing the most bundling, and the politicians pocketing the cash, tend to be Democrats, a recent study shows.  A study by the Center for Public Integrity finds that the top four lobbyists in terms of bundling contributions for federal candidates and committees are powerful Democrats who contributed and raised cash exclusively to elect Democrats.

From Watchdog to Lapdog.  David Axelrod ran the Obama campaign via AKP&D Message and Media, and Ask Public Strategies, two Chicago firms with overlapping employees and his son as a manager.  In his first financial disclosure that summer, Axelrod disclosed he had sold the companies and would be receiving $3 million from his former partners in installments over the next five years. ... Imagine if [Karl] Rove were still getting paid by his old firm while he sat in the White House and as the GOP sent business to the Texas firm.

Democrats Awash in Corruption Scandals.  Seven months before the November midterm elections, the Democrats are awash in ethics and corruption scandals in Congress and among the nation's biggest governorships.  The major networks' nightly news shows have largely ignored or played down the mounting allegations, charges and investigations targeting Democrats, but they are becoming a major issue in key campaigns that could help the Republicans make large gains in the House, Senate and state capitals.

Draining the Swamp?  Before Rep. Nancy Pelosi became speaker of the House, she promised during the Bush administration that if voters allowed Democrats to regain a congressional majority Democrats would establish "the most ethical Congress in history."  Pelosi pledged to "drain the swamp" of corruption in Washington.  Not only has the swamp not been drained, Democrats have begun treating it as a hot tub.

Disorder in the House.  The fleeting tenure of Fortney Hillman Stark Jr., Congressional class of 1972, is destined for the historical footnotes, though it's also further evidence of the dysfunction of modern liberal governance. ... Mr. Stark has also been pursued by questions surrounding his 2007 rental of a Capitol Hill row house to a lobbying firm that represented clients including the pharmaceutical trade group and the drug makers Merck and Amgen.

Rash of Scandals Tests Democrats at Sensitive Time.  The ethical woes facing Democrats are piling up, with barely a day passing in recent weeks without headlines from Washington to New York and beyond filled with word of scandal or allegations of wrongdoing.

Ex-Mayor Gets 15 Years for Bribery; City Pays Price.  Residents here [in Birmingham, Alabama] were not terribly surprised on Friday [3/5/2010] when Larry Langford, the former mayor, was sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined $360,000 by a federal judge, ending a long-running bribery case that shook local government and state Democratic politics.

Change, loose change, spare change, and crooks:  [Scroll down]  Last week, the House ethics committee released a 305-page report on its investigation into seven congressmen — Norm Dicks (D-Wash.), Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), James Moran (D-Va.), Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), Peter Visclosky (D-Ind.), Bill Young (R-Fla.), and the late John Murtha (D-Pa.) — suspected of trading earmarks for campaign contributions.  In 2008, these congressmen provided various interests $112 million worth of federal funding and received over $350,000 back in campaign contributions.

Clinton fundraiser admits $292 million fraud.  A wealthy businessman who raised money for leading Democratic Party politicians, including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, pleaded guilty on Thursday [3/18/2010] to defrauding three major banks out of $292.2 million in loan transactions.

Obama, Clinton Money Man Guilty Of Major Fraud Scheme.  The shady Iranian fundraiser who for years donated lucrative sums to top Democrats — including the president, vice president and secretary of state — has pleaded guilty to a major bank-fraud scheme that could land him in jail for nearly two decades.

Clay County precinct worker testifies she stole votes.  A former Clay County precinct worker testified Friday that top election officers in the county taught her how to change people's choices on voting machines to steal votes in the May 2006 primary.  Wanda White testified that Clerk Freddy Thompson — the county's chief election officer — helped show her how to manipulate voting machines along with Charles Wayne Jones, the Democratic election commissioner.

Obama, Pelosi, Rangel, Geithner, Holder on Judicial Watch 2009 Most Corrupt List.  Judicial Watch issued its Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2009" list a couple of weeks ago and I've been waiting for MSM coverage of this story — as President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Tim Geithner, Eric Holder, Charles Rangel, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, John Murtha, Roland Burris, Rep. Jesse Jackson, and John Ensign are this year's trophy winners.  For the record, Ensign is the only Republican and President Bush has never been on the list.

No one punished under congressional ethics rules.  Nearly three years after Congress approved sweeping ethics rules to "drain the swamp," as incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it, no member of Congress has been punished for wrongdoing.  In that time, allegations of sexual misconduct and financial impropriety have been lodged against lawmakers.

Ending Corruption in Washington.  [Scroll down slowly]  The only way to get rid of such corruption is to deprive Congress of its vast regulatory powers.  There is truly no reason why politicians should superintend any portion of the private sphere.  Finance, health care, energy, housing, farming, and all the rest should be left wholly to the market, since the market invariably delivers goods and services in the most economical and cost-efficient manner.  Every time politicians decide to regulate, they only make matters worse.

Surprise:  Leading Obamacare economic advocate was being paid by Obama administration.  Jon Gruber, a prominent MIT economist who's been been one of the country's leading advocates of Democratic health care reform legislation.  Except it now appears that Gruber didn't do a very good job of disclosing an enormous conflict of interest, according to Firedoglake...

Rep. Gary Ackerman may have broken House ethics rules.  U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman hosted a meeting between Israeli officials and a defense-contracting firm in which he had invested money — and made a big profit, a [New York] Daily News probe has found.  The Queens Democrat put no money down when he obtained private stock in the company, Xenonics Inc., relying on $14,000 borrowed in 2002 from the company's top shareholder, a longtime friend.

Reid gets his 60 votes for Obamacare — the Chicago Way.  Yesterday morning, while Washington, DC was getting blanketed with a record snowfall, Senate Democrats treated the entire United States to what may be the greatest snow job of all time.  Biggoverment.com calls it "the most corrupt piece of legislation in our nation's history," and indeed it is. ... This latest development demonstrates once again that, when it's a choice between principles and dollars, Democratic politicians reliably choose the latter.

Former CIA boss booted for security breach named to defense intelligence panel.  John M. Deutch, the former CIA director who was stripped of his security clearance after it was discovered he downloaded classified information on his home computer, has been appointed by the Obama Administration to another high-level board that serves the Department of Defense.

Impeachment appears imminent for federal judge.  Witnesses in the congressional impeachment case against U.S. District Court Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. paint a jarring portrait of the former Louisiana state judge appointed to the federal bench in 1994 by President Clinton.

Draining the Democratic swamp.  When the Democrats retook Congress in 2006, incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi promised the "to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history."  So how's that promise working out?  Let's start with four developments from the last week...

Coal Towns Mired In Public Corruption .  A third Pennsylvania judge has pleaded guilty to corruption this week, making him one of nearly two dozen officials embroiled in a widespread federal investigation of government and court agencies in a county of former coal mining towns.  Earlier this year two of his Luzerne County bench colleagues (Mark Ciavarella and Michael T. Conahan) were each slapped with seven-year prison sentences for operating a multi million-dollar kickback scheme to funnel youth offenders to a private detention center.

Martha Coakley:  Too Immoral for Teddy Kennedy's Seat.  In Tuesday's primary election, Massachusetts Democrats chose as their Senate nominee a woman who kept a clearly innocent man in prison in order to advance her political career.  Martha Coakley isn't even fit for the late Teddy Kennedy's old seat. ... Anyone with the smallest sense of justice cannot vote to put this woman in any office.  If you absolutely cannot vote for a Republican on Jan. 19, 2010, write in the name "Gerald Amirault."

Soros Eyes Secretaries.  History's most notorious Georgian-turned-Russian, the politically astute Joseph Stalin once remarked, "The people who cast the votes decide nothing.  The people who count the votes decide everything."  The lesson has not been lost on the increasingly notorious Hungarian-cum-American George Soros.  A group backed by Soros is gearing up to steal the 2012 election for President Obama and congressional Democrats by installing left-wing Democrats as secretaries of state across the nation.  From such posts, secretaries of state can help tilt the electoral playing field.

A Bunch of Hypocrites?  Nancy Pelosi likes to brag that she's "drained the swamp" when it comes to corruption in the House, but ethics problems could come back to haunt Democrats in 2010.  Democrats are currently the subject of 12 of the 16 complaints pending before the House ethics committee.

Tincture of Lawlessness.  The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior to what markets produce when freedom allows merit to manifest itself, and incompetence to fail.  The administration's central activity — the political allocation of wealth and opportunity — is not merely susceptible to corruption, it is corruption.

Beam Me Up, Jimbo.  Few politicians have earned a reputation equally colorful as it is criminal as former Rep Jim Traficant (D-OH), who is expected to be released from prison today [9/2/2009].  Though seven years may have passed since Traficant was convicted of racketeering, bribery and fraud, among other gems, the area he represented hasn't changed much since their Congressman was first elected in 1984.

Is the White House for Sale?  Obama supporter Lanny Davis says the president has little choice but to continue business as usual — even though Obama as candidate implied things would be different.  "When it comes to fundraising I never heard Barack Obama say 'I believe in unilateral disarmament.'  So long as Republicans are raising money we have to raise money, and we won the White House, we ought to take advantage of that," Davis said.

The Obama White House: Bundlers' Paradise.  Perks for deep-pocketed donors?  Presidential meetings for sale?  The stale Chicago odor of pay-for-play wafting from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?  Knock me over with a feather.  Despite the president's claimed distaste for the campaign finance practice known as "bundling" (rounding up aggregate contributions from friends, business associates and employees), the House of Obama has been a campaign finance bundlers' paradise from Day One.

Net Neutrality For Campaign Donors.  Just how far is the Obama administration willing to go to reward big donors?  In the wake of yesterday's explosive report regarding "scores of top Democratic donors" being rewarded with "VIP access to the White House, private briefings with administration advisers and invitations to important speeches and town-hall meetings," it's a question that's on the minds of many politically-engaged Americans...

Barack Obama accused of 'selling' access to the White House.  President Barack Obama has been accused of betraying his campaign promise to change the culture of Washington by "selling" access to the White House to prominent donors.  Leaked Democratic National Committee documents showed the party had offered up to four briefings a year from senior presidential advisers in exchange for a personal donation of $30,400 or a commitment to raise $300,000 for the 2010 midterm elections.

West Virginia Watchdog exposes another Mollohan earmark scam.  West Virginia Watchdog Steve Allen Adams has uncovered another wrinkle in Rep. Alan Mollohan's earmark-based fiefdom — companies that rent office space in the office park named after the Democrat congressman not only have to write that monthly check, they also pay hefty campaign donations to you know who.

Carter lapse won't slow Rangel hunt.  House Republicans say they'll press on with their efforts to dethrone House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel — despite the fact that the Republican leading their charge now faces ethical issues of his own.  Rep. John Carter failed to disclose nearly $300,000 in profits from oil stock sales in 2006-07, Roll Call reported Thursday [10/22/2009].

The Editor says...
Throw them both out!

Follow the Money.  We have yet to see a bill from the Democratic Congress or the Obama White House that is not actually a payoff to a key constituency.  The tsunami of dollars unleashed by the Obama Treasury Department in coordination with the Fed has obscured the fact that many of those dollars are ending up in the pockets of Friends of Obama or Friends of Nancy or Friends of Harry.

Voter fraud probe nets a fifth suspect.  An investigation into the stuffing of ballot boxes in Essex County continues to widen, with a fifth person indicted yesterday for election fraud.  The criminal probe by the state Division of Criminal Justice and the Essex County prosecutor has been focusing not only on campaign workers, but on county workers as well as it examines dozens of absentee ballots cast in the 2007 election of state Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D-Essex).

The K Street Tax Cheat Who's Lobbying to Save Obamacare.  Tom Daschle is the human toe fungus of Washington — a persistent infection that may disappear from time to time, but always comes back with a vengeance.  Despite abandoning his secretary of health and human services nomination in disgrace in February 2009, the K Street tax cheat who evaded IRS rules for years remains a top White House confidante and policy strategist.

Dirty Money Watch:  Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.).  [Scroll down]  Multiple officers and members of these unions, including division presidents, secretary-treasurers and business managers, have been convicted since 2001 of felonies ranging from embezzlement, falsifying official reports to government, mail fraud and conspiracy.  The Communication Workers of America and The American Federation of Government Employees have had eight convictions, the Service Employees International Union has had nine convictions and the Boilermakers have had 10 convictions, while the IBEW has had 14 members convicted.  The United Steelworkers of America has had 30 convictions among its membership.  The amounts of embezzled funds range from over $5,000 to over $100,000.

Mayors, rabbis arrested in corruption probe.  The New Jersey officials and their associates charged in a federal probe of public corruption exchanged hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in parking lots, restaurants, boiler rooms and bathrooms, an acting U.S. attorney said Thursday [7/23/2009].  The investigation netted 44 defendants — 29 on corruption charges and 15 for alleged money laundering, acting U.S. Attorney Ralph Marra Jr. said at a news conference.

44 Charged by U.S. in New Jersey Corruption Sweep.  The case began with bank fraud charges against a member of an insular Syrian Jewish enclave centered in a seaside town.  But when that man became a federal informant and posed as a crooked real estate developer offering cash bribes to obtain government approvals, it mushroomed into a political scandal that could rival any of the most explosive and sleazy episodes in New Jersey's recent past.

Kosher Nostra & Dirty Jersey.  Everything was for sale — from politicians to kidneys.  Separate federal probes targeting rogue rabbis in Brooklyn and corrupt public officials in New Jersey led to the arrests yesterday [7/23/2009] of 44 people, including three mayors and five religious leaders. ... All are Democrats except for [Assemblyman Daniel] Van Pelt, a Republican.

In New Jersey, Ideal Conditions for Corruption.  Cash in an envelope.  In return, a promise that a development project will speed along, unhindered by bureaucratic delays.  A handshake to seal the deal.  It is the most clichéd, unimaginative form of corruption — and its persistent hold on New Jersey's elected leaders seems unrivaled in American government.

New Mexico Roiled By Fresh Graft Case.  Elected officials in New Mexico are renewing calls for an ethics overhaul after the state's attorney general this week unveiled the latest in a long string of political-corruption cases.  Longtime Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron, who left office in 2006, has been indicted on 50 felony counts of embezzlement, tax evasion and money laundering in an alleged scheme to siphon off at least hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal election funds.  Ms. Vigil-Giron, a Democrat...

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Democratic Fundraiser Charged in Citigroup Fraud.  The U.S. attorney in New York on Tuesday charged a New York investor and major Democratic fund-raiser with a $74 million scheme to defraud Citigroup.  Hassan Nemazee, 59, was charged with one count of bank fraud, and faces up to 30 years in prison plus a fine.

Legislators Framing Climate Bills Hold Energy Stock.  As Congress moves ahead with climate-change legislation touching almost every corner of the energy industry, a number of lawmakers shaping the debate have investments in companies that would be affected by the results.  Rep. Edward J. Markey (D., Mass.), one of the lead authors of a House bill that would favor alternative-energy sources, had investments of between $51,000 and $115,000 in the Firsthand Technology Value Fund at the end of last year.  Three of the top 10 holdings in the Ohio fund are solar-energy manufacturers.

Valley Rep. Kino Flores indicted.  State Rep. Ismael "Kino" Flores, D-Palmview, has been indicted for failing to disclose more than $800,000 in income as well as assorted high-value gifts and properties, Travis County prosecutors said Friday [7/17/2009].  A grand jury returned six separate indictments against the 12-year legislator, each relating to required financial statements filed yearly since 2004.

Rep. Dicks boosts funds for son's project.  Rep. Norm Dicks, the House Democrat in charge of spending for the environment, is proposing a dramatic increase in funding for a water-cleanup program in Washington state that's run by his son.

Dems put CBC member in charge of CBC investigation.  The House ethics committee is investigating a Caribbean trip taken last year by members of the Congressional Black Caucus, but they put a fellow CBC member in charge of the probe.  Among those on the trip was House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., who is already the subject of an ethics probe over nonpayment of taxes and other issues.

Senator's husband's firm cashes in on crisis.  On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband's real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms.

Bay State run by men of steal.  This isn't a democracy, it's a kleptocracy.  Three in a row — three House speakers in a row indicted, and two convicted.

Sen. Roland Burris (D-Blago).  We don't know where to begin with the latest mess that has ensnared Sen. Roland W. Burris (D-Ill.).  No, "ensnared" isn't the right word.  That would imply that he's blameless for his troubles, which isn't the case.

Elected, Not Redeemed.  Kevin Johnson grossly misused federal funds.  The standard penalty is a common sense one — he shouldn't be entrusted with federal funds for at least some time.  That he is now mayor of the capital of California doesn't change that.  Winning an election does not have some sort of sanctifying effect.  A man who misuses funds and is then elected mayor is now a mayor who has misused funds.  And those who voted him into office should expect to have to live with the consequences of their decision.

Culture of Corruption II.  When in the last election Democrats spoke of a "culture of corruption" in Washington, few realized they were making a promise.  The Obama Administration is not yet three weeks old but already features a growing collection of ethically challenged officials.

Bye-bye, "culture of corruption".  You may want to look fast, but the Democratic National Committee's website still has a "Republican Culture of Corruption" page, implying that by installing the Democrats back in the congressional majority, we'll have a virtual monastery of ethical restraint in Washington — with leaders like Patrick Kennedy setting the example.

House Democrats Accused of Corruption, Too.  Democrats, quick to invoke the alleged "Republican culture of corruption," have a few members of their own party to worry about.

The Democrats' Culture of Corruption:  Did you notice the stories about Illinois Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky's husband being sentenced to prison for a check-kiting scheme involving millions of dollars?  Probably not.  It got little attention.

Why the Truth Doesn't Matter:  Because you won't find an "R" after any of their names, Charles Rangel still faces no consequences for his actions, Tom Daschle was forced to pay his back taxes — but only the magnitude of his oversight made him withdraw his name from consideration with no further condemnation nor consequences — and Turbo Tax Timothy Geitner is now the head of the U.S. Treasury in charge of collecting the taxes he originally decided not to pay.  And this doesn't even take into consideration the ability of a Democrat Congressmen to keep his seat in Congress after the Feds found $90,000 in illegal campaign contributions hidden in his New Orleans house.

The price is right (Ellison hajj edition).  We've written several times about Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison's hajj to Mecca ... A spokesman for Ellison, the first Muslim congressman, first told the Star Tribune that Ellison paid for the pilgrimage himself.  The Star Tribune subsequently reported that the Minnesota chapter of the Muslim American Society paid for Ellison's hajj.  MAS spokesman Mahdi Bray heatedly denied the report, describing it as a "myth" and "urban legend" that couldn't possibly be true because "that would be a breach of congressional ethics."

Putting the mice in charge of the cheese:
Pornography Advocate at DOJ?  It's been a taxing two weeks for President Obama and his nominees.  And there's another nominee with bigger disqualifiers than unpaid taxes.  Imagine.  A veteran pornography defense attorney takes a top spot at the agency charged with enforcing the nation's child pornography and obscenity laws.

Obama's porn king at Justice.  Under President Obama, it was expected that porn pushers might find a sympathetic ear, given the smut industry's generous support of liberal politicians and causes.  But the fox is no longer circling the henhouse.  He's made it inside.

Democrats are opposed to coal-fired power plants — unless they own them.
Green lobby guides Democrats on climate bill.  Democratic lawmakers who spent much of the Bush administration blasting officials for letting energy lobbyists write national policy have turned to a coalition of business and environmental groups to help draft their own sweeping climate bill.  And one little-noticed provision of the draft bill would give one of the coalition's co-founders a lucrative exemption on a coal-fired project it is building.

Assemblyman Charged with Graft.  A Democratic leader in the New Jersey Assembly has been charged with public corruption for allegedly abusing his former position as Perth Amboy's mayor by using city money for personal expenses such as his son's basketball camps and refreshments served after his father's funeral.  Prosecutors also accuse Joseph Vas of rigging a lottery so his driver would win.

Fumo guilty of all 137 counts.  Vincent Fumo, once one of the most powerful figures in Pennsylvania politics, was convicted today [3/16/2009] of more than 130 counts of corruption for schemes that defrauded the state Senate and others of more than $3.5 million and allowed him to live a lavish lifestyle.

Ex-Pennsylvania senator convicted of 137 corruption counts.  Vincent Fumo, once one of the most powerful figures in Pennsylvania politics, was convicted Monday [3/16/2009] of more than 130 counts of corruption for schemes that defrauded the state Senate and others of more than $3.5 million and helped pay for his lavish lifestyle.  The 65-year-old former state senator was found guilty of all 137 counts against him, which also included obstruction of justice for destroying e-mail evidence.

Guilty plea coming in vote-buying case.  The former judge-executive of Perry County plans to plead guilty in a federal vote-buying case.  The attorney for Sherman Neace filed a motion Thursday [9/10/2009] seeking a hearing for Neace to be rearraigned, meaning to enter a guilty plea.  The hearing has not been scheduled.

Democrats are hypocrites when it comes to paying taxes.  Daschle's hardly alone.  The recently confirmed Treasury secretary, Timothy F. Geithner, also failed to pay taxes he owed (even though he surely must have known he owed them) until it became politically expedient to pay them.  Now he runs the IRS.  Take that, suckers.  Meanwhile, Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the supreme tax-writing body in the United States, the House Ways and Means Committee, is under investigation for, among other things, dodging taxes.

Obama's Toxic Assets:  It has happened again!  Another Obama appointee has admitted to tax problems.  Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius has admitted to irregularities in her tax returns extending over the past three years. ... According to my calculations that makes five Obama nominees who have reported similar tax irregularities, none of which was discovered until they began making preparations for their confirmation hearings. ... Two other Obama Administration nominees withdrew from consideration when their tax problems were discovered.

Secretary Geithner's Got Some Explaining to Do.  Just about everyone has had something to say about [the AIG] bailout — mostly that it was an ugly but necessary step to stave off a domino effect that would have brought the world's financial system to its knees.  But what we have not yet heard is just how Treasury Secretary Geithner, as then-head of the NY FED, got away with taking ownership of 77.9% of AIG's equity and voting rights in clear violation of the law.

FBI investigates lobbying firm that is generous donor to Dicks, Murray.  Congressman Norm Dicks has never been shy about accepting campaign donations from favor seekers.  Now the FBI is investigating one of Dicks' most generous donors — the powerhouse lobbying firm PMA Group.  Questions have been raised about whether some PMA-related campaign contributions were actually given by the people listed as donors.  For example, thousands of dollars in contributions to Dicks, Washington Sen. Patty Murray and other lawmakers came from a sommelier and a golf-club employee who were identified as PMA officials on some campaign-finance reports.

Cabinet of the corrupt.  First Tim Geithner.  Now Tom Daschle?  Who's Obama's next cabinet pick — Wesley Snipes?  Dianne Wilkerson?  Not to upset the loyal O-Bots out there, but the last guy from Chicago to have this much income tax trouble was Al Capone.  And at last report, he still had an outside shot at getting Commerce secretary.  President Obama pledged to change Washington, and he has.  Before Obama, tax cheats used to lose jobs.

McClain, Pettagrue guilty on all counts.  Alabama state Sen. E.B. McClain and the Rev. Samuel Pettagrue were found guilty today [1/21/2009] on all 48 counts of bribery, money laundering and mail fraud after a trial before federal Judge Karon Bowdre.  McClain was accused of taking more than $300,000 of the $758,245 he obtained for Pettagrue's community outreach programs, including an online GED program.

Texas fundraiser convicted on 14 counts.  The South Texan who once lavished fundraisers on Democratic politicians and whisked employees of his law firm off for Las Vegas weekends in a private jet was convicted Thursday of 14 counts of impersonating a lawyer.  Mauricio Celis, the 37-year-old founder of Corpus Christi-based CGT Law Group International, falsely represented himself as a lawyer while raking in millions of dollars in attorney's fees in recent years.

Accused fraudster gave big to Dems.  The Texas financier accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday of "massive ongoing fraud" was a generous political donor who gave more heavily to Democrats.  Since 2000, R. Allen Stanford, the chief of the Stanford Financial Group in Houston, his wife and company gave $2.2 million in political contributions — $1.7 million to Democratic candidates and committees — according to Federal Election Commission records.

Hartford, Conn., mayor arrested on bribery charges.  Eddie Perez, a one-time gang leader who turned his life around to become Hartford's most powerful mayor, surrendered to police Tuesday to face a bribery charge for having a city contractor renovate his home and not paying for it until after being confronted by investigators.

Portland mayor to decide soon whether to resign.  About 400 supporters gathered Friday night outside City Hall to urge Portland's mayor to stay on the job despite an intensifying political storm over his sexual relationship with a legislative intern nearly four years ago.  Mayor Sam Adams has admitted lying about the affair with the young man to cover it up during last year's mayoral campaign.

Profiles in corruption.  Whether it's a California congressman driving around in a Rolls Royce and living in a palatial home, the result of about $2 million in bribe money; a Louisiana congressman caught by the FBI with $90 thousand worth of bribes in his freezer, or an Illinois Governor caught trying to sell a senate seat, the fact is that some people have the idea that their office is for sale to anyone with enough cash to buy their appearance of integrity.  Political power is a formidable weapon that can be used to alter the events of history in a positive way, or it can be used to enrich the bank accounts of the ethically challenged reprobates whose lack of character mysteriously transmogrifies their fingers into money-grubbing appendages.

More Proof the Inmates Are Running the Asylum.  In Congress, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), after having violated about half of the federal tax laws, is staying on as chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.  Meanwhile, Sen. Chris Dodd and Rep. Barney Frank, the king and queen of congressional oversight of the banking industry, are still in charge of running their respective asylums.  Frank, whose boyfriend ran a prostitution ring out of the congressman's townhouse back in 1990, and who more recently was involved in a homosexual affair with an official of Fannie Mae, one of the bankrupt quasigovernmental entities Frank oversees as head of the House Financial Services Committee, sees no conflict between his public and personal life.

Who is Barney Frank?  In 1991, Barney Frank received an official reprimand for reflecting "discredit upon the House."  The reprimand came as a result of his relationship with a man named Steve Gobi, a male prostitute whom Frank initially paid $80 for sex.  Frank later took Gobi to live with him in his home, making him a personal aide.  He paid him $20,000 in compensation (unreported to the IRS) and let him use his car.  Subsequent investigation revealed that in the course of their relationship, Frank used his congressional office and stationary to fix Gobi's 33 parking fines.  Frank also used his congressional letterhead to write a reference letter to Gobi's probation officer — Gobi was under court supervision as a convicted felon with a prison record — in which he gave false information.  Most damningly, the investigation found that Gobi ran a prostitution ring from Frank's home.  In his defense, Frank asserted he knew nothing of Gobi's illicit enterprise.

Fox and Foes.  Back in 1990, the police raided Barney Frank's home because his lover, Steve Gobie, was running a male prostitution ring out of his condo.  In 2007, the police raided the home of James Ready and arrested him for possession of marijuana.  Ready, who is Barney's main squeeze these days, didn't just smoke the weed, Farmer Ready was growing the stuff.  The congressman was there at the time of the raid but denied he had any idea that those plants in the backyard weren't rhododendrons.

Democrats sleeping with the enemy.  For all their railing against the evils of big bad banks, Democrats aren't shy about jumping into bed with them when the price is right.  And they don't much care whether taxpayers lose out in the process.  Rep. Barney Frank, Massachusetts Democrat, and his cohort Rep. Maxine Waters, California Democrat, are leaders in making support for delinquent banks into a respectable progressive cause.

Pennsylvania judges accused of jailing kids for cash.  For years, the juvenile court system in Wilkes-Barre operated like a conveyor belt:  Youngsters were brought before judges without a lawyer, given hearings that lasted only a minute or two, and then sent off to juvenile prison for months for minor offenses.  The explanation, prosecutors say, was corruption on the bench.  In one of the most shocking cases of courtroom graft on record, two Pennsylvania judges have been charged with taking millions of dollars in kickbacks to send teenagers to two privately run youth detention centers.

Did The Philadelphia Inquirer tell you they were Democrats?  To which political party do the two judges belong?  Naturally, upon reading this, I had to wonder:  were these crooks Republicans, or were they Democrats?  The information wasn't easy to find, but it did exist.

2 Pennsylvania judges sued in kickback scheme.  A lawsuit has been filed against two Pennsylvania judges accused of taking more than $2 million in kickbacks to send youth offenders to privately run detention centers.  The suit names Luzerne County Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan and 14 other defendants.  It was filed in federal court late Thursday [2/12/2009] on behalf of hundreds of children and their families who were alleged victims of the corruption.

Shady Island 'House' Party.  High-ranking members of Congress were flown to a lush Caribbean resort this month for a three-day conference planned and paid for by several of the country's most powerful corporations — a violation of federal ethics rules, critics say.  Six members of the Congressional Black Caucus attended the 13th annual Caribbean Multi-National Business Conference in sun-drenched St. Maarten, including embattled Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel and New Jersey Rep. Donald Payne.

Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford, arrested, jailed on federal charges.  Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford was arrested this morning on federal charges and is being held at the federal courthouse, the FBI and other federal officials confirm.  A special grand jury for several months has been investigating county bond deals and Langford's financial dealings.  Langford was Jefferson County Commission president 2002-06.

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Birmingham Mayor Convicted on All Counts.  Larry Langford, the controversial and flamboyant mayor of Birmingham, Ala., was convicted of multiple counts of bribery in a federal corruption trial in Tuscaloosa on Wednesday [10/28/2009].

Sex sting to keep Wisconsin mayor from inauguration.  Racine Mayor Gary Becker's plans to attend Tuesday's inauguration have been canceled after he was charged in an Internet sex sting.  Becker had planned to attend a U.S. Conference of Mayors event in Washington over the weekend and then stay for the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama.

The Editor says...
There's one little detail missing from this story:  He's a Democrat.  The same detail is also missing from these articles covering the same story:  [1] [2] [3]

Wisconsin mayor resigns after sex-sting arrest.  The mayor of Racine, Wis., resigned Tuesday, days after being accused of trying to arrange a sexual encounter with someone he thought was an underage girl.  Mayor Gary Becker resigned in a one-sentence letter that made no reference to the six felonies he faces.

An elaborate FBI sting snares politicians in Massachusetts.  For 18 months, the operation targeting former state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson played out in upscale restaurants and scruffy eateries, through the marbled halls of the Massachusetts Statehouse and Boston City Hall.  Along the way, the probe dragged in dozens of unwitting side players, from the mayor and City Council president to Wilkerson's Senate colleagues.  It also led to corruption charges against a five-term city councilman.  Wilkerson, who resigned last month after being indicted on eight federal counts of attempted extortion, has maintained her innocence.

Another salon, another indictment.  Try not to let this destroy your faith in the integrity of the Massachusetts Legislature.  Look on the bright side:  Only 5 percent of the state Senate has been indicted this year ... .

Culture of Corruption: Obama and the Teamsters.  The Wall Street Journal recently reported that last summer, Illinois Senator Barack Obama told officials in the Teamsters union that he favored ending the Independent Review Board (IRB) that was created in 1989 by the federal government to rid the union of organized crime.  Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for Obama, confirmed the story, saying that the candidate believed that the IRB had "run its course" because "organized crime influence in the union has drastically declined."  The Teamsters subsequently endorsed Obama for president, in late February.  Obama and the Teamsters bristled at suggestions that any deal was made.

Judge Elizabeth Halverson permanently removed from bench.  [Scroll down]  "The damage resulting from her antics and willful misconduct will be felt by the judicial system for a significant future period of time," said the commission.  The judge had continued to receive a $130,000 annual salary during the suspension.  With her removal, Judge Halverson can never serve on the judicial bench again.

They've Got Mail!  As an army of Democratic operatives looks for dirt in Alaska, Gov. Sarah Palin's e-mail account is hacked into.  It seems Barack Obama's supporters haven't given up the politics of personal destruction.

FBI serves search warrant against UT student in Palin case.  The FBI is stepping up its investigation into the possibility that a University of Tennessee student hacked into the personal e-mail of Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.  A person who identified himself as a witness tells 10 News that agents with the FBI served a federal search warrant at the Fort Sanders residence of David Kernell early Sunday morning.  Kernell lives in the Commons apartment complex at 1115 Highland Ave.  David Kernell is the son of Mike Kernell, a Democratic state representative from Memphis.

FBI searches apartment of alleged Palin hacker.  Federal authorities are ramping up an investigation of a 20-year-old college student for allegedly hacking into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's e-mail account.  The FBI searched the apartment of alleged hacker David Kernell on Sunday morning [9/21/2008], and three of Kernell's roommates could testify this week about the case before a grand jury in Chattanooga, according to local news reports.

UT student David Kernell pleads not guilty in Palin e-mail hacking.  David Christopher Kernell walked into federal court this morning in handcuffs, shackles and tennis shoes to plead not guilty to hacking Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account.  He can stay out of jail for now as long as he stays off his computer.

Alleged Palin hacker indicted.  A 20-year-old college student suspected of hacking into one of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's e-mail accounts was indicted Tuesday [10/7/2008], a district court has announced.  David Kernell, a University of Tennessee student and son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell, turned himself into federal authorities and will be arraigned Wednesday before Judge C. Clifford Shirley in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.

Pelosi's Bill Could Benefit Husband's Stock Holding.  On July 27, 2007, 28 executives of the Thousand Oaks, Calif., pharmaceutical firm Amgen contributed more than $20,000 to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) campaign.  On Aug. 2, Pelosi (D-Calif.) reintroduced the Early Treatment for HIV Act, a bill that could boost Medicaid coverage of HIV-related drugs, including Procrit, which is manufactured by Amgen and marketed by a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, a firm in which Pelosi's husband owns at least $250,000 in stock, according to Pelosi's disclosure forms.

Pelosi paid husband with PAC funds.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has directed nearly $100,000 from her political action committee to her husband's real estate and investment firm over the past decade, a practice of paying a spouse with political donations that she supported banning last year.  Financial Leasing Services Inc. (FLS), owned by Paul F. Pelosi, has received $99,000 in rent, utilities and accounting fees from the speaker's "PAC to the Future" over the PAC's nine-year history.

House Speaker Pelosi Used Political Donations to Pay Husband's Firm.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi paid her husband's real estate and investment firm nearly $100,000 from her political action committee over the past decade, a practice that she voted to ban last year and that her party condemned as part of the "culture of corruption" when Republicans did it.

A failure to lead.  "For six years, Pelosi served on the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (the Ethics Committee)."  Six years later, what do we have?  Indicted Louisiana Democratic Rep. William Jefferson, who maintains his House seat in the middle of a corruption trial, without so much as a reprimand from Mrs. Pelosi.  Neither did she issue a single admonition to Rep. Charles Rangel, New York Democrat and Ways and Means Committee chairman, for his apparent failure to pay income taxes.

McCain/Palin Could Win this Election by Exposing the Trillion Dollar Scam.  This is a trillion dollar scam, and all the politicians in Congress, the ACORN mafia, the people who played the market on unsecured mortgages, and the scam artists who were hired by Freddie and Fannie — they all knew it.  In case you haven't been watching, that includes all of Barack Obama's "home mortgage advisors" — Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson and Jamie Gorelick.  It includes Senate Banking Committee members like Chris Dodd.  It includes House members like Barney Frank.

History of Rewarding ACORN.  Between ACORN and the Democrat National Committee we are truly witnessing a culture of corruption.  Remember the Marxist adage:  Accuse others of what you do.  This is the M.O. of the Democrats and their lapdogs in the news media.  While they accuse the GOP of "disenfranchising" voters, it is the liberal-left thugs who are disenfranchising citizens by registering illegal aliens and corpses to vote.  Meanwhile, conservative groups are on the alert in order to prevent military voters from being disenfranchised since polls regularly show soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines overwhelmingly vote for Republican candidates.

Chicago politics at the retail level.  When I lived in Chicago, I joined a neighborhood association with the intent of meeting neighbors, and ended up meeting political sleaze.  The association dealt with police, school, park district, and other issues in a city where, I learned, even garbage cans are political.  You can't buy them; they're a special, rat-proof type only available 'free' from the City.  If you need one, you call your Alderman's office ... .

Illinois most corrupt?  Try 18th on list.  As I wrote during the presidential campaign, political corruption is the dirty little secret not of just Illinois politics but American politics.  True, it isn't on such a gargantuan scale as to create an entirely dysfunctional society as is the case for so many developing nations.  But it exists to such a degree in so many places that U.S. Attorneys who handle public corruption cases are probably among the few Americans with real job security these days.

Pennsylvania Democrats charged with stealing public funds.  A state lawmaker, a former legislative leader and 10 other people connected to the state House Democratic caucus were charged Thursday over allegations that millions of taxpayer dollars were illegally siphoned to underwrite political campaigns.

Bill Clinton's $700,000 stock windfall:  The spring before his wife began her White House campaign, former President Bill Clinton earned $700,000 for his foundation by selling stock that he had been given from an Internet search company that was co-founded by a convicted felon and backed by the Chinese government, public records show.

Bill's Mystery Millions:  Another day, another reason for Democratic primary voters to demand complete financial transparency from Bill and Hillary Clinton.  And, it seems, another reason for the Clintons to shudder at the prospect.

Beg Your Pardon?  If a Democrat is elected President of the United States, former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, a Democrat, might be pardoned.  There might even be pressure on a President Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton to appoint this former Alabama Attorney General as a federal judge or a U.S. Attorney.  In 2005, jurors in Montgomery found Siegelman guilty on seven counts of bribery, conspiracy, mail fraud and obstruction of justice.

'Find Out Where His Kids Go to School'.  "Former Democratic presidential candidate Mike Gravel was caught on tape last week telling a crowd in Washington, D.C., that they should harass a federal prosecutor who helped bring criminal contempt charges against a Palestinian activist," Fox News reports.  The "Palestinian activist" in question, Sami Al-Arian, had been charged with aiding Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a theocratic terror group.

Alabama County Is On the Brink of Bankruptcy.  Alabama's largest county appears headed for the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, a $3.2 billion mess created by the nation's credit crunch and a colossal, corruption-riddled sewer project.

A Criminal Case Possible Under the Mann Act.  Governor Spitzer, in the wake of the disclosure that he patronized a prostitute last month, now risks criminal prosecution, legal experts say.  For now, federal prosecutors are likely launching a wide investigation into Mr. Spitzer's finances to determine whether any public funds, property, or employees were used during any encounter between Mr. Spitzer and a prostitute, several former prosecutors say.

Dirty money trail that exposed Mr Clean:  The paper trail that led detectives to the door of a New Jersey-based prostitution service began when they noticed a stream of strange bank payments flowing from the accounts of the governor of New York state, Eliot Spitzer.  Tax officials raised the alarm after noticing odd transactions during what they told the New York Times were routine inspections.  Their initial suspicion was that the governor may have been involved in some form of corruption, bribery perhaps or manipulation of political funds.

Scandal Confirms Gov's Astonishing and Endless Hypocrisy.  A disgraced Gov. Spitzer has been publicly and privately described for more than a year by New York's top political figures as a ruth less, sanctimonious, amoral man whose righteous public persona was regularly contradicted by the realities of how he conducted his political life.

Records reveal lucrative dealings for Memphis mayor's friend.  When it comes to landing City Hall subcontracting jobs, Reginald French has a golden touch — a $1.4 million touch.  A close friend of Mayor Willie Herenton, French has been paid at least that much, and possibly much more, for a variety of jobs, including a particularly fortuitous deal to install fiber-optic cable at two city police stations.  Newly disclosed records tell how French, a onetime prison guard, landed the $68,000 cabling job in 2006 despite lacking experience or equipment for the work.  Undaunted, French then hired a cable installation firm — for $30,000 — to perform the work.

State raids mayor's home.  Maryland state prosecutors raided the home of Mayor Sheila Dixon yesterday [6/17/2008] as part of an investigation into past spending practices at City Hall, the most aggressive move so far in the years-long probe. … Investigators have been examining spending irregularities at City Hall since a March 2006 series of articles in The Sun that detailed questions about the role of Dixon — then council president — in approving contracts that benefited her sister's employer.

Mayor Sheila Dixon indicted.  Baltimore Mayor Sheila A. Dixon was charged today [1/9/2009] with 12 counts of felony theft, perjury, fraud and misconduct in office, becoming the city's first sitting mayor to be criminally indicted.  The case stems in part from at least $15,348 in gifts Dixon allegedly received from her former boyfriend, prominent city developer Ronald H. Lipscomb, while she was City Council president.

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Convicted Dem Mayor of Baltimore Resigning; BaltSun Leaves Out Party Affiliation.  Criminally-challenged Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon (D) today announced her resignation from office effective February 4.  Nowhere in their 9-paragraph breaking news article filed at 3:44 p.m. EST today did Baltimore Sun reporters Liz F. Kay and Liz Bowie note Dixon is a Democrat, even though her party has a monopoly on the city's elected officials and has for decades.

Georgia Rep. Ron Sailor Resigns After Pleading Guilty to Money Laundering.  A Georgia lawmaker who said deep debts caused him to violate federal law agreed Tuesday [3/18/2008] to resign as part of a guilty plea to federal money laundering charges.  Meanwhile, federal officials said the case against state Rep. Ron Sailor Jr. has opened up a broader public corruption probe in Georgia, and warned other public officials who have broken the law to turn themselves in rather than be arrested.

Former state Sen. Ford is guilty again.  In the end, former state Sen. John Ford's disclosures, the ones he revealed and the ones he tried to hide, led to the downfall of the once-powerful Memphis Democrat, who was convicted Friday [7/18/2008] on federal corruption charges.  A federal jury convicted Ford on two counts of wire fraud and four counts of concealing material facts stemming from the secret payments he took from two TennCare contractors while he was in the Tennessee Senate.

Officials Investigate Three Alabama Counties in Voter Fraud Accusations.  Federal and state authorities are looking into accusations of voting fraud in three largely black counties of Alabama, including Perry and Lowndes Counties, which played a historic role in the struggle for black voting rights in the 1960s.  In May, a local citizens group gathered affidavits detailing several cases in which at least one Democratic county official paid citizens for their votes, or encouraged them to vote multiple times.

Prominent Democrat is charged with voter fraud.  Todd Stuart McGuire, a longtime Jefferson County Democratic Party supporter, was charged July 2 with voter fraud.  He's accused of either repeating a vote or impersonating his wife, Rebekah, by casting her ballot in a Feb. 6, 2007, special election.  Both charges are Class C felonies and carry a maximum penalty of five years in jail and/or a $10,000 fine, according to charging documents.

Gov. Paterson says he may have used campaign cash for hotel hookup.  Gov. Paterson admitted Wednesday [3/19/2008] he may have improperly billed his campaign for at least one hotel tryst with a girlfriend.  The hotel tryst was apparently listed as "constituent services."

Hot-Sheets Gov Puts $$ Back 'Inn'.  Gov. Paterson is reimbursing his state Senate campaign for stays at a Manhattan hotel, as his aides revealed he'd also improperly used the account to buy suits, furniture and a dinner with his dad. … It is also a violation of state election law to falsely label the reason for the campaign expenditure.

Paterson Billed Taxpayers for Albany Hotels.  State records seem to conflict with Governor Paterson's claim that a busy schedule as lieutenant governor required him on more than a dozen occasions to spend the night at expensive hotels in Albany on the taxpayer's dime rather than at his home in the suburbs.

Four indicted on voter fraud.  Four Duval County residents were charged Thursday with illegally handling ballot applications and mail-in ballots that belonged to other voters during the 2006 primary election.

Jefferson Saga Continues to Vex Democrats.  Since the news broke in 2005 that FBI agents found $90,000 in cash in the freezer of Rep. William J. Jefferson's home, House Democrats have not known quite what to do about the Louisiana lawmaker.  The latest embarrassment arose Wednesday, when Democrats delayed action on placing Jefferson on the Homeland Security Committee after Republicans said they would demand a recorded vote.

Editor's note:
Much more material about Congressman Jefferson's case can be found here.

Disgraced judge has his criminal record expunged.  C. Hunter King, the disgraced Orleans Parish Civil District Court judge who in 2001 forced his employees to sell $250 fundraising tickets or risk losing their jobs, now has a clean record.  Having admitted in May to conspiracy to commit public payroll fraud, King was granted expungement of his criminal arrest and conviction after successfully completing six months of probation.

South Texas Democrat, businessman indicted.  A major contributor to Democratic causes and political races was indicted Friday [11/16/2007] on charges of falsely holding himself out as a lawyer and impersonating a public servant.  Mauricio Celis, a Corpus Christi businessman, has a controlling interest in the CGT Law Group of Corpus Christi even though he is not a lawyer.  Now, he's being accused of practicing law without a license.

Agents raid Texas Democrat's offices.  Authorities raided the offices of an influential Democratic donor on Friday [1/4/2008], prompting accusations by the donor's attorneys that the raid was politically motivated.  The state attorney general's office said it was assisting the Nueces County district attorney in the criminal investigation of Mauricio Celis, 36, who has given money to major Democratic candidates including Hillary Clinton and is the subject of numerous ongoing lawsuits and charges.

Are Democratic Convention Superdelegates Up for Sale?  The Democratic presidential nomination could be decided by the so-called "superdelegates."  Now one study is revealing that elected officials who serve in that capacity have received at least $890,000 in campaign contributions from Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in the last three years.

The gig is up for Berry.  After nearly a quarter century of mischief-making at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Chairman Mary Frances Berry is on her way out the door.  Few government officials in the nation's history have managed to hold on to power for so long or wielded it as autocratically and in pursuit of such radical aims as has Dr. Berry.

Another dictator toppled (here at home).  Mary Frances Berry, chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, is resigning.  Those scratch marks on the floor may be from her fingernails as they dragged her from the building by her feet.  Berry has been a member of the commission for 24 of its 47 years. ... Berry departs with allegations of mismanagement swirling about her head.  The commission is small potatoes, Washington-wise, with a budget of only $9 million and a staff of only 70.  But no one knows how that money has been spent over the past 12 years, while Berry has presided with an iron hand.

It's hard to imagine a two-year-old opening a checking account.
As Campaigns Chafe at Limits, Donors Might Be in Diapers.  Elrick Williams's toddler niece Carlyn may be one of the youngest contributors to this year's presidential campaign.  The 2-year-old gave $2,300 to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).  So did her sister and brother, Imara, 13, and Ishmael, 9, and her cousins Chan and Alexis, both 13.  Altogether, according to newly released campaign finance reports, the extended family of Williams, a wealthy Chicago financier, handed over nearly a dozen checks in March for the maximum allowed under federal law to Obama.

Hillary Clinton:  Shill for the pill.  Last year, just as Andrew von Eschenbach's name was being floated for FDA director, Barr CEO Bruce Downey cut a $1,000 check to Clinton's campaign.  A couple of weeks later, Hillary announced her hold on Eschenbach's nomination and introduced her Plan B subsidy bill.  This year, the day after Clinton introduced her Plan B awareness bill, Barr Executive Vice President Frederick J. Killion donated $1,000 to her campaign.  Although the timing is interesting, those paltry contributions from Barr hardly give Clinton a reason to push Plan B.  Boosting Planned Parenthood's bottom line, however, certainly serves Hillary's purposes.

New House rules don't stop travel.  [Scroll down] The Michigan Democrat stayed overnight at the Gaylord Palms Resort near Orlando.  Her trip was one of 30 trips taken by lawmakers this year under an exemption in the new House travel rules that allows for one- or two-night stays sponsored by companies that employ lobbyists.  Most of the trips were to resort areas, including eight to Florida and three to Las Vegas.  In all, 22 House Democrats and three Republicans accepted nearly $40,000 in travel under that exemption, according to reports filed with the House ethics committee.

FEC Fines Group Allied With Democrats.  A union-financed advocacy group that played a major role in the 2004 elections has agreed to pay a $580,000 fine after the Federal Election Commission concluded it illegally ran advertising against President Bush and in favor of Democrat John Kerry.

The Democratic Mega-Money Mega-Scam.  On Wednesday [8/29/2007], the Federal Election Commission slapped America Coming Together with a $775,000 fine — the third-largest such penalty in history — for violating campaign-finance laws in the 2004 election.  Now largely defunct, America Coming Together was the biggest of the so-called "527" groups that took in millions from donors like George Soros for the purpose of defeating George W. Bush.

Soros-linked group hit with huge fine.  The Federal Election Commission has fined one of the last cycle's biggest liberal political action committees $775,000 for using unregulated soft money to boost John Kerry and other Democratic candidates during the 2004 elections.  America Coming Together (ACT) raised $137 million for its get-out-the-vote effort in 2004, but the FEC found most of that cash came through contributions that violated federal limits.

FEC Fines Political Group From 2004 Race.  An independent political group allied with Democrats has agreed to pay $775,000 in penalties to the Federal Election Commission for violating campaign laws during the 2004 presidential campaign.  The penalty, announced Wednesday, is the third largest fine ever levied by the FEC.  The group, America Coming Together, was an influential player in the 2004 election cycle, spending millions of dollars to mobilize voters in support of Democrats in key states.

Big Source of Clinton's Cash Is an Unlikely Address.  One of the biggest sources of political donations to Hillary Rodham Clinton is a tiny, lime-green bungalow that lies under the flight path from San Francisco International Airport.  Six members of the Paw family, each listing the house at 41 Shelbourne Ave. as their residence, have donated a combined $45,000 to the Democratic senator from New York since 2005, for her presidential campaign, her Senate re-election last year and her political action committee.

A Bundle of Trouble:  Take the Paw family of Daly City, Calif., which is headed by a mail carrier who makes $49,000 a year.  Members of the family have given almost $300,000 to politicians, including Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama, since 2004, often on or about the same days that Mr. Hsu gave money.  The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether any Hsu donors were illegally reimbursed for their contributions.

Did someone mention Norman HSU?



Note:  Instead of creating a subsection about Yung Yuen "Norman" Hsu, I have moved all of the news and commentary about Hsu to this page.



James Indicted on 25 Counts.  Sharpe James, who for two decades reigned as the mayor and indelible face of Newark, was charged yesterday [7/12/2007] with fraudulently billing the city for lavish vacations he took with female companions and arranging for one to buy valuable municipal land at a steep discount.  In an 86-page indictment, prosecutors and the FBI portrayed James as an elected official who considered no personal expense too great or too small for his city-issued credit cards, charging everything from movie tickets and meals at McDonald's to airfare and luxury hotels in five countries.

That wasn't bling on his wrists and ankles.  Mayor Sharpe James stepped into the courtroom carefully yesterday because his legs were in irons.  When he sat at the defense table, he put his hands on his lap, hiding his handcuffs from the overflow crowd that could hardly believe what they were witnessing.

Sweetheart deals for mayor's friend are key to charges.  Tamika Riley, a woman with a flair for fashion and an appetite for finery, appeared to be flat broke.  Her Newark clothing boutique had gone belly up.  She needed public assistance to help pay the rent on her Jersey City apartment.  She wanted a Mercedes, but her credit was so bad a friend had to sign the lease for her.  Then, in the late 1990s, she met Newark Mayor Sharpe James, and her fortunes turned.

Former N.J. mayor pleads not guilty.  Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James pleaded not guilty Monday to federal corruption charges stemming from the last few years of his two decades running city hall.  James, 71, faces multiple fraud counts accusing him of using city-issued credit cards to pay for $58,000 worth of personal trips and expenses.

Sharpe James is due in federal court.  Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James is scheduled to appear in federal court today [2/26/2008] for the first of two federal corruption trials.

Judge upholds convictions of ex-Newark mayor.  A federal judge on Wednesday upheld the corruption convictions of former Newark Mayor Sharpe James and his one-time mistress, but indicated that James probably will get less than the 15- to 20-year prison sentence prosecutors are seeking.

Update:
Former Newark Mayor Is Sentenced to 27 Months.  A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced Sharpe James, Newark's towering yet controversial former mayor, to prison for 27 months at a simmering five-hour hearing in which he rebuked the prosecution for "heartlessly" adhering to a bureaucratic form of justice.

Culture of corruption continues in D.C.  House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, for instance, is planning a lavish golf trip to a resort in Puerto Rico.  More than 100 rooms have been booked for the event, according to a report by American Public Media's "Marketplace."  Hoyer will be surrounded by lobbyists as they experience what the resort promises will be a "sensual awakening." ... Democrats were supposed to rein in the "culture of corruption," not hide it behind a curtain.

NJ Clean Energy Program Under Investigation.  New Jersey's Clean Energy Program (CEP), responsible for promoting energy conservation and the use of renewable energy in the state, is coming under heavy criticism for accounting irregularities, apparent cronyism, and gross mismanagement.  The latest salvo was fired on October 16 [2006] when Bob Ingle, the Trenton bureau chief for Gannett New Jersey newspapers, called for a stepped-up investigation of financial irregularities associated with the program.

Expanding probe hits office of governor.  The federal investigation of the state's secretive budget process reached into the governor's office yesterday, as prosecutors subpoenaed three years of records involving nearly $1 billion in special interest grants.  The subpoenas, covering the administrations of three governors, sought budget records, computer files, reports and letters to determine what the state's top elected officials knew about the so-called "Christmas tree" awards.

Bill's Ugly Buddy:  Payments from Scandal-tied Firm.  Every year since he left the White House, former President Bill Clinton has been paid by InfoUSA — an Omaha, Neb., company now identified as a key provider of databases that enable criminals to defraud the unsuspecting elderly.

Top Clinton Donor Helps Defraud Elderly.  The mainstream media coverage of a company being federally investigated for selling databases of sick and unsuspecting elderly to scam artists conveniently fails to mention that the firm's owner has given Bill and Hillary Clinton millions of dollars over the years.  The wealthy Nebraska entrepreneur, Vinod Gupta, owns the Omaha-based marketing database company called infoUSA Inc. which happens to be one of the nation's largest compilers of consumer information that is later sold to marketing firms.

Getting Out the Vote, Democrat Style.  It doesn't seem to matter to Democrats if the voters turn out to be fraudulent.  The history of the Democrat party in this regard is scandalous.  As far back as before the John F. Kennedy run for the presidency, the city of Chicago was known for its fraud.  The city was run by Democrats and used a reward system for voting Democrat.

Felony charges filed against 7 in state's biggest case of voter-registration fraud.  King and Pierce County prosecutors filed felony charges today against seven people who allegedly committed the biggest voter-registration fraud in state history.  The defendants, who were paid employees and supervisors of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, concocted the scheme as an easy way to get paid, not as an attempt to influence the outcome of elections, King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg said.

ACORN falls again:  The worst case of voter-registration fraud in Washington state history.  Guess which left-wing group is at the center of the worst case of voter-registration fraud in Washington state history?  Yep, you guessed it:  ACORN.  The same ACORN tied to massive voter fraud in Missouri.  And Ohio.  And 12 other states.

Voter fraud charges deserve investigation.  They very well may be innocent coincidences, but voter confidence in the integrity of elections is too important to allow the Palm Beach County Republican Party's allegations of double-voting go without a thorough investigation.  Local party leaders say they found 60 instances in which people with the exact same name and birth date voted both in Palm Beach County and in New York in the November elections.

New Mexico Governor Gets More Tainted Money.  Returning tainted campaign cash — only after being exposed by the media — has become an annual ritual for a Democratic governor who hopes to become the nation's next president.  New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who raised $6 million in the first quarter of his presidential campaign, gave about $24,000 to charities last year after it was made public that the money was donated by a shady securities broker implicated in a state kickback scheme.

Bill Richardson tarnished by scandal.  Over the span of just three months, Bill Richardson has gone from being on the shortlist for secretary of state to late-night punch line, a breathtaking descent that has tarnished his once-sparkling career.

Panel calls for suspension of Judge Nettles-Nickerson.  Ingham County Circuit Judge Beverley Nettles-Nickerson should be immediately suspended from the bench, a state panel says.  The Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission on Wednesday [5/16/2007] released a 40-page complaint with a laundry list of charges of both official and unofficial misconduct.  It says Nettles-Nickerson did too little work, committed fraud in filing for divorce outside of Ingham County, had improper communications with attorneys with cases before her and showed a willingness to "play the race card" to her advantage.

Attorney Firing Precedent.  Democrats should be wary of pressing Bush too far because there is ample precedent on their own side of Democratic presidents who fired U.S. attorneys and other high-ranking officials just to halt investigations of their political allies.  For example, two Democratic presidents — Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman — worked for years to protect a notorious racketeer named Thomas Pendergast because he ran a Democratic machine in Missouri.

Hands Off My Fridge, Meathead.  This is not the commission's only questionable contract.  First 5 [an unelected commission to promote children's health that he's headed for six years] has received to date $800 million — about 20% — of the tobacco proceeds that Mr. Reiner convinced California voters to impose on themselves in a 1998 referendum.  Of this, the commission has awarded contracts totaling about $230 million to firms or individuals known to Mr. Reiner — some of them without competitive bidding.

Philadelphia Senator Vincent Fumo Indicted For Stealing From Charity.  The charges mark the third time that Vincent Fumo, a Democrat state senator from Philadelphia, is indicted in his storied political career.  In 1973 he was indicted for voter fraud and in 1980 for putting ghost employees on the state payroll, for which he was convicted.  In anticipation of his third indictment, Fumo resigned from a key senate committee post earlier this week.

Pennsylvania Senator Indicted on 139 Counts.  State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo, one of the most powerful figures in Pennsylvania politics, was indicted Tuesday [2/6/2007] on 139 federal counts alleging he used a nonprofit group for personal and political gain and defrauded the state Senate out of $1 million.  Many of the charges stem from Fumo's ties to a nonprofit agency in his South Philadelphia district. … The Philadelphia Democrat, who has beaten two previous indictments, promised to clear his name.

Ex-Party Boss in Brooklyn Guilty of Corruption.  Clarence Norman Jr., the deposed Democratic assemblyman and party leader from Brooklyn, was convicted today on charges that he shook down judicial candidates seeking party support, in his fourth corruption trial in two years.  In the latest case, Mr. Norman was found guilty of attempted grand larceny in the fourth degree by extortion; grand larceny in the third degree by extortion and coercion in the second degree.

Transcript of 'Lou Dobbs Tonight' on CNN:  The Democrats vow to take on the culture of corruption in Washington, but are they just part of it?  The Democratic congressman likely to head the committee that overseas the FBI budget is himself under investigation by the FBI.  And the congressman who was found with $90,000 in his freezer [is] headed for another term after being re-elected to the House.

Identity of Edwards Home's Buyers Veiled.  When former North Carolina senator and Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards finally succeeded last month in selling his imposing Georgetown mansion for $5.2 million after it had languished on the market, the names of the buyers were not publicly disclosed.  At the time, Edwards's spokeswoman told reporters that the house had been sold to an unidentified corporation.  In reality, the buyers were Paul and Terry Klaassen, according to several sources and confirmed by Edwards's spokeswoman yesterday [1/18/2007].

FBI Probing Edwards Senate Campaign Donor.  The FBI is investigating five-year-old contributions by the family of a Mississippi trial lawyer to former Democratic Sen. John Edwards.  The investigation into lawyer Paul Minor — part of a long-running and controversial federal case — has come to Washington in recent weeks, where four former fundraising aides to Edwards have spoken voluntarily to FBI agents.

Flight could cause problem for Edwards.  With John Edwards under investigation by a federal grand jury, two former prosecutors say a trip he made to the home of a wealthy supporter — and possible witness — could raise legal questions.  On Friday [12/11/2009], a Raleigh TV station showed Edwards at the Raleigh-Durham airport walking off a plane belonging to Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, a wealthy heiress who supported the former Democrat's presidential candidate's campaign.

A sweet deal for 'official' felons.  James A. Traficant Jr., the former Democratic congressman convicted of racketeering and taking bribes, is wiling away prison time painting colorful pictures but also able to collect a congressional pension of nearly $40,000 a year.  He is one of about 20 former senators and congressmen with felony rap sheets who can receive the taxpayer-financed benefit.

Reid of the Ritz.  Senator Reid, the Democratic Party's leader in the Senate, will reimburse his campaign fund for $3,300 that it spent on Christmas bonuses for workers at the Ritz-Carlton luxury condominium where he lives in Washington, the Associated Press reported yesterday.  Which raises the question:  The Ritz-Carlton?  The Democrats, who tout themselves as the party of the common man, are rapidly turning into the party of the plutocrats.

Head of Nation's Largest Municipal Labor Council Arrested in NYC.  A seven-term Democratic state assemblyman who also is president of the nation's largest municipal labor council was arrested on federal racketeering charges Tuesday, accused of stealing more than $2 million from the state, labor unions and even a Little League fund.

Swift Boat Vets, Moveon.org, Conservation Group Fined $630,000.  Three groups that played a prominent role in the 2004 presidential election agreed to pay almost $630,000 in fines for campaign finance violations, the Federal Election Commission announced today [12/13/2006].  Swift Boat Veterans for Truth will pay $299,500, the League of Conservation Voter Fund $180,000 and Moveon.org Voter Fund $150,000.  They failed to register as political action committees as required for those campaigning for or against a particular candidate and thus should have been barred from accepting contributions greater than $5,000, the FEC said.

Democrats need to act on Black.  If state House Democrats look the other way in the latest Jim Black scandal, every single one of them should be voted out of office.  The Raleigh News & Observer uncovered the latest news about the House Speaker, and it's typical Black sleaze.  The newspaper reported Friday that Ann Lassiter, Black's coordinator for teenage House pages, was having some pages room with her son, a felon with a history of drug and alcohol problems.

The Democrats' Bad, Bad Boy:  Democrat Jim Moran's troubled and troubling career in government has gone largely unnoticed outside the Beltway.  The six-term congressman, up for re-election this fall, ought to be one of the media's top poster boys for abuse of power.

John Conyers And The Muslim Caucus.  The likely new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says he's just fighting bigotry in leading a Democrat jihad to deny law enforcement key terror-fighting tools.  But he is in the pocket of Islamists.  John Conyers, son of a leftist Detroit union activist, represents the largest Arab population in the country.  His district includes Dearborn, Mich., nicknamed "Dearbornistan" by locals fed up with cultural encroachment and terror fears from a steady influx of Mideast immigrants.

Donkeys misbehavin'.  A refreshing book, low in rhetoric and high in historical fact (with over 600 footnotes), Donkey Cons chronicles crime after crime committed by the Left and how its representatives are seemingly immune to judgment, never held accountable, and actually rewarded for their crimes by moving to some of the most powerful positions in the party (eg. Teddy Kennedy, Hill and Bill Clinton).

Trustee:  Sen. Clinton's brother owes debts to carnival operators.  Tony Rodham, the brother of Democratic presidential contender Sen. Hillary Clinton, is being asked again to appear in court on debts owed to a Tennessee carnival operator whose owners received presidential pardons from President Bill Clinton.

Pardon Scandal Still Looms for Sen. Clinton's Brother.  A court-appointed bankruptcy trustee asked a federal judge this week to schedule a new court date in a case against Tony Rodham, the brother of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., accused of failing to repay $109,000 in loans from a carnival company whose owners received controversial pardons issued by President Bill Clinton in the last hours of his presidency.

Update:
Clinton's Brother Near Legal Settlement.  A lawyer for the brother of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said he's confident he can avoid a trial next week and settle a lawsuit that accuses Tony Rodham of failing to repay debts to a Tennessee carnival operator.  That should be a relief to Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign since the case could have revived stories about how her brothers accepted money from people pardoned by her husband, President Bill Clinton.

'Hooligans' nail O'Donnell's HQ.  Vandals hit Republican Rick O'Donnell's campaign headquarters sometime Tuesday night [10/03/2006], defacing a sign and littering the parking lot with nails.

GOP Congressman's N.J. Office Vandalized.  Authorities say Congressman Chris Smith's Hamilton offices were vandalized, possibly by a group who barged in to protest the Iraq war.  Some computers were damaged and others had wires disconnected.

Global Warming Hypocrites.  I've come to the conclusion that many of these people are mentally ill.  They won't accept any rational opposition, scientific or otherwise, that refutes the global warming theory.  Drew Johnson reported that after his organization first revealed Al Gore's electric bill to the general public, his group received a number of death threats.  Their computers were hacked.  Phoned obscenities were common.

Moral corruption in Illinois:  Declaring the imposition of the death penalty to be "arbitrary, capricious — and immoral," Illinois' exiting, scandal-plagued Gov. George Ryan commuted the death sentence of every rapist-murderer and child-killer in the state.

Illinois Governor Condemns Ryan for Freeing Killers:  Gov. Rod Blagojevich said his disgraced predecessor, Republican George Ryan, was guilty of "gross injustice" for granting blanket clemency or pardons to all the prisoners on death row before he left office.

Jury Finds Former Ill. Gov. Ryan Guilty.  Former Gov. George Ryan was convicted of corruption Monday [4/17/2006] in the scandal that ended his political career in 2003 at the same time he was winning international acclaim for commuting the sentences of everyone on Illinois' death row.

Ex-Governor, Now in Prison, Sees Case End.  The United States Supreme Court announced Tuesday [5/27/2008] that it would not hear an appeal by former Gov. George Ryan of Illinois of his 2006 racketeering and fraud conviction.  The decision ended the judicial process for Mr. Ryan, and hours later his lawyer said he would probably seek a commutation from President Bush of what is left of his more-than-six-year federal prison sentence.

House Democrat Committed 250 Ethics Violations, Group Says.  The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) filed a complaint with the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia on Feb. 28, alleging that [U.S. Rep. Alan] Mollohan failed to disclose and grossly underreported his assets, loans and interests in certain companies.

Shadow Warriors:  [Harold] Ickes watched with astonishment as the compassionate conservative became what he considers an extremist.  He was also stirred by a new campaign-finance law, passed by Congress in 2002, that banned the parties from raising "soft money" — i.e., huge contributions of up to a million dollars or more at a time.  Most Democrats supported the theory behind the law—namely, that such donations (say, a million dollars from Denise Rich) risked a corrupting influence on officeholders (say, a Bill Clinton pardon for Marc Rich).

Former Daley aide sentenced to 46 months in hiring fraud.  A former high-ranking aide to Mayor Richard M. Daley was sentenced Monday [11/20/2006] to almost four years in prison for engineering a fraud scheme to cover up political patronage hiring at City Hall.  Robert Sorich, 43, showed no emotion as federal Judge David H. Coar also fined him $10,000 and delivered a sharp tongue-lashing before imposing the minimum 46-month sentence federal guidelines prescribe.  "The offense is corruption — corruption with a capital C," Coar said.

NJ Clean Energy Program Under Investigation.  New Jersey's Clean Energy Program (CEP), responsible for promoting energy conservation and the use of renewable energy in the state, is coming under heavy criticism for accounting irregularities, apparent cronyism, and gross mismanagement.  The latest salvo was fired on October 16 when Bob Ingle, the Trenton bureau chief for Gannett New Jersey newspapers, called for a stepped-up investigation of financial irregularities associated with the program.

The Clinton Presidency:  The Most Corrupt in American History.  History does repeat itself.  On November 5, [1996] the American people re-elected Bill Clinton to a second term in the face of allegations of serious abuses of power by the President and members of his administration. … Partly — indeed, largely — due to the successful efforts of Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media to "stonewall" the issue, which they misleadingly called a question merely of "character."

Clinton Fund-Raiser Pleads Guilty to Felony Mail Fraud.  A top fund-raiser for Senator Clinton's 2000 campaign and self-described "dear friend" of President Clinton pleaded guilty to a felony mail fraud charge in federal court in Chicago yesterday [12/6/2006].  James Levin, 47, admitted to involvement in a scheme to convince contracting officials at the Chicago Public Schools that his fencing companies ... were subcontracting work to businesses owned by minorities or women when, in fact, Levin was simply paying those firms for use of their names.

Virtual Fence = Virtual Corruption?  Speaker Pelosi's post-Hastings fallback choice to head the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Silvestre Reyes, voted against building the 700 mile border fence.  He prefers a system of video surveillance cameras, apparently.  And gee, it seems that his daughter works for a firm that won a government contract to provide such surveillance services!

Publish the Barrett report now.  At issue was the publication of a report by David Barrett, an independent counsel who has spent the better part of a decade looking into some of the most hair-raising allegations of presidential malfeasance in American history. ... [Barrett] was assigned the duty of looking into whether former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros committed tax fraud in trying to cover up payments to a former mistress.

Flashback to 2001:
Survey shows 96% of respondents want IRS Commissioner Rossotti brought to justice.  An overwhelming number of respondents believe that IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti should be criminally prosecuted for conducting politically-motivated audits for the Clinton Administration.  IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti conducted several audits of Clinton's opponents, including women associated with [Clinton] and several non-profit conservative organizations.

Senator's Indictment Causes Concern Among Democrats.  Although state Senator Efrain Gonzalez Jr. has represented the Bronx in the Legislature for 17 years, his name did not become widely known until Friday [8/25/2006] — and it was not for a legislative initiative, because there have been none, but for his indictment by the federal government.  Mr. Gonzalez, 58, is accused of looting a Bronx not-for-profit corporation, the West Bronx Neighborhood Association, for his personal benefit.  He faces up to 20 years in prison.

Bronx Would Make Plunkitt Proud.  George Washington Plunkitt, the state senator and Democratic Party leader of a century ago, would be proud.  Today's Bronx politicos have taken his concept of "honest graft" and kicked it up a notch.  As the Bronx continues to deteriorate, seemingly stuck in a permanent mode of decay and depression, political leaders find new ways to line their pockets as their constituents suffer.

Bronx state Sen. Efrain Gonzalez Jr. goes under the "pork" microscope.  The often discussed culture of corruption that engulfs Albany's body politic reared its very ugly head last week, when for the second time in less than a year Bronx state Sen. Efrain Gonzalez Jr., was indicted on corruption charges.  To be specific, Gonzalez has been charged, along with three others, with funneling more than $400,000 worth of taxpayer money through a network of not-for-profit organizations and then back to his own pocket.

Florida Democrats rally around senator who is convicted felon.  Democrats in the Florida Senate are raising money to help re-elect fellow Democratic Sen. Gary Siplin, the Orlando legislator convicted earlier this year of felony grand theft.  Senate Minority Leader Steve Geller of Hallandale Beach and seven other Democratic senators are named as hosts on invitations that have been sent out to lobbyists and others for an evening fundraiser on Siplin's behalf.  The event will be at a bar a block from the Capitol when legislators return to Tallahassee next month for committee meetings.

Lawmaker:  Give Felons Voting Rights.  An unlikely lawmaker is taking the lead to change Florida law to restore voting rights to convicted felons.  Orlando state Sen. Gary Siplin [Democrat], a convicted felon himself, has sponsored Senate Bill 466, which automatically restores voting rights a year after the felon's sentence is completed. … State Sen. Mandy Dawson, D-Fort Lauderdale, has sponsored identical legislation.

Nancy Pelosi May Not Be Only Democrat "Tuna Helper".  The largest employer in American Samoa is Del Monte Foods' StarKist Tuna, home to over 75% of the island's workforce.  Del Monte Foods, as it turns out, is headquartered in the District of the new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.  Smelling a whiff of impropriety, House Republicans have thrown up some serious questions about the exemption and who inserted it into the bill.

Senate's wage bill still exempts Samoa.  The Democrat-controlled Senate took up a bill yesterday [1/22/2007] that would raise the minimum wage across the United States and its territories but exempt American Samoa, where tuna canneries pay workers $3.26 an hour.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters less than two weeks ago that she would close the loophole after coming under criticism from Republicans for what they termed a "fishy favor" to StarKist Tuna.  StarKist has lobbied for years against raising the minimum wage in American Samoa, and its parent, Del Monte Corp., is based in Mrs. Pelosi's San Francisco district.

FNC Reports Speaker Pelosi's Star-Kist Gap in the Minimum Wage Hike.  Over at The Corner, Kathryn Jean Lopez reported GOP Reps. Eric Cantor and Patrick McHenry have found there's a loophole in the new minimum-wage increase:  no hike for American Samoa.  Why?  Star-Kist Tuna is a major employer there, with its headquarters in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district.  Will the media notice?

In '88, Pelosi Voted to Impeach Hastings — Will She Support Him Now?  On August 3, 1988, the House of Representatives voted on a resolution, co-sponsored by Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers, to impeach Alcee Hastings, the federal judge in Florida accused of conspiring to take a bribe. … And now, because incoming Speaker Pelosi has apparently ruled out the appointment of next-in-line Rep. Jane Harman to chair the House Intelligence Committee, Hastings appears to be headed toward the top position on that panel — one of the most sensitive and responsible posts on Capitol Hill.

Speaker Pelosi's Ethics.  Ethics in politics is not the same as ethics in real life.  Ethics in politics is a martial art.  The biggest mistake you can make is thinking that the ethics package proposed by new Speaker Nancy Pelosi is mainly about "cleaning up" politics.  Maybe.  But it's first of all about cleaning the clocks of the Republicans.

Pelosi's message to voters?  Ethics, shmethics.  All of the exit polls in this month's election showed that there was one overwhelming issue on the minds of the voters who returned the Democrats to power in the House and Senate:  ethics — specifically, the Democratic charge of a Republican culture of corruption. … If the Pelosi-led House Democrats name [Alcee] Hastings as House Intelligence chairman — especially after Pelosi championed [John] Murtha for majority leader — the 2006 election victors will be torching the voters' mandate.

All Rise For Her Ethicalness.  "We are going to have the most ethical Congress in the nation's history."  So said House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi in the afterglow of the Democrats' Congressional election victory.  As it turns out, ethics are malleable.  They are in the eye of the beholder.  She pulled out all the stops last week to get the Democratic caucus to elect Rep. John Murtha as Majority Leader of the House.  Stories surfaced about Murtha's involvement in the Abscam caper of 1980.


Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo

Justice Department:  Cuomo sexually harassed 13 women while governor.  The Justice Department on Friday announced an agreement with the New York governors office that former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed 13 women who worked for the state over eight years.  The agreement concluded that the Cuomo administration violated federal Title VII rules against discrimination and retaliation between 2013 and 2021.  Justice Department officials said Cuomo and his staff engaged in a "pattern or practice of discrimination against female employees based on sex" and retaliated against the women who spoke up.  The agreement did not disclose the identities of the 13 employees.

More Dems want Mario Cuomo's name off Tappan Zee Bridge replacement.  More Democratic lawmakers are looking to cancel Mario Cuomo — at least the former three-term governor's name from the Hudson River span that replaced the old Tappan Zee Bridge.  They said Tuesday [3/22/2022] it was wrong for disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo to name the $4 billion Westchester-Rockland bridge after his father as part of a legislative backroom deal in 2017 — without input from area constituents.  "The people want the name to be the Tappan Zee Bridge.  The renaming of the bridge after Mario was snuck in and people didn't have a say," said Assemblywoman Chantel Jackson (D-Bronx), who participated in a press conference at the state capital about the bridge renaming.

No Charges for Cuomo Admin After Manhattan DA Closes Nursing Home Probe:  Spox.  An investigation led by the Manhattan district attorney into the Cuomo administration's alleged mishandling of COVID-19 nursing home deaths has come to a close, a spokesperson for the former governor announced Monday [3/21/2022].  The probe into the any potential wrongdoing by the governor's Executive Chamber has seemingly concluded without the district attorney filing any criminal charges.  "I was contacted today by the head of the Elder Care Unit from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office who informed me they have closed its investigation involving the Executive Chamber and nursing homes," Elkan Abramowitz, former outside counsel for the Executive Chamber, said in a statement.  "I was told that after a thorough investigation — as we have said all along — there was no evidence to suggest that any laws were broken," the attorney added.

God doesn't want you to cancel me:  The skin-crawling return of Andrew Cuomo.  Believe it or not, in my own lifetime a politician who left office disgraced by scandal and poor performance would at least feign having been chastened by the experience.  Occasionally an official in that position really would be chastened and would turn over a new leaf; John Profumo in the UK is one famous example, Charles Colson in the U.S. is another.  Whatever their personal sense of remorse, though, it used to be that if someone was driven out of public life by self-humiliation you could expect them to stay out as a tacit admission that they'd broken the public's trust and were no longer fit for office.  Or at least an admission that they wouldn't win if they ran again and therefore would spare themselves a further humiliation by declining to do so.  Somewhere along the way, that habit ended.

DA drops Andrew Cuomo's last sexual harassment criminal case.  An upstate district attorney's office is dropping its criminal investigation of sexual harassment allegations against Andrew Cuomo — shutting down the last of five criminal cases involving the disgraced ex-governor.  But Oswego DA Gregory Oakes told The [New York] Post on Monday [1/31/2022] that while there's not "sufficient legal basis" to bring charges based on allegations of unwanted physical contact by accuser Virginia Limmiatis, "this decision is not an exoneration."  "After a thorough review of the available evidence and applicable law, the Oswego County District Attorney's Office has concluded that there is not a sufficient legal basis to bring criminal charges against former Governor Andrew Cuomo based upon the allegations of unwanted physical contact made by Virginia Limmiatis," Oakes said in a statement Monday.

Andrew Cuomo's criminal sexual assault charges dropped by Albany DA.  Andrew Cuomo appears to be spending his winter skating — at least when it comes to legal charges.  The criminal sexual assault case against the disgraced former governor was dropped Tuesday by the Albany County district attorney.  "Albany County District Attorney David Soares announced today that a thorough and independent review of the investigation into the allegations against former Governor Andrew Cuomo has concluded," the DA's office said in a statement.  "While many have an opinion regarding the allegations against the former Governor, the Albany County DA's Office is the only one who has a burden to prove the elements of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt.  While we found the complainant in this case cooperative and credible, after review of all the available evidence we have concluded that we cannot meet our burden at trial," Soares' statement said.

Manhattan DA dropped COVID nursing home probe of Cuomo: lawyer.  The Manhattan district attorney's office has dropped a probe into Andrew Cuomo over allegations he mishandled nursing homes during the initial coronavirus outbreak, the ex-governor's lawyer said Monday [1/3/2022].  Cuomo's spokesman forwarded a statement from Elkan Abramowitz, an attorney who had repped the governor's office under Cuomo.  "I was contacted today by the head of the Elder Care Unit from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office who informed me they have closed its investigation involving the Executive Chamber and nursing homes," Abramowitz said.

Andrew Cuomo ordered to return $5.1M pandemic book profits to state.  New York's top ethics panel on Tuesday ordered disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo to pay the state $5.1 million in book profits he made on the backs of taxpayers amid the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.  The extraordinary resolution was approved by the Joint Commission on Public Ethics in a 12-1 vote — a month after the ethics agency voted to revoke its prior approval allowing Cuomo to earn outside income from his book "American Crisis:  Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic" while he was still governor and New York was in the throes of the deadly coronavirus outbreak.  The lone dissenter was William Fisher, a Cuomo appointee.

Former NY Governor Andrew Cuomo is ordered to return $5.1 million proceeds of his self-congratulatory book.  Andrew Cuomo has angrily denounced an ethics panel's decision to force him to return the $5.1 million paid for his 2020 book, describing it as 'political hypocrisy and duplicity at its worst'.  The former New York governor, 64, was ordered on Tuesday to turn over the proceeds to the state Attorney General's office within the next 30 days, following a probe by a state ethics panel.  The profits from Cuomo's 'American Crisis:  Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic' came into question in October, when the state's Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) announced that it was conducting an internal inquiry, reassessing its initial approval of Cuomo's 2020 book.

Cracked Icons.  [Scroll down]  Think too of the now feet-of-clay, disgraced Cuomo brothers.  These were the media darlings who hammed it up on television — as thousands of New Yorkers unnecessarily died in long-term care facilities due to Governor Andrew Cuomo's decision to redirect COVID-19 patients to share facilities with the elderly and infirm.  Once there, the virus wiped out thousands of the elderly and vulnerable — a moral crime that Cuomo did his best either to cover up or massage the statistics downward.  Andrew, the elder and former governor of New York, was an unrepentant bully.  He was also apparently a chronic sexual harasser.  And Cuomo allegedly hired his staff to write his growing res gestae, likely on state time, and for a ridiculously obscene book advance that all parties to such a contract knew would never be paid by book sales.

Is Biden's DoJ investigating Cuomo sexual-harassment allegations?  According to a document obtained by the New York Post, the answer is yes, at least in the past tense.  A legal services contract revealed that the Department of Justice under Merrick Garland had opened a civil-rights probe relating to multiple allegations of sexual harassment by Andrew Cuomo.  Is the investigation still underway, though? [...] The Post's anonymous sources within the DoJ confirm it, clarifying that the investigation focuses on "possible violations of federal civil rights and labor laws."  Those may not produce criminal charges in the sense that would put Cuomo at risk of federal prison, but could result in other penalties.

State Assembly Issues Cuomo Report Detailing Sex Harassment, COVID Coverup.  Findings from the New York State Assembly's impeachment investigation of Andrew Cuomo released Monday revealed a string of abuses of power by the former governor, including sexual harassment, the use of staff to write his book, and a cover-up of COVID-19 nursing home deaths.  The eight-month probe found "overwhelming evidence that the former governor engaged in sexual harassment," according to the 46-page report.  The report focused on two of the at least 11 women who have accused Cuomo of sexual assault:  an unidentified state trooper and Brittany Commisso, who served as an executive assistant to Cuomo and has accused him of groping her.  Commisso's allegations resulted in a criminal complaint against Cuomo.

12th Cuomo accuser included in state Assembly's bombshell report.  The New York state Assembly's [...] report on sexual harassment allegations against disgraced ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo's corroborates claims by a 12th accuser who said he forcibly kissed her while touring her flood-damaged home and then sent her signed photos of the visit.  Sherry Vill, 55, publicly accused Cuomo in March of "manhandling" her when he visited Greece, just outside Rochester, in 2017 after the area was ravaged by floods.  The legislative report released Monday [11/22/2021] lists the married mother of three as one of Cuomo's accusers for the first time.

Cuomo: Maybe I could be Attorney General... again.  Is disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo seriously considering mounting a political "comeback" and trying to take back his old job as Attorney General?  There's plenty of reason to doubt this story (as we'll get to in a moment), but multiple outlets began reporting it yesterday, so let's at least take a look.  The story first broke in the New York Post and was later followed up at Mediaite.  Other local outlets in the Empire State quickly began putting in calls requesting comment.  But Cuomo is in the middle of a swirling, toxic stew of scandals and doesn't appear to have a friend left in the political world.  This can't be real, right?

Ethics agency subpoenaed in investigation of Cuomo's book.  Attorney General Letitia James' office has issued a subpoena to the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics for its records on Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's book chronicling his administration's early response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Times Union has learned.  The subpoena was issued in connection with a criminal investigation that the attorney general is conducting into whether Cuomo's use of government workers to assist him in writing the book violated any laws.

Cuomo is condemned for commuting sentences of FIVE murderers including father of radical leftwing San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin.  Outgoing NY Governor Andrew Cuomo has been blasted by victims' groups for commuting the murder sentence of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin's dad over an armored car robbery that killed three.  Cuomo announced Monday evening that he was commuting the prison sentences of David Gilbert, 76, Greg Mingo, 68, Robert Ehrenberg, 62, Ulysses Boyd, 66, and Paul Clark, 59.  All five have murder convictions, with Gilbert — Boudin's father — the only killer still incarcerated with no possibility of parole over a deadly 1981 hold-up of a Brinks cash truck, that left a security guard and two cops dead.

Cuomo uses final days as gov to commute [or] pardon 10 felons, including 3 tied to killings.  Days after giving two weeks' notice that he would resign his office amid a serial sexual harassment scandal, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is using the unprecedented lame-duck period to grant clemency and pardons to 10 felons — including three convicts tied to killings. [...] Cuomo commuted the sentence of Nehru Gumbs, 36, who was convicted of first-degree manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon and assault in 2005 — crimes committed when he was 18.  Gumbs was fingered for the brutal shooting death of an innocent bystander heading to his Canarsie home from a midnight church service on New Year's Eve 2004.  Gumbs has served 17½ years of a 25-year sentence.  He has served as the youth counselor at Sing Sing prison and earned an associate's degree from Mercy College and is pursuing a job as a plumber.

Some 15,000 dead seniors and 11 harassment victims later, Andrew Cuomo finally resigns in disgrace.  Nearly half a century into the Cuomo dynasty's stranglehold over the New York state Democratic Party, the once-beloved but always crooked Andrew Cuomo has resigned as governor in disgrace, effective in a fortnight.  Like the bully he always has been, the pugnacious politician once regarded as a hero of the pandemic by the corporate media refused to go down without a fight.  Even as the most vile of rats, such as former secretary Melissa DeRosa, abandoned the sinking ship, Cuomo did not stop smearing his 11 sexual harassment accusers — all of whose claims were vetted and corroborated by state Attorney General Letitia James — as liars, up until the very same press conference where he announced his resignation.  A blue state succeeding in pressuring its tyrannical party prince from Albany on the grounds of corruption is a success devoid of partisanship as much as it is a victory over partisanship.  But even if it's not too little, it certainly is later than his victims who cannot speak for themselves deserve.

Ex-New York Gov. Paterson 'Suspicious' of Cuomo's 14-Day Wait to Leave Office.  Former Gov. David Paterson, D-N.Y., said he was "suspicious" of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., needing 14 days to officially leave office after his resignation announcement.  "It was just a little puzzling that they wanted to have that amount of time," Paterson said during an interview on WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show.  "And what they're going to do with that time, it's suspicious — I'll put it that way."  Cuomo, 63, announced Tuesday [8/10/2021] that he would resign rather than face a likely impeachment trial after Attorney General Letitia James released a report concluding he sexually harassed 11 women and created a toxic work environment.

Cuomo is still eligible for $50,000-per-year state pension.  Gov. Andrew Cuomo's fall from grace will come with a nice golden parachute in the form of a $50,000-per-year lifetime pension that he will remain eligible for despite his resignation — provoking outrage from the disgraced executive's critics.  The windfall for Cuomo, who announced his resignation on Tuesday [8/10/2021] in the midst of a sexual harassment scandal, is coming because he has accumulated 15 years of state service thanks to his 11 years as governor and four years as attorney general, a pension expert said.  "So if you're wondering, without a felony conviction and several other steps, Cuomo would be eligible for his full pension, at taxpayer expense, for the rest of his life," said Tim Hoefer, president and CEO of the Empire Center for Public Policy.

Andrew Cuomo Is 7th Powerful New York Democrat Ousted in Disgrace Since 2006.  In just 15 years, no fewer than seven powerful New York Democrats have been forced to resign in disgrace.  That includes New York's last three governors — three in a row!

As Cuomo resigns, fresh calls from N.Y. Dems to pursue nursing home deaths pours in.  Embattled New York Democrat Andrew Cuomo announced he would be officially stepping down from his position as governor in a matter of weeks following an attorney general report on sexual harassment allegations against him.  Cuomo's Tuesday announcement of his imminent resignation has been met with universal praise from across the political spectrum.  However, some of the Democrats celebrating have joined others in asking people to make sure Cuomo's other scandals are not forgotten.  Namely, they have called out Attorney General Letitia James' other report on nursing home deaths in the state.  According to that bombshell report, Cuomo undercounted deaths in New York nursing homes by 50 percent when the first wave of COVID decimated the state.  This cover-up followed a Cuomo order that forced nursing homes to accept COVID-positive patients.

Cuomo has more to account for than sexual harassment.  Andrew Cuomo has announced his resignation as governor of the state of New York.  This came on the heels of a damning New York Attorney General's report detailing sexual harassment and sexual assault allegations against numerous women.  Before his announcement on Tuesday, CBS News reported a state senator revealed that all 63 members of the state's senate "were likely to vote for his removal."  Like President Richard Nixon, Mr. Cuomo's resignation has nothing to do with him suddenly developing a conscience.  Suppose he had one.  None of this would've happened in the first place.  What we get instead is a man who resigned because impeachment could bar him from running for state office again.  Many remain dismayed, including me, that his policy specifically ordering COVID-19 infected individuals into nursing homes, which may have led to the deaths of 15,000 people, was not part of what led to outrage and resignation.  As many observers have noted, this in and of itself has stained our social and political culture.

You won't have Gov. Andrew Cuomo to kick around anymore.  Andrew Cuomo announced yesterday that he's resigning as governor of New York because he loves the state and it's clear that he's in the way.  Since I think very little of the man, both as a person and a politician, the fact that he's leaving seems like good news.  However, it's very likely that, by pulling out now, he's sparing himself and his minions a criminal investigation into the 15,000 old people who died last year when he insistently warehoused COVID patients in retirement communities.  Also, considering who's already lining up to take his place, New York may find itself going from the corrupt Democrat frying pan into the equally corrupt communist fire.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigns.  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday he will resign after a withering report from the state's attorney general documented multiple accusations of sexual harassment against women.  The decision heads off his almost certain impeachment and conviction in the state Legislature.  "Given the circumstances, the best way I can help now is if I step aside and let government get back to government, and therefore that is what I'll do, because I work for you, and doing the right thing, is doing the right thing for you," Cuomo said in a televised address, at which he took no questions.  Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, a fellow Democrat, will serve the rest of his term when the resignation becomes effective in 14 days.  She will become the state's first female governor.

The Editor says...
If the governor is facing impeachment, and his departure is inevitable, let him delay his departure for 14 days?  He could do a lot of damage in two weeks.

Cuomo resigns.  One of the weirdest people to ever hold high office in the United States.  Probably one of the worst too, although that competition is stiff.  But weirdest?  No question.  This clip unfortunately doesn't capture the weirdness of his full remarks today.  He began by grumbling that the harassment accusations against him were really just a series of misunderstandings about what was and wasn't appropriate between the sexes, something he attributed partly to age.  One Twitter pal compared it to Phil Hartman's "unfrozen caveman lawyer" defense.  Then he went into Colonel Jessup mode, saying he's inclined to fight and even telling viewers "It is your best interest that I must serve."  And then ... he quit.  He loves you, his constituent, too much to stand in the way of the important government business of fighting COVID.  [Video clip]

Elise Stefanik Calls for Andrew Cuomo's Arrest — Resignation 'Long Past Overdue'.  Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, called for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's (D) arrest Tuesday [8/10/2021] after he announced he would resign over multiple sexual harassment allegations.  "New Yorkers have lived for far too long under the Worst Governor in America's corrupt and criminal tenure," said Stefanik.  "This resignation is long past overdue.  Governor Cuomo needs to be arrested and prosecuted for sexual harassment, sexual assault, and sexual abuse.  Governor Cuomo also needs to be arrested and prosecuted for his criminal acts covering up the tragic deaths of our most vulnerable seniors in nursing homes.

Janice Dean's Reaction to the Resignation of Cuomo Says It For All of Us.  As you might imagine, the reactions are coming in fast and furious to the surprising resignation of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.  It's not surprising because it wasn't well-deserved or long coming.  It's surprising because he is such a narcissist that no one thought he could ever be forced to resign, given the lack of character he's shown.  But even if it isn't because of the thousands of people who died after his horrific nursing home order and even if he's not being prosecuted in regard to that, yet, one hopes that it gives the people whose parents and family members died in nursing homes at least a little satisfaction today.

Cuomo Trying to Cut a Deal to Avoid Impeachment, Sources Say.  Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been trying to cut a deal with top state officials, promising not to seek a fourth term if impeachment talks are scuttled — but no one is buying it, sources told THE CITY.  The governor and what's left of his inner circle have been working the phones, fighting for his political life in the wake the damning Aug. 3 report detailing the sexual harassment allegations of 11 women and what investigators found was retaliation against one who went public.  Cuomo, whose term ends Dec. 31, 2022, has ignored calls for his resignation as the state Assembly pushes ahead with the impeachment process, which lawmakers said could take weeks.  On Monday afternoon, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) said he's not entertaining any possible deals with Cuomo, whom he has not spoken to since February.

The Hypocrisy Variant.  Another virulent outbreak of the Hypocrisy Variant has been raging in Albany, New York.  Last year, when COVID-19 was decimating the elderly population, Empire State Gov. Andrew Cuomo insisted on shipping COVID-positive patients to nursing homes.  When this killed thousands of seniors, he tried to cover it up.  While this was going on, this character had the audacity to lecture other governors, including Florida Gov. Ron Desantis, about how they handled the pandemic.  It turns out that even with a recent spike in cases, Florida's COVID-19 death rate per 100,000 residents (184) is far below that of New York (279).  Moreover, when confronted with the carnage he had caused, Cuomo indifferently asked, "Who cares?"

Time's Up Co-Founder Resigns amid Backlash over Cuomo Ties.  The co-founder of Time's Up, an advocacy group created amid the #MeToo movement to combat sexual harassment, resigned on Monday following reports that she was involved in an effort to discredit a woman who accused New York governor Andrew Cuomo of harassment.  Roberta Kaplan, who co-founded the group and heads its legal defense fund, said in her resignation letter that her work as a lawyer prevents her from publicly responding to questions about her involvement in that effort.

Just After Cuomo's Top Aid Melissa DeRosa Resigned Photos Surfaced Where Cuomo Appeared To Touch Her Thigh In A Restaurant.  A top aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has resigned amid an AG report that accused Cuomo of sexually harassing several women, according to the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and other national media outlets.  Melissa DeRosa tendered her resignation on Sunday night [8/8/2021].

Cuomo's lawyers just proved he has no credible defense.  Gov. Andrew Cuomo hasn't been seen since state Attorney General Tish James' damning report dropped Tuesday, but he sent his lawyers — and anonymous advisers — to make the case that not one of the 11 women who've accused him of sexual harassment (yup, not one!) can be believed.  It's unconvincing.  Rather than refute the allegations, Cuomo's shills are attacking his accusers and investigators and claiming the gov didn't get a chance to respond — despite 11 hours of testimony in which he gave his side of the story.  Couple this with his other scandals (the latest: two of his spin doctors work for a firm with $88 million in state contracts), and it's beyond clear he's simply unfit to continue in office.  Late Friday afternoon, Cuomo's lawyers held a virtual press conference insisting the gov "was ambushed" by a "predetermined" investigation.

Cuomo's Fall Would Be a Win for the Cabal.  The people running our government and fronting Biden had a great day Tuesday [8/3/2021].  In one fell swoop, with New York Attorney General Letitia James' case — not even charges, merely a case — against Governor Andrew Cuomo for prolific, ridiculous sexual harassment, they solved a great many of the Biden Administration's looming problems:  political, personnel, and criminal. [...] As of this writing, a majority of Democratic state legislators have announced support for impeachment, with hearings to begin at the end of August.  For Democrats, that beats the alternatives.  The national outrage at Cuomo's handsiness and bullying — from feminists, Democratic officials, and others who have ignored Joe and Hunter's actual criminal sexual depravity — and the expiation of sin to follow as he leaves the scene, has made it unlikely that Cuomo will ever face justice for the deliberate murder of roughly 15,000 seniors in New York nursing homes.  That is a far more serious charge.  Were that case to be unraveled, with evidence, in a court of law or even in a real newspaper, many people besides Cuomo would be in deep trouble.  Particularly hard hit would be those for whom he acted in pursuit of unseating Donald Trump in the coming election.  So that could not be allowed to happen.

Cuomo's Signature On Document Attesting He Took Sexual Harassment Training Course Was Fabricated, Aide Admits.  An aide to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo admitted to fabricating the governor's signature on a document attesting that he had completed a mandatory sexual harassment training in 2019, according to an investigation released by the state's attorney general.  Stephanie Benton, Cuomo's office director, told investigators that she was the one who produced the governor's signature on a 2019 document attesting that he had completed the "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace" training course, according to report from Attorney General Letitia James's office released Tuesday that said the governor unlawfully sexually harassed multiple women.  Cuomo denied that he ever inappropriately touched any female subordinates in a statement Tuesday.  He acknowledged that he does publicly kiss and embrace both men and women, behavior he attributed to "generational or cultural perspectives."

This is why the [socialist] Democrats want Cuomo out now.  The New York Times is calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to step down following a state attorney general's report that found he sexually harassed nearly a dozen women, allegations that he has denied.  No one seems concerned about the thousands of elderly in nursing homes that his policies killed.  Nor do they seem to care that he covered it up.  They care about the lesser cause. [...] They aren't doing it to eat their own nor are they worried solely about their image.  What they want is to replace him NOW with a Democrat so it is easy to fill the spot with another Democrat in the next election.  They also plan to put in a governor to the left of the leftist Governor Cuomo.  Finally, Democrats don't want to deal with the nursing home deaths and cover-up, a far more serious crime.  If they address it, they have to do it with the other governors who did the same thing.  They followed his lead in Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and elsewhere.  They have to get rid of him.  We have zero sympathies for Governor Cuomo but we know they have worse out there to take his position — like Letitia James.

The Real Reason Dems Suddenly Want Cuomo Gone.  To anyone even remotely acquainted with events of the last year and a half, it should be no surprise that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is being asked now even by his own party to resign.  What's disturbing is that Democrats didn't do it sooner.  After being the media's most coddled, falsely praised politician in America, nearly impervious to any and all criticisms, a new report alleges that Cuomo engaged in serial criminal behavior while governor.  "The independent investigation has concluded that Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and state law," New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday [8/3/2021].  Is anyone really surprised about Cuomo's conduct, which has been well covered outside of the mainstream media in recent years?  Despite repeated claims of harassment by Cuomo's victims — 11 of them total — Dems now profess to be "shocked, SHOCKED!" to discover their fellow party member committed acts that could end his political career.

Cuomo Sexually Harassed Multiple Women, Retaliated Against Employee:  NY Attorney General.  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed several women and retaliated against a former employee, said New York Attorney General Letitia James, accusing the Democrat governor of violating laws.  "Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and state law," James said in a news conference on Tuesday, adding that Cuomo fostered a "hostile" and "unsafe" work environment.  The governor engaged in "unwanted groping, kissing, and hugging," as well as making inappropriate remarks, she said.  James' office concurrently released a 165-page report following an investigation, which started in March when several women publicly accused the governor of misconduct.  The report, which doesn't have any criminal consequences, included interviews of 179 witnesses and a review of thousands of documents.

Hammer Drops for Gov. Cuomo as NY Attorney General Finds He Sexually Harassed Multiple Women.  Though New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his handlers in recent weeks have sought to cast doubt on the investigation by State Attorney General Letitia James into multiple sexual harassment allegations against him by suggesting at least one of her independent investigators and possibly even James herself was motivated by politics, he's also repeatedly told New Yorkers to wait for the process to play out, assuring them that what the AG's office ultimately found would clarify matters in a way that would absolve him of wrongdoing.  Well, James has just today released her findings, and suffice it to say that the hot water Cuomo landed himself in earlier this year when the first allegation came to light has now started boiling over.

The Walls Are Closing In:  Nancy Pelosi Becomes Latest High-Profile Dem to Turn On Cuomo.  In the hours after New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that a months-long investigation into Cuomo found that he "violated federal and state law" by allegedly sexually harassing almost a dozen women, calls for his resignation started pouring in.  By the afternoon, [Nancy] Pelosi had issued a brief statement calling for one of the most powerful Democrats in the country to step down.

NJ Gov. Murphy, alongside governors of CT, RI, PA, call on Cuomo to resign.  New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy joined several other northeastern governors, all Democrats, in calling for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's resignation Tuesday [8/3/2021].  "We are appalled at the findings of the independent investigation by the New York Attorney General.  Governor Cuomo should resign from office."  Gov. Ned Lamont of Connecticut, Dan McKee of Rhode Island and Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania all released the joint statement with Murphy.

Biden calls on Cuomo to resign in wake of NY AG's report that he sexually harassed 11 women.  Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday night was clinging on to power, despite his impeachment seeming inevitable after the state Democrats declared that they had lost confidence in the governor and would vote against him.  President Joe Biden led calls for Cuomo to resign, echoing demands made by other Democratic Congressional leaders, as one of his most high-profile accusers said she felt 'vindicated' by the attorney general's report.  The governors of neighboring Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut, plus Rhode Island, all joined in the chorus of condemnation.  All four are fellow Democrats.

Joe Biden Just Officially Buried Andrew Cuomo.  Well, it's official.  After previously snapping at reporters for asking him, Joe Biden took questions this afternoon [8/3/2021] and proclaimed that Gov. Andrew Cuomo needs to resign.  This came after New York AG Letitia James released the findings of an investigation showing that Cuomo had sexually harassed at least eleven women, including committing what sounds like sexual assault in one instance.  Biden had originally passed on calling on Cuomo to resign, instead, saying he would wait for the investigation to complete.  Now that it's over and the results are what they are, Biden huddled with his handlers and decided it was best to stick by his prior comments.

Cuomo refuses to resign, denies allegations in explosive AG report.  Gov. Andrew Cuomo maintained Tuesday that he "never touched anyone inappropriately," pushing back on a bombshell official report that concluded he sexually harassed several women in violation of state and federal law — while suggesting that he was the victim of a smear campaign.  Speaking on video without reporters to ask questions, the governor was adamant in his denial, as he has been since the scandal erupted.

New York AG: Gov. Cuomo 'sexually harassed multiple women' in 'toxic workplace'.  This morning [8/3/2021] Ed wrote about the Luv Guv's 11-hour grilling under oath that took place yesterday.  AG Letitia James' plan all along has been to work through everyone's account of what happened culminating in yesterday's interview of Gov. Cuomo.  Given that his interview was the final step, it's not surprising that only a day later, the AG can report the outcome of the investigation which began with a referral on March 1.  Speaking this morning at a press conference AG James got right to the point.  "The independent investigation has concluded that Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and state law."  She went on to say that Cuomo engaged in "unwelcome and non-consensual touching" in addition to suggestive sexual comments.  All of this created a "hostile work environment" for women.

NYT: Love Gov grilled for 11 hours over sexual misconduct complaints.  Couldn't happen to a more deserving pol, even if we have to wonder why we're hearing this insider-ish account of the deposition of Andrew Cuomo at all.  Last month, special investigators appointed by Attorney General Letitia James put the Lov Gov through the wringer for 11 hours over complaints about sexual misconduct.  It sounds deeply unpleasant, which itself might come as good news to Cuomo's accusers regardless of what happens next.

No Criminal Consequences — New York AG and State Investigators Find Governor Cuomo Sexually Harassed Current and Former Female Employees and Violated State and Federal Harassment Laws.  Perverted, creepy, sick, narcissistic, ego-maniacal New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is laughing hysterically right now as the dual-justice system of New York politics is on full display.  Infuriating does not scratch the surface.  New York State Attorney General Letitia James specifically said at the beginning of her remarks releasing the investigative findings of a 5 month investigation:  "The independent investigation has concluded, and Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and state law."  Moments later one of the investigators, the former federal prosecutor from Manhattan, Joon Kim, said:  "We find that the governor, on numerous occasions, engaged in conduct that constitutes unlawful sex based harassment," as outlined in the extensive investigation. [...] Yet, despite their words, neither the State Attorney General nor the U.S. Attorneys' general, will bring any criminal charges against Governor Cuomo.

Cuomo Sexually Harassed Multiple State Employees in Violation of Law, New York AG Report Finds.  New York governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women, among them current and former state employees, in violation of federal and state law, state attorney general Letitia James announced at a press conference on Tuesday [8/3/2021].  The announcement represents the conclusions of a months-long probe by the attorney general's office into sexual harassment allegations made against the governor.  Several women have alleged that the governor inappropriately touched them, although Cuomo has denied wrongdoing.  "Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated federal and state law," James told reporters.  Cuomo and the Executive Chamber cultivated a "toxic" workplace that allowed "harassment to occur and created a hostile work environment."

Biden DOJ drops civil rights probe of Gov. Cuomo over nursing homes and COVID-19.  The Department of Justice has decided not to investigate whether the civil rights of residents in New York's government-run nursing homes were violated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's controversial admission policy related to the COVID-19 pandemic.  In a letter Friday [7/23/2021], the DOJ's Office of Legislative Affairs told US Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), ranking member of that House Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, that New York was off the hook in connection with potential violations of the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act.  In August, the DOJ's Civil Rights Division requested information from New York in connection with a March 25, 2020, order from the state Department of Health that required nursing homes to admit "medically stable" COVID-19 patients discharged from hospitals.

Hunter Biden's Laptop Keeps Doling Out More News About Joe's Sleazeball Operations, But No One Cares.  They can get away with anything.  Joe Biden knows it.  Andrew Cuomo knows it as well.  The latter killed thousands with his reckless nursing home order during COVID and cooked the books on the true death toll.  He was then subjected to numerous women alleging sexual misconduct.  There was a big show, and the end result is Cuomo remaining as governor with high approval ratings.

Andrew Cuomo Under Federal Investigation for VIP Coronavirus Testing Scandal.  The far-left New York Times reports that disgraced Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) is currently under federal investigation over credible allegations that he gave friends, family, and supporters special access to coronavirus testing.  "Federal prosecutors have been looking into whether Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's administration granted special access to rapid coronavirus test results for the governor's family and other influential people, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions," writes the left-wing Times.

File Cuomo's obscene $5 million book under true crime.  We now officially know how much Gov. Cuomo received for his disgusting and possibly criminal book "American Crisis:  Leadership Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic."  $5 million.  Was it worth it, Governor?  When I first learned he was writing it, I thought it was a joke. [...] But, the joke was on us, and the nightmare is actually true.  My husband lost both his mother and father in separate elder-care facilities last spring.  So while Cuomo was trying to sell his lies on a page to the highest bidder, a COVID-19 fire was spreading through nursing homes where our most vulnerable lived.

Andrew Cuomo's shameless $5.12M payday profiting from the pandemic.  "Blood money."  That's what Tracey Alvino calls Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $5.12 million payday for his book touting his pandemic "leadership."  Alvino's dad, Daniel, was one of the 16,000 nursing-home residents who died after being infected with the coronavirus following Cuomo's March mandate that forced COVID-contagious patients into the state's most vulnerable population.  It's an apt description of a possibly unprecedented payout for a serving elected official, who wrote the book with the seemingly illegal help of government staff while he and his aides spent months going to great lengths to cover up his edict's deadly results.  Cuomo revealed his $5.12 million contract for "American Crisis:  Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic," previously thought to be $4 million, when he released his tax returns ahead of Monday's deadline.  He received $3.12 million last year, garnering $1.54 million after taxes and $117,000 in expenses, and is set to get another $2 million in the next two years.

Governor Cuomo's Book Deal [is] Valued at over $5 Million.  A tax return from the governor's office released Monday confirmed that Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo's book deal was worth $5.12 million and is positioned to earn that sum in the next couple of years.  Cuomo penned "American Crisis" during the early stages of the pandemic as a memoir retelling of his administration's response to the COVID crisis.  The governor reportedly secured $3.21 million in 2020 for the book.  State officials said that its contract stipulates an additional $2 million to be paid out over the next two years, the New York Times reported.

Six Democrat Scandals That Should Have Ruined Careers.  To start off, it seems fair to ask what became of Andrew Cuomo.  Or rather, what did not become of Andrew Cuomo.  Not that long ago, he was facing two significant charges, the first being the fact that he knowingly lied about Covid deaths in long-term care facilities and the second being the better-publicized sexual harassment allegations that the media used to cover up the rising body count.  There were calls for his resignation, even from the wholly incompetent and unscrupulous New York City mayor Bill de Blasio.  It seemed momentum was growing on both sides of the political aisle to oust Cuomo.  Indeed, by any account, most politicians would have seen any further aspirations for public leadership derailed.  After all, Senator Al Franken of Minnesota had to surrender his senatorial duties after a single photo of him pretending to fondle a woman circulated on social media just a few years ago.  Andrew Cuomo was facing more serious charges from an ever-increasing roster of women.

Team Cuomo is now just piling lies atop lies.  Gone are the days when Emmy Award-winning Gov. Andrew Cuomo made himself king of the news briefing, answering reporters' questions face-to-socially-distanced-face all the day long about COVID-19 and his "leadership" during a pandemic.  Now he insists on virtual-only press conferences, and his staff cuts the feed mid-question of any reporter who dares challenge him — then lies about it.  On Wednesday [4/21/2021], Ryan Tarinelli of the New York Law Journal asked: "If the attorney general's report concludes that under state law you did sexually harass employees in violation of state law, will you resign?  Yes or no."  Cuomo answered, "Let's see what the review says, and then we'll take it from there."  Tarinelli asked Cuomo to "please clarify exactly what that means"; the gov repeated his first response word for word.

NY's AG is investigating whether Cuomo used state resources to complete his book about the pandemic, which reportedly earned him a $4 million advance.  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is facing yet another investigation as his third term in office remains beset by multiple ongoing scandals.  Upon a recent referral from New York Comptroller Thomas Di Napoli, New York Attorney General Tish James — who is already investigating the governor over accusations of workplace sexual harassment and an alleged groping incident — confirmed on Monday [4/19/2021] that there is an "ongoing investigation" into Cuomo's use of state resources for his 2020 book, according to The New York Times.  Cuomo reportedly sought an advance of around $4 million for his book, "American Crisis:  Leadership Lessons from the Covid-19 Pandemic."  Earlier on Monday before news of the investigation broke, a reporter asked Cuomo how much money he received for his book and how staffers contributed to it.  The governor deflected on the advance, saying his compensation for the manuscript will show up in his forthcoming tax returns.

'It was not optional': Cuomo staffers say work on governor's pandemic book was not voluntary.  Gov. Andrew Cuomo is once again in hot water as several staffers came forward to say their work on his COVID-19 response book was not voluntary, despite the office saying it was.  According to Fox News, several staffers have come forward to say their work was not voluntary, which would then be illegal and an ethics violation.

Rep. Lee Zeldin announces run for NY governor amid Cuomo scandals.  Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin announced his candidacy for governor of New York on Thursday with the message:  "Cuomo's gotta go!"  Zeldin, 41, is the first GOP contender to officially challenge three-term Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2022.  "I'll bring the kind of relentless, fighting spirit towards helping to save our state that Cuomo reserves for multi-million dollar self-congratulatory book deals, cover-ups, abuse & self-dealing," the congressman tweeted.

New York Congresswoman Calls on Cuomo to Resign Over Nursing Home Deaths.  A New York congresswoman is calling on the state's governor, Andrew Cuomo, to resign over his administration's cover-up of reporting of thousands of COVID-19 deaths in the state's nursing homes.  In an interview with The Daily Signal, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., said she called on the three-term governor to step down after Jill DesRosiers, his own chief of staff, revealed the cover-up.  The cover-up "was purposely done because they were afraid of the [federal] Department of Justice getting this information," Malliotakis said.  The congresswoman said that the nursing home deaths occurred because of Cuomo's executive order of just over a year ago on March 25, 2020, which forced nursing homes to take in COVID-19-positive patients discharged from hospitals, exposing vulnerable elderly in the nursing homes to the coronavirus.  [Video clip]

Are the Walls Finally Closing in Around Andrew Cuomo?  NY Post's Michael Goodwin Nails It.  As weeks have stretched into months and the dark cloud over New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's head has continued to grow ever-larger and more ominous, one thing remains crystal clear: while multiple New York members of Congress — Republicans and Democrats — along with New York State Republican lawmakers and a growing number of State Democrat lawmakers — have demanded he resign or be impeached and convicted, the Luv Guv as defiantly declared on a number occasions he's "not going anywhere."

Chris Cuomo reportedly received even more attention than other 'VIPs' during COVID tests.  The Washington Post ran a brutal "behind-the-scenes" report on how Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo prioritized COVID testing in the early months of the pandemic, including how his brother, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, allegedly received treatment "beyond" others on the so-called VIP list.  According to sources, more than "100 individuals" with close ties to the governor were referred to as "priorities," "specials," "inner circle" or "criticals" and were "logged in an electronic data sheet that was kept separate from a database for the general public."  The Post reported that Dr. Eleanor Adams, a top New York physician who was tasked by the Cuomo administration to coordinate COVID testing in nursing homes, was "dispatched multiple times" to Chris Cuomo's home in the Hamptons, where visits "sometimes stretched hours."

New Andrew Cuomo accuser Sherry Vill speaks out alongside Gloria Allred.  A woman described in detail Monday [3/29/2021] how Gov. Andrew Cuomo grabbed her face, "manhandled" her and forcibly kissed her while touring her flood-damaged home in 2017 — saying he did so in a "highly sexual manner."

Cuomo Aides Subpoenaed in Sex-Harassment Case, WSJ Says.  New York Attorney General Letitia James's office has sent subpoenas to dozens of officials in Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration in connection with an investigation into sexual-harassment claims against the governor, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday [3/26/2021].

Gov. Cuomo prioritized family and associates for COVID testing in early days of the pandemic.  Embattled New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker reportedly instructed local health officials to prioritize Cuomo's family and individuals with links to his administration during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.  According to the Albany Times Union, sources with direct knowledge of the occurrences told the outlet that family members received multiple tests even when they were scarce.  Reportedly, epidemiologist Dr. Eleanor Adams was sent to the Governor's brother, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo's residence in Long Island to test him.  The Cuomo Prime Time anchor was diagnosed with the coronavirus on March 31 and according to the Times Union, the test came "at a time when many members of the public struggled to obtain coronavirus tests."

New York Lawmakers Commit to Thorough, Lengthy Impeachment Investigation of Andrew Cuomo.  The New York State Assembly's judiciary committee announced on Tuesday that its investigation of Governor Andrew Cuomo's behavior could take "months."  The New York State Assembly Judiciary Committee Chair, Long Island Democrat Charles Lavine, said its investigation of embattled New York Governor Andrew Cuomo could take "months, rather than weeks" to "assess whether there's evidence that the governor has engaged in conduct that justifies articles of impeachment."

Cuomo directed NY health officials to prioritize COVID-19 testing for his relatives:  Report.  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York Health Commissioner Howard Zucker directed health officials to prioritize the governor's own family and figures with ties to his administration in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report Wednesday [3/24/2021].  Family members who allegedly received preferential testing included Cuomo's brother, CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, as well as his mother and at least one of his sisters, the Albany Times-Union reported, citing sources with direct knowledge of the matter.  Some family members reportedly received multiple tests.  Chris Cuomo was reportedly tested at his home on Long Island.  One source told the Times-Union that tests administered to Cuomo's family members or associates were referred to as "critical samples" and processed ahead of others.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo Now Has a Third Scandal.  At the start of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, testing was scarce.  The limited number of tests that were available were set aside and reserved for those who had symptoms.  But, according to the Albany Times-Union, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) pulled strings to get his family, friends, and other politicians' and their spouses COVID tests. [...] It's important to note that Cuomo's brother, CNN host Andrew Cuomo, was diagnosed with the Wuhan coronavirus on March 31.  It was so early on in the pandemic that very few had access to testing.  As Fox News noted, it's unclear who paid for the test, Cuomo, CNN, or the state.

Sure Seems Like Cuomo Broke The Law By Prioritizing His Family For Early COVID Testing.  It's a real foot race at this point between the Cuomo boys to see who'll lose his job first.  On the one hand, we seem to be gaining completely new and independent grounds for impeaching Andrew each week.  On the other hand, Chris's ratings are tanking and CNN's embarrassment at his softball treatment of his brother last year — which the network approved, let's not forget — is deepening by the day.  I used to wonder how many of Andrew's scandals Chris was privy to yet withheld from his colleagues and his viewers despite their obvious news value.  In light of today's news, I've started wondering how many of Andrew's scandals Chris may have personally participated in but didn't disclose.

Top health officials [were] told to prioritize COVID testing for Cuomo's relatives.  High-level members of the state Department of Health were directed last year by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker to conduct prioritized coronavirus testing on the governor's relatives as well as influential people with ties to the administration, according to three people with direct knowledge of the matter.  Members of Cuomo's family including his brother, his mother and at least one of his sisters were also tested by top health department officials — some several times, the sources said.

Always a bully.  [Scroll down]  Cuomo is who he always was.  The lies, the bullying, and the incessant cover-ups have been part of the Cuomo administration for years.  The current unraveling might have begun with a bad press conference in November, but the stories had been there all along to discover if a compliant media had done a better job investigating a popular governor riding on his high approval ratings.  The governor of the state with the most COVID-19 deaths by population produced a poster, a sculpture, and ultimately a book on leadership touting his own success, a book that reportedly fetched a seven-figure advance, and few in the press questioned it.  His administration has admitted to staggering corruption in hiding the nursing home deaths and has forcefully targeted anyone who dared criticize it.  There are seven women who say he sexually harassed them.

10th Cuomo Victim Steps Forward; Accusations Of Drugging And Assault.  Things have gone from bad to worse for embattled New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.  For weeks now Cuomo has dodged and weaved as woman after woman went public with accusations of Sexual Harassment against him.

Biden's conspicuous silence on the Cuomo scandal.  Based on everything we know about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's psyche, it's impossible to imagine him resigning unless he knows he has no way out.  The only Democratic figure who could plausibly persuade Cuomo to resign is President Biden.  Unlike many of his other Democratic critics, Cuomo respects and likes Biden.  The two men have had good relations — during the transition, there was even (far-fetched) talk that the governor would be considered as Biden's attorney general.  If Biden called for Cuomo to resign, it would mean infinitely more than Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's statement on Friday.  Schumer and Cuomo have years of bad blood — and the governor would never take marching orders from the Senate majority leader.

Joe Biden Breaks Silence on Andrew Cuomo Sexual Harassment Scandal.  President Joe Biden declined the opportunity to call for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's resignation, suggesting he would wait until the end of the investigation before giving his verdict.  When the president was asked by a reporter if he believed Cuomo should resign, he replied, "I think the investigation is underway and we should see what it brings us."  Biden spoke briefly about the scandals as he returned to the White House on Sunday [3/14/2021] after spending the weekend at his home in Delaware.

Biden breaks silence on Cuomo, but dodges question about whether he should resign.  President Joe Biden wants to wait for New York State Attorney General Letitia James' investigation into allegations of sexual harassment of at least seven women by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to wrap up before saying whether Cuomo should resign.

Throwing the Book at Andrew Cuomo.  Let me be perfectly clear about this:  If Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York purposefully put elderly men and women infected with COVID-19 into crowded nursing homes and if he had any idea of how lethal a move that was, he should be prosecuted for a crime.  Not sued.  Not removed from office: prosecuted for negligent manslaughter at the very least.  It was an act so reckless and contemptuous of human life that it was akin to murder.  But I am not aware that there has been any proof produced that Mr. Cuomo knew what he was doing.  This still raises the issue of negligence to such a high degree that it looks like textbook negligent manslaughter.  I hope and believe that an investigation into this issue is taking place right now.

Police: Andrew Cuomo Might Be In Criminal Trouble.  Embattled New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo might be in criminal jeopardy as more allegations of sexual misconduct surface to fuel growing calls from members of the state legislature in his own party for impeachment.  On Tuesday, a sixth accuser came forward with charges that the governor "aggressively groped her in a sexually charged manner" on the second floor of his New York mansion, first reported in the New Albany Times Union.  The local paper did not unveil her name but disclosed she was one of the governor's aides.  "They were alone in Cuomo's private residence on the second floor when he closed the door and allegedly reached under her blouse and began to fondle her," the Times Union reported, citing a source familiar with the unidentified woman's claims.  On Thursday, officials with the Albany Police Department told the New York Times the state governor may now be facing criminal charges based on the latest accusation, the most intrusive to date.

Cuomo staffers have stopped showing up to work as scandals mount.  Disillusioned staffers are abandoning embattled Gov. Cuomo, sources said.  "I hear that most people aren't even coming into work, and the offices at the Capitol are empty," said one well-placed insider in touch with staffers in recent days.  "He'll fight and fight and fight, but the staffers I've talked to are ready for him to hang up the gloves.  Everyone feels like there is an inevitable conclusion — I mean at some point will Biden call on him to step down?  They [staffers] just want this torture to stop."  Rebellion in the ranks deepened as Cuomo on Friday defiantly refused to step aside and blamed "cancel culture" for his downfall.

Cuomo Was Warned His COVID Group Home Policies Would Kill.  A New York State whistleblower says that another wrongheaded policy has cost lives to the state's most vulnerable, and he blames Governor Andrew Cuomo.  In 2011, Jeff Monsour won a landmark federal jury trial for whistleblower retaliation after he disclosed abuses in New York state's group homes.  He told The American Conservative that he and Mike Carey, whose son died in a group home over fourteen years ago, have been warning everyone — including Gov. Cuomo — of the so-called floating policy and its deleterious effects on COVID spread in group homes.

Cuomo's Nursing Home Scandal Should Have Already Done Him In.  Gov. Andrew Cuomo's reputation as the tough-love COVID savior of New York, promoted by the liberal media, is utterly collapsing.  He is facing calls to resign from the majority of Democrats in New York's House delegation and around 40 percent of New York's legislature.  Yesterday [3/11/2021], Democrats in the state Assembly opened an impeachment inquiry into the governor's actions.  And New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Chuck Schumer have now called on Cuomo to resign.

Five of Andrew Cuomo's other biggest scandals.  [#2] The Buffalo Billion:  Cuomo, in his first term, pledged more than $1 billion to revitalize infrastructure in post-industrial western New York cities.  The governor named Alain Kaloyeros, founder of SUNY Polytechnic Institute, to be the state's "secret weapon" in implementing the project.  Kaloyeros soon came under federal scrutiny for his flashy lifestyle and boasts of connections to the governor.  In 2018, Kaloyeros was sentenced to more than three years in prison for his role in a complicated bid-rigging scandal in which he had steered more than $850 million in building contracts to Cuomo's political allies.  The two top firms implicated, LPCiminelli and COR Development, were major Cuomo campaign donors.

Emmy Organization Silent After Giving Andrew Cuomo Award for Televised Coronavirus Press Briefings.  The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is remaining silent about the growing scandals surrounding New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), who recently received an Emmy award from the group in recognition of his daily coronavirus press briefings.  Breitbart News reached out the academy for comment, but the organization hasn't responded.  As Breitbart News reported, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) issued a joint statement Friday in which they called on Cuomo to resign.  Reps.  Jerry Nadler and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) have also called on the governor to step down.

Abuse and Power Andrew Cuomo's governorship has been defined by cruelty that disguised chronic mismanagement.  In February, liberal State Assembly member Ron Kim, who had criticized the governor in the wake of that report, spoke publicly about how Cuomo called him at home and threatened his career.  Then the floodgates opened:  His adversary Mayor Bill de Blasio called the bullying "classic Andrew Cuomo"; state legislators Alessandra Biaggi and Yuh-Line Niou began openly suggesting that the governor's hard-knuckled approach to politics is simply abusive.

Maybe the pendulum is starting to swing on cancel culture.  [Andrew] Cuomo has a lot of blood on his hands because he insisted on warehousing COVID infected patients in old age homes long after it became clear that doing so was unnecessary (Trump had made enough hospital beds available) and that it turned old age homes into slaughterhouses.  It doesn't matter why he did it; it's enough that he knowingly, unnecessarily, and cruelly brought about the premature and lonely deaths of thousands of elderly people — and then lied about it afterward.  However, Democrats are afraid to attack him on this ground because it will expose several other governors to impeachment or criminal prosecution (e.g., Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, etc.).  Because he's a liability, though, they need him gone — and so they've rediscovered what everyone has known forever, which is that, like innumerable powerful, Democrat, feminist politicians, he's a groper and a lech.  And it's on those grounds, not on manslaughter and dishonesty grounds, that his fellow Democrats are now demanding he resign.

Cuomo's 30 new accusers:  Ex-staffers say he forced them onto anti-depressants, black speech writer accuses him of racism.  A group of 30 women on Friday [3/12/2021] spoke out about the bullying and harassment they faced while working with for Andrew Cuomo as the New York Governor insists he won't resign and is not guilty of abuse.  It came as a reporter came forward as Cuomo's seventh accuser, claiming she endured unwanted touching and humiliating comments while covering his administration.

Ex-Gov. Cuomo staffer says he hired her for her looks, then verbally, mentally abused her.  A former aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo described how he spotted her at a lobbying event, "grabbed her in a kind of dance pose" and then had her hired for his office, where he went on to "verbally and mentally abuse" her, she told New York Magazine, recalling how he would critique her outfits and once threatened to "end" her career over her failure to transfer a phone call.  The account is one of 30, New York wrote, from women who spoke "about their experiences with Cuomo, almost all who worked for him commented on the extreme pressure applied by both the governor and his top female aides to dress well and expensively; some were told explicitly by senior staff that they had to wear heels whenever he was around."

AOC, Nadler Call on N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo to Resign.  Leading New York Democrats Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Jerrold Nadler called on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) to resign in statements issued Friday morning.  Nadler, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee released a solo statement that only cited the allegations of sexual assault and harassment against Cuomo while Ocasio-Cortez was joined by Rep. Jamaal Bowman in a joint statement that also mentioned Cuomo's deadly COVID nursing home scandal.

New York assembly approves 'impeachment investigation' into Andrew Cuomo.  The New York state assembly has authorized its judiciary committee to start an "impeachment investigation" into sexual misconduct allegations brought by six women against Andrew Cuomo.  The panel's investigation into the New York governor, which would run parallel to one being led by the state attorney general, Letitia James, would be authorized to interview witnesses, subpoena documents and evaluate evidence, said Carl Heastie, the speaker of the state assembly.  "The reports of accusations concerning the governor are serious," Heastie, a Democrat, said in a statement.  The assembly judiciary committee will oversee the investigation, which will have the power to interview witnesses and subpoena documents.

Cuomo faces new sexual harassment allegation, this time at Executive Mansion.  A sixth woman has leveled allegations of sexual harassment or inappropriate conduct against Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, after a supervisor in the Executive Chamber recently became aware the woman said that the governor inappropriately touched her late last year during an encounter at the governor's mansion, where she had been summoned to do work.  An official close to the matter on Tuesday confirmed to the Times Union that the new allegation had been made.  The governor's office learned of the matter on Monday, an aide said.

Sixth Woman Accuses Gov. Andrew Cuomo of Sexual Harassment.  A sixth woman has brought forth allegations of sexual harassment against Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), claiming that the governor inappropriately touched her last year at the governor's mansion, according to a Tuesday [3/9/2021] report.

Cuomo Revelations Mean It Is Time to Re-Examine NY Fracking Ban.  New York's Nero is being noticed for what he is; a corrupt bully who only got where he is by virtue of his last name.  As tragic as the deaths of over 15,000 elderly in NYS-Nursing Homes have been, and as absurd as it may be that one of the biggest supporters of the #MeToo movement may turn out to a poster child for it, this is just the logical progression in Cuomo's mad pursuit of power.  He introduced new laws and legislation regarding sexual harassment in the workplace and now stands accused of the very trespass himself.  These grievous Cuomo revelations are a reminder, however of who Andrew Cuomo was from the beginning.

Dem New York State Senate Majority Leader Calls on Cuomo To Resign.  New York State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D) is calling for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to resign after two more women accused him of sexual harassment.  In a statement on Sunday, Stewart-Cousins said, "Every day there is another account that is drawing away from the business of government.  We have allegations about sexual harassment, a toxic work environment, the loss of credibility surrounding the Covid-19 nursing home data, and questions about the construction of a major infrastructure project."  "New York is still in the midst of this pandemic and is still facing the societal, health, and economic impacts of it.  We need to govern without daily distraction.  For the good of the state Governor Cuomo must resign," she added.

Cuomo:  You'll have to impeach me.  Yesterday [3/7/2021] we learned that the senior Democrat in the New York State legislature called on Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign after two more women came forward with allegations of sexual harassment.  This didn't sit well with the Governor, who promptly told the press that there was "no way" he was going to leave on his own.  Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins was the highest-ranking Democrat in the state government to call for Cuomo to step down, but she was quickly joined by Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie... sort of.  Heastie stopped short of using the "R word," but said that he shared the concerns raised by Stewart-Cousins and wanted the Governor to "seriously consider whether he can effectively meet the needs of the people of New York."  So with his own party in open revolt, how did Cuomo respond?  In a call yesterday evening, the Governor told reporters that if they want him gone they're going to have to impeach him.

State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins Calls For Cuomo To Resign.  Gov. Andrew Cuomo "must resign" as sexual harassment allegations against him continue to mount, state Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said Sunday — after the governor reportedly insisted she'd have to impeach him.  In a brief statement issued shortly after a press briefing in which Cuomo vowed not to step down, Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) cited not only the mushrooming sexual harassment scandal, but also other black eyes including a looming federal probe over the Cuomo administration's accounting of the coronavirus death toll in nursing homes.  "Everyday there is another account that is drawing away from the business of government," said Stewart-Cousins.  "We have allegations about sexual harassment, a toxic work environment, the loss of credibility surrounding the COVID-19 nursing home data and questions about the construction of a major infrastructure project.

Defiant Cuomo ignores State Senate Majority Leader's calls for him to resign.  A top Democratic lawmaker in New York has called on Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign after a fifth woman came forward to accuse him of sexual harassment.  The latest allegations prompted State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, a fellow Democrat, to demand the governor's resignation in a statement on Sunday [3/7/2021].  'For the good of the state Governor Cuomo must resign,' said Stewart-Cousins, who has publicly sparred with Cuomo in the past.  'Every day there is another account that is drawing away from the business of government.'

The Rise and Fall of Andrew Cuomo.  As many as 15,000 virus deaths have now been attributed to Cuomo's March 25, 2020 policy of forcing the admission of patients who had tested positive for the China virus into nursing homes which held the most vulnerable to the virus.  The policy made no sense except as a payoff to the Greater NY Hospital Association, a major donor, (nearly $1 million in support of his 2018 election) which found the COVID patients unprofitable and wanted to make room for more lucrative patients. [...] He paid the donors off in another way, too.  Legislation which he signed on April 2, 2020 shielded the hospital and nursing home executives from any lawsuits respecting the China virus outbreak in their institutions.  The directive deliberately ignored former President Trump's provision of a hospital ship which made it to New York in record time and other quickly arranged alternative sites for treatment.  It was designed to help the donors and the Democrats fashion and enforce the notion that Trump didn't help New York, but that Cuomo was the man for the job.

Two more women accuse Gov. Andrew Cuomo of inappropriate behavior.  Two more women came forward Saturday to accuse Gov. Cuomo of sexually harassing behavior, including a former press aide who describes struggling to free herself from his repeated hugs, and a young assistant who now says he left her feeling like "just a skirt."  Former press aide Karen Hinton endured a "very long, too long, too tight, too intimate" embrace from Cuomo in a dimly lit Los Angeles hotel room in December 2000, she told the Washington Post.  The married Hinton pulled away, but "he pulls me back for another intimate embrace," she told the paper.  "I thought at that moment it could lead to a kiss, it could lead to other things, so I just pull away again, and I leave."  At the time, Cuomo led the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Third Ex-Cuomo Aide Recounts Inappropriate Behavior, WSJ Says.  A former aide of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo became the third woman to accuse him of inappropriate behavior as she recounted unwanted advances at the workplace, the Wall Street Journal reported.  Ana Liss, Cuomo's policy and operations aide from 2013 to 2015, told the newspaper that the incidents took place during her first year at their offices in state capital Albany.  She added that they were "not appropriate, really, in any setting," the paper said.

Andrew Cuomo blamed The Post — but HE was the liar and a fraud.  On July 24, 2020, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was asked about criticism of his handling of COVID-19 in nursing homes.  His response:  "I believe it is a political issue.  I think it's the New York Post, I think it's Michael Goodwin, I think it's Bob McManus, I think it's Fox TV.  I think it is all politically motivated.  If anybody looked at the facts, they would know that it was wholly absurd on its face.  People died in nursing homes.  That's very unfortunate.  Just on the top line, we are number 35th in the nation in percentage of deaths in nursing homes.  Go talk to 34 other states first.  Go talk to the Republican states now.  Florida, Texas, Arizona.  Ask them what is happening in nursing homes.  It's all politics."  We now know that New York scored as 35th in the nation only because Cuomo was engaged in a criminal coverup to hide the true numbers.

NY Dem Leader:  I'll Call For Cuomo's Resignation If Just One More Accuser Comes Forward.  State senate majority leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins told Spectrum News that she is "so, so disappointed" by fellow Democrat Andrew Cuomo and the three allegations of sexual harassment and/or predatory behavior that have emerged.  She's so disappointed, in fact, that she thinks Cuomo should resign ... if the number hits four.

Gov. Cuomo reportedly 'groomed' ex-aide for sex, 'derailed' her career.  One of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's accusers believes he "groomed her" for sex — and her lawyer says he "derailed" the young woman's career, according to reports Thursday [3/4/2021].  Charlotte Bennett, 25, spoke to the "CBS Evening News" for an interview set to air Thursday night and anchor Norah O'Donnell previewed her remarks in a video clip posted on Twitter.  Bennett, a former Cuomo aide, detailed the "shocking questions" that Cuomo, 63, allegedly "asked her about her sex life," including whether "she had sex with older men," O'Donnell said.

Former Cuomo Staffer: 'We're All Kind Of Waking Up To The Fact That We Were In A Cult'.  Today Gothamist published a story full of quotes from current and former staffers for Gov. Cuomo.  All of the people who spoke did so anonymously out of fear of retaliation.  As they describe it, working for Cuomo was a a very high-stress environment with a lot of unwritten rules: [...] That seems to jibe with some of the allegations made against Cuomo, but even Sarah (not her real name) didn't think Cuomo's kisses on the cheek were meant to be harassing.

There most recent sex claim against Gov. Cuomo is a doozy.  On Wednesday [3/3/2021], New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a teary apology during which he said that he didn't do anything he was alleged to have done but, if he did in fact do those things, he had no idea that they were bad things.  On Thursday, Charlotte Bennett, a 25-year-old former health policy adviser to Gov. Cuomo, told CBS that Andrew Cuomo explicitly propositioned her during an office meeting, in addition to crude, personal questions about her sex life.  Cuomo's going to have a hard time explaining that he didn't know he's not supposed to proposition employees almost four decades younger than he is.

Cuomo says he won't resign following sexual harassment allegations, insists he 'never touched anyone inappropriately'.  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he was "embarrassed" and "ashamed" on Wednesday over the way he behaved with women who have recently come forward to accuse him of sexual harassment.  "I now understand that I acted in a way that made people feel uncomfortable, and I truly and deeply apologize for it," Cuomo said.  "And frankly, I am embarrassed by it.  And that's not easy to say, but it's the truth," the governor added.  When asked if he would resign, Cuomo talked about the looming budget deadline of April 1 and insisted there is much at stake for New Yorkers.  Another reporter asked him specifically if he was saying he wouldn't resign, and Cuomo said yes.

Andrew Cuomo, patsy?  After sentencing thousands of elderly New Yorkers to death by seeding nursing homes with Covid-infected patients, Andrew Cuomo seems to be on the verge of losing his political future, and maybe his job, over saying unpleasant things to a few women. [...] To anyone with a sense of proportion, this must appear odd.  Don't accuse me of minimizing the seriousness of sexual harassment!  To say that it isn't as bad as killing thousands of people is not the same as trivializing it.  Few things are worse than mass killing.  How does one explain this focus on the lesser charge, when it has been known for many months (to consumers of conservative media, if not those reliant on the legacy blue media) that Cuomo has a copious amount of blood on his hands?  One explanation is that feminist groups have enormous sway in the legacy media, so their concerns trump those of the relatives of the prematurely departed.  But, the [f]eminist groups have been slow to denounce Cuomo.

Cuomo's Fatal Nursing Home Order May Be Payback For Major Campaign Donations.  Campaign donations of over a million dollars from a hospital trade association may have been behind NY Gov. Cuomo's infamous nursing home order, resulting in thousands of Nursing Home deaths.  In September 2020[, i]n the Wall Street Journal, Bill Hammond reported that one trade association came up with and sold to Cuomo the idea for his March 25, 2020 order that caused the deaths of thousands of Seniors in nursing homes. [...] According to Hammond, it was the powerful GNHA that came up with and sold the idea to the Governor, which resulted in the lame-brained March 25th, order which said, "No resident shall be denied readmission or admission to a nursing home solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19.  Nursing homes are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for COVID-19 before admission or readmission."

Assessing Andrew Cuomo.  The allegations of sexual harassment show Cuomo to be a boor, something many of us already suspected.  Reasonable people can disagree as to whether the allegations are just cause for removing him as governor.  The fact that Cuomo sent New Yorkers infected with the coronavirus back to nursing homes where, inevitably, they became super-spreaders is a far more serious matter.  And if, as may well be the case, he committed federal crimes when asked by the Justice Department about this scandal, this is just cause for removal and for criminal prosecution.

Gov. Cuomo is on the verge of being done for good.  Andrew's in the soup, that's for sure.  Wrap your head around this:  The New York Times is reporting that Gov. Cuomo took time out from coronavirus hot-dogging last June to offer tattoo-placement advice to a just-turned-25-year-old female aide of no particular expertise during a private, closed-door sit-down in the state Capitol.  Cuomo suggested "she should put the tattoo on her buttocks, so people would not see it when she wore a dress," the paper says.  That was probably sound tattoo strategy — except that 23 years after Monica Lewinsky became a household name it's pretty astonishing to learn that powerful elected leaders are still maneuvering women of a tender age into private offices and hitting on them.  Or, as Cuomo conceded to the Times, "mentoring" them.

Is mob justice now poetic justice?  Due process, like free speech, is rarely valued until its loss becomes personal.  Take Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.). Cuomo advanced his political career by positioning himself at the front of every mob pursuing political rivals, as during Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing.  Before hearing the defense of now-Justice Kavanaugh, Cuomo described the allegations against him by Christine Blasey Ford as presumptively true.  He not only effectively called Kavanaugh a rapist, without any due process, but demanded that Kavanaugh take a polygraph as a condition to be believed.  Cuomo was not alone.  Many Democratic leaders insisted that "women must be believed" when raising sexual harassment allegations and declared Kavanaugh guilty before hearing any testimony.  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) dismissed due process concerns for Kavanaugh, adding:  "When we talk about ... due process and justice, it must focus on the victim."  Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) said Kavanaugh was not entitled to a presumption of innocence and that men should "just shut up" and accept the allegations.

New York AG receives referral to investigate Cuomo over sexual harassment allegations.  New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) said Monday that she has received a referral letter to move forward on an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment made by two former aides of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.  James's announcement comes one day after a series of back-and-forth statements between James and Cuomo's office about the parameters of how such a referral was to be made, which James determined had to come from the governor's office, per state law.  Cuomo at first on Sunday suggested that James join the chief judge of New York's Court of Appeals Janet DiFiore in appointing an independent attorney to investigate the claims against Cuomo, but James said she would not accept such a proposal because she had sole authority over such a probe.

Alleged Sex Pest Andrew Cuomo Hires Lawyer Who Defended Harvey Weinstein, Woody Allen.  Embattled governor Andrew Cuomo (D., N.Y.) has retained the services of a high-powered criminal defense attorney who defended Harvey Weinstein and Woody Allen against allegations of sexual assault.  Elkan Abramowitz, a former federal prosecutor with close ties to Manhattan district attorney Cy Vance, will serve as legal counsel to the governor and his top aides, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday [3/1/2021].  New York attorney general Letitia James is investigating the Cuomo administration on several fronts.  Three women have now accused the governor of sexual harassment.  Allegations include unwanted kissing and touching, as well as inappropriate or suggestive comments, such as asking a 25-year-old female subordinate if she "had ever been with an older man" while the pair were alone in his office.

Andrew Cuomo was quick to tell others to resign over sex[ual] harass[ment] claims.  Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been quick to call for the resignations of powerful Albany lawmakers accused of sexually harassing aides — including known harassers Vito Lopez, Micah Kellner and Dennis Gabryszak — but refuses to heed his own advice now that he's the one facing multiple claims, critics argue.  The third-term Democratic governor faces three accusations of sexual harassment of his own within the last week, and has been called on by Democrats and Republicans alike to step down.  "Shouldn't the governor, the most powerful official in New York, be held to at least the same ethical standard as an Assembly member?" said John Kaehny, executive director of watchdog group Reinvent Albany.

We've known who Andrew Cuomo was for a long time.  It took Trump's loss for the media to care.  With Donald Trump out of the White House, the walls can finally close in on the media's once-favorite foil to the former president.  But despite the treatment of negative news about Andrew Cuomo as a revelation, we've all known who the New York governor is for a long time.  It's finally just convenient for his cheerleaders in the press to face the facts.  The latest twist in the Cuomo saga is the string of allegations from women alleging he sexually harassed them. [...] Journalists covering Albany have known for years that Cuomo is a bully and brute, and anyone pretending he hasn't been a creep is willfully ignorant.

Jen Psaki won't directly say where Biden's 'red line' is on sexual misconduct claims.  White House press secretary Jen Psaki reiterated President Biden's support for an independent investigation into sexual harassment allegations against Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday, but wouldn't directly say at what point the president views such allegations as warranting the governor's ouster.  Psaki was asked about Charlotte Bennett's accusations that Cuomo made sexual advances toward her — one of two former staffers, including Lindsey Boylan, going public with their claims.  The governor released a statement on Sunday acknowledging his comments to Bennett could be "misinterpreted as an unwanted flirtation" and that he was "sorry."

Stick a Fork in Andrew Cuomo... He's Done.  Between killing thousands of elderly folks with his deadly nursing home COVID-19 policy, and the now two allegations of sexual harassment, the Emmy Award-winning Governor Andrew Cuomo has found himself lacking in political capital recently... and it just got worse.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has finally spoken out about the allegations against the governor, and called both of the charges made against him "credible."  "The women who have come forward with serious and credible charges against Governor Cuomo deserve to be heard and to be treated with dignity," Pelosi said in an exclusive statement provided to Fox News.  "The independent investigation must have due process and respect for everyone involved."

Third woman accuses Cuomo of harassment.  A woman who met New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the first time at a wedding has accused him of making an inappropriate advance, according to the New York Times.  Anna Ruch, 33, told the Times that the governor — who is under investigation by state Attorney General Tish James' office for alleged harassment of two former aides — placed his hand on her back.  The governor then put his hands on her cheeks and asked to kiss her after she removed his hand.  The Times account is accompanied by a photo of the governor holding Ruch's face.  She told the Times she felt "uncomfortable and embarrassed."

Unsurprisingly, another woman is accusing Cuomo of harassment.  Is anyone surprised to learn that another woman has accused Governor Andrew Cuomo of inappropriate behavior?  I'm not surprised.  He's a powerful man in a party that historically gives a pass to men who mouth feminist platitudes.  What's more interesting is the bizarre Democrat values at play in the Andrew Cuomo saga.

Low-level domestic terrorism:
Cuomo staff accused of 'incessant bullying,' 'constant threats,' local TV reporter claims.  A local New York journalist is speaking out about the apparent abuse she faced from the Cuomo administration as the Democratic governor is fighting to salvage his political career amid multiple accusations of sexual harassment.  "'You have a vendetta against him don't you!'  That was the last time I allowed someone connected to Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration to harass and manipulate me," former News10 reporter Lindsay Nielsen wrote in a statement on Sunday.  "It was during one of the many accusatory and threatening phone calls I received by his staff members that I realized this behavior was never going to stop.  It was shortly thereafter that I decided to leave my job at News10."  "The late night phone calls from the administration, the constant threats to call my boss, the incessant bullying to try to get me to stop doing my job and reporting specific stories... it would never end.  The tactics used were deliberate yet evasive.  They skimmed the line of inappropriateness ever so delicately as to make you feel like they were acceptable," Nielsen wrote.

The NYT Takes Andrew Cuomo Out on Lake Tahoe to do Some Fishing.  The NYT put a metaphorical muzzle to the back of the head of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Saturday in pulling off a political assassination through its reporting on the allegations of a 25-year-old former aide to the Governor.  A massive 2500 word story appeared on the newspaper's website on Saturday afternoon with on-the-record statements from a second former aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo stating that the Governor had made clear his interest in having a sexual relationship with her, leading her to resign in November 2020.

Time to impeach the unmasked Gov. Cuomo.  Gov. Cuomo has long portrayed himself as a model of propriety — a paragon of virtue, competence, leadership.  Yet now a starkly different picture of him is emerging: that of a bully, a liar and, it appears, a sexual harasser.  The latest charge comes from his former deputy secretary for economic development, Lindsey Boylan, who's now running for Manhattan borough president.  In a 1,700-plus-word essay, she lays out creepy details of how Cuomo eyed her from early on; went "out of his way" to touch her on her "lower back, arms and legs"; asked her to play strip poker while flying home on "his taxpayer-funded jet"; and blocked her exit from his office and kissed her "on the lips" without warning.

Rep. Elise Stefanik:  Gov. Cuomo is a 'criminal sexual predator' and should resign.  Gov. Andrew Cuomo is a "criminal sexual predator" who "must immediately resign" over a former aide's detailed sexual-harassment allegations, a member of Congress from upstate New York said Wednesday [2/24/2021].  Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-Glens Falls) also said that "any elected official who does not immediately call for his resignation is complicit in allowing a sexual predator to continue leading the great state of New York."  Stefanik's remarks came after Lindsey Boylan, now a Democratic candidate for Manhattan borough president, published an online essay in which she accused Cuomo of kissing her "on the lips" without warning following a 2018 meeting in his Manhattan office.

Major cable networks quiet on sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo.  Several major cable networks failed to report on sexual harassment allegations against Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the wake of the Sunday accusations, according to a media watchdog group.  CBS, NBC and ABC were all silent on Sunday night [12/13/2020] — the same day Cuomo's former aide Lindsey Boylan tweeted out the claims against her ex-boss, according to the Media Research Center.  The group said the same networks' Monday morning news shows also failed to report on the allegations, which Cuomo has denied.  Fox News, meanwhile, ran a report on the news at about 6:10 p.m.  Sunday.  Boylan served as Cuomo's deputy secretary for economic development and a special adviser from March 2015 through October 2018, when she resigned amid scrutiny of her own workplace conduct.

Hack Networks Silent on Sex Harassment Claims Against Andrew Cuomo.  The network newscasts on Sunday night [12/13/2020] and Monday morning were predictably silent on the shocking sexual harassment claims against Governor Andrew Cuomo, a hero among liberals.  These are the same networks that praised his "excellency" and gossiped over the single Democrat.  On Sunday night, Fox News broke from the Democrat media and alerted viewers to the story.

Serious Sexual Misconduct Allegations Surface Against Andrew Cuomo.  On Sunday [12/13/2020], new sexual misconduct allegations were brought forward against New York governor Andrew Cuomo by one of his former advisers.  The serious allegations were made by progressive activist Lindsey Boylan who came forward in a series of tweets. [...] The allegations come as former Vice President Joe Biden is considering Cuomo as his attorney general pick, assuming Biden takes office in January.

"I Know I Wasn't The Only Woman" — Former Cuomo Aide Accuses NY Governor Of Sexual Harassment.  New York's Lindsey Boylan is writing the playbook for underdog progressives looking to pick off established Dems during hard-fought primaries in and around NYC (where progressive Dems, including AOC, Jamaal Bowman and others, have had perhaps the most success in upsetting/unseating establishment Dems — even some who might be considered members of the party's "liberal" wing themselves).  Step one:  Accuse a high-ranking Dem with massive national profile of being a nightmare "boss from hell", leaving a wake of traumatized staffers.  Step two:  Kick it up a notch by accusing them of "sexual harassment" spanning "years" while working in their employ.  That isn't to say we doubt the authenticity of Boylan's accusations.

NY Governor Cuomo accused of sexual harassment by former government official.  New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been accused of sexual harassment "for years" by a woman who worked in his administration.  Lindsey Boylan was Deputy Secretary for Economic Development and Special Advisor to the Governor from 2015-2018.  The accuser, Lindsey Boylan, is also a former Democratic Party primary candidate for New York's 10th Congressional District in 2020, for which she came in second to incumbent Congressman Jerrold Nadler.  She is currently a candidate for Manhattan Borough President.

Andrew Cuomo Says He Learned 'Humanity' from Ted Kennedy, Who Left Woman to Die in Submerged Car.  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said he learned "humanity" from the deceased Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA), who pleaded guilty in 1969 after he left the scene of an accident that resulted in a woman drowning.  Cuomo received the Edward M. Kennedy Institute Aware for Inspired Leadership, he announced Wednesday [12/9/2020]:  [Tweet]

Andrew Cuomo gave immunity to nursing home execs after big campaign donations.  As Governor Andrew Cuomo faced a spirited challenge in his bid to win New York's 2018 Democratic primary, his political apparatus got a last-minute boost:  a powerful healthcare industry group suddenly poured more than $1 [million] into a Democratic committee backing his campaign.  Less than two years after that flood of cash from the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA), Cuomo signed legislation last month quietly shielding hospital and nursing home executives from the threat of lawsuits stemming from the coronavirus outbreak.  The provision, inserted into an annual budget bill by Cuomo's aides, created one of the nation's most explicit immunity protections for healthcare industry officials, according to legal experts.


Senator Raphael Warnock

Sen. Raphael Warnock Deletes Easter Tweet After Being Accused of 'Heresy'.  Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), who was a prominent Atlanta preacher before he was elected to the Senate, deleted a tweet on Easter Sunday [4/4/2021] that drew allegations of heresy.  "The meaning of Easter is more transcendent than the resurrection of Jesus Christ," Warnock wrote in the tweet posted Sunday morning.  "Whether you are Christian or not, through a commitment to helping others we are able to save ourselves."  [Tweet]

The Editor says...
If an ostensibly Christian preacher says that by "helping others we are able to save ourselves," he or she is a heretic.  Jesus himself said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life:  no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."  (John 14:6)  You cannot earn admission to Heaven by your good works.  (Ephesians 2:9)  For this reason, lots of very nice and generous people are in Hell right now.  The Bible is very clear that few people make it to Heaven — most do not — (Matthew 7:13-14), and there's only one other place to spend eternity.  Some of the most popular preachers in America today are the ones who will tell you everything you want to hear and nothing that you don't want to hear.  (2 Timothy 4:3-4)

Randy Andy Cuomo's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.  The State of New York is in turmoil.  Well, more turmoil.  After months of Gov. Andrew Cuomo cooking the books on Covid-19 nursing home deaths finally coming to light, it seems the proverbial dam has burst.  In the wake of the nursing home scandal, there came the sexual harassment scandal.  If that's not bad enough, Mario's little boy has seen his emergency Covid-19 powers stripped by the state legislature and the state's attorney general has instructed his staff to "safeguard" any records that might be germane to the sexual harassment investigation.  Without a doubt, Randy Andy's glad the week is almost over.

Warnock Under Investigation for Role in Stacey Abrams' Voter Registration Org.  Senator Raphael Warnock (D., Ga.) is under investigation for his involvement in the New Georgia Project, a voter registration organization founded by Stacey Abrams, which officials say failed to follow state election deadlines in 2019.  The Georgia State Election Board voted 3-0 Wednesday [2/10/2021] to launch an investigation into Warnock's time as chairman of the board for the New Georgia Project in 2019, when officials say the group violated state election rules that require voting registration organizations to submit completed voter application within ten days after they are received from the voter.

'The View' Explodes After McCain Presses Warnock to Reject His Party's Extremism.  Wednesday marks the third day in a row of shocking blowups on The View.  Georgia's Senator-Elect Raphael Warnock was being blessed with heavy praise and softball questions from the liberal hosts when conservative co-host Meghan McCain changed things by asking him a real critical question.  But when she kept pressing Warnock for a direct answer, she faced the wrath of co-host Whoopi Goldberg and the show's producers.  Before this crazy part, each host shamelessly fawned over their Democrat guest.  A beaming Whoopi Goldberg couldn't contain her excitement.

Did Georgia Really Just Elect an Anti-Semitic Socialist Who Covered Up Child Abuse?  I was cautiously optimistic that the GOP would hold at least one seat in Tuesday's runoff elections in Georgia.  Frankly, I gave the edge to Kelly Loeffler, whose opponent, Raphael Warnock, had been exposed as a far-left radical who supports defunding the police. [...] Georgia hasn't voted for a Democrat for president since Bill Clinton in 1992.  Not even Barack Obama was able to win the state in 2008, despite the historically high turnout in favor of voting for the first black president.  But the mass delusion that Joe Biden is a moderate is still easier to swallow than Warnock.

Can Georgians Be Foolish Enough to Vote for a Hate-Filled Lying Phony Like Warnock?  Of course Raphael Warnock has no business running for a serious political office.  Still, he certainly is allowed to try. [...] For years Warnock would get up in church, week after week, and attack Jews in Israel, accusing them of horrific things that have no relationship to reality.  It was safe for him to do so.  He was preaching in a Black church.  Jews don't attend Black churches in any particular numbers, if at all, so there is nowhere safer to beat up on Jews.  Compare us to Nazis — who is going to take umbrage?  Tell a Black audience that Jews in Israel are like those who imposed Apartheid against Blacks in South Africa.  Who will stand and exclaim, "You are a liar!"  In a room where even Waldo will not be found, it is safe to slander Jews and Israel.  So, with no Jews in the church to bear witness to truth, this anti-Semite compared the prime minister of Israel to... former Alabama Gov. George Wallace, the ultimate racist encountered by Blacks in southern segregationist states like Georgia and adjacent Alabama.  Warnock used his Black church pulpit for years to attack Jews, to attack Israel.  Who can know or gauge how many truly decent, kind-hearted Black Americans in Georgia have been converted for life into Jew-haters for life by this evil man?  Preachers carry enormous influence.

I am appalled at the election of Raphael Warnock.  As an American who reveres our country, our founding, and our Constitution, I am appalled at the election of Raphael Warnock.  His beliefs, as declared over the course of decades, about this country, race, Israel, and a host of other issues are frightening.  As a Jew, Warnock's relentless anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements are shocking, yet they represent a growing view within the Democrat Party, the Left, and the media.  And those statements were never condemned by Democrat Party leaders and the media.  In fact, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris campaigned hard for Warnock, and this morning the media are touting his historic victory without comment about what the election of such an extremist and anti-Semite means for the future of the Democrat Party and the nation.

The Warnock Media Blackout.  The last time there was an off-cycle Senate election, investigative reporting was the decisive factor in the race.  The enterprising work of the Washington Post, among others, revealed that the former Alabama Supreme Court justice turned Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore had repeatedly engaged in inappropriate behavior with teenage girls.  A trio of Post reporters tracked down four of those women, who attested on-the-record to Moore's revolting behavior.  Fast forward three years to a Senate race in which another set of lurid allegations has surfaced, this time involving Democratic candidate Raphael Warnock.  The difference: their political affiliation.  Like Moore, the allegations against Warnock involve the abuse of underage children decades ago.  They center on a Maryland church camp where a young Warnock served in a senior role, and where he was arrested in 2002 for obstructing a police investigation into alleged abuses taking place on camp grounds.

Camper Recounts Abuse at Warnock Church Camp.  Among the indignities 12-year-old Anthony Washington endured at the church camp overseen by Reverend Raphael Warnock: counselors who tossed urine on him and locked him outside his cabin overnight.  Washington, now 30, recounted the events in an interview with the Washington Free Beacon and said his experience at the camp resulted in a 2003 lawsuit that ended two years later, when Washington says he and his family received a large financial settlement.  Washington's account of the 2002 events provides the first direct insight into the alleged abuse and neglect that transpired at Camp Farthest Out, which Warnock oversaw as senior pastor of Maryland's Douglas Memorial Community church, and raises new questions for the Democrat, who is currently vying for a Senate seat in Georgia.

Loeffler to Warnock:  Say, why *were* you arrested for obstructing a child-abuse investigation, anyway?  A good question, and one which Raphael Warnock mostly dodged in the finale of the Georgia special-election runoff debate last night.  The national media coverage of the debate between Warnock and Kelly Loeffler focused singularly on Loeffler's deferral to Donald Trump on whether the presidential election was finished.  However, this exchange was the final word that Georgia voters saw in the only debate of the runoff season, and Trump wasn't even part of Warnock's rebuttal.

Democrat Raphael Warnock [was] Arrested in 2002 for Obstructing Child Abuse Investigation.  Georgia Senate Democrat candidate Raphael Warnock was arrested in 2002 for obstructing a police investigation into alleged child abuse at a church camp in Carroll County, Maryland.  Revs.  Warnock and Andre Wainwright, who both worked at Douglas Memorial Community Church, were accused in court documents of attempting to prevent a state trooper from interviewing counselors at the church's Camp Farthest Out in Eldersburg, Maryland, regarding alleged abuse at the church.  Warnock hopes to oust Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) during the January senate runoff.

Meet Raphael Warnock.  The Reverend Raphael Warnock, 2020 Democratic candidate for Senate from Georgia, goes off on a false and slanderous anti-Israel tirade in a 2018 sermon (video clip below, full video here). He accused Israel of shooting Palestinian like "birds of prey," compared violent Palestinian riots to peaceful African-American civil rights protests, and claimed that Palestinians are "struggling for water and for their lives."  As Uri Pilichowski states in a comment on the video, either Warnock is an anti-Semitic liar, giving it up to demonize the Jewish state, or ignorant of the realities.  Either way, he shouldn't be a major party candidate for a seat in the United States Senate.

Sen. Cotton:  Will The Media Ask Democrat Senate Candidate About 2002 Arrest?  On Wednesday, Arkansas GOP Senator Tom Cotton, citing a story that surfaced delineating how Georgia Democrat senatorial candidate Raphael Warnock was charged and arrested in 2002 after allegedly obstructing a police investigation into suspected child abuse, bluntly asked whether the media would even ask Warnock about it.  Cotton tweeted, "In 2002, when the police investigated suspected child abuse at Raphael Warnock's church camp for children, Warnock was arrested for obstructing the investigation.  Will the media ask Raphael Warnock why he interfered with the police investigation?"

Go On the Offensive In Georgia.  The battle over this [questionable] presidential election has had the fringe benefit of exposing exactly what the scams, grifts, and cons the Dems will use to try to steal the January 5, 2021 Georgia Senate run-off elections.  What the GOP needs to do is to keep up the fight to count every legal vote in the presidential race while ensuring that the Dems can't pull off the same scam again in two months. [...] Kelly Loeffler's opponent, Raphael Warnock, is a full-fledged Castro-kissing commie.  He did significantly worse than Ossoff in the general, and maybe the wife-abuse accusations had something to do with it.  By the way, the garbage Atlanta Journal-Constitution hilariously headlined it this way:  "Warnock, wife involved in dispute."  The article text notes that the Democrat "was accused by his wife of running over her foot with his car during a heated argument days before he filed paperwork to officially seek the office."  Yeah, that would technically count as a "dispute" in my book.


Rep. Eric Swalwell

FBI Agents Thought Swalwell Had 'Sexual Relationship' with Fang Fang, But Dem Senators Halted Probe: Report.  Jerry Dunleavy, author of Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden's Fiasco, and former Justice reporter at the Washington Examiner, revealed a disturbing new "scoop" about the FBI's alleged investigation into House Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and his purported ties to a Chinese intelligence-connected woman known as "Fang Fang."  The report raises the alarming possibility that the Justice department politicized yet another investigation into an elected Democratic official.  "Scoop: Some new details below on the Chinese spying sagas related to Eric Swalwell and Dianne Feinstein — and on the FBI's handling of the allegations," Dunleavy wrote in a lengthy thread.

Eric Swalwell Was Livin' La Vida Loca, Spent $583K in Campaign Funds on Yachts, Resorts and Limos.  California Democrat Representative Eric Swalwell, recently kicked off the House Intelligence Committee because he'd had an affair with a Chinese spy, sure seems to know how to spend other people's money.  RedState has covered his profligate ways before, but now Fox News is reporting some new numbers that are truly jaw-dropping.  To wit, during the 2022 election cycle, Swalwell's campaign spent nearly $583,000 on travel expenses, using donated money to pay for limousines, flights, yachts, and fancy hotels.

GOP's Kevin McCarthy Will Attempt to Remove Eric Swalwell from Intelligence Committee.  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) will offer a resolution to force Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) off his Intelligence Committee assignment after having a reltionship with an alleged Chinese spy.  McCarthy said he would offer a resolution to remove Swalwell from the Intelligence Committee next week.  This represents another attempt by the Minority Leader to hold Swalwell accountable after reported ties between him and Chinese national Christine Fang.

Eric Swalwell's relationship with a spy can't be ignored.  Earlier this month, before Congress went on Christmas break, the capital was abuzz about California Rep. Eric Swalwell's relationship with a representative of a foreign power whose interests don't exactly coincide these days with the United States.  The normally chatty, media-friendly congressman who was one of President Donald J. Trump's principal accusers hasn't had much to say about his relationship with Fang Fang (also known as Christine) who the FBI says was a spy for the Chinese government who cultivated relationships — several of which were intimate — with rising Democratic politicians across the United States.  She vanished, apparently back behind the Bamboo Curtain about five years ago.  Mr. Swalwell's still around though — and still a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the place where the early part of the plot to impeach Mr. Trump was carried out.

China 'Struck Paydirt' With Alleged Spy Who Got Close to US Politicians:  Journalist Bill Gertz.  The Chinese regime "struck paydirt" when one of its alleged spies got close to U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), said Bill Gertz, who is the national security correspondent for The Washington Times and author of the book "Deceiving the Sky:  Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy."  The alleged Chinese spy, Fang Fang, was the subject of an investigative Axios report detailing how she allegedly posed as a U.S. university student to focus on up-and-coming U.S. officials in the San Francisco Bay Area between 2011 and 2015.  She was allegedly working for the Ministry of State Security, China's chief intelligence agency.  Swalwell was a councilman for the city of Dublin in California from 2010 until 2012, before he was elected to the House of Representatives, representing California's 15th District in 2013.  The congressman, who is in his fifth term and serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, briefly sought the Democratic nomination in the 2020 presidential race before bowing out in July 2019.

Establishment media is poised to let Swalwell off the hook for Chinese spy story.  A congressman who ran for president was compromised by a Chinese espionage operation.  And yet, Eric Swalwell remains on the House Intelligence Committee without offering any real explanation of what happened, because ... well, it's good to be a Democrat!  Swalwell had been close enough with a Chinese intelligence officer that she was able to place an intern in his office.  Christine Fang (or Fang Fang) had been in contact with Swalwell as early as his days as a Dublin city councilman in 2012 and had fundraised for his reelection to Congress as late as 2014.  Swalwell has refused to discuss his relationship with Fang, who was also reported to have been in sexual relationships with two unnamed Midwestern mayors.  Instead, he claimed the story was a hit job by the Axios, which isn't exactly known for being the home of Trump sycophants.  He was joined in this deflection by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who instead attacked Republicans over the QAnon conspiracy theory that most people haven't even heard of.

Top Democrat Claims Ignorance About Swalwell's Ties to Purported Chinese Spy.  A top Democrat on Monday dodged a question about Rep. Eric Swalwell's (D-Calif.) ties to an alleged Chinese spy.  Swalwell has been pictured with Christine Fang, who is reportedly a Chinese operative.  Asked whether Swalwell should step down from the House Intelligence Committee until the extent of the relationship is known, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) immediately turned to President Donald Trump.  "I don't know about the committee.  But I know that this president has some ties to" Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia, Clyburn said during an appearance on Fox News "Your World."  Host Neil Cavuto pressed Clyburn again on the Swalwell issue.  "I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.  You're talking about appearances.  Just because somebody says something, doesn't make it so.  How many lies has this president told?" Clyburn added.

From China, With Love.  Congressman Eric Swalwell is a rather dull California politico more widely known for stepping on a frog during a televised news interview.  After years of slandering Donald Trump as a Russian patsy, his own goings on with a dishy Chinese spy, Fang Fang were revealed.  She had plied her trade bundling and bedding Democrat lawmakers with ambitions for higher office.  Starting out in 2011 as a Chinese national student at a Bay Area University, her work for Asian community organizations allowed her to infiltrate the offices of many upwardly mobile northern California politicians and officials.  The scope of her contacts with the Chinese consulate in San Francisco and involvement in Democrat political circles across the country brought her to the attention of federal authorities.  The FBI tells us that Fang traded sexual favors with more federal, state, and local lawmakers than we have been given names, at least one of which was videotaped during a counterintelligence probe.  With the feds closing in, she somehow slipped the net in 2015 and fled back to Beijing.  Her sudden escape, in the midst of an intense spy investigation, was a blunder all too common to federal probes linked to the Democrats.

Kevin McCarthy:  The FBI Briefed Me on Swalwell's Chinese Spy Problem, and It's Not Good.  Yesterday [12/18/2020], I covered a story put out by The Federalist (and later confirmed by The Daily Wire) that some members of Congress had been briefed on Eric Swalwell and his relationship with a Chinese spy named Christine Fang.  Part of that report was that it was confirmed by the FBI that Swalwell did have a sexual relationship with Fang.  That's been suspected from the beginning given Fang's typical tactics and the fact that Swalwell refused to deny the claim.  Well, it looks like we've just gotten confirmation the FBI did indeed provide such a briefing.  Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has announced that he was indeed briefed and that nothing he heard was good.

Did Communist Spy Know That Rep. Swalwell Was Being Appointed to Intel Committee?  The Swalwell Saga keeps getting curiouser and curiouser.  The Wall Street Journal tried to put the events down on paper but it's still not adding up.  Forget the juicy details of Swalwell's possible romantic involvement with a pretty young Communist spy.  The real questions that need to be asked have more to do with national security than anything that might have happened in the bedroom between a United States congressman and Christine Fang, a Chinese national that the FBI says was spying for the Chinese Communist Party.  Swalwell says he met Ms. Fang in 2012.  She worked as a fundraiser on his 2014 re-election campaign.  And that's when the fun begins.  Fang apparently had enough sway with Swalwell to name an intern to his Washington office.  But the vital issue is when?

Swalwell Tries to Deflect from Chinese Spy Story by Attacking Tucker Carlson.  Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) has made news in the past couple of weeks with the stunning news that he was among the people that a Chinese spy cosied up to in a long term effort by Communist China to influence politicians in California.  The FBI was just briefed on the effort to target lawmakers like Swalwell to get long term information.  As we reported earlier, now there are also reports alleging that Swalwell slept with the spy, Fang Fang.  If so, he's completely compromised and we don't know what kind of blackmail there might be sitting out there.  What was incredibly ironic about the accusations was that Swalwell had been a big Russia collusion truther when he had this information sitting in his background.

Eric Swalwell and the spy:  A lesson in how China is undermining us.  Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) represents the state's 15th Congressional District, which sits like a splattered trapezoid between Berkeley and Silicon Valley.  The Blue Man Group is less blue than Rep. Swalwell's district.  He has served eight years and was just re-elected with more than 70 percent of the vote.  He's as safe in office as a 450-foot home run.  The only reason we even know Rep. Swalwell's name is because he thought, as a three-term, 30-something representative, he could pole-vault directly into the White House and so ran for president in 2019.  No one in history has made that leap, but give him credit for youthful — if naive — exuberance.  In the end, his presidential campaign didn't just fail to launch, it didn't make it out of the hangar, lasting a fizzling three months.  But the campaign was not without some political value that Rep. Swalwell leveraged to become one of the most quoted and aggressive Trump-Russia collusion and impeachment howlers on the left.  The attention was intoxicating for a newer congressman in a large state whom no one normally would know or care about.

Anonymous source confirms Swalwell was having sex with Chinese spy Fang Fang.  It may be purely coincidental, but on the same day that House speaker Pelosi and Minority Leader McCarthy received an intelligence briefing on Eric Swalwell's relationship with Chinese spy Fang Fang, two highly regarded conservative journalists report that an anonymous source has confirmed that he was engaged in a sexual relationship with her. [...] I trust both [Sean] Davis and [Ryan] Saavedra more than I trust the New York Times, but the source remains anonymous, so we can't be 100% sure.  However, given that we know from intelligence sources that the Chinese Mata Hari was using sex with two unnamed Midwestern mayors, one of them quite elderly, and given that Swalwell refuses to deny a sexual relationship, it seems highly probable that he was doing the deed with the spy.

China, Spies, And Sexual Harassment: 3 Bombshell Stories The Legacy Media Are Hiding From You.  Early last week, Axios reported that an alleged Chinese spy, a woman named Fang Fang or Christine Fang, had "forged ties with Swalwell while he was a city council member in Dublin, California."  Fang had helped fundraise for Swalwell's 2014 reelection campaign, and even placed an intern in his office.  White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany excoriated the legacy media for their complete disinterest in the possibility that Swalwell — who still sits on the House Intelligence Committee and was a vocal instigator in the Russia collusion hoax — could have been compromised by a Chinese spy.  On December 17th, The Hill reported that the "CBS, NBC and ABC evening newscasts haven't dedicated one second to the story," that Rep. Swalwell was "barely pressed" during an interview with CNN, and that The New York Times had failed to report on the story in any fashion.  One would imagine that had it been a Republican Congressman who was accused of sleeping with a spy, the legacy media may have expressed more interest.

GOP Leader McCarthy:  FBI Stonewalling on Briefing Congress on Eric Swalwell's Reported Chinese Spy Ties.  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday he has asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation for a briefing on Rep. Eric Swalwell's reported ties to a Chinese spy and the agency has canceled two times.  "Swalwell is a national security liability.  This is too important for the FBI to continue to stonewall," he tweeted.

House Republicans Call For Eric Swalwell's Removal From Intelligence Committee Over Relations With Chinese Spy.  House GOP members are calling for California Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell's removal from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence after it was revealed he maintained a political and alleged sexual relationship with Chinese spy Christine Fang.  "The House Intelligence Committee is instrumental in overseeing our national effort to counteract our chief global rival's espionage initiatives; for one of its members to have had an undisclosed relationship with a foreign asset in the manner described by recent reports is unacceptable and dangerous," the members wrote in a letter addressed to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

Mollie Hemingway:  Swalwell Story Increases Concern That China Controls Democrats.  Federalist Senior Editor Mollie Hemingway said Thursday that recent revelations about California Rep. Eric Swalwell's deep partnership with a Chinese spy heightens worries the Chinese have developed compromising influence on the Democratic Party.  "I think there's a lot of concern that the Democratic Party, that the Chinese have too much control over the Democratic Party and its agenda, in the same way that they have too much control over Hollywood and the NBA," Hemingway said.  "This is a big issue for the entire party."

New Information Indicates Democrat Eric Swalwell Is Lying About Breaking Ties With Chinese Honeytrap.  The hot news today has been Eric Swalwell. [...] Given Swalwell's story about being warned by the FBI, then what are we to make of the fact that the same woman was in contact with another California congressman who, it seems, didn't take any action at all when the FBI briefed him.  And if the FBI didn't brief him, we have to ask why that was the case.  Did they only brief guys she was banging?  Or is Swalwell lying about the FBI briefing because he knows the FBI won't confirm or deny those events?  And then there is the issue of whether Swalwell even cut ties with his honeypot.  How do we know that the lines of communication open between Fang and Swalwell's family were not used by Fang to receive information and to give instructions?

Zero security:  Nancy Pelosi defends Swalwell on China honeytrap.  Ever nonchalant, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she does not have "any concern" about her fellow Bay Area leftist colleague Eric Swalwell, having been the target of a Chinese intelligence honeytrap operation from 2011 to 2015.  Swalwell sits on the House Committee on Intelligence, which has access to some of America's biggest secrets as well as oversight over the entire CIA.  Swalwell, who has supposedly been accused of no wrongdoing (we will know for sure if we learn exactly what was in the FBI's defensive briefing to him), had at best been a naive dupe or else an outright collaborator who got away with it after he cut ties in 2015.

Schiff Refuses To Disclose Why He Withheld Details Of Swalwell's Relationship With A Chinese Spy From Intel Committee.  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff did not respond to The Federalist's questions about Intelligence Committee member and California Rep. Eric Swalwell's position on the committee in light of recent news revealing Swalwell's connections with a suspected Chinese spy.  When asked whether Swalwell's position on the House Intelligence Committee would be tainted or compromised by his relationship with Christine Fang, a suspected spy for communist China, Swalwell's office did not reply as of press time.  According to a new report by Axios, Fang leveraged her position and connections in California's Bay Area for years to gather intelligence on Democrat politicians and government officials.

China's extensive 'honey trap' spy network could involve thousands of ploys underway now, ex-operative says.  It is the stuff of a James Bond blockbuster: a young, attractive woman lures a rising political star into a romantic web, all the while collecting critical information to trickle back to her handler or big bosses back home.  Axios revealed this week that more than six years ago Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., began a relationship with a woman suspected of being a Chinese espionage operative.  He was alerted by federal investigators in 2015 and given a "defense briefing," which resulted in him breaking off ties to the suspect.  However, Swalwell wouldn't be the first or last political figure to be "honey-trapped" — with multiple former intelligence officials surmising that such schemes carried out by Chinese spies have long played out on U.S. soil, and remain ongoing.

While Eric Swalwell Was Sleeping With a Chinese Spy Adam Schiff Put Him in Charge of CIA Oversight.  When newly elected California representative Eric Swalwell arrived in Washington, DC, in January 2013, he brought three things with him: a reputation as someone to watch, having bumped off ossified 20-term Democrat incumbent Pete Stark in the primary; a crap ton of ambition; and a Chinese spy he was banging.  According to media reports, the spy, Fang "Christine" Fang, latched onto Swalwell around 2011 when he was a new city councilor for Dublin, California.  She became a bundler for his campaign in addition to other services performed.  Swalwell let her place at least one intern in his congressional office; as a freshman, he was slotted onto the Science, Space, and Technology subcommittee of the House Homeland Security Committee where Democrat Bennie Thompson was ranking member at the time.

CA Democrat Swalwell Says Relationship With Chinese Spy 'Classified'.  Axios released the story on Monday [12/7/2020], about Fang Fang, or Christina Fang, a Chinese national and alleged operative for China's Ministry of State Security, who was tasked with targeting San Francisco Bay area Democrats, particularly up-and-comers in politics.  "Fang met Swalwell in 2012 when her cover was a student in the Bay Area and became involved in activism and politics, moving on to fundraise" according to the Daily Mail.  The Daily Mail also reported that "intelligence agencies were so concerned about Fang's involvement in Swalwell's office that they organized a briefing for Swalwell, and he severed ties with her immediately."  Not long after, "she vanished... presumably back to China."

There Are Mayors, Governors, Senior People — Eric Swalwell Is the Tip of the Iceberg.  ["]I think there needs to be a gang of intelligent group investigations, certainly an acting chairman, Marco Rubio should immediately call the intelligence committee together.  They should get a confidential classified briefing on what Eric Swalwell new and how much did he give away.  Because the reality is he spent years downplaying the China threat and overhyping the Russian threat.  This is playing exactly into what the Chinese want people to do.  They want to be under the radar.  Eric Swalwell did exactly what the Chinese wanted.  We need to figure out are there others.  And I can tell you without giving away too much intelligence this is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the leverage that China is putting on our politicians.  There are many, many more.["]  [Video clip]

Eric Swalwell, a Chinese 'honeytrap' and FBI double standards.  Rep. Eric Swalwell cut off contact with a young woman allegedly spying for China as soon as the FBI gave him a defensive briefing alerting him to the situation.  Why didn't the FBI give Team Trump the same option — instead of spying on it?  Fang Fang, a/k/a Christine Fang, got close to several politicians, especially in the Bay Area, from 2011 to 2015, only to abruptly leave the country as the FBI was closing in.  US officials believe China's Ministry of State Security, its main civilian spy agency, sent her here to collect intelligence and gain influence with up-and-coming politicians.  Since Democrats dominate Bay Area politics, she focused on officials such as Swalwell, starting when he was a Dublin city councilman and continuing after he won election to Congress in 2012.  She turned out to have a good eye for talent:  The congressman became a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in 2015, getting the lead role in the subcommittee on CIA oversight.

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Hmmm.  I wonder how she knew "the FBI was closing in."

Swill this.  The story of the Chinese Mata Hari who embedded herself in Rep. Eric Swalwell's world — emphasis on bed — is impacting, as Drudge used to put it.  The New York Post reports, for example:  "Swalwell mum on sex with China spy, but family remains Facebook friends with honeytrap."  Swalwell was of course a prime retailer of the Russia hoax and the impeachment farce over the past four years.  The regnant cliché about Democrats and projection applies in spades to this vile lout.  Indeed, Swalwell is proof positive of its veracity.  Swalwell appeared yesterday with his buddy Jim Sciutto at CNN to unleash these howlers [...]

Kevin McCarthy demands answers from Pelosi on Chinese spy infiltrating Rep. Swalwell's office.  Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., was "so preoccupied with going after President Trump" that he was not "protecting the USA from bad actors," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said on Wednesday, reacting to a report of a Chinese spy infiltrating Congress.  "This is only the tip of the iceberg because remember what we're hearing.  These are Chinese spies that go down to the level of a mayor," McCarthy told "The Ingraham Angle."  "[China] helps a city council member become a congressman.  This congressman now gets on the intel committee.  They are only selected from the intel committee by the leaders of their party meaning Nancy Pelosi.  Nancy Pelosi is one of the Gang of Eight, along with myself," McCarthy said.  "Did Nancy Pelosi know this had transpired when she put him on the committee?"

Swalwell Refuses To Discuss Relationship With Chinese Spy Who Had Affairs With Two US Mayors.  California Rep. Eric Swalwell is refusing to discuss his relationship with Christine Fang, an alleged Chinese spy who cozied up to multiple California politicos and reportedly had romantic relationships with two U.S. mayors before skipping the country in 2015.  Instead, Swalwell is diverting attention from his role in a story about Fang, reported by Axios on Monday, by claiming he is the victim of a political hit job because of his open criticism of President Donald Trump.  "I've been a critic of the president.  I've spoken out against him.  I was on both committees that worked to impeach him," Swalwell, a Democrat who serves on the House Intelligence Committee, told Politico in an interview on Tuesday.

Eric Swalwell Implicates Democrat Leadership, Blames Trump for Revelation of Chinese Spy Who Infiltrated Him\.  In today's version of "You've got to be kidding me," Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) is blaming President Trump for the Axios report that disclosed his questionable relationship with a Chinese spy. [...] Is Swalwell alleging that Trump waited until more than a month after the election to out him?  Never mind that Swalwell was photographed with the woman he refers to as "this person," who went by Christine Fang, numerous times smiling broadly.  According to the Axios report, she had enough influence in Swalwell's inner circle to place an intern in his Washington, D.C., office.  She also helped with his campaign fundraising.  There are also allegations that Swalwell had a sexual relationship with Fang.  He refused to answer questions about this when Politico asked him.

Lawmakers: Remove Swalwell From Intelligence Committee After Link to Chinese Spy Revealed.  Lawmakers are asking Democratic leadership in the House of Representatives to remove Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) from a powerful committee after his alleged ties to a Chinese spy were reported this week.  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday night [12/8/2020] wondered whether Democratic congressional leaders were aware of Swalwell's reported links to Fang Fang, a Chinese spy.  "Remember what Swalwell said.  He accused the president of everything that he did, by lying to the American public and sitting on the Intel Committee," McCarthy said on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle."  "Not only should he be removed from the Intel, he should be removed from Congress as well."

Swalwell: 'I Was Shocked' When FBI Alerted Me About China Spy.  Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) told CNN on Wednesday [12/9/2020] he was "shocked" to learn he'd been hanging around with a woman who was here as part of a Chinese effort to influence up-and-coming politicians.  "No.  Jim, I was shocked," Swalwell told CNN's Jim Sciutto.  "You know, just over six years ago I was told about this individual, and then I offered to help, and I did help, and I was thanked by the FBI for my help, and that person is no longer in the country."  [Video clip]  Axios, which broke the story on Tuesday, reported that a "suspected Chinese intelligence operative" calling herself Christine Fang "developed extensive ties with local and national politicians," including Swalwell, who now sits on the House intelligence committee.

House Intel Republicans [were] not told about Eric Swalwell's relationship with Chinese spy.  House Intelligence Committee Republicans were surprised to learn this week that a member of their panel, Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, was targeted by a suspected Chinese spy who slept with US politicians as a tactic to elicit information.  Swalwell, who represents a California district south of Oakland, received an FBI "defensive briefing" in 2015 on operative Fang Fang, but most if not all Republicans on the elite committee weren't told that a colleague had been targeted by China.  Fang, also known as Christine Fang, returned to China in mid-2015 as US officials heightened their scrutiny of her string of honey-trap seductions.  She reportedly fundraised for Swalwell's 2014 re-election campaign before he joined the Intelligence Committee in 2015.

Axios' Swan:  Swalwell Blaming Trump for Spy Story 'Completely Absurd.  On Wednesday's [12/9/2020] broadcast of the Fox News Channel's "Special Report," Axios reporter Jonathan Swan panned Rep. Eric Swalwell's (D-CA) claim that the Axios story about him and a suspected Chinese spy was leaked by President Donald Trump or his allies by saying the claim makes no sense to "anyone who has any passing understanding of how Trumpworld works," and is "completely absurd."

Eric Swalwell now thinks Trump colluded with Axios.  A new report from Axios details how a female Chinese intel operative forged warm and friendly relations, campaign and fundraising relations, even romantic and sexual relations, with California and Midwestern politicians between the years of 2011 and 2015 in order to influence their policies in American government.  In other words, she was trying to collude with U.S. politicians.  This is hardly shocking.  China wants to upset America's global dominance.  What is a bit shocking, though, is the fact one of her collusion targets, Rep. Eric Swalwell, who couldn't wait to impeach President Donald Trump for false Russia collusion charges, is now shaking off any negative press here by — get this — accusing Trump of colluding with Axios.  Or maybe it's Axios colluding with Trump.  Either, or.  Either way, it's ridiculous.

Why is Eric Swalwell still on House Intel Committee after Chinese spy revelations?  The defining characteristic of the American ruling class is narcissism.  The people in charge talk almost exclusively about themselves, about their limitless neuroses, their so-called privilege, their guilt about that privilege, their "identity."  No matter what they're saying, it's always all about them.  America's frame of reference has shrunk to the point where we can only see ourselves, and the rest of the world knows that — especially China.  China's leaders aren't frivolous and stupid like our leaders are.  They don't care what pronouns you use.  They don't hire people because of the way they look.  They have a very specific goal:  To knock the U.S. from our perch.  To accelerate this, the Chinese Communist Party has engaged in a ceaseless effort to subvert our leadership class, and that has worked more effectively than anyone imagined.

Time to throw Eric Swalwell off the House intelligence committee.  Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell is being questioned about his fitness for the House intelligence committee by Republican House leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy, for his cozy relationship with alleged Chinese spy Fang Fang, a.k.a.  Christine Fang. [...] But instead of bowing out gracefully, though, Swalwell is yelling that he was a victim, not of the ChiComs, but of President Trump, whom he claims was behind the damning Axios report. [...] So Trump did it?  Trump was behind the Axios report?  That would be Axios, an internet news site run by Washington swamp thing Mike Allen, reported from U.S. intelligence sources, and done over the course of a year.  This doesn't sound like a hit job coming from Camp Trump.  Axios, remember, is on the center-left.  The intelligence community is on the left, too, and what's more, out to Get Trump.

Networks Censor Bombshell on Chinese Spy-Swalwell Relationship; Tucker Buries All of Them.  When it comes to claims of Russian collusion (fake or real), the liberal media have proven to be all ears.  But when it comes to the ever-growing threat from China, they're far less interested.  Whether it's due to their corporate interests, the Communist Party's tilt, or something else, the outrage was almost non-existent.  So, it was unsurprising to see how the major broadcast network newscasts refused on Tuesday [12/8/2020] to acknowledge a bombshell Axios story chronicling how a Chinese spy named Christine Fang "developed extensive ties with local and national politicians, including a U.S. congressman, in what U.S. officials believe was a political intelligence operation run by China's main civilian spy agency between 2011 and 2015."  That congressman?  Eric Swalwell (D-CA).  Thankfully, the Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson not only covered this in his opening monologue, but went further by stating that "U.S. intelligence officials believe that Fang had a sexual relationship with [Swalwell]" and that his team contacted Swalwell's office seeking comment on all of the allegations.

FBI stepped in after suspected Chinese spy got close to Swalwell, other politicians, report finds.  A suspected Chinese spy got so close to a number of politicians — including Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif. — that the FBI stepped in to disrupt the situation, even going so far as to give a "defensive briefing" to Swalwell, a report has found.  Axios reported that a Chinese national named Fang Fang or Christine Fang targeted up-and-coming local politicians, including those who had the potential to become national figures.  Current and former intelligence officials told the outlet that Fang used campaign fundraising, networking and rallies as well as romantic relationships with at least two Midwestern mayors to gain proximity to political power.  She also attended regional mayoral conferences.


Lyndon B. Johnson

Here Are 3 Big Elections from the Past Where Voter Fraud May Have Changed the Outcome.  [Scroll down]  LBJ had first run for the Senate in 1941.  He lost by 1,311 votes and blamed voter fraud for his defeat.  In 1948, Johnson ran again.  On election night in the Democratic primary runoff against former Texas Gov. Coke Stevenson, it appeared LBJ had lost.  Then, as if out of a magician's hat, a box of uncounted ballots was "discovered" in the south Texas town of Alice.  By the end of that week, LBJ had "won" by 87 votes, earning him the title "Landslide Lyndon." Each side accused the other of voter fraud.

Voter Fraud in Presidential Elections Has Been Going on for at Least 60 Years.  It's Time to Call a Halt.  [Scroll down]  In Texas, meanwhile, Republicans charged that Democratic vice presidential candidate Lyndon Johnson, whose past recourse to voter fraud was legendary, had been up to his old tricks.  In his 1948 Senate race, voters helpfully voted in alphabetical order to put Johnson over the top.  Twelve years later, the Republicans contended, Johnson had made sure that tens of thousands of fraudulent votes were cast for Kennedy, while tens of thousands of other ballots, marked for Nixon, were invalidated, generally on the thinnest of pretexts.

Lyndon B. Johnson.  [Scroll down]  In the 1948 elections, Johnson again ran for the Senate and won in a highly controversial Democratic Party primary against the well-known former governor Coke Stevenson. [...] The runoff vote count, handled by the Democratic State Central Committee, took a week.  Johnson was announced the winner by 87 votes out of 988,295, an extremely narrow margin of victory.  However, Johnson's victory was based on 200 "patently fraudulent" ballots reported six days after the election from Box 13 in Jim Wells County, in an area dominated by political boss George Parr.  The added names were in alphabetical order and written with the same pen and handwriting, following at the end of the list of voters.  Some of the persons in this part of the list insisted that they had not voted that day.  Election judge Luis Salas said in 1977 that he had certified 202 fraudulent ballots for Johnson.

How Johnson Won Election He'd Lost.  [Paywall]

Don't Forget Box 13.  [Scroll down]  But then on Friday — seven days after the runoff election — South Texas's Jim Wells County, which was controlled by a powerful rancher named George Parr, a close friend of Johnson, sent in an amended election report.  Suddenly Stevenson was no longer winning.  Johnson had won the statewide election by a margin of 87 votes.  Stevenson decided to contest the election.  Johnson's victory, however, was affirmed in a 29-28 vote of the Texas Democratic Party's executive committee.  Stevenson didn't stop there.  He filed suit in federal court and secured an injunction against Johnson's name appearing on the ballot in the general election until the matter could be investigated and resolved.  The injunction was voided by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black after Johnson's lawyer, Abe Fortas, filed a petition in the high court.  After he became president, Johnson rewarded Fortas with an appointment to the Supreme Court, where he served from 1965-1969, when he was forced to resign due to ethics violations.  Many years later, Caro conducted a detailed investigation into the election.  He secured a sworn statement from a man named Luis Salas, who had been the election judge in Precinct 13 in Jim Wells County.  Knowing that Parr was not above murdering political opponents, Salas had waited until both Parr and Johnson were dead before talking about how the election had been stolen for Johnson.  Salas confirmed that Johnson's vote totals had been padded with enough names of the dead and others to give him his margin of victory.

Abuse of Power:  When LBJ Spied on Goldwater.  As liberals dig furiously for evidence of an abuse of power by President Trump against a Democrat presidential rival, let's hop into the time machine for a history lesson of what President Lyndon Baines Johnson did to Sen. Barry Goldwater in anticipation of the 1964 presidential race.  What LBJ did has not been bothered with by liberal journalists or historians, whose job is to ignore those transgressions.  The few sources to address LBJ's Goldwater malfeasance have been conservative ones.  That's all the more reason for liberals to quit reading now and cover their eyes.  Most recently, LBJ's shenanigans against Goldwater were addressed in Mark Levin's new book, Unfreedom of the Press.

The FBI Spied for LBJ's Campaign.  Every poll agreed that President Lyndon B. Johnson would easily win the election against the conservative Sen. Goldwater of Arizona.  But LBJ wanted a landslide so he could implement his Great Society vision without resistance and go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.  For Johnson, extremism in the pursuit of victory was no vice.  Thus was born Johnson's "Anti-Campaign" to smear Goldwater's candidacy.  The operation was run from the second floor of the West Wing by veteran Washington-based Democrats like Leonard Marks, who would become director of the U.S. Information Agency, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then an assistant secretary of labor and later a U.S. senator from New York.  Typical of their black-bag politics was scheduling Democratic speakers before and after Goldwater's appearance in a city, smothering his message with pro-Johnson, anti-Goldwater rhetoric.  Advance knowledge of Goldwater's travel schedule and advance copies of his remarks were provided by a spy the Central Intelligence Agency had planted in Goldwater headquarters.

Get off your high horses.  Was it presidential when John Kennedy invited Mafia molls to the White House for a roll in the hay?  Was it presidential when he and his brother Triborough Fitzgerald Kennedy shared the sexual favors of a pathetic movie star?  Was it presidential when his successor, Lyndon Johnson — purveyor of the ruinous entitlement scam known as "The Great Society" showed his class in conducting press conferences from the toilet?  Was it presidential when Bill Clinton used government employees to find him sex partners?

The art of stealing elections.  Stealing elections is an old game politicians play.  Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th president, got to the U.S. Senate in 1948 by "winning" the closest race in Texas history by a margin of 87 votes out of more than a million cast.  An election judge in tiny Alice, Texas, said he counted more than 200 names on the voting roll for Box 13 that were written in alphabetic succession in the same hand, same color of ink.  When a federal court subpoenaed Box 13, it was discovered to be "lost."  LBJ took his seat in the Senate.

Vote-fraud-seeding ACORN deserves a good cracking.  It used to be that Americans — even American political candidates — would simply accept the little Election Day miracles and move on.  When the dead rose in Chicago to put John F. Kennedy in the White House, Richard Nixon said one of his many goodbyes and faded into the wallpaper for eight years.  When residents of a certain precinct in Texas voted in alphabetical order to send Lyndon Johnson to the U.S. Senate — hey, it could happen.  Right?  Then Al Gore lost in 2000 and John Kerry lost in 2004 and the conspiracy theorists decided it was time to build a conspiracy that could win for them.

Hillary's Texas Money Bundler.  [George Berham] Parr's most ominous pistolero was his six-gun [toting] enforcer, Luis Salas.  Days after the polls closed, Salas added 200 votes for [Lyndon] Johnson to Ballot Box 13 in Jim Webb County.  The fact that all the votes were recorded in the same handwriting was a clue.  But the box was never examined by those who adjudicated the election results; it had disappeared by then.  Revised returns gave Johnson a 3,000 vote margin of victory in Hidalgo County. … It all makes the chads and dimples show of South Florida look like child's play.


Cal Cunningham

There is no room on this website for tabloid gossip — like this:
Democrat Candidate Cal Cunningham Kicked Out of Family Home.  North Carolina's Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate, Cal Cunningham, has moved out of his family's Raleigh home and is now living with his sister, according to photos of Cunningham taken at his sister's house obtained by National File.

Democrat Cal Cunningham Gets Brutalized by the Local Media Down the Home Stretch of Senate Campaign.  As I wrote earlier this week, Democratic Senate nominee Cal Cunningham has become persona non grata in his own party now as we head into week four of him refusing to answer questions about the one, possibly two affairs the married father of two has conducted during the course of his Senate campaign.  It's gotten so bad for Cunningham here that not only is he skipping out on some of his virtual town halls and being dropped from local fundraisers, but Gov. Roy Cooper (D) was caught on hot mic during Joe Biden's Sunday visit to the state promising to drag Cunningham over the finish line in spite of the scandal.

Cal Cunningham's Campaign Just Went Up in More Flames With the Release of New Text Messages.  Democrat North Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham has been in a race with Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC).  But this week, Cunningham's campaign has completely melted down with the news of a sexting scandal and alleged multiple affairs with women not his wife. [...] This can't play well in North Carolina and Cunningham keeps trying to say it isn't about his "personal life."  But it surely is about his honesty, his judgement and his deceit.

Woman confirms affair with Cunningham; texts reference sex at his NC home.  A California woman on Tuesday confirmed to The Associated Press that she had a physical relationship with Cal Cunningham, North Carolina's Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate.  Both are married to other people.  Wednesday morning [10/7/2020], the Army Reserve confirmed to WRAL that it has opened an investigation into Cunningham.  "The Army Reserve is investigating the matters involving Lt. Col. James Cunningham.  As such, we are unable to provide further details at this time," said Simon B. Flake, chief of media relations and public information for the Army Reserve Strategic Communications.  It's unclear why the Army Reserve launched an investigation.  NationalFile.com reported last week that Guzman Todd is married to a service member.

Chuck Schumer Wanted a Boring White Dude Locked in a Basement.  Cal Cunningham Had Other Ideas.  The next time Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) tries to lock a male Democrat in a basement, he'll make sure to take away his cell phone.  Cal Cunningham was Schumer's handpicked candidate to run for Senate in North Carolina.  Reports indicated Schumer's ideal candidate to challenge incumbent senator Thom Tillis (R., N.C.) would be as boring as possible and spend the entire campaign "in a windowless basement raising money" for "negative ads about Tillis."  Apparently, Schumer forgot to throw in a prohibition on sexting side chicks because Cunningham — a married father of two — was recently caught exchanging flirty messages with a married woman in California.

Cunningham cancels appearance after second allegation.  Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham canceled a planned town hall appearance as a second allegation against him was made public.  According to WUNC's Jeff Tiberii, Cunningham backed out of a previously-scheduled appearance to talk to voters on Monday afternoon [10/5/2020].  "I'm disappointed for the organizers who worked hard to put this together; also that we will not hear from Cunningham about sexually suggestive texts he sent to a woman (not his wife, nor mother of his children). Fascinated to see when he publicly addresses this," Tiberri said in a tweet Monday.

North Carolina Senate race in 'chaos' after Cunningham sexting scandal, Tillis coronavirus diagnosis.  The critical and expensive Senate race in North Carolina, central to determining which party controls the upper chamber, was thrown into uncertainty this weekend.  Within the span of just a few hours on Friday, Republican incumbent Thom Tillis announced that he had tested positive for the coronavirus, while his Democratic challenger, Cal Cunningham, acknowledged and apologized for exchanging sexually suggestive text messages with a woman who is not his wife.

NC Sen:  Cal Cunningham Admits to Sending Sexual Messages to California Strategist During Campaign.  North Carolina Democrat Cal Cunningham, who is running to unseat incumbent GOP Senator Thom Tillis, found himself involved in a sex scandal late on Friday night.  The Charlotte News-Observer reported that Cunningham admitted to sending a series of sexual messages to a woman other than his wife; the National File first reported alleged texts between Cunningham and a California public relations strategist, Arlene Guzman Todd, that his campaign confirmed to be authentic.

Sex Scandal Roils North Carolina Senate Race.  North Carolina has played a key role in Democrats' hopes to take control of the Senate this year.  Republican Thom Tillis is considered an uninspiring figure, while the Democrats seemed to have found a strong challenger in veteran Cal Cunningham.  But yesterday [10/2/2020] the news broke that Cunningham has been carrying on a torrid affair with a political consultant from California.  Both Cunningham and the consultant, Arlene Guzman Todd, are married.  The affair became public when someone leaked a series of texts between Cunningham and Todd.


Mark Kelly

Lawsuit breathes life into publication's claim that Mark Kelly dressed as Hitler at party.  Back when Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly ran for office in 2020, a black and white photograph surfaced of someone in a Nazi uniform, taken from a yearbook dating from the time the former astronaut attended the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.  The costumed Nazi was Mr. Kelly, dressed "as Hitler," said the National File, a right-wing online publication that also broke the story about another controversial photograph, one from Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam's medical school yearbook showing two men, one dressed as a Ku Klux Klansman and the other in blackface.  Mr. Northam first acknowledged he was one of the men in racist garb, then denied it.  Mr. Kelly, on the other hand, denied it was him from the start, and his campaign provided statements from former Kingspoint classmates saying the pretend Nazi wasn't him.

Arizona Senate Race Shaken Up.  Mark Kelly, Gabrielle Giffords' husband, is running for Arizona's Senate seat against Martha McSally.  Kelly, a former astronaut, is one of those Democrats who pose as normal Americans.  His cover was blown today when it came out that a key campaign aide denounced police officers as "worthless f****** pigs" one week before he went to work for Kelly: [...] [T.L.] L'Heureux deleted his tweet and locked his account.  Now he says his absurd attack on law enforcement didn't reflect "who he is," one of the lamest of dodges.

Kelly Campaign Spokesman Calls Police 'Worthless [...] Pigs'.  The campaign spokesman for Arizona Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly referred to police as "worthless [...] pigs" on Twitter in August, a comment that could complicate Kelly's effort to distance himself from radical anti-police sentiment from the left flank of his party.  T.J. L'Heureux, Kelly's deputy press secretary, posted the message in response to a video that showed Chicago police clashing with protesters over the summer.  "You worthless [...] pigs," wrote L'Heureux on Aug. 17, directing the message to the Chicago Police Department's official Twitter account.

AZ Senate Candidate Mark Kelly's Ties With China [are] Tighter Than Previously Known.  It's no secret that Democratic Arizona Senate candidate Mark Kelly has a long history of business dealings with companies with strong ties to the Chinese Communist Party.  But a new report details just how far back those relationships go.  According to the Washington Free Beacon, in 2003 "Kelly attended the annual Young Leaders Forum, a five-day junket co-hosted by the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs, which is 'under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.'" Kelly was personally invited to the conference by the Chinese government, with all expenses to the exotic retreat paid for.  The prestigious conference provided Kelly the opportunity to associate with high-level CCP officials and rising stars in Chinese society.

China infiltrates US — Hunter Biden, other examples show extent of the problem.  Arizona U.S. Senate candidate Mark Kelly's activities with the Chinese Communist dictatorship have become an issue in that state's senatorial election.  Hunter Biden's acceptance of money from allies in China, Russia and Ukraine has become an issue in the presidential election.  Some Democrats apparently find it hard to understand how ruthless and dictatorial their Communist Chinese business partners are.  In Kelly's case, riding around China with a Chinese flag on his motorcycle was probably good for selling products and putting money in his pocket, but it also helped legitimize the totalitarian police state Xi Jinping is building.  After all, if an American astronaut is comfortable waving the Chinese flag, can the dictatorship really be that bad?  Similarly, selling the giant Chinese conglomerate Tencent a role in Kelly's surveillance balloon company offers the Chinese dictatorship an opportunity to acquire surveillance technology that will help it further control the Chinese people.

For Mark Kelly, Attending Forum Hosted by CCP Was the Beginning of Lucrative Relationship with China.  The Chinese government invited then-astronaut Mark Kelly, now an Arizona Democratic Senate candidate, to an all-expenses-paid retreat at a countryside resort in 2003.  He left China five days later not only with a future spouse, former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D., Ariz.), but also with lucrative regime business contacts.  Kelly attended the annual Young Leaders Forum, a five-day junket cohosted by the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs, which is "under the leadership of the Communist Party of China."  The conference allowed Kelly an opportunity to mingle with high-profile Communist Party officials and rising stars in Chinese society.  Attendees included Cui Tiankai, now Chinese ambassador to the United States; Fang Xinghai, former director of the CCP's top committee on the economy; and Zhou Mingwei, the party's former top foreign propaganda honcho.  China analyst Gordon G. Chang said that party connections — such as those Kelly fostered — are "absolutely essential" for securing Chinese business deals.

Gun-Grabbing Grifter Mark Kelly Is Yet Another Democrat in Bed With the Chinese Communist Party.  We are currently witnessing just how important having control of the United States Senate is, especially as the Democratic Party is in the midst of its lemming rush off of the socialist edge.  Control of the Senate is up for grabs this year and one of the most pivotal races for it is happening here in my home state of Arizona.  Republican Sen. Martha McSally is being challenged by Mark Kelly, a Democrat who is benefiting mostly from money pouring in from outside of Arizona.  Kelly is a former astronaut and, of course, the husband of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who was a victim of a tragic mass shooting here in my hometown in 2011.  As a result of that, Kelly is vehemently anti-Second Amendment.  In fact, that is probably the only area of policy where his intentions are clear.  Everything else is boilerplate 2020 leftist garbage without many specifics.  Not only is Kelly a carpetbagger and Second Amendment hater, but he is also pretty buddy-buddy with the Chinese Communist Party, and the relationship goes back to 2003.


Andrew Gillum

The Liberal Media's 'Rising Stars' Always Seem to Crash and Burn.  Yet again, when Democrats were desperate for an answer to Ron DeSantis who clearly had the political chops and conservative principles to lead the state of Florida, they fell for a phony whose shiny political veneer barely concealed his personal and professional indiscretions that crossed the line into criminality.  Andrew Gillum, who was supposedly the man to make Florida a blue state, imploded in spectacular fashion within years of losing the 2018 contest for governor.  First, it was the "incident" in a hotel room filled with baggies of pills, a vomit-covered pillow, and meth.  Lots of meth.  The former Tallahassee mayor apologized, claimed he hadn't used any of the drugs covering the room in which he was found incoherently babbling, and said he was retreating from public political life.  Until 2022, when he was charged with more than 20 felonies relating to his losing 2018 campaign.

The Democrat who was almost the governor of Florida was just indicted on 21 felony counts — and it's as bad as it sounds.  In 2018, Andrew Gillum ran against Ron DeSantis in the race for the Florida governor's mansion.  He lost that race.  Now, the former Tallahassee mayor may be losing something for more precious than an election: his freedom.  According to the Daily Wire, Gillum was just indicted on 21 counts related to crimes he allegedly committed in relationship to his campaign finances.  Gillum claims his innocence and says that the charges are political, but the charges are coming from the Biden Department of Justice.

Dirty Democrat Frequently Compared To Barack Obama, Hit With 21 Counts Fed Indictment Including Wire Fraud and Conspiracy.  The 2018 Democrat gubernatorial candidate and former Mayor of Tallahassee Andrew Gillum, who was frequently compared to Barack Obama, has been indicted on 21 felony charges, including wire fraud, conspiracy, and making false statements.  In 2018, Barack Obama called the Florida governor's race that pitted Republican Ron DeSantis against Democrat Andrew Gillum the "most important election of our lifetime." [...] Newsmax reports on the disgraced Democrat — Gillum, 42, and Sharon Janet Lettman-Hicks, 53, were accused of unlawfully soliciting and obtaining funds from various entities and individuals between 2016-19 through false and fraudulent promises and representations indicating the funds would be used for a legitimate purpose, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida Jason R. Coody announced.  The 21-count indictment also alleges that the defendants used third parties to divert a portion of those funds to a company owned by Lettman-Hicks, who then fraudulently provided the funds, disguised as payroll payments, to Gillum for his personal use.  Both defendants were charged with 19 counts of wire fraud.  Gillum also was charged with making false statements to the FBI.

Candidate That Almost Beat DeSantis In 2018 May Now Be Headed To Prison.  Considering the high-profile status that Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has achieved, it's easy to forget that he almost lost his state's gubernatorial election four years ago.  He may be the front runner to succeed Donald Trump as the GOP's presidential nominee during the next election cycle should Trump decide to sit it out, but in 2018 Governor DeSantis barely squeaked by the Democrats' candidate, former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum.  Fortunately for Florida, and indeed for all Americans, DeSantis succeeded in defeating Gillum the last time around, even if it was by only 34,000 votes.  Because, while Ron DeSantis appears headed to a landslide victory in November in his quest for a second gubernatorial term, Andrew Gillum may be headed to prison.

Andrew Gillum, Former DeSantis Opponent, Charged in 21-Count Indictment.  Florida voters dodged a bullet in 2018 when Ron DeSantis narrowly beat Andrew Gillum — then considered a rising star — to become the governor of Florida.  Their trajectories couldn't have been more different after that race.  Gillum's career blew up after he was found inebriated in a hotel with a man who was suspected of having overdosed on crystal meth.  Meanwhile, DeSantis has gone on to do great things for Florida and is now a highly-touted as a possible presidential candidate for 2024.  NBC reported on the indictment that is related to fraud during the campaign and noted he's retained Marc Elias for his defense.  [Tweet]

Report: Andrew Gillum's Sexual Affairs With Male Escort Were More Extensive Than First Claimed.  Former Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum had multiple liaisons with a male escort, a new profile reveals.  The former mayor of Tallahassee, Gillum's political career was derailed by a sex scandal in which he was found passed out in a hotel room with Travis Dyson, a male escort.  Gillum, who lost the 2018 Florida gubernatorial general election to Ron DeSantis, paid Dyson multiple times for sex, according to GQ.  Gillum had previously told talk show host Tamron Hall that Dyson was just a friend.  However, Dyson alleged that he and Gillum matched on Grindr, a gay dating app.

Police Photos Show Crystal Meth in Hotel Room Where Andrew Gillum Was Found.  New photos from the Miami Beach Police Department confirm the presence of crystal meth in the hotel room where former Democratic candidate for Florida governor Andrew Gillum was found after a suspected overdose incident in March.  Early in the morning on March 13, Miami Beach Fire Rescue were called to the hotel room by an associate of Gillum's who found the former Tallahassee mayor and another man in the room in an intoxicated condition.  The man told police that he suspected Gillum and the other man to be under the influence of an unknown substance.

Andrew Gillum's attorney confirms nude picture.  Andrew Gillum's lawyers have now confirmed that it was him who was lying on the tile floor and apparently "under the influence of an unknown substance" during an apparent overdose at the Mondrian Hotel on Miami Beach," as we posted here.  According to Alex Spiros, an attorney at Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP in New York City, in a cease and desist letter our news outlet received from his firm regarding the overdose incident at the Mondrian Hotel on Miami Beach that involved Gillum, our story was a "violation of Mr. Gillum's privacy rights" and was "merely an appeal to prurient interests, and serves no legitimate news-related purpose."

After Getting Drunk and Being Found in a Hotel Room with Meth and an Alleged Gay Escort, Andrew Gillum Heads to Rehab.  Well, maybe this was a predictable result of what appears to be quite a night for former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum.  He was found in a hotel room last week totally drunk and incapable of speaking with police.  Oh, and did we mention that there were bags of meth and reported gay escorts in the room as well?  Yes.  The other man involved was reportedly suffering a drug overdose.  Gillum did not take any drugs or sexual activity, but this is an embarrassing story for one of the state's rising stars.  It's quite the public relations mess[.]

After Being Discovered Wasted and Naked in a Hotel Room With a Gay Male Escort and Bags of Crystal Meth, Andrew Gillum Says...  It was only a matter of time before the familiar "entering rehab" and "apologize to my family" excuse was trotted out by former Florida gubernatorial candidate and CNN contributor, Andrew Gillum.  After being discovered naked in a hotel room with an overdosed gay male escort and three bags of crystal meth next to the bed, Andrew Gillum says he is withdrawing from public life to deal with "deeper struggles".

Top Democrat Andrew Gillum says he is entering rehab.  Former Florida candidate for governor Andrew Gillum disclosed Sunday that he is entering a rehabilitation facility, saying he had fallen into a depression and alcohol abuse after losing his bid for the state's highest post.

Andrew Gillum's naked meth party:  Is there police BodyCam footage?  Former Tallahassee Mayor and Democrat star Andrew Gillum was found naked and vomiting in a Miami hotel room with a male prostitute overdosing on methamphetamine in an apparent sex orgy gone wrong.  Gillum has been touted as a rising star in the Democrat party.  He ran against sitting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in the 2018 election.  Gillum lost despite having President Barack Obama's endorsement.  Miami Dade police found Gillum, 40 years old, incoherent when they responded to a cardiac arrest 911 call at the Mondrian South Beach Hotel.  BodyCam footage of the police interactions is certain to exist and will almost certainly be released

Florida's vaunted 'making history' man, Andrew Gillum, gets caught with his pants down.  Andrew Gillum, the corruption-tinged left-wing mayor of Tallahassee, who less than two years ago darn near got elected goveror of Florida, based on a glowing 'making history' press narrative, has been caught naked, in a hotel room with a gay "escort," barfing over a toilet, and too inchoate to answer questions from cops, who were called in to hose out a $220 a night Miami hotel room of meth baggies.  The self-described porn star in the room had a profile on "Rent Men" and being that he was with Gillum and another guy, naked, was in what cops reportedly suspected was a orgy.  Someone knew about this stuff long before this became news.  But somehow, it never made the press.

Andrew Gillum's political career questioned after Miami Beach hotel room incident.  Andrew Gillum's carefully cultivated image as a rising political star and God-fearing family man came crashing down after he was found in a Miami Beach hotel room with two men and baggies of suspected meth.  The former Tallahassee, Fla., mayor was in Tallahassee on Monday to energize college voters at Florida State and Florida A&M University, where his political ambitions were born.  But four days later, his well-publicized effort to register a million voters ahead of Election Day was in major doubt, along with his once-promising political career.

This is the gay escort found overdosed on meth in a South Beach hotel room with top Florida Democrat Andrew Gillum.  Andrew Gillum, a married father-of-three who narrowly missed out on becoming Florida's first black governor, was too 'inebriated' to speak when cops arrived at the ritzy Mondrian Hotel in Miami's South Beach party district.  He was inside the room early Friday with two more men, one of them a 30-year-old male escort named Travis Dyson who was being treated by paramedics for a suspected drug overdose.  Cops found three plastic bags of suspected crystal meth and the third man present, Aldo Mejias, 56, told officers that Gillum and Dyson had been 'under the influence of an unknown substance', according to a police report obtained by DailyMail.com.

FL Dem Star Andrew Gillum Caught Up In Crystal Meth.  At first, it almost seemed surreal — a tweet by outspoken conservative Candice Owens that Florida's almost-governor and CNN's new contributor, Andrew Gillum, was caught in a Miami hotel room where a substance suspected to be crystal meth was also present.  But a police report offers a vivid account of the prominent Florida Democrat at the scene.  Could this be another Andrew Gillum, we wondered?  Are we certain?  Is the home address on the report the one for the man who gave Gov. Ron DeSantis a run for his money and almost replaced him as head of the Sunshine State?  Indeed, all the facts available at this time show that the man they found inebriated and vomiting in a Miami hotel room as another man in the room was in cardiac arrest is the same Tallahassee Democrat.

Florida governor wannabe Andrew Gillum has the ultimate Florida Man moment.  Andrew Gillum, the former Mayor of Tallahassee, was the Democrat candidate for governor in 2016. Ultimately Ron DeSantis won by almost 34,000 votes.  Florida may have dodged a bullet.  On Friday, Candace Owens published on Twitter photos of a police report in which Gillum figured prominently with a sordid tale of drugs and, possibly, a gay sex orgy.  According to the police report, in the early hours of February 13, Miami Beach police responded to a possible overdose in a hotel room.  When they arrived, they discovered three men:  Travis Dyson, the man who overdosed; Aldo Mejias, who made the 911 call; and Andrew Gillum.

Police Report:  Andrew Gillum Involved in Suspected Crystal Meth Incident.  Failed Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum (D) was allegedly involved in a suspected crystal meth incident on Friday morning [3/13/2020] at a Miami Beach hotel, according to a local police report.  The Miami Beach Police Department report states officers found Gillum inside a West Avenue hotel room with two other men shortly before 1:00 a.m., where first responders were providing medical attention to one of the individuals for a possible drug overdose.


Rashida Tlaib

Biden's Clean Energy Scam Fund.  Buried in all the trillions of dollars of Biden's stimulus bills is a reboot of the Obama-era fund that poured billions into failed Green Tech companies that left Obama cronies infinitely richer and the rest of us substantially poorer.  You remember, right?  In Obama's stimulus package, $80 billion was set aside to squander on people who could talk a good game about transforming energy, and who just happened to be politically connected.  It was a nice scam for them, infuriated people like you and me, and provided some minor dark humor to people who are so cynical that they just expect everything that happens in government to be a scam.  Out of this, we got Solyndra, Fisker Automotive, A123 battery, and a lot of companies that never became household names, but left a lot of scammers wealthy.  Well, Biden is good at one and only one thing:  being corrupt, he took Obama's $80 billion and quintupled the size of the "loan" fund to a massive $400 billion, and according to [Kimberly] Strassel the loan fund is indeed a well-oiled machine for distributing taxpayer cash to politically-connected friends of the president's team.

Tlaib and the Turncoats.  Ardent anti-Israel Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D) thanked and praised one of the anti-Zionist Jewish groups that violent assaulted the Democratic National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill on Nov. 15, where six officers were injured and Tlaib's Democratic colleagues had to be whisked away by police for their safety.  She told a Nov. 20 organizing webinar by the group If Not Now:  "As someone who is the only Palestinian American in Congress, when I am looking through and see you doing all of this, it makes me march on floor a little bit stronger.  When I go on the house floor, despite being censured, your group makes me feel I am not alone."  Tlaib made no mention of the more than 200 Israeli and international citizens, including infants, who Hamas took hostage in its Oct. 7 assault on Israel, nor the more than 1,200 Israelis killed including decapitated babies and girls sexually mutilated at a kibbutz outside Gaza[.]

Arizona State Cancels Event With Democrat Rashida Tlaib After She Called For Genocide Of Israel:  Report.  Arizona State University canceled an event that the school was set to host on Friday featuring Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), which comes after she openly expressed support for the elimination of the state of Israel.  The Arizona Republic reported that the event, dubbed "Palestine is an American Issue," was set to be hosted by the far-Left group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), according to a bipartisan group of Arizona state lawmakers.  The event was canceled after the lawmakers signed a letter titled, "Congresswoman Tlaib's Extremist, Antisemitic Views Are Not Welcome in the State of Arizona."  "The State of Arizona is a safe place for Jews, both on and off campus, and the antisemitic rants regurgitated by SJP and others are not representative of Arizona values," the lawmakers said. "Students supporting Israel have been verbally and physically assaulted on campus in recent days, requiring police escort during SJP rallies."  The lawmakers noted Tlaib's repeated anti-Semitic remarks and her "support [for] the destruction of the state of Israel."

The Ugly Face of Antisemitism Is Female.  When it comes to antisemitism in the Western world, the face is wretchedly ugly and, in large part, female.  It starts in the halls of Congress and oozes its insidious way onto college campuses and fills city streets.  Too many women loathe Jews and support Hamas, and they need to be shamed for it.  It is ignorant, it is evil ... and it is the antithesis of feminism.  Rashida Tlaib, of course, distinguishes herself when it comes to Jew hatred; her smug face is the very embodiment of the dangerous "From the river to sea" slur that calls for the extermination of Israel and its Jewish citizens.  Yes, she was finally censured for her hatred, but she's still there in Congress, and it seems like only a matter of time before she's running through its halls screaming, "Allahu Akbar!"  You know she would do it, if she thought she could get away with it.  Tlaib is a known enemy of our country, but it would be foolish to think she and her fellow Hamas Caucus members are just part of a small minority of women pushing the pro-Hamas, anti-Israel rhetoric.

Rashida Tlaib [is a] member of [a] secret Facebook group where Hamas terrorists [are] glorified.  Rep. Rashida Tlaib is part of a secret social media group in which its members have glamorized Hamas in its war battle with Israel after the terror group attacked and killed hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians last month, Fox News Digital has found.  The Michigan Democrat is a member of the Palestinian American Congress group on Facebook.  The group is hidden from non-members and does not appear on the platform's search engine, though Fox News Digital was able to gain access to it.  The group's founder, Maher Abdel-qader, who has extensive ties to Tlaib and has also been linked to other liberal politicians, has come under fire in the past for his antisemitic social media posts, including questioning if the Holocaust ever occurred.

What Rashida Tlaib reveals about how the left really feels on antisemitism.  According to Michigan Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the term "from the river to the sea," is a call for "freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence."  According to many others, including Hamas, it is a call to destroy Israel even at the cost of Jewish lives.  Even after being censured by the House of Representatives for her antisemitic remarks and for spreading Hamas propaganda, with 22 Democrats voting to rebuke her, Tlaib doubled down, saying she would not be silenced and that her words were being distorted.  So how are we to determine where pro-Palestinian sentiment ends and antisemitism begins?

Report: Six Rashida Tlaib Fundraisers [are] Connected to Terrorism.  A new watchdog report claims that at least six fundraisers for Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) are connected to terrorism.  According to the Washington Free Beacon, the report from the Canary Mission, an organization which monitors anti-Semitism in the United States, declares that at least "six terror-linked activists who all served as co-hosts for fundraisers for her 2018 congressional campaign," when she was first elected to Congress.  Among these six individuals, one of them, Mwafaq Jbara, "met with a Hamas co-founder while [both were] in a maximum-security Israeli jail."  Jbara, one of the 2018 fundraisers for Tlaib, is also reported to have "called for the death of Jews and praised the terrorist who killed U.S. Army veteran Taylor Force."  Another Tlaib fundraiser, Sheikh Muhammad Qatanani, has been threatened with deportation from the United States after failing to disclose the fact that he was convicted "by an Israeli military court for providing material support to Hamas."

Tlaib Tlies.  The House of Representatives handily passed a resolution censuring Rep. Rashida Tlaib for "promoting false narratives" and calling for the destruction of Israel by a vote of 234 to 188.  The censure resolution is posted online here.  Tlaib promotes the destruction of Israel "from the river to the sea," as the slogan has it and as the resolution points out (i.e., the slogan is "widely recognized as a genocidal call to violence to destroy the state of Israel and its people to replace it with a Palestinian state extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea").  Tlaib holds herself out as a courageous Palestinian Arab.  She brags that she is "from Detroit, where I learned to speak truth to power, even if my voice shakes."  She allegedly "speaks truth to power" in mind-numbing slogans, including that one.  On the contrary, however, Tlaib lacks the courage of her convictions.  She farcically asserts that "from the river to the sea" is "an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence."  She cowers like a Hamasnik in Doha or an underground tunnel.  The gentleman in the video below briefly exposes Tlaib's tlie.  [Tweet with video clip]

Rashida Tlaib Releases Astonishing Propaganda Video That Confirms Her Hatred for Jews.  It's hard to imagine there's a more antisemitic person in the U.S. than Congress' own Rashida Tlaib.  Every time she opens her mouth these days, she spews incendiary, hateful rhetoric against the Jewish state, even as Jews in her own country fear for their safety.  The fact is, Tlaib doesn't care about them and probably would prefer they go away — by any means necessary.  It's clear she doesn't care about those who are being held hostage in Gaza after being brutally ripped from their homes in Israel.  She hasn't once expressed remorse about that or called for them to be returned to their families.  No, Rashida Tlaib is 100 percent aligned, instead, with the antisemitic mobs that, throbbing with self-righteous rage, are taking to college campuses and the streets of U.S. cities demanding, well, the extermination of Jews.  Those are her people, and there's no denying it.

Rashida Tlaib Kept up to $100,000 in Rental Income During Pandemic While Calling for Rent Cancellation.  Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) kept up to $100,000 in rental income during the coronavirus pandemic despite calling on Congress to cancel rent, according to her most recent financial disclosures.  Tlaib's financial disclosure report, released Thursday [8/11/2022], showed she received anywhere from $15,001 to $50,000 in rental income in 2021, Fox News reported.  Tlaib received this rental income from a Detroit property she owns.  Her rental income from 2021 is on top of the $15,001 to $50,000 she already reported for 2020, bringing her total rental income throughout the pandemic to anywhere from $30,000 to $100,000.  However, while the Michigan congresswoman was collecting a steady flow of rent checks, she was at the forefront of a progressive movement in Congress to cancel rent and mortgage payments during the pandemic.

Did Rashida Tlaib Just Commit Treason?  The noble and patriotic Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Gaza) has a big new idea: defund not only the police, but Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).  Why?  Because they engage in terrorism, of course.  The Democrat effort to scapegoat and criminalize all opposition to the Leftist agenda in response to their imaginary January 6 "insurrection" is gathering steam, and now Tlaib wants to take it even farther, treating organizations dedicated to defending the United States as if they were enemies of the state.  In the Left's new America, that's exactly what they are.

Squad member Rashida Tlaib calls to defund Homeland Security and all border and immigration agencies.  Rashida Tlaib called on Congress in a Wednesday interview to defund every federal enforcement agency tasked with protecting U.S. borders as Joe Biden's administration continues to struggle to address a growing migration crisis at the southern border.  'We must eliminate funding for CBP [Customs and Border Protection], ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and their parent organization DHS [Department of Homeland Security],' the progressive 'squad' member demanded.  Tlaib insisted during a virtual interview published Wednesday with Just Futures Law, an immigrants rights group, that advocates and human service agents 'continue to see over and over again that these agencies are inept.'

Crazed Squad Member Rashida Tlaib Gets Heated After Questioning Bank Execs On 'Environmental Racism'.  Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan's 13th congressional district, is a close political ally of socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who constantly pushes for a massive multi-trillion 'Green New Deal.'  Tlaib's bank questioning appears to be a precursor to introducing regulation to micromanage which companies get loans.  "Are you familiar with the term environmental racism?" Tlaib went around asking different bank executives from Chase Bank, Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Well Fargo.  The Michigan representative became frustrated after she learned that most of the executives did not know what environmental racism was or very familiar with it.

Our Democrat Rulers Can't Be Serious.  Michigan representative Rashida Tlaib says she wants to do away with policing in the United States.  Following the April encounter between Daunte Wright and police that ended in Wright's shooting, Tlaib said, "I am done with those who condone government-funded murder.  No more policing, incarceration, and militarization.  It can't be reformed."  Tlaib, like all Democrats who call for defunding the police or for more restrictive gun laws and the like, lives in a low-crime, affluent area and enjoys the personal safety benefits of armed security.  Unsurprisingly, she is a total hypocrite.  Her statements are not serious on any level, not as a matter of public policy and not as they pertain to her.  Her utterance is meant as a self-serving, publicity-grabbing instrument, to solidify her voting base and make her required payments to the sympathetic liberal media.

Tlaib: Senate Would Have Removed Trump From Office If He 'Looked Like Me' Or Obama.  Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) claimed Tuesday that the Senate would have convicted President Donald Trump during his impeachment and removed him from office if he were a person of color like her.  Speaking to Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman, Tlaib claimed that not just Trump should be held accountable, but also anyone in Congress who "enabled him."

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[#1] Every Republican voter in America "enabled him."  [#2] Obama looked like Obama and nobody made much effort to impeach him.

Rep. Tlaib:  Allah Has Given Us the Opportunity 'To Show The Power of Muslims in Georgia'.  Muslim leaders, including Reps.  Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), expressed the hope and expectation on Sunday [12/13/2020] that Muslim voters would be a deciding factor in the pivotal Senate runoff election in the state of Georgia early next month.  The early voting period begins on Monday.  Participating in an online "vote-a-thon" co-hosted by the Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Georgia Muslim Voter Project, Tlaib said:  "I hope that you realize just the opportunity here that Allah has given us to show the power of Muslims in Georgia."

Rashida Tlaib Reacts to Likelihood of Jewish Secretary of State With Textbook Antisemitism.  Fresh from being announced as a panelist on a "Dismantling antisemitism" panel, congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has gotten back to work, showing how her expertise on antisemitism comes from personal experience[.]  Antony Blinken is Jewish.  Tlaib's first utterance to him being the likely US Secretary of State is concern he will be pro-Israel.  Of course to those of us paying attention (or who care), this is not Tlaib's first time perpetuating the antisemitic dual loyalty canard.  She simply cannot help herself.

'The Squad' pushes Biden to cancel student debt — here's how they'd personally benefit.  The four progressive congresswomen known as "The Squad" have been some of the most vocal advocates pushing President-elect Joe Biden to cancel student loan debt during his first 100 days in office — and would be among dozens of members of Congress to financially benefit from such a policy.  Fifty-nine members of Congress reported owing student loans in their latest financial disclosures published last year, including Reps.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.  Collectively, the 59 lawmakers with student loan debt owe at least $2.4 million.  Both Ocasio-Cortez and Omar reported owing between $15,001 and $50,000 in student loans (federal lawmakers report a range for their finances, but not exact amounts), while Tlaib reported owing between $50,001 and $100,000 in law school loans.

Is Rashida Tlaib an Agent of Jihad?  [Scroll down]  Tlaib is an avowed Jew-hater who stands for everything that a genuine Jihadist admires.  If she were to head HUD, she could use her authority to administer federal aid to manage housing for low-income residents.  With this power she could take actions in the country to strategically place shariah-compliant individuals in specific areas.  This could (a) change the voting demographics; (b) insinuate jihadist ideology into unsuspecting low-income families; and (c) create the possibility of no-go zones where Muslims would enforce shariah law and ignore American law.  It would be the realization of ongoing efforts to turn America into an Islamic caliphate.  Over the years, Tlaib has cultivated ties to a number of Islamist organizations such as the Islamic Relief USA, which is a branch of Islamic Relief Worldwide.  This group has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates.

Tlaib lashes out at centrist Dems over election debacle: 'I can't be silent'.  Rashida Tlaib isn't apologizing for wanting to yank money away from bad police departments.  She has no second thoughts about her embrace of the Black Lives Matter movement, or for wanting to aggressively fight climate change.  House Democrats lost seats instead of expanding their majority, underperforming expectations across the board.  And moderates have pounced on liberals like Tlaib, the Michigan congresswoman, accusing them of handing conservatives a set of slogans and policies to scare voters.

Rep. Rashida Tlaib Votes 'No' On Democratic Party Platform, Nominating Biden.  Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI) does not support the party's 2020 platform.  The Michigan lawmaker said on Saturday that she can't support the Democratic National Committee (DNC) platform because it does not include a plan for a single-payer health care system.  "Today, I cast my DNC ballot and voted NO on the proposed platform," Tlaib wrote on Twitter.

Jihad-Rep Rashida Tlaib Found Guilty Of Misusing Campaign Funds — Doesn't Even Get A Slap On The Wrist.  The Democrat party cares not.  They revel in perfidy.  Tlaib, her jihad sister Ilhan Omar and the rest of the criminal corp are placed above the law.

Rashida Tlaib Found Guilty Of Misusing Campaign Funds, Ordered By Dem Run Ethics Committee To Repay $10,800.  Minnesota Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a member of the much ballyhooed "Squad" led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has been found guilty of misusing campaign funds.  On Friday [8/7/2020] the Democrat controlled US House Ethics Committee found that Tlaib violated federal law by using campaign funds for personal purposes, The Daily Mail reported.

Rashida Tlaib violated election laws, must pay back campaign funds, House Ethics Committee rules.  Rep. Rashida Tlaib has managed to stay out of the news lately but she's back in it tonight, and in a big way.  The Office of Congressional Ethics has referred Tlaib to the House Ethics Committee for campaign finance violations.  An investigation has now been opened and part of the evidence includes messages sent by the Congresswoman asking for money from her campaign for personal use.

Rashida Tlaib Backpedals After Sharing David Hogg's [...] Message.  Rasida Tlaib backpedaled after sharing a post by Parkland survivor and anti-gun activist David Hogg dismissing President Trump's National Day of Prayer announcement over the coronavirus crisis.

Rep. Tlaib Retweets.  Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) at the weekend retweeted a post on Twitter which said in part "F**k a National day of prayer," in relation to President Trump's call for Americans of all faiths to pray for all those affected by the coronavirus outbreak.  Late Saturday [3/14/2020], anti-gun activist David Hogg posted a tweet, saying, "Don't let this administration address COVID-19 like our national gun violence epidemic.  F**k a National day of prayer, we need immediate comprehensive action."  Tlaib, a Palestinian-American and one of the first two Muslim women to be elected to the U.S. Congress, retweeted it, without comment.

'Do I look white to you?' Tlaib accuses census director of 'erasing' people of Middle Eastern descent.  Rep. Rashida Tlaib accused Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham of "erasing" people of Middle Eastern descent during a House of Representatives Oversight and Reform Committee meeting.  The congresswoman from Michigan was upset that the 2020 census does not include "Middle Eastern/North African" as an option in the ethnicity category despite an Obama-era study that recommended otherwise.  "Do I look white to you?" Tlaib asked Dillingham.  Dillingham began to explain that there is a write-in option on the census to compensate for people who don't feel a category accurately depicts their background.  Tlaib cut him off and said that "circling white" on the census changed her "lived experience as a person of color" in the United States.

Rashida Tlaib arrested protesting with airline workers.  Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat, was arrested at Detroit Metro Airport Friday [2/14/2020] while joining a protest by airline workers.  Photos by a spokeswoman for the hospitality workers' union UNITE HERE showed Tlaib joining catering workers for Delta Air Lines, who were protesting for higher wages and better healthcare.  Tlaib was detained briefly and then released, according to the ABC affiliate for Chicago.

Rashida Tlaib arrested protesting with airline workers.  Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Michigan Democrat, was arrested at Detroit Metro Airport Friday [2/12/2020] while joining a protest by airline workers.  Photos by a spokeswoman for the hospitality workers' union UNITE HERE showed Tlaib joining catering workers for Delta Air Lines, who were protesting for higher wages and better healthcare.  Tlaib was detained briefly and then released, according to the ABC affiliate for Chicago.  A spokesperson for Tlaib could not be reached for comment.

Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Pramila Jayapal: 'We Need Everyone in the Streets'.  Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D.-Wash.) sent out a tweet on Tuesday evening [1/7/2020] calling for people to join street demonstrations on Thursday that MoveOn.org is promoting.  Her tweet was then retweeted by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D.-Mich.).  "We need everyone in the streets," Jayapal said in her tweet that was retweeted by Tlaib.

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Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, page 762.

Rashida Tlaib Persists as the Biggest Embarrassment in Congress.  Take, as the latest example, Tlaib's ill-advised hot take on the New Jersey shooting that left six people (1 good guy, 3 innocent people, and the 2 murderers) dead.  Having caught wind of a senseless act of violence that had occurred in Jersey City, Tlaib took to her personal Twitter account to play politics.  She tweeted, "This is heartbreaking.  White supremacy kills."  The killers were both black.  Not only that, but they had both demonstrated an interest in the black supremacy movement modeled by the Black Hebrew Israelites.  Talk about swinging, missing, and slipping into the bushes.  Within about 20 minutes, the ratio on her tweet had gotten so bad that she deleted it, and then proceeded to continue on as though nothing had happened.

Rep. Tlaib Under Investigation After Messages Surface Showing She Asked for Campaign Money for Personal Use.  Exhibits show Tlaib messaging her congressional campaign about her financial woes, saying, "I am struggling financially right now. ... I am sinking."  On April 4, 2019, she requested to receive a one-time payment of $5,000.  On April 27, 2017, she asked for a stipend of $2,000 every two weeks.

Tlaib frantically asked campaign for personal money, messages show, as ethics probes announced.  The House Ethics Committee on Thursday released a trove of striking internal campaign communications sent in 2018 by Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib, in which Tlaib urgently requested money from her congressional campaign to defray personal expenses — and, a government watchdog said, possibly violated federal law in the process.  The document dump was related to the committee's ongoing ethics probe into Tlaib, which the panel said on Thursday would be "expanded" based on a referral from the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE). Additionally, the Ethics Committee acknowledged for the first time on Thursday an investigation into Florida Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings concerning a "personal relationship with an individual employed in his congressional office."

Rashida Tlaib Faces Expanded House Ethics Panel Review of Possible Campaign Finance Violations.  The House Ethics Committee on Thursday [11/14/2019] announced it has expanded its examination of possible campaign finance violations by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).  The committee released a series of eyebrow-raising messages in which the freshman congresswoman asks for congressional campaign money to help relieve her personal financial struggles.

Rashida and the law.  It seems that the charming and attractive Rashida Talib is still running off at the mouth about arresting people, specifically administration officials who refuse to respond to the House's "impeachment" subpoenas. [...] There's only one problem, as I see it.  To arrest somebody, you have to be able to appeal to authority, and there's no authority involved here. [...] Interestingly enough, though, there is an individual accused of criminal behavior in the House itself.  It seems that one of the House members looted her own election funds after the election, treating herself to two $17,500 payments as "salary," even though election law states that all such payments must end on election day.  That particular member is Rashida Tlaib.  Now, there's no sense in asking when Rashida is going to be arrested.  It ain't gonna happen.  She's a Democrat, a Muslim, a female, and a "minority."

Rashida Tlaib received donation from prominent Michigan businessman who's been dead for a decade.  Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib received a $2,500 campaign contribution from a prominent Michigan businessman who died more than 10 years ago, Federal Election Commission filings show.  George S. Farah, Sr., a real estate developer and community leader in Flint, Michigan, made the large donation on June 22.  However, Michigan Live reported he died of heart failure at the age of 73 on Feb. 1, 2009.  According to a scan of public records by the Washington Free Beacon, Farah is listed as deceased, and the address linked to his name is the same one registered on the contribution to Tlaib's campaign.

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I'm guessing Mr. Farah will probably vote for her, too.

Confirmed: Rashida Tlaib Broke State and Federal Law By Lying About Her Address To Run For Office.  Democrat Michigan congresswoman Rashida Tlaib violated state election law and also federal law by lying about her residence to run for office in Michigan.  Since Big League Politics exposed her residence lie using credit score and property records and archived information, Congressman John Bumstead communicated to us through an intermediary that Tlaib broke the law.  Tlaib's own father even said that Tlaib "lied" about her address in order to run for office, meaning that Tlaib represented a state House district that she did not live in.

Rashida Tlaib's campaign paid her $17,500 in salary after Election Day, in possible violation of FEC rules: report.  U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., is facing questions after campaign records revealed she paid herself $17,500 as a salary after the midterm elections, in what appeared to be a violation of campaign finance rules, a report said.  Tlaib, a firebrand freshman Democrat from Detroit, has been facing scrutiny over her connections to radical anti-Israel activists and a profane call to impeach President Trump.  She caused uproar on Capitol Hill earlier this week by insinuating that Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C. — her colleague on the House Oversight and Reform Committee — had used Trump family friend Lynne Patton, an African-American, as a racist "prop" during former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's appearance before the panel.


Katie Hill

Former Rep. Katie Hill Files for Bankruptcy Following $220,000 Attorney Fees Judgment.  Former Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA), who owes roughly $220,000 in attorney fees to two news outlets and two conservative journalists after an unsuccessful lawsuit in a California state court, has filed for bankruptcy, the Los Angeles Times reports.  In 2019, the openly bisexual Hill resigned in disgrace after reporters uncovered she was engaged in a "throuple" relationship with her former husband, Kenny Heslep, and Morgan Desjardins, one of her former staffers.

Disgraced ex-congresswoman Katie Hill quietly settles divorce from 'abusive' husband.  Disgraced Democratic Congresswoman Katie Hill has quietly settled her divorce from husband Kenny Heslep after blaming him for exposing a 'throuple' sexual relationship they were having with a young female campaign staffer, DailyMail.com can reveal.  Hill, 33, resigned from Congress last year after the publication of shocking nude photos of the politician cavorting with junior staffer Morgan Desjardins, who was 22 at the time, and an ethics probe was launched into her alleged affair with another aide.  The freshman Democrat from California immediately accused her 'abusive' husband Heslep, 36, of trying to humiliate her and leaking the snaps to ruin her political career.

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There will be no further updates on ex-congresswoman Katie Hill, because whatever she does now is irrelevant and immaterial.

Katie Hill: rightwing media attack women because 'they're easier targets'.  The former California congresswoman Katie Hill, who resigned in October after the publication of nude photographs and allegations of an affair with a member of her congressional staff, said on Sunday [11/24/2019] rightwing media outlets attacked women because "they're easier targets" for bullying.  In an interview on CNN's Reliable Sources, the Democrat said bullying affects women across the US, whether they are teen girls or power-players such as the former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and ex-national security council official Fiona Hill.

Dogpatch in D.C.  Hunter Biden joins Katie Hill and Ilhan Omar in the annals of disreputable personal lives.  I don't generally care about the private lives of politicians, and it is a hackneyed observation, but still:  can you imagine the press hysteria if the people involved in these stories were Republicans?

Democrats Must Really Hate Women.  Have you noticed that the #MeToo movement is dead to Democrats these days?  Democrat representative Katie Hill had an affair with a staffer, a violation of the core concept of #MeToo that bosses can't have sexual relations with subordinates, and Democrats are bemoaning the fact that she had to resign.  How can that be?  That's because they never really believed in #MeToo, and they never cared about women.  Democrat support for #MeToo was nothing more than a ploy to attack Trump and other Republicans.

Katie Hill Affair and its Aftermath are Signs of America's Decline.  It's truly not shocking that a political leader would be a reprobate behind closed doors.  From Caligula to the Marquis de Sade to Bill Clinton, the depraved have always been overrepresented among the ruling classes.  It is for this reason that what's even more distressing about the Katie Hill affair than what she did is the reaction to it from the broader society — including "broadminded conservatives" defending her.  Hill, the former Democrat congresswoman whose resignation from office took effect Nov. 1, certainly is our time's Thoroughly Modern Millie. [...] She's also fashionable in her lack of appropriate shame and in her externalizing; à la Monica Lewinsky, she's blaming everyone for her scandal but herself.

Ocasio-Cortez, Omar And Pressley Rally Behind Democrat Accused Of Using Employees For Extramarital Trysts.  Democratic Reps.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts came to the defense of Democratic California Rep. Katie Hill, who is resigning amid scrutiny on her alleged extramarital affairs with two different staffers.  Hill gave a departing address Thursday [10/31/2019] in which she blamed a "double standard" for her resignation.  She previously admitted to having an "inappropriate" affair with a female campaign staffer, but denied having an affair with a male congressional aide.

Media Mourn Katie Hill.  Rep. Katie Hill's (D., Calif.) resignation announcement this week had some members of the media in mourning over the Democratic "rising star."  MSNBC's Chris Hayes said it felt like the "bad guys" won, and another analyst called the resignation a "tragedy."  Much of the media coverage focused on Hill's allegation that she was the victim of "revenge porn" distributed by her husband, whom she is divorcing.

Katie Hill reveals sex scandal put her in 'darkest' place in final Congressional speech.  Democratic Rep. Katie Hill said her explosive sex scandal put her in one of the "darkest places that a mind can go" as she gave her final speech on the House floor — and blamed a "misogynistic culture" for her resignation.  The California congresswoman said Thursday [10/31/2019] she was stepping down due to a "misogynistic culture that gleefully consumed my naked pictures, capitalized on my sexuality and enabled my abusive ex to continue that abuse."

The Coming War Over Kinky Katie Hill's Congressional Seat.  Katie Hill, she of the bizarrely convoluted relationships and questionable hairbrush perch hygiene, got the ole heave-ho by Nancy Pelosi after Redstate reporter Jennifer Van Laar's exposé of the up 'n coming Democrat's multi-faceted relationship choices, choices so icky that they even freaked out the Cali crowd.  Now that her former congressional seat, snagged from the sleeping GOP in 2018, is going to be the subject of a special election of surpassing specialness.  To get the House back, this swing district is a must win for the Republicans; to keep the House, it's a must win for the Democrats.

The Naked Democrat.  When Katie Hill ran for Congress in 2018, her open bisexuality was part of her campaign message.  Indeed, so often did Ms. Hill proclaim herself to be bisexual that some of her rivals suggested she was exploiting this to gain endorsements (and money) from the LGBT organizations that exercise a powerful influence in Democratic Party politics.  During the 2018 midterm campaign, when feminists and gay-rights activists were among the loudest voices of the anti-Trump mob, the Democrats nominated lesbian or bisexual women in several key races. [...] At no point in the enthusiastic media coverage of Ms. Hill's campaign against Republican Steve Knight in California's 25th District, however, did any reporter ask, "Exactly what does 'bisexual' mean?" [...] The arrangement between Ms. Hill and her husband, Kenny Heslep, was apparently what is nowadays called "polyamory," but used to be called "swinging" or "wife-swapping."

Congresswoman Katie Hill resigns amid allegations of inappropriate relationships with staffers.  Democratic Congresswoman Katie Hill quit Sunday, days after DailyMail.com revealed she was part of a 'throuple' with her husband and a campaign worker and an ethics probe was launched into her alleged affair with another aide. [...] The married congresswoman is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for allegedly having an affair with her campaign finance director Graham Kelly, which she has vehemently denied.

Trump Kept Democrat 'Leaking Machine' in the Dark on Raid.  [Scroll down]  Rep. Katie Hill (D-Calif.) who introduced the term "thruple" into the public consciousness will resign from office.  Hill has been in the headlines after it was revealed she and her husband had a relationship with a campaign staffer. [...] Hill was also alleged to have a relationship with a current staffer, her legislative director.  The House Ethics Committee announced last week it was opening an investigation into the allegations.  Whatever went on with Hill is probably worse than what we currently know.  Bon voyage.

Katie Hill Sex Life Financed by Campaign Dollars, FEC Complaint Charges.  I live in the 25th Congressional District.  While the District is close to Hollywood, our Congresswoman is acting like an out of control pleasure seeker — in drugs or sex.

MSNBC Hides Bizarre Democratic Sex Scandal.  As NewsBusters has previously reported, ABC World News Tonight was the only network newscast to report on the latest developments in the scandal surrounding Democratic Congresswoman Katie Hill's relationship with one of her staffers; which has led to a probe from the Congressional Ethics Committee.  The scandal, to say the least, is weird.

Where are the feminists on Katie Hill?  Freshman Democratic Rep. Katie Hill, who sits on a House committee trying to impeach President Trump, and has been called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's "new favorite," has been in office less than a year and already we know too much about her.  It's not merely the naked pictures, actually, though yes, one wonders why someone like her would stand there buck naked and maybe ask for someone to take a snap to share that precious memory.  It's that she's an exploiter.  And with an emerging pattern of that coming into play, nobody in the all-Democrat feminist industrial complex is saying a thing.

Another House Democrat Is Under Investigation For Allegedly Sleeping With Staffer.  Another freshman Democrat in the House is under investigation for allegedly sleeping with a staffer, among other possible violations of House ethics rules.  The House Ethics Committee is investigating Michael San Nicolas, Guam's non-voting delegate to Congress, who allegedly "engaged in a sexual relationship with an individual on his congressional staff, converted campaign funds to personal use, and/or accepted improper or excessive campaign contributions," the committee announced Thursday [10/24/2019].


Ed Buck

Obama And Clinton Megadonor Sentenced, Dems Silent.  A high-profile, big-spending Democrat donor, was sentenced to thirty years in a federal prison for his role in distributing illegal drugs that resulted in the deaths of two people.  It should be noted that those two deaths were of black men.  Black Lives Matter, right?  Ed Buck was found guilty on nine counts of drug-related charges last summer, including distributing methamphetamines that led to the fatal overdoses.  As prosecutors revealed, there was a disgusting layer of perversion and manipulation in what amounted to a significantly large operation.  Buck was a well-known contributor within Democrat circles.  Over the years, he has funded far-left radicals in California including clueless Representative Ted Lieu, the evil and corrupt governor Gavin Newsom, and even presidential candidates like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Ed Buck sentenced in drug deaths case.  A former Democratic political donor who supplied drugs to two men who overdosed in his West Hollywood apartment was sentenced Thursday to 30 years in federal prison.  Ed Buck, who was found guilty last year of nine felony counts, faced between 20 years and life in federal prison, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.  In a sentencing memorandum, federal prosecutors said he lured young Black men who were often experiencing homelessness, addiction, and/or poverty to his apartment for sexually charged sessions in which he would inject them with methamphetamine and drug them with sedatives, with and without their consent.

Dem Megadonor Ed Buck Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison in Connection with Meth Overdose Deaths of Two Black Men.  Hillary Clinton pal and Democrat megadonor Ed Buck was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Thursday in connection with meth overdoses of two black men at his West Hollywood apartment.  Buck was convicted and found guilty on all 9 felony counts, including two counts of distribution of controlled substances resulting in death last July.  Ed Buck loved to inject young black gay escorts with methamphetamine — the mother of one of Ed Buck's victims described it as a fetish.

Wealthy Democratic donor Ed Buck, 66, is found guilty of providing fatal meth doses to two men.  Prominent California Democratic donor Ed Buck was convicted Tuesday [7/27/2021] on charges he injected gay men with methamphetamine in exchange for sex, leading to two deaths and other overdoses.  A federal jury found 66-year-old Buck guilty of all nine felony counts against him, which could lead to a life sentence.

Ed Buck Was Protected.  He Still Is.  Part III.  Despite multiple escorts dying of methamphetamine overdose in his West Hollywood apartment since 2017, Democratic megadonor Ed Buck managed to evade charges for over two years. [...] Journalists in Los Angeles are playing defense for Buck's protective matrix instead of investigating corruption in Buck's political circles.

Ed Buck Was Protected.  He Still Is.  [Scroll down]  "Everyone knew it," says Steve Martin, former West Hollywood Mayor and former president of the Stonewall Democratic Club.  "It's [false] if they say they didn't.  It was like a family, you know?  Everyone in the family knew it...If there was anybody in West Hollywood whose bed you expected a dead body to turn up in, it was Ed Buck."  "Did Ed Buck finally kill someone?" asked K. Richard Fiero, linking to Marco Colantonio's story on Facebook.  Buck had moved from Phoenix in 1991.  Fiero was asking from Phoenix.

Ed Buck Was Protected.  He Still Is.  Part II.  What some in West Hollywood had hoped would be a quiet removal of a dead escort from Democratic megadonor Ed Buck's apartment quickly morphed into a public relations nightmare for all associated with Buck, including members of City Council and the Stonewall Democratic Club's Steering Committee. [...] The autopsy report, released in November 2017, showed that Ed Buck's apartment indeed contained drug paraphernalia.  "Multiple syringes with brown residue, scale, lighters, straw with possible white residue, glass pipes with white residue and burn marks, plastic bags with white powdery residue and a clear plastic bag with crystal-like substance was located in the drawers of the toolbox roll-cabinet in the living room."  Coroner Investigator Joseph Cronin explicitly states that these items were "Suspected illicit drugs/paraphernalia" and collected the items as evidence.  Gemmel Moore was found nude on a mattress in the living room with "male pornography" playing on the television, undercutting claims made by Buck's attorney.

What Ed Buck's Pseudo-Sexual House of Horrors Says about Collectivism.  An old, rich, white man abducting young gay black homeless men, injecting them with illegal substances, and sexually assaulting their unconscious bodies to death may sound like something out of a bad horror film, but this is the true story of political celebrity Ed Buck.  Despite multiple instances of his victims found dead at his West Hollywood home, Ed Buck continued his life as a celebrated LGBT activist, high-profile Democratic donor, and beloved Beverly Hills socialite until his arrest in September 2019.  Buck's prolonged evasion of justice is not merely an example of the privilege that political donors can purchase; it is a case study in the principles of collective justice held by various neo-Marxist groups that increasingly dominate political and cultural verticals in American society.  As a donor and an activist, Ed Buck was a useful player in politics.  Over the years, Buck donated upwards of $500,000 to Democratic affiliates and politicians.

Buck and Hillary
Dem Donor Ed Buck Charged With 4 More Felonies In Drug/Prostitution Case.  Ed Buck was a major Democrat Donor who was arrested last year after a male prostitute was found dead in his home of an apparent overdose.  Turns out, it wasn't the first time.  Now, as he awaits trial, The Justice Department has charged him with 4 more felonies.


Democratic donor Ed Buck facing new charges for prostitution, fatal drug overdose.  Disgraced Democratic donor Ed Buck has been charged with four more felonies, including enticing victims to travel interstate for prostitution.  The Justice Department announced Tuesday [8/4/2020] that a Los Angeles federal grand jury returned an updated indictment with the additional felony charges, bringing a total of nine counts against Buck, 65, before he is scheduled to head to trial in January.  Prosecutors have alleged Buck operated a drug den in his West Hollywood home, where he administered methamphetamine to men against their will during sexual encounters.

How A Wealthy LA Democratic Donor Muted The Political Party of "Allies" and "Coalition Building".  It's been 21 days since 26-year-old Gemmel Moore's body was removed from the West Hollywood apartment of 63-year-old prominent Democratic political donor Ed Buck.  Moore was homeless and worked as an escort.  Because Ed Buck is a white gay man in West Hollywood the police didn't bother to investigate Moore's death which was immediately classified as an accidental meth overdose by the Los Angeles County Coroner.

Another pervert turns up in Adam Schiff's orbit.  We all know about Rep. Adam Schiff's gamy ties to pervert and Democratic donor Ed Buck, who's since been busted for his penchant for drugging and sometimes killing not-always-willing young black gay men.  Schiff took at least $2,700 from Buck and posed for a picture with him, too.  Buck was a big in the West Hollywood radical gay community, and Schiff, while not gay, clearly feels at home with those far-leftists.  Now there's another one turning up in Schiff's orbit. [...] What does it say about Schiff that these kinds of people keep turning up in his orbit?  Why are they attracted to them, what is he giving them that a Republican would not give?

Democrats' Contempt for the Sanctity of Life.  Ed Buck, a prominent Democrat donor and fundraiser, has been charged with battery, administering illegal drugs, and operating a drug house.  The charges paint a disturbing picture of this wealthy scion of liberal politics.  At this time, two men have been identified as having died and a third having been seriously harmed, but prosecutors are said to have found hundreds of photographs "of men in compromising positions" who may have been lured to Buck's home with the promise of money, shelter, and drugs.  This case raises many questions, not just concerning the several felonies with which Buck has been charged, but about the morality of this and other prominent liberals.  On what basis could any human being engage in sexual conduct with "hundreds" of unfortunate human beings, using them like playthings and then casting them aside?  What does such conduct suggest about the capacity of some individuals to use others for their personal pleasure, regardless of the dangerous consequences involved?

30 of The Biggest Lies & Hoaxes Perpetrated on The American People.  [#15] Justice & the Courts:  There has been a 2-tier system since the beginning of time.  Where billionaires, celebrities, politicians, and key people get criminal charges dismissed, or pay a minimal fine, and serve little to no time, regular citizens or key people they do not want in positions of power, they frame and try to lock them up and throw away the key.  Just look at what they've done to General Michael Flynn as one example.  Democratic mega-donor Ed Buck got away with two murders in his Los Angeles apartment before they finally arrested him on a third overdose victim.

New York Times' lie reveals the extent of Democrats' fear of the Ed Buck scandal.  The media and other Democrats obviously are deeply worried over the arrest of their prominent donor, Ed Buck, on charges of drugging and paying for homosexual sex with impoverished black males.

Another day, another coverup for Democrats by the New York Times.  After numerous poor young black male homosexual prostitutes were found drugged and/or dead in the home of homophobic homosexual (and no, that is not contradictory), racist, sadist and not so incidentally major white Democratic donor, (yes, on this I'm proudly judgmental) Ed Buck was finally arrested in Los Angeles last Thursday. [...] Also, strangely — okay, not so strangely — the New York Times, which recently announced with great fanfare its 1619 Project, a series of articles how slavery affected all aspects of American life which continues until today, took little notice of a not-major Democratic donor who was white, paying young poor black men for various sexual acts and injecting them with addictive, and often deadly, drugs.

Democrats as a protection racket?  Ed Buck makes it a trifecta.  The New York Times has been trying to dismiss the arrest of Ed Buck, a Democratic fatcat who had a thing for injecting young black men with drugs before paying them for sex, as a "small-time Democratic donor," but the facts on the ground suggest he was a rather big one.  And maybe that's a function of the paper's desire to protect its masters, the Democrats.

LA 'predator' Ed Buck had at least 10 victims and drugged unconscious men, complaint says.  Ed Buck, the Los Angeles political activist accused of preying on gay black men and forcibly injecting them with fatal doses of drugs, had at least 10 victims, would drug them while they were unconscious and was known locally as "Doctor Kevorkian", according to new court records.  The wealthy Democratic donor, 65, was arrested this week and charged with running a drug den more than two years after 26-year-old Gemmel Moore fatally overdosed in Buck's West Hollywood home.  On Thursday [9/19/2019], federal prosecutors charged him with administering methamphetamine to a victim who died and released new details about how he targeted men struggling with homelessness and addiction.

Democratic hypocrisy on sex and murder.  Can you imagine the headlines we'd be reading if Ed Buck was a Republican?  You might even be wondering, who is Ed Buck?  Reporting on his crimes has been less than enthusiastic up to this point, but given the pattern of behavior and the increase in frequency of the "incidents," the story cannot be ignored for much longer.  According to the police in West Hollywood, Ed Buck, a violent, dangerous sexual predator, lured homeless victims with money, drugs, and the promise of shelter to his home, where he apparently attempted to murder them with lethal injections of amphetamines.  I generously used the word "apparently," since author Ian Fleming wrote, "Once is happenstance.  Twice is coincidence.  Three times is enemy action."

Prominent Democratic donor Ed Buck is arrested for running a drug den and 'being a violent sexual predator [...]'.  A prominent California Democratic donor was charged Tuesday with running a drug house where two men died of overdoses and a third nearly died last week.  Prosecutors say Ed Buck is 'a violent, dangerous sexual predator' who offered drugs, money and shelter to vulnerable addicts in exchange for participation in sexual fetishes, including administering dangerous drug doses.  Prosecutors allege Buck provided the meth that killed two men who were found in his apartment in 2017 and this January.

Hillary Clinton and Adam Schiff Friend/Donor Arrested, Charged With Running Drug House.  Ed Buck is a major donor to the Democrat party.  Buck's list of close political associations extends from Adam Schiff to Hillary Clinton.  Two black males were previously killed in Mr. Buck's apartment by drug overdoses.  Last week the third overdose victim barely survived after fleeing the apartment and calling police for help.  Tuesday [9/17/2019] Ed Buck was arrested.

'A Violent, Dangerous Sexual Predator': Democratic Party Donor Arrested After Third Man Overdoses at His Home.  A 65-year-old prominent Democratic Party donor was arrested on Tuesday [9/17/2019] after a third man overdosed at his West Hollywood home but survived.  The Los Angeles District Attorney's Office alleged in a bail motion that Ed Buck is "a violent, dangerous sexual predator" who "mainly preys on men made vulnerable by addiction and homelessness."  According to KABC, prosecutors sought to have Buck's bail set at a whopping $4 million.  To support that, they said that Buck is "a predator with no regard for human life" who gave the victims "dangerously large doses of narcotics."

Hillary Clinton Donor Ed Buck Arrested After Another Male Overdoses in His Seedy LA Apartment.  Democrat donor and Hillary friend Ed Buck was finally arrested Tuesday night after a third man overdosed in his apartment.  The man who overdosed in Ed Buck's Los Angeles apartment last week survived, however the other two victims previously died.  Ed Buck will be in court Wednesday [9/18/2019]. Ed Buck loves to inject young black gay escorts with methamphetamine — the mother of one of Ed Buck's victims described it as a fetish.  He was finally arrested after two black gay escorts died in his apartment from overdoses.

Wealthy Democrat donor Ed Buck has a second black man in 18 months die in his West Hollywood home.  Protests have erupted outside the home of a wealthy Democratic donor in California, after a second man died there in 18 months.  More than 100 people gathered at the house of Edward Buck in West Hollywood on Monday night to demand the activist be arrested.  Buck — a regular donor to Democratic campaigns including Hillary Clinton's presidential bid — was investigated for a suspected murder when Gemmel Moore, 26, was found dead of a meth overdose in July 2017.

Justice for Gemmel Moore?  Family wants answers in escort's death at Dem donor's home.  Family and friends of a male escort found dead in the West Hollywood home of a high-powered Democratic Party donor last year continue to press for answers — in a case that has eluded the national media spotlight on incidents of sexual misconduct and racial injustice.  Gemmel Moore, 26, was discovered by police on July 27 inside the apartment of Ed Buck, 63.  Buck is a well-known Democratic contributor, and has given more than $500,000 to an array of Democrats including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey and a variety of state and local organizations in California.  The Los Angeles County Coroner's office initially ruled the death an accidental methamphetamine overdose.

The Curious Case of the Black Male Escort Found Dead Inside a Wealthy Democratic Donor's Home.  On July 27, 2017, 26-year-old Gemmel Moore was found in the bathroom of a West Hollywood, Calif., apartment belonging to Ed Buck, 62.  Moore was young, black and poor.  Buck was white, wealthy and powerful.  That's all we know.  Moore's family is searching for answers.  Buck has not spoken publicly about the incident.


Ilhan Omar

Flashback: Ilhan Omar's Father was Top Propaganda Official in Genocidal Somalian Barre Regime.  Far Left Communist Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar's father and other Somalian war crimes perpetrators are currently living illegally in the United States.  The Gateway Pundit obtained information that is [bad] for Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar.  Omar's father, Nur Omar Mohamed (aka Nur Said Elmi Mohamed), is connected to the former dictator in Somalia, Said Barre.  Nur and other former Barre accomplices are living in the US illegally.

Yet Another Video Surfaces, Making Ilhan Omar's Real Allegiance Even Clearer.  Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) recently raised some eyebrows even more than she usually does, when she delivered a speech to Somalis in Minneapolis in which she more than once gave the impression that her loyalty was not to the government in Washington, but to the one in Mogadishu.  Her friends and supporters among the far-left cognoscenti, however, rushed to dismiss any concerns about her dual loyalty (or her single loyalty to Somalia) by claiming that she was simply talking about serving her constituents in Minnesota.  Sure.  A new video, however, came to light Friday, that will be harder for Omar and her minions to wave away.  Dr. Salman Caaro [...] has found footage of Omar from 2022, once again speaking in Somali to a Somali audience as she was in the video that began the present controversy (which is, of course, all on the right). She begins by saying: "We must fix our roads."  Nothing wrong with that, except that she isn't talking about the roads in her congressional district.  She is talking about roads in Somalia.

MTG Introduces Resolution To Censure Ilhan Omar For 'Working As A Foreign Agent'.  Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced a resolution Thursday to censure Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar for "admitting she's working as a foreign agent for a foreign country."  The Daily Caller obtained a copy of the resolution, which comes after Omar gave a speech saying her primary job in Congress is to protect Somali interests.  Omar has faced criticism from Republicans in Congress after her Jan. 27 speech to Somalian leaders in Minnesota went viral.  Omar was speaking in Somali and allegedly did not mention her support for the U.S., according to a translation of her speech shared on Twitter by Ambassador Rhoda J. Elmi, the deputy minister of Foreign Affairs of Somaliland.  Omar appeared to say she was "Somalian first, Muslim second" and that she was "here to protect the interests of Somalia from inside the U.S. system," according to the translation.

Video of Ilhan Omar Repeatedly Calling Somali Leader "Our President".  A video from 2022 of Somali refugee Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speaking in the Somali language to a gathering of Somali-Americans in Minneapolis and, according to posted translations, repeatedly calling the visiting President of Somalia Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, "our president," and saying "Somalia is our home," is raising new questions about her loyalty to the United States.  Omar added she has a "special relationship" with Mohamud.  In a visit a week later to Somalia, Omar again called it "our country" while addressing Somali government leaders.

If you like Somalia so much, go there.
Rep. Ilhan Omar Represents Everything Wrong With America's Immigration System.  There's a clip going around of Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar talking to a group of Somalians about her allegiances and priorities as a U.S. congresswoman.  What Omar says is instructive, not just about her general worldview but mostly (and more importantly) about how backward and destructive our immigration system is.  Omar is a woman of the left, but her speech over the weekend was pure blood-and-soil nationalism — for Somalia, not America.  She tells them she's a Somalian first and a Muslim second.  She doesn't even mention the United States or her citizenship here.  She promises to use her power and influence in Congress to protect her nation's interests.  (Again, that nation being Somalia, not America.)  Speaking in Somali, Omar tells the cheering crowd that her "top priority" is to expand Somalia's territory.  "As Somalis, one day we will go after our missing territories," she says, referencing disputed regions in Kenya and Ethiopia.

Ilhan Omar Speech on Representing Somalia in Congress Goes Viral With Calls to Expel Her From the House.  Somalian refugee Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) gave a speech to the Somali community in Minnesota on Saturday that has gone viral thanks to English translation subtitles.  The translations have Omar saying she and her fellow Somalis are Somali first and Muslim second — with no mention of being American.  Omar also said she represents Somalia in Congress and told the audience that they control the U.S. government's Somalia policy.  Outraged Americans called for Omar's expulsion from the House of Representatives.

Ilhan Omar Backtracks on Accusing Israel of Hospital Strike in Gaza, Blames AP Report.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) backtracked on her blame of Israel for a hospital strike in Gaza, after further evidence suggested that Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) had nothing to do with the explosion, and it was caused by a misfired rocket fired from a Palestinian militant group.  Omar had initially accused the IDF of war crimes, posting on X, "Bombing a hospital is among the gravest of war crimes.  The IDF reportedly blowing up one of the few places the injured and wounded can seek medical treatment and shelter during a war is horrific."

Rep. Ilhan Omar Retweets False Photo Of Palestinian Children Killed By Israeli Forces.  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., has long been a leading voice among Democrats calling for censorship and speech controls in the name of combatting disinformation.  She is now accused of precisely the same conduct after posting a picture purportedly showing children killed by Israeli forces.  In reality, it was a picture of victims of a 2013 sarin gas attack in Ghouta, Syria.  The incident should, but is unlikely to, prompt Omar and fellow Democrats to reconsider their push for censorship and other anti-free speech measures.  Such false imagery was quickly and effectively addressed in this incident without the need for bans and speech regulation.  Omar has denounced social media companies for their failure to take "information down and discontinuing the accounts of people who practice disinformation."

Ilhan Omar Promotes Photo Falsely Showing Dead Palestinian Children.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) promoted propaganda over the weekend that falsely portrayed children as having died from Israeli military operations when, in reality, they died a decade ago from fighting in Syria.  The false claim that Omar promoted on her X account originated from self-described "investigative journalist" Sulaiman Ahmed.  "CHILD GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE," the post, which included a photo of dead children, claimed. "614 Palestinian children murdered by the Israeli IOF Forces."  Omar then shared the false claim to her nearly three million followers on X.  The reality is that the photo is from an August 2013 article in National Geographic and it shows children in Damascus, Syria, "shortly after they succumbed to chemical weapon poisoning."

A handful of Republicans may save Ilhan Omar's committee seat.  A handful of Republicans could save Rep. Ilhan Omar's, D-Minn., seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee as Speaker Kevin McCarthy tries to fulfill his promise to eject her over what he described as antisemitic remarks.  McCarthy is meeting with holdouts Monday in an effort to persuade them to vote for his resolution to give Omar the boot over her repeated comments against Israel that she has since apologized for.  Last week, McCarthy unilaterally removed Reps.  Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., from the House Intelligence Committee, a select committee, citing national security concerns.  However, the Foreign Affairs Committee is a standing committee, meaning a full House vote is needed for McCarthy's resolution to remove Omar.

Ilhan Omar does not belong on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.  "I am not a fan of Ilhan Omar.  She's an anti-Semite.  She's a bigot.  She's a racist.  She's a socialist."  In saying this, Rep Nancy Mace (R-SC) is absolutely correct.  Where she errs is in calling Rep. Omar's removal from the House Foreign Affairs Committee "cancel culture."  The work of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) is to consider legislation that affects the diplomatic community, which includes the Department of State, the Agency for International Development, the Peace Corps, and the United Nations, and enforcing the Arms Export Control Act.  The HFAC takes on seriously weighty issues critical to our national peace, affluence, and security.  The members tackle subjects of importance to every region and country in the world.  Tough work.  The kind of work that requires dispassionate, serious, well-rounded, thoughtful, honest people dedicated to advancing America's priorities and ensuring that American citizens can enjoy life, dwell in liberty, pursue happiness, and freely exercise all their inherent rights.

The Republican Party Remains a Useless, Spineless Husk.  Though House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has kept his promise to kick Rep. Eric Swalwell and Rep. Adam Schiff off the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, things are a bit more complicated when it comes to Rep. Ilhan Omar.  That's because the Speaker doesn't have unilateral authority over non-select committees, meaning any removal will take a full vote of the House.  Omar, a notorious anti-Semite who has continuously supported policies that empower terrorist regimes, served on the powerful Foreign Affairs Committee under the last congress.  That she was placed there at all despite her lack of experience was already unusual, and Omar's radicalism only made the appointment all the worse.  Still, Republicans weren't of the mind to remove Omar until Rep. Nancy Pelosi, joined by other Democrats, kicked two Republicans off their committees for supposed inflammatory comments.  Obviously, that set the precedent that the majority party could punish bad actors from the minority party for the things they say.  Omar fits that bill perfectly given her history of antisemitism.

Ilhan Omar's Very Foreign Policy.  Ever since her election to Congress in 2018, Ilhan Omar been conducting her very own foreign policy, not just against Israel, that in her view can do no right, and for the Palestinians, who can do no wrong, but also to help Somalia attract more investment from Turkey, to support President Erdogan's rejection of the charge of an Armenian "genocide"; to make the case for the jihadists in Kashmir who want to force Indian troops out of the area; and, of course, to promote the agenda of CAIR, that rewards her handsomely as one of their favorite speakers.  Omar apparently has no qualms about being so closely associated with CAIR, even though the group was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation for terrorist financing.

Here's a Democrat who doesn't want more publicity:
Ilhan Omar: Trump, Republicans Mentioning My Name Causes Uptick of Death Threats — 'They Have to Be Held Accountable'.  Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said Friday [10/28/2022] on MSNBC's "Alex Wagner Tonight" that when former President Donald Trump or other Republicans mention her name, she receives a direct uptick in death threats.  During a discussion on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) husband, Paul Pelosi, being attacked in his San Francisco Home early Friday morning, Wagner said, "Marjorie Taylor Greene, she has previously said that speaker Pelosi is a traitor to our country.  She is guilty of treason.  She gives aid and comfort to our enemies."  Omar said, "We should not live in fear just because we have decided to serve our country, our constituents, and want the ability to shape the way in which our country is governed. [...]"

The Editor says...
Regarding that last sentence, Ms. Omar hasn't (as far as I know) denounced or repudiated the death threats against the Supreme Court justices a few months ago.  Also her claims of (multiple) death threats are hard to believe, because approximately 100 percent of the political violence in this country comes from the left.

If you think Somalia is so much better, go there.
Minnesota Rep Ilhan Omar says Minneapolis is more violent than the Somali refugee camps she fled to as a youth.  Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar said that her arrival in Minnesota exposed her to more gun violence than living in an east African refugee camp did.  Speaking at the Gun Violence Community Conversation at North High in Minneapolis on Thursday, Omar said:  'For six years, I had the privilege of not seeing any violence, until I moved to Minnesota.'  Omar continued:  'My first year in Minnesota I both saw a person shot at Peavey Park, dead on the floor, three weeks after my father and I arrived in Minneapolis.  Six months later I watched the Minneapolis police put 38 bullets into the body of a mentally disabled Somali immigrant who didn't speak English.'

Omar leads calls for court-packing after draft opinion in abortion case leaks.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is leading calls to expand the Supreme Court after a draft opinion leaked on Monday signaled the high court will undo the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion case.  Omar is a frequent advocate of congressional legislation allowing for court-packing.  Her latest call to expand the court of nine justices comes amid the revelation of a document authored by Justice Samuel Alito for the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, ruling that "the authority to regulate abortion must be returned to the people and their elected representatives."

Ilhan Omar demands more Supreme Court justices.  Rep. Ilhan Omar is demanding the Supreme Court add more justices to override its conservative majority while other Democrats are renewing their calls to nix the filibuster and codify the right to an abortion after a leaked preliminary opinion revealed the court is looking to overturn Roe v. Wade.  'Overturning Roe would put the lives of women across the country at risk.  It would fly in the face of decades of precedent and the overwhelming majority of public opinion.  And they will not stop here.  Expand the court,' the Minnesota Democrat said on Twitter.  'Congress must pass legislation that codifies Roe v. Wade as the law of the land in this country NOW.  And if there aren't 60 votes in the Senate to do it, and there are not, we must end the filibuster to pass it with 50 votes,' Sen Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., wrote on Twitter.

Ilhan Omar Finds a New Way to Attack Freedom of Speech.  War in Ukraine, an essentially nonexistent Southern border, out-of-control inflation, rising crime, deep societal divisions, and what does the de facto leader of the Democrat Party, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Islamabad), who can always be counted on to have her finger on the pulse of the American people, decide to tackle?  Why, "Islamophobia," of course.  Come on, man!  Is there something more important that she could be focusing on?  "Islamophobia" is, after all, a free speech issue.  The only problem is that Omar is on the wrong side.  During Omar's recent visit to Pakistan, she made sure to visit Pakistan's just-replaced former prime minister Imran Khan, whose Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party proudly tweeted Wednesday:  "US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) called on @ImranKhanPTI in Bani Gala.  They discussed Islamophobia & related issues.  Ilhan Omar expressed her admiration for Imran Khan and his work for Muslims globally."  That was significant in light of the kind of work Imran Khan has been doing for Muslims globally.

Muslim military veteran hopes to unseat Ilhan Omar, blasts 'Squad' lawmaker for neglecting her district.  A Somali-born U.S. Army veteran has joined the Republican field seeking to challenge Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., calling out her lack of attention to the needs of her constituents as violent crime surges in Minneapolis.  "Minneapolis just saw one of the most violent years on record, falling just one homicide short from the all-time record.  The city at that time was coined 'Murder-apolis,'" the 5th Congressional District candidate Shukri Abdirahman told Fox News Digital.  Abdirahman, a Muslim military veteran and mother of three, announced her campaign Monday.

In Free Lunch Fraud, The Friends Of Ilhan Omar.  We are in the early stages of the apparent USDA free lunch food fraud committed under the auspices of the Minnesota nonprofits including Feeding Our Future.  So far, the FBI has unsealed three search warrants that have now been executed.  The warrants and supporting affidavits lay out the (huge) underlying investigation along with the alleged facts of the case.  The Center of the American Experiment's Bill Glahn has posted a handy summary with links to the local coverage of the story in "$455 million in taxpayer money to MN nonprofits named in FBI search warrants".  Bill notes that, although the dollar amounts involved range into the hundreds of millions, the FBI mentions only tens of millions as allegedly missing.

FEC rejects campaign finance complaint against Rep. Ilhan Omar.  The Federal Election Commission has tossed out a 2019 complaint against Rep. Ilhan Omar from a conservative group alleging the Minnesota Democrat illegally spent campaign funds on her now-husband's political consulting firm.  "The FEC's unanimous 6-0 ruling confirms what we've said from the beginning:  This was a baseless effort by a right-wing group to smear the congresswoman," Omar campaign spokesman Isi Baehr-Breen said in a text message.  "We're glad people now have a better idea of the kind of tactics the right wing is willing to use to try to smear and silence Rep. Omar.  Good riddance."  The complaint from the Virginia-based National Legal and Policy Center questioned whether Omar's campaign paid Tim Mynett's E Street Group for personal travel expenses.  The complaint covers a period from August 2018 to September 2019, when Omar's campaign paid more than $369,000 to E Street, according to campaign finance records.

As homicides surge in Minneapolis, Ilhan Omar denies her district has a crime problem.  The only strategy that supporters of defunding the police have amid the surge in crimes and homicides is to ignore reality.  Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar is committed to this.  Her constituents are living through one of the most violent years they have seen, and she has to pretend none of it is real.  Omar responded to a Twitter user who said her district is "being overrun with violent crime" by definitively asserting that it is not.  But that would be news to residents of Minneapolis, who sit in Omar's district and have witnessed a staggering number of homicides over the last two years.

Ilhan Omar's Bill to Combat 'Islamophobia' Passes the House.  Ilhan Omar's bill requiring the State Department to combat "Islamophobia" has passed.  Omar would like us to believe that "Islamophobia" is as much a threat around the world as antisemitism, and she wants the federal government to monitor, to report on, and to fight the spread of this "hatred." [...] Ilhan Omar has persuaded — some might say inveigled — a Jewish Congresswoman to join her in co-sponsoring the bill.  This is her standard technique for avoiding charges of antisemitism, to "reach out" to liberal Jews who are insufficiently wary of her wiles and guiles, to join her in whatever mischief she is up to.  Her latest effort is to make Congress believe that "Islamophobia" — so often invoked, so rarely defined — really is such a major problem worldwide that it needs a special office in the federal government to monitor it.  Etymologically, "Islamophobia" means the "irrational fear or hatred of Islam."  But "Islamophobia" is a word that was invented not to describe that "irrational fear or hatred of Islam and of Muslims," but in order to shut down any criticism of Islam, no matter how justified.  The word is now affixed to anyone who dares to suggest that the large-scale presence of Muslims in non-Muslim lands, given the refusal of many Muslims to integrate into the larger society, and instead remain hostilely aloof from it, is worrisome.

Lauren Boebertt calls Ilhan Omar a 'jihad-squad member'.  Republican Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert accused Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar of being a "jihad-squad member" during a contentious censure vote.  The House of Representatives was deliberating over a censure vote against Republican Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar for a controversial tweet he sent showing an anime clip that Democrats argue promotes violence.  Following deliberations, the House voted 223-207 to censure him and remove him from his committee assignments.  "The jihad-squad member from Minnesota has paid her husband, and not her brother husband, the other one, over a million dollars in campaign funds," she said.  "This member is allowed on the Foreign Affairs Committee while praising terrorists."

Ilhan Omar blames 'dysfunctional' police for Minneapolis violent crime spike.  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., blamed police for the recent rise in crime in Minneapolis, accusing the city's officers of not fulfilling their oath of office.  "What we must also recognize is that the reduction in policing currently in our city and the lawlessness that is happening is due to two things," Omar said during a town hall event Saturday in Minneapolis.  One of them, she said, is that "the police have chosen to not fulfill their oath of office and to provide the public safety they are owed to the citizens they serve."  The lawmaker's comments come as violent crime has surged in Minnesota over the last year, rising 17% in total while setting records for murders.  Omar's approach to crime includes backing a Nov. 2 ballot measure to replace the entire Minneapolis police department with a "Department of Public Safety."  The measure would remove the requirement that the city have a minimum number of officers based on the city's population.

Ilhan Omar Introduces Bill to Create Special Envoy to Monitor "Islamophobia" Around the World.  Reps Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) on Thursday [10/21/2021] introduced legislation to create a special envoy that would "monitor and combat Islamophobia" around the globe.  "The bill requires the State Department to create a Special Envoy for monitoring and combating Islamophobia, and include state-sponsored Islamophobic violence and impunity in the Department's annual human rights reports," Omar said in a press release.  Through the "Combating International Islamophobia Act," Ilhan Omar wants the US to police the world and silence political discourse and truth about Islamic terrorism.

The Editor says...
[#1] The U.S. is not the world's hall monitor or thought police.  [#2] If there is any Islamophobia, it is well deserved.

Omar calls on Schumer, White House to 'ignore' Senate parliamentarian on path to citizenship.  The Senate parliamentarian determined that lawmakers cannot include a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens in a budget reconciliation package, but Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is pushing the Senate and the Biden administration to do it anyway.  Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough determined Sunday night [9/19/2021] that the provision fell outside the scope of what is allowed in a reconciliation bill[,] which cannot be filibustered, thus requiring the support of only a simple majority in the Senate.  "This ruling by the parliamentarian, is only a recommendation.  @SenSchumer and the @WhiteHouse can and should ignore it," Omar said.  "We can't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to do the right thing."

The Editor says...
If you're trying "to do the right thing," maybe you should play by the rules.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Accuses Ilhan Omar of Marrying Brother, Supporting Terrorism.  Republican Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on Saturday [9/18/2021] accused Democratic Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar of marriage fraud and supporting terrorism.  Greene's accusations followed Omar's Friday tweet accusing Greene of hypocrisy for wearing a mask on a flight despite publicly opposing mask mandates.  Omar's tweet was in response to another person's tweet accusing Greene of using taxpayer funds to fly first class on Delta airlines.

Bringing Somalia to Minnesota.  [Scroll down]  When voters head to the polls, they will decide whether to eliminate the Minneapolis charter requirement of police department, and replace it with a public safety department that "employs a public health approach."  As [Ilhan] Omar weighs in on this topic, she brings her considerable inexperience to the world of law enforcement.  Once again weaponizing the power provided to her by Minneapolis voters and a sycophantic media, she accelerates as the bus careens off the cliff.  Firmly protected by the shields of others, Omar seems to enjoy a perverse pleasure in tarnishing precinct shields across her district and beyond.  Why the people in Minnesota's fifth district elected this woman remains a mystery, but the majority of citizens in her district evidently approve of her rhetoric, behavior, and agenda.

Ilhan Omar slams judge for blocking ballot measure to scrap Minneapolis Police Department.  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., railed against a judge's decision to block a Minneapolis ballot measure that would replace the city's police department with a new department of public safety.  During an in-person town hall meeting Tuesday evening [9/14/2021] in Minneapolis, Omar blamed big money for thwarting a progressive measure that she argued would have given the city "flexibility" on how to better police the city.

Ilhan Omar Possibly Committed A Felony By Concealing Her Finances In Required Disclosure Form, Watchdog Group Alleges.  Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar possibly committed a felony by failing to properly report her assets and income in her financial disclosure reports to the House of Representatives, a conservative-leaning watchdog group alleged in a complaint filed Tuesday [8/31/2021].  The group, National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), demanded the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) investigate why Omar's financial disclosures make no reference to the income she may have received from her memoir published in May 2020, as well as the Democratic lawmaker's apparently gross undervaluation of her new husband's consulting firm, which raked in nearly $3 million from Omar's political campaign from 2018 through 2020, campaign finance records show.  "Representative Omar's apparent disclosure omissions and misreporting violate House ethics rules, the Ethics in Government act, and possibly 18 U.S.C. 1001, a felony with penalties up to five years in prison for making false statements in a matter before the legislative branch," NLPC wrote in its complaint.  "There is clearly more than 'reasonable cause to believe' that disclosure violations may have occurred."

Rep. Ilhan Omar Continues to Evade Financial Disclosure of Reportedly Lucrative Book Deal.  Multiple watchdog groups said Rep. Ilhan Omar may have violated federal law for failing to mention any income received from her critically-acclaimed 2020 memoir in her latest financial disclosure report filed on Friday [8/13/2021].  Omar, D-Minn., reportedly signed a deal worth up to $250,000 for her memoir "This Is What America Looks Like" in January 2019, around the same time she was sworn into Congress.  Omar's communications director said the House Ethics Committee approved the book deal, but the Democratic lawmaker's financial disclosures covering the calendar years 2018 and 2019 contain no mention of the book or any advance income received upon signing a deal.  The book was published in May 2020 to rave reviews by the press and Omar's Democratic colleagues.  The Atlantic dubbed it one of the best political books of the year, and numerous high-profile Democrats — including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts — praised the book.

FBI dodged Ilhan Omar-'bro' wed probe.  Only hours after Minnesota GOP operative Anton Lazarro posted online DNA evidence that allegedly shows Rep. Ilhan Omar was once married to her brother, the FBI busted him.  The test results stated there is a 99.999998 percent chance that Omar and her second husband, Ahmed Elmi, now her ex-husband, are siblings, according to an analysis by British company Endeavor DNA Laboratories.  But before Lazarro could share the results with the media, he was arrested Thursday on underage sex-trafficking charges and jailed pending a court hearing Monday.  His website, IlhanOmarDNA.com, containing the DNA test results, was online briefly before it was taken down Wednesday.  Lazarro and a group of conservative donors had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on three continents hiring private investigators to track down Elmi Omar's ex-husband in the UK and procure his DNA from a drinking straw.  Omar's DNA, Lazarro's website claimed, was extracted from saliva on a cigarette butt she was photographed smoking.

Ilhan Omar's career in the Minnesota Senate proves she supports terrorists.  As soon as Omar was elected in November 2016, before she actually took office as a state senator, Omar wrote a letter to Judge Michael Brown asking for leniency for 9 nine Somali men facing sentencing for trying to join ISIS.  In her letter, Omar wrote that the men do not deserve long sentences in prison, as this would destroy their lives.  She suggested instead a rehabilitation program, saying "the desire to commit violence is not inherent to people — it is the consequence for alienation."  However, Judge Brown had already tried a deradicalization program for at least one of the men, placing him in a halfway house.  He violated the terms of parole and was sent back to prison.  Either Omar was not aware of this — which is unlikely, since the Somali community in Minnesota is tight-knit — or she tried to use her influence to release nine men who intended to join ISIS.

Report — DNA Testing Confirms Ilhan Omar Married Her Biological Brother.  A new report alleges DNA testing confirms Ilhan Omar was married to her biological brother Ahmed Elmi.  The two were allegedly married to bypass immigration laws.  Omar has never been indicted on this crime.  The test results were originally posted on GOP strategist Anton Lazzaro's Facebook page.  He was arrested hours later by the feds on sex trafficking charges.

Ilhan Omar's latest socialist proposal would trap us in welfare state stagnation.  Rep. Ilhan Omar wants to spend billions more in taxpayer money.  The far-left Minnesota Democrat's latest socialist scheme is a quasi-universal basic income program.  She just introduced legislation that would pave the way for the first national "UBI" program in the United States.  Omar's legislation, the SUPPORT Act, would create a new office in the Treasury Department and fund a $2.5 billion grant program for local pilot experiments with UBI.  Then, over the next decade, it would establish a taxpayer-funded "basic income" of $1,200 per month for all U.S. adults who earn $75,000 or less annually with an additional $600 per month for each child in a household.  The income "phase out" would begin at $150,000 annual incomes for two-adult households.  This all equates to a "basic income" of $14,400 per adult.  And, in the congresswoman's telling, this bill could eliminate poverty simply by raining cash down to the masses.

Ilhan Omar leads congressional call for U.S. special envoy to combat Islamophobia.  Rep. Ilhan Omar is leading House lawmakers in demanding that the Biden administration create a special envoy to combat Islamophobia, citing a rise in anti-Muslim incidents across the globe.  In a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, the lawmakers said the U.S. must take the lead in combatting the phenomenon.  "As part of our commitment to international religious freedom and human rights, we must recognize Islamophobia as a pattern that is repeating in nearly every corner of the globe," the lawmakers wrote.

Pelosi refuses to answer question about Ilhan Omar's latest inflammatory statements this week.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., refused to answer a question about "Squad" member Rep. Ilhan Omar's, D-Minn., most recent inflammatory statements about Israel and her Jewish Democratic colleagues.  During her weekly press conference Thursday [7/1/2021], a reporter asked Pelosi a question regarding Omar's comments this week during an interview, in which Omar stood by her comparison of the U.S. and Israel to internationally recognized terror groups Hamas and the Taliban, and blamed her Jewish colleagues for forcing her to walk back the comments.  Pelosi interrupted the reporter during and waved off the question, saying, "let's stay with this" and that she would "answer that afterward."

Ilhan Omar Knows What She's Doing.  The Jews can never seem to live up to Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D., Minn.) exacting standards.  The Minnesota congresswoman's latest broadside came Tuesday afternoon, when she told CNN's Jake Tapper that her Jewish Democratic colleagues "haven't been partners in justice" and have yet to apologize for their allegedly Islamophobic comments.  Omar's statement came after Tapper asked whether she regrets her comments last month comparing the United States and Israel with terrorist organizations like Hamas and the Taliban.  Her answer was unequivocal:  "I don't."  That's funny, because Omar at the time "clarified" that statement, which elicited a rebuke from Democratic leaders and a dozen Jewish Democrats, saying that she did not say what in fact she said:  "I was in no way equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries."  To be clear, she also believes Israel is a terrorist nation.

Omar blasted for remarks about Jews in Congress: 'This is what a modern day Muslim Supremacist looks like'.  Rep. Ilhan Omar's latest remarks about Israel and Jewish members of Congress have sparked backlash, as the Minnesota Democrat expressed zero regret for comparing Israel to Hamas and the Taliban.  In a CNN interview on Tuesday, Omar said she does not regret her tweet from earlier this month in which she lumped Israel, the U.S., Hamas, and the Taliban together.  When asked if she knows why fellow Democrats — particularly Jews — found previous comments of hers about Israel to be anti-Semitic, Omar accused them of not being "partners in justice" while claiming that she herself "knows what it feels like to experience injustice in ways that many of my colleagues don't."

Ilhan Omar Blames GOP for 'False Narratives' Surrounding Critical Race Theory, Denies its Existence in Schools.  As Republicans across the country look to ban critical race theory, a controversial doctrine that highlights systemic racism as defining framework of U.S. history, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) rejected the idea that it is even being taught to public school students.  [Tweet]  Omar's comments on Saturday follows Wisconsin Rep. Glenn Grothman (R) introducing legislation that would prevent public schools in Washington, D.C. from being permitted to teach critical race theory.  His bill is the latest effort by Republicans to put an end to critical race theory in schools.  Grothman said in a press release Friday [6/18/2021] that critical race theory teaches students "to hate each other and hate their country."

Omar Falsely Claims Critical Race Theory Is Not Being Taught in Schools.  Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar has denied Critical Race Theory (CRT) is being taught in public schools, despite a backlash from parents for the doctrine being pushed on their children. [...] Omar's comments come just a day after a bill was introduced by Wisconsin Republican Rep. Glenn Grothman to ban Washington, D.C. public schools from teaching CRT.  The bill was the latest in a series of legislative pushes to ban Critical Race Theory.

Ilhan Omar and Contempt for America.  "We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban," Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota tweeted last week to her 1.2 million followers.  They responded with warm support.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was cooler.  Although the speaker lives in San Francisco's progressive echo chamber, she heads a national party and understands that most voters do not think our country is similar to the Taliban or Hamas.  They have noticed a few small differences.  Nor do they see a moral equivalence between Israel, which tries to avoid civilian casualties, and terrorist organizations, which use human shields and bomb pizza parlors.  They wonder if a representative who thinks America is so evil should sit on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, as Omar does.  Pelosi pressed Rep. Omar for a "clarification" and received a half-hearted one.  That was good enough for the speaker, who stressed that she was not rebuking Omar, whom she called a "valued member of our caucus."

Ilhan, If You Don't Like It Here...  House Democrats released a statement on Wednesday night [6/9/2021] condemning Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-NY) for comparing the United States and Israel to an Islamic terrorist organization.  Only 12 Democrats condemned Omar, which is less than 6% of the total number of Democrats in the House of Representatives.  "We must have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity," Omar wrote on Twitter earlier this week.  "We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban."  [Video clip]

Ilhan Omar says America, like Hamas and the Taliban, has committed 'unthinkable atrocities'.  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on Monday [6/7/2021] appeared to place America in the same category as the Taliban and Hamas, saying the U.S., Israel and the terrorist groups have all committed "unthinkable atrocities."  Omar, a member of the progressive "Squad," posted a tweet that said that the U.S. needs to "have the same level of accountability and justice for all victims of crimes against humanity."  The Minnesota Democrat then claimed America and Israel have committed "unthinkable atrocities" like those committed by the terrorist groups.  "We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban," wrote Omar.  "I asked [Secretary of State Antony Blinken] where people are supposed to go for justice."

Mayor Vowed To Take "Illegal Guns Off The Street". Police Just Found One In Her Home.  Rochester, New York Mayor Lovely Warren is a typical Democrat politician when it comes to gun control.  She's complained about the number of "illegal guns on the streets" of the city, supported the state's draconian gun control laws, and even announced a gun "buyback" earlier this week, claiming once again that "getting guns off our streets must be a priority."

Rochester mayor's husband part of 'mid-level' drug ring, officials say.  The husband of Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren was allegedly peddling cocaine as part of a "mid-level" drug ring in the city, officials said Thursday [5/20/2021].  New York State Police took Timothy Granison into custody Wednesday evening after executing a search warrant at a home on Woodman Park that the 42-year-old shares with Warren and their daughter.  Granison pleaded not guilty Thursday morning to two counts of felony drug possession charges, including intent to sell, and a felony count of gun possession, the Rochester City Newspaper reported.

Ilhan Omar Throws a Hissy Fit Over Being Criticized for Israel Remarks.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is miffed.  Apparently, Facebook has taken a rare departure from ensuring that only the most complimentary of ads regarding Democrats are displayed on its platform and allowed an organization to criticize the lawmaker for her stance on the hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians.  Omar's office demanded that the social media giant remove an ad posted on its platform by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) that features the lawmaker's face on Hamas rockets and says, "When Israel Targets Hamas Rep. Omar calls it an 'act of terrorism.'"  Last week, Omar tweeted:  "Israeli air strikes killing civilians in Gaza is an act of terrorism."

Ted Cruz:  Ilhan Omar Is 'Acting as Press Secretary for Hamas'.  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Monday that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is "acting as the press secretary for Hamas," the Palestinian terror organization, after she tweeted false information about recent clashes in Gaza.  Omar, who is staunchly anti-Israel, and has a history of antisemitic rhetoric, tweeted Monday:  [Tweet]  Omar was responding to claims by Palestinians that 20 Palestinians had been killed in Israeli airstrikes, including 9 children.  What the report did not mention was that Israel claimed it had targeted and killed 11 Hamas fighters who had fired rockets at Israeli civilians.  The Hamas attack was aimed at Jerusalem, where Palestinians have rioted in recent days, at the instigation of Palestinian terror groups and political leaders.

Rep. Ilhan Omar to Reintroduce Bill Creating Federal Board to Investigate 'Brutality' and Potentially Defund Police.  Far-left extremist Rep. Ilhan Omar is planning to reintroduce legislation this week that would create a federal board to investigate "police brutality."  Rep. Omar's bill, the National Police Misuse of Force Investigation Board Act, would create an eight person board appointed by Joe Biden to investigate police use of force and issue determinations of responsibility.  Departments that do not follow orders from the board would have their federal funding cut.  The findings of the investigation and recommendations issued by this board would be admissible in criminal and civil court proceedings against the law enforcement officer, Fox News notes.

Ilhan Omar Is Her New Husband's Biggest Client, Public Records Show.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) and new husband Tim Mynett — who is also her campaign consultant — are downplaying the campaign cash the freshman lawmaker funneled to his consulting firm.  But campaign records show that Omar's campaign has been by far the firm's biggest client, funneling more than half-a-million dollars to the group in the 2018 and 2020 election cycles, almost half of all the money the company took in from federal candidates.  Omar and Mynett announced their marriage last Wednesday after vigorously denying they were engaged in a romantic relationship.  Now Omar's campaign and Mynett's firm, the E Street Group, a campaign consultancy for progressives, are defending their professional relationship from critics who have charged that Omar broke the law by improperly using campaign money for personal travel — in particular, to reimburse Mynett's travel from California to Washington, D.C., to visit Omar.

Rep. Omar introduces Agenda 21.  Without respect to the fact that states have the authority to regulate housing contracts, Ilhan Omar uses a viral smokescreen to begin implementing some of the worst features of Agenda 21, the leftist promise that the government will provide affordable housing for everyone.  On March 11, she introduced H.R. 1847, a bill "To suspend obligations of residential renters and mortgagors to make payments during the COVID-19 emergency, and for other purposes."  So far only a draft of the text is available.  Essentially, the bill says that real property tenants can stop paying their landlords.  Our country was not founded on the moral code that one is not responsible for one's obligations and debts.  However, these socialists would make it so.  Unsurprisingly, this bill is full of problems.  It provides for a COVID suspension period ending April 2022 (Sec. 8(3)), but the landlord relief fund runs for five years (Sec. 5 (c)(1)).  It seems as if it's planning to extend for up to five years a tenant's freedom from rent obligations, should the bill become law.

Rabbis: Ilhan Omar's Promotion Shows 'Antisemitism Now Accepted in Congress'.  The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), the largest rabbinic public policy organization in America, declared Monday that the promotion of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to a senior committee position shows that Congress accepts antisemitism.  As Breitbart News reported Sunday, Omar was promoted to the position of Vice Chair on the Africa, Global Health, and Global Human Rights subcommittee within the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Rep. Ilhan Omar takes leadership post in House Foreign Affairs.  U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar is rising on the House Foreign Affairs Committee as she steps into the role of vice chairwoman of the subcommittee with jurisdiction over Africa and global human rights issues.  Omar's office said her new position was being announced Thursday in Washington.  The panel's full name is the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations.

GOP Lawmakers Introduce OMAR Act to Prevent Federal Candidates from Putting Relatives on Campaign Payroll.  Republican lawmakers in the House introduced legislation last week dubbed the OMAR Act to address the circumstances surrounding Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) paying her husband's consulting firm $2.8 million during her campaign for a House seat.  Conservative congressmembers filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and now hope to prohibit enriching relatives through the campaigning process.  "For too long, lawmakers of both political parties have engaged in the ethically dubious practice of pocketing campaign funds by 'hiring' their spouses and laundering the money as campaign-related expenses," Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) said in a statement.

Cut Off from Campaign Cash, Omar's Husband Turns to Booze Biz.  After Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) announced that she was cutting ties with husband Tim Mynett's political consulting firm, Mynett turned his attention to a new mission: advising wine and beverage companies.  Mynett and his business partner, Will Hailer, quietly registered a second venture in October 2019. But it wasn't until Omar said she would terminate her contract with their political consulting firm that they really turned their attention to the new business.  Omar's campaign paid Mynett's firm, E Street Group, $2.9 million during the 2020 election cycle — nearly 80 percent of what the firm took in from federal committees.  Documents filed with D.C.'s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs show that E Street Group LLC registered the trade name eStreet.co in October 2019.  The newer group carries a website address identical to its name, which is separate from that of Mynett's political consulting site.

Federal filings show Rep. Ilhan Omar's 2020 campaign made up nearly 80% of payments to her husband's consulting firm.  Federal Election Commission filings reveal payments from Rep. Ilhan Omar's campaign made up the vast majority of money her husband's consulting firm earned during the 2020 election cycle.  E Street Group, which is partially owned by Omar's husband, Tim Mynett, drew in $2.9 million from Rep. Omar's 2020 campaign and $3.7 million in total political spending from other candidates.  Between January 2019 and November 2020, Omar's campaign contributed 78 percent of the total campaign funds received by the E Street Group.

House Republicans Begin Effort To Remove Democrat Ilhan Omar From Committees.  Several House Republicans are moving to remove far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from her committee assignments this week after Democrats announced recently that they are pushing to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), a conspiracy theorist, from her committee assignments.  "The House is set to consider a measure this week that calls for Taylor Greene, a controversial first-term lawmaker known for his support of the QAnon conspiracy theory, from her assignment on the Education and Labor Committee," Fox News reported.  "A proposed GOP-backed amendment to that measure calls for Omar, frequently identified as a member of the 'Squad' of progressive Democrats, to be removed from her committee assignments."

Rep. Omar Melts Down; Will Draw Up Articles Of Impeachment In Attempt To Remove Trump.  In light of the protests in Washington DC, Rep Omar and the Democrats are drawing up a plan to try to remove President Trump from office as soon as possible.  Although the protest was overwhelmingly peaceful despite a few exceptions, Rep. Omar is blaming Trump for the chaos occurring at the Capitol.  "I am drawing up Articles of Impeachment.  Donald J. Trump should be impeached by the House of Representatives & removed from office by the United States Senate.  We can't allow him to remain in office, it's a matter of preserving our Republic and we need to fulfill our oath," she tweeted.  Sadly, the tweet has received over 600k tweets.  The left is going to try to overthrow President Trump.

Rep. Ilhan Omar says she's drawing up articles of impeachment against Trump.  Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a frequent critic and frequent target of President Donald Trump, announced she was drawing up articles of impeachment against the president following supporters infiltrating the Capitol Wednesday.  "I am drawing up articles of impeachment," she tweeted.  "Donald J. Trump should be impeached by the House of Representatives & removed from office by the United States Senate.  We can't allow him to remain in office, it's a matter of preserving our Republic and we need to fulfill our oath."

Rep. Omar:  It's Trump's Fault That Democrats Killed My Father.  Rep. Omar asked for privacy when her father died over the summer.  And that seemed fair enough since she didn't politicize his death beyond a brief Islamic social media tribute.  But Omar can't stop being her own usual horrible self for very long and so she decided to blame President Trump for her father's death. [...] Minneapolis is run by Democrats.  President Trump allowed local areas to set their own coronavirus policies.  Omar's father lived and died by whatever policies were set in Minneapolis and MN. Omar hasn't bothered to explain what exactly she blames President Trump for.  If anyone killed her father, it was her fellow Democrats.  Finally, Somalis in Europe appeared to be especially vulnerable to the virus, dying at higher rates than the native population.  There hasn't been a clear explanation for the causes of this, but some possibilities have included a genetic predisposition.  That and unsafe behavior.

James Woods Dunks On Ilhan Omar After She Calls For the Abolishment of Death Penalty, Electoral College & ICE.  On Thursday, radical Rep. Ilhan Omar called for the abolishment of the death penalty, the Electoral College, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).  "Abolish the death penalty.  Abolish the electoral college.  Abolish ICE," Omar said in a tweet.  Conservative Actor James Woods dunked on Omar the next day by bringing up her past:  "Abolish bigamy," Woods said.  Woods was referring to the allegations Omar is facing regarding her relationship with multiple men at the same time.

How Did Omar's Husband Get $634,000 in Pandemic Bailout Cash?  PPP loans were meant to help organizations keep paying their employees.  Economic Injury Disaster loans, the bulk of the E Street Group cash, was meant for organizations experiencing, in the SBA's words, a "downturn in revenue".  Specifically, they had to have, "suffered working capital losses due to the coronavirus pandemic, not due to a downturn in the economy or other reasons".  The Free Beacon report appears to document a thriving business swimming in cash from Rep. Omar and other lefties.  Beyond that, a baseline question is how exactly a political consultancy would have suffered a downturn in revenue during an election year.  Conventional non-profits who live and die by donations might have, but there's no sign that the cash ever stopped flying to Omar or to E Street Group.

Ilhan Omar's husband received $635k in Covid-19 bailout money for his consulting firm.  Ilhan Omar's husband received $635,000 in Covid-19 bailout money for his consulting firm, despite the congresswoman paying his company nearly $2.25 million this year, according to a new report.  Tim Mynett's E Street Group was given $134,800 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and an additional $500,000 in Economic Injury Disaster loans (EIDL) in April, records show.  Mynett co-owns the Washington D.C. firm, which has also been paid $2,256,700 since the start of 2020 from Omar's campaign for services that include digital advertising, fundraising consulting and website production, campaign records show.

Ilhan Omar's husband's firm got $500K in pandemic relief as he raked in $$$ advising her.  Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's campaign paid millions to her husband's media firm for consultations.  The campaign gave him an additional $138,000 right before she severed ties.  This followed her successful re-election, federal campaign finance filings show.  Omar's husband, Tim Mynett, raked in millions during the 2020 campaign season from Omar's campaign through his firm, the E Street Group LLC.  This is an addition to the nearly $2.8 million her campaign had already paid Mynett's firm.  About severing ties, she said it might not look good.

Ilhan Omar Cuts Ties With Husband's Consulting Firm After Nearly $3 Million In Campaign Payments.  Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota announced Sunday that she had severed financial ties with her husband's consulting firm after her campaign had divvied out nearly $3 million to the company.  Omar's campaign was the largest known client of Tim Mynett's firm, E Street Group, having paid the firm $2.78 million since July 2019, Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show.  Mynett co-owns the firm with Will Hailer, a former staffer for Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.  E Street Group's second-largest client that reports to the FEC was the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which has reported payments of $128,000 to the firm.  Omar said in an email Sunday to her supporters that she did not cut ties with her husband's firm sooner because of the spending her primary and general election opponents put up against her.

Radical Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar Calls President Trump's Campaign Rallies "Klan Rallies".  Radical Muslima Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Monday called President Trump's campaign rallies "Klan rallies."  Ilhan Omar's lies and dehumanization of Trump supporters is precisely why there was violence against men and women who attended the million MAGA march for Trump in DC over the weekend.  According documents and sources previously reported by investigative journalist David Steinberg, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar married her own brother in order to defraud US immigration.  In fact, evidence is mounting that Ilhan Omar isn't even her real name.

Rep. Ilhan Omar has paid her husband's consultancy firm $2.8 million since the start of 2019.  Ilhan Omar paid her husband's political consultancy firm $2.8 million during the 2019-2020 election cycle, campaign finance records show.  The Democrat congresswoman handed husband Tim Mynett's eStreet Group $1.6 million between 2019 and July 22 this year, another $1.1million between July 22 and the end of September and paid an additional $27,000 since then.  The majority of the money has been spent on digital advertising, FEC records show, but charges also include consultancy fees and more than $2,700 in travel expenses.

Omar Says Supreme Court Has Lowest Approval Rating 'At 10%' — But It's Really 58%.  The problem with Democrats is that they literally make things up to avoid telling the truth.  For example, men cannot give birth — but they'll tell you they can.  Accordingly, Congress, has the lowest approval rating of the three executive branches of government — not the Supreme Court.  But if you're a follower of Ilhan Omar (MN), you wouldn't know it.  She lives to lie.

Ilhan Omar Funnels 70 Percent of Campaign Expenditures to Husband's Company.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) funneled an additional $1.1 million to her husband's company, bringing her total payments to the firm to $2.7 million for the election cycle, new filings show.  Omar's campaign filings, released Thursday, show that she sent $1.1 million more to the E Street Group, a political consulting firm owned by her husband, Tim Mynett.  The payments account for nearly 70 percent of the $1.6 million Omar's campaign has disbursed between July 23 and the end of September.  They have helped cover advertisements, consulting, travel expenses, and production costs.  Omar has faced criticism on a number of issues since she entered Congress in 2018.

Book Her, Danno.  Reporting on Minnesota's ethically challenged Rep. Ilhan Omar over the past four years, I came to the conclusion that she is heedless of the laws and rules that apply to mere mortals.  She views herself as immune from them and so far she has proven right.  In December 2019 Omar reportedly received a substantial cash advance — Forbes pegged it in a range from $100,00 to $250,000, although I was told it was $300,000 — for a book written on her behalf.  (The book was published earlier this year.)  Forbes picked up the Publishers Marketplace notice of Omar's book deal in a report dated January 16, 2019.  I noted the advance in "Divorce, Minnesota style."  The Washington Free Beacon wondered in a staff report whether Omar had complied with the applicable House ethics rule.  Under House Rule 25, among other things, a member (1) is prohibited from receiving royalties unless the book contract is first approved by the Ethics Committee and (2) is prohibited from receiving an advance against royalties.

Minnesota Supporters Chant 'Lock Her Up' as Trump Mentions Ilhan Omar.  Supporters of President Donald Trump on Wednesday chanted, "lock her up," when the president referred to recent reporting exposing an organized ballot harvesting scheme in Minneapolis connected to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).  "I've been reading reports for two years about how corrupt and crooked she is," Trump said at a campaign rally in Duluth, Minnesota.  The crowd repeatedly chanted, "lock her up," after Trump mentioned Ilhan Omar.  "What about Ohmar where she gets caught harvesting," Trump said.  "What [...] is going on!  I hope the U.S. attorney gets involved."

Project Veritas Exposes Naked Corruption by Ilan Omar Supporters Paying Voters for Blank Ballots in Minneapolis.  As more details come to light regarding the undercover operation by Project Veritas, assisted by a Somali Community "whistleblower" in Minneapolis — Omar Jamal, a community activist — the entire country is given an up-close look at how a sophisticated operation can literally create thousands of fraudulent ballots in an unsecured and unregulated "vote-by-mail" free for all. [...] Democrat Party interest groups across the country have, for months, been demanding increased availability and use of mail-in ballots due to health concerns involving the COVID 19 pandemic.  There are a host of questions with respect to issues of security in dealing with a massive volume of mailed ballots, most of which, to this point, have focused on the secure and timely transmission and receipt of those ballots to local election officials by the US Postal Service, which has never been tasked to deliver millions and millions of mailed ballot envelopes on a specific day.  But what the PV investigation has revealed is that the "security" of such a process is inherently compromised long before the ballots enter the mailing system on the return trip to election officials.

After Ilhan Omar's Fiasco, Biden's Texas Political Director Was Formally Accused Of Illegal Ballot Harvesting With Video As Evidence.  [Scroll down]  But it seems that the Dems are exposed even more as witnesses allege Texas Sen. Boris Miles and Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis were orchestrating a ballot harvesting scheme with help from Biden campaign official Dallas Jones.  According to a lawsuit filed with the Texas Supreme Court Monday [9/28/2020], Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden's political director in Texas has been accused of ballot harvesting in Harris County.  Harris County is Texas' most populous county; Houston is its and the state's largest city.  According to the lawsuit, which was filed by conservative activist Dr. Steven Hotze and several others, two investigators accuse Dallas Jones and several prominent Democrat officeholders of organizing a ballot harvesting scheme.  Jones was named Joe Biden's political director in Texas in late August with stories appearing in media earlier in September.

Minneapolis police probing alleged ballot harvesting plot helping Rep. Omar.  A police investigation has been launched into the alleged ballot harvesting plot helping progressive "Squad" member Rep. Ilhan Omar.  "Allegations of voter fraud being evaluated," the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) announced on Twitter Monday [9/28/2020], hours after President Trump called for an investigation into the "misdeeds."  "The MPD is aware of the allegations of vote harvesting.  We are in the process of looking into the validity of those statements," the department said.  The force added that "no further information is available at this time," including whether the Democratic congresswoman would be involved in the initial investigation.

Follow-up: Project Veritas Shows Cash Exchanges for Voter Ballots Organized by Representative Ilhan Omar.  In part two of an explosive exposé, a Minnesota-based source tells Project Veritas that the mastermind behind the rampant voter fraud scheme is Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) herself and her extensive political machine.  "Nobody would say that Ilhan Omar isn't part of this," said Omar Jamal, a Somali community Insider and the Chairman of the Somali Watchdog group.  "Unless you're from a different planet, but if you live in this universe, I think everybody knows it."  Jamal said Ali Isse Gainey, a senior Ilhan Omar staffer, is at the center of the vote-buying scheme.

Flashback: Congressional Candidate Laura Loomer Uncovered Minneapolis Ballot Harvesting Scheme in 2018.  Last night, James O'Keefe of Project Veritas released a bombshell video indicating that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) may be leading an illicit ballot harvesting scheme intended to influence the results of the upcoming elections in November. [...] The report from O'Keefe echoes the work of investigative journalist turned Congressional candidate, Laura Loomer.  Loomer used to work for Project Veritas before she would go on to become the most banned journalist in history, with Big Tech conspiring to remove her from their monopoly platforms.  City Pages covered Loomer's investigative work in the most snarky way imaginable at the time, laughing off all concerns about ballot harvesting by Democrats in Minneapolis.  "Many people telling me they saw Somalis being bussed in to vote in Minneapolis," Loomer wrote in a tweet that has since been wiped from the internet.  "I'm investigating."  The fake news media made light of her concerns.

Cash-For-Ballots Voter Fraud Scheme Linked To Ilhan Omar Supporters, Says Project Veritas.  Project Veritas — the investigative journalism outfit led by conservative activist James O'Keefe — released a new video Sunday night, appearing to expose a massive ballot harvesting scheme, with those involved asserting their fealty to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D). [...] The investigation showed three locations inside Ward 6 — what they calls [sic] "a ballot harvesting triangle" — where the scheme operates: the Riverside Plaza apartments, the senior citizen community at Horn Towers and the Minneapolis Elections and Voter Services office at 980 E. Hennepin Ave., which they say functions as a voting location and ballot drop-off site.

Project Veritas Exposes Ballot Harvesting Scheme With Alleged Ties to Ilhan Omar.  A new investigative report was put out by Project Veritas on Sunday exposing what appears to be a ballot harvesting scheme in Minnesota perpetrated by a group with alleged ties to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).  The video includes footage of a ballot harvester, Liban Mohamed, speaking in both English and Somali as he drives around collecting ballots from senior citizens.  According to Omar Jamal, chair of the Somali Watchdog Group, people like Liban Mohamed are paid to collect absentee ballots from senior citizens and the immigrant community.  Jamal outlines a ballot harvesting scheme conducted on behalf of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, in which Rep. Omar has become a major power broker.  One source in the report linked Ilhan Omar's campaign manager, Ali Isse Gainey, to the harvesting scheme.  "It's an open secret," Jamal said.  "She [Omar] will do anything that she can do to get elected and she has hundreds of people on the streets doing that."

New Project Veritas Video:  Voter Fraud in Ilhan Omar's District.  A "ballot broker" boasts about keeping hundreds of absentee ballots in his car trunk.  He brags about them being filled in by people other than the voters.  Often, money changes hands.  Witnesses tie the rampant fraud to the campaign chairman of a prominent member of the radical "squad" in the U.S. House.  Loose election laws allow people to come from out of state, vote, and then leave again.  This activity is really happening in America in 2020, and it's been captured on video by guerrilla filmmaker James O'Keefe.  Some of it could be coming to swing states near you if something isn't done.

Project Veritas uncovers 'ballot harvesting fraud' in Minnesota.  A ballot-harvesting racket in Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's Minneapolis district — where paid workers illegally gather absentee ballots from elderly Somali immigrants — appears to have been busted by undercover news organization Project Veritas.  One alleged ballot harvester, Liban Mohamed, the brother of Minneapolis City Council member Jamal Osman, is shown in a bombshell Snapchat video rifling through piles of ballots strewn across his dashboard.  "Just today we got 300 for Jamal Osman," says Mohamed, aka KingLiban1, in the video.  "I have 300 ballots in my car right now ... "Numbers don't lie.  You can see my car is full.  All these here are absentee ballots. ... Look, all these are for Jamal Osman," he says, displaying the white envelopes.

Ilhan Omar Connected Cash-For-Ballots Voter Fraud Scheme Corrupts Elections.  Project Veritas investigators revealed a ballot harvesting scheme here involving clan and political allies and associates of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D.-Minn.) in the first of a series of reports.  "Numbers don't lie.  Numbers don't lie.  You can see my car is full.  All these here are absentees' ballots.  Can't you see?  Look at all these, my car is full.  All these are for Jamal Osman... We got 300 today for Jamal Osman only," said Liban Mohamed in a series of Snapchat videos posted July 1 and July 2 on his own Snapchat profile.  Mohamed said he was collecting the ballots to help his brother win the city's Aug. 11 special election for a vacant Ward 6 city council race — which was held the same day as the primary for Omar's MN-05 congressional seat.  Ward 6 is the heart of the city's Somali community and the Omar's political base.

Trump calls for investigation into Rep. Omar over 'ballot harvesting' claims.  President Trump has called for an investigation into Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar for alleged "ballot harvesting" in Minnesota. [...] The president was referring to a report from Project Veritas that implicates progressive "Squad" member Omar in an alleged cash-for-ballots scheme to gather absentee ballots illegally from Somali immigrants.  In a video posted by Project Veritas late Sunday [9/27/2020], Liban Mohamed, the brother of Minneapolis City Council member Jamal Osman, is shown with ballots filling his car's dashboard.

Project Veritas Outlines Ballot Harvesting Fraud in Ilhan Omar Minnesota District.  Project Veritas investigators revealed a ballot harvesting scheme here involving clan and political allies and associates of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D.-Minn.) in the first of a series of reports.  Central to the Project Veritas investigation was Omar Jamal, a political insider active in the city's Somali community.  Jamal works with the Ramsey County Sheriff Department and is the chairman of the Somali Watchdog Group.  "I have been involved in the community for the last 20 years."

His name is David Steinberg.  Speaking at his rally in Bemidji last night, President Trump paid tribute to the journalism of David Steinberg on Ilhan Omar. [...] Trump got it right:  David deserves a Pulitzer Prize for his work exposing Omar.  When I met with President Trump about my own work on Omar just before he took the stage at his Minneapolis rally the following October, he expressed puzzlement over why she has proved immune from prosecution.  The same thought was clearly on Trump's mind last night [9/18/2020].  In the course of my own work, I have discovered that Omar was in fact under investigation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in August 2016 following the publication of my original post "ILhan Omar:  Her back pages" — precisely as FOX 9's Tom Lyden reported later that month.

Nancy Pelosi Stands with Anti-Semites.  Last Wednesday [7/29/2020], Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi endorsed Rep. Rashida Tlaib in her August 4 Michigan Democratic primary rematch with Detroit City Council President Brenda Jones, whom Tlaib narrowly defeated in 2018.  Similarly, for the August 11 Minnesota primary, Pelosi endorsed another of Congress' three Israel-boycotters, Rep. Ilhan Omar, who has been enthusiastically praised by David Duke, and was voted 2019 Antisemite of the Year in a poll by stopantisemitism.org.  What is Pelosi's motivation in supporting them?  Is it identity politics?  In Omar's race, Pelosi had the option of endorsing her progressive African-American opponent, who opposes the Boycott-Divest-Sanction (BDS) campaign to isolate and destroy Israel.  In Tlaib's race, where opponent Brenda Jones is a staunch ally of Rev. Louis Farrakhan, Pelosi had the option of staying neutral.

'Squad' Member Ilhan Omar Pays Husband's Firm Another $600,000, Bringing Total To More Than $1.6 Million:  Report.  Despite an ongoing federal complaint against her, Rep. Ilhan Omar's re-election campaign reportedly paid her new husband's consulting firm more than $600,000 in the first three weeks of July, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records.  The Minnesota Democrat's campaign has now paid E Street Group, the firm led by Omar's husband, Tim Mynett, more than $1.6 million since August 2018, according to FEC records.  The most recent payments were first reported by The Washington Free Beacon.  "The money accounted for 77 percent of the campaign's disbursements during that time," the Beacon reported.

Ilhan Omar Paid Her Husband's Firm $600,000 in Three Weeks.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) funneled an additional $606,000 to her husband's firm in the first three weeks of July alone, according to new campaign filings.  Federal Election Commission records released Thursday [7/30/2020] show that over the first three weeks of July, Omar's campaign sent $606,000 to the E Street Group, a D.C.-based consulting firm run by Tim Mynett, Omar's husband.  The money accounted for 77 percent of the campaign's disbursements during that time.  Omar has sent massive sums to her husband's firm even as her Democratic opponent, Antone Melton-Meaux, significantly outraised her ahead of the primary.  The challenger drew national attention with a $3.2 million fundraising haul over the past quarter, six times the amount Omar's campaign pulled in over the same period despite paying Mynett's firm large sums for fundraising assistance.

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Ilhan Omar's Opponent Massively Outraises Her, Signals Trouble for Her Re-Election Campaign.  Rep. Ilhan Omar is facing a tough primary challenge from her opponent, Antone Melton-Meaux.  That's something she likely wasn't expecting as she basked in the national spotlight over the last two years.  Is her radical district getting tired of her antics and penchant for getting nothing done but cable news hits and Twitter dunks?  Signs say maybe so.

Upset brewing in MN-05 primary?  Omar opponent raised millions in Q2.  Has Ilhan Omar grown too radical even for the heart of Minneapolis?  New FEC filings in the DFL primary for her seat in Congress show Omar in serious trouble.  The Star Tribune reported yesterday that challenger Antone Melton-Meaux raised seven times as much money as Omar, scoring $3.2 million against Omar's $471K.  Melton-Meaux now has twice as much cash on hand ahead of the August 11 primary.

Ilhan Omar's Payments to Husband's Firm Hit $1 Million in 2020 Cycle.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) continues to dish out six-figure payments to her husband's firm, which has now received more than $1 million from her campaign this cycle.  Federal Election Commission records released Tuesday afternoon [7/14/2020] show that Omar's campaign funneled $228,384.93 last quarter to the E Street Group, a D.C.-based consulting firm run by the congresswoman's husband, Tim Mynett.  The payments, predominantly for digital and fundraising services, bring the total that Omar's campaign has sent to Mynett's firm to just over $1 million for the 2020 cycle.

'Threat To Our Democracy': GOP Senator Demands Ilhan Omar Resignation.  Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) urged Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to resign after calling for the "dismantling" of the U.S. political and economic systems Tuesday [7/7/2020].  During a speech to members of the Minnesota People of Color and Indigenous Caucus in her home state, Omar said, "As long as our economy and political systems prioritize profit without considering who is profiting, who is being shut out, we will perpetuate this inequality.  We cannot stop at criminal justice system.  We must begin the work of dismantling the whole system of oppression wherever we find it."  [Video clip]  The clip, which went viral on social media, prompted condemnation from Blackburn, who tweeted, "Ilhan Omar took an oath to defend and protect the Constitution, not shred it.  Omar and her Marxist comrades are a threat to our Democracy.  Omar should resign."

Don't Forget To Pack A Lunch.  Note to all those who still don't believe that the left, along with their seemingly endless stream of useful idiots, is intent on a path to dismantle America as it was founded: you are dangerously wrong. [...] Presumably the great dismantling begins by shredding the Constitution that Omar swore (on a Koran, so technically it doesn't count) to uphold and defend.  One can only imagine where the great dismantling ends.

Muslim Congresswoman Omar Calls for 'Dismantling' of the United States.  On Tuesday [6/7/2020], Muslim Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar called for the "dismantling" of the entire American way of life as a way to mollify the radical Black Lives Matter movement.  Speaking in Washington D.C., the Minnesota Rep. said that defunding the police was not enough and that every part of America had to be torn down to suit her dangerous anti-Americanism.  "As long as our economy and political systems prioritize profit without considering who is profiting, who is being shut out, we will perpetuate this inequality," Omar said.  "We cannot stop at criminal justice system.  We must begin the work of dismantling the whole system of oppression wherever we find it."

Omar Faces Ethics Outcry Over Payments To Husband After Decrying Those Who Profit Under Our "System Of Oppression".  Rep. Iihan Omar has been much in the news for her extreme positions on defunding police departments and yesterday calling for the dismantling of not just the American economy but the political system.  In declaring her support for sweeping legislation yesterday, Omar railed against the American economic and political systems as a "system of oppression" and insisted that we cannot allow people to "prioritize profit without considering who is profiting."  That question however is now being raised in growing ethical concerns over Omar giving her husband's company a massive amount of her campaign funds.  This has been an issue that I have written about for over two decades as a legal but corrupt practice.  The two stories show once again that the only defining element in Washington greater than irony is hypocrisy in both of our political parties.

Ungrateful Omar seeks 'dismantling' of U.S. political and economic system.  Mogadishu-born Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has found something new to be ungrateful for: the entire U.S. political and economic system, which she now calls upon to be canceled. [...] So abolishing the police is not enough — although it certainly looks as though she's got some impressive bodyguard police protection herself.  Rather, the entire economic and political system of her adopted country has got to go, too, in the country that embraced her as a supposedly pitiful Somali refugee who grew up in part in a Kenyan refugee camp.  Instead of look on the United States in awe, as normal immigrants do, she stands in judgment, and the U.S. is just not good enough.

Ilhan Omar Calls for 'Dismantling' of America's 'Economy and Political Systems'.  Tuesday at a news conference on systemic racism with Minnesota leaders, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) called for dismantling systems of oppression, including America's "economy and political systems."  Omar said, "Right now in Congress the Senate is sitting on a comprehensive bill to transform criminal justice and the policing system.  All along with the Congressional Black Caucus, I helped led the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.  And because of Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump, it is being ignored.  I guess the president would rather attack the people who are protesting than actually address the issues people are out here protesting for."

Ilhan Omar has paid new husband's consulting firm $878,000, filings show.  Rep. Ilhan Omar has continued quietly funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to her new husband's consulting film, including a $189,000 windfall in March — just weeks after they announced they had tied the knot, campaign data shows.  The payments between the Minneapolis Democratic congresswoman and Tim Mynett prompted at least one ethics complaint in 2019 after The Post first revealed allegations — made by Mynett's then-wife in her divorce filing — that Omar was having an affair with the member of her political consulting team, who was at the time married to another woman.  Omar was married to her second husband at the time.  But that doesn't appear to have stopped the now-married couple, with Mynett's E Street Group collecting $292,814.99 from his wife's campaign this year for digital advertising, fundraising consulting and research services, according to the Federal Election Commission filings.

Dem Rep. Omar vows 'whole system' of U.S. economy must be gutted due to 'oppression'.  Rep. Ilhan Omar says America is a giant "system of oppression" needing an immediate "dismantling" far beyond current calls for criminal justice reform.  The Minnesota Democrat told constituents Tuesday [7/7/2020] that most national conversations about the death of George Floyd and the coronavirus pandemic fail to realize the size and scope of change she envisions.  "We can't stop at criminal justice reform or policing reform," she said during an outdoor press conference.  "We are not merely fighting to tear down the systems of oppression in the criminal justice system.  We are fighting to tear down systems of oppression that exist in housing, in education, in health care, in employment, [and] in the air we breathe."

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Wow.  There's a system of oppression in the air we breathe, she says.  What a miserable person she must be.

Communities will still be 'safe' without cops, says Ilhan Omar - but fails to explain how Americans will be protected or crimes investigated without law enforcement.  Ilhan Omar said Sunday that American communities will still be 'safe' even without law enforcement and the dismantlement of police departments, claiming that they would be replaced with something else — but she did not specify what that would be.  'I think that's really where the conversation is going wrong, because no one is saying that the community is not going to be kept safe,' Omar told CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday morning [6/14/2020].  The progressive Minnesota representative asserted that crimes would still be investigated and there would still be a 'proper response when community members are in danger.'

Democrat Ilhan Omar:  Defund Minneapolis Police, They're 'Cancer'.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) called for defunding the Minneapolis Police Department on Sunday [6/7/2020], saying that they were a "cancer" and that the department was "rotten to the root."  "Well, we've had a black president, we've had a Congressional Black Caucus, we've had black mayors, we've had black governors, and we've had black city councilmembers, we've had black police chiefs, yet we are still getting killed, brutalized, surveilled, massley [sic] incarcerated, and we are still having conversations with our children on how to have a conversation with the people that are supposed to protect and serve them so that those people don't in return kill them," Omar said during a rally.

Ilhan Omar and Her Daughter Encourage Chaos and Mayhem in the Minnesota Streets.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and her daughter are pushing for the chaos and mayhem in the streets of Minneapolis, Minn. that has turned the streets into a Somali-style war zone.  Omar has written tweets expressing sympathy for the terrorists in the streets burning down their city due to supposed concerns about police brutality.

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Of course Omar's daughter is immune to criticism.

Ilhan Omar's Daughter Retweets List of Supplies For "Comrades" Who Are Rioting in Minneapolis.  Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar's daughter Isra Hirsi, retweeted a list of supplies for "comrades" who are rioting in Minneapolis.  Isra Hirsi is the co-founder of US Youth Climate Strike and her Twitter bio says she 'hates capitalism.'  Isra Hirsi retweeted a post from Twin Cities DSA (Democratic Socialists of America): [...]

Ilhan Omar:  I Believe Tara Reade, But I'm Still Voting For Biden.  Tara Reade has accused former Vice President Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her back in the 1990s when he was the Senator for Delaware.  Unlike when President Donald Trump and Justice Brett Kavanaugh were accused, many on the left have decided to not #BelieveAllWomen this time around, and have dismissed her claims.  This was to be expected, as the left often claim any accusations of wrongdoing by people on "their side" are false, because leftists are nice people!  However, some on the Democrat side of the argument have seemed to go one step further than this, claiming that they believe the allegations put forward by Reade are true, but that they simply do not care.

Crooked Ilhan Omar Just Got Caught Raising Money for a Minnesota Food Store and Pocketing the Cash.  Ilhan Omar has only been in Congress for one term and already this woman has been caught in numerous scandals including immigration fraud, marrying her brother and funneling money into her lover's consulting firm!  Now we can add one more crime to the list.

COVID-19 is no good reason to cancel rents or mortgages.  As the housing market collapsed in 2008 and 2009, millions of people stopped paying their mortgages.  The ensuing disaster — the secondary mortgage market imploded — is something no rational person should want to repeat.  It is thus astonishing that some members of Congress want a reprise.  In their ignorance of how the world works and their desire to pander to voters, they advocate compounding the economic disaster brought on by the global COVID-19 pandemic.  This began when Rep. Ilhan Omar, in her typically short-sighted and economically illiterate way, called for "canceling" rent payments during the plague.  This would be as disastrous now as it was a decade ago.

Omar still flushing campaign cash into husband's firm.  Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's husband is still making headlines, but not of the best variety. (To be clear, we're talking about her latest husband here, not the previous one who may or may not have been her brother.) As you may recall, Tim Mynett is the owner and CEO of the E Street Group political consulting firm.  He's been the primary beneficiary of the Omar campaign's largesse, receiving the lion's share of all the campaign contributions that Omar has taken in.  Even after this fact was brought to light previously, Omar didn't slow down the cash flow a bit.  FEC records indicate the Mynett was the recipient of well over a quarter-million dollars in the last quarter.

Omar Funnels Nearly $300,000 More to Her Husband's Firm.  Democratic representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) continues to push cash from her campaign committee to her now-husband's consulting firm.  Omar's new committee filings, posted Wednesday afternoon, show that during the first three months of the year, the campaign paid $292,905 to the E Street Group.  E Street is a political consulting firm owned by Omar's husband, Tim Mynett.  The cash, which reportedly went toward an array of services that included fundraising and advertisements, accounted for over 40 percent of the campaign's $674,892 in disbursements.  Omar raised $456,374 during the quarter.


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Ilhan Omar is on track to pay her new husband's consulting company $1.16M, new figures show.  Radical congresswoman Ilhan Omar is on track to pay her new husband's company nearly double the half million dollars she funneled his way last year, new figures obtained by DailyMail.com show.  In the first three months of this year Omar paid more than $290,000 to the E Street Group, a fundraising and consulting group run by Tim Mynett, who she married last month.  If she continues at this rate it will mean the company would get a whopping $1.16 million from Omar's campaign in 2020.  It received a total of $523,000 for the whole of last year.

Ilhan Omar Is Using The Wuhan Virus To Shill For Iran.  In the face of a global pandemic, one might think a U.S. representative's sole focus would be on the well-being of her constituents.  But in the case of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, one would be incorrect.  She is using the Wuhan coronavirus to bash America to the benefit of the Iranian regime.  On March 13, Omar, the subject of my new book "American Ingrate," retweeted a thread blaming a medical supplies shortage in Iran on U.S. sanctions, writing, "We need to suspend these sanctions before more lives are lost."  She tweeted this in spite of the fact that it is the U.S. government's long-standing policy, including during this pandemic, to permit the sale of "agricultural commodities, food, medicine, and medical devices to Iran."

Man who spilled Ilhan Omar's secret about marrying her brother now 'fears for his life'.  The Somali immigrant who spilled Rep. Ilhan Omar's secret, that the Minnesota Democrat had married her brother, says he now fears for his life.  Omar, who has had more scandal in her first term than many members of Congress experience in a career, told friends years ago that the man who became her second husband was her brother, according to Abdihakim Osman, DailyMail.com previously reported.  According to Osman, Omar, while married to Ahmed Hirsi, said she wanted to get her brother papers so he could stay in the United States.  But few realized that meant marrying him.  "No one knew there had been a wedding until the media turned up the marriage certificate years later," Osman told DailyMail.com.

Omar's new husband made more than half a million off her campaigns.  On Thursday [3/12/2020], John wrote about the recently announced nuptials of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and her then-campaign consultant Tim Mynett, the head of E Street Group.  While Omar's marital history still raises many questions, [...] the current media scrutiny about this event has more to do with questions of potential campaign finance impropriety.  At the WaPo, Michelle Ye Hee Lee looks back at the new groom's involvement with Omar's campaigns and the financial windfall it brought him and his firm.

Ilhan Omar Secretly Marries Democrat Operative Tim Mynett, Previously Denied Alleged Affair.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) revealed Wednesday evening that she secretly wedded her alleged lover, Democrat political consultant Tim Mynett. [...] Reports of Omar's relationship with Mynett, a Washington, D.C., consultant who specializes in fundraising for Democrat lawmakers, first made the rounds after Mynett's now-ex-wife alleged in August divorce filings that her then-husband engaged in an extramarital affair with Omar. [...] FEC campaign filings show that Omar's campaign has paid Mynett's firm, E Street Group, $215,000 in the fourth quarter of 2019, bringing the total money paid to the firm to $525,000.  The payments could land the freshman congresswoman in hot water.

Balkanization of America Accelerating Faster Than Expected.  The Somalian immigrant and House member Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, a democrat and a devout Muslim intent on installing Sharia Law in America, said, "I want all Muslims in America to make all Americans uncomfortable."  Indeed, they have made us uncomfortable with 9/11, Fort Hood murders, Fort Dix attack, NYC car bomber, San Bernardino Christmas killings, Garland Texas killings, Fort Lauderdale massacre of 50 at a gay nightclub, Denver bomber, an average of 23 to 27 honor killings in our country annually, and female genital mutilation cases now numbering 500,000 in our first world country where women maintain equal rights, but not in their religion.

Ilhan Omar's endorsement of Bernie Sanders flops in Minnesota.  Since last year, Sen. Bernie Sanders has held deafening rallies with surrogate Rep. Ilhan Omar in tow, bringing her to St. Paul the night before the state primary in a bid to win Sen. Amy Klobuchar's home state of Minnesota.  But months of campaigning with the bombastic Minneapolis representative not only couldn't lock down the state, but it didn't even help deliver Omar's congressional district.  Instead, Sanders lost by more than 60,000 votes in a state he won in 2016.  What's more, he didn't lose to native Klobuchar (which could have been expected), but to Joe Biden, who didn't contest the state but surged overnight after Klobuchar bowed out of the race and backed him.

Ilhan Omar: 'I Am Hijabi, Muslim, Black ...' Fails to Mention American.  Freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was at the epicenter of criticism his week when she tweeted her laundry list of identity markers — but failed to include the fact that she is "American." [...] Senator Ted Cruz was quick to the draw, calling out Ilhan Omar on the omission of her "American" identity.

Ilhan Omar is getting so obnoxious, she could swing Minnesota red in November.  The Democrats' poster girl for America-hating could swing Minnesota's ten electoral votes to President Trump in November.  Representative Ilhan Omar now obviously enjoys trolling Republicans, perhaps lulled into complacency by the MSM's general leftism and Minnesota media's complicity in suppressing news of her apparent immigration fraud by marrying her brother.

Confirmed: Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother & may Have Committed the 'Worst crime spree in Congressional history'.  The Ilhan Omar saga just keeps getting better and better.  While Ilhan accuses Trump of every evil under the sun, The Daily Mail is confirming that Ilhan DID marry her brother. [...] Omar demanded in the past that President Trump release his taxes, while Omar kept her own hidden.  Now why would she do that?  Because Omar committed tax fraud, not once, but multiple times.  She also accepted illegal payments from institutions she spoke at that she as part of her congressional duties helped to oversee.

Omar Pal Says Congresswoman Married Her Brother.  A Somali community leader who claims to have known Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) for an extensive period of time said she married her brother to help him stay in the United States.  The Daily Mail reported that Abdihakim Osman alleged that Omar told friends the second man she married was her brother, and that she married him for immigration purposes:

Omar's reign of terror.  As of this morning, I can't find a story in the Minnesota media that follows up on the Daily Mail's report that Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother in 2009 for fraudulent purposes.  It's not breaking news.  We — Preya Samsundar, David Steinberg, and I — have been telling the story over the past three and a half years.  The underlying story is Omar's reign of terror seeking to suppress the story.  The reign of terror extended beyond the Somali community to scoop up David Steinberg in Omar enforcer Guhaad Hashi's terroristic threats last month.  I reported on those threats [elsew]here.  My original Somali source was Abdi Nur.  He now speaks in the Daily Mail story by Martin Gould.  Abdi has a widely followed Facebook page for his videos and comments.  He posts under the name Xerta Shekh.

New confirmation that Ilhan Omar married her brother in immigration fraud plan.  From the moment Ilhan Omar emerged on the national political scene, rumors followed that she had married her own brother as part of a fraudulent immigration and education scheme.  Eventually, intrepid bloggers tracked down enough documentary evidence to justify an FBI investigation.  And now, at long last, a witness has emerged from the shadows to flesh out the story.  Scott Johnson, at PowerLine, and David Steinberg, writing at both PJ Media and The Blaze, have relentlessly teased out the facts behind Omar's complicated marriage and family life.  While Steinberg has been on the trail of documents, Johnson, a Minneapolis resident, met people in the Minneapolis Somali community.  Steinberg found enough documentary evidence of marital and immigration fraud to set the FBI on Omar.

Friend Of Ilhan Omar Claims Omar Married Her Brother To Get Him Into School.  A member of the Somali community in Minneapolis who says they are a friend of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has gone on the record to claim that Omar married her brother to get him the papers he needed to go to school in the U.S. "Abdihakim Osman is the first person to go on record to speak of how Omar said she wanted to get her brother papers so he could stay in the United States, at a time when she was married to her first husband Ahmed Hirsi," The Daily Mail reported.  "People began noticing that Ilhan and Southside (Hirsi) were often with a very effeminate young guy [Ahmed Elmi],' Osman said.  "He was very feminine in the way he dressed — he would wear light lipstick and pink clothes and very, very, short shorts in the summer.  People started whispering about him."

Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother and said she would 'do what she had to do to get him "papers" to keep him in U.S.'.  'Squad' congresswoman Ilhan Omar told friends years ago that the man who went on to become her second husband was in fact her brother, DailyMail.com can confirm.  And now for the first time one of those friends has come forward to reveal exactly how Omar and Ahmed Elmi scandalized the Somali community in Minneapolis.  Abdihakim Osman is the first person to go on record to speak of how Omar said she wanted to get her brother papers so he could stay in the United States, at a time when she was married to her first husband Ahmed Hirsi.  But hardly anyone realized that meant marrying him.

What Really Makes Democrats and Republicans Different.  The Democratic Party today embraces sharia-compliant females — à la Brooklyn's Linda Sarsour and Minnesota's Ihlan Omar — along with hyper-feminists and LBGT constituencies.  The Democrats also embrace expansive abortion rights and seem to be moving to the point of legalizing abortion up to the minute of birth.  New York State has legalized such a broad definition.  Ironically, Islamic countries and culture are notoriously restrictive with abortion and lethal to any LBGTs who fall into their hands.  So why would practicing Muslims, such as Mmes.  Sarsour and Omar, attach themselves to the Democratic Party?  How do the two of them reconcile Islamic culture's honor killing, repression of sexuality, and mutilation of women with the Democratic Party's acceptance of sexual deviance?  Likewise, how does the Democratic Party reconcile these ladies' embrace of a retrograde creed?

Ilhan Omar Bill Would Let Congress Restrict President's Power on Sanctions, National Emergencies.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has introduced a series of sweeping foreign policy bills, including one that would let Congress limit the president's power to place international sanctions and declare national emergencies.  Omar describes the legislative package, titled "Pathway to PEACE (Progressive, Equitable, and Constructive Engagement)," as "a bold progressive vision to rethink the country's approach to foreign policy by centering human rights, justice and peace as the pillars of America's engagement in the world, and making military action a last resort" in a press release. [...] Omar has telegraphed her practical aims for this particular policy.  In the past year, the freshman congresswoman has bucked bipartisan majorities to call for the end of sanctions on despotic regimes such as Iran and Venezuela.

Omar on Refugees: 'We Don't Ever Pause to Think, What American Policy Made Them Come Over Here?'.  As she prepares to launch her vision of what a "progressive" foreign policy looks like, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) has suggested that U.S. policies are to blame for driving refugees to leave their home countries and for climate "catastrophes" abroad.  On Wednesday, Omar is scheduled to hold a briefing on Capitol Hill to launch her "Pathway to Peace" vision.  According to a blurb on her Facebook page, it "centers on human rights, justice and peace as the pillars of America's engagement in the world, and makes military action a last resort."

Ilhan Omar Hates America.  On Friday [2/7/2020], Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib participated in a "radical democracy" event at Howard University in Washington.  The YouTube video below shows Omar's four-minute riff on the theme that everything that goes wrong in the world is America's fault.  Thanks to the Washington Free Beacon for bringing it to light.  Omar's blame-America-first ideology is comprehensive.  Are there refugees in the world?  It's because of American foreign policy!  Are we raising money to help victims of floods abroad?  Floods are our fault because climate change!  Is it bad when American manufacturing jobs go overseas?  Yes, but only because foreign workers are subjected to the horrors of American capitalism!  You really have to see it to believe it.  [Video clip]

Ilhan Omar:  I Was Disappointed When I First Came to America.  Speaking at a campaign rally for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, Rep. Ilhan Omar told a story of her first impressions upon arriving in America, expressing her disappointment at what she saw.  Omar was making a point of trashing America for homelessness, a cause dear to her heart as she pushes her 'Homes For All Act,' legislation allegedly designed to make housing 'a human right.'  "When I first came to the United States, I remember one of the first things that I saw was homeless people sleeping on the sides of Manhattan when we arrived in New York," the Minnesota Democrat recalled.  "And I remember turning to my father and saying, 'This doesn't look like the America you promised.'"

FBI reviewing claims Ilhan Omar married her brother.  The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reviewing claims Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother, The [New York] Post has learned.  Two FBI agents held an hours-long meeting in Minnesota in mid-October with a concerned party who handed over a trove of documents regarding Omar's 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, a source with knowledge of the event said.  At the meeting, first reported by website The Blaze, the agents discussed concerns the Somali-born Democrat married Elmi, a British citizen rumored to be her brother, so he could obtain a green card and study in America, the source said.

Ilhan Omar in Service of Islamist Agendas.  Freshman congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is often presented in the press as the quintessential Muslim American, representing the values of an increasingly politically active class of voters who cling to their religious convictions while embracing progressive activism.  She has unilaterally established the boundaries of appropriate discussion among Muslims, labeling any topic "Islamophobic" that infringes upon her carefully curated image as a champion of the oppressed.  Yet, when it comes to Omar's flirtations with Islamist dictators such as Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, her agenda could not be more at odds with the Muslim Americans she claims to represent.  While serving as a Minnesota state legislator in September 2017, Omar met Erdoğan in a closed-door meeting.  She gleefully tweeted about her experience in her native Somali, and it was covered in official Turkish media.  The only U.S.-based coverage of the exchange came from a Somali-language newspaper article that explained how Erdoğan concluded the meeting by asking Omar to pledge support for Turkey, before inexplicably being deleted.

Why Criminal Prosecution Might Be The Least Of Ilhan Omar's Legal Concerns.  [Scroll down]  Here is where it gets really complicated.  The requirements for automatic acquisition have changed several times throughout the last century.  The marital status of Omar's parents would determine whether she could have acquired citizenship.  I have no details about their marital status to be able to determine if these legal requirements were fulfilled.  However, if Omar did not have to apply for naturalization, it could eliminate one possible crime that she could be charged with:  knowingly giving false information in furtherance of an application for citizenship.  A conviction for this crime would lead to her denaturalization, resulting in the loss of citizenship, and the institution of removal proceedings to deport her.

Final Days for Ilhan Omar?  Don't expect the national media to report this, but Representative Ilhan Omar is attracting more credible opponents than any sitting member of Congress.  Like angry hornets, a swarm is gathering and buzzing around her.  Her days as a Congresswoman may be numbered.  It could be a finite number.  She faces at least three opponents on the Democratic side.  Splitting the opposition may actually help her survive the primary.  The Squad, the fawning media and the Hollywood Left will rally around her.  But, the primary fight will likely leave its mark going into the November general election.

Ilhan Omar is finally getting the scrutiny she deserves for possible illegal acts.  [Scroll down]  She also entered Congress at the same time as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib.  All young, all leftist, all arrogant, the four women were dubbed "the squad" and proceeded to act as if they owned Congress.  While Ocasio-Cortez burbled Leftist nonsense, Tlaib and Omar got down to the business of denigrating America, Israel, and Jews.  They disliked the American military and mourned Soleimani's death.  Despite their puritanical faith, they pushed on America every possible Progressive policy.  The mainstream media were in love with the Squad, especially the exotic Omar.  Conservatives had problems, serious problems, with her politics.  And a small cadre of dogged conservative journalists, most notably at PJ Media and Power Line, found particularly dismaying Omar's probable marital and immigration fraud.

Cops call for arrest of Rep. Omar after armed Iranian national captured at Mar-a-Lago.  In Palm Beach, FL Friday morning [1/10/2020], an Iranian national was arrested about four miles from President Trump's Mar-a-Lago presidential retreat.  The man, identified as Masoud Yareioeill Zoleh on his passport, was armed with several knives, a machete and a pickax.  Zoleh was arrested at Bradley Park, which is on the east end of the Flagler Memorial Bridge, according to Palm Beach police spokesman Michal Ogrodnick.  Police responded to a call at around 9:30 a.m. and found Zoleh, who also had $22,000 on him and had a car parked at the Palm Beach International Airport.  What might be most troubling about the entire thing is that just days ago, "Squad" member Rep. Ilhan Omar called for Iran to go after Trump properties.

'Evidence is Overwhelming' Ilhan Omar DID Commit Fraud, Marry Her Brother.  Keeping track of openly anti-Semitic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's convoluted marital history is almost as hard as keeping up with the players in the "Trump/Russia" investigation.  And now, in what appears to be a case of marriage/immigration/loan fraud and perjury, it's gotten even more complicated, just as critics zero in on the question of whether or not she married her own biological brother.  Rep. Omar has reportedly just split from her on-again, off-again husband (and non-brother) Ahmed Hirsi.  She first married Hirsi in a religious ceremony in 2002 and divorced him in 2008.  Now she lives husband-free in a penthouse apartment in one of Minneapolis' trendiest neighborhoods.

Ilhan Omar Laughs While Colleague Talks About U.S. Casualties In Iraq.  Far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) laughed and giggled during a press conference on Wednesday while her colleague, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), discussed U.S. casualties from the Iraq war.  "I'm very glad to say that I was part of the 132 and also the vote for Barbara Lee's amendment, but I think that the point of that is that that is the same war that we're dealing with today," Lee said.  "We never solved any problems with AUMF, we left four thousand plus, maybe even forty four hundred dead, and over sixty thousand who came back injured in some form and the war never ended."  As Lee spoke, Omar could be seen standing behind her laughing while talking to her Democrat colleagues.

Treason? Ilhan Omar Gives Iran Military Advice, Suggests It Could Target Trump Hotels.  Rep. Ilhan Omar tweeted Monday [1/6/2020] offering some unsolicited military advice to the Islamic Republic of Iran: [...] Omar's warning that Trump's "business interests should not be driving military decisions" makes no sense, because clearly the fact that Trump owns hotels that Iran could target didn't stop him from going after Qasem Soleimani.  But as far as Omar and her ideological allies are concerned, it doesn't matter how much they have to twist their logic into pretzels to get Trump, as long as they make the president look bad.  That imperative has now driven Omar even to give a military suggestion to a hostile foreign power.  The mullahs and their henchmen haven't said anything about targeting Trump hotels, so here is a United States congresswoman to give them a marvelous new idea about how they could murder Americans and others, and further menace the United States.

Ilhan Omar Named 2019 Anti-Semite of the Year.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) was named the 2019 anti-Semite of the year by an organization that seeks to combat the spread of anti-Jewish bias.  The organization StopAntiSemitism.org chose Omar, who has repeatedly spread anti-Israel and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, following a public nomination and voting period.

Top 10 atrocities from the now-vaunted Soleimani.  As creeps like Rep. Ilhan Omar denounce the rubout of Iranian terrorist kingpin Qassem Soleimani as the killing of a "foreign official," the press calls him "a farm boy" or "icon," and stupid Hollywood celebrities send their condolences to "the Iranian people," (who are celebrating, actually) the ugly hard reality remains that Qassem Soleimani, leader of the terrorist Quds force, was a monster, a stone-cold killer of innocents, the driving force behind Iran as a state sponsor of terror.

Ilhan Omar 'Outraged' Over Soleimani Killing, About 9/11 Not So Much.  The traitor class has been particularly vocal ever since Qasem Soleimani was killed.  The ever-winsome Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) tweeted Friday [1/3/2020]:  "We are outraged the president would assassinate a foreign official, possibly setting off another war without Congressional authorization and has zero plan to deal with the consequences."  Wait, what?  Soleimani was a "foreign official"?  Isn't Ilhan Omar aware that Soleimani was no staid and stolid Iranian "official" sitting bored behind a desk somewhere in Tehran, but was responsible for the deaths of over 600 U.S. soldiers in Iraq?  Yes, she does know, and clearly she doesn't care.

Ilhan Omar is Pretty Upset We Just Killed the World's Leading Islamic Terrorist.  Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is incensed the United States has killed the world's leading Islamic terrorist, Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. [...] On her Twitter feed, Omar condemns President Trump for approving the drone strike but doesn't condemn Soleimani or any of his actions.  Soleimani is responsible for the murder and maiming of thousands of Americans.  Omar has a history of sympathizing with terrorists.  She's refused to condemn Hamas, a terrorist organization funded by Iran, Hezbollah, a proxy of Iran and asked a judge to give leniency for a Somali man who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.

Everything about Omar is a fraud, including her name.  [Scroll down]  Among other things, the bill includes a first pass at debt relief for Somalia.  The United States is Somalia's biggest creditor ($1.1 billion); the bill reportedly provides $35 million toward the principal.  I am unable to identify what provision of the bill gets this done, but I take it that it does.  Given the interest in debt relief for Somalia among the Twin Cities' Somali community, Minnesota Fifth District Rep. Ilhan Omar issued a press release "hailing" the bill. [...] Omar herself proclaimed on Twitter:  "We got this done today!" [...] Here's the funny thing.  Omar opposed the bill.

Rep. Ilhan Omar defended Nation of Islam-influenced group behind kosher market attack in Jersey City.  The New York Times called them "sidewalk ministers" who practice "tough love."  The paper quoted Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center who described them as victims of racism and claimed that they were non-violent.  The Washington Post, in its own puff piece on the Black Hebrew Israelites, also falsely described them as non-violent, and concluded that, "Israelite street preaching in parts of D.C., Philadelphia and New York is commonplace, a familiar if odd accent to city life."  The odd accent to city life in Jersey City came amid a hail of bullets as two members of the racist black nationalist hate group opened fire in the JC Supermarket.

Watch: Ilhan Omar Wants Trump Dealt With Like Murderous Mob Boss.  Speaking on MSNBC's "The Beat" with leftist host Ari Melber, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) compared President Trump to a mob boss, saying, "I've used examples where you've had mob bosses who have committed atrocity after atrocity, have violated our criminal codes of conduct, and we got them on one narrow case, but they get to serve time."  When Melber gushed that Omar was "artfully making a comparison on the legal precedent to this president and Al Capone," the murderous mobster of the Prohibition Era, Omar answered, "Yes."

Ilhan Omar 'Qatari asset,' Florida court hears.  Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota-5th) was recruited by a foreign government, received funding from a foreign government, and passed sensitive information through intermediaries to Iran, a Florida court has been told.  The claims came during testimony by Kuwati-born Canadian businessman Alan Bender, who was giving evidence in the trial of Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad al-Thani.  The Qatari emir's brother stands accused of ordering his American bodyguard to murder two people, and of holding an American citizen hostage.  His deposition, obtained by Al Arabiya English, was authenticated by the attorney for the plaintiffs, according to the publication.

Omar Celebrates Islamist Electoral Wins with U.S. MB Supporters.  For many members of Congress, weekends are spent returning to their home districts to keep in touch with constituents.  For U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, the weekend of Nov. 8 was devoted to embracing some of the country's most prominent and problematic Islamists.  She helped the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) raise money by speaking at its annual fundraising banquet Nov. 9.  The next day, she attended a brunch in the home of Esam Omeish, one of the country's most influential Islamist activists.  Campaign finance data posted by Opensecrets.org shows that nearly 87 percent of Omar's 2020 campaign contributions have come from donors outside of her district.  American Islamists were well represented in her 2018 campaign war chest.

Dogpatch in D.C.  Hunter Biden joins Katie Hill and Ilhan Omar in the annals of disreputable personal lives.  I don't generally care about the private lives of politicians, and it is a hackneyed observation, but still:  can you imagine the press hysteria if the people involved in these stories were Republicans?

Ilhan Omar funneled another $150K to alleged lover's consulting group.  Rep. Ilhan Omar paid another $150,000 to Tim Mynett's political consulting group in the three months after The Post first revealed allegations the pair were romantically involved, records show.  The 37-year-old Minnesota congresswoman's campaign has funneled $146,712.63 to Mynett's E Street Group since The Post in August reported allegations she was having an affair with her paid consultant, records show.  The latest payments to Mynett's group were for digital advertising, fundraising consulting and video production.

An Ilhan Omar Update.  The Daily Mail has recently published two stories [...] covering the tabloid-friendly aspects of Ilhan Omar's life and career.  These stories directly demonstrate a few of the lies that Omar is living and indirectly illustrate the protective cover provided by the Star Tribune.  The Daily Mail is doing the work that the Star Tribune refuses to do, as I am here on Power Line.  My thing is the incredible frauds in which Omar is enmeshed.  I mean to keep at it until she removes herself from high political office.  She is not the most important political figure in our firmament, but she lives and works in my back yard and I have developed knowledgeable sources as well as an appreciative readership in Minneapolis's Somali community.  Attention is warranted.

Ilhan Omar:  Bernie Sanders 'a President Who Will Fight Against Western Imperialism'.  Antisemitic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) campaigned for presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in Minneapolis on Sunday night where she said she is "excited for President Bernie Sanders."  "I am beyond honored and excited for a president who will fight against Western imperialism and fight for a just world," Omar told the crowd of Sanders supporters.  "I am excited for President Bernie Sanders."

Ilhan Omar, at Bernie Sanders rally, calls for 'mass movement of the working class' amid 'Lock him up' chants.  Amid repeated chants of "Lock him up!" and "Green New Deal," Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., issued a full-throated endorsement of Bernie Sanders at a spirited rally in Minneapolis' Williams Arena on Sunday night, saying a "mass movement of the working class" is needed to take down President Trump and end "Western imperialism," as she put it.  "I am excited for President Bernie Sanders!" Omar thundered at the conclusion of her remarks, as rock music blared throughout the University of Minnesota venue.  At no point did either Omar or Sanders attempt to stop attendees from shouting "Lock him up" whenever Trump was invoked.  Last year, CNBC's John Harwood had predicted that "any serious Democratic candidate will make a point of shutting down" such chants directed at the president.

Ilhan Omar's Anti-American, Pro-Islamic Polemic.  Last week the House voted overwhelmingly (405-11) in favor of formally recognizing the Armenian Genocide, which was perpetrated by Ottoman Turks.  Among those miniscule few to vote "present," thereby abstaining from voting, was Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar. [...] But the main point is this:  if, as Omar contends, "earlier mass slaughters" should be mentioned, surely it should be those that are connected to the one highlighted in the resolution — in this case, ones that may possibly show patterns and precedents concerning the events surrounding the Armenian Genocide.  What's to be learned from a resolution that includes a myriad of unrelated atrocities throughout the millennia other than the sentiment that "all people are equally guilty"?  (Which, of course, is one of Omar's objectives, to relativize Islamic atrocities.)

Rep. Ilhan Omar Refuses To Vote For Bill Recognizing Armenian Genocide.  Yesterday evening [10/29/2019], Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) refused to vote in favor of a resolution that recognizes the 20th-century mass murder of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Turks as a "genocide."  The freshman representative merely listed herself as "present," releasing a statement later in the evening to CNN attempting to rationalize her choice.  But her explanation was far from satisfactory.

BDS Supporter Ilhan Omar: 'Sanctions Are ... Failed Foreign Policy'.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who supports sanctions against Israel, has published an op-ed in Thursday's Washington Post that attacks President Donald Trump's use of sanctions as "part of a failed foreign policy playbook."  Omar came out in support of the anti-Israel "boycott, divestment, sanctions" (BDS) movement shortly after being elected to Congress in 2018 (and after misleading voters during the campaign into believing she did not support BDS).

Daily Mail:  Ilhan Omar and Boyfriend Share Nights at 'Secret' D.C. Apartment.  Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has reportedly been living "on and off" at a "secret" Washington, D.C., apartment with her rumored Democrat consultant boyfriend after denying for months that she and her husband were no longer together. [...] The arrangement prompted the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) to file a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in which the group alleges the congresswoman illegally used campaign money to help carry on an affair with [her boyfriend].

Omar Funnels 30 Percent of Campaign Cash to Alleged Boyfriend's Firm.  Approximately 30 percent of the money doled out by the campaign of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) in the third quarter went to digital fundraising, communications, and advertising services provided by the E Street Group, a firm run by her alleged boyfriend.  Omar's campaign committee, which raised a total of $1,084,098.84 in the third quarter, spent $493,389.80 during this time.  The E Street Group, a firm run by political consultant Tim Mynett, Omar's alleged lover, received more money from the campaign than any other vendor.  The Omar campaign paid the E Street Group $149,812.64 between July 1 and Sept. 30, its filings show.  That accounts for around 30 percent of Omar's total campaign disbursements over the same period.  Her campaign has over $1.5 million cash on hand.

Confirmed: Ilhan Omar and Lover Tim Mynett Were Seen at the MN Trump Riots.  Riots of left wing radicals broke out in Minneapolis on Thursday night following President Trump's record-setting rally in the Target Center.  Far-left protesters reportedly made a bonfire with dozens of 'Make America Great Again' hats stolen off the heads of people who attended Thursday night's Trump rally in Minnesota.  Blaze correspondent Elijah Schaffer reported that there were approximately 40 hats stolen and burned.

Minneapolis police officer running against Ilhan Omar calls her 'absentee landlord,' says constituents are not happy.  Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is an "absentee landlord" in her home state and residents aren't happy, Minneapolis police officer and congressional candidate Chris Kelley said Thursday [10/10/2019].  Appearing on [Fox News Channel], Kelley said that from Omar's own Somali community to "just everybody else I come in contact with patrolling the streets every day," Minnesotans have not been satisfied with the job she's done to represent the state since she was elected in 2018.  "She's traveling the world.  She's fighting the president on Twitter.  She's not doing anything in the district.  And, I can say firsthand, the homelessness, the opioid problems, and other issues aren't improving," said Kelley, who announced an independent bid for the seat earlier this year.

Ilhan Omar files for divorce from husband Ahmed Hirsi amid affair allegations.  Rep. Ilhan Omar has filed for divorce from the father of her three kids, claiming the marriage is "irretrievable" — amid allegations that she had an affair with DC-based political consultant Tim Mynett.  The freshman congresswoman filed to split from husband Ahmed Hirsi on Friday [10/4/2019] in Minnesota, the state she represents, the [New York] Post has learned.  Omar, 38, and Hirsi were married in a religious ceremony in 2002.  The two separated in 2008, then legally remarried in 2018.

30 of The Biggest Lies & Hoaxes Perpetrated on The American People.  [#20] Ilhan Omar Loves This Country:  Nothing could be further from the truth, and it's high time people open their eyes to the reality before it's too late.  This is perhaps one of the most dangerous hoaxes fueled with lie after lie.  But it's not just Omar.  Rashida Tlaib, Linda Sarsour, CAIR, and countless others intertwine into this web.  There has been a long, planned out, infiltration to take over our country.  This would require an entire article all by itself.  A simple search will show you that Muslims themselves state they have long been planning this.  Here is a shocking video of children singing, "we will chop off their heads" for Allah, in the Philadelphia Muslim Society.  And no one can forget the Muslim terrorist camp in New Mexico.  Review this important thread on Omar's connections.

Ilhan Omar Retweets Tweet Saying She Has Been Trump's Biggest Obstacle Since Day One.  Rep. Omar has made headlines before, including for retweeting someone who suggested Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul deserved to be assaulted by his neighbor, as well as retweeting someone that said her comments on Israel were equivalent to calling Jews "hook-nosed."  Omar raised questions last week when she deleted a tweet that revealed her father's name, which seemed to give more credence to the idea that her ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother — especially when the explanation was met with several contradictions.

The Pagan Summoning Circle Of Ilhan Omar.  Here is my latest problem with Ilhan Omar:  She is a Muslim when it is convenient.  Witchcraft is forbidden (haram) in Islam.  If, and it's a big if, Omar is a real Muslim, and not just a Muslim when convenient, she should know this.  According to Islam Q&A about witchcraft and dealing with its practitioners: [...] But, you cannot criticize Ilhan Omar.  If you do, she pulls out her Islamashield, and the infidels in the media fall.  She doesn't leave home without it.  I may trademark the word "Islamashield", before Omar does it herself.  She uses it a lot.  Criticize Israel: pulls out Islamashield.  Marry brother and commit immigration fraud:  Islamashield.  Campaign fraud:  Islamashield.  Consort with another woman's husband:  Islamashield.

Ilhan Omar's Explanation For Deleting A Tweet That Revealed Her Father's Name Faces Contradictions.  Rep. Ilhan Omar deleted a tweet referring to her father as Nur Said — evidence that bolstered the case that her ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is her brother.  A spokesperson for the Minnesota Democrat said the name in the tweet was only a nickname, but other details contradict that explanation.  "Happy Father's Day to my aabo Nur Said, I am forever grateful to Allah for giving me the best father a ..." the June 2013 tweet, which was deleted early Tuesday morning, said.  In Somalian culture, the father's name becomes part of the son's last name.  Omar's spokesperson said Wednesday [9/18/2019] that Nur Said is actually a nickname.

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Ri-i-i-ight.  I suppose "Barry Soetoro" is just a nickname, too.  So is "Carlos Danger."  So is "Richard Windsor."  So is "Diane Reynolds."  So is "Doodad Pro."  So is "Reinhold Niebuhr."  So is "Pierre Delecto."

Stand By Your Sham: Omar's Squeeze Play.  David Steinberg has done more than any other reporter to expose Ilhan Omar's marriage to her brother and all the related frauds she has perpetrated over the past 10 years.  As I will reiterate in subsequent installments of this series, everything about Omar is a fraud, including her name.  We have seen a plethora of congressional scandals in our history, yet we have never seen scandals like Omar's in Congress.  Here we have something new under the sun.

The walls finally may be closing in on Ilhan Omar.  There is ample reason to suspect that Rep. Ilhan Omar has committed multiple frauds.  Scott Johnson of Powerline, a retired attorney, has been covering the freshman House member ever since her run for the Minnesota state Legislature, and has been among the most active investigators of suspicions that she committed immigration fraud by legally marrying her brother in order to get him into the United States.

This Now Deleted 2013 Tweet Proves That Ilhan Omar Is A Fraud And Should Be Prosecuted & Deported.  Twitter is not allowing me to embed this tweet.  There is a convenient technical problem in doing so. [...] Who is Nur Said you ask?  In addition to being Ilhan Omar's admitted Father, he is a suspected terrorist and there are reports that he is currently living in the US.

Ilhan Omar Deletes 2013 Post That Revealed Her Father's Name.  Rep. Ilhan Omar early Tuesday morning deleted a 2013 post that said her father's name is Nur Said. [...] Omar's spokesman, Jeremy Slevin, did not answer questions from the Daily Caller News Foundation about why a congresswoman would try to erase the identity of her father from the internet.  But the name of the man who Omar married under unusual circumstances was Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, adding to evidence that she married her brother.

Ilhan Omar deletes evidence she married brother.  Ilhan Omar says her father's name is Nur Omar Mohamed, but in an old Father's Day tweet that she deleted Tuesday, she said his name is Nur Said.  That would mean not only that her name isn't Ilhan Omar, but that the evidence continues to mount that the man she married named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was her brother.

Ilhan Omar offers odd excuse for deleting tweet that raised new questions about her marriage.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was forced to release a statement about the deletion of a tweet that many said raised more questions about the controversy surrounding her marriages.  The tweet from June 2013 was a simple Father's Day greeting to "Nur Said," who she identifies as her father.

Ilhan Omar Responds to Deleted Tweet with Father's Real Name — Lies to Reporter.  New evidence has emerged that Rep. Ilhan Omar did indeed marry her brother, and that her real name may actually be Ilhan Nur Said.  A resurfaced tweet from 2013 links to a now-deleted Instagram post in which she refers to her father by the name Nur Said.  The tweet was later deleted this morning [9/17/2019] after the news broke!

Rep. Ilhan Omar: 'God Expects Us To Do The Righteous Work' In Politics.  At a "Plight of Black Immigrants" forum, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), a Muslim, suggested her god expects people to vote in a certain way.  "God expects us to do the righteous work," Omar said.  "And, so, god does not expect you to vote for people who will ultimately hurt you and other humans around you." [...] How likely is it that journalists will follow up on these comments by asking Omar in future interviews how, exactly, she thinks her god Allah influences her votes?

Rep. Ilhan Omar [is] More Treacherous Than "Controversial".  President Donald Trump needn't have to have suggested sending Ilhan Omar back to the country of her birth.  Omar's already in Somalia, if not physically, there in heart and fiery spirit. [...] Today Omar — sworn in to Congress on a copy of her grandfather's Quran — is publicly calling for protection of a Somali company — Hormuud Telecom — that actively funds Al Shabaab in Somalia, an offshoot of Al Qaeda, Omar's updated version of "some people did something" in reference to 9/11.  And still the media, including excellent ones like Judicial Watch, refer to Omar as "controversial", instead of identifying her for what she truly is:  a treacherous, terrorist supporting member of U.S. Congress[.]

Ilhan Omar Celebrates Court Ruling Against Terror Watch Lists.  Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar joined Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib in celebrating a court ruling against the use of terror watch lists by American law enforcement.  "This is tremendous," Rep. Omar said.  "Congratulations to everyone who worked so hard to make sure Constitutional rights are extended to all regardless of religion, race or ethnicity!"

Ilhan Omar's Estranged "Cultural" Husband Confirms She Married Her Brother [and] Says He Won't Go To Jail For Her.  For three years, Scott Johnson, Preya Samsundar and David Steinburg of PJ Media, have been investigating Ilhan Omar's curious alleged marriage to her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, while she was still "culturally" married to her current husband, Ahmed Hirsi.

Omar burns the Star Tribune.  In "Ilhan Omar feels the heat" I noted Ilhan Omar's response to the Star Tribune's inquiry to her for the paper's June 23 page-one story.  When the Star Tribune asked Omar for an interview about the state campaign finance board findings against her, Omar responded with a canned statement raising accusations of bigotry that linked the Star Tribune to Power Line.  Omar to the contrary notwithstanding, however, the Star Tribune has treated Omar almost entirely as a hometown hero.  When it comes to the Star Tribune, Omar is both an ingrate and a liar.

Ilhan Omar Feels the Heat.  Of all the scandals in which Ilhan Omar is enmeshed, one might think the Daily Mail's revelation this past July of her affair with political consultant Tim Mynett would be the least of them.  The news last week of Beth Mynett's divorce filing, however, has begun to disillusion a Somali community that has taken Omar at face value.  Not cool — not cool at all, and it has thrown Omar off her game.  Omar's denial of the affair is a lie that is both obvious and bald-faced.  She has therefore run from the tabloid newspapers and the local media as they have sought to report on the scandal.

Did Ilhan Omar's Husband Spill The Tea?  He Reportedly Told Friends She WAS Married To Brother.  If they ever make a Real Housewives of Capitol Hill, I nominate Rep. Ilhan Omar to be the highly judgmental, weirdly aggressive, holier-than-thou scold who does all the finger pointing to hide the fact that she has a significant number of skeletons hiding in her own closet.  Thanks to some reporting by Powerline — which seems to have been ultimately partially confirmed by The New York Post — that's going to be an easy casting decision.  According to Powerline, Omar's current estranged husband Ahmed Hirsi (who is not related to her by blood), has been telling friends and associates that not only did Omar have an affair with an aide while paying him (Lord have mercy), but that she also, in fact, did marry her brother with intent to defraud.

Protect American Sovereignty:  Send Rep Ilhan Omar Over To The United Nations.  Since her election less than a year ago, "Squad" Sister Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has shown no shame about getting a leg up on gaming the immigration system by reportedly marrying her own biological brother and paying $250,000 to someone media identified as her alleged paramour, whose wife has filed for divorce when he admitted his affair with the Democrat legislator.  So far her transgressions have remained in a largely out-of-the-limelight personal life she insists must be kept private.  But on Tuesday [9/3/2019], Omar made her first open strike against the nation that pays her salary.

Ilhan Omar:  Hating America, flouting our laws, breaking up marriages.  Where do we draw the line on our politicians' personal behavior?  Was it the affair between Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton?  Or the actions of Minnesota Senator Al Franken, for which he lost his seat?  Or will it be the alleged marriage wrecker and serial bride, Minnesota Socialist-Democratic representative Ilhan Omar?  Wherever we draw the line, it needs to be drawn.

Why isn't Rep. Ilhan Omar's vida loca getting the same penalties Rep. Duncan Hunter's got?  Rep. Ilhan Omar is living la vida loca these days.  For her, when it's not bouncing back and forth between her husband and brother on the matrimony front, it's jumping into the homewrecker racket, with some woman now claiming Omar stole her husband.  Not exactly the sort of life the Sharia crowd recommends, at least for women, of course, but Omar comes from the elites and Sharia law in places such as her native Somalia, is only for little people, anyway.  Omar's got that one covered.  The real problem with her alley-cat morals is that seems to be a vector to corruption.

Has Rep. Ilhan Omar Committed a Stoning Offense?  The wearing of hijab is a sign of Sharia compliance, and that may mean trouble for the notorious Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).  Stoning adulterers is not "extremist"; it is Islamic law.  And Ilhan Omar may be one.

Did Ilhan Omar's Campaign Funds Mostly Go Toward Her Alleged Affair?  Yesterday [8/27/2019] the New York Post reported that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is having an affair with Democratic strategist Tim Mynett.  The allegation was made in divorce papers filed by his wife.  In July, Omar filed for divorce from her current husband. [...] It turns out Mynett's firm was funneled a boat load of Omar's campaign cash.  He was paid more than $200,000 for consulting and the campaign reimbursed at least $21,000 for his personal travel.  That travel wasn't properly reported or itemized.  An official complaint regarding the large payments to Mynett's firm has already been filed, alleging she broke the law.

You Can't Go Home Again, Ilhan Omar.  Rep. Ilhan Omar's mysterious marital life has been much written about.  Was she a bigamist?  Was she married to her brother?  It's unclear, but not unlikely.  At a minimum, she seems to be playing musical husbands — or is it lovers? [...] I thought Rep. Omar was a devout Muslim.  No wonder she was (or pretended to be) so upset when that unruly crowd of "deplorables" chanted "Send them back!"  Going back to Somalia would definitely spell big trouble for Omar.

Ilhan Omar Illegally Diverted Campaign Funds To Pursue Romantic Affair, Complaint Alleges.  Rep. Ilhan Omar violated campaign finance law by using campaign funds to pursue an affair with married Democratic consultant Tim Mynett, according to a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Wednesday [8/28/2019].  Omar's campaign has disbursed $223,000 to Tim Mynett's company, E. Street Group, LLC, from August 2018 through June 2019, mostly for fundraising consulting, FEC records show.  But on April 1, her campaign began making payments to E. Street Group for "travel expenses."  Less than a week later, on April 7, Tim Mynett confessed to his wife that he was "romantically involved with and in love with" Omar, according to a divorce filing Tuesday by Dr. Beth Jordan Mynett.

American Politicians Can't Hide "Private Lives", Ilhan Omar.  Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar obviously thinks that being a "woman of color" grants her the privilege of keeping her "personal life" off the public radar screen — a status that doesn't exist for American politicians, 'women of color' or not.  Activist politicians of our day work with social media to create and control their own digital image.  In the case of active "Squad" member, Ilhan Omar, the man with whom she is allegedly 'romantically' connected, was paid some $240,000 — in less than one year — to create her phony digital image.

Omar's lies proliferate.  My sources first made me aware of Ilhan Omar's affair with Tim Mynett a month before the Daily Mail got around to reporting it in July.  Today the Star Tribune has finally broken the story in Omar's hometown newspaper and it must come as something of a shock to readers who get their news from the Minnesota media and who take Omar at face value.  Omar continues to play them all for chumps.  The lies she is living are too many to count, beginning with the identity fraud implicit in her claim to be Ilhan Abdullahi Omar.

Latest Developments In Ilhan Omar Soap Opera.  Omar has already been found guilty of improperly using campaign funds to pay her own personal expenses, including legal fees for one of her divorces. [...] If the $230,000 that Omar's campaign has paid to Mynett includes travel costs relating to romance rather than political consulting, or if the fees charged were inflated for the joint personal benefit of Mynett and Omar, it would represent another violation on Omar's part.  An appropriate agency should investigate the appropriateness of the funds paid by Omar's campaign to Mynett.

Nearly one of every three dollars spent on Ilhan Omar's campaign has gone to her alleged lover's firm.  The New York Post reported Tuesday [8/27/2019] on a high-profile divorce.  To be specific, a woman has claimed in court papers that her husband has been cheating on her, carrying on with married Rep. Ilhan Omar.  Omar's alleged paramour, Tim Mynett, has been a fundraising consultant for Omar's 2018 and 2020 campaigns.  Omar hasn't commented on the accusations, but there's a possible second scandal involving the more than $200,000 that her campaign has spent with Mynett's firm.

Ilhan Omar's Campaign Funded Travel For Man She's Alleged To Have An Affair With, Records Show.  Rep. Ilhan Omar's campaign has disbursed tens of thousands of dollars in "travel expenses" to the company owned by the political strategist whose wife accused him Tuesday of having an affair with the Minnesota Democrat.  Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reveal the Omar campaign began making travel reimbursements to Tim Mynett's company, E. Street Group, LLC, on April 1, about a week before Dr. Beth Jordan Mynett said her husband admitted to having an affair with the congresswoman, according to a divorce filing the New York Post first reported on.

Ilhan Omar stonewalls on divorce case allegation of affair with left-wing campaign consultant.  Rep. Ilhan Omar has said she has not left her husband Ahmed Hirsi for a prominent left-wing consultant who worked for her election campaign.  When asked in a Tuesday [8/27/2019] interview with CBS Minnesota if she was separated from her husband or dating anyone[,] the Minnesota Democrat said:  "No, I am not.  As I said yesterday, I have no interest in allowing the conversation about my personal life to continue and so I have no desire to discuss it."  Omar, 37, also refused to discuss accusations that she married her brother to commit immigration fraud.

Inside Ilhan Omar's tangled web of relationships.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) — who was accused of being "the other woman" in a DC doctor's marriage Tuesday [8/27/2019] — had previously been involved in an intertwined pair of relationships for years.  Records show that the 37-year-old Somali refugee applied for a marriage license to a man named Ahmed Abdisalan Hirsi in 2002.  She was 19, having immigrated to the States five years earlier.  The duo was never officially married, at least at the time.  Instead, they wed in a traditional Muslim ceremony and had two children before splitting up in 2008, Omar has said.

Alabama GOP adopts resolution pushing for Rep. Ilhan Omar's expulsion from Congress.  Alabama Republicans are urging lawmakers to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. from Congress after a series of controversial statements, including remarks about Israel and her support of economic boycotts against that country.  The state GOP passed a resolution last weekend at the party's summer meeting in Auburn calling on its congressional delegation to "proceed with the expulsion process" against the first-term congresswoman.  "Representative Omar has engaged in rhetoric that explicitly runs counter to American values and patriotism by falsely accusing U.S. armed forces of committing war crimes while on mission to liberate her home country of Somalia," the resolution said.

Ilhan Omar stole my husband, DC mom claims in divorce papers.  A Washington, DC, mom says her political-consultant husband left her for Rep. Ilhan Omar, according to a bombshell divorce filing obtained by The [New York] Post.  Dr. Beth Mynett says her cheating spouse, Tim Mynett, told her in April that he was having an affair with the Somali-born US representative — and that he even made a "shocking declaration of love" for the Minnesota congresswoman before he ditched his wife, alleges the filing, submitted in DC Superior Court on Tuesday [8/27/2019].  The physician, 55, and her 38-year-old husband — who has worked for left-wing Democrats such as Omar and her Minnesota predecessor, Keith Ellison — have a 13-year-old son together.

Ilhan Omar's Campaign Funded Travel For Man She's Alleged To Have An Affair With, Records Show.  Rep. Ilhan Omar's campaign has disbursed tens of thousands of dollars in "travel expenses" to the company owned by the political strategist whose wife accused him Tuesday of having an affair with the Minnesota Democrat.  Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reveal the Omar campaign began making travel reimbursements to Tim Mynett's company, E. Street Group, LLC, on April 1, about a week before Dr. Beth Jordan Mynett said her husband admitted to having an affair with the congresswoman, according to a divorce filing the New York Post first reported on.

Rep. Ilhan Omar accused of affair with a married man: 'Shocking declaration of love'.  Rep. Ilhan Omar is caught in a love triangle and accused of being a homewrecker, revealed court filings Tuesday [8/27/2019] in a divorce case.  Washington-area physician Beth Jordan Mynett claimed her husband confessed to an extramarital affair with Ms. Omar and wanted to run off with her, according to the filing submitted in D.C. Superior Court.

Ilhan Omar is accused of having affair with married aide who dumped his wife.  Ilhan Omar has been accused of having a torrid affair with her married campaign strategist in newly-filed divorce papers - confirming DailyMailTV's bombshell exclusive.  We revealed last month how the Minnesota congresswoman, 37, had been enjoying a secret romance with veteran Democratic fundraiser Timothy Mynett.  Both Somali-born US Rep Omar and Mynett, 38, refused to discuss the fling after multiple sources confirmed it to DailyMailTV.  But our exclusive was confirmed in divorce papers filed today by Mynett's high-flying doctor wife Beth, 55, who accuses her estranged husband of dumping her for Omar.

New Divorce Filing:  Ilhan Omar is a Homewrecker.  A Washington D.C. woman has claimed in a divorce filing that her husband left her for Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. [...] In July, Omar filed for divorce from her first and third husband with whom she appears to have committed tax fraud.

25 0f 30 Worst Congressional Districts For Blacks Are Run By Democrats — Ilhan Omar's Is #1 On List.  Today [8/21/2019], it was revealed that Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings' district came in at #22 on the list of the top 30 worst congressional districts for Black Americans.  Democrat presidential candidate Tim Ryan's OH district came in at #23.  But the lawmaker whose district won the top honor for the WORST district in America for Blacks is none other than the anti-Semitic, Somalian immigrant, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN).  Over 37% of Blacks are unemployed who live in Omar's 5th Congressional District, and less than 20% of Blacks in her district own a home.

Minnesota Lawmakers Submit Paperwork To Have Omar Examined By IRS For Fraud.  Ilhan Omar have a year full of scandals.  But her comments about 9/11 made one brave American to decide to run against her in the 5th congressional district.  Chris Kelley is a man who has collected eleven military medals as a 27-year veteran of the U.S. Army and Army Reserves and clocked more than 36,000 hours patrolling the Minnesota streets as a 20-year veteran of the Minneapolis Police Force.  But that's not the only news that came from Minnesota this month, that Omar have to worry about it.

Can Ilhan Omar Be Sent Back to Somalia?  In 2013, Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) joined a crowd flooding into the Hotel Ivy in Minneapolis to see former Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.  Hotel staff asked police to help clear the lobby and anyone without a hotel room key had to leave.  Most complied, but Omar refused and wound up arrested for trespassing.  In her booking photo, Omar appears sans hijab and rather startled.  Omar then proceeded to rack up a series of traffic violations, 24 in all, including driving without a license.  This has led some to wonder if Omar believes she is bound only by Shariah, the law of Allah, and not by the laws of the United States.  Other pertinent questions involve the freshman congresswoman's reality, and how it squares with U.S. immigration law.

Ilhan Omar and the Door of No Return.  Ilhan Omar, in her "send her back" squabble with the President, wants to play off her African roots and America's guilty psyche over its past sins by implying that she too and her ancestors were victims of the transatlantic slave trade and that "Donald Trump and other white racists" are seeking to continue to victimize her.  This, however, is farcical on two levels.  First, Omar takes pride in presenting herself as a practicing Muslim and yet has nothing to say concerning the massive evils of slavery perpetrated worldwide by Islam over 1400 years.  Instead, she wants to focus on the relatively small evils (by comparison) already admitted by the USA in its retrospective on American history.  While as a nation we have repented of and outlawed slavery and are working to eradicate racism, Islam has made no strides in this direction except what was required of countries for United Nations' membership.

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Omar's Mystery Man Appears.  [Scroll down]  Whenever the Star Tribune gets around to reporting on the developments in Omar's personal life, the paper's readers may be shocked.  Perhaps reporters can provide appropriate "context" to cushion the blow.  Much as I enjoy the revelation of Omar's tangled web, I regret the Daily Mail's treatment of it as tabloid fodder.  The serious scandals lying in plain view have yet to be cracked open and the Daily Mail has the resources to do the cracking.

Ilhan Omar and bespectacled mystery man try to avoid being pictured together.  A brief, grainy video of two people leaving a restaurant could hold the clue as to the reason the marriage of leftist congresswoman Ilhan Omar broke down.  The 12-second video, obtained exclusively by DailyMailTV, shows Omar and her companion leaving a romantic, out-of-the-way Italian restaurant in California the day after she had made controversial remarks blaming 9/11 on 'someone doing something.'

Apparently Omar perjured herself 8 times on a 9-question document.  Mainstream media had this information, but chose to ignore it.  They are still ignoring it.

Rep. Ilhan Omar to face ousting by Iraq war vet, cop outraged over 9/11 remark, gunning for her seat.  The controversial freshman Democrat, one of four radical progressives known as the "squad," just received a serious challenger for her House seat.  Chris Kelley, a celebrated Iraqi war veteran, is set on running for Minnesota's 5th Congressional District seat, replacing Omar, who has been marred in controversy from the beginning, whether it's being rebuked in the House for her anti-Semitic actions, or jousting with President Trump.  Or even persistent reports that she may have committed immigration fraud by marrying her biological brother — with tax fraud potentially being part of the picture.

BDS champ Ilhan Omar powers her website through Israeli company.  Jew-hating Rep. Ilhan Omar has a hypocrisy problem.  She was last seen sponsoring a boycott-divest-sanction (BDS) measure against Israel in Congress to try to free the path for pressure groups to force boycotts of Israeli products onto leftists the next time one of them feels it's necessary to virtue-signal.  Her measure failed miserably, but not on account of supposed logic.  Actually, she's a pretty impressive hypocrite.  Here's what someone, probably in Israel, spotted about her website, according to Breaking Israel News:  ["]Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D, MN), who introduced legislation that seeks to protect those who want to boycott, divest and sanction (BDS) Israel, uses an Israeli company to power her own website.["]

Ilhan Omar:  American Congresswoman or threat to America?  Ilhan Omar is either the most admired or vilified member of Congress.  You like her or you don't.  She is totally anti-American or just what America needs.  There is a good reason for the mixed response to the pixieish Somalian.  Those that support the Somali immigrant see her as a fighter and agree with her goal of transforming the US into a socialist country.  To others, Ohmar hates America, white men and people of Jewish heritage.  She is a supporter of Islam and Palestine.  Omar is an anti-semite, proven by her BDS resolution.

Ilhan Omar Splits with her husband and moves into luxury penthouse.  Leftist congresswoman Ilhan Omar and her husband — the father of her three children — have split and are heading for their second divorce, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.  The bust-up comes just as critics are demanding answers as to whether she married her own brother in a successful bid to get him into the United States.

Ilhan Omar Claims White Men 'Cause Most Of The Deaths' In America.  She's Wrong.  Imbecilic bigot Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) claimed in a recently resurfaced interview on Qatari propaganda network Al Jazeera that Americans should be "fearful" of white men who are "causing most of the deaths within this country."  These racist and blatantly false comments came in response to a question about Islamophobia.  The interviewer asked if Islamophobia might be the result of a reasonable fear people have about Islamic terrorism.  Omar could have responded that we shouldn't fear anyone based on race, ethnicity, or religion, and that each person should be judged according to his or her own merits — but instead, she took the opportunity to fear monger about the dreaded white man.

Ilhan Omar's Racism.  There are any number of reasonable ways she could have answered this question posed to her in 2018 on Al Jazeera, during her race for Congress.  She chose to do it by blaming white men.  [Video clip]

Tlaib isn't 'of color'.  The walls are closing in on Ilhan Omar, the most enthusiastically hateful member of Congress.  Evidence of her immigration fraud is overwhelming and will only intensify as more media outlets have to cover the story.  She will be an enormous lingering embarrassment to her party.  The only question is, how will the U.S. attorney in the Twin Cities, Erica McDonald, proceed?  She is definitely plugged into the GOP establishment of that state and is well aware of the need for a grand jury to look into this.  But will she have the guts to follow the law, or just wimp out, in another case of Minnesota nice?

Judicial Watch Files Congressional Ethics Complaint Against Ilhan Omar For Possible Perjury, Immigration Fraud.  Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch filed a complaint with the House of Representatives' ethics office asking for an investigation into possible crimes committed by Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar.  The possible crimes include "perjury, immigration fraud, marriage fraud, state and federal tax fraud, and federal student loan fraud," according to the complaint filed Tuesday by Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton.  "The House of Representatives must urgently investigate and resolve the serious allegations of wrongdoing by Rep. Omar," Fitton said.

Rep. Omar Berates Questioner for Asking Her to Condemn Female Genital Mutilation.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) became agitated when asked at an event in D.C. this week if she and fellow Muslim congresswoman Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) would condemn female genital mutilation.  She decried what she called "assumptions about what our value basis might be because of where we might come from, and who we pray to."  Awkwardly, the question came from Ani Zonneveld, president of Muslims for Progressive Values and also a featured speaker on the Muslim Caucus Collective for Equitable Democracy event, where the exchange took place.  Zonneveld drew attention to a Detroit judge's ruling last November that a 22-year-old federal law making female genital mutilation (FGM) a crime was unconstitutional.  As a result, charges against nine people accused of subjecting nine young girls to FGM were dismissed.

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In my opinion it is quite reasonable to make "assumptions about what [y]our value basis might be because" your religion, mockingly referred to as the Religion of Peace, treats women like property, flies hijacked airplanes into office buildings, and mutilates little girls so that they won't enjoy sex.  Moreover, the Religion of the Easily Offended intends to replace the United States Constitution with Sharia law, as part of its goal of world-wide domination through violence.  The most alarming aspect of Rashida Tlaib's political career is that there is a sufficient number of people just like her in Michigan to elect her to Congress.

Ilhan Omar Blames America for Illegal Immigration.  Radical Somali-American and left-wing Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) argues that U.S. foreign policy is the cause of the global refugee crisis.  Without question, excessive aggression from the United States in Latin America and the Middle East has exacerbated the pre-existing pathologies that pervade their political, social, and economic systems.  Whether America made some unique contribution to these horrors, however, is an open question.

Judicial Watch Files House Ethics Complaint against Rep. Ilhan Omar Over Potential Immigration, Marriage, Tax, and Student Loan Fraud.  Judicial Watch announced today that it hand-delivered ethics complaint to Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Office of Congressional Ethics David Skaggs calling for a full investigation into potential crimes tied to allegations that Rep. Ilhan Omar may have married her biological brother.  "The evidence is overwhelming Rep. Omar may have violated the law and House rules.  The House of Representatives must urgently investigate and resolve the serious allegations of wrongdoing by Rep. Omar," stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.  "We encourage Americans to share their views on Rep. Omar's apparent misconduct with their congressmen."

Ethics Complaint Filed Against Ilhan Omar For Alleged Fraud.  Judicial Watch announced on Tuesday [7/23/2019] that it has filed an ethics complaint against Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN) with the House of Representatives Office of Congressional Ethics for potential immigration, marriage, tax, and student loan fraud.  In press release posted Tuesday, the government watchdog announced that it has submitted "a hand-delivered ethics complaint to Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Office of Congressional Ethics David Skaggs calling for a full investigation into potential crimes tied to allegations that Rep. Ilhan Omar may have married her biological brother."

Rep. Omar Berates Questioner for Asking Her to Condemn Female Genital Mutilation.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) became agitated when asked at an event in D.C. this week if she and fellow Muslim congresswoman Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) would condemn female genital mutilation.  She decried what she called "assumptions about what our value basis might be because of where we might come from, and who we pray to."  Awkwardly, the question came from Ani Zonneveld, president of Muslims for Progressive Values and also a featured speaker on the Muslim Caucus Collective for Equitable Democracy event, where the exchange took place.

Is the 'Baseless Rumor' True?  Why Don't Journalists Do Some Actual Journalism?  The question of whether Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) married her brother is an interesting question and, earlier this year at CPAC, I covered a press conference by bloggers who said the answer is "yes."  The persistent accusations that her marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was a fraud finally prompted the Minneapolis Star-Tribune to investigate, and they could not rule out the possibility that Elmi is indeed her brother.

Ilhan Omar Marriage Flummoxes Media Fact-Checkers.  Media outlets scrambled to prove false the accusation that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) married her brother after President Donald Trump mentioned it, but none have been able to definitively reach an answer, largely due to Omar's unwillingness to provide information.  Trump was asked about the accusation that Omar's husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, was also her brother during a scrum with reporters last Wednesday and said he had heard talk that she married her brother but knew "nothing about it."

Omar calls Somalia 'my country' during 'welcome home' party.  Rep. Ilhan Omar slipped and referred to Somalia as "my country" during a welcome home party at the Minneapolis airport this week.  Fans of the anti-Semitic congresswoman greeted her at the airport, and she addressed them with a bullhorn.  During her remarks, she called her native country "my country," before quickly correcting herself to say "the country I came from."

Mogadishu Mon Amour.  The tale of the congresswoman who calls herself Ilhan Omar is a tale of an anti-Semite bred-in-the-bone corruptocrat whose rise in political power rests very largely on complicity by the media's airbrushing of her history because they thought this physically attractive African Moslem "refugee" was just the ticket to defeat Donald Trump.  The media counts on our forgetfulness and ignorance.  Hard work by independent media, however, has exposed her and her media apologists and the Democrats have little choice:  Condemn her and remove her from her committee assignments or suffer the consequences.

Jewish Fawning of Omar Has Made Her More Aggressive.  Most of the Jewish community has feverishly and piously supported last week's Democrat-sponsored Resolution condemning President Trump's remarks against Ilhan Omar.  Omar, of course, is a notorious, unrepentant anti-Semite and daily demonizer of Israel.  But she has become, for many Jews, a heroine, a civil rights star, a noble cause.  Enjoying such support, Omar rewarded the Jewish community by immediately announcing, after the Resolution's passage, a piece of legislation demanding that Congress vote in favor of BDS against Israel and her Jewish inhabitants.

Mass Fraud by African Refugees Halted Inflow After Ilhan Omar Came to U.S.  A refugee program that allowed foreign relatives of already-arrived foreign refugees to the United States was halted, altogether, more than a decade ago due to mass fraud among applicants.  This week, Powerline blog's David Steinberg suggested that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) entered the U.S. in the mid-1990s as a third-priority, known as P-3, refugee — that is, a refugee who is admitted to the country due to their ties to an already-resettled refugee.

Allegations Regarding Omar's Curious Marriage ARE Credible (That's Why You Haven't Heard Much About Them).  Let me start by saying that credible allegations don't mean proven allegations.  It simply means there's smoke.  And with Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D), the allegations surrounding her first marriage are giving off so much smoke the media has apparently become blind.  When Trump made his statement to reporters Wednesday that Omar may have been married to her brother, he wasn't just throwing bombs with no gunpowder.  Journalists in her home state and PJ Media columnist David Steinberg have been tracking Omar's inconsistencies when it comes to her first marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, her campaign finance violations, her tax fraud related to her first and second marriages, etc. for more than a year.

Omar's in charge, tells press:  We will no longer 'allow' you to ask Muslims to condemn terrorism.  Playing the role they have been programmed to play, (victims) the radical progressive "squad" of freshman Democratic lawmakers held a news conference Monday to react to President Donald Trump calling them out for their contempt for America.  And while that spectacle went as you might expect, there was a interesting moment when Rep. Ilham Omar was asked specifically about criticism from Trump that she's pro-al Qaeda.  A simple repudiation of the terrorist group would have dismissed the assertion and moved things along to the next question, but Omar, a Somali refugee and one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, refused to do that.

Ilhan Omar Stonewalling Hometown Paper On Marriage Controversy, Editor Says.  Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar has allegedly been uncooperative with her hometown paper's efforts to get to the bottom of accusations that she committed marriage fraud, the paper's political editor said.  Omar's brief congressional career has been dogged by accusations — which she has denied — that she married a male relative, possibly her brother.  Omar and her current husband, Ahmed Hirsi, filed joint tax returns while Omar was married to another man, Ahmed Elmi, Minnesota campaign finance officials said.

Ilhan Omar Happened Because Media Chose to Lie to You.  Three years ago, most American newsrooms picked Ilhan Omar — despite her crawling Jew-hatred and evidence of an extensive criminal past — to be the transcendent face America needed to fight bigotry and federal corruption.  Reporters apparently chose to lie about Omar to help birth a more trusting country.  Perfectly irrational idiocy.  Legacy newsmedia, decayed, perhaps brought itself final ruin by getting exactly what it wanted.  The first Somali-born woman and the first female Muslim to be elected to a U.S. statehouse, Ilhan Omar defeated 44-year incumbent Phyllis Kahn in the Democrat-Farmer-Labor primary for Minnesota House District 60B in 2016.  A former child refugee from civil war, Omar was perceived as a best-case image for shepherding progressive causes against President Trump.  Ilhan Omar's individual character, however, was openly trending towards worst-case.

The Media Protecting Ilhan Omar's Obviously False Presentation of Family is a Gift To President Trump.  Representative Ilhan Omar's visa manipulation by faux-marriage is a process similar to the visa-fraud process used in the San Bernadino terror case involving Syed/Tashfeen Malik, and faux-marriage Tatiana Farook.  [Same with Orlando Pulse nightclub terror case involving Omar Mateen and Noor Salman.]  The longer the mainstream media tries to run away from the obvious truth behind the Ilhan Omar refugee/visa scam, the more ridiculous they look doing so.

Confirmed: Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother to cheat immigration system.  The various controversies surrounding Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) just won't go away, thanks to some old-fashioned intrepid reporting from some gumshoe journalists.  You may recall that around the time Omar was elected in November to her first congressional term, rumors/reports swirled that she actually married her brother as a way to "skirt immigration laws," according to the Star Tribune newspaper serving Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn.

Clueless Ilhan conducts presser in middle of DC street.  In a chaotic moment outside the Capitol, Ilhan Omar — trailed by a mob of cameramen and reporters — stopped in the middle of Independence Avenue, shut down two lanes of traffic and gave an impromptu news conference responding to those who chanted at President Trump's rally Wednesday that she should leave the country.  Cars began honking and a Capitol Police officer yelled out that Omar should not block the intersection.

The War Over America's Past Is Really About Its Future.  During a recent speech to students at a Minnesota high school, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) offered a scathing appraisal of her adopted country, which she depicted as a disappointment whose racism and inequality did not meet her expectations as an idealistic refugee.  Omar's family had fled worn-torn Somalia and spent four-years in a Kenyan refugee camp before reaching Minnesota, where Omar received a subsidized education and ended up a congresswoman.

David Steinberg:  Tying up Loose Threads in the Curious Case.  On October 22, 2008, the U.S. State Department stopped accepting applications for the Priority 3/Refugee Family Reunification program — the process by which refugees can apply for asylum if one family member is already a legal U.S. resident.  State halted the program because DNA testing — primarily of Somalis — had concluded that perhaps 87 percent of applicants were fraudulently claiming family relationships.  Despite continuing war, Somalia of 2008 was not comparable to the open hell of the early 1990s, when an eight-year-old Ilhan and her family fled to Kenya's Dadaab refugee camps.  She lived there from 1991 until 1995, aged eight to 12.  Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services then helped Ilhan, her sister Sahra, and their father Nur Said receive asylum in the United States along with thousands of other Somalis.

At 2015 Rally Ilhan Omar Refers to Somalia as "Our Nation Back Home".  David Steinberg released his latest report on controversial Rep. Ilhan Omar on Thursday at PowerLineblog.com.  According to Steinberg there is credible evidence that Ilhan Omar and her family changed their name to illegally enter the United States back in 1995.  And since that time Ilhan Omar as an adult continued to defy US law.  According to Steinberg Rep. Omar committed at least eight instances of perjury going back to 2009.  The charges could carry up to 40 years of prison time or deportation.

Trump Is Just Saying What Regular Americans Think.  Over the weekend President Trump unleashed a Twitter bomb on Minnesota's Muslim Representative Ilhan Omar (MN-5) for her comments criticizing America and Fox News host Tucker Carlson and her participation in a recent progressive mini-revolt against Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.  The catalyst for the President's tweet storm was probably Omar's comments at the Netroots Nation conference in Philadelphia where she said she is "ashamed" of the United States of America "continuing to live in its hypocrisy."

Omar: End 'Capitalist System.' Guarantee Jobs, Housing, Medicare and Abortion for All.  In the new nation that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota seeks to create, the "capitalist system" will be left behind in pursuit of a "fair and just economy" where the federal government guarantees everybody jobs, housing, health care and free abortions.  How can we know this?  She has declared it in writing. [...] Under Omarcare, no one will pay anything for any health care service.  Her system would "Require no out-of-pocket costs for patients for any services."

Omar to Introduce Resolution Declaring Support for Anti-Israel BDS Movement.  Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) will introduce a resolution this week declaring support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to elevate the Palestinian negotiating position vis-a-vis Israel through an international pressure campaign.

Rep. Omar Pro-BDS Bill Compares Israel To Nazi Germany.  Democrats can't stop arguing that any criticism of Rep. Ilhan Omar is a victim any time that she's criticised.  Meanwhiile none of her anti-Semitic antics merit criticism.  Like introducing a pro-BDS bill that compares Israel to Nazi Germany.

Ocasio-Cortez, Omar & Pressley Refuse To Condemn Antifa Attack On ICE Center.  An armed man was shot dead after trying to attack an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) center in Tacoma, Washington.  The event took place about six hours after a protest by anti-ICE Resistance people who had been planning another protest today [7/16/2019].  Are the 'Gang of Four' going to take any responsibility for demonizing ICE?

Omar introduces resolution defending boycott of Israel, likens it to boycotts of Nazi Germany, Soviet Union.  U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar proposed a resolution this week supporting the right to boycott Israel, likening the boycott of the Jewish state to boycotts of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.  Omar's resolution seeks to push back against U.S. laws banning the boycott of Israel and affirms the right of Americans to organize boycotts of foreign countries if they so wish.  While the resolution doesn't explicitly name Israel or the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, she told media outlets that the resolution concerns the Jewish state.

Omar - her racism means she would not like me very much.  Ilhan Omar does not like white people.  Her dislike, like any other brand of racism, is visceral.  She seems not to understand that white is a color, too.  Based on the photos I have seen of her, she cares as little for generic white women as she does for white people in general.  Do a Google Image search.  In hundreds of photos, she appears with few white women.  Nancy Pelosi.  A few trans women/people in drag.  But not many pictures with women like me.  Middle class, Midwestern-born women.

Omar Refuses To Answer If She's A Communist & Supports Al Qaeda.  Does the truth hurt?  Ilhan Omar tapdances around a question about her support for communism and terrorists.  This was exactly the outcome President Trump wanted.  The "gang of four" is now the public face of the Democratic Party.  Trump has now maneuvered the Democrats into defending these ladies.

The Congresswoman Representing Somalia.  I want Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) to go back to the [...] country she came from.  And I want her to stay there.  I spent some time on the Internet looking for even one positive thing that Omar has said about America — but my search was in vain.  Omar hates and despises her adoptive country unequivocally and unconditionally.  She hates everything about America today, and she hates everything about the America of yesterday.

Trump vs. the Radical Squad.  [Ilhan] Omar has recently said she misses the freedom to be herself that she claims to have experienced in the Kenyan refugee camp, as opposed to the constraints on expressing her identity she feels in the United States.  It's fair to ask why Omar has not gone back to her home country of Somalia to try and fix the grave problems of corruption and brutality there, or even to speak out against the horrific conditions in Somalia as vociferously as she has attacked the United States.  Rather than show gratitude for the opportunities afforded her since she arrived in the United States, Omar has turned her anger against her adopted home, which she has accused of racism.

Did Trump really take a political risk in telling Omar to go back to her country?  It's telling that even as Pelosi spars with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Trump took on Ocasio-Cortez's pal, Rep. Ilhan Omar, the only one who comes from a foreign country.  Omar, it turns out, is a massive liability for the Democrats.  Making her the face of the Democrats is a pretty good way of triggering a GOP landslide, not just in the White House, but in the House of Representatives.  Among the working-class voters Democrats must win over to win the presidency, and, for that matter, both houses of Congress, Omar sports an abysmal 9% approval rating along with a 53% recognition rate.  She's the most unpopular of all of them.

Dislike for Ilhan Omar and AOC could tip House to Republicans in 2020: Internal Democratic poll.  An internal Democratic poll that is circulating among party leaders shows Reps.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota might be a liability to their party in the 2020 election.  The poll, whose details were published by Axios on Sunday [7/14/2019], surveyed over 1,000 white voters with two or less years of college education.  It found that 74% of those polled recognized Ocasio-Cortez, while only 22% of them had a positive view of her.  Additionally, 53% of those polled recognized Omar, while only 9% had a favorable view of her.

Tucker Carlson Is Absolutely Right About Ilhan Omar.  Americans are constantly being lectured that good citizenship isn't contingent on skin color, faith, or ethnicity, but a set of beliefs.  Yet whenever anyone is critical of the ugly things someone like Ilhan Omar says, they are immediately battered for being xenophobes and racists.  You can't have it both ways.  I mean, you can try.  Nearly the entire contemporary progressive argument is girded by identity grievances.  So when Fox News's Tucker Carlson gives a monologue, in which he concludes that Omar was "living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country," the reaction is predictable.

Ilhan Omar Slams America to 400 High School Students as 'Unjust'.  A recent profile of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said the freshman lawmaker slammed America as unjust in a recent speech to high school students, denigrated America for not meeting her expectations, and even criticized her fellow Democrats in Congress.  According to the profile by the Washington Post, Omar recently addressed 400 high school students in Minnesota about her personal experience in coming to America from a Kenyan refugee camp, and how it was nothing like she expected.

Ilhan Omar Admits Lying to High School Students.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) admitted to flubbing the facts of an anecdote she told a large group of students to illustrate the "racism, cruelty, and injustice" she's seen in America since being accepted as a refugee more than two decades ago.  The freshman representative told 400 high school students she was sent to a Minneapolis courtroom where she witnessed a "sweet, old ... African American lady" who spent the weekend in jail for stealing a $2 loaf of bread to feed her "starving 5-year-old granddaughter," according to the Washington Post. [...] Omar has also been dinged recently by the Post and others for "botched basic facts" during her attempts to "go viral."

America Awash in Lies and Disloyalty.  Rep. Ilhan Omar, tweeting her thoughts about July 4 stated, "Today gives us all a chance to reflect on how far we have come as a country and how much further we have to go to achieve full equality for all people.  We are at a tipping point for progress."  This rebuke of our socio-political system contrasted with her joyful dancing at the Somalia Independence Day celebration on July 1.  Her tweet on that occasion included the words, "Somalia hanoolaato," or "Long live Somalia," even though Somalia has been a hotbed of undemocratic rule and civil strife since its independence from Great Britain in 1960.  This is a woman now wagging her finger at America who came here from a refugee camp in Kenya after fleeing Somalia, receiving asylum in the U.S. from her family's radical dislocation.

Ilhan Omar Sends Somber Fourth of July Message Days After Celebrating Somali Independence Day.  Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar urged Americans to celebrate the Fourth of July by reflecting on "how much further we have to go," standing in contrast to her joyful celebration of Somali Independence Day four days prior.  "Today gives us all a chance to reflect on how far we have come as a country and how much further we have to go to achieve full equality for all people," Omar tweeted July 4.  "We are at a tipping point for progress right now."

Loose threads in the curious case (5).  Thanks to the findings in the Minnesota campaign finance board investigation of her 2016 run for the state legislature, we know that Ilhan Omar filed illegal joint tax returns in 2014 and 2015 with a man to whom she wasn't married — while she was married to another man.  This is something of a bombshell, graphically illustrating Omar's treatment of her marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi as a sham.  Almost unbelievably, Omar is one of the many who have called on President Trump to release his tax returns, yet she has refused even to answer the question — over what period of years did she file illegal joint tax returns?

Reporter Asks Ilhan Omar, 'Did You Marry Your Brother?'.  A reporter for The Rebel confronted Ilhan Omar about her multiple marriages, as Omar stands accused of immigration fraud for allegedly marrying her own brother to get him into the country.

It Only Took Three Years For Mainstream Reporters to Catch Up to Conservative Coverage of Ilhan Omar's Marriage.  I have never worked in crisis communications, but I suspect the worst possible lede sentence to read about a client must be this one:  "New investigative documents released by a state agency have given fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Rep. Ilhan Omar and whether she once married a man — possibly her own brother — to skirt immigration laws."  As Minneapolis' Star Tribune reported on page one over the weekend, the Minnesota Democrat was caught filing joint taxes in 2014 and 2015 with her current husband Ahmed Hirsi, despite the fact that she was legally married at the time to another man named Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.  And yes, there is a smattering of evidence that Omar and Elmi are possibly siblings.  No one seems to be able to prove that they aren't (all the hard evidence is in war-torn Somalia), and bizarrely enough, Omar is the one keeping the rumor from being definitively debunked.

Hidden Clue On Website Belonging To Ilhan Omar's Sister Adds To Evidence About Marriage History.  Rep. Ilhan Omar swore under oath in a 2017 divorce filing that she hadn't seen her husband Ahmed N. Elmi in six years and didn't know anyone who might be able to locate him — yet he appears to have designed a website for Omar's sister this year, according to data hidden in the source code of that website.  The Democratic Minnesota congresswoman swore that she had not been able to locate the man she married — who the Minneapolis Star Tribune says may or may not be her brother — since 2011.  She swore she didn't know the names of anyone in her husband's family and that the two had no mutual acquaintances who might know how to contact him.

Liberal newspaper finds more proof that Ilhan Omar married her brother!  [T]his story has been spreading in the form of gossip for a while, but there was a lack of real evidence apart from credible sources.  Now we hear from the Star Tribune that there might be real evidence that Ilhan Omar married her own brother in order to abuse immigration laws to her advantage.

New documents revisit questions about Rep. Ilhan Omar's marriage history.  New investigative documents released by a state agency have given fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Rep. Ilhan Omar and whether she once married a man — possibly her own brother — to skirt immigration laws.  Omar has denied the allegations in the past, dismissing them as "baseless rumors" first raised in an online Somali politics forum and championed by conservative bloggers during her 2016 campaign for the Minnesota House.  But she said little then or since about Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the former husband who swept into her life in 2009 before a 2011 separation.

Report: New evidence that Ilhan Omar may have married her brother so she could skirt U.S. immigration law.  [W]hen we first heard that U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) 'married her brother' so she could enter the United States, we were extremely skeptical.  But now, a completely 'mainstream' news outlet that skews Left editorially has published new details about that rumor that make it seem much more likely than not.

Question: Did Ilhan Omar commit federal tax fraud?  My column two weeks ago on Ilhan Omar's Marriage Fraud Immunity Card mentioned the Minnesota state investigation of her use of campaign funds for personal expenses related to her divorce, plus other spending for out-of-state travel.  The report was released today on her shady spending practices in response to Minnesota state Rep. Steve Drazkowski's complaints last year.  She has been ordered to pay about $4,000 in reimbursements & fines, plus file amended disclosures.

From the Mixed-Up Files of Ilhan Omar (6).  We continue posting items of interest from the Minnesota campaign finance board investigation of Ilhan Omar's 2016 state legislative campaign.  The board investigation coincidentally revealed that Omar had filed joint tax returns in 2014 and 2015 with a man to whom she was not married while legally married to another man.  It is my goal to get some help in pulling on the threads that will unravel the story we have been pursuing since 2016, where Omar's campaign finance wrongdoing began as she sought to deal with coverage of her curious case.  Omar's defrayed the cost of redoing her 2014 and 2015 tax returns with campaign funds.

What is Ilhan Omar hiding about her marriages?  People don't like to discuss their personal lives in public, much less when multiple divorces and children are involved.  Even in public life, there ought to remain a reasonable amount of privacy when it comes to a purely intimate matter.  But red flags about the two or three marriages of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., have now produced evidence of lawbreaking.  It's time to start asking questions.  The first question of public interest is whether Omar violated federal tax law.  In 2014 and 2015, she filed her taxes jointly with a man named Ahmed Hirsi.  She was legally married to another man, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, at the time.

Ilhan Omar — Traitor?  All currently available evidence reveals Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is conspiring with hostile foreign powers against the United States and its interests to overthrow the U.S. government in violation of federal law and the oath she took to protect and defend the Constitution "against all enemies, foreign and domestic."  In addition to Ilhan Omar's 2013 arrest and her marriage to her brother, as well as her public comments revealing her hatred for Jews and indifference about the 9/11/01 attacks on America by Islamic jihadists, Omar's seditious and treasonous actions are what causes the gravest concern to Understanding the Threat (UTT), and should be grave concerns to the American people.  Ilhan Omar works closely with the leader of Hamas in the United States doing business as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) — Nihad Awad.  Hamas was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 1995 by the U.S. government.

Omar Has Agreed to Repay Thousands After Investigation Into Marriages.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) will repay thousands after the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board found she filed tax returns claiming she was married to one man when she was married to another.  Omar has agreed to repay $3,500 and a $500 fine amid the investigation into allegations she misused campaign funds, CBS Minnesota reports.  "All of Rep. Omar's tax filings are fully compliant with all applicable tax law," a spokesperson for Omar said regarding the tax issue.

Ilhan Omar Refuses to Comment on Terrorist Recruitment in Her District.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) declined to address a report that found the highest level of terrorist group recruitment has taken place in her congressional district.  According to a Fox News report from February, "More men and boys from a Somali American community in Minneapolis have joined — or attempted to join — a foreign terrorist organization over the last 12 years than any other jurisdiction in the country."  The city of Minneapolis is located in Omar's district.  "FBI stats show 45 Somalis left to join the ranks of either the Somalia-based Islamic insurgency al-Shabab, or the Iraq- and Syria-based ISIS combined.  And as of 2018, a dozen more had been arrested with the intention of leaving to support ISIS," stated the report.

AP: Ilhan Omar Ignores Request for Tax Returns, but Demanded Trump's.  The Associated Press (AP) has confirmed that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) filed a joint tax return with one man while being legally married to another — and adds that she has ignored requests to release her tax returns.  Omar has joined Democrats in demanding that President Donald Trump release his tax returns, even claiming — oddly — that he had to do so because it was "required by law."

Rep. Omar filed joint tax returns before she married [her] husband.  Minnesota campaign finance officials said last week that U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar misused campaign funds in violation of state rules.  They also revealed that she had filed joint tax returns with her husband years before they were legally married and at a time when she was married to another man.

Investigation Into Omar's Campaign Finances Reveal Another Issue.  Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) recently came under fire for using campaign finances to pay for using campaign money to travel to Florida to accept an honorarium.  She was ordered to repay her campaign $3,500 as well as a $500 civil penalty to the State of Minnesota.  It turns out that investigation also revealed Omar illegally filed joint tax returns with her current husband, despite being married to another man, the Associated Press reported.

Ilhan Omar violated campaign finance rules, investigation finds, as more questions about tax filings arise.  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., repeatedly violated state rules when she used campaign funds to pay for personal out-of-state travel as well as help on her tax returns and must reimburse her former campaign committee nearly $3,500, Minnesota campaign finance officials ruled Thursday [6/6/2019].  The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board said the first-term congresswoman also must pay the state a $500 civil penalty for using campaign money to travel to Florida, where she accepted an honorarium.

Official High School Records Support Claim that Democrat Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother.  Ten years ago, in February 2009, Democrat Ilhan Omar married her biological brother. [...] Ilhan Omar built a vast coalition of East African voters to defeat the incumbent in Minneapolis.  The liberal media forgot to mention Ilhan was married to her brother.

MN Investigating Ilhan Omar for Possibly Using Campaign Funds for Divorce, Travel.  An investigation into whether Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) misused campaign funds for her personal use is slated to conclude, according to a report.  ABC local affiliate 13 WHAM-TV reported Monday that officials have recently concluded their probe and are will soon reveal the findings of two complaints against the controversial freshman congresswoman.  The pair of complaints, which were reportedly filed as Omar campaigned for the House last year, were brought by State Rep. Steve Drazkowski (R).  In his complaint to the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board, Drazkowski accused Omar of spending nearly $6,000 in campaign money on a trip to Boston and Estonia and for divorce attorney fees.

The Worst People Ever (This Week).  Ilhan Omar.  The freshman Congresswoman from Minnesota sure hates herself some Jews.  In addition to her pre-Congress history, she's barely decorated her office and has already been forced to apologize for anti-Semitic comments.  The apology was as sincere as any apology forced on someone by Nancy Pelosi.  She walked it back, saying she the way her words "made people feel," not for being a bigot.  To demonstrate how she'd seen the light and rejected her bigoted past, she joked about it not long after and confirmed her past by cannonballing again into the deep end of the racism pool she regularly bathes.  Apologies and denials of hatred ring hallow when they're required to be made regularly.

Pelosi, Dem leaders condemn Rep. Omar for 'anti-Semitic' language.  In an unprecedented rebuke under the new Congress, House Democratic leaders on Monday roundly condemned Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for statements about supporters of Israel that were widely viewed as anti-Semitic and called on her to apologize.  The statement issued by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democratic leadership team followed the latest in a string of controversial comments from the freshman lawmaker — as well as pressure from Republican leaders to speak out.

New Photos Corroborate Perjury Claims Against Rep. Ilhan Omar, as She Deletes Social Media Evidence.  On Tuesday, one-term state Representative Ilhan Omar (D-60B) appears likely to replace the outgoing Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) by winning Minnesota's pre-eminent House seat:  CD-5.  In October, however, the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board opened a formal investigation of her after reviewing evidence of several violations.  Omar has also made, and defended, anti-Semitic comments as direct and vicious as any spoken by a U.S. politician in a generation.  Yet those legal and character matters may only be secondary red flags.

Official School Records Support Claims That Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Married Her Brother.  Minnesota state Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-60B) currently leads the race to fill the federal House seat being vacated by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN).  Immediately after being elected to her current seat in 2016, Omar faced allegations — soon backed by a remarkable amount of evidence — that she had married her own brother in 2009, and was still legally his wife.  They officially divorced in December 2017.  The motivation for the marriage remains unclear.  However, the totality of the evidence points to possible immigration fraud and student loan fraud.  Rep. Omar has stated that she did marry "British citizen" Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009, though the allegation that he is her brother is "absurd and offensive."

Somali-Born Candidate for Congress Accused of Immigration/Marriage Fraud.  The Democratic candidate for a safe seat in the U.S. House of Representatives stands accused of immigration/marriage fraud and bigamy.  The district is in Minnesota.  More precisely, Somalia-born, now-naturalized Ilhan Omar is accused of marrying her own brother while being married to another, as well as misuse of campaign funds, two probably unrelated maters.  The apparently cosmopolitan Omar, 36, is said to have used $3,000 in campaign funds for personal travel, including a trip to Estonia.  The somewhat jumbled AP account of these events fails to explain why she went to that little country, which seems to be distant from either her background or her political ambitions.


Elijah Cummings

Widow of Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings announces campaign for her husband's seat.  The widow of Democrat Elijah Cummings has announced she will run for the Baltimore seat he left vacant when he passed away last month aged 68.  Maya Rockeymoore Cummings announced her candidacy Monday night [11/11/2019], saying that her late husband 'wanted me to continue this fight.'  Maya, who until now has been chair of the Maryland Democrat Party, said her husband had urged her to run for the seat as his health declined.

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It is up to the voters to decide who will replace Elijah Cummings, not the Cummings family.  His seat in the U.S. Congress is not an inheritance.  Many other Democrats have had their wives take over when term limits kicked in, e.g., Lurleen Wallace of Georgia, Debbie Dingell of Michigan, and Ma Ferguson of Texas.

Elijah Cummings' widow expected to run for his House seat: report.  Maya Rockeymoore, widow of Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and chairwoman of the Maryland Democratic Party, is expected to run for her late husband's House seat, according to a report.  Rockeymoore has not yet said whether she plans to run, The Washington Examiner reported.  The Maryland Democratic Party released a statement that Rockeymoore would not be making announcements while she grieves.

This isn't normal politics.  This is an inquisition.  A congressman may be called upon to defend his life's work, representing the constituents of his district.  The color of his skin ought to have nothing to do with his ability to represent his district, just like his lung capacity or his ability to walk.  He is a human being, picked by the individuals in his district to represent them, whose mind, common sense, and people skills will eventually produce results.  If the results are bad, he must account for them.  If they are good, he will tout them.  But now, in America, if you are a person of color and a Democrat, nobody can criticize you.

President Trump:  The exterminator of scurrying political correctness.  President Trump is the focus of leftist ire for stating the obvious:  Baltimore is a rat-infested armpit under the control of ineffectual, virtue-signaling Democrats.  Worse still, the President focuses on one Baltimore Democrat in particular — Rep. Elijah Cummings.  Many in the media were quick to declare Trump a racist for his modest suggestion that Cummings refocus his attention on the very real problems inside his crumbling district.  That the needs of his constituents are more pressing than playing the clownish carnival barker for his party's manufactured Russia-collusion hoax.

Baltimore and Cummings:  Democrat grifters peddle racism and broken cities.  In the uproar over the condition of Elijah Cummings Congressional district in Baltimore, one conclusion is inescapable.  Apparently, Democrats think they are immune from criticism, accountability or being confronted with the facts of the actual existence of the constituents that they feed off of.  And if you dare to criticize their actions, judgment, record, or clear evidence of corruption then you are racist.

President Trump targets money-grubbing Democrats shackling their voters to hellhole cities.  It's about time we had a president shine a light on these race-baiting so-called civil rights icons like Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), whose "own" people live in rat-infested, feces-encrusted, gun-controlled kill zones while he and his fellow third-world thugs amass millions.  Cummings is just one in a cabal of looters whose accident of birth endowed them with a skin color that yields a high rate of return.

Elijah Cummings Is a Partisan Hack, Not an 'Oversight' Chair.  President Donald Trump criticized House Oversight Committee chair Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) on Saturday for failing to help his district.  He could just as well have pointed out Cummings does a terrible job of "oversight."  Whether as chair of the committee or ranking member, Cummings has been a partisan hack.  He abuses his power for vendettas against the Trump administration.  And when Obama was in charge, Cummings shielded him from scrutiny.

Trump Goes Nuclear on Cummings: 'His District Is a Disgusting, Rat and Rodent Infested Mess'.  President Donald Trump has completely had it with Elijah Cummnings, the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 7th congressional district and House Oversight Committee Chairman.  Earlier, Rep. Cummings made headlines after he called the treatment of illegal immigrant children "government-sponsored child abuse."  "We have seen cases where the administration has deported parents without their children and still, to this day, have not reunited those families," he said.  "This is government-sponsored child abuse ... on a grand scale."

Charity run by wife of Elijah Cummings incurs new ethics complaint.  A watchdog group is asking the Maryland attorney general to investigate whether Rep. Elijah Cummings and his wife used a charity for improper self-enrichment, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by the Washington Examiner.  The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, which leans conservative, filed the complaint on Monday against the Center for Global Policy Solutions, a nonprofit organization founded by Cummings' wife, Maya Rockeymoore.

How Long Can The Media Ignore The Fact That A Senior House Democrat Is Married To A Fraudster.  So far the media has managed to avert its eyes and studiously ignore a major story of corruption and malfeasance in Congress because to cover said story would totally destroy a narrative and expose them to allegations that they are racist.  At the epicenter of this tale is the pustulent and rather dim Elijah Cummings from my current state of residence.  Cummings is your typical product of the Maryland Democrat machine.  The reek of corruption is always near him but never quite attaches to him because he is, as I said, the product of the Maryland Democrat machine and therefore bulletproof.  Now all of that may be getting ready to change.  In late May, the National Legal and Policy Center filed an IRS complaint against Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, who is the wife of Elijah Cummings.

Elijah Cummings' Wife Hit With New Allegations Of Self-Dealing And Perjury In Updated IRS Complaint.  The wife of House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings is facing new allegations of self-dealing and perjury following the disclosure of financial dealings between her charity and her for-profit consulting firm, according to an IRS complaint a watchdog group filed Friday [6/7/2019] in response to a Daily Caller News Foundation report.  The National Legal and Policy Center's complaint is an amendment to its original May 20 complaint against Maya Rockeymoore Cummings's charity, the Center for Global Policy Solutions (CGPS), which alleged that the nonprofit's overlapping relationship with her for-profit company, Global Policy Solutions, LLC, could have derived an "illegal private benefit" for her and her husband.

Rep. Cummings Wife Still Illegally Withholding Nonprofit Tax Return.  Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings' wife is breaking the law by not revealing financial disclosures about her nonprofit, an uninvolved legal expert told The Daily Caller News Foundation.  Maya Rockeymoore Cummings runs a nonprofit called the Center for Global Policy Solutions that is closely intertwined with a for-profit consulting firm, Global Policy Solutions LLC.  The nonprofit has received millions of dollars from groups with interests before the congressman's committee, potentially buying them favorable treatment, according to a complaint filed with the IRS by the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC).  At least three different groups have requested the forms, and to each, Rockeymoore Cummings has refused, even when told that the law requires it.

If Liberals Were Held To Their Own Standards.  Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) loves to moralize about President Trump, particularly about his finances. [...] Cummings had a history of financial problems — missed mortgage payments and tax debt — stemming, in part, from child support payments he owed to his ex-wife and two other women who were not his wife.  Curiously, his new wife brought financial security.  Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, Elijah's second wife, is the Chair of the Maryland Democratic Party.  She also has a couple of side organizations that are doing extremely well thanks to businesses with business before Cummings' committee.  She's taken in millions, in fact.  Good work, if you can get it.  What's even more weird, one of those organizations — the "non-profit" — has a legal obligation to provide financial records to anyone who requests them.  These records would show how much money came in and, more interestingly, how much went out and to whom.  But the groups, called the Center for Global Policy Solutions, is refusing to turn over those records.

Cummings' Wife's Refusal to Turn Over Records on Her Nonprofit is 'Illegal,' Expert Says.  Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings' wife is breaking the law by not revealing financial disclosures about her nonprofit, an uninvolved legal expert told The Daily Caller News Foundation.  Maya Rockeymoore Cummings runs a nonprofit called the Center for Global Policy Solutions that is closely intertwined with a for-profit consulting firm, Global Policy Solutions LLC. The nonprofit has received millions of dollars from groups with interests before the congressman's committee, potentially buying them favorable treatment, according to a complaint filed with the IRS by the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC).

Pay to play, the Democrat way.  Now it's Elijah Cummings.  Is there no end to Democrat corruption?  Here's what's going on with one of the most supposedly respectable of them, Rep. Elijah Cummings of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, according to the Washington Examiner: [...] Like Hillary Clinton before him, Cummings's game seems to be pay to play.  Donate big to my charity foundation and get the legislation you want.  A charity linked to Johnson & Johnson has been pouring cash in, and Cummings has been criticizing high pharmaceutical prices, something J&J would have an interest in stopping criticism about.

Top Democrat's wife may have gained 'illegal private benefit' from his committee activities.  A charity run by the wife of Rep. Elijah Cummings received millions from special interest groups and corporations that had business before her husband's committee and could have been used illegally, according to an IRS complaint filed by an ethics watchdog group.  Cummings, 68, a Maryland Democrat, is chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.  His wife, Maya Rockeymoore, 48, is the chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party and briefly ran in the state's gubernatorial race last year.  The couple married in 2008.  Cummings was once heavily in debt — in part due to hefty child support payments to his first wife and two other women he had children with — but his financial situation has improved considerably over the past decade.

Rep. Elijah Cummings Could Go to Prison for 5 Years.  "This is the law.  And every two years — let me tell you something.  Every two years I come to the Congress, just like my good friend, Mr. Labrador, we put up our hands to swear to uphold the Constitution and the laws of this country.  It is the law."  That's what Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings told Anderson Cooper last October. [...] However, it's a good thing that the esteemed and honorable gentleman pointed out that he has sworn to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the land, because it should make an excellent defense against potential charges against him for obstructing Oversight investigations.

Elijah Cummings is Knee Deep in IRS Scandal.  Cleta Mitchell, who is representing True the Vote, has filed an ethics probe against Elijah Cummings on February 6th (2014) with the Office of Congressional Ethics.  Last fall, True the Vote started receiving 8 and 9 page letters from Cummings, claiming he was conducting an investigation of their organization as part of the House Oversight Committee.  One problem.  The House Oversight Committee is only allowed to investigate government agencies.  Going after a private citizen is illegal.  Mitchell wants to find out if Cummings is responsible in part or completely for the harassment of Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote.  After Cummings launched his "investigation", Engelbrecht had her business audited twice, her personal taxes once, two visits from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, a surprise visit from OSHA, seven visits from the FBI.

Elijah Cummings: Obstruction of Justice.  The back-and-forth drama on the House Oversight Committee has gotten heated over the past few months.  Last month, Elijah Cummings threw a fit when Issa shut down a hearing after retired IRS Director Lois Lerner plead the Fifth Amendment.  Issa fired off a personal letter at Cummings, claiming that he and his attorneys were frustrating the fact-finding mission of the Oversight Committee.  Following revelations that Cummings' staff was working with the IRS to get information on True the Vote, the same group Cummings tried to shame into silence through the race card, further evidence indeed suggests that Cummings was shaking down and intimidating the group, with the help of the IRS.

Conservative activist claims Rep. Cummings tried to 'intimidate' her, files complaint.  A conservative activist targeted by the IRS and other agencies claimed Thursday [2/6/2014] that Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings also tried to intimidate her, filing a formal complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics alleging an "abuse of power."  Catherine Engelbrecht, founder of True the Vote and the King Street Patriots, aired the allegations during a hearing hosted by the committee on which Cummings sits.  An attorney working with her also questioned whether Cummings might have encouraged the IRS and other agencies to target her groups.

Tea Party Leader Filing Ethics Complaint Against Dem Rep.  One of the most high-profile victims of the IRS Tea Party targeting scandal is planning to unveil surprising new allegations about the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee at a hearing this morning.  Catherine Engelbrecht, the head of election integrity group True The Vote and Tea Party group King Street Patriots, alleges Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) demanded information from her group in a similar manner to the IRS, according to her testimony.


Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Editor's note:
There is a whole page about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, located here, which points to a number of ways in which the very young rookie Congresswoman is at odds with sensible people everywhere.  The material in this subsection pertains to her alleged activities that would seem to indicate she's doing something illegal or something that would create conditions conducive to graft or fraud.

Participants in AOC's 'fun run' didn't know they were donating to her campaign.  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held a 5k in Queens Saturday that she billed as "a Family Fun Run supporting U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal on the Saturday following Earth Day."  But many of the 400 runners didn't realize their $30 registration fees were going directly into the lawmaker's campaign coffers.

It Sure Looks Like AOC Broke Campaign Finance Law With Her Latest Stunt.  She's really not good at this whole campaign finance thing.  Questions have already been raised about how her campaign was funded, her connection to the Justice Democrats group, and whether she was funneling money illegally to her boyfriend for supposed consulting work.  Well, there's apparently more to critique about her campaign's use of money.  Recently, the freshest of the fresh faces in Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, held a 5k "Family fun run" in which she was claiming to raise money to support her Green New Deal.  The issue is that she was actually just shoveling all the cash into her campaign coffers.

AOC-Linked PAC Questioned on Contributions.  A political action committee linked to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y) is being questioned on potentially impermissible contributions that it made to a number of Democratic committees last year, according to a letter from the Federal Election Commission.  The FEC sent a request for additional information to the Justice Democrats PAC, a far-left group that helped elect Ocasio-Cortez to Congress, on May 30 after conducting its preliminary review of the PAC's amended July quarterly report from 2018. Ocasio-Cortez was listed as a governor of the group until recently.  The FEC states that the amended report from Justice Democrats disclosed one or more contributions to federal candidates for the "retirement of debts incurred during the 2018 Primary election campaign" and that the committees that received the payments themselves had "insufficient debts to warrant such a contribution" from the PAC.

Ocasio-Cortez Violated Campaign Finance Laws With PAC Scheme, FEC Complaint Alleges.  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) accepted excessive campaign contributions and violated reporting rules by accepting undervalued services from a company run by her campaign manager, a complaint to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleged.  The campaign manager, Saikat Chakrabarti, set up the company, Brand New Congress LLC, which was paid $170,000 by Ocasio-Cortez and 12 other "far-left progressive Democratic candidates," according to the April 1 complaint filed by the Coolidge-Reagan Foundation, a conservative nonprofit.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hit with FEC complaint for alleged 'subsidy scheme'.  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has been hit with another Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint, this one alleging she and her campaign manager operated a "subsidy scheme" that ran afoul of campaign finance laws.  The crux of the complaint, which was given exclusively to Fox News in advance of its filing Wednesday, accused Ocasio-Cortez and her campaign manager, Saikat Chakrabarti, of overseeing a "shadowy web" of political action committees (PACs) that allowed them to raise more cash than they could have legally.  It also alleged that a limited liability company (LLC) was created to avoid federal expenditure requirements by offering Ocasio-Cortez and other Democratic candidates political consulting services at a price so low that the company apparently shut down before the election was even over.

Ocasio-Cortez's Team Quietly Attempting To Clean Up Illegal Campaign Finance Activities.  Over the last month a great deal of information has emerged regarding the financial relationship between freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, the Justice Democrats PAC, and Brand New Congress (both the PAC and the LLC). The convoluted web of transactions seem designed to sidestep campaign finance contribution limits and reporting requirements, and have prompted at least one FEC complaint against AOC and Chakrabarti.

Ocasio-Cortez and top aide officially removed from board of Justice Democrats PAC after FEC complaint.  Democratic Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez and her top aide are no longer board members of the outside PAC credited with orchestrating her political rise, according to a corporate document filed Friday to a Washington, D.C. agency.  The New York Democrat and her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, who served as her campaign chair, joined the board of Justice Democrats in December 2017, according to the political action committee's website.  It also said the two held "legal control over the entity" at the same time it was playing a key role in supporting Ocasio-Cortez's campaign prior to her shock victory over incumbent Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley in June 2018.

AOC Spox Simultaneously Collected Salary From Campaign and Justice Democrats.  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's spokesperson collected nearly $20,000 in overlapping salary payments from the New York Democrat's campaign committee and the Justice Democrats political action committee over a two-month span last year, filings to the Federal Election Commission show.  Corbin Trent, Ocasio-Cortez's communications director in her Washington, D.C. office, was a leader of the Justice Democrats, the far-left group behind the freshman Democrat's sharp political rise and surprise upset victory over seasoned Democratic representative Joseph Crowley.  As Trent was acting as a spokesperson for Ocasio-Cortez's campaign last year, he was receiving a salary from the Justice Democrats PAC.  Between September 9, 2017 and October 15, 2018, $73,000 in salary disbursements were paid to Trent from the group's PAC.  Trent began collecting payments from Ocasio-Cortez's campaign in August 2018 while he was still being compensated from the Justice Democrats PAC.

Ocasio-Cortez and her puppet-master Chakrabarti Scandal #2: A million bucks is unaccounted for.  Money raised from donors by two political action committees (at least one of them problematic) was mysteriously "transferred" to two private corporations (LLCs) controlled by Saikat Chakrabarti, the founder of Justice Democrats, the group that recruited, trained, and ran the campaign that got Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez elected to Congress.  There is no record of those private corporations providing services in exchange for the donations, which raises the question of what was done with this money.

Federal Election Commission Complaint:  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Aide Hid $1M.  An FEC complaint filed Monday [3/4/2019] charges Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, her Chief of Staff, and others with using two PACs and LLCs to hide hundreds of thousands in campaign dollars.  A Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) filed Monday [3/4/2019] accused Cortez chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti of using two PACs (Political Action Committees) he founded to funnel around $1 million to two of his private companies, according to the Washington Examiner.  The companies may have been used to hide what funds were spent on.

Ocasio-Cortez, chief of staff illegally moved $885K in campaign contributions 'off the books,' FEC complaint alleges.  ew York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Saikat Chakrabarti, the progressive firebrand's multimillionaire chief of staff, apparently violated campaign finance law by funneling nearly $1 million in contributions from political action committees Chakrabarti established to private companies that he also controlled, according to an explosive complaint filed Monday with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and obtained by Fox News.

New FEC Complaint Filed Against AOC's Chief Of Staff.  The Washington Examiner reports that an FEC complaint has been filed today against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' Chief of Staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, questioning the financial arrangements between two PACs and two LLCs that he controls. [...] Money was raised by the PACs and then transferred to the LLCs which were not required by law to designate who received the money.  In all, hundreds of thousands of dollars were transferred between the PACs and the LLCs.

AOC's Chief of Staff Funneled Big Money From PACs to Private Corporations to Hide Donations.  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-NY) chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabart, allegedly created multiple LLCs to funnel campaign contributions from various political action committees (PACs), a Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint from the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) said.  According to the NLPC, Chakrabarti's entity, Brand New Congress LLC, 'served as a "cutout,' for at least $885,735 received from Ocasio-Cortez's campaign and two federal political action committees, Brand New Congress PAC and Justice Democrats PAC."  Under the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, all expenditures of $200 or more are required to be reported to the FEC.  It appears that this structure was established to skirt FEC requirements on PAC donations, which are limited to $5,000 per election cycle.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez chief of staff accused of hiding more than $1 million in campaign cash.  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's top aide illegally funneled campaign donations to two companies he owned, according to a complaint filed Monday with the Federal Elections Commission.  Saikat Chakrabarti set up Brand New Congress PAC to collect and bundle donations for newbie politicians including Ms. Ocasio-Cortez.  He then diverted more than $1 million to two of his companies that did campaign work, skirting reporting requirements, said the complaint by the National Legal and Policy Center.

AOC's chief of staff ran $1M slush fund by diverting campaign cash to his own companies.  Two political action committees founded by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's top aide funneled over $1 million in political donations into two of his own private companies, according to a complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission on Monday [3/4/2019].  The cash transfers from the PACs — overseen by Saikat Chakrabarti, the freshman socialist Democrat's chief of staff — run counter to her pledges to increase transparency and reduce the influence of "dark money" in politics.  Chakrabarti's companies appear to have been set up for the sole purpose of obscuring how the political donations were used.

The corruption is starting early with the new class of far-left Democrats.  The press has made a big deal about the new class of Democrats rolling into Congress and beyond, touting their 'diversity,' their 'socialism,' their 'sisterhood.'  Most of us look at that group and see 'extremism,' particularly with the kinds of views they've presented, and the obnoxious gaffes they've blundered into, apologized for or not.  They're new, after all.  But there's something different about this batch of Democrats we haven't seen much in the past:  The corruption accusations and investigations surrounding virtually all of them, most pretty solid-looking.

Federal Election Commission complaint says Ocasio-Cortez laundered money to pay her boyfriend.  The Washington, D.C.-based Coolidge Reagan Foundation alleges Ocasio-Cortez "funneled thousands of dollars of official campaign funds" through Brand New Congress — a PAC associated with by Ocasio-Cortez's campaign — to pay her boyfriend, Riley Roberts.  The complaint says the PAC paid Riley Roberts twice — once in August of 2017 and once in September of 2017 — for "consulting" work.  The complaint alleges that.transactions, which totaled just over $6,000, may have violated campaign finance law.

AOC Allegedly Broke Campaign Finance Law By Funneling Money To Her Boyfriend Thru A PAC.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Left's favorite congressperson — and also, oddly, the Washington politician who seems to have the least understanding of anything of anyone who's ever tried to understand anything ever in any way — could be in trouble.  On Wednesday [2/27/2019], the Coolidge Reagan Foundation filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission over the New York representative's alleged illegal funneling of money to her boyfriend via a political action committee.  According to the filing, when the Brand New Congress PAC — a branch of the company hired by AOC to run her campaign — paid Riley Roberts, campaign finance law was broken.

Ilhan Omar:  Poster Child for the Red-Green Axis.  Ilhan Omar (D-MN), along with her comrades Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), has gotten a lot of press since winning a seat in Congress.  Despite her non-apology for bigoted, anti-Semitic statements she made earlier this month, Omar remains a virulent anti-Semite.  But it is much worse than that:  In addition to likely criminality, her extreme Left positions and connections to terrorists make her a security risk.  Some have demanded she be removed from the House Foreign Relations Committee, a position awarded to her by Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  But she has no business in Congress at all, and should at the very least be investigated for numerous crimes committed over a period of years.

Republican group files FEC complaint alleging Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's campaign team illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her boyfriend through an allied PAC.  A conservative non-profit has filed a Federal Elections Commission complaint against Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, alleging the freshman congresswoman's campaign team illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her boyfriend through an allied political action committee.  Lawyers for the Coolidge Reagan Foundation asked the FEC to review the matter on Wednesday [1/127/2019] after questions about AOC's campaign finance activities were raised earlier this month.


Senator Ted Kennedy

So, Barry, Trump Is a 'Sexist Pig'?  In his own most recent memoir, Promised Land, Obama's fixation on Trump is manifest.  In fact, it borders on obsession.  In reviewing that memoir for my own forthcoming book, Barack Obama's Promised Land:  Deplorables Need Not Apply, I could not help but notice, however, just how situational is Obama's objection to the sexual mores of others.  There is, of course, his and Michelle's coziness with Hollywood pervert and major Democratic donor, Harvey Weinstein.  In fact, their daughter Malia interned with Weinstein.  Tweeted cultural critic Frank Rich after the Weinstein saga became too big to ignore, "Biggest mystery of @nytimes Weinstein story:  How exemplary parents like Obamas let their daughter work there.  The stories were out there."  Said Obama long after he should have spoken out, "Michelle and I have been disgusted by the recent reports about Harvey Weinstein.  Any man who demeans and degrades women in such fashion needs to be condemned and held accountable, regardless of wealth or status."  "Any man," that is, except those who are politically useful, and none was more useful to Obama than the late Sen. Ted Kennedy.  About Kennedy, Obama cannot gush enough.

Father of Anti-America.  Ted Kennedy took his Anti-Americanism to a new level in 1983. While Ronald Reagan was President, Kennedy reached out to Yuri Andropov, president of our Cold War enemy, Russia, for help discrediting President Reagan.  Many would consider this treason or at least colluding with the Russians, but for Kennedy, it was just more anti-American opportunism.  Even before his death, Democrats saw in Ted a model.  Like Kennedy, they would do all they could to change the composition of the American electorate.  If permitting illegal immigration across our southern borders was necessary, they would justify it as compassion.  When Teddy died in 2009, the Democrats tried to give him the equivalent of a state funeral.  When the rest of America ignored the event, the Democrats felt more hate, bitterness, and determination to honor Saint Teddy's legacy.  If you look at the modern Democratic Party and see hatred, bitterness, and victimhood, credit the Father of it all:  Ted Kennedy.

The Hero of Chappaquiddick.  The Incident that saved America from a Teddy Kennedy Presidency occurred forty years ago today.  As true American heroes Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were streaking their way to the Moon on Apollo 11; the Hero of Chappaquiddick earned his (yellow) stripes by allowing the drowning of Mary Jo Kopechne.  No autopsy was performed on Ms. Kopechne's body; however there was some evidence discovered by the funeral director and presented by the District Attorney that Mary Jo suffocated in an air pocket.  If confirmed this should have make Senator Kennedy's behavior that night rise to the crime of manslaughter — but this was Massachusetts.

A nation governed by princelings.  [Scroll down]  Perhaps the greatest generator of princelings is Joseph Kennedy.  After he made his fortune selling alcoholic beverages at a time when doing so was illegal, his money enabled him to become an ambassador.  His several descendants who became elected officials are President John Kennedy; Senators Robert and Ted Kennedy; Congressmen Joe Kennedy II, Patrick Kennedy, and Joe Kennedy III; Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend; state senator Edward M. Kennedy, Jr.; and Delegate Mark Kennedy Shriver.  I may have missed a few.  The most interesting Kennedy princeling is Ted.  He passed the bar exam in 1959 (really!).  He campaigned for his brother John in 1960.  He was an assistant district attorney in 1961.  He campaigned for U.S. Senator in 1962.  He remained in the Senate until his death in 2009.

The Little-Known Story of Mary Jo Kopechne.  I am so old, I actually remember when Chappaquiddick happened.  Some years later, I looked into the facts and found that they are quite clear:  Senator Ted Kennedy, then 37 years old, drove his car off a bridge and saved himself, leaving a young woman to die, when she could have been rescued if he had simply called for help like a normal human being.  Instead, he tried to convince his cousin to take the fall and, failing that, lawyered up.  Ted Kennedy is not history's most contemptible man, but he is easily in the bottom one percent.

Chappaquiddick special shows the media can't let go of Kennedy myth.  The show opened with a howler of a premise, a disembodied voice intoning, "There's still so much mystery about what happened that night."  Really?  Is there?  For those too young to remember, Kopechne was a young campaign worker left to die by Ted Kennedy after he drove — most likely drunkenly — off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969.  The car landed upside down in water so still and shallow that its tires poked above the surface.  Yet the 37-year-old Kennedy, who would later tell the nation he struggled against "a strong and murky current," did not report the accident until 10 hours later, sometime the next morning, still reeking of booze.

'You weren't able to grill him': Investigator says it was 'implied' not to push Ted Kennedy 'too hard' on Chappaquiddick.  On the night of July 18, 1969, a group of women known as the Boiler Room Girls, who had worked for Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign before his assassination, gathered for a reunion on the island of Chappaquiddick near Martha's Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts.  For one of those women, Mary Jo Kopechne, it would be her last night alive.  According to some of the people who knew her and those familiar with the case, however, Kopechne would not receive the attention she deserved following her death.  Instead, that attention would go to the late Senator Ted Kennedy, who hosted the reunion for his brother's former staffers.

The scandal that demolished a dynasty.  Mary Jo Kopechne was 28-years-old the night she died.  Senator Edward 'Ted' Kennedy, then 37, gave her ride from a party, drove his car off a bridge, and pitched them into the water below.  Kennedy survived.  Kopechne did not.  Almost 50 years later, what happened that July 18, 1969 night is still shrouded in questions, and it is unclear why Kennedy waited 10 hours to call the police, and, more importantly, whether an earlier alert to authorities would have saved the trapped young woman.  He served no jail time.

A closer look at the searing evil of Ted Kennedy.  Teddy's description of the Chappaquiddick "accident" was enough to convict him of involuntary and voluntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment.  Today you can add homicide by vehicle while intoxicated, a mandatory three-year prison term in most states. [...] This is the man who criticized Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas as unfit to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.  He accused Bork of forcing women to have back-alley abortions.  He accused Thomas of harassing Anita Hill.  This is the man who ran in the 1976 Democratic presidential primaries and almost won.  Had he beaten Jimmy Carter, Kennedy would have most likely defeated Gerald Ford to become our president.  This is the man who was called the Lion of the Senate by the Democrats and their cheerleaders in the media, who contacted the Soviet Union commie leaders to ignore Reagan and was the leader of the Democratic Party that represents itself as the party to help women.

New movie Chappaquiddick may threaten Kennedy mythology.  By the standards of the #MeToo movement, the late Senator Ted Kennedy was a monster, far worse than anything alleged about Harvey Weinstein.  And he has never been held to account, by the media and historians, for his brutal crimes against women.  He not only accidentally killed one of his prey, Mary Jo Kopechne, but engaged in a vicious sexual assault in public, in the so-called "waitress sandwich" attack.  Readers unfamiliar with that incident are urged to read the undisputed account of the violent attack that was witnessed by fellow diners at Washington's expensive La Brasserie restaurant.  Yet his party and supporters — who almost universally attack a purported Republican "war on women" — called him the "lion of the Senate" and never held him to account.

Kennedy's original serial harassers.  Have you noticed that there's been a word missing from all these recent stories about sexual harassment in Massachusetts politics?  The missing word is "Kennedy." [...] There has never been a family in Massachusetts (or American) politics that's come close to the sordid record of misogyny of the Kennedys.  Chappaquiddick, anyone? [...] Remember Ted Kennedy's "waitress sandwich" at the French restaurant in D.C. in the 1980s?  The other senatorial half of the sandwich was Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut.

No One Ever Drowned in Roy Moore's Car.  Sen. Patty Murray of Washington was eighteen when Kennedy let Mary Jo Kopechne die.  Said she in her tribute to Kennedy, "When I was young Ted Kennedy was larger than life."  Murray continues with a straight face, "Ted never once stopped fighting for those who couldn't fight for themselves."  Ms. Kopechne might beg to differ. [...] Say what one will about Roy Moore, but unlike Kennedy, he did not make a career of debauchery, and no one ever drowned in his car.

The Lion in Water:  Some Facts About 'Chappaquiddick'.  In July 1969, Senator Kennedy came to Cape Cod for a regatta and stashed brother Bobby's "boiler room girls," in a cottage on Chappaquiddick Island.  The film version of "Chappaquiddick" plays this covert hook-up like a '60s beach flick with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello and viewers won't spot a single navel.  Ted (Jason Clarke) slips away from the drunken bash with the beautiful Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara).  Viewers don't see what's going on in the black Oldsmobile, but it is possible to guess.  Spooked by a cop, Kennedy roars away and promptly drives off a bridge into Poucha Pond.  The senator somehow gets out and one of his first thoughts is "I am not going to be president."  The senator leaves Mary Jo in the car, where she dies, and does not report the accident until the next day.

Ted Kennedy's bridge too far.  The film "Chappaquiddick," which premiered last Friday, concerns the efforts of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., to save his career and reputation after the accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne, a young, pretty aide to his dead brother Bobby.  Kennedy intended to preserve his chances of running for president, like his two older brothers before him.  But what if he wanted not to be president, and it was this desire that ruled from then on?  Kennedy wished to remain in the Senate, which was the love of his life and for which he was suited.  But the presidency at age 36 was a whole other story.  After the deaths of two brothers in less than five years made him head of a huge extended family of children and women, the public's insistence that he replace his dead brothers — and the Democrats' demand that he save them from Nixon — added a level of strain that he might not have been able to bear.

'Chappaquiddick': The Grim Record of a Kennedy Cover-Up.  The existence of Chappaquiddick, the new movie about the 1969 car accident from which Ted Kennedy walked away while his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne likely suffocated slowly inside his partly sunken Oldsmobile, is a miracle of a kind.  The script by Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan was included on the 2015 Black List, the annual compendium of yet-to-be-sold screenplays of un-common quality.  Only a third of Black List titles ever make it to the big screen.  And the fact that Allen and Logan's screenplay offered a cold-eyed view of a liberal icon gave everyone reason to think it would stay among the unfilmed.

Don't miss Chappaquiddick!  The movie Chappaquiddick exceeded my very high expectations.  Not only is it a truthful exploration of the events that led up the death of May Jo Kopechne and the criminal cover-up of Ted Kennedy's culpability therein, but it goes deep into the character of the man and how he got to the depraved state of indifference to the life of a young woman who had devoted herself to "the cause" of the Kennedy family.

Hollywood (and History) Catches Up to Ted Kennedy.  Ted Kennedy avoiding responsibility in the early morning hours of July 19, 1969, came as the natural consequence of avoiding responsibility in the 37 years that preceded.  He cheated his way out of Harvard only to gain readmission — and score a touchdown in the 1955 Harvard-Yale game.  His father's connections fixed Ted's four-year Army enlistment into a two-year stint and ensured vaunted assignments far away from the Korean War in Paris.  At law school at the University of Virginia, "Cadillac Eddie" led police on high speed chases that made cops, in the words of biographer Joe McGinniss, almost believe that they pursued a car "driven by a Hollywood stuntman."  The Charlottesville police arrested a seemingly inebriated Kennedy, hiding in his car, without a license in 1958.  Despite the convictions related to reckless driving, Kennedy received a speeding ticket shortly thereafter.  His service as an army private constituted his only paid employment prior to his 1962 election to the United States Senate.  Liberals, who now revere Ted Kennedy as a saint, then regarded him as a joke.

Chappaquiddick Exposes Ted Kennedy at Last.  Chappaquiddick must be counted one of the great untold stories in American political history:  The average citizen may be vaguely aware of what happened but probably has little notion of just how contemptible was the behavior of Senator Ted Kennedy.  Mainstream book publishers and Hollywood have mostly steered clear of the subject for 48 years.

The Grisly History of Chappaquiddick.  [Scroll down]  So, why is the film important?  It's important because it doesn't traffic in rumors and innuendo — there is no attempt to claim that Kopechne was having an affair with Kennedy, or that she was pregnant with his child.  It's important because it doesn't paint Kennedy as a monster but as a deeply flawed and somewhat pathetic scion of a dark and manipulative family.  But most of all, it's important for two reasons:  It's the first movie to actually tackle a serious Democratic scandal in the history of modern film, and it reminds us that Americans have long been willing to overlook scandal for the sake of political convenience.

"Chappaquiddick" — the movie.  Ted Kennedy was the poster boy for male privilege, and even white privilege.  But now, 48 years later, the truth of this ugly, corrupt politics of Mafiachusetts apparently has made it to the movie theater.  In his review, Owen Gleiberman called it "an event of criminal negligence and cover-up."  He said it defined Ted Kennedy's life.  It ended Mary Jo Kopechne's.

Toronto Film Review: 'Chappaquiddick'.  Forty-eight years later, let's be clear on what the meaning of Chappaquiddick is.  Ted Kennedy should, by all rights, have stood trial for involuntary manslaughter, which would likely have ended his political career.  The fact that the Kennedy family — the original postwar dynasty of the one percent — possessed, and exerted, the influence to squash the case is the essence of what Chappaquiddick means.  The Kennedys lived outside the law; the one instance in American history of an illegally stolen presidential election was the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960.  He in all likelihood lost the race to Richard Nixon, but his father tried to steal the election for him by manipulating the vote tallies in (among other places) Illinois.  That's the meaning of Chappaquiddick[,] too.

A Chappaquiddick Reckoning at Last?  [Scroll down]  All of this has been documented in various books about the incident.  Ted Kennedy was a coward and a fool.  When the Kennedy family's consiglieres gathered in Hyannis Port to decide how to deal with the crisis, Ted wasn't even invited to the meeting.  He was considered too stupid to be helpful, and busied himself flying a kite on the beach.  He later attended Kopechne's funeral with a fake neck brace around his neck, intended to suggest, falsely, that he had been injured in the accident.  The fact that the Democratic Party still reveres Ted Kennedy tells you everything you need to know about how low that party has fallen.

U.S. Senator Colludes With Russians to Influence Presidential Election.  Yes, a United States senator really did collude with the Russians to influence the outcome of a presidential election.  His name was Ted Kennedy.  While Sen. Al Franken (D-Ringling Bros.) and other Democrats have the vapors over a truthful, complete, and correct answer Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave in his confirmation hearing, it's worth remembering the reprehensible behavior of Senator Ted Kennedy in 1984.  This reprehensible behavior didn't involve launching an Oldsmobile Delmont 88 into a tidal channel while drunk.  This reprehensible behavior was collusion with America's most deadly enemy in an effort to defeat Ronald Reagan's reelection.  You won't hear much about that from CNN and the clown from Minnesota.


Senator Dianne Feinstein

How Dianne Feinstein secured $1 billion in 'pet projects' — the year after her death.  Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who died last year, secured nearly $1.1 billion in earmarks, known as community project funding, which direct federal dollars to specific "pet projects" in members' home states and districts.  The California senator, who was a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, died in September of last year, but before her death, she submitted 265 projects directing federal funding to the Golden State, which were included in a package of six government funding bills unveiled by congressional leaders over the weekend.  The earmarks range across hundreds of projects, from funding repairs for fire stations to construction projects and grant programs, with thousands and sometimes millions of dollars flowing into each project.  Among the most expensive requests from the California senator was in the Energy and Water Development Bill, allocating $194 million for the Army Corps of Engineers to support emergency repairs in Santa Cruz.  Feinstein submitted a certification letter for the project on March 30, 2023.

Senator Dianne Feinstein, Dead.  This is the senator who sat as the Chair and Vice-Chair on the Senate Intelligence Committee and had a decades long Chinese CCP party spy operating as her personal driver and assistant.  This is the senator who sat as Vice-Chair on the Senate Judiciary Committee; the woman who accepted and promoted the fraudulently constructed claims from deep state lawfare operatives and Christine Blasey-Ford, pretending the claims were of material truth.  This is the senator who had Dan Jones as her lead staffer and was instrumental in the originating construct of the completely fraudulent Trump-Russia conspiracy theory.  This is also the senator who purposefully leaked and made public the closed-door transcript of testimony by Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson.  A leak that was intended and designed to assist the Trump-Russia conspirators to align their stories and get on the same page of lies.  In the last 10 years, Senator Dianne Feinstein was a tool for the interests of others.

The tarnished legacy of Dianne Feinstein.  Last week, the oldest U.S. senator, Dianne Feinstein, passed away at the age of 90.  Love or hate her politics, Senator Feinstein lived a generally honorable life and had a distinguished career.  She was a successful lawyer, an accomplished politician, and a role model for young women.  Unfortunately, along with that, the senator will likely be remembered by the fact that during her last years, she was a feeble old lady who was slowly and pitifully dying in front of the American public.  For the last several years, Senator Feinstein was visibly frail; her memory was faulty; she was frequently confused.  In other words, she was practically a corpse.  Yet, her family continued to thrust her in a public eye, while being fully aware that she did not belong there.  The once dignified and powerful politician became the subject of memes, ridicule, and scorn.  Yet, her family stood by and watched.

Dianne Feinstein leaves stunning properties to her and billionaire husband's feuding daughters.  Dianne Feinstein was one of the Senate's richest members throughout her trailblazing career — thanks to her billionaire husband.  While others in Congress struggled to make ends meet, sleeping in their offices to save on rent, Feinstein commuted from San Francisco aboard a Gulfstream G650 jet (pre-owned, the aircraft averages $61,815,000), sported expensive jewelry and flitted from one mansion to the next.  Her last disclosure, in May, put her net worth at $69.4 million.

Senator Dianne Feinstein dies at 90.  U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein has died.  The long-serving California Democrat was 90 years old and "passed away last night at her home in Washington, D.C.," according to a statement from her chief of staff James Sauls.

California Democrats Play Affirmative Action Games Over Feinstein Senate Seat.  Race-based preferences are taking over the competition for Dianne Feinstein's California Senate seat.  On Thursday, The New York Times revealed Feinstein surrendered power of attorney to her daughter in a report on the 90-year-old senator's failing health.  The longtime legacy lawmaker is unable to make legal decisions of her own while making major legal decisions for the country. [...] If she resigns, Gov. Gavin Newsom has already pledged to appoint a black woman to the seat.  Newsom made the commitment in 2021 after upsetting Democrats by appointing then-Secretary of State Alex Padilla, California's first Latino senator, to replace Kamala Harris after her election to vice president.  It's no coincidence, then, the most vocal supporters of Feinstein's resignation, such as California Rep. Ro Khanna, have endorsed Rep. Barbara Lee in the crowded Senate primary.  In fact, Khanna, who co-chairs Lee's campaign, was the first member of Congress to request Feinstein step down, according to The Hill.

More proof that Dianne Feinstein is mentally incompetent.  News broke yesterday that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has given power of attorney to her daughter, indicating that she can no longer handle her own affairs.  The fact that a mentally incapacitated Senator is one of the people controlling America's destiny shows just how far politics in America have fallen.  At a sinister level, it's more evidence that the people we elect are often just puppets for Deep State power brokers.  The New York Times article that reveals the power of attorney isn't actually about that topic.  Instead, it focuses on a battle between Feinstein and her daughter, on the one hand, and her late husband's daughters, on the other hand.  There's a lot of money at stake, and the four young women aren't going to give it up without a fight.

Dianne Feinstein's daughter holds power of attorney over ailing senator amid family finance fight.  The daughter of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has been given power of attorney over the sitting senator and is handling the 90-year-old's legal affairs.  Katherine Feinstein, 66, has filed two lawsuits on her mother's behalf in an effort to gain access to the estate of the senator's late husband.  The senator's decision to delegate management of her affairs comes as Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill argue whether Feinstein is no longer fit for office.  Katherine's first lawsuit on her mother's behalf relates to a California beach house owned by the senator's late husband, Richard Blum.  The lawsuit argues that Feinstein is seeking to sell the house in order to raise funds for her ongoing medical treatments.

Sheldon Whitehouse:  Dianne Feinstein Should Not Resign No Matter What Because We Need Judges Confirmed.  The situation involving California Sen. Dianne Feinstein has become an uncomfortable one for her fellow Democrats, some of whom have been calling on her to resign.  Others have said Feinstein, who [turned] 90 on June 22 and who has been in the Senate since 1992, has earned the right to end her career on her terms and that her desire, expressed through her staff, to serve her full term should be respected.  Others, however, have taken to saying the quiet part out loud about how regardless of her declining physical and cognitive health, Feinstein must remain in the Senate because Democrats need judges confirmed.  For instance, in a recent interview with the L.A. Times, former Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) told members of her party who were demanding Feinstein step down that they should be careful what they wish for because it would effectively mean a 10-10 stalemate on the Senate Judiciary Committee, on which Feinstein currently serves, until after the 2024 election: [...]

Diane Feinstein's Cognitive Decline Showcased On An $800 Billion Dollar Vote Wasn't Just a Bad Look.    [Video clip only.]

Feinstein Watch.  It has been obvious for quite a while that Dianne Feinstein is not capable of discharging her duties as a senator.  Earlier today Feinstein became confused in a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing and began reading a statement instead of casting a vote.  An aide tried to help her, and Patty Murray audibly said, "Just say 'aye.'"  I haven't paid much attention to the Feinstein saga because it is not surprising when an elderly senator hangs on to his or her seat.  Robert Byrd had to be carried into the Senate chamber to vote.  Arlen Spector, an 80-year-old cancer survivor, switched parties to run as a Democrat (unsuccessfully) rather than retire from the Senate.  So Feinstein's tenacity is nothing new.  But it turns out there is more to it.

Feinstein gets confused in Senate Appropriations hearing and has to be prodded to vote.  During Thursday's hearing, Feinstein was meant to cast her vote on the Defense Appropriations bill, requiring her to say "Aye" or "Nay," when her name was called.  When she didn't answer, Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state tried to prompt her.  "Say aye," she said, repeating herself three times to Feinstein.  Feinstein then started to read from prepared remarks, and was interrupted by an aide whispering in her ear.  "Yeah," Murray said once again.  "Just say 'aye.'"  "OK, just," Feinstein replied.  "Aye," Murray repeated once more.  Then Feinstein sat back in her chair.  "Aye," she said, casting her vote.

Whispering Aide Tells Sen. Dianne Feinstein to 'Just Say Aye'.  I have previously documented the obvious state of unfitness of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who is 90 years old and clearly suffering from cognitive decline.  Now we have this nearly unbelievable spectacle. [...] This video of the event is unreal — almost beyond written description in its sinister creepiness.  [Tweet with video clip]  It's worth noting that, whoever this handler is whispering like a serpent into Feinstein's ear, no one voted for him and he has no legitimate authority to be telling a sitting senator how to vote or what to say in front of a microphone.  This kind of disgusting, in-your-face flaunting of the fact that Congress is, at this point, largely vestigial is really getting out of hand.  It's exceedingly obvious to anyone who's honestly assessing the state of the union that none of these elected members of Congress make any decisions of consequence.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 90, sues her late husband's estate in ugly family squabble.  Senator Dianne Feinstein, the oldest member of Congress who has been beset with serious health problems, is suing the estate of her late husband, arguing she's being denied payments for 'significant' medical bills.  Feinstein, 90, was born in 1933 and has held her seat in the Senate representing California for nearly 31 years.  Her reputation has begun to sour as the ailing senator clings to power despite apparent cognitive decline and absence that led to a backlog of judge confirmations through the Judiciary Committee.

End American Gerontocracy.  The 89-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), whose political career first began in 1970 (one year before Biden's), recently missed over two months of senatorial work while recovering from a nasty bout of shingles and encephalitis.  When she finally made her way back to the Capitol, Feinstein, in the words of a May 18 New York Times article, "appeared shockingly diminished."  Since returning, the now-wheelchair-bound Feinstein has required additional staff assistance to merely cast her votes and has apparently forgotten she was ever out of commission to begin with: "No, I haven't been gone," she told Slate on May 16.  Come again?

Report: Dianne Feinstein Confused by Sight of VP Kamala Harris Presiding over Senate.  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) was confused by the sight of Vice President Kamala Harris presiding over the upper chamber last year to cast a tie-breaking vote, according to a report touching on the difficulties the ailing lawmaker faces as she seeks to continue discharging her duties.  The New York Times piece comes as the California Democrat struggles on her return to D.C. after bouts of shingles and encephalitis and she seeks to reassert herself in her job.  According to Times White House reporter Annie Karnie, Feinstein expressed confusion to her colleagues when she saw Harris appear in the Senate in one of a host of tiebreaking votes the vice president has had to cast while assuming her constitutional role.

More politicians are calling for Senator Dianne Feinstein to resign.  [Thread reader] Feinstein, 89 years old, has some of the most unusual trades in Congress, over her 30 year career.  In that time, her net worth sky rocketed to over $200 million.  Let's look at some of her unusual trades:  Feinstein reportedly attended Covid hearings by the CDC in early Jan 2020.  Afterwards, her husband sold between $1.5 & $6 million in stock Allogene Therapeutics amongst others.  The stock market collapsed shortly afterwards.  Feinstein was cleared by the DOJ.  In April 2018, Mark Zuckerberg testified before the Senate's Judiciary Committee, which Feinstein sat on.  But in Jan 2018, Feinstein's husband bought $250,000 Facebook stock.  Only in May 2018 did Feinstein disclose the $META purchase.  Feinstein praised $META in the hearing.  In Aug 2020, Feinstein's husband purchased $50,000 in College Reaction, a private polling company.  On Jan 6th, the day of the Capitol strike, Feinstein said the "previously unreported transaction conducted by my spouse" should've been disclosed.  She didn't pay a penalty.  On Dec 4, 2009, Feinstein & her husband bought $1 million in Amyris Biotechnologies.  It was their only transaction the entire year.  Weeks after, the company was awarded a $24 million governmental grant.

This has been obvious for a couple of months.
We Were Lied to About Dianne Feinstein's Health.  Sen. Dianne Feinstein spent months missing from the Senate.  As far as the public was concerned, she had shingles, and that's it.  End of story.  Nothing to worry about, she'll be back soon, ready to return to business, case closed, let's stop talking about her resigning, shall we?  Except this wasn't just a simple case of an 89-year-old woman with shingles.  It wasn't until after Feinstein returned to the Senate that her office confirmed the senior senator from California was admitted to the hospital with serious neurological complications resulting from shingles.  The condition, which is called encephalitis, affected her brain and face.  That would have been important information the public had a right to know, don't you think?  Feinstein's absence has been hugely problematic for the Democrats.  It resulted in the judicial nomination process grinding to a halt because she sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and her absence meant nominees couldn't get the majority support they needed to get a full Senate vote.

Political Imprisonment Of Dianne Feinstein.  Dianne Feinstein returned to the Senate in a wheelchair following a three month battle with Shingles.  At the risk of being ableist or ageist, the woman looks [...] awful even for 89.  There are stories of complications from her illness that raise questions of her ability to serve.  There are also stories of her alleged political imprisonment as Governor Gavin Newsome and former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi run out the clock for that Senate seat.  Just in case, you haven't been keeping up with the DiFi story, Nina has the details for you here.  Shingles is no laughing matter at any age, and a super-elderly person would not fare well.  When Feinstein returned to the Senate, looked out of it.  [Tweet]

Ailing Senator Dianne Feinstein's office admits 89 year-old DID suffer brain infection during two month absence from Congress she's since forgotten about.  Ailing Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein's office has admitted the 89-year-old did suffer a brain infection, despite her own insistence that she'd just been battling the flu.  The New York Times reported on Thursday that Dianne Feinstein, 89, has been diagnosed with vision and balance impairments as well as facial paralysis known as Ramsay Hunt syndrome in addition to encephalitis, a brain infection.  'It was a really bad flu.  I'm doing better thank you,' Feinstein said initially about her condition.

Senator Dianne Feinstein suffered brain inflammation.  The oldest member of the US Senate contracted encephalitis, a brain inflammation, her office has said, after a bout of shingles that left her unable to sit on key committee.  Dianne Feinstein, 89, also developed Ramsay Hunt syndrome, which can cause facial paralysis, her office said.  The encephalitis resolved itself, but she continues to deal with Ramsay Hunt syndrome, the statement said.  She returned to Washington on 10 May after nearly three months of absence.

Dianne Feinstein 'Wheeled Away' After Apparently Forgetting Leave Of Absence.  After a recent spate of health issues forced Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein to take an extended leave of absence, the aging lawmaker inadvertently raised new concerns by apparently forgetting she had taken one.  Plagued by recent health issues and calls from her peers to resign, Feinstein's return to the Senate has been under scrutiny even as the 89-year-old legislator took on a "lighter schedule" by order of her physician.  Though participating in two votes in the Senate this week and walking out of the chamber "on her own two feet" an impromptu interview with reporters raised more concerns, Slate reported.  [Tweet]  When asked how her colleagues felt about her return to the Capitol, Feinstein denied she had ever left in the first place.  "No, I haven't been gone," she reportedly told the press, adding, "You should follow the — I haven't been gone.  I've been working."  When pressed if she meant that she had been working from home, the Senator allegedly doubled down, maintaining that she hadn't left.  "No, I've been here.  I've been voting," she said, according to Slate.  "Please.  You either know or don't know."  In April, Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna called on Feinstein to resign while the Senator was on an extended leave of absence due to a shingles diagnosis.  "While she has had a lifetime of public service, it is obvious she can no longer fulfill her duties.  Not speaking out undermines our credibility as elected representatives of the people," Khanna stated at the time.

Feinstein's Latest Chat With Reporters Suggests She's Doing Worse Than We Thought.  Longtime U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) recently returned to Capitol Hill after more than two months of time hospitalized and then recovering at home following an apparently serious bout of shingles that took her away from Senate business.  Setting aside other issues with Feinstein, there's one big problem:  Feinstein doesn't seem to know she was away from Washington or missed any votes in committee or on the Senate floor.  According to Slate writer Jim Newell and Los Angeles Times staff writer Benjamin Oreskes, the two had quite the elevator ride with Feinstein on Tuesday afternoon.

Confused Feinstein says 'I haven't been gone.  I've been working' despite three-month absence.  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Tuesday told reporters that she's been at the Capitol working and voting, apparently unaware that she's spent months away this year due to health problems.  Feinstein, 89, returned to the Senate just last week after spending nearly three months away from Washington, DC, recovering from a bout of shingles.  When asked by a reporter Tuesday about the reception she's received from colleagues upon her return, Feinstein lashed out at the journalist and provided answers indicating that she was seemingly unaware that she had been out.  "No, I haven't been gone," Feinstein said.  "You should follow the — I haven't been gone.  I've been working."  When asked if she meant that she'd been working from home, the senior senator from California responded, "No, I've been here.  I've been voting.  Please.  You either know or don't know."

The Democratic Party Has A Zombie Problem.  Let's begin with the footage of Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California being wheeled into the Capitol on Wednesday, photos and videos that were both pitiful and horrifying.  Even the Democrat-enabling media was taken aback and started to turn on the Crone from California, telling her that it's time to go.  That Democrats have put the fate of the nation's looming debt default on the shoulders of this one incoherent lawmaker is mind-boggling.  Feinstein had been out of service for two and a half months due to a nagging case of shingles.  After seeing her so damaged and frail, no reasonable person would advise she is ready to return to the grueling schedule of lawmaking and debt-ceiling busting.  Feinstein is the poster child for elder abuse by Senate Democrats, who also need her for a few crucial votes on some [truly] awful judicial nominees. [...] Life has come fast at Feinstein since that September day in 2018, when she pinned Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a quarter century her junior, to a wall in the Capitol and bullied her over the Justice Brett Kavanaugh nomination.

Dianne Feinstein Returns to Senate in Wheelchair, 'Experiencing Vision/Balance Impairments'.  Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein finally returned to the senate after a 3-month absence due to shingles.  "Even though I've made significant progress and was able to return to Washington, I'm still experiencing some side effects from the shingles virus," Feinstein said.  "My doctors have advised me to work a lighter schedule as I return to the Senate.  I'm hopeful those issues will subside as I continue to recover."

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I had shingles once, and I was over it in a few days.  I'm no doctor, but apparently there's a lot more going on here than shingles.  Most of the people in a typical nursing home look healthier than Senator Feinstein.  One has to wonder what her motivation is for continuing to "work" twenty years beyond her reasonable retirement age.  Is it power, greed, or political pressure?

Dianne Feinstein Releases Statement in Attempt to Downplay Her 2-Month Senate Absence.  California's senior Democrat senator, Dianne Feinstein, has been under pressure to resign her seat amid ongoing health problems exacerbated by her advanced age, but she is apparently adamant that she intends to hold on until the end.  Feinstein downplayed her two-month absence Thursday [5/4/2023] despite heavy criticism from other members of her party. [...] Feinstein was hospitalized with a case of shingles, a skin condition that is serious for elderly people.  The senator, who turns 90 in June, has faced questions over the last few years about her cognitive health and memory, though she has defended her effectiveness in representing a state that is home to nearly 40 million people.

Feinstein's Prolonged Absence From Senate Holding Up Biden Judicial Confirmations.  Dianne Feinstein's absence from the Senate is holding up Joe Biden's judicial confirmations.  Feinstein, 89, has been MIA since she was hospitalized for shingles last month.  The California senator's absence from the Senate Judiciary Committee has the panel deadlocked at 10-10.

Who is pulling the puppet strings in Washington, DC?  [Scroll down]  Next is Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) who has been US Senator for over three decades.  Last month Feinstein learned that her staff took a very important decision without consulting her: they announced her retirement from the Senate.  Feinstein was understandably left perplexed when informed, but eventually accepted the decision.  Feinstein has been a frequent subject of discussion regarding her mental acuity and fitness to serve.  Feinstein's office recently released a statement that she was hospitalized due to shingles but expects to make a full recovery and return to the Senate this month.  Feinstein is yet to return.

Who's Running America?  Senator Feinstein just introduced the Women's Health Protection Act of 2023 to mandate abortion nationwide while outlawing state restrictions on late-term abortion when babies can feel pain.  Considering Feinstein's own mental capacity may not be that much greater than an unborn child, she might want to reconsider the value of human life even when it can't articulate its feelings.  But Feinstein isn't really introducing or sponsoring bills, her staffers, who announced her retirement without her knowing about it, are legislating in her name.  That's a coup.  Or what we used to call a coup before it happened and just became how things worked.

Delusional Democrats think Fetterman and Feinstein still fit to serve.  Once upon a time we mocked the Soviet Union for its gerontocracy.  Aged party leaders, bundled up in overcoats and fur hats to the point of near-unrecognizability, would be wheeled out to sit, immobile, as parades passed or party congresses opened.  Their withered, stale leadership was emblematic of the decaying USSR's withered, stale ideology — and industrial base.  But now the joke's on us.  A l  eading United States senator, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), can't seem to remember important things, like her just-taken vote on a judicial nominee and her just-announced retirement. "Did I vote for that?" she asked an aide Wednesday, moments after leaving the chamber.  The day before, the oldest sitting senator announced she wouldn't seek another term — or her staff did, anyway.  Asked about her coming retirement an hour after the statement posted, Feinstein said, "Well, I haven't made that decision.  I haven't released anything."  A staffer told her she had.  As The [New York] Post reported, "an incredulous-sounding Feinstein" said, "You put out the statement?" before telling reporters, "I didn't know they put it out."

Dianne Feinstein Announces She Won't Seek Reelection in 2024.  California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein announced Tuesday that she will retire at the end of her term.  "I am announcing today I will not run for reelection in 2024, but intend to accomplish as much for California as I can through the end of next year when my term ends," Feinstein said in her announcement.  At 89, Feinstein is the oldest senator.  She has represented California in the Senate since 1992, and is the longest-serving woman senator in U.S. history.  Before she was elected to the Senate, Feinstein was the mayor of San Francisco and made an unsuccessful bid for California governor.

If Dianne Feinstein is suffering from cognitive decline and is unfit to serve, then why she still a senator?  Nearly overlooked earlier this month because of the drawn-out vote for speaker of the House was the breaking of seven decades of precedent in the upper chamber of Congress in the election for largely ceremonial post of president pro tempore of the Senate.  Largely ceremonial only up to a point, that is.  The holder of that position is third-in-line in presidential succession.  Every president pro tempore elected since 1949 had been the longest-serving senator from the majority party.  The dean of the Senate is 89-year-old Dianne Feinstein, she has been representing California since 1992.  But Patty Murray of Washington, who is a relatively spry 72, was elected president pro tempore, which ups her salary a bit and earns her a security detail.  Feinstein reportedly declined to run for president pro tempore.

New York magazine's pointedly grotesque picture of Dianne Feinstein.  Democrats desperately want to see the last of Dianne Feinstein, who's becoming a risk and an embarrassment, and nothing makes that clearer than the photography New York magazine used for an essay about her. [...] It's bad enough to have Joe Biden's dementia and Nancy Pelosi's bizarre affect, complete with escalating eyebrows and manic hand gestures.  DiFi is one decrepit Democrat too many.  And if you doubt me on that point, just get a load of the picture New York magazine used to illustrate its article.  With that headshot, DiFi could get the part of the Wicked Witch of the West in a remake of The Wizard of Oz.  [Tweet]

Democrats struggle with an open secret:  The serious mental decline of an aging politician.  The NY Times published a story today about Democrats coming to terms with the fact that an aging Democrat may no longer be fit for office.  It's a story about Sen. Dianne Feinstein.  Who did you think we were talking about? [...] Some people close to Feinstein have said they don't see how she could possible finish out her current term which doesn't expire until 2024, but Feinstein is still saying she has no plans to retire.

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth:  Biden expresses 'confidence' in Sen. Dianne Feinstein.  Joe Biden has been fully exposed as a dotard who'd be better off at the dog tracks than the Oval Office, but he's got nothing on Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who's reportedly so senile she can't recognize her own staff.  Now, after a bombshell report from the San Francisco Chronicle on Feinstein's desiccated state, Joe's White House is telling the press that he's got "confidence" in his former Senate colleague.

How Many Senile Democrats Does It Take To Ruin a Country?  Today we're hitting some things that I'd rather not have to write about, yet feel that I must.  The future of this great country is at stake, after all.  We had a couple of "senior moment" stories yesterday involving people in the upper echelons of power in this country.  It's not pretty, but it can't be ignored.  Those of us here on the reality-based side of the aisle are duty-bound to acknowledge when things are amiss.  The first story involves Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, who it often seems has been in the Senate since Andrew Jackson was president.  Actually, she has been in office since winning a special election in 1992.  It would appear that the senior — no pun intended — senator from the Golden State is not quite as sharp as she used to be, [...]

Dianne Feinstein Is a Lot Older Than You Think, and It's Starting to Show.  Hunter Biden is just the tip of the iceberg:  it's lucrative to be a politician today, even if your father isn't playing the role of president of the United States.  There are innumerable ways in which our elected representatives can grow rich while doing the bidding of some powerful group, all perfectly legal:  astronomical advances for books that hardly anyone will read, similarly inflated speaking fees, and much more.  What was once known as the public service has become so remunerative that it's no wonder that politicians are clutching to power as they never have before in American history.  Washington is now top-heavy with the Geritol set, and it doesn't look as if that's going to change anytime soon.

Democratic colleagues are concerned that Senator Dianne Feinstein, 88, is 'mentally unfit to serve'.  Multiple Democrats on Capitol Hill are worried about the ability of one of their longest-serving senators, Dianne Feinstein, to continue serving in Congress, a new report suggests on Thursday [4/14/2022].  Feinstein, 88, had long been renowned in Washington for an issue-focused passion and quick wit — but one California Democratic lawmakers told the San Francisco Chronicle there was 'no trace of that' in recent months.  Four other senators — three of them Democrats — as well as three of her former staffers fear that Feinstein is 'mentally unfit to serve' and that her memory is 'rapidly deteriorating.'

Sen. Dianne Feinstein's Husband Partly Owned a Chinese Company That Sold Spyware to U.S. Military.  Peter Schweizer's new book Red-Handed:  How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win tells the story of how Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) husband Richard Blum was part owner of a Chinese firm that allegedly sold computers with spyware chips to the U.S. military.  The military has never been able to calculate how much sensitive data these computers allowed China to steal.  A hefty chapter of Red-Handed is devoted to tracking Feinstein's long and expensive relationship with Communist China.  The senator has made herself very, very useful to Beijing — so useful that she actually tried to excuse the Tiananmen Square massacre by suggesting China only called in combat troops to murder thousands of demonstrators because it ran out of cops.  In a total coincidence that could not possibly have been related in any way to Feinstein's friendship with the tyrants of Beijing, her husband did a great deal of lucrative business with Chinese companies, including entities run by the Communist government and linked to the People's Liberation Army (PLA).

Feinstein says she plans to serve out full term after Newsom vows to appoint a Black woman to replace her.  Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the 87-year-old veteran Democrat, insisted on Tuesday that she is committed to serving out her full term in office even after California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he had a list of "multiple" potential replacements and would appoint a Black woman to replace her should she retire.  "There's nothing to it," Feinstein told CNN on Tuesday about Democratic governor's remarks.  "No," she said when asked if she would retire before the end of her six-year term, which is set to expire at the end of 2024.  "I have not discussed that with anybody, nobody has asked me any questions about it."

The Editor says...
There goes another black female, knocked off the ladder of success by a greedy rich white person!

This month's poster child for term limits:
Feinstein, 87, Files Paperwork For Possible Re-Election; Gets Scolded On Social Media.  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) won't be up for re-election until 2024, but she has seemingly already filed paperwork indicating she might run again.  The 87-year-old U.S. Democrat from California filed the initial re-election paperwork with the Federal Election Commission last week, L.A. Magazine reported.  A Feinstein rep reached out to L.A. Magazine to clarify what the FEC filings allegedly mean.  "To be clear, Senator Feinstein has had a campaign committee since she took office, as all senators must.  In order to keep this account active, the senator has to maintain filings with the FEC.  Yesterday's filings merely reflected an updated address," the rep said.  They also claimed that they didn't have any "announcement" regarding a 2024 Feinstein run.  Feinstein's already the oldest senator in the chamber.  She would be 91 if re-elected, and 97 if she serves out her full six-year term following a 2024 victory.

The left's long knives are out for Dianne Feinstein.  On Thursday [12/10/2020], The New Yorker published an article explaining that Dianne Feinstein is a senile relic who needs to leave the Senate.  It was brutal and shows how determined leftists are to ditch Feinstein.  As tweets about the article show, Feinstein must be punished for allowing Amy Comey Barrett to ascend to the Supreme Court and for old-fashioned liberal tendencies.  At 87, Feinstein, who recently agreed to step down from the Senate Judiciary Committee, is one of the Senate's oldest and longest-serving members.  Although in the minority, she has significant power in a chamber that still respects tradition and seniority[.]

After railroading Kavanaugh, Jane Mayer discards Dianne Feinstein as expired goods.  At the withered old age of 87, Dianne Feinstein has evidently served her purpose to an increasingly ruthless Democratic-activist complex in search of younger and shinier new toys.  Just two years after Feinstein's office likely served as the source of the explosive leak responsible for the Left's Hail Mary attempt to destroy Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, Jane Mayer has decided that the California senator is expired goods.  Just two years ago, Feinstein's office was widely seen as the source of the letter to Rep. Anna Eshoo's office from Christine Blasey Ford that was leaked without the latter's consent.  Although the culprit of the leak was pinpointed, little question remains that in some capacity, Ford's letter made it either directly or through some conduit from a member of Feinstein's office, not precluding the possibility of Feinstein herself, to the press.

One foot out the door:
Feinstein won't seek top Judiciary Committee spot after complaints from progressives.  Senate Judiciary Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., reportedly won't seek to maintain her role as the top Democrat on the committee.  Feinstein announced the news on Monday [11/23/2020] amid backlash surrounding her handling of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation.

Feinstein, Who Pushed For Nationwide Mask Mandate, Seen Maskless In Public.  Democratic California Sen. Dianne Feinstein chatted with her aides maskless in the corridors of a government building before entering a Tuesday hearing, video showed.  The footage showed Feinstein standing outside a doorway in a building as she spoke with two men, both of whom were wearing masks.  Feinstein then walks through the doorway maskless as another masked man holds the door open for her, video from The Recount shows.

Left Targets Dianne Feinstein For Not Attacking Amy Coney Barrett Hard Enough.  It turns out Democrats aren't as forgiving of elderly politicians as we might have thought.  After several months of doing their best to ignore former Vice President Joe Biden's declining abilities and his unending string of inexplicable gaffes, Democrats have had it with one particular senior citizen:  Sen. Dianne Feinstein.  In a story published by The New York Times the weekend before Judge Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation hearings began, various sources within the party voiced no confidence in the California senator's ability to lead Democrats' efforts to stop the nomination.  Like a previous article published last month in Politico, the point of the effort was to highlight a belief expressed by the two liberal outlets' sources — both on the record and anonymous — that Feinstein is simply too old and lacks the mental and physical capacity to do her job.

Report: Dianne Feinstein Elementary On List Of 'Inappropriate' School Names, May Be Changed.  The San Francisco School Names Advisory Committee has identified 44 public schools in the city that have inappropriate names, including a school that was named after California Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) back in the 2000s.  According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the list of problematic school names was developed using seven different criteria, only one of which needs to be satisfied in order to land a school on the committee's potential renaming list. [...] So how did Feinstein, the former mayor of San Francisco and the longest-serving woman currently in the U.S. Senate, end up on the list?  Well, according to the San Francisco Chronicle:  "The school made the list because, as mayor in 1986, Feinstein reportedly replaced a vandalized Confederate flag, one of several historic flags flying in front of City Hall at the time."

Dianne Feinstein Caught Not Wearing Mask At Private Airline Terminal.  The wearing a mask dogma does not live loudly in Diane Feinstein.  Like most liberals, California Senator Dianne Feinstein believes rules aren't for her — even the rules she wants to create[.]  Tucker Carlson exposed Dianne Feinstein's hypocrisy on Monday evening [9/28/2020].  Feinstein was photographed in an airport without a mask just months after she called for a nationwide mandatory mask policy for airport passengers. [...] I wonder if the pilot is carrying Senator Feinstein's bag and dog.  After all, she can no longer rely on her former driver/Chinese spy to carry her bag and dog, or to even remind her to wear a mask.

DiFi's Husband Named in UC Berkeley Admissions Scam.  According to the New York Post, US Sen. Dianne Feinstein's wealthy, influential investment banker husband helped an under qualified student get into the University of California, Berkeley, according to a new report. [...] "It is therefore likely that the applicant whom the regent recommended would have been on a list that received priority admission from the waitlist," an audit of Cal's admissions practices released Tuesday [9/22/2020] said.  "Given the low likelihood of this applicant's admission and the prominent and influential role that regents have within the university, we conclude that the decision to admit this applicant was likely influenced by the regent's advocacy."

'No One Ever Told Me It Was Wrong'
Husband of Sen. Dianne Feinstein Admits to Helping Well-Connected Applicants Gain Admission to University of California.  The husband of Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) admitted on Thursday [9/24/2020] to sending an inappropriate letter identified in a state audit that appeared to help an applicant to the University of California, Berkeley, get accepted to the school.  The California State Auditor issued a scathing report on Tuesday that found the University of California system admitted 64 students from 2013 through 2018 based on those students' connections to university staff or donors, instead of their academic records.

Dianne Feinstein's husband named in UC admissions scandal, says he wrote recommendation letters for connected applicants 'a bunch of times'.  U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein's husband finds himself in the middle of the latest University of California admissions scandal, accused in a state audit of improperly using his clout to help an applicant get into the elite public system.  But Richard Blum, a UC regent, told The Chronicle he's done nothing wrong and has been writing letters on behalf of many friends and family for years.  "I did it a bunch of times," Blum said, adding that he has never considered it a problem to write recommendation letters directly to chancellors and bypassing the traditional admissions process.  However, a policy prohibiting such influence has been in place throughout Blum's 18-year tenure on the Board of Regents.

Feinstein: China Is 'Growing Into a Respectable Nation'.  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) on Thursday said China is "growing into a respectable nation" and cautioned against holding the country accountable for the coronavirus pandemic.  "We hold China as a potential trading partner, as a country that has pulled tens of millions of people out of poverty in a short period of time, and as a country growing into a respectable nation amongst other nations.  I deeply believe that," Feinstein said during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting.

FBI Asks Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein For Documents About Her Husband's Stock Trades.  The FBI politely asked Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein for documents about her husband's stock trades prior to the Coronavirus crash.  Why no pre-dawn raid?  In March, news broke that Republican senators Richard Burr, Kelly Loeffler, Ron Johnson and Jim Inhofe sold significant stock shares following a January 24th meeting on the Coronavirus threat.  As predicted, it wasn't just Republicans.

Senator Feinstein's relationship with Iran.  [Thread reader]

Feinstein's Real Insider Trading Scandal Is Selling America Out To China.  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) rightly faces a potential scandal for dumping several million dollars' worth of stock while privy to sensitive information as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee before a major drop in financial markets due to coronavirus.  But the far more consequential story is Feinstein's participation in the biggest insider trade of all in her family richly profiting from the U.S.-China policy for which she has lobbied for 40 years.  This policy of dramatically expanded economic and political ties between America and China while turning a blind eye to the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) tyranny — enabling China to become a world power heavily integrated into global supply chains and international institutions — has contributed to this China-driven pandemic.

Dianne Feinstein, 3 more senators accused of dumping major holdings before stock market plunge.  Sen. Dianne Feinstein is reportedly part of a small group of senators who sold off millions of dollars worth of personal stock days before the market crashed due to the coronavirus crisis.  The California Democrat and three of her Senate colleagues sold major holdings in February just before the stock market plunge, according to U.S. Senate disclosure records.

Is China Orchestrating the Democrats' Faux Impeachment Scheme?  China has not only compromised Biden, it is extremely likely that they are actively colluding with Democrats and the media to take down Trump.  Consider Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), whose financial ties to the Red Chinese are well-known through her husband, who somehow (like Hunter Biden) landed tens of millions of dollars in "investments" as she chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee.  Worse yet, China was able to implant a spy into her staff for about 20 years.  But, of course, she knew nothing.  We all know that President Trump is costing China a lot of money.  The media's unprecedented and insane attacks against Trump raise my Spidey-sense.

Real collusion with America's enemies:  There is a pro Iran and pro China wing in the Democrat Party.  Imagine, for a moment, what the political reaction would be if a leading Republican senator met with an antagonistic foreign power, say Russia, in the midst of high-tension standoff between President Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin?  Such a scenario seems nearly inconceivable.  Yet, it's exactly the situation Sen. Dianne Feinstein created when hosting Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif for dinner a few weeks ago.  Politico reported on the meeting, noting that it was "a bit unusual" for a former chair of the Intelligence Committee and a member of the Senate minority to dine out with the acting foreign minister of an adversary of the United States.  And by "unusual," Politico meant completely unprecedented.  Actually, my imaginary set-up doesn't really do the Feinstein dinner justice.  Iran isn't merely a rival of the United States — like, say, Russia — but a violent and active enemy.  Like Russia, Iran has long been hacking into US institutions.  But the Islamic regime, according to the past two administrations, is also responsible for the death of hundreds of American service members in Iraq.

Why Gillibrand Is the Most Vapid Clown in the Car.  [Scroll down]  As for our other U.S. Senate star, she spent nearly twenty years being chauffeured around by a spy for the Chinese government.  Are you worried about collusion and leaks to foreign governments?  How about having a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence talking privately on her phone for two decades with no one else listening in — except for a spy planted there by China?

More Information on Sen. Feinstein's Secret Meeting with the Enemy.  Senator Diane Feinstein is colluding with the enemy.  She met secretly with Iran's foreign minister Javad Zarif while our troops are deployed to the region due to threats from the terror nation.  This is the woman who had a Chinese spy working for her for 20 years.  Zarif is the brains behind the horrendous nuke deal.  Columnist David Harsanyi called the meeting "completely unprecedented" in a New York Post op-ed.

How is this not colluding with America's enemies?  Imagine, for a moment, what the political reaction would be if a leading Republican senator met with an antagonistic foreign power, say Russia, in the midst of high-tension standoff between President Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin?  Such a scenario seems nearly inconceivable.  Yet, it's exactly the situation Sen. Dianne Feinstein created when hosting Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif for dinner a few weeks ago.  Politico reported on the meeting, noting that it was "a bit unusual" for a former chair of the Intelligence Committee and a member of the Senate minority to dine out with the acting foreign minister of an adversary of the United States.  And by "unusual," Politico meant completely unprecedented.

Crowd At Trump Rally Chants 'Lock Her Up' When He Brings Up Feinstein.  President Donald Trump was speaking about Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and allegations she leaked Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's letter during a rally when the crowd began to cheer "lock her up" on Tuesday [10/9/2018].

Pelosi Shoots Feinstein in Foot, Files FOIA on Report Colleague Wanted Private.  California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein had previously moved to seal the FBI investigation into Kavanaugh, as CNN's Elizabeth Landers reported.  Many construed Feinstein's move to be an attempted coverup of just how thoroughly the FBI investigation refuted the accusations against Kavanaugh.  Regardless of her intent, Feinstein made it clear she wanted the FBI investigation to remain sealed and away from the public.  Now, however, one of Feinstein's fellow California Democrats has basically shot her in the foot.  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, in a written statement to her colleagues, revealed on Saturday that she was filing a Freedom of Information Act request on the FBI's investigation into Kavanaugh's alleged sexual assaults.

Hall of Shame: 11 Most Scandalous Democrats.  [#2] Another liberal icon of the US Senate is Dianne Feinstein.  She rose to prominence in the aftermath of the Moscone-Milk assassinations in 1978, becoming Mayor of San Francisco.  The event is viewed by many as the root of Feinstein's zealous anti-gun crusade.  Unknown to most, Senator Feinstein's husband is Democrat billionaire investor Richard Blum.  Their corporate and political dealings have crossed paths on many occasions.  As San Francisco Chronicle has noted: ["]Such questions have surfaced again in the wake of the $600 million military contract won by EG&G Technical Services, a new division that URS purchased in 2002 from the well-connected Washington, D.C., investment firm the Carlyle Group.  Carlyle is a $14 billion buyout firm whose associates and advisers include former President George Bush, former British Prime Minister John Major and former Securities and Exchange Commissioner Arthur Levitt.  As part of EG&G's sale price, Carlyle acquired a 21.74 percent stake in URS — second only to the 23.7 percent of shares controlled by Blum Capital.["]  Mr. Blum is notorious for his close investment ties with China.

Name Emerges Of Feinstein Staffer Thought To Have Leaked Kavanaugh Allegations, Insider Says.  A staff member for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is thought to have been responsible for leaking Christie Blasey Ford's allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, according to a Washington insider.  In a tweet, The Federalist's Sean Davis wrote that "according to multiple sources familiar with Judiciary's Kavanaugh investigation, Feinstein staffer Heather Sawyer leaked Ford's letter to the media in violation of Senate Rule 29(5)."

Guilt and Shame.  Dianne Feinstein knows the smear campaign against Judge Kavanaugh was a political hit job.  As ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee she could not avoid knowledge; the coordination discussions would have surrounded her and her staff.  Feinstein knows she participated in one of the most vile political smear campaigns in history.  Senator Feinstein knows she participated in an attempt to destroy an honorable man and his family.  The weight of guilt is heavy; the shame is internalized.

How to Prevent Another Kavanaugh Circus.  Brett Kavanaugh sailed through his confirmation hearings because he is a solid candidate for the Supreme Court.  But Senator Dianne Feinstein concealed the letter from Christine Blasey Ford until the committee vote was pending.  Then she leaked it, and the firestorm started.  She denies leaking, but the evidence is pretty clear that Feinstein is either the arsonist or gave the match to the arsonist.  While Feinstein's leak is a clear violation of trust with Dr. Ford, it's also an ethical violation.  Senate Judiciary Committee Rule II, 1 presupposes fourteen-day advance notice of witnesses in regular order.  There was no reason to not present Dr. Ford in regular order.  If her wish to not testify was sincere, then she shouldn't have appeared at all.  The only excuse for a late reveal was to delay as a Hail Mary pass to derail the nomination.

Cotton says Feinstein will be investigated over Ford letter.  Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) asserted on Sunday that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) will face an investigation over her handling of a letter from Christine Blasey Ford in which she alleged Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her decades ago.  Appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation," Cotton disputed the legitimacy of Feinstein's claim that she did not disclose Ford's letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) because Ford had asked it remain private.  "They have betrayed her.  They pointed her to lawyers who lied to her and did not tell her that the committee staff was willing to go to California to interview her.  Now all of that is water under the bridge," Cotton said.  "Those lawyers are going to face a D.C. bar investigation into their misconduct," he continued.  "Dianne Feinstein and her staff is going to face an investigation for why they leaked that."

Feinstein Fights FBI From Discovering Ford's Sick Secret, Trump Makes Her Regret It.  Feinstein is worried about who the FBI talks to, and it all points to Christine Blasey Ford's changing version of events.  The Democrats working behind the scenes with Blasely Ford's attorneys, Debra Katz, and Michael Bromwich, who are known Democratic operatives, allegedly helped alter Ford's testimony to fit the 1982 time frame, so they are worried, very worried.  According to Professor Margot Cleveland, who works as a freelance journalist, Ford's therapist's notes from 2012 state Ford said the attack happened in the "mid-80's," when she was in her "late teens" which is why her attorneys made Ford cross out certain words from her hand-written polygraph letter, and why the Democrats are so focused on Kavanaugh's friend, Mark Judge, working at Safeway.

Cotton: Feinstein to be investigated over leaked letter from Ford.  Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office will be investigated to determine whether it leaked a confidential letter from one of Brett Kavanaugh's accusers, Sen. Tom Cotton said Sunday [9/30/2018].  Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, also said lawyers recommended to Christine Blasey Ford by Democrats will face a Washington, D.C., bar investigation for telling her that Senate Judiciary Committee staffers would not travel to California to interview her about her sexual-assault allegation.  "They have betrayed her," Cotton said on CBS' "Face the Nation."  "She has been victimized by Democrats ... on a search-and-destroy mission for Brett Kavanaugh."

Healthy Shame Woefully Absent in Washington, DC.  [Scroll down]  There is also Senator Feinstein, with more Chinese connections than even the Clintons, daring to render judgment on Justice Kavanaugh — much like those senators who lionized Ted Kennedy or Bill Clinton despite their long history of sexual indiscretions and worse.  Those same senators are now screaming "j'accuse" at Brett Kavanaugh, without any sense of hypocrisy or shame.  Now these senators demand another FBI background check, the seventh for Kavanaugh, a background check that many of them would not pass.

Cotton says Feinstein will be investigated over leaked letter by Kavanaugh accuser.  Sen. Tom Cotton said Sunday [9/30/2018] that Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office will be investigated to determine whether or not they leaked the confidential letter from Christine Blasey Ford that detailed allegations of sexual misconduct by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.  Feinstein, who represents California and who is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, had received the letter from Ford sometime over the summer and was asked to keep it confidential.  At some point, however, the letter was leaked to the press, although Feinstein denies that anyone in her office is responsible.

Whatever happened to the old Dianne Feinstein?  Mrs. Feinstein has not tormented puppies, so far as anyone knows, but she has tormented several of President Trump's judicial nominees, particularly Brett Kavanaugh, which is almost as bad as being mean to puppies.  Her late smear of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, which has brought considerable disgrace on the U.S. Senate, will be the last thing history will remember about Mrs. Feinstein, who was even earlier the mayor of San Francisco. [...] This reputation for avoiding a closed mind does not please a California constituency.  Why would anyone consider looking at another point of view?  She was expected, after all, to Bork all Republican judicial candidates.

The Fever Swamp Creature Dianne Feinstein's Mess.  It all goes back to Senator Dianne Feinstein.  The shady allegations suddenly becoming public.  The late hour shenanigans.  The lying to colleagues.  The using of a clearly damaged Christine Blasey Ford.  The dragging of Brett Kavanaugh and his family through this fetid mess.  Every part of this is the ranking Democrat's fault.  Finally, at the end of the day, Senator Cruz and then Senators Cornyn and Grassley confronted her about her perfidy.  The Senator from California seemed genuinely shocked to be called out.  Her befuddlement is laughable.  How, precisely, did the news of the existence of Dr. Ford come to the public when only Senator Feinstein and a Congresswoman and their staffs had access to the letter in question?

On Kavanaugh, has disgraced Dianne Feinstein finished herself off?  As Sen. Lindsey Graham unexpectedly elevated himself to statesman during the last of the Senate hearings on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh Thursday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein dropped herself to bottom of the barrel as a political hack.  Her performance, from start to finish, was a disgrace.  It was so bad, so loathsome, even to the left, that it's hard to think it won't cost her her Senate seat, where she is in a tight race this November.

Is Dianne Feinstein the Most Corrupt Senator in the United States?  On top of her McCarthyite smear of Judge Kavanaugh, she's closely tied to both Chinese and Russian operations in the United States.  To date, only one fairly obscure member of Congress has asked our intel people — in this case, the FBI — to look into the alarming case of a Chinese agent becoming her office manager and personal chauffeur. [...] We have apparently hard evidence of Chinese espionage in the office of the number one senator on the Senate Intelligence Committee — the FBI told her about it five years ago, and she did nothing (nor did the bureau) — but nobody seems concerned.

FBI Yawns at Democrat Dianne Feinstein's Pathetic Smear of Brett Kavanaugh.  Yesterday [9/13/2018] Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee Dianne Feinstein announced she had received a letter from an unnamed woman accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of wrongdoing.  She didn't reveal what was in the letter, didn't share it with Republican colleagues on the Committee for review and referred Kavanaugh to the FBI for investigation.  "I have received information from an individual concerning the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.  That individual strongly requested confidentiality, declined to come forward or press the matter further, and I have honored that decision.  I have, however, referred the matter to federal investigative authorities," Feinstein released in a public statement.

An 11th-hour attempt to slander Brett Kavanaugh.  After several days of showboating and judicial hazing, Democrats pulled out their biggest weapon against Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh: a letter from an anonymous woman claiming sexual misconduct in high school.  There are no words — except, perhaps, desperate, scurrilous and embarrassing to anyone with a conscience and a grown-up brain.  The letter apparently has been in the custody of Judiciary Committee member Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) since July, but it only recently surfaced.  Feinstein says she didn't mention it sooner out of concern for the accuser's privacy and because the events were too far in the past to merit discussion, according to a source close to the senator who spoke to the New Yorker.  Under pressure from colleagues, however, she turned it over to the FBI.

Dianne Feinstein Prepares a Deathblow for Kavanaugh.  Yesterday [9/13/2018], Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein claimed that an anonymous woman may have accused Brett Kavanaugh of doing something in high school.  While the fake news media are having a field day, the truth is that only two Democrats have seen the letter, the person who wrote the letter is refusing to come forward, and we haven't been told what the letter claims, but we have been told that it dates back to when Kavanaugh was in high school.  I'm so old that I remember when people like Feinstein were telling us that Obama's regular, and criminal, use of drugs in high school was no big deal.  But now some anonymous accuser is claiming that Kavanaugh may have done something during high school, and leftists are beside themselves at the horror of it all.

Media Fail:  FBI Not Interested in Feinstein's Kavanaugh Hoax — but 'Pro' Journos Take the Bait.  The FBI will not be investigating Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) last-second attempt to smear Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.  After countless hours of hearings, a number of in-depth background checks, thousands of questions asked and answered, and numerous one-on-one meetings with senators of both parties, at the very last second Feinstein dramatically released a letter (she has reportedly had in her possession for months) to the FBI.

Kimberley Strassel picks apart Feinstein's Kavanaugh letter: 'timing here cannot be ignored'.  California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein issued a statement on Thursday alluding to a letter she received that raised concerns about Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh — but the Wall Street Journal's Kimberley Strassel suggested that the whole scenario didn't exactly add up.  The letter, to which Feinstein referred in a vague statement, is believed to contain an allegation of some instance of misconduct involving Kavanaugh and a woman when they were both in high school.

That Allegation Sat on Dianne Feinstein's Desk Since Late July?  Making the click-through worthwhile:  Senator Dianne Feinstein promises a vague bombshell and Ronan Farrow fills in the details; Mr. Nanny State himself is allegedly running for president; and Democrats say they expect to see another old, familiar face return to the campaign trail in 2020.  Yesterday afternoon [9/13/2018], California senator Dianne Feinstein said she referred unspecified information about Brett Kavanaugh to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but refused to offer any specifics.

MSNBC Panel Mocks Feinstein For "Cheap Last Minute Trick" With Kavanaugh "Smear".  Via the GOP War Room YouTube channel:  On MSNBC's Morning Joe [9/14/2018], Joe Scarborough and Mike Barnicle slam Senator Dianne Feinstein and Democratic staffers for her letter on Judge Brett Kavanaugh and following leaks to the press as a "cheap last minute trick" and a "true danger" to nomination processes.  [Video clip]

Deep State Guards Its Own:  Consider Dianne Feinstein.  California voters sent Dianne Feinstein to the U.S. Senate in 1992 when she won a special election to fill the seat vacated by Pete Wilson, who left the Senate to become California's governor.  At 85 years old, she is currently the oldest-serving member of the Senate.  Running for reelection in 2018, she has already won five previous contests for the high office of senator and is expected to win a new six-year term.  A hardcore leftist, Feinstein can be counted on by socialists and liberals to support legislation that ignores the Constitution she has so frequently sworn to uphold.  During the recent confirmation hearings for Judge Brett Kavanaugh for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, Feinstein made several statements that were simply not true, even termed deliberate lies by some.  Had a conservative senator issued similar, or even lesser, falsehoods during a confirmation hearing for a leftist judge, the mass media would have screamed for his scalp, and used the falsehoods to harm his prospects for the seat on the high court.

Dianne Feinstein, What [...] Were You Thinking?  First of all, what in blazes was Dianne Feinstein thinking?  It was late July when she got that letter from a female constituent alleging that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were in high school.  And only this week did she bother to share it with her Democratic Judiciary Committee colleagues?  And not only that.  According to Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer's explosive New Yorker piece posted Friday morning, those colleagues got wind of the letter's existence and had been asking her to share it with them "for several days"? What did she say?  My dog ate it?

Maybe There Was A Good Reason Why Dianne Feinstein Didn't Make Her Kavanaugh Smear Public.  There is a little more heat and a lot more light available today on the late hit by California Democrat and Chicom agent-of-influence Dianne Feinstein on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.  Just a recap:  yesterday Feinstein announced she had some super-secret allegation about Kavanaugh that she couldn't share with her Democrat colleagues but which she was happy to share with federal law enforcement.  The FBI quickly punted that particular tar baby (is that term a dog whistle these days?).  And it was revealed that the allegation involved Kavanaugh and a friend, both 17-years-old, locking an unnamed girl "in" a room (what kind of [...] house lets you lock people in rooms from the outside?) but she was able to turn the doorknob without male assistance and make her escape.

Grassley Schedules Kavanaugh Vote for Sept. 20th — Feinstein Pulls Stunt Sending High School Harassment Allegation to Federal Authorities.  Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has scheduled the committee vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh for Thursday September 20th.  A full senate vote is anticipated prior to the end of this month.  SCOTUS session begins October 1st.  In a last ditch effort to come up with some scheme or roadblock, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Dianne Feinstein, has announced she is referring a High School allegation of sexual misconduct to federal authorities for immediate investigation.

Dianne Feinstein's announcement about Brett Kavanaugh and the FBI smells like a political stunt.  Either Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has the goods on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, or she has gone full Harry Reid.  My money is on the latter.  The ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee released a tortuously cryptic statement Thursday [9/13/2018] claiming her office has referred a Kavanaugh-related matter to federal law enforcement officials.

Report: Feinstein Has Document Attacking Kavanaugh She Won't Share With Other Democrats.  According to a report released Thursday, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, possesses a document regarding Judge Brett Kavanaugh that she refuses to share with other Democrats on the committee.  The Intercept reports that other Democrats have requested access to the document, which originated from someone in California, and reportedly delineates an incident between Kavanaugh and a woman in high school.  The information regarding the incident was allegedly forwarded to someone affiliated with Stanford University, who wrote the letter and then forwarded it to Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), who sent it to Feinstein.  After news leaked about the document's existence, Democrats asked Feinstein for access to the document, but they were rebuffed, according to sources for The Intercept.

The Silence Over A Potential Chinese Spy In Feinstein's Office Is Deafening.  With concerns over attempts by foreign adversaries to influence the American political system at a fever pitch — notwithstanding that in the case of the president, the commentariat's charges of certain treasonous Russian collusion have grudgingly been downgraded in slightly more sane quarters to dubious alleged campaign finance infractions — that the story of a Chinese spy in Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office has seemingly died is simply stunning.  From the start, this was a story the media had no interest in covering.  Now it is apparent that our political class has no interest in probing it.

From One Psychodrama to Another.  [Scroll down]  Nor this past week was it news — in this age of rampant collusion stories — that U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) now nonchalantly relates, five years after the fact, that her chauffeur of two decades was actually a Chinese spy.  The career tenure of the Beijing implant was during a period when Feinstein chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee, and her husband was pursuing extensive financial and commercial interests with Chinese businesses and investments.  In other words, any conversation that the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee had in transit on the ground was in theory easily monitored by the Chinese government for years.  We have not heard of security breaches like that since Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, with similar impunity, sent classified information over an illegal home-brewed email server — and then perhaps destroyed some of the likely most incriminating evidence.  Yet the Chinese spy story apparently is no more important that was the 2016 non-news of the ring of Pakistani-American IT "experts" who likely compromised congressional computers, embezzled money, and were inexplicably protected by former DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.

Feinstein, Strzok, and the Sinister Russia Probe.  One of the salient facts to remember in the wake of the firing (finally!) of Peter Strzok is that the man was the chief of the Counterespionage Section of the FBI. [...] Now roll back five years to when it was discovered that Dianne Feinstein's chauffeur of twenty years (!) was a spy for the People's Republic of China.  (Well, five years for Dianne.  The rest of us found out only last week.)  How was it possible the then-chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee was under such intimate covert surveillance by China for decades?  Where was our counterespionage on that one?  Not doing a lot of countering.

Left Working Furiously To Bury Feinstein Spy Story.  The revelation that California Senator Dianne Feinstein's office manager was a Chinese spy has generated a huge backlash, but not against the liberal Senator.  Instead of prompting a deeper media or government probe of the former Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence the experience of our friend Ben Weingarten suggests that there is a concerted DiFi Spyeffort to stifle the story and marginalize anyone who digs into it.

Donald Trump Trolls Dianne Feinstein Over 'Chinese Spy' Revelations.  President Donald Trump, dogged by allegations that his campaign team colluded with the Russian government — allegations that have yet to find any basis in fact — took the rare opportunity to lash out at a Democrat for her involvement with a foreign power, trolling Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) over claims she had a Chinese spy on her staff.  At a rally in Ohio Saturday night [8/11/2018], The Washington Times reports, Trump called Feinstein the leader of the Russia investigation in Congress, and questioned her fitness to handle any inquiry into whether a foreign power was looking to weasel its way into American politics.

Where Do We Get Such Losers?  News of the latest and strangest case of pure Democrat malfeasance in the U.S. Senate came earlier this month, when it was revealed that a driver and office worker for Senator Dianne Feinstein was actually an employee of the Chinese State Security Services.  A spy. [...] Recently we learned he was more than a driver, more than an office boy.  He was a full-fledged, 'whisper in her ear at the right time' staffer for a major member of the U.S. Senate.  Feinstein knew all the secrets.  But apparently, she did not know of the hundreds of ways a person can give away a secret, without ever even knowing.  Frowns, eyebrows, smiles, limo companions, friends, enemies.  And let's not forget the easy access this spy had to her hometown office after hours.

The Spy Who Loved Feinstein.  "The leader of the Russia investigation, Dianne Feinstein, had a Chinese spy as her driver for 20 years," President Trump told an Ohio rally on Saturday, August 4.  That was the first time most Americans heard of this spy but the president was not breaking the news.  In "How Silicon Valley Became a Den of Spies," a July 27 Politico story, Zach Dorfman wrote, "Former intelligence officials told me that Chinese intelligence once recruited a staff member at a California office of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, and the source reported back to China about local politics.  (A spokesperson for Feinstein said the office doesn't comment on personnel matters or investigations, but noted that no Feinstein staffer in California has ever had a security clearance.)" [...] Plenty to ponder there but for the establishment media the story became Trump "trolling" the senator, and few showed interest in the spy himself.

Feinstein had a Chinese spy connection she didn't know about — her driver.  A staffer in U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein's San Francisco office was fired a few years back after being linked to Chinese spying in the Bay Area.  According to a Politico Magazine story on Silicon Valley espionage, the Feinstein staffer was suspected of providing political intelligence — but nothing classified — to his handlers, with one former intelligence official telling author Zach Dorfman that the suspected informant was "run" by officials based at the local Chinese Consulate.  A local source who knew about the incident confirmed to us that the FBI showed up at Feinstein's office in Washington, D.C., about five years ago to alert the then-chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee that her driver was being investigated for possible Chinese spying.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein's Ties To China Go Way Deeper Than An Alleged Office Spy.  As media, intelligence agency, and political scrutiny of foreign meddling is seemingly at its apex, a story with big national security implications involving a high-ranking senator with access to America's most sensitive intelligence information has been hiding in plain sight.  The story involves China and the senior U.S. senator from California, and former chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Democrat Dianne Feinstein.  It was buried eight paragraphs into a recent Politico exposé on foreign efforts to infiltrate Silicon Valley, as a passing example of political espionage.

Democrats have their own foreign espionage problem.  Imagine if it emerged that the Republican chairman of the House or Senate intelligence committee had a Russian spy working on their senate staff.  Think it would cause a political firestorm?  Well, this week we learned that Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., had a Chinese spy on her staff who worked for her for 20 years, who was listed as an "office director" on payroll records and served as her driver when she was in San Francisco, all while reporting to China's Ministry of State Security through China's San Francisco Consulate.  The reaction of the mainstream media?  Barely a peep.

Dianne Feinstein was an easy mark for China's spy.  As vice chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has been investigating allegations of President Trump's "collusion" with Russia.  But now we learn Feinstein may be the one compromised by a foreign power.  Turns out that Communist China had a spy in her office.  A 20-year employee of Feinstein's, the agent had been reporting back to China's Ministry of State Security for well over a decade before he was caught in 2013, according to the FBI.

Outrageous: Media shrug off Feinstein spy scandal story.  Imagine for a minute if Representative Devin Nunes or Trey Gowdy or Matt Gaetz had employed a Russian spy for two decades.  Imagine further that this Republican solon were married to a spouse who had made a fortune investing in Russia.  Do you think such news would receive less than wall-to-wall coverage on CNN, MSNBC, or any of the other television news operations?  Yet, with very little media attention, the story has emerged that Senator Dianne Feinstein — of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, with access to the highest-level secrets — employed for two decades a spy who reported to China's Ministry of State Security (MSS).  When the news was first made public, buried paragraphs deep into a Politico story, hardly anyone noticed. [...] If Lowe is the spy, then a scandal was completely covered up for five years.  Let's see:  who was in charge of the FBI then, allowing a Democrat senator to fire a spy who had spied for twenty years?  That's right:  James Comey.  The rot is far deeper than we suspected.

Feinstein's Chinese Spy Identified — 'Russell Lowe' — Was Office Manager Not just a Driver — Feinstein Aide for 20 Years!  The Chinese spy who worked for Senator Dianne Feinstein was identified on Monday night [8/6/2018].  The Daily Caller reported the name of the spy tonight:  Russell Lowe.  Russell Lowe was Senator Feinsein's office manager.  Lowe is a Chinese-American who spent 20 years as the aide to Dianne Feinstein.  Lowe worked for Feinstein while she was chair of the US Senate Intelligence Committee.

Russel Lowe has known Feinstein for way more than 20 years.  Lowe is the name listed on distribution list of government material for Feinstein, this is a report from Department of Defense housing in 1997.

All Signs Suggest This Is Feinstein's Former Staffer Who's Accused Of Being A Chinese Spy.  All the details of a former, longtime Sen. Dianne Feinstein staffer who's accused of relaying information to Chinese intelligence services while working for the California Democrat point to Russell Lowe, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has determined.  Lowe worked for 20 years in Feinstein's San Francisco office, where he was a staff liaison to the Asian-American community before leaving approximately five years ago.  All those details match up with the descriptions of the Chinese spy Feinstein reportedly employed.

Reports: Sen. Dianne Feinstein's Personal Driver For 20 Years Was A Chinese Spy.  Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office was infiltrated by a Chinese spy who worked as her driver and attended official functions on her behalf for 20 years, according to new reports from Politico and The San Francisco Chronicle.  Feinstein reportedly had no idea that her office was being infiltrated by a man who was feeding information to an individual linked to China's Ministry of State Security.  She was "mortified" when the FBI showed up at her Washington DC office five years ago to warn her about the mole.

Dianne Feinstein Had a Chinese Spy at Her Side For Almost 2 Decades.  Suppose in 2023 we are informed that 5 years earlier, in 2018, a top staffer of California Rep. Devin Nunes was discovered to be a Russian spy.  And this Russian spy had been working for Nunes ever since he entered the Congress.  We are told further that after this spy was discovered, he was quietly forced into retirement.  These events stay successfully buried for five years.  When the story breaks in 2023, all the news stories are very careful to never reveal the Russian spy's name or his present whereabouts.  Would that story strike you as being exceedingly strange?  Well we're only all just now discovering this is exactly what happened with Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) in 2013, when a trusted staffer who had been with her in California for almost 20 years was revealed to have been a Chinese spy.

Trump, Feinstein spar over reports of Chinese spy on her staff.  At his rally in central Ohio on Saturday night, President Trump took aim at U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, criticizing the longtime member of the Senate Intelligence Committee for reportedly having a suspected Chinese spy on her staff in the past.  "The leader of the Russia investigation, Dianne Feinstein, had a Chinese spy as her driver for 20 years," Trump said about California's senior U.S. senator, the Washington Times reported.  "And she's leading the Russian 'witch hunt.'  Isn't that something?  And then she says to me, 'What did you know about this and that?'  Give me a break."

Details Surface About Chinese Spy Who Worked For Sen. Feinstein.  New details emerged Wednesday [8/1/2018] about how a mole for the government of communist China managed to stay by Senator Dianne Feinstein's side for nearly 20 years.  It happened five years ago, but additional information is just surfacing about how the Bay Area senator's office was infiltrated by a Chinese spy.

No media outlet will publish this Chinese spy's name or his current employment or location.  Maybe I'm old fashioned but I remember when getting caught spying for a foreign power on U.S. soil got you arrested or at least expelled from the country.  All that happened to this guy from the news reports I've looked at is that... he was forced out of a job.  Oh?  Is that how this is supposed to work?  You get caught spying on a U.S. Senator for a foreign power like the Russians or the Chinese, and, look out, you'll lose your job on that Senator's staff?  "Investigators reportedly concluded the driver hadn't leaked anything of substance and Feinstein forced him to retire," is how CBS News affiliate KPIX put it in it's online report.  Well who reported that to KPIX?  Were these sources on the record or were they anonymous?  The Chinese had a key spy at Senator Feinstein's elbow for 20 years and they were content with him leaking exactly NOTHING of any substance to them?

Democrat Sen. Feinstein employed [a] Chinese spy for 20 years: new details.  Veteran Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, whose husband Richard C. Blum has significant business in China, employed a Chinese spy on her staff for 20 years.  According to various reports, a Chinese man served on Feinstein's staff in San Francisco while he reported to China's Ministry of State Security (MSS).  China focuses on San Francisco and the Bay area because of the large Asian community there and its proximity to Silicon Valley tech giants such as Apple and Google.  With a fortune estimated to be approximately $45 million, Feinstein is believed to be one of the wealthiest members of Congress.  However, by some estimates, her husband's holdings may be valued at $1 billion.  Feinstein has been an inveterate proponent of closer bilateral relations with China.  However, the Democratic party of California did not endorse her re-election bid for this year.


Rep. Corrine Brown

Ex-Florida Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown sentenced for mail, wire and tax fraud involving sham charity.  Former Florida Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown was sentenced on Monday to five years in prison for mail, wire and tax fraud involving a sham charity.  A jury convicted Brown of stealing money from a bogus charity, One Door For Education, which purported to give scholarships to poor children but instead filled the coffers of Brown and her associates.  Federal prosecutors said she and a top aide commited fraud by using donations for lavish parties and trips.  The aide and another official later accepted a plea deal and testified against Brown, who served in Congress for nearly 25 years.

Former Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown sentenced to five years in prison in corruption case.  A judge sentenced former Rep. Corrine Brown (D-Fla.) Monday to five years in prison for fraud and tax crimes, including funneling money she raised for a fake children's charity into her personal bank accounts, according to the Florida Times-Union.  According to WJXT-TV, a jury convicted Brown in May of raising funds for One Door for Education — a sham charity that told supporters it would provide educational opportunities for children in need — and using those funds for personal expenses like travel and tickets to a Beyoncé concert and football games.

Crooked Democrat Corrine Brown Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison.  Corrine Brown blamed her corruption charges on racism.  Unfortunately that race card couldn't keep poor Corrine out of jail.

Former Congresswoman Corrine Brown to be sentenced today.  A federal judge on Monday [12/4/2017] sentenced former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown to five years in prison on fraud and other charges related to a purported charity for poor students that she used as a personal slush fund.

Former Democratic congresswoman begs to avoid jail time for charity theft.  Former Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown asked for leniency from a federal judge in Florida on Friday.  She faces a lengthy prison term after being convicted of stealing thousands of dollars that were meant to go to charity.  In May, a jury convicted Brown of 18 felony counts, including filing false tax returns, mail fraud, and working with others to run a fake non-profit group.  Her conviction represents a major fall from political grace.  Brown was one of the first black elected officials to be elected to federal office in Florida in 1992.  She represented the Jacksonville, Florida area in the U.S. House of Representatives for over 20 years as a Democrat before losing a party primary in 2016.  The vote came shortly after she was indicted.

Democrat Rep. Corrine Brown Found Guilty: 18 Counts of Fraud, Conspiracy and Obstruction.  Former U.S. Democrat Representative Corrine Brown was found guilty on 18 of 22 charges for fraud and tax evasion during trial verdict Thursday [5/11/2017] in federal court in Jacksonville.  Brown was found guilty of taking tens-of-thousands of dollars from her One Door for Education Foundation, a charity for poor and impoverished children, and putting the money into her personal accounts for use in maintaining an indulgent lifestyle.  She was also found guilty of conspiring within the scheme to defraud donors to the foundation, and guilty of attempts to impede/obstruct the investigation.

Corrine Brown Found Guilty On 18 Of 22 Charges.  Former Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown of Florida was found guilty Thursday [5/11/2017] of 18 of the 22 charges brought against her in a corruption case.  The charges include conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud, lying on financial disclosure forms, obstructing the IRS, taking money from a charity that claimed to be providing scholarships to underprivileged students and falsifying information on tax returns.

Corrine Brown found guilty on 18 charges.  Former U.S. Rep Corrine Brown is now a convicted felon 18 times over after she was found guilty Thursday in her federal corruption trial related to the theft of money from an unregistered Virginia-based charity.  Brown, who listened in stunned silence as the verdicts were read, was convicted of conspiracy, five counts of mail fraud, seven counts of wire fraud, one count of scheme to conceal material facts, one count of obstruction of IRS laws and three tax fraud charges.

Prosecutors: Ex-Congresswoman Ripped Off Own Charity To Fund Lavish Lifestyle.  Federal attorneys on Wednesday [4/26/2017] opened their case in the trial of Corrine Brown, who from 2013 to 2017 was the Democratic representative from Florida's 5th congressional district.  Brown stands accused of multiple fraud and conspiracy charges for allegedly funneling contributions from the scholarship charity she started, One Door for Education, to her personal bank accounts.  Between 2012 and 2016, Brown and two close associates raised more than $800,000, much of which they transferred to their personal accounts, prosecutors say.  The trio allegedly spent the money on vacations, luxury goods and tickets to a Beyonce concert, among other expenses.

Former Rep. Corrine Brown Blames Corruption Charges on Redistricting and Racism.  Former Rep. Corrine Brown (D., Fla.) blamed the federal corruption and conspiracy charges against her on redistricting and racism.  In a Wednesday interview with Summer Knowles of WESH2 news, Brown claimed her reputation was ruined.  "They have just taken my name and destroyed it.  My name is all I have," she said.  Brown said she will plead not guilty to the charges centering around a charity called One Door Education.  The charity was supposed to give scholarships to students, but investigators say it was used as a personal fund for Brown, her chief of staff, and the charity's president, according to WESH2 News.

Former state Sen. Al Lawson beats longtime U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown in Congressional District 5.  Embattled U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown lost her bid for a 13th term in Congress on Tuesday [8/30/2016], outpolled by former state Sen. Al Lawson while a federal fraud trial loomed ahead of her.

Congressional Black Corruption.  I invite radical racial identity warriors to join me in taking on the black political elites selling out their people.  Help expose the most crooked members of the caucus of Congressional Black Corruption:  [For example,] Corrine Brown:  This 12-term Democrat from Florida received a 24-count federal indictment last week while her Congressional Black Caucus colleagues tried to drown out the news with diversionary gun-control theatrics.  Brown and her chief of staff are charged with creating a fraudulent education charity to collect over $800,000 in donations from major corporations and philanthropies for their own private slush fund between 2012 and early 2016.  The director of the hoax group, dubbed One Door for Education, Inc., pleaded guilty last year to fraud and conspiracy.

Indicted Fla.  Rep. Trashes Feds for Investigating Her Instead of Orlando Terrorist.  Politicians have a well-earned reputation for being sleazy, but a corrupt Florida congresswoman is in a class of her own for suggesting that federal agents could have prevented the Orlando terrorist attack if they weren't preoccupied investigating her.  Last week the veteran lawmaker, Democrat Corrine Brown, and her chief of staff were slapped with a 24-count federal indictment for using a phony education charity as a "personal slush fund."  The disgraced legislator, who is black, also played the race card by comparing her indictment to the recent fatal police shootings of two black men that have ignited nationwide civil unrest.  First elected to Congress in 1992, Brown represents Florida's fifth district which spans from Jacksonville to Orlando.  The 69-year-old lawmaker and her trusted assistant, Elias Simmons, used a fake charity that was supposed to give scholarships to poor, minority students to get hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, according to the feds.  Brown used her position as a congresswoman to solicit charitable donations from corporate entities that she "knew by virtue of her position in the U.S. House of Representatives," according to federal authorities.  The money was used to pay for lavish receptions, luxury boxes for a Beyonce concert and a professional football game, repairs to Brown's car and several vacations.  More than $735,000 of the charitable contributions went to pay a close family member for a job in Brown's office that involved no work, the indictment states.

Media Out To Lunch on Fraud Indictment of Democratic Congresswoman.  Democratic Rep. Corrine Brown was indicted on 24 federal charges on Friday [7/8/2016] related to a "fraudulent education charity," as CNN.com put it on Friday.  However, viewers of CNN's on-air coverage, as well as those who watch MSNBC and the Big Three networks' morning and evening newscasts, would know nothing of this indictment, as these TV outlets have yet to cover it, as of Monday morning.  Meanwhile, NBC Nightly News aired a full report on a new exhibit at a Philadelphia museum; while ABC's GMA devoted a full report on Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda's final appearance in the play.  To their credit, PBS NewsHour devoted an 18-second news brief on the fraud charges against the Florida politician: [...]

Federal Grand Jury Indicts Representative Corrine Brown — Corruption, Fraud, Conspiracy are Likely Charges.  It has just been reported that Jacksonville Florida Congressional Representative Corrine Brown has been indicted by a federal grand jury and is expected to turn herself in to federal law enforcement tomorrow at the Jacksonville Courthouse.  Representative Brown has been controversial as an advocate for various grievance causes; and is recently well known for her advocacy surrounding the Trayvon Martin shooting.  The federal indictment is still under seal until tomorrow when it is expected Brown will turn herself in, therefore the details of the charges against her are not specifically known.

Indicted politician says she's being 'persecuted' because she's black.  A Florida congresswoman indicted on fraud charges is telling supporters she's being "persecuted" by federal authorities because she's black.


Senator Robert Menendez

Menendez Won't Run for Re-Election as a Democrat in NJ.  There are innumerable superseding indictments against Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ).  The New Jersey Democrat found himself fighting for his political life when federal agents raided his home, finding gold bars and over $400,000 in cash strewn about the residence.  Some money was tucked into clothing.  Menendez was also charged with failure to register as a foreign agent of the Egyptian government.  Now, Qatar is in the mix.  [Tweet]  Menendez has survived previous corruption charges, but the never-ending stream of evidence filed against him has led to his colleagues mostly abandoning him.  The gold bars appear to be the straw that broke the camel's back.  He has vowed to beat the charges and prove his innocence, but it's clear he knows he won't have the party's backing.  He announced he won't be running for re-election as a Democrat.

Man pleads guilty to bribing Sen. Bob Menendez, will cooperate with prosecutors.  One of the businessmen accused of bribing Sen. Bob Menendez entered a surprise guilty plea on Friday in federal court in Manhattan.  Jose Uribe, an insurance broker, was indicted for giving Menendez's wife, Nadine, cash in 2019 for a down payment on a Mercedes-Benz convertible and making payments until authorities served search warrants on Menendez's home in June 2022.  Uribe had pleaded not guilty in October, but Friday, he appeared with his attorneys in court before Judge Sidney H. Stein to change that plea, waive his right to a trial, and plead guilty to seven criminal counts, including conspiracy to commit bribery, wire fraud, obstruction of justice, and tax evasion.  Stein set a sentencing date of June 14. R2V0IHNvbWVib2R5IGVsc2UgdG8gc3RhcnQgeW91ciBjYXIu

Menendez Says His Corruption Charges Threatens Everyone in the Senate.  Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) is fighting for his political life, and he knows it.  The embattled New Jersey Democrat was slapped with a superseding indictment where he allegedly helped the Qatari government in return for lavish gifts.  Menendez is already facing corruption charges and acting as a foreign agent vis-à-vis his relationship with Egyptian officials.  When federal agents raided his home last September, over $400,000 were stuffed in various items of clothing, along with gold bars, which appears to be a sticking point with a lot of his Democratic colleagues.  The Garden State liberal has faced corruption charges before, thus far avoiding conviction.  But the mini-Fort Knox discovered at his residence seems to be the last straw, as top Democrats, even those in his home state, would prefer he resign than drag this legal matter into the election season.

Prosecutors accuse Sen. Bob Menendez of introducing Qatari royal family member to aid NJ businessman.  U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez used his international clout to help a friend get a multimillion-dollar deal with a Qatari investment fund, partly by taking actions favorable to Qatar's government, federal prosecutors said Tuesday in a revised indictment.  The new allegations deepen the legal challenges for Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, who already was charged with wielding his political influence to secretly advance Egypt's interests.  The superseding indictment in New York said the senator and his wife accepted bribes of gold bars and cash from New Jersey real estate developer Fred Daibes as a reward for several corrupt acts that included his help securing a major investment from the Qatari fund.

Gold Bars Discovered in Sen. Bob Menendez's Residence During Raid Linked to High-Profile 2013 Robbery.  In a compelling development stemming from an FBI raid conducted last year, a portion of the gold bars found in the residence of embattled Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) have been identified as those stolen in a high-profile 2013 robbery.  In September, Sen. Bob Menendez, the senior U.S. Senator from New Jersey and the former Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and his wife, Nadine Menendez, were indicted on bribery and corruption charges.  In October, Bob Menendez was charged with acting as a foreign agent in a superseding indictment.  Bob Menendez and his wife are under investigation for their involvement in a bribery scheme from 2018 to 2022. The couple, who began dating in February 2018 and married in October 2020, are alleged to have accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.

The Editor says...
If the FBI suspected you of some wrong-doing, raided your house, and found gold bars and cash stuffed into the pockets of some of the clothes in your closet, and then it turned out that the gold was somehow connected to a robbery long ago, what are the chances that you would ever get out of prison?  Near zero.

CNN's Chris Wallace Says Top Secret Briefings Show How 'Untenable' Menendez Staying In Senate Is.  CNN anchor Chris Wallace told Abby Phillip that the uproar around Sen. Bob Menendez's (D-NJ) attendance at a classified briefing shows his continued presence in the Senate is "untenable."  Menendez is under indictment for, among other things, acting as a foreign agent.  Menendez maintains his innocence and still has security clearance to attend classified briefings — which he did this week.

Bob Menendez Is a Symptom.  Sen. Robert Menendez is a poster boy for this new ethos.  He ran for student body president in high school and won, and never really stopped angling for office.  While still in college, he served as an aide to the mayor of Union City, N.J.  At 20, he was elected to the local school board.  A few years later, he ran against the mayor he worked for.  Menendez lost that first campaign, but won the rematch in 1986.  The following year, he ran and won a seat in the state legislature, and in a sign of the avaricious nature that would later get him indicted, he kept the mayor's office (and salary) serving in both posts at once.  From there, it was the state Senate in Trenton, a House seat in Washington, and in 2006, he was appointed to the U.S. Senate seat he still holds, at least for now.  And while the greed alleged in a criminal indictment filed last month by federal prosecutors has alienated even his fellow Democrats who have called for his resignation, there's a case to be made that Bob Menendez isn't the problem as much as he's a symptom of the problem of a system dominated and warped by career politicians.

How About Hunter?  Justice Department Adds FARA Charge to Menendez Prosecution.  The Justice Department this week hit Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) with a superseding indictment including a new but all-too-familiar charge: being an unregistered foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).  I cannot recall another sitting member of Congress being criminally charged as a foreign agent.  Yet even if this is the first such case, the charge has been freely used by the Justice Department in all but one case:  Hunter Biden.  The indictment accuses Menendez of being a foreign agent on behalf of Egypt.

Sen. Bob Menendez [has been] Charge[d] with Acting as a Foreign Agent.  U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has been indicted on charges of acting as a 'foreign agent' according to the Associated Press, an escalation of previously reported charges.  The Senator, who has served since 2006, entered a plea of not guilty amidst allegations of accepting bribes from three New Jersey businessmen.  The superseding indictment in Manhattan federal court accuses Menendez of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires people to register with the U.S. government if they act as "an agent of a foreign principal."  As a member of Congress, Menendez was prohibited from being an agent of a foreign government.

The Menendez Saga Just Got Even Worse.  Nadine Menendez, wife of embattled U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, was involved in a fatal car crash in 2018 prior to marrying the New Jersey Democrat.  According to police reports, Menendez struck and killed 49-year-old Richard Koop with her Mercedes-Benz.  The victim had allegedly been jaywalking.  But new questions are being raised following a New York Times report on the incident, which resulted in no charges and was not picked up by media at the time.  The revelations are especially important as they help explain one of the bribes alleged in the federal indictment against her and Sen. Menendez. [...] According to police reports, Menendez was able to leave the scene and was never tested for drugs or alcohol.  She also refused to give up her phone.  The victim's family said the way the case was handled left them with the feeling "the whole thing was very silently swept under the rug."  They said they never heard from Menendez or the senator after the fatal accident.

NJ Sen. Bob Menendez allegedly took Mercedes bribe after wife-to-be killed man in 2018 car crash: reports.  Indicted New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez — accused of agreeing to meddle in a criminal probe in exchange for a new Mercedes-Benz — allegedly took the bribe after his soon-to-be wife killed a man during a traffic accident that left her car too banged up to drive.  Nadine Arslanian Menendez, 56, was the veteran Democrat's on-again, off-again lover back when she slammed into Richard Koop, 49, as he crossed a road in Bogota, New Jersey at about 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 12, 2018, according to reports on Wednesday.  Local cops questioned Arslanian briefly, then cut her loose when they figured she was "not at fault," reported The New York Times.  Menendez's future wife told cops she didn't see Koop — but she was driving her black Mercedes fast enough that the collision flung his mangled body to the curb, just steps from his own house.

Here's who NJ Sen. Bob Menendez contacted to allegedly interfere with criminal cases.  The FBI says that New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez tried to interfere in two criminal matters in exchange for payoffs — and now NBC New York has learned the names of three people the Democratic senator allegedly wanted to pressure.  According to numerous sources familiar with the matter, two of the people were trying to become the state's U.S. Attorney.  The third was, at the time, New Jersey's attorney general, sources said.  In an indictment, the three officials who were allegedly contacted are unnamed.  But several sources said Menendez improperly reached out to the then-New Jersey attorney general, the now-sitting New Jersey U.S. Attorney, and the current Hudson County Prosecutor.

Bob Menendez scandal is no different from what politicians do all the time.  New Jersey's Senator Bob Menendez is being charged, completely appropriate given the details, for allegedly lining his pockets in exchange for what appears to be political support for Egypt.  But Menendez's apparent behavior is no different from that of countless other Democrat lawmakers; below are a few examples of Democrats as a whole accepting campaign contributions in return for favorable policies and regulations.  People associated with Planned Parenthood donate to Democrats.  In return, Democrats kickback hundreds of millions of dollars per year to the organization, while promoting abortion on demand. [...] Not only does PP get all this taxpayer money, but Democrats and the politicized Justice Department conspire to close down Crisis Pregnancy Centers.  Heaven forbid that pregnant women are lovingly supported and listened to, with total transparency about both the reality of abortion, and choosing life.

New Jersey Republicans seek to strip Menendez of state pension.  New Jersey Republicans are pushing to strip embattled Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of his state pension as he fights federal bribery charges.  A proposal filed by Sen. Declan O'Scanlon, R-Little Silver, would revoke public pensions for New Jersey government officials and employees convicted of committing a crime while in office.  O'Scanlon says the proposal was promoted by the indictment of Menendez on Sept. 22 on bribery and corruption charges.  The Democrat is eligible for a nearly $50,000 pension from his days as a state lawmaker and mayor of Union City.

Report:  New Jersey Sen. Menendez's Wife Killed A Pedestrian In 2018 Crash.  Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez's wife, Nadine Menendez, allegedly received special treatment after killing a man in a vehicle vs. pedestrian crash in December 2018, according to The New York Times.  Menendez's wife allegedly killed a 49-year-old man named Richard Koop while driving her black Mercedes at night, according to the NYT.  Officials ruled her not to be culpable in the incident and promptly let her free; there is speculation about whether Menendez tried to interfere on his wife's behalf.  A witness asserted the police officers questioning Menendez's wife seemed to be aware of who she was and gave her preferential treatment as a result, according to the NYT.  The police reports suggest authorities did not test Menendez's wife for drugs or alcohol.

Matt Gaetz Explains Why Biden Inflation Means Congressional Bribes Must be Paid in Gold Bars.  The first thirty seconds of these remarks is so brutally honest, it made me laugh out loud.  [Video clip]  Matt Gaetz has dropped the pretense, and that has sent the machinery of the DC Republican system into fits of apoplexy.  Good.

Bob Menendez Pleads Not Guilty to Federal Corruption Charges as Senate Dems Call for His Resignation.  Less than a week after being indicted, Senator Bob Menendez (D., N.J.) pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal corruption charges related to his allegedly taking bribes in an influence-peddling scheme that involved Egypt.  Despite numerous Democratic calls for his resignation, Menendez has denied any wrongdoing on his part and maintained his innocence.  He allegedly pocketed over $100,000 worth of gold bars and nearly $500,000 in cash, among other luxurious gifts found in his New Jersey home, in exchange for political influence that benefited the Arab Republic of Egypt and enriched three New Jersey businessmen, according to the indictment.  Attorneys for Menendez and his wife, Nadine Arslanian, pleaded not guilty on their behalf before a federal judge in Manhattan.  The three local businessmen — Wael Hana, Jose Uribe, and Fred Daibes — who were listed as defendants in the indictment also pleaded not guilty to the charges this week.

Menendez Indictment Does Not Prove Equal Justice.  Many Democrats are claiming that the recent indictment of Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) proves that the current Justice Department provides equal justice to Democrats and Republicans.  Although it is necessary to wait for the evidence to emerge before judgment is passed on this most recent indictment, what appears so far may be closer to equal injustice.  In both the Menendez and Trump cases, prosecutors are engaging in the questionable tactic of seeking to influence the jury before trial.  The photographic display of gold bars and cash in the Menendez case is an image that will remain with everyone who saw it.  The same is true of the contrived photographic display by the Justice Department of allegedly classified documents spread on the floor.  This "show and tell "was produced by the Justice Department and published in virtually every media outlet in the country.  Both show and tells are wrong.  Both are intended to prejudice potential jurors and witnesses and to try the case in the court of public opinion before it is subject to the adversarial process to the courts of law.

Bob Menendez Signs Letter Warning Of 'Corruption' Amid Bribery Indictment Scandal.  Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey — who was indicted last week for alleged bribery, fraud and extortion — signed onto a letter Monday warning of "corruption" in the political system.  Menendez pleaded not guilty Wednesday over charges related to allegedly receiving lavish gifts, such as cash, gold bars and a luxury vehicle, in return for political sway in the upper chamber.  Despite numerous calls from Democrats to resign, and his decision to temporarily step down from chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Menendez joined his colleagues in voicing concern over how dark money could threaten democracy and asked for more "transparency."

Menendez used Senate loophole to keep his 'Cuban' cash stash secret from taxpayers.  Sen. Bob Menendez exploited an ethics loophole to amass the nearly $500,000 in cash which federal agents found stuffed in jacket pockets, envelopes and a safe when they raided his home last year, The [New York] Post has learned.  The embattled New Jersey Democrat, who was indicted on bribery charges last week, said Monday that he had withdrawn the cash from his savings accounts throughout his 30-year career, first in the House then the Senate.  Disclosure rules require senators to file annual forms that list liabilities, interest-bearing assets and gifts worth more than $100.  But they do not have to list cash they hold — although they could if they wanted to.

I didn't realize this until now:  There are two of them!
Sen. Bob Menendez's congressman son announces House re-election bid days after father's corruption indictment.  Rep. Rob Menendez, a first-term Democratic congressman representing New Jersey's 8th congressional district, announced his re-election bid Monday, just three days after his father, longtime Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez's indictment on federal bribery and corruption charges was unsealed.  "I love this district and its people with every fiber of my being," the younger Menendez said in a statement. "I am focused on working every single day to represent my neighbors to the best of my ability.  And I will be running for re-election based on that record, so I can continue to serve the residents of this district that I love, in stark contrast to those who may run to further their own naked political ambition."

Menendez scandal creates huge political dilemmas for Democrats.  The sensational federal indictment against New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez (D) is a big political problem for Senate Democrats already facing a tough fight to protect their majority.  Senators returning to Washington on Tuesday will be confronted with questions about whether Menendez should resign.  Two in their fold, Sens. John Fetterman (Pa.) and Sherrod Brown (Ohio), already have said he should step down.  Republicans are likely to seek to tie Democrats to Menendez, who faces charges that he and his wife took bribes from businesspeople in his state connected to the government of Egypt.  Prosecutors have released photos of cash, gold bars and a Mercedes-Benz that they allege were a part of the plot.  It all muddies the arguments that Democrats want to make tying Republicans to former President Trump, who is facing his own litany of federal and state charges.

The Evidence Against Menendez.  In 2017, Democratic New Jersey senator Bob Menendez endured a three-month trial for eighteen counts of alleged corruption.  The procedure ended in a mistrial.  Ten jurors found Menendez guilty with two dissenting.  Prosecutors can retry defendants in trials that result in a hung jury.  The Justice Department opted not to retry Menendez.  Does the prosecution have a sufficient case this time to avoid another mistrial, or is the evidence of corruption weak because this is just another presidential vendetta against Menendez for disagreeing with the Democratic policy agenda?

Bob Menendez's Daughter Took The Weekend Off From Hosting Her MSNBC Show.  Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez's daughter, Alicia, took the weekend off from her MSNBC weekend program just two days following her father's indictment.  Menendez did not appear on her weekly show, "American Voices with Alicia Menendez," which airs every Saturday and Sunday at 6 p.m.  Former Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro filled in for Menendez, and said she would return the following weekend.  The reason for her absence is unknown.

'Dedicated Public Servant': Schumer's Post-Indictment Praise for Menendez [is] Already Aging Poorly.  Days after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) praised the embattled Sen. Robert Menendez (D., N.J.) as he faced corruption charges, a third of the Senate Democratic caucus called on Menendez to resign.  On Friday, the same day the federal government indicted Menendez, Schumer said Menendez "has been a dedicated public servant and is always fighting hard for the people of New Jersey."  He also praised the New Jersey senator for having "rightly decided to step down temporarily from his position as Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee until the matter has been resolved."  Menendez on Monday declared in a press conference that he would not resign from his seat.  By Tuesday afternoon, however, at least 17 of the 51 Democratic senators had called for Menendez's resignation from the Senate, including the junior senator from New Jersey, Cory Booker.

Menendez Defiant in Face of Corruption Charges, Claims He Withdrew Wads of Cash for Emergencies.  Senator Robert Menendez (D., N.J.) maintained his innocence during a Monday morning press conference, insisting that the extensive corruption allegations laid out in a federal indictment unsealed Friday are false.  Federal investigators found nearly half-a-million dollars in cash and roughly $100,000 in gold bars when they searched Menendez's New Jersey home in June of last year.  The Democratic lawmaker, who stepped down from his post as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, insisted during the press conference that the cash was withdrawn from his personal savings account in case of emergencies.

Indicted Senator Bob Menendez to Announce Reelection Bid Monday.  Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), who was indicted days ago on federal bribery charges, is expected to announce on Monday that he intends to seek reelection, according to a report from the New Jersey Globe.  Menendez has been defiant in the wake of the indictment, claiming that he's being targeted for being Latino.  "It is not lost on me how quickly some are rushing to judge a Latino and push him out of his seat," he said in a statement.  "I am not going anywhere."

We're All Bob Menendez.  Who would believe that the man legislatively in charge of shaping the foreign policy of the most powerful nation on the planet is a dirt-bag political prostitute from New Jersey willing to sell his country's interests and his own honor for cash, cars, and Egyptian gold bars? [...] The man who, as a consequence of that indictment, just "temporarily" resigned his chairmanship of the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee has been a U.S. senator for 17 years, and, for many of those years, he seems to have been patently taking brazen bribes to betray his oath of office and sell his honor — unless, that is, corruptly enriching himself by selling his senatorial power is part of "well and faithfully discharging the duties of the office" upon which the citizens of New Jersey have serially, and unwisely, "entered" him.  Robert Menendez is one of a mere 100 men making law in the upper legislative house of the most important nation on Earth.  As such, he's one of the 100 most important men on Earth.  And yet he appears to be above the very laws he makes.

Bob Menendez Hires Hunter Biden's Lawyer For Federal Corruption Case.  Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has hired the lawyer representing President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, after Menendez was indicted last week on federal corruption charges.  CNBC reported that Menendez hired Abbe Lowell to represent him in the case — the same lawyer that he hired in 2015 to represent him in a similar corruption case, although legal experts have said that the evidence in the current case is much stronger.

Prosecutors: $480k Cash, Over $100k in Gold Bars Found at Menendez Home.  Cash, gold bars, and a Mercedes Benz — totaling more than $710,000 collectively — were recovered between the home and safety deposit box of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and his wife, Nadine Menendez, during an investigation into bribes they allegedly accepted from New Jersey businessmen, federal prosecutors say.  The indictment, brought by the U.S Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, accuses Menendez and his wife of accepting "hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes" from three New Jersey businessmen — Wael Hana, Jose Uribe, and Fred Daibes — "in exchange for his influence and power as a Senator to seek to protect and enrich" them and "benefit the Arab Republic of Egypt."  It notes prosecutors searched the Menendezes's residence in June 2022.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy calls on Sen. Menendez to resign following indictment.  Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy called on Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., to resign following a federal indictment.  U.S. Attorney Damian Williams announced the indictment Friday morning at a press conference.  "Today, I'm announcing that my office has obtained a three count indictment charging Senator Robert Menendez, his wife, Nadine Menendez, and three New Jersey businessmen, Wael Hana, Jose Uribe and Fred Daibes for bribery offenses," U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said at a press conference on Friday morning.  According to the indictment, the couple accepted "hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes in exchange for using Menendez's power and influence as a senator to seek to protect and enrich Hana, Uribe, and Daibes and to benefit the Arab Republic of Egypt."

Menendez & Wife Caught with Gold Bars, Cash Stuffed in Pockets.  [Senator Bob] Menendez and his wife Nadine were indicted on federal bribery charges on Friday.  He was found with $500,000 in cash, gold bars, and cash stuffed in his pockets.  His driver Fred Daibes, is a co-defendant, along with the two businessmen who bribed him and his wife.  Menendez is a stereotype of a corrupt politician — if all this is true.  Menendez, 69, and his wife face one count of conspiracy to commit bribery, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, and conspiracy to commit extortion under color of official right.  The three New Jersey associates, identified as Wael Hana, Jose Uribe, and Fred Daibes, are also named as co-defendants and face two counts.  Menendez and his co-defendants are expected to appear in federal court in Manhattan on Wednesday morning.

Sen. Bob Menendez indicted again for corruption, allegedly had cash stuffed in coat, gold bars.  A federal grand jury in New York has returned a sweeping indictment against United States Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee, in connection with improper foreign relations and business dealings.  The investigation focused on a luxury car, gold bars and an apartment allegedly received by Menendez and his wife, Nadine Arslanian.  His wife was also indicted.  The indictment charges Menendez, 69, and his wife with having a corrupt relationship with three New Jersey businessmen — Wael Hana, Jose Uribe and Fred Daides.  The indictment accuses Menendez and his wife of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes in exchange for using the senator's power and influence to seek to protect and enrich the businessman.

Biden's Corrupt Justice Department Gets No Credit For Indicting Bob Menendez, The Easiest Democrat Target It Could Find.  New Jersey Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez was indicted on bribery charges Friday, and if it were 2013, the high-fiving by right-wing Twitter nerds wouldn't be so cringey.  There's nothing to be giddy about.  Menendez has been in legal jeopardy for literally my entire career in Washington, D.C. He was investigated by the FBI in 2013 for allegedly having sex with underage prostitutes in the Caribbean.  The Justice Department just five years ago dropped corruption charges after a State Department official testified that the senator threatened him on behalf of a rich donor friend.  If any previous attempts to prosecute Menendez were serious, whether it be for overseas sex crimes or blatant corruption at home, he would have served at least one day in prison.  But, to date, that has never happened.  He remains a sitting senator.  In fairness, Menendez recently reprimanded Joe Biden for incentivizing foreign governments to hold Americans hostage, and in 2021, he called the president's deadly Afghanistan withdrawal "horrifying," so he probably had another round of indictments coming.

DOJ weighing potential charges against Bob Menendez following criminal probe into gifts to his wife: report.  The U.S. Department of Justice is weighing potential charges against Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., following a yearslong federal criminal probe into his dealings with foreign regulators, according to a new report.  Detailed by people familiar with the matter, prosecutors are likely to meet with the senator's lawyers in the coming weeks ahead of a final decision, the Wall Street Journal reported.  Menendez, who serves as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, a position he held from 2013 to 2015 and again has been in since 2021, has been under investigation by the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York.  The probe, which involves several federal organizations, investigated lavish gifts Menendez's wife, Nadine Arslanian, allegedly received from a New Jersey food producer that obtained an exclusive contract with the Egyptian government to certify halal food exports across the globe.

Scandal-Plagued Dem Senator Sold Up to $400K of Gold Amid Federal Investigation.  Scandal-plagued senator Robert Menendez and his wife sold hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold bullion that the New Jersey Democrat initially failed to disclose on his ethics filings, according to documents released Tuesday.  Menendez and his wife, businesswoman Nadine Arslanian, sold between $200,000 and $400,000 in gold from April 2022 and June 2022, according to Menendez's annual financial disclosure.  Menendez and Arslanian still own between $100,000 and $250,000 in gold bullion, which is gold usually kept in the form of bars or coins.  Menendez did not list the gold on his 2020 financial disclosure, but amended that filing in March 2022 to list between $100,000 and $250,000 of the precious metal held by Arslanian.  The timing of the sale could add a new wrinkle to an ongoing federal investigation into the New Jersey power couple.  Menendez and Arslanian sold the bullion amid a probe into a New Jersey-based halal meat company whose owner is said to be longtime friends with Arslanian and has allegedly given her jewelry and other gifts in the past.

N.J.'s Bob Menendez is top foreign relations Democrat in Senate.  His campaign chief is a lobbyist for Qatar.  Michael Soliman is a longtime aide and confidant to Sen. Bob Menendez.  Now the New Jersey Democrat's campaign chairman, he naturally wants his boss to win reelection this year.  Since 2015, Soliman has also lobbied Menendez and other members of Congress on behalf of the government of Qatar, arranging meetings for the country's ambassador to the U.S. and raising issues important to Qatar's relationship with Washington.  Should Menendez defeat Republican Bob Hugin in November and Democrats take control of the Senate, the senator would be poised to chair the Foreign Relations Committee — potentially boosting Soliman's value as a lobbyist, government watchdogs say.

Senator Bob Menendez's Campaign Chief Is Islamic Terror State Lobbyist.  After Iran, Qatar is a top state sponsor of Islamic terror with ties to Al Qaeda and 9/11.  (And it's an ally of Iran.)  It's also been very effective at infiltrating our political systems, whether it's through Al Jazeera or top think tanks.  This is far more serious than any of the Russiagate stuff.

Senate Ethics Panel 'Severely' Admonishes Democrat Bob Menendez Over Gift Violations.  The Senate Ethics Committee offered a brutal rebuke of New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez on Thursday, accusing the Democrat of providing political favors for a friend in exchange for expensive gifts and vacations.  "The Committee concludes that your actions violated Senate Rules and related statutes, and reflected discredit upon the Senate," reads a bi-partisan letter from the ethics panel's six members.

Senate ethics panel scolds Menendez over gift scandal.  The Senate Ethics Committee on Thursday [4/26/2018] formally admonished Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey over his relationship with fat-cat pal and donor Dr. Salomon Melgen.  In a letter, the panel said Menendez "knowingly and repeatedly accepted gifts of significant value from Dr. Melgen without obtaining required Committee approval, and that you failed to publicly disclose certain gifts as required by Senate Rule and federal law," Politico reported.  Menendez had returned to his position as the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, a seat he surrendered after he was indicted on bribery and corruption charges in 2015.

Menendez donor ensnared in bribery case gets prison for Medicaid fraud.  A prominent Florida eye doctor once accused of bribing Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey received a 17-year sentence Thursday for stealing $73 million from Medicare by persuading elderly patients to undergo excruciating tests and treatments they didn't need for diseases they didn't have.

In shocking move, feds drop all charges against Sen. Bob Menendez.  In a court in Newark on Wednesday [1/31/2018], federal prosecutors moved to dismiss the corruption indictment against the New Jersey Democrat after a federal judge last week acquitted Menendez and his co-defendant, Salomon Melgen, of seven of the 18 counts against them.  Both were facing a retrial after a deadlocked jury could not reach a verdict in the high-profile case in November.  "Given the impact of the court's Jan. 24 order on the charges and the evidence admissible in a retrial, the United States has determined that it will not retry the defendants on the remaining charges," said Department of Justice spokeswoman Nicole Navas Oxman.  Hours later, Chief Judge Jose Linares signed an order of dismissal.

Harry Reid expected to be called to testify in Menendez trial, source says.  Former Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid is expected to be called to testify in the corruption trial of Sen. Robert Menendez, a source with knowledge of the situation told Fox News on Friday [9/29/2017].  Menendez is accused of accepting campaign donations, gifts and vacations from Florida ophthalmologist Dr. Salomon Melgen.  In return, Menendez, D-N.J., allegedly used his Senate powers to lobby on behalf of Melgen's business interests.  Reid's name re-emerged weeks ago in the case, when prosecutors said the former congressional leader was "first enlisted" by Menendez in November 2011 to advocate for Melgen in the ongoing dispute the doctor had with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Supreme Court refuses to dismiss Menendez corruption charges.  The Supreme Court has rejected Sen. Bob Menendez's attempt to throw out the bribery and corruption charges against him, setting the stage for a trial for the New Jersey Democrat this fall.  With Monday's [3/20/2017] announcement, Menendez can no longer block the proceedings against him from moving forward, a major setback for his efforts to avoid criminal trial.

SCOTUS green-lights Menendez corruption trial.  The Supreme Court has dashed Robert Menendez' last hope to prevent the first trial of a sitting US Senator for corruption since Ted Stevens in 2008 (which was posthumously vacated). The top court refused to take the appeal of a Third District appellate ruling that refused to overturn Menendez' April 2015 indictment on the basis of constitutional privilege under the Speech or Debate Clause.

Menendez lawyers accuse Justice Department of misconduct.  Lawyers for Sen. Robert Menendez accused federal prosecutors and FBI agents Monday of lying to win a corruption indictment against him this spring, saying the Justice Department would "stop at nothing" to try to convict the powerful lawmaker.  The allegations are included in more than 400 pages of legal arguments filed to try to persuade the court to dismiss the case against Menendez (D-N.J.) and a longtime friend and donor, Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen, who is accused of buying favors from the senator with gifts and vacations.

Dr. Salomon Melgen Held Without Bond Despite 'Friends' Harry Reid and Robert Menendez in High Places.  Dr. Salomon Melgen is being held in a Florida jail without bond on a second set of charges.  The Florida ophthalmologist is one of three men involved in an August 2012 meeting with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.  That gathering is at the center of criminal charges of corruption brought by a New Jersey federal grand jury against Melgen and one of the other two key players, Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ).

New Jersey is #1 in the country in criminals per politician.  There are a lot of theories about why politicians from New Jersey are particularly prone to corruption, now running rampant with the announcement on Wednesday [4/1/2015] that Sen. Robert Menendez (D) had been indicted.  (Not that the indictment was in any way a surprise.)  At the Daily Beast, Olivia Nuzzi offers a litany of explanations, all without using the word "Mafia" even once.

Sen. Robert Menendez to face corruption charges.  Federal prosecutors charged Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez on Wednesday [4/1/2015], with using his Senate office to push the business interests of a friend and donor in exchange for gifts, according to the Justice Department.  The case, brought by the Justice Department's public integrity unit, sets up a high-stakes battle between a New Jersey senator who has fought off investigations for years, and federal prosecutors and the FBI who have spent years pursuing him.

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez indicted on corruption charges.  Sen. Bob Menendez has been charged with using his office to improperly benefit a Florida eye doctor and political donor.

Democrats Have a Corruption Problem.  Senator Bob Menendez will soon be indicted on corruption and obstruction of justice charges stemming from his relationship with Salomon Melgen, a West Palm Beach eye doctor. Melgen thought he could get away with Medicare fraud because he gave Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid's Super PAC $700,000 and lavished Menendez with private jet flights to his luxury resort.  Given the known public facts, Harry Reid should return Melgen's money to the taxpayers he stole it from and should ask Menendez to resign.

Despite High Powered Lawyers and Intervention by Reid and Menendez, Controversial Doctor Still Owed $8.9 Million for Overbilling Medicare.  Six years and five levels of appeal after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) first determined that Senator Robert Menendez's (D-NJ) close friend and major contributor, Dr. Salomon Melgen, owed $8.9 million for overbilling Medicare in 2007 and 2008, the initial determination held up.  Remarkable as it may seem, Melgen's medical practice, incorporated as Vitreo-Retinal Consultants of the Palm Beaches (Florida), may face additional Medicare overbilling charges covering the period from January 2009 to June 2013 that could reach many millions of dollars more.  Though a staggering number, the scale of Melgen's practice is extraordinary.

Vindictive Charges Against Menendez Stink Of Chicago Politics.  Sen. Bob Menendez has wallowed in New Jersey's Democratic political swamp for years.  So it's peculiar for the Justice Department to ready corruption charges right after he dissents with Obama's policies.  Just who do these people think they are fooling?

Why Are The Feds Closing In On A Top Democratic Senator?  [Scroll down]  None of this would have been much of a problem for Menendez had he not reciprocated Melgen's kindness by allegedly using his clout as a senator to repay him with legislative favors, two of which in particular are now the likely focus of the imminent criminal charges.  When it was revealed that Melgen received the third-highest Medicare reimbursements of any doctor in the country in 2012, $21 million, some wondered whether he was trying to pull one over on the government.

DOJ to Bring Charges Against Menendez or What Happens When You Cross Obama.  In what could be Attorney General Eric Holder's last act in office, the Department of Justice is planning to bring corruption charges against New Jersey Democrat Senator Bob Menendez.  Senator Menendez has been under federal investigation for nearly two years concerning his alleged advocacy of the business interests of a Miami based ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen.  The DOJ is preparing charges against Menendez because the statute of limitations on these charges are near their expiration date.

Who is Sen. Menendez's friend and donor, Dr. Salomon Melgen?  Salomon Melgen was generous with his money, and expected to be rewarded for it.  He was not happy, then, when President Barack Obama gave him scant attention at a 2010 fundraiser the Florida ophthalmologist co-hosted to benefit the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.  Melgen, 59, had forked over some $30,000 to the DSCC, after all, to be able to don the title of co-host.

Report: Dem Sen Menendez to Face Criminal Corruption Charges — After Opposing Obama.  CNN reports that the Justice Department plans to bring criminal corruption charges against Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ). [...] The potential indictment comes after Democrat Menendez publicly disagreed with the Obama administration on two high profile issues:  its Cuba policy and its Iran policy.

Democrat Senator Bob Menendez to Be Indicted on Corruption.  According to an exclusive report published first by CNN, Democrat Senator Bob Menendez will be indicted by the Department of Justice on federal corruption charges.

Defiant Sen. Menendez declares, "I am not going anywhere".  A defiant Sen. Robert Menendez declared, "I am not going anywhere," Friday night as the Justice Department prepares to charge the New Jersey Democrat with corruption counts over allegations he used his office to help a Democratic donor.  The Justice Department is expected to bring criminal charges against him in the coming weeks, following a federal grand jury purportedly finding Menendez took official action on behalf of himself and that he received gifts from wealthy friend Dr. Salomon Melgen.

Letter: Menendez Must Be Investigated.  New Jersey Republicans are accusing Sen. Bob Menendez (D., N.J.) of having violated Senate ethics rules by failing to disclose or seek Senate permission for air travel and lodging provided by a wealthy campaign donor. [...] Records indicate Menendez made at least four trips on a corporate jet owned by Salomon Melgen, a Florida ophthalmologist who has donated more than $220,000 to Democratic candidates and committees since 1993.  Melgen gave at least $12,600 to Menendez during that period.

What Was Indicted Doctor Hoping to Buy With $100k Donation to Harry Reid's Super PAC?  In its indictment of Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Dr. Salomon Melgen, a Florida opthalmologist, the Department of Justice cites Melgen's $600,000 donation to Senator Harry Reid's (D-NV) Senate Majority PAC in 2012.  That money, the feds charge, was earmarked for the successful re-election of Menendez, and was part of "hundreds of thousands of dollars and contributions to entities that benefitted MENENDEZ's 2012 Senate campaign, in exchange for specific requested exercises of MENENDEZ's official authority."  The indictment makes no mention of the additional $100,000 Melgen contributed to the Senate Majority PAC a mere two weeks before Reid arranged an August 2, 2012 meeting among himself, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, and Menendez.

Federal Probe into New Jersey Sen. Menendez Is Widening.  The federal criminal investigation into New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez is broader than previously known, NBC 4 New York has learned.  The Department of Justice is investigating Menendez's efforts on behalf of two fugitive bankers from Ecuador, multiple current and former U.S. officials tell NBC 4 New York.  The probe into Menendez's dealing with the bankers comes as federal authorities are also investigating his relationship to a big campaign donor from Florida.


Senator Harry Reid

Harry Reid strikes again.  When he was running the U.S. Senate in 2012, Harry Reid asserted, without presenting evidence, that an anonymous source had told him that Republican nominee Mitt Romney was a tax cheat.  "So, the word is out that he has not paid any taxes for 10 years," the majority leader declared from the Senate floor.  "Let him prove that he has paid taxes, because he hasn't."  It was a classless move from a classless politician.  As it turned out, his comment didn't bear any relation to reality.  In reality, it turned out that Romney paid millions of dollars in taxes each year and gave a significant amount to charity.  Asked years later if he had any regrets about the dastardly attack, Reid replied, "Romney didn't win, did he?"

Salt Lake Tribune:  Prosecutor Wants DOJ to Investigate Possible Harry Reid Connection to Suspected $2M Bribe.  A Davis County prosecutor is asking whether the Department of Justice and the FBI backed away from investigating a possible connection between a potential $2 million bribe and Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Harry Reid expected to be called to testify in Menendez trial, source says.  Former Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid is expected to be called to testify in the corruption trial of Sen. Robert Menendez, a source with knowledge of the situation told Fox News on Friday [9/29/2017].  Menendez is accused of accepting campaign donations, gifts and vacations from Florida ophthalmologist Dr. Salomon Melgen.  In return, Menendez, D-N.J., allegedly used his Senate powers to lobby on behalf of Melgen's business interests.  Reid's name re-emerged weeks ago in the case, when prosecutors said the former congressional leader was "first enlisted" by Menendez in November 2011 to advocate for Melgen in the ongoing dispute the doctor had with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Nev. developer guilty of illegal campaign contributions.  Harvey Whittemore, once the most powerful lobbyist in Nevada and the head of a billion-dollar development company, was convicted Wednesday [5/29/2013] of using family and employees to funnel illegal campaign contributions to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in 2007.  Whittemore, 59, could face a combined maximum sentence of 15 years in prison and $750,000 in fines on the three felony charges.

Exit the rancid Harry Reid.  Harry Reid is winding up his tenure in office as Senator and Senate Minority Leader.  He seems to me a vile human being and a rancid senator.  He has degraded the Senate as an institution.  He has misused his office in the service of narrow partisan purposes.  He has lowered the tone of our public life.  He is a one man wrecking crew.  This past May, Senator Tom Cotton took to the floor to denounce him:  "As a junior Senator I preside over the Senate, I usually do it in the morning, which means I am forced to listen to the bitter vulgar incoherent ramblings of the Minority Leader."  He also observed:  "The happy byproduct of fewer days in session in the Senate is that this institution will be cursed less with his cancerous leadership."

Good riddance Harry Reid.  In a Thursday op-ed in the New York Times, Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada wrote ruefully on the occasion of his retirement, addressing what many liberals have described as the "post-truth" world.  After all, how else could they have lost the 2016 election?  "Much of the responsibility for separating what is real and what is fake," Reid solemnly asserted, "will fall on Democrats."  What claptrap!  And how ironic!  For Reid will be best remembered not for his parliamentary skill, not for any bill he sponsored, not even for the controversial way in which he changed the rules of the Senate.  Rather, he will be remembered for the amoral dishonesty of a hoax he played on the Senate floor, for which he remains completely unrepentant to this day.  This is fitting, because there is no incident in Reid's career that better exemplifies the cynical leadership he brought to his party as its Senate leader.

If the House and Senate had term limits, they'd all be "unleashed" all the time.
Harry Reid unleashed:  Election shows America is 'hate and bigotry'.  Other Democratic lawmakers are being gracious in defeat, but retiring Sen. Harry Reid unleashed fury on Donald Trump and the country Friday [11/11/2016], saying his election confirms the ascendance of "hate and bigotry in America." [...] He said racial, ethnic, religious and sexual minorities and children of illegal immigrants all have reason to be afraid.  "Winning the electoral college does not absolve Trump of the grave sins he committed against millions of Americans.  Donald Trump may not possess the capacity to assuage those fears, but he owes it to this nation to try," Mr. Reid said.

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Harry Reid is sowing the seeds of fear among the people who don't do a lot of rational evaluation.  By the time there's another presidential election, Harry Reid will be long ago forgotten.

Sen. Manchin calls Harry Reid 'absolute embarrassment' for anti-Trump rant.  Sen. Joe Manchin delivered a sharp rebuke Friday to Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid for denouncing Americans who elected Donald Trump.  "Senator Harry Reid's statement today attacking President-elect Trump is wrong!  It is an absolute embarrassment to the Senate as an institution, our Democratic party, and the nation," Mr. Manchin, West Virginia Democrat, said in a statement released late Friday [11/11/2016].  "I want to be very clear, he does not speak for me," said Mr. Manchin, one of the most conservative Democrats in the upper chamber of the U.S. Congress.

ICE Whistleblower Fired After Refusing DHS Hush Money.  The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday [2/4/2016] dismissed an ICE whistleblower it was secretly smearing to reporters after she testified before Congress about her troubles with the agency.  Special Agent Taylor Johnson — who had a storied career until she irked Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid by objecting to a visa program for foreign investors tied to the senator's son — says she declined to take a $100,000 severance package because it included a non-disclosure agreement.

Voter Fraud: We See Dead People.  It's true, folks. Patriot sister Sharron "Braveheart" Angle has taken on battling voter fraud, sounding the alarm that it is running rampant in America.  What good is winning the hearts and minds of voters if we allow Democrats to steal elections?  Sharron suffered the devastation of election corruption when she almost defeated Harry Reid in 2010.  Illegals voted for Harry Reid.  There is evidence that Reid possibly stole the election from Sharron Angle using dead voters, people in prison, and illegals.

Harry Reid Under Investigation for Bribery in Utah.  The retiring senator from Nevada, Harry Reid is being investigated in the state of Utah for bribery.  He is being implicated in the investigation and prosecution of two former Attorney Generals of Utah in a pay to play scheme.  The two former AGs are Mark Shurtleff and John Swallow.  The case is being investigated by Davis County District Attorney Troy Rawlings.  Rawlings made the announcement after he was asked about the investigation by a local paper.  The case was originally investigated by the DOJ, but since Reid is not a republican, they refused to prosecute.  Apparently, they determined Reid was as innocent as Hillary Clinton and Lois Lerner.  They are also refusing to give information to Rawlings from their investigation.

Why is Sen. Harry Reid being investigated in Utah?  A Utah county prosecutor said Wednesday [11/18/2015] he is investigating U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada in connection with a pay-to-play scheme involving two former Utah attorneys general.

Harry Reid, beaten to a pulp, suing exercise machine company.  If you were beaten to a pulp, lost an eye, and had your ribs broken, wouldn't you want to pursue justice against the one responsible?  Harry Reid does.  After being badly beaten up "by his exercise machine," he is suing for his injuries.

Harry Reid Suing Exercise Equipment Firm Over Eye Injury.  Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and his wife, Landra, are suing the manufacturer of the exercise band that slipped or snapped, leading to the Nevada Democrat's eye injury.  According to court documents filed in Clark County, Nev., Reid alleges that the injury resulted from a faulty exercise resistance band, causing more than $50,000 in damages.

Harry Reid Lawsuit Against Exercise Band Manufacturer 'Opens the Doors' To His Bathroom, Medical and Bank Records.  Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of an exercise band that he claims "broke or slipped" while "mounted to a sturdy object in his bathroom" as he used it on January 1, causing injuries that blinded in him one eye.  "The lawsuit is really going to open the doors if the company's defense counsel wants to go after Harry Reid," an attorney and expert on product liability tells Breitbart News.

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Did the exercise band break, or did it slip?  It wouldn't be a difficult thing to determine, so why claim that it "broke OR slipped"?

Guy Who Punk'd Right Wing Media About Harry Reid Has Many Tricks Up His Sleeve.  Last weekend, a Las Vegas man named Larry Pfeifer came forward to claim credit for spreading a rumor that the facial injuries sustained by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid were not caused by an exercise mishap as the senator had claimed but were instead the product of a beating by Mr. Reid's brother.  According to Mr. Pfeifer, he made up the story as a ruse to reveal how gullible the right-wing press is and to prove that they'd spread rumors about a prominent Democrat no matter how outlandish or unproven the story.

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Mr. Pfeifer's story is more believable than Mr. Reid's account of the incident; that is, Mr. Reid's injuries are much more consistent with the Pfeifer story than with Reid's version.  Mr. Pfeifer's retraction is about as credible as Mr. Reid's original story.

Harry Reid is the poster child for why our Constitution must be changed.  Harry Reid is the reason why senators and representatives should no longer be given absolute immunity for the reckless and venomous words they spew on the floor of Congress.  For too long, they have abused the privilege and trust granted them by the Framers of the Constitution.  The law must now be changed.  No more legal protection from slander.

Harry Reid Knocks Limbaugh for Suggesting He Got Beaten Up.  Going ten rounds with CNBC's John Harwood, outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said he didn't care who the GOP nominee ended up being, because "they're all losers," and called his replacement, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) a "lump of coal" — though he "didn't mean to be mean-spirited."  But Reid reserved most of his ire for Rush Limbaugh, whom he accused of starting a rumor that there was more to his eye injury than meets the eye.

Reid Relieved He Didn't Suffer Brain Damage in 'Freak Accident'.  Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said his brain is learning to adjust to the injuries he suffered over the winter holiday break.  Reid still wear sunglasses around the Senate and has undergone surgery to repair a fractured eye socket.  "Things happen.  This was a freak accident and I'm not blind in my right eye.  But I'm so grateful that it didn't do any damage to my brain, almost got smacked in the temple there," Reid said of what he says was an accident with home workout equipment.  He also suffered fractured ribs.

Man Claims He Concocted Story of Harry Reid Getting Beaten Up to Test Media Gullibility.  A Las Vegas man told the Las Vegas Sun he concocted a story about Harry Reid getting beaten up by his brother to test right-wing media gullibility, which he claimed worked like a charm.  Larry Pfeifer said he made up a story about Reid's eye injury, which the senator incurred during an admittedly-bizarre exercise accident, after reading an unsubstantiated rumor in a conservative blog of Reid being beaten up by the mafia.  Using a pseudonym, Pfeifer contacted the blogger John Hinderaker and spun a tale of a drunken fight between the Reid brothers, seemingly corroborated by Larry Reid's DUI arrest around that time.

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This is a very common Democrat tactic:  They will say something outrageous, and if there are any objections, follow up a few days later with, "Can't you take a joke?"  Examples:
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Harry Reid's Latest Explanation of His New Year's Day Injuries Falls Apart in His Bathroom.  Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) is presenting a new explanation of how he acquired those gruesome injuries on New Year's Day.  During an interview with CNBC, Reid says he was hurt in his own bathroom.  But that explanation doesn't hold up. [...] "Why in the world would I come up with a story that I got hurt in my own bathroom with my wife standing there?  How could anyone say anything like that?  I think a lot of people that I read kind of don't like me as a person.  I think that's unfortunate," Reid says.  Conveniently, the incurious Harwood fails to ask Reid any follow up questions.

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If his wife was "standing there," why wasn't she able to help mitigate his fall?  On the other hand, who does exercises (or anything else) in the bathroom with his wife present?

Harry Reid Changes His Story On How He Sustained New Year's Day Injuries.  Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is changing the story about how he sustained those gruesome New Year's Day injuries that have left him blind in one eye.  Previously, Reid claimed that an exercise band he was using "broke." [...] But now, in an interview conducted by Fusion (a joint venture between ABC and Univision), excerpts of which have been released today, Reid tells Univision anchor Jorge Ramos that the exercise band "slipped," rather than "broke."  "[T]he [elastic band] strap had no handle on it, slipped, spun me around, uh, about, oh I guess four feet (Reid points with his right hand to the wall of the interview room) and so I smashed my face into a cabinet," Reid tells Ramos.

Treason and Corruption.  [Scroll down]  [E]ven in the murk of the Obama sewer, the case of the retiring Senate Minority Leader is curious.  Harry Reid is apparently now blind in one eye because of an accident with his "resistance band" while "working out" on New Year's Day.  If this is true, why are Democrats not calling for federal regulation of resistance bands and mandatory licensing of resistance-band users after three years of training?  Reid's story is obviously bunk, and always was.  And then, three months after somebody takes the resistance band to him, the second most powerful Democrat in Washington, and the very definition of the careerist timeserving hack who'll stay in "public service" until they carry him out by the handles, mysteriously decides it's time to hang up his boots.  So whoever did this to him managed to take out the Senate Minority Leader.

Harry Reid Beaten By His Brother Larry?  Against the backdrop of Larry Reid being arrested for being drunk and disorderly — he also hit a cop — an interesting side story comes to the surface about Senator Harry Reid's previous injuries.

Troubled Capitol Police Withholding Information about Harry Reid's Injuries.  The leadership of the troubled, 1,800 person Capitol Police force is withholding information about the circumstances surrounding Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-NV) gruesome New Year's Day injuries.  Breitbart News poked holes in Reid's story that the injuries resulted from a home exercise accident that occurred when the exercise band that he attached to the shower door in his bathroom "broke and spun me around and I crashed into these cabinets and injured my eye," as he claimed.  Breitbart News has also reported that virtually all of the information concerning the events surrounding the New Year's Day injury and Reid's subsequent hospital treatment that day has originated from Reid's office.

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Consider the amount of tension required to snap an exercise band.  It can't be easy, or such a product wouldn't be sold.  Then ask yourself if a 75-year-old man could exert that much tension on such a product.  After that, ask yourself if the handle on your shower door would withstand more stress than an exercise band — even a defective one.  Then consider the probability of such an event causing a face-first pirouette into a nearby cabinet.  And who does an exercise-band workout in his bathroom?  Is your bathroom that big?  The story is already hard enough to believe, and in light of the wall of secrecy that has been constructed around the event, it becomes impossible to believe.

Why Harry Reid's Home Exercise Accident Story Does Not Add Up.  From the moment the story broke, many have been highly skeptical of Reid's claim his injuries came from a home exercise accident.  Most of this skepticism — based mostly on speculation and the gruesome nature of the injuries — led some to offer a version of an alternate theory that somebody beat up Senator Reid.

Harry Reid Justifies Lying About Romney's Taxes from Senate Floor: 'He Didn't Win, Did He?'.  Harry Reid said he has no regrets for polarizing the Senate, attacking the Koch brothers, and falsely accusing Mitt Romney of not paying taxes. [...] Reid appeared to take some joy of being a part of the Democrat machine that took down Romney in 2012.  "Let him prove that he has paid taxes, because he hasn't," Reid said on the Senate floor without any evidence to back his accusations.

Harry Reid Unapologetic over Lying about Romney, Because Obama Won.  The activist Left has given us ample evidence over the last several months that the narrative is more important than the truth, and Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) all but confirms this in his latest interview.

Harry Reid, partisan brawler, gets pattycake treatment from the press.  Harry Reid has just pulled off a triple coup.  He got to make his own retirement announcement without having it leak in advance.  He essentially got to anoint his successor.  And despite years as a bare-knuckled partisan warrior who makes incendiary comments about the other side, he's gotten a pretty nice media sendoff.  Usually when a 75-year-old lawmaker gets knocked out of the majority and then suffers a terrible accident, there's all kinds of media speculation about whether he'll hang it up.  But who ever thought the Nevada Democrat would relinquish power voluntarily?

Harry Reid's Long, Steady Accretion of Power & Wealth.  Last month, as the Senate was busy negotiating the final details of its Ukraine aid package, Majority Leader Harry Reid became temporarily distracted with a campaign finance issue.  Since winning re-election in 2010, Reid's campaign had purchased gifts for supporters and donors from vendors like Bed Bath & Beyond, Amazon, Nordstrom, and the Senate gift shop, among others.  But one round of spending was directed to a less recognizable firm:  Ryan Elisabeth, a jewelry line.  In 2012 and 2013, the campaign spent $31,267 purchasing gifts from the company, which is owned by Reid's granddaughter, Ryan Elisabeth Reid.  All told, she took in nearly seven times more cash than all vendors of donor gifts combined during that period of time.

Good Riddance, Dirty Harry.  Harry Reid is retiring.  Whatever happens to his Senate seat in 2016, this is good news for Republicans and it is good news for America.  Good riddance, Harry.

The Real Reason Harry Reid is Retiring.  [Scroll down]  But the real reason Reid is retiring may have nothing to do with any of these excuses and everything to do with his concerns that a possible Republican Presidential victory in 2016 would lead to the appointment of a Republican Attorney General in January 2017.  A Republican Attorney General would be almost certain to initiate a criminal investigation into Reid's abuse of his political power in a brazen intervention in the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) issuance of EB-5 visas to investors in a Las Vegas casino and hotel that was represented by his son, Rory Reid, as was highlighted in a report released by the Inspector General of DHS last week.

What really happened to Harry Reid? Part 2.  When a guy shows up at a Las Vegas emergency room on New Year's Day with severe facial injuries and broken ribs, and gives as an explanation the functional equivalent of "I walked into a doorknob," it isn't hard to guess that he ran afoul of mobsters.  Yet the national press has studiously averted its eyes from Reid's condition, and has refused to investigate the cause of his injuries.  To my knowledge, every Washington reporter has at least pretended to believe Reid's story, and none, as far as I can tell, has inquired further. [...] The deliberate blindness of Democratic Party reporters hasn't stopped people from speculating about what really happened to Harry Reid, but so far, at least, it has prevented the story from exploding into a major scandal.

"Rush: 'I Don't Believe For A Minute' Harry Reid Was Injured On Exercise Machine.  Harry Reid may be retiring, but the questions about him never stop coming from Rush Limbaugh. [...] "Does anybody believe that Harry Reid really had an accident with his exercise machine?" Limbaugh asked after touching on Reid's announcement.  "Does anybody really believe that's why Harry Reid is still bruised and is still wearing dark glasses, what, months after this accident with his exercise machine?"

President Obama On Harry Reid Retirement: 'The Senate Will Not Be The Same Without Him'.  President Obama praised Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid today after the Nevada Democrat announced he won't run for re-election in 2016.  "Harry Reid is a fighter," Obama said, praising Reid for his efforts to pass Obamacare and other Democratic policies.

Harry Reid to step down, says not due to "exercise accident".  Until today [3/27/2015], New York Times reporter Carl Hulse reminds us, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has insisted he's running for reelection.  In the video below, however, Reid announces that he will not face the voters again next year.  He will step down from his Senate seat. [...] Reid has demonstrated an infinite capacity for disgrace, dishonesty and hypocrisy.  He has made himself the true face of the Democratic Party in the Age of Obama.

IG Report: Reid More Involved in Visa Controversy Than Previously Known.  The Senate's top Democrat was more deeply involved than previously known in an effort to secure U.S. visas for Chinese investors in a Las Vegas casino despite the concerns of career federal officials, according to an inspector general report released on Tuesday [3/24/2015].  Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) and his staff received weekly updates from top officials at U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) regarding the status of visas for investors in the SLS Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, the report reveals.  Executives at the casino's parent company, a client of Reid's son Rory, donated thousands of dollars to Reid's campaign after he helped speed consideration of its applications for visas for its Chinese investors.

Harry Reid Secured Subsidies for Aides' Donors.  Corporate donors to a green energy nonprofit operated by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's (D., Nev.) former staffers and a current campaign operative have received billions of dollars in federal loan guarantees and grant money as a result of Reid's advocacy.  Fulcrum Bioenergy began contributing to the Clean Energy Project (CEP) in 2013.  One year later, the Nevada Democrat steered tens of millions of dollars in federal grant money to the California biofuel company.  Fulcrum is one of at least nine corporate donors to the Clean Energy Project (CEP) that have secured federal financing for themselves or a client due in part to Reid's behind-the-scenes advocacy — activity that watchdogs warn could be construed as unethical.

Watchdog Accuses Harry Reid of Ethics Violations.  Sen. Harry Reid (D., Nev.) illegally used official Senate resources for political purposes, according to an ethics complaint filed this week.  A reported meeting between Reid and his caucus in which the Nevada Democrat promoted his 2016 reelection campaign violated Senate ethics rules, the complaint alleges.  "Senator Reid's actions appear to make a mockery of both the Senate Ethics Rules and federal law," the complaint states.  "He reportedly announced his reelection campaign from the confines of an official Senate meeting room located mere steps from the Senate floor."  The complaint was filed on Tuesday by the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), a new conservative ethics watchdog group run by former U.S. Attorney Matt Whitaker.

Reid Chief of Staff Was a Comcast VP.  Democratic members of Congress and the Obama administration have extensive ties to Comcast and Time-Warner, the two cable giants currently awaiting approval from the Federal Communications Commission on a $45 billion merger.  One that has gone mostly overlooked: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D., Nev.) chief of staff, David Krone, is Comcast's former senior vice president for corporate affairs.

Poof: Casino ethics complaint against Reid disappears.  Nobody is saying "cover-up" just yet, but an ethics complaint against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid received by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics nearly a year ago has mysteriously disappeared, and the panel claims it never received it despite a signed receipt.  The conservative watchdog group Cause of Action said that it has had to refile the complaint that alleges Reid pressured the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to hasten EB-5 visa application reviews for overseas investors in the SLS Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

Ethics Complaint Targets Harry Reid for Abuse of Power.  Tea Party Patriots filed an ethics complaint against Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., alleging he has abused his power in a campaign to smear conservative donors.  The complaint, filed Monday with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, alleges Reid has purposely tried to damage the names of Charles and David Koch, prominent conservative donors whom Reid has publicly criticized for running advertisements attacking Democrats.  It also cites Reid's partisan campaign activities, which allegedly violate Senate rules and federal law.

The Senate Jumps the Shark.  Current Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) rarely talks directly to Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Reid has used his position less to engage debate and more to rail against his opponents.  He even used the Senate floor during the last presidential election to assert (falsely) that Republican candidate Mitt Romney paid no taxes for 10 years.  Reid has been a partisan more than a leader.  Last year, he insisted on using the "nuclear option," reversing centuries of precedent and Senate rules to deny the right of 40 senators to block action approving presidential appointees.  And he decried American businessmen Charles and David Koch more than 130 times on the Senate floor.  His most pernicious action has been to deny Republicans any chance to support amendments on legislation.

Harry Reid Sinks Deeper Into the Abyss.  Harry Reid's obsession with the Koch brothers has made him a figure of fun, but frankly, it has gotten past the point where anyone is laughing.  After Reid's foray onto the Senate floor today [5/7/2014], his family, friends and colleagues should be concerned about his mental health. [...] "Pollution" isn't causing global warming, the Koch brothers are not the "two richest people in the world," and the idea that the brothers are somehow one of the "main causes" of climate change is delusional, even if you buy into the anthropogenic global warming theory.

Harry Reid's Curious Soft Spot for Sheldon Adelson.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid takes regular swipes at multibillionaire brothers David and Charles Koch, but Nevada's top political figure hasn't mustered a whisper of protest for a Republican mega-donor standing in his own front yard:  outspoken casino king Sheldon Adelson.

Does Harry Reid Own 93 Acres Near Bundy Grazing Land?  It seems another piece of the puzzle has been found to explain why the BLM wanted that grazing land so badly.  A corporation, named the Reid Bunkerville L.L.C., owns 93.3 acres right next to the government parcel where Bundy grazes his cattle.

Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are America's great dividers.  Harry Reid's hometown newspaper — the Las Vegas Review-Journal — recently offered an important observation:  "As majority leader of the U.S. Senate, Harry Reid is supposed to lead.  The Nevada Democrat should be focused on the concerns of Americans and on shaping debate on important matters of national interest.  Sen. Reid is doing neither.  In fact, he's working so hard to ignore the taxpaying public's priorities that he has become a parody of his position."

It Isn't Just the Bundy Ranch.  The Bundy Ranch incident, which threatened to escalate into a shooting war, collapsed when reports surfaced that the ulterior motive behind the attempted BLM takeover was an deal set up by Harry Reid to place solar panels on the land; something from which we can expect he stood to profit handsomely, and very likely under the table.  It appears likely that the reports were correct, or else the standoff would have escalated.  Confronted with the truth, the BLM backed down, but promised that this wasn't the end.  It appears that this may be correct because various western state governments are now convening to take control of the "federal" lands.

New Probe Confirms Harry Reid's Long History of Corruption.  The seemingly Teflon senior senator from Nevada, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, has been forced to respond to charges made in a two-part investigation into his dealings published last week at RealClearPolitics.  The initial investigation looked into multiple claims of corruption, and responses from Reid's PR people failed to deflect them.

Dirty politics clog Keystone XL pipeline.  The decision to yet again delay the final permit for the popular Keystone XL pipeline was made not in the White House or at the State Department, but in a posh private residence in the Sea Cliff neighborhood in northwestern San Francisco.  It was there on February 19 that former vice president Al Gore and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made the pilgrimage to Tom Steyer's home to kiss the ring of the hedge fund-billionaire turned super-donor, in exchange for $400,000 that night and a promise of $100 million more to come.  Steyer's sole demand?  Stop the pipeline.

Harry Reid's Long, Steady Accretion of Power & Wealth.  Harry Reid has spent more than 40 years in government, starting as a small city's attorney and eventually becoming the most powerful senator in the country.  He has raised tens of millions of dollars in political contributions, established himself as an institution in Nevada politics along the way, and made himself a very wealthy man.

GOP Savages Harry Reid.  The Republican National Committee has released a brutal memo on Senate majority leader Harry Reid, savaging him for repeatedly lying.  The memo, under the name of press secretary Kirsten Kukowski, is titled "Nothing's Too Unethical for Harry Reid."

Harry Reid: From Cowboy Poets To Crooks and Terrorists.  So, Maj. Nidal Hasan was merely guilty of "workplace violence" when he murdered 13 and wounded dozens more in a Ft. Hood rampage while shouting "Allahu Akhbar!"  But, according to Reid, 67-year-old Nevada rancher Bundy is the real terrorist.  Rory Reid, Harry Reid's son, who represents a Chinese company that wants to build a solar farm in the pristine Nevada desert that is home to the allegedly endangered desert tortoise, thinks Bundy is also a crook for disputing who the grazing fees should be paid to.  Of course Rory had no problem when Dad's campaign cut checks of $5,417 and $11,370 to his granddaughter and Rory's daughter, Ryan Elisabeth, last October for "holiday gifts."

Some Lessons from Cliven Bundy.  Removing Cliven Bundy's cattle and killing them was not about "the public good."  It wasn't even really about "protecting the turtles."  Instead, it was about clearing off land so that Chinese land developers in league with Harry Reid's son Rory could use the land as a remediation site connected with a solar power panel farm they wanted to build further north as part of a $5 billion development deal.  In other words, it was about using public land so that the Reid family and foreign developers could make a pile of money — which makes the Senator's complaints about Bundy "profiting off of public lands" just a bit hypocritical.

Harry Reid's website attack on Koch brothers may have violated Senate rules.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid may have broken Senate ethics and Internet rules by using his official website to attack libertarian campaign donors Charles and David Koch, a possible violation of the chamber's prohibition on "partisan" material on members' publicly funded webpages.

Harry Reid's Kryptonite.  Never before has a politician with so much disdain for the media, and so little understanding of it, ascended to such power.  So when Reid's normally top-notch team bungled the response to the FEC inquiry, they not only let what should have been a one-day story become a multi-day Reid-bashing extravaganza — they also revealed just how much trouble the majority leader can get himself into when his safety net fails him.

Harry Reid lets Obama, Eric Holder cover up IRS scandal.  Nobody was surprised when Attorney General Eric Holder decided the special prosecutor requested by Sen. Ted Cruz to investigate the IRS scandal isn't needed.  Why?  Because Holder and his boss in the Oval Office refuse to make the same mistake that led to Richard Nixon's undoing in the Watergate scandal. [...] President Obama and Holder have done a masterful job of what Nixon could not — containing an official corruption investigation so that it never gets to the full truth.

Why Is Obama's DOJ Shielding Reid From Corruption Probe?  On Thursday [3/13/2014], ABC News and the Washington Times reported that local Utah prosecutors had found evidence pointing to possible illegal campaign contributions and other questionable financial deals involving both Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and Utah's junior Republican senator, Mike Lee.  But despite working with the FBI, they've been blocked from moving that case forward by a Justice Department that has sat on it for months, refusing to let the FBI empanel a federal grand jury or issue subpoenas to determine if Reid or Lee broke any federal laws.

Harry Reid's casino luck.  In a just world, no politician would leave office wealthier than on the day he takes the oath of office.  We don't live in a just world, alas, and the rags-to-riches life stories of more than a few U.S. senators strain credulity.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, once an officer of the Capitol Police, joined the ranks of multimillionaires during his four decades on the public payroll.  He says he's a good investor, and no doubt he is, but the watchdog group Cause of Action wants the Senate Ethics Committee to inquire as to whether and how he used his office to pad his campaign war chest.

Harry Reid on the hot seat: Ethics probe demanded by watchdog group.  A conservative-leaning watchdog group has filed an ethics complaint against Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, accusing him of violating the chamber's code of conduct by pushing to help a politically connected Las Vegas casino project get visas for foreign investors.  The complaint, filed with the Senate Select Committee on Ethics by Cause of Action, is based in part on a Washington Times investigation last year.

Reid Supporter Whittemore Gets 2 Years in Campaign Cash Case.  Ex-Nevada power broker Harvey Whittemore admitted he was "arrogant and naive" but insisted "I'm not greedy" before a judge sentenced him Monday to two years in prison for funneling more than $130,000 in illegal campaign funds to Sen. Harry Reid's re-election committee in 2007.

Harvey Whittemore gets 2 years in prison; appeal promised.  Calling the case "an incredibly criminal, intentional act," a federal judge on Monday [9/30/2013] sentenced fallen Nevada power broker Harvey Whittemore to two years in prison and fined the former multimillionaire $100,000 for using family and employees to make illegal campaign contributions to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Harry Reid: I did not take a bribe.  Jeremy Johnson claims that he agreed to pay Reid $600,000 in 2010 to make a federal investigation go away.  "The truth is the worst thing I think I've done was I paid money knowing it was going to influence Harry Reid," Johnson told the Salt Lake Tribune.  "So I've felt all along that I've committed bribery of some sort there."  Reid denies the accusation.

Reid Denies Role in Attempt to Block Federal Investigation.  Utah businessman Jeremy Johnson, who pled guilty last week to charges of bank fraud and money laundering, is claiming he made a deal in 2010 to pay Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada $600,000 to stop a federal investigation into Johnson's business.

Democratic Party Becomes Party Of Corruption.  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was accused of bribery last weekend, while two Obama Cabinet officials are leaving amid a trail of broken laws and squandered cash. Which, again, is the party of corruption?

Indicted UT Businessman Links Harry Reid To Bribery Attempt.  Embattled St. George businessman Jeremy Johnson says new Utah Attorney General John Swallow helped broker a deal in 2010 in which Johnson believed he was to pay Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid $600,000 to make a federal investigation into Johnson's company go away.

Why can't Senator Reid be forced to submit a budget?  It's the law of the land that the Senate must submit a budget by April 15, but the last time Harry Reid was in compliance was 2009.  Why isn't Reid being punished for being a budget scofflaw?

Why can't Republicans enforce law against Harry Reid?  The answer is the law requiring Congress to pass an annual budget, the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, doesn't have an enforcement mechanism.  Lawmakers are required by law to pass a budget each year by April 15, but there's no provision to punish them, or even slightly inconvenience them, if they don't.  In Reid's case, the Senate last passed a budget in April 2009, 1,351 days ago as of Wednesday [1/9/2013].

What Crime Has Harry Reid Committed?  Majority Leader Harry's transgression is that for over 1300 days he has failed to pass a budget.  In fact, there is no evidence he has even tried.  This is against the law.

Harry Reid's Son Representing Chinese Solar Panel Plant in $5 Billion Nevada Deal.  The son of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Rory Reid, is the primary representative for ENN Energy Group, a Chinese energy company seeking to build a $5 billion solar panel plant on a 9,000-acre Clark County desert plot in Laughlin, Nevada.  ENN scored big when Clark County commissioners unanimously voted to sell the Chinese company the public land for just $4.5 million, despite the fact that it was appraised at $38.6 million.

Green Energy Cronyism: Harry Reid using political power to enrich his son's client.  For years, I have been saying that green energy is the place to look if you're looking for tales of cronyism, corruption, and corporate welfare.  It has all the elements: profits dependent on subsidies, customers that are often government-protected monopolies, deep involvement of finance types ranging from Goldman Sachs to politically connected VC, PE, and hedge funds.  And Harry Reid.

How Did Harry Reid Get Rich?  Try this thought experiment.  Imagine that someone grows up in poverty, works his way through law school by holding the night shift as a Capitol Hill policeman, and spends all but two years of his career as a public servant.  Now imagine that this person's current salary — and he's at the top of his game — is $193,400.  You probably wouldn't expect him to have millions in stocks, bonds, and real estate.  But, surprise, he does, if he's our Senate majority leader, whose net worth is between 3 and 10 million dollars, according to OpenSecrets.org.

Harry Reid Must Be Scrutinized in Berkley Ethics Investigation.  The consensus is in: Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV) is in serious trouble in her Senate race against Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV).  That's because yesterday [7/9/2012], the House Ethics Committee voted unanimously to open an investigation into Berkley's support for subsidies and tax breaks for the kidney health care industry, which directly benefitted her husband, a nephrologist who runs a kidney health center. [...] But there was one person who wasn't too concerned about Berkley's investigation:  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).  At least not publicly.

E-mail shows illegal activity in Reid's campaign.  Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., may have beaten back challenger Sharron Angle and retained his post as the majority leader, but his campaign and one of his biggest supporters may have violated federal law to do so.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's Christmas list should outrage all Americans.  Incidentally, Reid says this is the accepted norm for politics — wheeling and dealing conducted in backrooms.  It's also the very sort of thing Obama promised to fight.  Now, by pressing this bill forward, he has given tacit approval of what we might call shenanigans if they didn't reek so strongly of outright corruption.

Harry Reid Slapped With Ethics Complaint.  At issue is over $100,000 of campaign contributions made by Nevada defense contractor Arcata Associates to both Reid and the Nevada Democrat Party.  The small Nevada defense firm recently had a program terminated by the Department of Defense which was subsequently reinstated via an earmark request by Reid.

Harry Reid Can't Bleed.  Democrats across America are measuring the drapes for the majority in the House and the Senate, preparing to swear in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.  One of their major talking points this year has been the Republican majority's "culture of corruption." … The Democratic National Committee even had a page on their website devoted to the "Republican Culture of Corruption."  But that "Culture of Corruption" page on the DNC home page has disappeared.  Something funny happened on the way to the polls this year.  The Democrats have shown they have their own contemporary ethical problems.

Senator's expenses questioned.  Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid has been using campaign funds instead of his personal money to pay Christmas bonuses for the support staff at the Ritz-Carlton, where he lives in an upscale condominium.  Federal election law bars candidates from converting political donations for personal use.

Reid Decides to Amend Ethics Reports.  Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid announced Monday [10/16/2006] he is amending his ethics reports to Congress to more fully account for a land deal that allowed him to collect $1.1 million for property he hadn't personally owned for three years.  Reid acted several days after The Associated Press reported the senator didn't disclose to Congress that he first sold the land to a friend's company back in 2001 and took an ownership stake in the company.

Reid Land Deal Not Sexy Enough for Front Page.  The news that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) failed to disclose a land deal that earned him $700,000 — three years after he sold the land to a friend's company — isn't "sexy" enough for front page news, according to one political analyst.

Reid Accepted Free Boxing Tickets While a Related Bill Was Pending.  Senate Democratic Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) accepted free ringside tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission to three professional boxing matches while that state agency was trying to influence him on federal regulation of boxing. … In an interview Thursday [5/25/2006] in his Capitol office, Reid defended his decisions to accept the tickets and to take several actions benefiting former lobbyist Jack Abramoff's clients and partners as they donated to him.

Update:
Reid says he won't accept free tickets.  Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid learned that what happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas after all.


Representative Emanuel Cleaver

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver Earmarks $48 Billion to Pal.  Liberal Rep. Emanuel Cleaver proposed a whopping $48 billion earmark that would redistribute wealth to the inner cities and [give] money to the poor and thereby produce a much larger consumer class to buy the goods and services produced in this country. ... The $48 billion would go to Cleaver's friend, a gentleman named Lamar Mickens, president of the not-for-profit Quality Day Campus who runs the organization out of his Kansas City home.

Now for his side of the story...
Cleaver: I did not propose $48 billion earmark.  "Anybody up here who requests $48 billion should be impeached," Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, Missouri Democrat, told me when I asked him about reports that he proposed a $48 billion ear mark in the House spending bill.

The Editor says...
It doesn't matter if it's $48 billion or $48 million or $48 thousand or $48.  What matters is that it appears to be an attempt on the part of a Congressman to take the taxpayers' money and give it to his friends.

Bank of America Files $1.5 Million Suit Against Deadbeat Lawmaker Emanuel Cleaver.  Bank of America filed a $1.5 million suit against the head of Congressional Black Caucus this week for repayment of a delinquent 2002 loan.

Rep. Cleaver faces Bank of America suit, but could be bailed out by taxpayers.  Congressional Black Caucus Chairman Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), who is facing a lawsuit for failing to pay down a 2002 Bank of America loan that he used to buy a car wash in Missouri, could have a good chunk of the $1.5 million he owes paid off by taxpayers.  According to the Kansas City Star, the Small Business Administration (SBA) backed about three-quarters of Cleaver's 2002 loan, which means that if the loan goes bad, the SBA could pay off $1.1 million of that debt.

Taxpayers To Foot Bill for Rep. Cleaver's Car Wash.  Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, owes up to $1.5 million to Bank of America, thanks to a loan he took out to buy a car wash.  So what, you ask?  You're paying for it.




New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin

Feds closing in on Ray Nagin.  A businessman pleaded guilty Wednesday [12/5/2012] to plotting to bribe an unidentified former New Orleans public official in a case that appears to be linked to a federal probe of former Mayor Ray Nagin.

Ray Nagin is focus of federal grand jury probe.  A federal grand jury is investigating whether city vendors gave former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin gratuities ranging from plane tickets to materials and equipment for his family's granite-countertop business and also helped the firm land an exclusive installation deal with a retailing giant while Nagin was in office, according to several sources close to the probe.

Ex-New Orleans Mayor Nagin Indicted for Katrina Fraud.  I'm still waiting for the indictment of the media for its fraudulent Katrina reporting which depicted the hurricane aftermath as Mad Max on water, while refusing to report on the disastrous aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.  Mayor Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin attacked Bush for not doing enough for New Orleans, but he was doing alright for himself.

Ex-New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin charged with taking bribes, travel perks from city contractors.  On Friday [1/18/2013], the former mayor was indicted on charges he lined his pockets with bribe money, payoffs and gratuities while the chronically poor city struggled to recover from Hurricane Katrina's punishing blow.

Ray Nagin, former New Orleans mayor, charged with taking bribes while in office.  A federal grand jury charged former Mayor Ray Nagin Friday with 21 counts of corruption, including six counts of bribery, one count of conspiracy, one count of money laundering, nine counts of deprivation of honest services through wire fraud and four counts of filing false tax returns, alleging that while in office, Nagin took cash bribes and gifts from two city contractors.  Nagin's long-expected indictment arrived more than two and a half years after he left City Hall and relocated to the Dallas area.

Former Mayor of New Orleans Is Charged in Sweeping Corruption Case.  C. Ray Nagin, the former mayor of this city who fulminated against the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina but became for many a symbol of the shortcomings of government himself, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Friday [1/18/2013] on 21 counts including conspiracy, bribery and money laundering.

Ray Nagin sentenced to 10 years in prison for public corruption.  Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was sentenced on Wednesday [7/9/2014] to 10 years in federal prison.  Nagin, 58, the two-term mayor who was the face of the city during Hurricane Katrina, joins a list of Louisiana elected officials convicted of misdeeds.  He is New Orleans' first mayor to be convicted and sent to prison for public corruption.  Nagin is set to report to prison on Sept. 8.  He could serve his term at a minimum security federal detention center in Oakdale, a city in central Louisiana.

Ray Nagin, corrupt ex-New Orleans mayor, sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.  A disgraced New Orleans politician is going from the Big Easy to the Big House.  Former Mayor Ray Nagin was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in federal prison after being convicted earlier this year on 20 counts of bribery, money laundering, fraud and tax evasion.  The two-term mayor, who left office in 2010, was sentenced on the lighter side, said U.S. District Judge Helen Berrigan.

Prison Is Just A Résumé Builder For Democrats.  Look for a Ray Nagin presidential run in 15-20 years, depending on the parole board.




Representative Sheila Jackson Lee

Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee Loses Houston Mayoral Race in Landslide.  Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee — endorsed by Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi — lost the Houston Mayoral race in a landslide.  [Tweet]  Texas State Senator John Whitmire, a Democrat, won the mayoral race.  It wasn't even close.  Sheila Jackson Lee got crushed in the run-off election.  This was after Sheila Jackson Lee put out an ad telling supporters the wrong day to vote.

Dem Rep Loses Mayoral Race After Shocking Leaked Audio, Botched Ad.  Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas lost her mayoral race Saturday evening to Democratic state Sen. John Whitmire, according to the Associated Press.  Jackson Lee was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1994 and announced her run for Houston mayor in March, where she was endorsed by prominent democrats like Hillary Clinton, according to The New York Times.  She ultimately suffered defeat this weekend after her campaign was plagued by audio leaks and a botched ad.  The congresswoman, who represents Texas' 18th district, has been known for her harsh attitude toward staff, according to the NYT.

Houston mayor's race heads to runoff between John Whitmire, Sheila Jackson Lee.  State Senator John Whitmire and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee ranked as the top two candidates in Houston's mayoral election, with Whitmire ahead by about 8% as of Tuesday night.  Since neither cleared the threshold of 50% of the votes cast plus one, the contest will now go to a second round.  The runoff election is scheduled for Saturday, December 9.  Whitmire and Jackson Lee both stood out in a crowded field for their high levels of name recognition, decades of public service, and in Whitmire's case, a prodigious campaign war chest that enabled him to blanket the airwaves with commercials.

Sheila Jackson Lee gets endorsement from Hillary Clinton in Houston mayoral race.  Houston mayoral candidate and current U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee drew support from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at an event on Friday.  Clinton reassured Houston voters that she believes Jackson Lee is the right woman for the job.  "They will not regret their vote because they will have a mayor who will work 24/7 to do what she has said she will do," Clinton said.

The Editor says...
That doesn't sound like much of an endorsement speech.  It sounds like ad lib nonsense reflexively popping out of a career politician's mouth.  Sheila Jackson Lee's only qualification for the position of mayor, or any other job, is that she is a black female.

Democrat Rep Jackson Lee [says she is] 'regretful' about tirade at staffer, 'political opponent' leaked tape.  Texas Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has apologized for a profanity-laced rant against a staffer that was made public this past weekend but says the leaked audio was the work of a political opponent.  "To anyone who has listened to this recording with concern, I am regretful and hope you will judge me not by something trotted out by a political opponent," Jackson Lee, who is running for Houston mayor, said late Monday, according to The Houston Chronicle.  "I know that I am not perfect," she also said.  "I recognize that in my zeal to do everything possible to deliver for my constituents I have in the past fallen short of my own standards and there is no excuse for that."  On Friday, just before early voting for Houston's mayoral election began Monday, the recording was sent to the media.

Sheila Jackson Lee Unloads Obscenity Laced Tirade on Hapless Staffer.  Democrat Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (Texas-18) cursing out a staffer is perhaps the most unsurprising thing you will encounter this year.  Getting to hear it on audio is.  Some enterprising person who is probably on Jackson Lee's staff took the liberty of recording one of her rants at a hapless staffer, and it is not a disappointment.  Jackson Lee has long been a mainstay on any list of the "meanest" bosses in Congress.

The Editor says...
Sheila Jackson Lee's vocabulary is like John Fetterman's wardrobe on Casual Day:  inappropriate, pedestrian, unbecoming of a public official.

Leaked: Sheila Jackson Lee Caught Viciously Verbally Abusing a Staffer in Secret Recording.  A leaked audio recording is causing trouble for Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee after it showed her viciously verbally abusing a staffer.  Lee, who is currently running to become the Mayor of Houston, one of America's largest cities, is heard on the recording berating the staffer over what sounds like a calendar issue.  The language used is very adult-only, to say the least, and as you'll hear, it goes far beyond what anyone should consider normal or acceptable.  [Tweet]

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is an abusive boss with a vile potty mouth.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D. Tex.) has been in Congress since 1995.  She boasts a BA in political science from Yale University and a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law.  With those credentials, you might imagine a woman of gravitas, decency, and dignity.  If that's what you imagine, you also believe in Tinker Bell-esque fairies and peace-loving Iranian mullahs.  All of those are wildly errant fantasies.  Instead, she is a radical leftist.  We're also learning now that she is a verbally abusive boss with a potty mouth so extreme it renders her completely incoherent.  Here's some of what Jackson Lee stands for:
  •   China
  •   Venezuela
  •   Calling Tea Party members, who wanted lower taxes, the KKK
  •   Pro-LGBTQ+ policies
  •   Challenging elections in which Republicans win
Jackson Lee has also advertised over the years that she was a beneficiary of affirmative action when she got her degrees.  In other words, her mental wattage is open to question.  [Examples omitted for brevity.]  Additionally, Jackson Lee, when a member of the House Committee on Science, is famous for asking if the Mars Pathfinder was able to take a picture of the American flag that Neil Armstrong planted in 1969... on the moon.  Over the years, in addition to being mentally deficient and a hard leftist (but I repeat myself), Jackson Lee has developed a reputation for being a horrible boss.

If this is true, the minimum voting age should be 25 or higher.
Dem rep advocates for lesser penalties for teen criminals, saying 'the brain doesn't fully mature until at least 25 years old'.  Rep. Mike Johnson pointed out a rather shocking change in perspective from Democrat California Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee as he headed up the House Judiciary Subcommittee's hearing on "The Dangers and Due Process Violations of 'Gender-Affirming Care' for Children" on Thursday.  Lee had previously stated that teens are not fully capable of making permanent, life-altering decisions until their brains fully mature at 25-years-old, but when it comes to sex changes, she apparently is entirely on board with kids making these kinds of decisions at incredibly young ages.

Sheila Jackson Lee's wildest moments from years in Congress.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, has built a reputation as one of the "meanest" members of Congress to work for, but has also become one of its most recognizable faces, having represented the same district in the House of Representatives for more than 28 years.  She announced this week, however, that she would be running for mayor of Houston in the off-year election, potentially bringing her tumultuous time in Congress to an end should she prevail.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee says she plans to run for Houston mayor.  Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said Sunday that she plans to run for mayor of Houston later this year, shaking up an already crowded race.  Jackson Lee announced her decision to run for mayor while speaking City Cathedral Church in Houston on Sunday, which the Houston Chronicle first reported.  She's served in the House since 1995 and before that sat on Houston's city council.  "I hope I've been a humble servant for you for 28 years.  Many of you are in my district," the longtime congresswoman said, according to video of her remarks. "Sheila Jackson Lee wants to come home to be your mayor for the city of Houston.  I will not be able to do it without each and every one of you."

Sheila Jackson Lee wants to criminalize "white supremacy" writings that are felt to have inspired a crime.  Here's the bill that Sheila Jackson Lee has introduced.  Its title is "Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2023" — and so I would guess it might be unconstitutional because of its race specificity: [...] I believe what this bill proposes is that, if someone publishes anything online that is read or viewed by someone who later commits any crime motivated by "white supremacy," that first person can be convicted of conspiracy with that second one even if they have never met or communicated in any way, and even if that person writing the online material is not advocating crimes of any sort.  If a judge or jury decides the publicized words fall under any broad and ill-defined heading of "white supremacy," both people could be convicted.  I've mentioned several times before that, even back when I was in law school eons ago, I didn't like conspiracy laws because they seemed dangerous to me and easy to misuse.  Nothing since then has disabused me of that idea.  This bill won't pass.  But if the House was controlled by Democrats instead of Republicans, would it pass?

Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee introduces bill to combat 'white supremacy'.  US Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has introduced a bill aimed at fighting "white supremacy" by attaching criminal charges to certain forms of hate speech.  The Texas Democrat introduced the Leading Against White Supremacy Act of 2023, which aims "to prevent and prosecute white supremacy inspired hate crime and conspiracy to commit white supremacy inspired hate crime."  The conspiracy addition means people who use hate speech online could face criminal charges under the legislation even if they don't act on their threats.  That includes a person who publishes "material advancing white supremacy, white supremacist ideology, antagonism based on 'replacement theory,' or hate speech that vilifies or is otherwise directed against any non-white person or group."  The text of the bill specifically lists social media platforms as one area where hate speech could result in criminal consequences — if that hate speech motivates another person to go out and commit a racist crime against others.

Democrat Introduces Legislation to Make White People Criticizing Minorities a Federal Crime.  Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee, long in the running for being the vapidest member of Congress (oops, did I just commit a crime?), has introduced legislation that could make political criticism by white people against minorities a federal crime.  In what can only be called a convoluted mess, the bill proposes that a white person who "vilifies" any non-white person and has their words end up on social media, accessible by "persons who are predisposed to engaging in any action in furtherance of a white supremacy inspired hate crime," would themselves be committing a federal crime.  [Tweet]  The provision is so broad that you could drive a Mack truck through it.  What is a "white supremacy-inspired hate crime" under this statute?  How is "replacement theory" defined?

Dem Rep. Jackson Lee: Words 'Can Actually Break Your Bones'.  Saturday, during an appearance on MSNBC's "PoliticsNation," Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) attacked House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), the Republican nominee for House Speaker in the next Congress.  According to the Texas Democrat, McCarthy not condemning them publicly was "sad and shameful" because she claimed words could do physical harm.  "[McCarthy] was trying to defend them in a public manner," she said.  "He alleges that he spoke to them quietly in private.  But that did nothing to the potential threat.  And let me just say this, Reverend Sharpton — it is very well-documented that words nowadays can actually break your bones.  Words have generated violence. [...]"

Sheila Jackson Lee Claims Reparations Could Have Prevented COVID Pandemic.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, claimed that if reparations for U.S. slavery had been implemented before the COVID pandemic, the virus may have been contained.  Jackson Lee made the speech on the House floor in an attempt to garner support for H.R. 40, which would establish a congressional commission to calculate the potential cost of reparations, the Daily Wire reported.  The congresswoman noted that COVID infection rates among minorities were higher than in majority-white areas.

Race-Obsessed Sheila Jackson Lee Absurdly Connects COVID to Slavery, Demands 'Curative Reparations'.  Democrats in general are phenomenal at connecting dots that don't exist, but Jackson Lee can connect virtually anything to "racism" in fewer dots than most — except for MSNBC's Joy Reid, of course.  In her latest display of ninja-like mastery, Jackson Lee, on Thursday, drew a ridiculous connection between COVID and slavery during a disjointed speech on the House Floor as she once again called for reparations, as reported by The Blaze.

Quadruple Vaxed Sheila Jackson Lee Tests Positive for the Coronavirus.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus, her office said in a statement on Monday, despite her status as both vaccinated and boosted.  "Statement:  Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee tested positive for COVID.  She is fully vaccinated and has received her boosters," an update posted to Twitter reads.  The statement suggests the congresswoman has been quadruple vaccinated, assuming she received the traditional two-dose series and later received "boosters," per the statement.

Sheila Jackson Lee Messes With The Wrong Mom At A Hearing On CRT.  Democratic Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee messed with the wrong mom during a Tuesday [3/1/2022] hearing on discrimination and Critical Race Theory.  Witness Asra Normani was recording Lee during the hearing when Lee demanded Normani cease filming.  "We are problem solvers.  We are grateful that the courts have responded to perceived discrimination but in any event what I would clearly say — you need to put down your camera," Lee, who is clearly distracted by Normani, said.  "Please, you need to put down your camera.  You need to put down your camera."  Normani, who is seen wearing a "I'm a Mom, not a 'domestic terrorist'" shirt while holding her phone to record Lee, appears to question Lee.  "Why do I have to put down my camera?" Normani asked.  "Because I'm already on video so I don't need to be on yours."  "I mean, this is free speech," Normani said as she continued filming.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Scorched for Making Laughable Claim About 'Secure' Border.  President Joe Biden isn't the only delusional Democrat in Washington, D.C.  In a party known for mixing hardball politics with blatant dishonesty, outright liars are easy to come by — from Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff in the House to Chuck Schumer and Richard Blumenthal in the Senate.  But for sheer disassociation from reality, for Biden-level oblivion to the obvious, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas has proved again that she's difficult to beat.

Sheila Jackson Lee:  Republicans Engaged In 'War on Black People' Voting.  Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) said Tuesday on CNN's "Tonight" that the Republican Party was engaged in "a war on black people as it relates to voting."  Anchor Don Lemon said, "The Supreme Court is hearing arguments today that could weaken voting rights in Arizona.  Major push nationwide to make it harder for people to vote.  What does this mean particularly for black voters?"  Jackson Lee said, "Well, I think tragically we have not had this historic opposition to our rights since slavery, during the Jim Crow days and of course the harshness of the 1960s.  The tragedy of this is an entire party, the Republican Party, is committed to voter suppression, committed to avoiding the opportunity of votes.  Donald Trump laid out he only wants one day for votes.  They don't want opportunities for absentee ballot, extended voting, same-day registration, all things that empower young people and people of color, African-Americans."

The Editor says...
If Election Day was a single day, as it once was and should be again, how would that inconvenience black voters more than any others?  The same restrictions would apply to everyone.  How is that unfair?

Democrat Rep. Shelia Jackson pushes radical gun control bill requiring mass registry, psych evaluations.  Texas Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee revealed a new radical gun control bill which, if passed, would require a slew of harsh 2nd Amendment infringements, Fox News reports.  The Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act would reportedly require gun owners to partake in a mass gun registry, undergo psychological evaluation, mandate stricter licensing be required by buyers and sellers, and establish stricter penalties for gun infractions.  The bill would make owning or selling a firearm without a new form of licensing illegal.  The legislation's name comes from a Pakistani exchange student who was killed in a Texas school shooting, according to Fox News.  The bill would also require information be provided on criminal history, mental health history, as well as where the gun will be stored by the owner in their own home, according to the Western Journal.

Democrat congresswoman calls slave reparations a 'bold effort that people want to not do'.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee called on Democrats to mobilize together and advocate for passage of a bill to form a commission on slave reparations, calling it a "bold effort that people want to not do."  "You must as a community ensure that the Congress moves on H.R. 40 and that is call your members of Congress to ensure they are co-sponsors," she said on Friday [7/10/2020] during a virtual town hall on "Systemic Racism Beyond Policing."

Citizen Journalist Busts Mail-In Voting Fraud — Alleges Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee & Others Paid Convicted Forgers.  Over and over we uncover voter fraud across the united States and the latest is in Texas.  A citizen journalist uncovered a Democrat mail-in voting nursing home scandal, which should gain some serious attention and bring the perpetrator to justice, but will it?  Patrick Howley with National File interviewed Colleen Vera, who is a citizen journalist that has uncovered a massive voter fraud ring in the state of Texas that involves Democrat campaigns and mail-in voting, something that DC Democrats are attempting to push through in another unconstitutional stimulus package.

Biden himself admits he said it, and has apologized for it.  Why deny it?
'That was not what the vice president said': Sheila Jackson Lee denies Biden meant 'you ain't black' comment.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee threw her support behind former Vice President Joe Biden after he said black people who don't vote for him aren't actually black.  During an interview with Fox News host Bret Baier, the Texas Democrat pushed back on the claim that Biden made a major gaffe when he told The Breakfast Club host Charlamagne Tha God on Friday morning that "if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black."

Texas Congresswoman suggests Russia responsible for Iowa caucus voting issues.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat, suggested during an FBI oversight hearing on Wednesday [2/5/2020] that Russia is responsible for the vote-reporting issues from Tuesday's Iowa caucuses.  "I hope that the Iowa Democrats will ask for an FBI investigation on the app," the Texas Democrat told FBI Director Christopher Wray.  "I believe that Russia has been engaged in and interfering with a number of our elections dealing with the 2016 election."  Wray responded by reassuring Jackson Lee that the FBI shares her concern about Russian interference.

Jackson Lee:  AR-15s Weigh as Much as 10 Moving Boxes.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D., Texas) claimed to have held an AR-15 and immediately regretted it, saying it weighed as much as "10 boxes that you might be moving."  Speaking to reporters last week, she added that AR-15s use a ".50 caliber" bullet that ought to be licensed. [...] Jackson Lee's remarks drew mockery online, as AR-15s are not particularly heavy rifles, weighing around seven to nine pounds when loaded.

Pro tip from Rep. Jackson Lee:  The AR-15 is 500 pounds and shoots .50 caliber rounds, or something.  You know what gives Congress its confidence ratings from American voters?  The expertise among legislators on subjects for which they intend to dictate choices to the electorate.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee offered her expert review of the AR-15, which apparently takes five men to lift and shoots cannonballs from its muzzle.

Sheila Jackson Lee Confuses AR-15 for 10 Moving Boxes and a Heavy Machine Gun.  Introducing her new gun control legislation, Congresscritter Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) proved conclusively that she's just too uninformed to go anywhere near the subject.  She claims to have "held an AR-15 in my hand," which weighed as much as "10 boxes that you might be moving."  She also claimed the rifle fired a .50 caliber round, and that "these kinds of bullets need to be licensed and do not need to be on the street."  [Video clip]  If Lee wants to ban 90-pound .50 caliber AR-15s, I say, "Why not?"  While she's at it, Lee could put a ban on flying cars, unicorns, and doing seven impossible things before breakfast.  If Lee wants to get heavy .50 machine guns off the streets, well, first she's going to have to get some on the streets.

Corey Lewandowski Mocks Sheila Jackson Lee's Line of Questioning: 'It Was Just a Rant'.  Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski mocked Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's (D-TX) line of questioning during his appearance before the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday, assessing that she offered "just a rant."

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In this case, I agree with Mr. Lewandowski.  Sheila Jackson Lee was probably just reading a list of talking point that someone else had written.  She was making a speech for the benefit of the TV cameras.  She was generating TV footage for the purpose of getting re-elected, as I suspect she intends to do every two years for the rest of her life.

Sheila Jackson Lee's Bogus 'Russian Strategy' Conspiracy From The Hope Hicks Hearing.  The transcript from Hope Hicks' hearing before Congress relating to the 2016 Russian interference investigation was released last night but all it really did was make the Democratic Party leaders look like a bunch of jerks.  However, the official Congressional record also showed just how much the Dems were attempting to goad Hicks into saying something not damaging to Trump from a legal standpoint, but just enough to give them campaign fodder they can use for fundraising. [...] If you enjoy reading politically motivated and witch hunt-centric Congressional testimonies, the full "Russian Strategy" saga begins on page 42.

Sheila Jackson Lee Resigns from Key Posts After Being Sued for Retaliation Against Staffer.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) will resign from two high-profile positions after being sued for retaliation against a staffer, according to a Wednesday report.  The New York Times states Jackson will resign as chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and temporarily step down from her House Judiciary subcommittee chairmanship.  The Times, citing officials familiar with the matter, reports some of the foundation's board members told Jackson Lee last week that she would face a "vote of removal" if she did not resign.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee ousted as chair of Congressional Black Caucus Foundation after lawsuit.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has been pushed out as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation after she was accused in a lawsuit last week of retaliating against an employee who complained of being raped.  She also lost her post as the top Democrat on a Judiciary Committee's crime, terrorism and homeland security subcommittee, which she had been in line to chair in the new Congress.  Despite being the third-ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, she does not have any subcommittee chairmanships, according to the list Democrats announced Wednesday afternoon [1/23/2019].

Sheila Jackson Lee Resigns from Head of Congressional Black Caucus.  Recently, a lawsuit was filed by a former aide to Rep. Lee, alleging that she was fired after reporting that an employee of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation raped her.  The litigant says that Lee deliberately fired her after she let it be known that she was planning to sue the Foundation.  Lee has stayed relatively quiet on the issue.  But, her silence wasn't enough to ward off some pressure to step down.  And, according to the New York Times, Lee is stepping away from not just one but two powerful positions in Congress.

Jackson Lee steps down from 2 leadership posts after sex assault lawsuit.  Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas is stepping down from two leadership positions following a lawsuit from a former employee who says her sexual assault complaint was mishandled.

Lawsuit Claims Sheila Jackson Lee Fired a Staffer to Cover Up a Rape.  A former aide to Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas filed a civil suit against the lawmaker and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF), alleging she was fired for threatening legal action against the Foundation relating to a sexual assault.  The complaint alleges Jackson Lee and the CBCF intentionally inflicted emotional distress, unlawfully interfered with contract, and violated the Congressional Accountability Act and Washington, D.C.'s human rights statute.  It is the second time in recent years a former employee sued the congresswoman for her infamous employment practices.  The lawsuit was filed Jan. 11 in Washington's federal trial court and names both Jackson Lee's office and the Foundation as defendants.  The plaintiff, referred to in court filings as "Jane Doe," is seeking damages.

Sheila Jackson-Lee Quietly Introduces Bill To Block Taxpayer Money From Building The Wall.  Democrat congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee quietly introduced a bill called the "Protect American Taxpayers and Secure Border Act."  The bill, with a title that means the exact opposite of what it proposes, was introduced on December 19 and now sits in the House Judiciary and Homeland Security committees.

The Sheila Jackson Lee First Class Airfare Heist Story Isn't Quite Over Yet.  During the Christmas break last month we looked at the rather odd story of an air traveler who was bumped from her first class seat on a United Flight from Texas to Washington by Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.  The passenger in question was Jean-Marie Simon, and United claimed that she had mistakenly canceled her own flight using the app on her phone and then reassigned the newly open, first-row seat to Jackson Lee.  The congresswoman initially blamed it on racism (of course), which was an odd charge considering that Simon is a human rights activist.

Meet Sheila Jackson Lee, Likely Candidate for Secretary of Transportation in Next Democrat Presidency.  The recent dustup during which ultra-left congresscritter Sheila Jackson Lee denounced schoolteacher Jean-Marie Simon as racist for objecting to being bumped to the economy section so that Jackson Lee could have her seat was hardly out of character: [...] Being allegedly oppressed by racism tends to give moonbats that attitude, especially after they get their claws onto power.  Jackson Lee is also known for demanding that her drivers run red lights and drive on the highway shoulder.  These antics have caused at least one accident.

Race Card:  Rep. Jackson Lee Says United Airplane Incident Happened Because She's an 'African-American Woman'.  Over Christmas weekend a story broke of a woman who claimed to have had her first class airline seat taken from her only to see it given to Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.  By the day after Christmas, the pressure must have been too heavy for Lee to bear because she went on a tweet storm pointing fingers in all directions.  The story broke on Sunday, Dec. 24, with 63-year-old Jean-Marie Simon, a D.C. schoolteacher and attorney, alleging that United Airlines summarily removed her from her pre-paid, first class seat on a flight between Houston, Texas, and Washington DC.  But, when she boarded the Dec. 18 flight, Simon said she discovered that the seat had been given away to Rep. Lee, a Texas Democrat.

Congresswoman who 'bumped' passenger from flight plays the race card.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who was accused by a United Airlines passenger of bumping her from a first-class seat, said in a Twitter screed on Tuesday that she believes the incident is all about race.  "Since this was not any fault of mine, the way the individual continued to act appeared to be, upon reflection, because I was an African American woman, seemingly an easy target along with the African American flight attendant who was very, very nice," the Texas Democrat wrote in a post.  "This saddens me, especially at this time of year given all of the things we have to work on to help people."

Sheila Jackson Lee's Long History Of Being An Entitled 'Queen'.  Sheila Jackson Lee has been a congresswoman for over 20 years.  However, she acts far more like an arrogant monarch than a humble servant of the people.  The Texas Democrat has regularly abused her power and position to demand and receive special treatment from private companies, demean and harass subordinates, and reap untold benefits of being "The Queen."  When her abusive behavior comes to light, Jackson Lee often claims her opponents are racist.  Jackson Lee's most recent abuse of power comes at the expense of teacher Jean-Marie Simon who was allegedly bumped from her first class seat when Jackson-Lee demanded it.

Woman accused of racism by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is human-rights activist.  The woman Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee accused of racism is a celebrated photojournalist who helped document human-rights abuses in war-torn Guatemala during the 1980s.  Jean-Marie Simon, whose first-class seat on a United Airlines flight was given to Ms. Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat, lived and worked in Guatemala during the turbulent decade that saw the military seize control of the government in a coup.  Hundreds of thousands of Guatemalans were killed or "disappeared" during the conflict.

Congresswoman involved in race row on plane was chauffeured a block to Congress and was nearly banished from an airline before.  Several decades worth of coverage of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee suggests she's behaved badly on planes — and on automobiles — before this week's incident.  The latest airplane drama came this week when a United Airlines passenger said she was booted from her first class seat to accommodate the Texas Democrat, who shot back by saying the only reason the woman complained was because Jackson Lee is black.  But previous reports show the House member, who was elected in 1994, has had a history of transportation drama, including berating flight attendants on first class flights and making her Congressional staff drive her one block, while waiting on her for hours and disrupting traffic.

Sheila Jackson Lee, Limousine Liberal.  It's about 200 paces from the awning of Jackson Lee's Capitol Hill apartment to the marbled steps of the Cannon House Office Building, where her office is.  Most people think the walk is a pleasant one.  Red-brick townhouses give onto tree-lined streets; crossing guards ensure no one is run over.  It's the kind of neighborhood where you might expect to find the Republican party's headquarters — and do.  They're right next door to Jackson Lee's building.  In a city that consistently ranks among the nation's worst for commuting, Jackson Lee would seem to have it made.  But apparently it's not convenient enough.  Jackson Lee is routinely chauffeured the one short block to work — in a government car, by a member of her staff, at the taxpayers' expense.  And apparently in violation of House rules.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee:  Terror of the skies since 1995.  When United booted a paying customer from first class to make room for a member of Congress, the Internet erupted with good and healthy egalitarian outrage.  But don't blame the airline.  The congresswoman in question was Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas.  And until she lands on the no-fly list, no airline is safe.  Jackson Lee has been terrorizing the skies since coming to Congress in 1995.  The Democrat has developed a reputation for making life hell for any clerk, stewardess, or pilot unwilling or unable to make her three-and-a-half-hour flight anything less than glamorous.  She takes advantage of federal travel perks to book multiple flights (only to cancel at the last minute and at no charge).  She demands an upgrade to premier seats.  She expects, in her words, "to be treated like a queen."

Woman accuses United of giving her seat to Houston's Sheila Jackson Lee.  A passenger on a flight from Houston to Washington D.C. has accused United Airlines of giving her first-class seat to U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.  D-Houston, and then threatening to remove her from the plane for complaining and snapping a photo of the Houston congresswoman.  "It was just so completely humiliating," said Jean-Marie Simon, a 63-year-old attorney and private school teacher who used 140,000 miles on Dec. 3 to purchase the first-class tickets to take her from Washington D.C. to Guatemala and back home.

United apologizes to passenger booted for congresswoman.  United Airlines has apologized to a female passenger and given her a $500 travel voucher after she accused the company of giving away her first-class seat to a Texas congresswoman, an airline spokesperson said Monday [12/25/2017].  Jean-Marie Simon, 63, of Washington, DC, claimed she was tossed aside to make way for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Houston Democrat, during a Dec. 18 flight.  Airline officials told reporters that their internal systems showed that she canceled her trip following a weather delay, but Simon denies doing this.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's Campaign Disbursed Nearly $10K For Super Bowl Tickets.  The campaign of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee disbursed nearly $10,000 of its funds for Super Bowl LI tickets, according to Federal Election Commission filings.  This year's Super Bowl between the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots, which took place on Feb. 5, was held at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas.  Jackson Lee represents Texas's 18th Congressional District, which includes most of the central Houston area.  The congresswoman's campaign committee is shown to have made two separate transactions pertaining to Super Bowl tickets days before and after the event.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee confuses Wikipedia with WikiLeaks.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, denounced the wrong website on Friday [10/21/2016] for releasing thousands of hacked emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta.  "You know that I'm going to first of all denounce the utilization of this intrusion by Wikipedia through the Russian intrusion," Jackson Lee said in an interview with MSNBC on Friday.  "This is what it's about.  Espionage just like what was said over these last couple of days.  We need to be concerned about the intrusion of Russia and Putin in these elections."

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee claims Constitution is 400 years old.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat representing Texas, suggested during a recent address to congressional colleagues that the Constitution and the American system of governance has lasted about 400 years — insinuating that our guiding legal document was signed around 1614.  Her statements, as picked up [by] The Washington Free Beacon:  "Maybe I should offer a good thanks to the distinguished members of the majority, the Republicans, my chairman and others, for giving us an opportunity to have a deliberative constitutional discussion that reinforces the sanctity of this nation and how well it is that we have lasted some 400 years, operating under a Constitution that clearly defines what is constitutional and what is not."

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If the Constitution "clearly defines what is constitutional and what is not," why do Sheila Jackson Lee's fellow Democrats claim is there a constitutional right to abortion, same-sex marriage, affirmative action, food stamps, Social Security, subsidized housing, education, medical insurance, and guaranteed employment?  None of that is mentioned in the Constitution.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's Staff Threatens Taxpayer For Asking About Her Impeachment Claims.  Congressional approval ratings are at a historic low, and after what has happened over the course of the last twenty four hours — I can see why.  On the House floor Wednesday [7/30/2014], longtime Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee made the startling claim that "We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush, because as an executive, he had the authority."  These are the moments when you say "Really?"  The problem here is that Rep. Lee lied to the American People inside the People's House.  Good thing for her that when you make speeches on the floor of the House of Representatives you are not under oath or under the threat of perjury.

Democrat Election Fraud Openly Running Rampant.  Aided by Socialist Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) and a George Soros funded group, WND advises that poll watchers are being threatened with, amongst other things, Obama's DOJ:  "Houston Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who was seen inside the polling location electioneering and threatening to turn a poll-watcher's name to the Department of Justice for voter intimidation."  Note:  It appears that Michele Obama is not the only Marxist Democrat who is now allowed to illegally electioneer.

The Left's Voter Fraud Whitewash.  Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.  It's the Democrats' coping mechanism for midterm election voter fraud.  Faced with multiple reports of early voting irregularities and election shenanigans across the country, left-wing groups are playing dumb, deaf and blind.  Voter fraud?  What voter fraud?  More cunningly, these organizations are seeking to marginalize complaints about election integrity by casting citizen watchdog efforts as racist "scare tactics."

The Democrats' Final Recourse:  Massive Vote Fraud.  Boulder City, NV resident Joyce Ferrara says that when she and several others went to vote for Sharon Angle, they found that Senator Harry Reid's name was already checked off.  In Dallas County, TX's congressional district 30, Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson's name was the only one on the ballot in a few locations (no, she isn't running unopposed).  And some states have been late in mailing out military absentee ballots, whose recipients, interestingly, are known for their Republican leanings.  These happenings are generally referred to as "mistakes" and "glitches," but if that's all they are, then we're witnessing a truly historic anomaly.  Because either the mainstream media is now suppressing stories of mistakes and glitches benefiting Republicans, or the laws of probability have suddenly been rescinded and tossed coins are coming up donkey tails every time.

Poll Watcher Witnesses Misconduct in Houston.  We are hearing stories about voter fraud and leftist shenanigans from all over.  For instance, watch this video of a poll watcher's story about what she has seen during early voting in Houston, Texas.  This is eyewitness testimony to voter fraud in the form of a poll worker casting votes on behalf of voters...

On the Road With the King Street Patriots of Houston, Texas.  The left is in high dudgeon here in the 18th Congressional District in Houston, Texas.  Democrat Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a long-time left-winger, has held this seat since 1995 and she isn't going to go away quietly.  She is quite upset at the gall of a new conservative group that launched a poll watching effort in her district.

Texas Patriots Facing The Left's Smear Machine.  True The Vote made news early this month when initiative Chief Catherine Engelbrecht discovered that a former Service Employee International Union (SEIU) member had turned in over 23 thousand fraudulent voter registration cards.  Englebrecht and the King Streeters then decided that they would initiate a grassroots poll-watching effort to make sure that the election was fair and that all laws and regulations were properly observed. ... Engelbrecht and the King Streeters fanned out across Harris County to observe — and report if necessary — any improprieties they encountered at voting places, many in minority communities.  The reaction was quick and virulently negative.

More about leftist voter fraud.

Caution:  This article is replete with profanity.
Congressional bosses from Hell: Sheila Jackson Lee.  Capitol Hill is famous for its demanding, insensitive bosses.  Yet even by the harsh standards of Congress, Sheila Jackson Lee stands out.  She may be the worst boss in Washington.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and racial harassment laws.  Press coverage of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Tex., usually focuses on her megalomania ("'I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen,' Jackson-Lee once said"), her race-baiting (like claiming the Tea Party is an offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan, and that the government's response to Hurricane Katrina was racist), and her amazing ignorance (like not knowing that astronauts landed on the Moon, not Mars; and not knowing what happened in the Vietnam War).  But being a race-baiting megalomaniac is no crime.  It is against the law, however, to racially harass your employees.

Sheila Jackson Lee: Privatizing Airport Security Means Another 9/11.  Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee apparently believes that unless you have unionized government workers deemed as "officers" feeling you up at the airport, another 9-11 is on its way.  No surprise coming from the Congresswoman who is exempt from the invasive procedures the rest of us have to go through just to take a flight.

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She's exempt from airport searches?  Really?  Why wasn't Senator Rand Paul exempt on January 23?

Report says Sheila Jackson Lee steered more than $5 million to husband's employer.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) steered more than $5 million in tax dollars to the University of Houston, where her husband is an official.  The Washington Post revealed in an investigative report dubbed "Family Ties" that Jackson ensured her husband's university was well subsidized.

Washington Post: Sheila Jackson Lee steered millions to UH while husband worked there.  A Washington Post report says Houston Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee steered millions of tax dollars to the university where her husband worked.  The report says Jackson Lee helped send more than $5 million to the University of Houston while her husband was vice president of student affairs.

Sheila Jackson Lee Burned in New Book.  A new book portrays well-dressed Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee as a "woman of a certain rage," and discusses her annoying habits and disrespectful attitude.

Sheila Jackson Lee Declares Rodney King a 'Great Philosopher'.  On Friday [6/8/2012] in response to a Fox News reporter's question about Obamacare, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), a University of Virginia Law graduate, invoked the name of Rodney King calling him a "great philosopher."  Not since Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) expressed concern that the addition of 8,000 service personnel and their families onto the island of Guam might cause it to tip over have Americans heard such moronic craziness.  Do we really pay the Queen of Racism $174,000 per year?

Sheila Jackson Lee blames Bush for Fast and Furious.  "This Fast and Furious debacle started under the Bush administration," Jackson Lee declared.  "And it is been evidenced by various reports that it started under the ATL office in Arizona unbeknownst to leadership in Washington DC, at least leadership that came in under the Obama administration in this instance, Eric Holder."  Attempts by Democrats to pin the Fast and Furious operation on Bush, however, don't stand.

Finance filings show jet-setting on private groups' dime.  U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee traveled to Africa and Haiti last year on private groups' dime while a fellow Houston-area congressman, Ted Poe, stayed stateside. … Jackson Lee headed to Haiti in October as part of what the sponsor, The Institute of the Black World 21st Century, billed as a pilgrimage to bring economic revival to Milot, a town located at the base of a mountaintop fortress.

Congressional bully pushes anti-bullying legislation.  The congresswoman known for giving her staffers profanity-laced nicknames, throwing temper tantrums and, at times, throwing objects, has introduced anti-bullying legislation.  In March 2011, The Daily Caller ran an expose of Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's treatment of her staff, complete with tears, shouting, waiting, cursing and quitting (Jackson Lee has one of the highest turnovers on Capitol Hill).

By All Means, Let's Waste Money We Don't Have on Sheila Jackson Lee's Anti-Bullying Bill.  We're borrowing from China to deal with bullies on American schoolyards. [...] Democrats have no credibility on the subject of bullying, full stop.  Without bullying, they would hardly win any elections.  "Bullying is not just a schoolyard anymore, it is a crisis that's taking over our nation," she [Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee] said.  Yeah, it took over our nation in 2008.

Joe Biden's Gaffes Call For A Thorough Neurological Examination.  [Scroll down]  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) proclaimed on the House floor that "victory had been achieved" by the United States in the Vietnam war and that, "[t]oday, we have two Vietnams; side-by-side, North and South, exchanging and working.  We may not agree with all that North Vietnam is doing, but they are living in peace."  The reality is, of course, that since the withdrawal of the United States in 1975 — three years after Lee graduated from college (with a degree in Political Science) — what used to be North and South Vietnam have been united under a single communist government.  Rep. Lee is a member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.  It was also Rep. Lee who during a visit to the Jet Propulsion Lab asked a NASA scientist whether the Mars Pathfinder probe had photographed the flag that astronaut Neil Armstrong had left behind in 1969.

Shelia Jackson Lee warns 'rights' would be cut by Romney.  On MSNBC's Tuesday [9/4/2012] coverage of the Democratic National Convention, Texas Democratic Rep. Shelia Jackson Lee warned that social and civil rights could be denied for "promises" of economic rights if Mitt Romney defeats President Barack Obama in November.

Systemic Medicare Fraud Under Houston's Sheila Jackson Lee.  Will Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee have to distance herself from Houston's Riverside General Hospital now that top administrators have been caught in a major Medicare fraud scam?  Last week's roundup makes me wonder why the Obama administration is cracking down on Medicare/Medicaid fraud in the first place.  Aren't they the ones shelling out hundreds of millions to their Solyndra-like cronies with no consequences?

Politicizing other people's grief:
House Dem: 'Turn in your guns'.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on Wednesday afternoon urged people to turn in their guns, arguing it would be an appropriate response to last week's mass shooting in Newtown, Conn.

Bless her heart...
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Claims to be a 'Freed Slave,' Opposes All Government Spending Cuts.  Our Houston dynamo's understanding of economics, and history, needs a little work.  "I stand here as a freed slave because this Congress came together.  Are we going to be able to do it today to free America?"  Congress didn't "come together" to free the slaves.  Southern members of Jackson Lee's Democratic Party seceded from the union to preserve slavery, triggering a civil war.  Republican President Abe Lincoln freed the slaves, in whose number Lee never numbered as she was born nearly a century too late, via the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.

Sheila Jackson-Lee: "Don't Condemn the Gangbangers. Blame the Guns.".  You have to ask yourself, how did this woman ever get elected to Congress?

Congresswoman's Round-the-World Trip Cost Taxpayers $23K.  The House Judiciary Committee reported Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, traveled around the world on an official trip in February that cost $23,646.  The Feb. 16-22 trip on commercial flights was to Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia.

Black caucus member to GOP: 'You all do not care about the 47 percent'.  As lawmakers began debating the rules of debate on the bill, more liberal Democrats and members of the CBC lined up to read similar messages of opposition, saying that the new farm bill "hurts the children of America" or "increases hunger in America."  "Is this what you call compassionate conservatism?" Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) asked at one point.  CBC member Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said stripping food stamps from farm bill constituted the "ripping apart of our literal hearts."

Judge: Discrimination suit against Rep. Jackson Lee can proceed.  A judge has refused to dismiss a federal lawsuit accusing Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of discriminating against and mocking a disabled staffer — charges the Texas Democrat denies.  The two-year old suit, first reported by The Washington Times in 2011, was filed by former legislative director Mona Floyd, who declined to comment Tuesday [10/22/2013].  Ms. Floyd said in court papers that Mrs. Jackson Lee, a 10-term congresswoman from Houston, refused to accommodate her debilitating eye condition called monocular vision.

Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee Calls for Martial Law.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) is not known for being the sharpest tool in the shed.  She has said some pretty outrageous things in the past, most recently referring to herself as a 'freed slave'.  She's also known for being a far left, Obama defending, Progressive hack.  In addition, she came under fire for her atrocious treatment of her staff which led some to deem her the 'boss from hell'.  But, none of this compares to what Jackson Lee said on the floor of the House on Monday [10/7/2013].

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Change the Word 'Welfare' to 'Transitional Living Fund'.  In a brief speech on the House floor Wednesday [1/8/2014], Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) hailed the war on poverty, endorsed government welfare programs, and said the "safety net has to be something for all of us."  "Maybe the word welfare should be changed to something of, 'a transitional living fund.'  For that is what it is — for people to be able to live," she said.

Change the Name to Change the Game.  While most see 1984 as a condemnation of massive state control, Progressive Democrats apparently look at it as sort of a user's manual.  Well, at least as far as the nomenclature used to describe government actions is concerned.  Think of Orwell's newspeak.  For instance, we don't have wars any more.  No, no.  We have "overseas contingency operations."  There is no longer any terrorism in the world.  That has been replaced by "man-caused disasters." [...] Sheila Jackson Lee must have brushed up on her Orwell just before the speech because she recommended a change in the term "welfare" to the phrase "a transitional living fund."

Democratic congresswoman boasts her new group's 'number one agenda' is to draft executive orders to help Obama circumvent Congress.  A top Democratic congresswoman from Texas boasted recently that a new 'Full Employment Caucus' of liberal lawmakers in Washington will make its 'number one agenda' providing the White House with ready-made executive orders that President Barack Obama can use to implement his agenda without seeking the approval of Republicans in Congress.  Sheila Jackson Lee, a far-left legislator who has served in Congress since 1995, said during a Jan. 29 press conference the new caucus will be working to 'give President Obama a number of executive orders that he can sign with pride and strength.'

Rep. Jackson Lee: 'We'll Give President Obama a Number of Executive Orders'.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) says that the newly launched Congressional Full Employment Caucus will "give President Obama a number of executive orders that he can sign."  Jackson Lee made the statement while gathered with Democrats on January 29th to announce the establishment of the Full Employment Caucus.

New Congressional Caucus Wants To Make Law Illegally.  A new caucus believes its chief purpose is to provide the president with executive orders to sign.  That's not lawmakers' job, but in today's Washington, constitutional limits seem to mean little.  Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of the Congressional Full Employment Caucus says "we'll give President Obama a number of executive orders that he can sign with pride and strength.  "I think that should be our number one agenda," she said.  "Let's write up these executive orders — draft them, of course — and ask the president to stand with us on full employment."

Sheila Jackson Lee: 'Be prepared' for immigration protests.  During a House panel hearing on asylum fraud, Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee warned her committee colleagues to "be prepared" for immigration protests. [...] At the beginning of the hearing, pro-immigration reform protesters shouted, "Citizenship now! Families together!" at lawmakers in the chamber before they were escorted out of the hearing room.  Reform Immigration FOR America and the Fair Immigration Reform Movement claimed credit for the disruption.

Meet Some Obamacare Navigators at Jackson Lee Event in Houston.  Houston residents will have an opportunity to meet some of Obamacare's mysterious navigators at a "Rock-Enroll" party tomorrow in Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee's (D-Texas) district.  The navigators have been a key point of Republican criticism against the healthcare law's rollout.  "This is reported, interestingly enough, that in California with the so-called navigators, the people who are the certified navigators, over 40 of them are convicted criminals," Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said on the floor this week.  "Forty convicted criminals were hired and certified, certified, to be navigators in California in spite of the fact that people are being asked to give personal information, health information, financial information, to these navigators."  Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said those reports "confirm my worst fears."

Obviously a public school student.
Sheila Jackson Lee Thinks the Constitution is 400 Years Old.  "Maybe I should offer a good thanks to the distinguished members of the majority, the Republicans, my chairman and others, for giving us an opportunity to have a deliberative constitutional discussion that reinforces the sanctity of this nation and how well it is that we have lasted some 400 years, operating under a constitution that clearly defines what is constitutional and what is not," she said.

Sheila Jackson-Lee, performance artist?  Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee is at it again, this time claiming that the Constitution is 400 years old.

America's Dumbest Congresswoman?  Anyone who can't guess the age of the Constitution to within a century and a half and who habitually addresses a staffer as "you stupid m*****f*****" should probably be run out of office.  Fortunately for Sheila Jackson Lee, she's a Democrat, so she has no worries.

The Editor says...
I don't find her statements terribly alarming, because unfortunately Congressman Sheila Jackson Lee really does represent the residents of her district.

Dem wears flip-flops to House floor.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee sporting a pair of white flip-flops with her pearls while on the House floor on Monday [9/8/2014].  While the Texas Democrat was all business on top — wearing a red suit jacket with a black and white scarf and pearl necklace — she was ready to hit the beach on the bottom, with her toe-baring shoes.  The House feed on C-SPAN did not capture the summer recess-worthy thongs.

Jackson Lee: GOP Opposition to Immigration Action 'an Insult to the American People's Intellect'.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said the GOP is delivering "an insult to the American people's intellect" through its opposition to immigration reform.  Jackson Lee, the ranking member on the Border and Maritime Security Subcommittee of the House Homeland Security Committee, rallied with local leaders in Houston on Sunday for President Obama's promised executive action on immigration.  The congresswoman argued that schools, hospitals, the arts, businesses and families were suffering because Congress hadn't passed comprehensive immigration reform.

Sheila Jackson Lee: 'Selfish' for America to Deny Illegals Amnesty, Work Permits.  On Tuesday [11/18/2014], Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) said President Barack Obama's forthcoming unilateral action on immigration is not "amnesty" and declared that America would be "selfish" to deny illegal immigrants temporary work permits and amnesty.  Speaking on the House floor, Jackson Lee, who handed out candy to illegal immigrant juveniles this summer at detention centers, mentioned that Texas has 1.3 [sic] illegal immigrants and said she loves "living in a country that is known around the world for its humanitarian generosity."

Be it Resolved, Jacko a "global humanitarian".  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) has embraced the inevitable:  introducing a resolution honoring global "humanitarian" Michael Jackson — certain to delight Republicans who see Jacko as a great wedge issue.  So far, she's got only a single co-sponsor:  Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.).

Jackson's Death Sparks Fierce Debate in Congress.  Michael Jackson's death — and controversial life — has sparked a fierce debate in Congress, with one Democrat introducing a resolution to honor the King of Pop as a "humanitarian" and a Republican representative blasting America's obsession with a "lowlife."  Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-Texas, is calling on Congress to recognize Jackson as a "global humanitarian and a noted leader in the fight against worldwide hunger and medical crises"...

A Congress Full of Michael Jackson Wannabes.  On June 26, Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-Texas, and Rep. Diane Watson, D-Calif., introduced a resolution on the floor of the House celebrating the King of Pop.  Their resolution runs a full 1,539 words, almost six times as long as Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. ... According to Congress, Jackson is the Madame Curie of 1980s rock.

Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee's Personal Brand of Revisionist History.  Here's an interesting history lesson from a U.S. member of Congress — Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-Texas.  Not only does she think we won the war in Vietnam, but she's apparently under the impression that the country is still divided along the 17th parallel. ... That kind of history can't even be classified as "revisionist," it's just plain idiotic.

The Editor says...
Maybe her side DID win the war.  Think about it.

Sheila Jackson Lee on Chinese Health Care.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D., Texas) made headlines this week for claiming that health-care repeal means "killing Americans."  In an exchange with National Review Online at the Capitol tonight [1/19/2011], she used China as an example of universal coverage.

Sheila Jackson Lee: Obamacare is a Consitutional Right.  The second a massive, unpopular government entitlement program enters its implementation phase, it instantaneously transforms into a sacrosanct Constitutional right.  That's the word from noted Constitutional scholar Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX).

Sheila Jackson Lee Says Repealing ObamaCare Violates Constitution.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas, said on Tuesday afternoon [1/18/2011] that repealing the national health care law would violate the Constitution.  Arguing that the Commerce Clause provides the constitutional basis for ObamaCare, Jackson Lee said repealing the law by passing Republicans' H.R. 2 violates both the Fifth Amendment's right to due process and the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause.

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Likens Islamic Radicals to 'Christian Militants' in U.S.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D.-Texas) likened "Christian militants" to Islamic radicals in a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday [6/15/2011], suggesting they posed a comparable threat to the rule of law in the United States.  At the same hearing, a witness told the committee that the conversion of U.S. prison inmates to radical Islam is an "evolving threat" to national security.

'Christian Militants' Might 'Bring Down the Country'.  At a congressional hearing on Muslim radicalization in U.S. prisons, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said that investigators needed to analyze Christian militants in America because they too might try to "bring down the country."

Sheila Jackson Lee's Compassionate Liberalism.  There are few members of Congress more churlish and arrogant that Texas Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee.  Several years ago Hill staffers voted her the biggest windbag and one of the meanest people in Washington.  So it comes as little surprise she's being sued by a former staffer who's claiming Jackson Lee verbally abused her and mocked her disability.

Jackson Lee: Congress complicating debt ceiling because Obama is black.  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on Friday [7/15/2011] strongly suggested that members of Congress are making it difficult for President Obama to raise the debt ceiling because of his race.  "I do not understand what I think is the maligning and maliciousness [toward] this president," said Jackson Lee, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.  "Why is he different?  And in my community, that is the question that we raise.

Trumping the Race Card.  What does racial prejudice have to do with the debt ceiling debate?  For the average person the answer to this question isn't obvious.  But according to Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, it is the most salient factor that's shaping the debate.  Last Friday the congresswoman delivered a stunning speech on the House floor where she spuriously implied that Republican opposition to raising the debt limit stemmed from their virulent racism.

Jackson Lee accused of bias? Astonishing.  Over the years, many of us have followed with mild amusement the tales of purported misbehavior of the not-so-gentlewoman from Texas, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.  She's been ranked the "meanest" member of the U.S. House by Washingtonian Magazine.  A Daily Caller exposé earlier this year suggested she's the worst boss in Washington.  A recent Houston Chronicle analysis showed her office has the highest turnover, by far, in the Houston congressional delegation.  She goes through chiefs of staff the way some people go through sneakers:  11 since 2000.

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee — And the Race Card.  Black U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, says "the minority community" blames racism for the Republican refusal to increase the debt limit without conditions.




Jon Corzine
Former US Senator from New Jersey


Former Dem Lawmaker Jon Corzine, MF Global Colleagues Reach $64.5M Settlement.  Jon Corzine, a former Democratic New Jersey senator and governor, agreed with fellow former directors and officers at MF Global Holdings to settle an investor lawsuit for $64.5 million, NJ.com reported.  In reaching the settlement, Corzine, who assumed the position of CEO at MF Global in 2010 and weathered the firm's bankruptcy proceedings until it eventually collapsed, and his fellow executives will resolve allegations made by investors that they made false claims about MF Global's control and liquidity in company filings.

Covering for Corzine.  It has been a year since trading firm MF Global — run by ex-Goldman Sachs CEO and Democratic New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine — collapsed, taking $1.6 billion in client funds with it.  Which raises interesting questions:  [starting with] Why has there been so little movement in the criminal probe of the collapse?

Why Is Jon Corzine Still at Liberty?  Jon Corzine, epitome of the .01%, former head of Goldman Sachs, former U.S. senator and governor of New Jersey:  why is he still at liberty?  Why is he padding about dispensing ridiculous economic advice to terminally credulous politicians like Joe Biden ("The first thing we did was call Jon Corzine," said our vice president within weeks of taking office). ... Who is more repulsive, Senator Corzine or Vice President Biden?  I'm not sure we have instruments accurate enough to measure that.

Friday News Dump: MF Corzine Actually Lost $1.6 Billion.  Hey, what's another $400 million when you're a well-connected liberal Democrat?

$600 million missing at MF Global.  A government regulator said in court Wednesday [11/2/2011] that roughly $600 million is missing from the books of bankrupt brokerage MF Global.  The firm, headed by former New Jersey governor and Goldman Sachs CEO Jon Corzine, filed for Chapter 11 protection on Monday following a panic from investors over its holdings of risky European debt.

Corzine, top Obama fundraiser, under FBI investigation.  Jon Corzine, now the center of an FBI investigation into the handling of hundreds of millions of dollars invested in his securities firm, was one of the leading Wall Street fundraisers for President Obama's campaign and suggested to investors that he might take a top administration post if the president were re-elected.

Corzine Out as Search for MF Global Funds Continues.  The missing customer money at MF Global is still missing.  On Friday [11/4/2011], funds from the bankrupt brokerage firm suddenly surfaced at JPMorgan Chase.  Washington and Wall Street, for a moment, were hopeful it was the money they had been searching for all week.  But then, just as quickly, nearly everyone agreed it was not the missing money, and the hunt was on again.

Corzine, cash & corruption.  New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine really has no shame.  Just hours after Bergen County's longtime Democratic machine boss, Joseph Ferriero, was convicted Thursday [10/22/2009] on three federal felony corruption counts — which could land him in prison for 20 years — New Jersey's governor proudly defended having written him personal checks totaling nearly a half-million dollars.  That's right:  Corzine, the Wall Street multimillionaire, and his family have funneled no less than $441,600 of their own money to keep Ferriero's arrogant political machine rolling.

Democratic Party Boss Convicted; Christie Accuses Corzine of Enabling Corruption.  Today a jury found Joe Ferriero, former chairman of the Bergen County Democratic Organization, guilty of one count of conspiracy to defraud and two counts of mail fraud.  Guess how much money Jon Corzine and his family gave to Ferriero over the years?  $441,600.




Representative Laura Richardson

Democratic Rep Laura Richardson could face jail time for ethics violations.  New documents disclosed in a complaint from the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) appear to show California Democrat Rep. Laura Richardson and her staff clearly violating congressional ethics rules and potentially federal law.  The documents show Richardson using official taxpayer resources for political events, including fundraisers.

House to launch ethics investigation of Rep. Laura Richardson.  The House Ethics Committee voted Thursday [11/3/2011] to launch an investigation into whether Rep. Laura Richardson pressured her congressional staff to work on her campaign, adding to her political troubles as she faces a tough reelection campaign next year.

Report: Ethics panel launches investigation into Rep. Richardson.  The House Ethics Committee announced on Friday [11/4/2011] that it has launched an investigation into Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Calif.).  The investigative subcommittee is looking into whether the three-term lawmaker violated House rules and pressured her congressional staff to work on her campaign.  Richardson's investigation is the third probe into a black lawmaker that the secretive Ethics panel has launched this year.  Reps. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) are also under investigation.

Rep. Laura Richardson charges ethics committee with discrimination.  Rep. Laura Richardson suggested Thursday [11/3/2011] that the House Ethics Committee is targeting non-white members of Congress following a decision by the committee to open an investigation into the California Democrat's conduct.  The committee voted unanimously Thursday to create an investigative subcommittee to probe complaints that Richardson threatened to dismiss members of her congressional staff if they did not work on her 2010 re-election campaign, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Rep. Richardson to Face Full Ethics Probe?  The House Ethics Committee may soon conduct a complete investigation of Congresswoman Laura Richardson (D-CA).  She has been under investigation for some time now for allegations that her staff undertook political activities while working on government time.  As reported this week by John Bresnahan in Politico, Ethics Committee staff members have been looking into potential Richardson violations since last year.

Ethics Committee finds Rep. Laura Richardson guilty on seven counts.  The House Ethics Committee issued a blistering report on Wednesday [8/1/2012] finding Rep. Laura Richardson guilty of improperly pressuring her official staff to campaign for her, destroying evidence and tampering with witness testimony.  In an unusually scathing 16-page report, the Ethics panel depicted the California Democrat as acting with "utter disdain" for the secretive committee, which Richardson has accused of evincing racist overtones in its investigation of black members.




Representative Alcee Hastings

The problem with federal judges.  The nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court has only partly brought a spotlight on the abuse of our legal system and the Constitution by federal judges.  I have observed a fair number of judges in the forty-plus years I've practiced law, and I have observed what federal judges do with the power their "lifetime" appointments grant them.  My conclusion is that too many federal judges consider God to be just another person subject to the judge's jurisdiction.  The level of unbounded arrogance is truly astounding.  It is unbounded because impeachment is the only method of removing a judge who abuses his power.  The only federal judge impeached in recent history was Alcee Hastings, a U.S. District Judge in Florida who was impeached (with 17 counts including bribery, perjury, and obstruction of justice) and then removed from office in 1989 by the U.S. Senate.  Four years later he was elected to U.S. House of Representatives and re-elected many times thereafter.

Rep. Alcee Hastings dies, narrowing Democratic House majority to just 7.  Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., died Tuesday after a more than two-year bout with pancreatic cancer, NBC News confirmed.  Hastings, who served in the House for nearly three decades, was 84.  Throughout his career, he held several key committee assignments and leadership positions, most recently as vice chairman of the rules committee.  He had also been Florida's first Black federal trial judge, appointed to the bench in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter.

Rep. Alcee Hastings, who faces House ethics probe, paid his girlfriend more than his chief of staff.  Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., who is facing a House ethics probe for engaging in a relationship with a subordinate staff member, has been paying his girlfriend the highest salary among his staffers for nearly a decade, according to House disbursement records.  Patricia Williams, Hastings' girlfriend of at least 25 years, has been a congressional staffer in his office for 27 years, Hastings has said in press reports.  Library of Congress records show that Williams was an aide to Hastings from 2002 to 2006, before transitioning into her role as deputy district director, which she held from 2006 to 2018.  She is now the district director.  Hastings, who makes $174,000 a year as a congressman, paid Williams $168,411 in 2018, the maximum congressional staff salary.

Ethics panel investigating Rep. Hastings over relationship with staffer.  The House Ethics Committee revealed on Thursday [11/14/2019] that it is investigating Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) over whether his relationship with a member of his staff breaks House rules.  Hastings has admitted to being in a relationship with his aide, Patricia Williams, who serves as his deputy district director.  The committee is now investigating whether Hastings violated House rules with that relationship and if he received any improper gifts from that employee.  The House last year adopted a rule preventing members of Congress from having a sexual relationship with a member of their staff.

Democrat Alcee Hastings, Who Was Impeached and Removed, Makes Impeachment Rules.  Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) is the second-ranking Democrat on the House Rules Committee, which is setting the rules for the "impeachment inquiry" into President Donald Trump.  Hastings himself was impeached and removed from office in 1989 — one of only eight federal officials, all of whom have been judges, so be so relieved of their duties. [...] Hastings was removed for bribery, one of the causes enumerated in the Constitution's Impeachment Clause (Article II, Section 4).

Alcee Hastings Named Top Ethics Violator for Maxed Out Congressional Payments to Girlfriend.  A government watchdog group has named Rep. Alcee Hastings (D., Fla.) one of the top ethics violators of the year for his continued maxed out congressional payments to his longtime girlfriend, based on reporting from the Washington Free Beacon.  The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), a Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group, released the list of its top five ethics violators on Monday that includes the unknown members of Congress who are tied to sexual harassment settlement funds, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz for employing a House IT aide under criminal investigation, Rep. John Lewis for employing and compensating his current chief of staff as a campaign treasurer, Rep. Hastings for his lucrative congressional payments to his girlfriend, and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and DNC Chair Tom Perez for illegally transferring funds from his campaign committee to his former opponents.

Democrat Alcee Hastings Used $220,000 from Taxpayer Slush Fund to Pay Off and Settle Sexual Harassment Case.  Alcee Hastings, a far left Democrat from Florida used the tax payer funded slush fund to pay off a sexual harassment case made against him by a former staffer.  $220,000!  This is about three times the amount Republican Blake Farenthold used from that say tax payer slush fund to settle a similar claim.

Taxpayers Paid $220K to Settle Case Involving Rep. Alcee Hastings.  The Treasury Department paid $220,000 in a previously undisclosed agreement to settle a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment that involved Florida Democrat Alcee L. Hastings, according to documents obtained by Roll Call.  Winsome Packer, a former staff member of a congressional commission that promotes international human rights, said in documents that the congressman touched her, made unwanted sexual advances, and threatened her job.  At the time, Hastings was the chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, where Packer worked.  Hastings has called Packer's charges "ludicrous" and in documents said he never sexually harassed her.

Democratic Lawmaker Maxes Out Congressional Salary for Girlfriend.  A Democratic lawmaker is paying his longtime girlfriend the maximum congressional staffer salary of $168,411, and she has collected more than $2.2 million working for him since 2000.  Rep. Alcee Hastings (D., Fla.) has employed his girlfriend, Patricia Williams, for more than 20 years.  Williams began working for Hastings as a staff assistant in 1993 and held this position until 2006.  She became his deputy district director in 2006 and currently works out of his district office in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.  Williams has been compensated handsomely for her work with Hastings, according to publicly-available information about congressional salaries on LegiStorm.

Clinton Pardoned Hastings's Co-Conspirator.   — The convicted felon who went to jail rather than testify against Alcee Hastings.

Conservative group files suit against Rep. Hastings.  Judicial Watch, a conservative public interest group, filed suit Monday against Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) on behalf a former female employee who claims she was sexually harassed by the Democrat.  In the lawsuit, a former staffer on the United States Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Winsome Packer, alleges she was the victim of "unwelcome sexual advances" and "unwelcome touching" by then-chairman Hastings.

Rep. Alcee Hastings is now facing an ethics investigation.  Reaffirming the ongoing perception that sex scandals and Congress go together like bacon and eggs, Florida Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings is now facing an ethics investigation over allegations of sexual harassment.  A congressional ethics panel investigation into the Florida congressman is in its early stages.  The inquiry reportedly began after Judicial Watch filed a law suit on behalf of a former female employee who was the alleged victim of Hasting's "unwelcome sexual advances," "unwelcome touching" and "retaliation."

Alcee Hastings faces congressional ethics probe.  Florida Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings faces a House ethics investigation over sexual harassment charges made by a female former member of his staff.  An inquiry by the Office of Congressional Ethics began at least a month ago, Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, the conservative group that recently filed a lawsuit against Hastings on the charges, told POLITICO on Wednesday [6/22/2011].

Florida Lawmaker Faces Ethics Review.  A congressional ethics panel is investigating allegations that Florida Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings sexually harassed a member of his staff, according to people familiar with the matter.  The investigation of Mr. Hastings is being conducted by the Office of Congressional Ethics, the House's independent ethics investigative arm, and it is at a preliminary stage.

Rep. Alcee Hastings (Democrat) Faces Sexual Harassment Charges.  I'm sure feminist Nancy Pelosi will jump right in and declare that Hastings should resign for the good of the People.

Did someone mention Nancy "drain the swamp" Pelosi?

Office of Congressional Ethics: 'Probable Cause' to Believe Rep. Hastings Sexually Harassed JW Client Winsome Packer.  Last week brought a stunning development in Judicial Watch's efforts to hold Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) accountable for sexually harassing Winsome Packer when they were both involved in the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, known as the Helsinki Commission.  (Hastings was the chairman and Ms. Packer was his employee).  The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) has concluded there is "probable cause" to believe Hastings "violated House rules, standards of conduct and federal law."




Representative David Wu

Rep. Wu Talks with Pelosi about Sex Allegation.  Congressman David Wu is facing calls for his resignation over a young woman's reported accusation that she had an "unwanted sexual encounter" with the Democrat three weeks after his election victory in November.

Pressure mounts for Oregon Rep. David Wu to resign.  U.S. Rep. David Wu spoke briefly to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi by telephone Saturday [7/23/2011] after Pelosi's meeting at the White House to discuss the federal debt ceiling.

Report: Rep. Wu accused of 'unwanted sexual encounter'.  Rep. David Wu (D-Ore.) has been accused of having an "unwanted sexual encounter" with a young woman, the Oregonian reported Friday [7/22/2011].

Rep. Wu to Resign Following Accusations Over Sexual Encounter.  Democratic Rep. David Wu, facing eroding support from his party, plans to resign following allegations that he had a forced sexual encounter with a young woman last year.  The Oregon congressman said Tuesday [7/26/2011] that he would step down pending "resolution" of the debt-ceiling crisis.

David Wu resigns.  Democratic Rep. David Wu (Ore.) resigned from the House on Tuesday, just days after news broke that Wu had been accused of having an "unwanted sexual encounter" with a teenage girl.

Rep. David Wu could be eligible for $1M in pension, benefits.  Rep. David Wu could be eligible for pension and benefits worth more than $1 million in his lifetime, according to an analysis by the National Taxpayers Union.  Wu, D-Ore., first elected in 1998, announced Tuesday [7/26/2011] he will leave Congress.

A fitting end for Wu and his entourage.  [Scroll down]  No, I haven't forgotten that Bob Packwood was a red-blooded Republican, but his transgressions don't belong in the same conversation with the sordid adventures of Wu and fellow Democrats Sam Adams and Neil Goldschmidt.

A fitting end for Wu and his entourage.  [Scroll down]  No, I haven't forgotten that Bob Packwood was a red-blooded Republican, but his transgressions don't belong in the same conversation with the sordid adventures of Wu and fellow Democrats Sam Adams and Neil Goldschmidt.




Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr.

Jesse Jackson Jr. seeks to unload $2M house amid unemployed wife's lifestyle: report.  Embattled former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is asking a judge to allow the sale of the $2 million home where his estranged wife lives, saying he can no longer afford to support her lifestyle.  Recent court filings amid their divorce case claim Jackson Jr. is forking out $5,100 a month in alimony, school fees and voluntary payments to his children while Sandra Jackson refuses to pay the mortgage.  She opposes the sale of the property, according to the court filing.  Jackson Jr., who served time in prison for misusing campaign funds, was said last year to be $1.8 million in debt, with legal costs over their divorce only adding to the burden.

Rep. Rodney Davis' bill would end Jesse Jackson Jr. workers' comp pay.  Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., is filing a bill on Wednesday [5/17/2017] to ban former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., from collecting about $100,000 a year in workers' compensation — for an unspecified job-related injury — because he was convicted of looting his campaign fund.  "We want to make sure that anybody convicted of a crime, be that Congressman Jackson or any member of Congress, is not able to submit a claim for workers' compensation at the same time," Davis told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Jackson Jr. copped to another possible crime, said he'd help feds.  While on home detention in 2015 for looting his campaign fund, former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. told prosecutors of other possible crimes "by him and others" and offered to secretly record conversations as part of a federal investigation, according to a Justice Department letter obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.  "Mr. Jackson has informed the government of potential violations of law by him and others," reads the Aug. 16, 2015, letter from Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel C. Richenthal in Manhattan to Jackson attorney John Colette.

Jesse Jackson Jr. says he and wife are $1.8 million in debt.  Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. on Tuesday [3/21/2017] said he and his estranged wife Sandi Jackson are $1.8 million in debt thanks to legal bills from their federal criminal prosecution and mounting fees from an acrimonious divorce playing out in courtrooms in two cities.

Jesse Jackson Jr. gets about $138.4K in annual benefits.  Records from former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s divorce case show the government has given him large benefit checks after he served time in prisons for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from his campaign fund.  Jackson receives about $138,400 annually, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Jesse Jr further disgraces Chicago and himself.  Last week the Chicago Tribune reported that Jackson, who served 22 months in prison for looting his campaign fund to purchase luxury goods and celebrity memorabilia, including items related to Bruce Lee and Michael Jackson, is collecting $138,000 in government benefits, including $100,000 in workers compensation for suffering from bipolar disorder and depression, which he is only entitled to if Junior's job caused those ailments.  And that is what his lawyer claims.  The $100K is not taxable while the remainder of his government cache, which comes from Social Security disability payments, is taxable.

Ethics panel extends Jackson probe.  The House Ethics Committee announced Friday [12/2/2011] that it needs more time to complete its review of ethics charges stemming from allegations that Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) acted improperly in seeking appointment to President Obama's former Senate seat in 2009.

Ethics Committee decision may haunt Rep. Jackson reelection bid.  The House Ethics Committee will decide in less than three weeks whether to formally investigate Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) over allegations that he tried to improperly obtain President Obama's former Senate seat.  The secretive Ethics panel's decision — set to be made by Dec. 2 — could put the nine-term Illinois lawmaker in a highly precarious and dangerous position leading into his heated March 20 primary election.

Blago Gets 14 Years; Ethics Committee Must Now Act on Jesse Jackson, Jr.  Yesterday, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison for, among other things, attempting to "sell" the US Senate seat that was once held by President Barack Obama.  Blagojevich's punishment comes on the heels of the U.S. House Ethics Committee's decision to continue its investigation into Congressman Jesse Jackson's role in the same scheme.

Case of Jesse Jackson, Jr. is Test for House Ethics Commitee.  Last week, the United States House of Representatives Ethics Committee voted to end its temporary deferral of a case against Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL).  The US Justice Department had requested the deferral but has since withdrawn that request.  The case had been deferred for over two years.

Rep. Jackson may face new Ethics probe.  The House Ethics Committee could be probing a second allegation that Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) broke House rules, according to the Chicago lawmaker.  Jackson, speaking before the Chicago Tribune's editorial board on Monday [2/6/2012], vehemently denied any wrongdoing, saying that a campaign donor's purchase of a plane ticket for a woman he had an extramarital affair with, though at his behest, did not break the chamber's rules.

Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2011.  The House Ethics Committee announced on December 2, 2011, that it will continue its investigation into allegations that "Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. or someone acting on his behalf offered to raise campaign cash for then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich in exchange for a Senate appointment in 2008.  The committee also released an initial report from the Office of Congressional Ethics that said there was "probable cause" to believe that Jackson either directed a third party or had knowledge of a third party's effort to convince the since-convicted Blagojevich to appoint Jackson Jr. in exchange for campaign cash.  The evidence suggests Jackson, Jr. attempted to bribe his way into the U.S. Senate.

What happened to all that talk about draining the swamp, Nancy?
Pelosi endorses Rep. Jackson for reelection.  Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) has endorsed Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), whose reelection bid has been plagued by an ethics investigation.  Pelosi joins President Obama and several other top Democrats in their endorsement of the Chicago lawmaker as he goes up against former Democratic Rep. Debbie Halvorson (Ill.) in a fierce primary battle next month.

Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2011.  [Scroll down]  The House Ethics Committee announced on December 2, 2011, that it will continue its investigation into allegations that "Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. or someone acting on his behalf offered to raise campaign cash for then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich in exchange for a Senate appointment in 2008. [...] The evidence suggests Jackson, Jr. attempted to bribe his way into the U.S. Senate.

New wrinkle in timing of Jackson Jr.'s announcement.  The timing of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s announcement on Monday [6/25/2012] that he had begun a medical leave of absence two weeks earlier has taken on new significance.  Frank Watkins, his Washington spokesman, said the news was released just before 5 p.m. Central Time on Monday.  Five p.m. that day was the deadline for independent candidates to file nomination papers with the State Board of Elections for a spot on the ballot for the November election for the seat, said Rupert Borgsmiller, the board's executive director.

Did Looming Indictment Trigger Jackson Jr.'s "Mood Disorder"?  Could it be that Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., a member of Judicial Watch's Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians list, is suddenly suffering from a "mood disorder" because he's on the verge of getting criminally indicted?  After all, the feds have been breathing down the Illinois Democrat's neck — and he's the target of a House Ethics Committee probe — for participating in a political scandal involving President Obama's old U.S. Senate seat.  Details first surfaced during the 2010 federal corruption trial of impeached/convicted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.

World's smallest violin playing for Jesse Jackson Jr.  If you thought that Jesse Jackson Jr. had an easy life, growing up the son of a multimillionaire racism entrepreneur, with a seat in Congress virtually handed to him on a platter because of his father's position in Chicago black politics, think again.  It turns out, according to his mommy, that he has had a life of "enormous disappointment."  Poor Jesse!  Poor mommy, too, for now it turns out, according the Jacqueline Jackson, that she was "tricked" into speaking out publicly about her son's years of disappointment.

By the way, Jesse Jackson Jr. is still in hiding.  I realize it doesn't matter that Jesse Jackson Jr. has been in hiding for almost 6 weeks, because not only is he a Democrat, but his name is Jesse Jackson.  We're supposed to accept the explanation that he feels sad inside — sorry, he has a "mood disorder" — and his constituents don't deserve any further explanation for why he's not doing his job.

Report: Jackson allegedly improperly used campaign money to decorate home.  U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s campaign finances are the subject of a federal probe after the congressman allegedly improperly used campaign money to decorate his home, according to a new report.

Report: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. nearing plea deal, jail time.  Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s 17-year career in Congress is coming to an end, and he will likely spend some time in jail as a result of a plea bargain, according to WBBM-TV2, Chicago's CBS News affiliate.  Former federal prosecutor Dan Webb is negotiating the deal on behalf of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's son.  Webb is now chairman of the law firm Winston & Strawn.

Who's next from Chicago's "rotten borough"?  Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. represents Illinois' Second Congressional District, which consists of portions of the South Side of Chicago and its suburbs.  The district isn't "rotten," but the representatives it sends to Congress sure are.

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. likely to resign from Congress, looking at jail time in plea deal: report.  Although Jackson, who now receives treatment at the Mayo Clinic for bipolar disorder, won reelection easily, he faces jail and the loss of his pension over his misuse of campaign funds to decorate his home and splurge on a $40,000 Rolex for a female friend.

Report: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Won't Resign Until He Gets Guaranteed Government Income for Life.  Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was re-elected on Nov. 6 despite being both under ethics investigation and in rehab at the Mayo Clinic.  He has not actually been on the job in Congress for the better part of a year.  Now that the ethics investigation seems to be heating up again, he's negotiating for a way out that would put him on the dole, forever.

Chicago's Sandi and Jesse Jackson Jr. — the perfect "Machine" Democrats.  You remember Congressman Jackson don't you?  The congressman from Illinois who disappeared?  The scion of the Right Reverend Jesse Jackson?  The House Ethics Committee was investigating Congressman Jackson over various improprieties.  Then, when things looked grim and rough, he disappeared, poof, vanished into thin air.  First Jackson turns up in a rehab clinic in Arizona.  Then he turns up in the esteemed Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.  Who knows where he was or what he was doing while crisscrossing the country.

Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Resignation Could Cost Taxpayers $5.1 Million.  Jesse Jackson Jr.'s resignation from the House could cost Illinois taxpayers more than $5.1 million, according to the state elections board.  Jackson, Jr. offered his resignation today [11/21/2012] to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.  Jackson has been absent from the Capitol for months while undergoing treatment for bipolar disorder at the Mayo Clinic.  In addition, his use of campaign funds is being investigated by federal authorities.

Why Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Leave of Absence Was Allowed.  Pressured by federal investigators, Jesse Jackson Jr.'s final congressional act exhibited some decency toward his constituents.  They'll finally have actual representation again next spring, after a special election and months of a no-show Jackson. [...] President Obama's home state has not merely lost another congressional seat due to population decline.  It also has Jackson's South Side district that will go unrepresented for another five months and a senator who hasn't been to work in nearly a year.

Jockeying under way to replace Rep. Jackson Jr.  The House Ethics Committee is investigating his dealings with [former Gov. Rod] Blagojevich, who is serving a prison sentence for trying to sell President Barack Obama's former Senate seat.

Jackson Jr. shielding wife.  According to campaign finance disclosures, Sandi Jackson has been drawing $5,000-a-month payments from her husband's main campaign fund through her firm, J. Donnatella and Associates.  Her company has been on the Jackson campaign payroll for years, and it is located, according to FEC records, in the couples' Washington red-brick rowhouse off DuPont Circle.

After Jesse Jackson Jr. quit, Sandi changed campaign reports.  Five days after Jesse Jackson Jr. resigned from Congress, his wife, Ald. Sandi Jackson, filed a series of amendments to her ward committee's campaign fund, revealing dozens of previously undisclosed transactions that went back three years.  That includes at least $13,000 in previously undisclosed transfers from her husband's congressional account into her ward organization account, a Sun-Times review of campaign records show.

Jesse Jackson Jr. Signs Plea Deal In Federal Probe.  It's been nearly three months since Jesse Jackson Jr. resigned from Congress, but now NBC News confirms that Jackson has signed papers in a plea deal within the past several days.  Jackson's case is being handled by the US Attorney's office in Washington DC.  While no public announcement is expected today, those with knowledge of the investigation believe the loose ends now deal with Jackson's wife, former Alderman Sandi Jackson, and whether or not she is ultimately charged.

Feds Investigating Sandi Jackson: Report.  Former Congressman Jesse Jackson isn't the only member of the house getting looked at by the feds, according to one published report.  The Chicago Sun-Times, citing sources, reported Monday that federal investigators are also taking an independent look at former Chicago Ald. Sandi Jackson.

With Plea Deal, Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Fall From Grace Seems Complete.  Former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. agreed Friday to plead guilty to charges of misusing campaign funds, in an apparent bid to an end a federal investigation that threatens to also implicate his wife, former Chicago Alderman Sandi Jackson.  Both had resigned their offices in recent months, reportedly as part of the congressman's negotiations with prosecutors.

Jesse Jackson Jr. charged with conspiracy, fraud, other counts.  The downward spiral for former congressman Jesse L. Jackson Jr. took another dramatic turn Friday [2/15/2013] when federal prosecutors in Washington laid out their criminal case against the once-promising Illinois Democrat, accusing him of misusing campaign funds to benefit himself and his wife.

Jesse Jackson Jr. Charged With Blowing $750,000 in Campaign Cash; ABC Allows 18 Seconds.  Former Democratic Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. was charged on Friday with improperly spending $750,000 of campaign funds on items such as Michael Jackson and Bruce Lee memorabilia (among other things).  Yet, ABC's World News did not cover the story at all.  On Saturday, Good Morning America allowed the news a mere 18 seconds.

Doing the Chicago Shakedown, Starring the Jacksons.  Jesse Sr. (The Right Reverend) and his son (the erstwhile congressman) have done a lot more taking than giving.  "Taking" may be too charitable a word.  Shaking down and wheedling may be better descriptors for the Chicago Jacksons' acts.  Parasitism is a fancier way to say it.

Jackson Graft Case Further Indicts Black Caucus.  Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s guilty plea to fraud charges raises fresh questions about the Congressional Black Caucus.  It's a group with many laudable goals, but why do so many in it succumb to corruption?

Inside the Jackson Scheme.  How did Jesse Jackson Jr. manage to illegally accumulate so much stuff over a seven-year period?  Finally brought to justice, Jackson summarized his scheme for the judge:  "I used monies that should have been used for campaign purposes."

MSNBC's Jansing, Roberts Note Jesse Jackson Jr. Guilty Plea, Omit Party Label.  Twenty minutes into her February 20 Jansing & Co. program, MSNBC anchor Chris Jansing noted that former Illinois Democrat Jesse Jackson was entering a federal courtroom later that hour to plead guilty to campaign finance violations.  Only Jansing left out the part about Jackson being a Democrat.  What's more, while Jansing noted that Jackson's wife Sandi was answering charges of filing false tax returns, she failed to note that Sandi Jackson, also a Democrat, resigned her seat as Chicago city alderman in January.

Broadcast Networks Largely Ignore Jesse Jackson, Jr. Indictment.  A survey of the big three networks showed news coverage of the indictment of former Chicago Democrat Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. was sparse to non-existent for the first three days after the indictment was made public.  Even when his trouble was reported, the fact that he is a Democrat went unmentioned.

Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. sentenced to 30 months in prison.  Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced to two and a half years in prison Wednesday [8/14/2013] after pleading guilty to scheming to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on TV's, restaurant dinners, an expensive watch and other costly personal items.

Both Jacksons get prison terms; he'll serve first.  The end of the Jackson family political dynasty arrived Wednesday as a Chicago power couple ready-made for the cameras learned the next few years of their lives will be spent taking turns in prison.  Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., the civil rights leader's son who once dreamed of becoming mayor or senator, and his wife, former 7th Ward Ald. Sandi Jackson, were tripped up by a taste for luxury that was bankrolled with $750,000 from campaign funds.

Jesse Jackson Jr. gets 30 months in prison for misusing campaign funds.  Former U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., once a rising Democratic star whose political fortunes imploded over the use of campaign finances to support lavish personal spending, was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Wednesday.

Jesse Jackson Jr. to Grab $8,700 Per Month in Disability, Plus Pension In Prison.  That generous $8,700 in disability comes thanks to Jackson's sudden development of a "mood disorder" as the federal government began looking to indict him.  Jackson, who was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison, had no history of mental illness during his prior 17 years in Congress.

Ex-U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. reports to federal prison.  Jackson's guilty plea in February was for misusing about $750,000 in campaign funds on such luxuries as fur capes, celebrity memorabilia, mounted elk heads and a Rolex watch.

Jackson Jr. assigned to minimum security section of prison.  Jackson, 48, a South Side Democrat, served in Congress nearly 17 years before he quit last November amid a federal corruption probe.  In August he was sentenced to 30 months in prison for looting his campaign fund of $750,000.




Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson

U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson announces retirement after almost 3 decades in Congress.  Longtime U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Dallas, announced Saturday she is not running for reelection after serving nearly three decades in Congress.  "I have gone back and forth ... the whole time because of the pleading and the asking, but as of January ... the year after next, I will step down," Johnson said during an event in Dallas.  "I will retire, and let me assure that I will also recommend to you whom I feel is the best to follow me."  Johnson added she is looking for a "female that is qualified."

The Editor says...
[#1] "Qualified" is a code word for black.  [#2] I'm reasonably well-informed about politics in south Dallas, and for the last 10 years or so, the Republicans have considered it almost a waste of time to run against Eddie Bernice Johnson, because of name recognition and because of straight-party voting.  Things will be different in 2022.

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson Retiring After Almost Three Decades in Congress.  U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), chair of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, announced Saturday that she will retire in January 2023.  "I have gone back and forth ... the whole time because of the pleading and the asking, but as of January ... the year after next, I will step down," Johnson said during an event in Dallas.  "I will retire, and let me assure that I will also recommend to you whom I feel is the best to follow me."  Johnson, 85, was first elected to Congress in 1992 and is one of the most senior Congress members.  "There is a good reason I should stay:  I am a personal friend to the president, I have gained some respect and influence," Johnson said during her announcement.  But she said she plans to keep a promise she made after winning the Democratic primary in March that her current term would be her last.

The Editor says...
Somebody please point to a single thing Eddie Bernice Johnson accomplished while in Congress.

Texas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson [is the] latest Democrat to announce retirement.  Texas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson is set to retire from Congress in January, the latest in a line of Democrats calling it quits in Washington, DC.  Johnson, 85, announced Saturday she will not seek re-election after serving nearly three decades in the Lone Star State's 30th District, which includes a large part of Dallas.  Johnson was raised in the segregated South and became the first black woman to represent Dallas in the Austin statehouse early in her political career.  In Washington, she was the first woman of color to chair the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson violated rules, steered scholarships to relatives.  Longtime Dallas congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson has awarded thousands of dollars in college scholarships to four relatives and a top aide's two children since 2005, using foundation funds set aside for black lawmakers' causes.  The recipients were ineligible under anti-nepotism rules of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, which provided the money.

Texas Dem under fire for nepotism.  Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson has steered thousands in scholarship dollars to relatives and the children of top aides, a Texas newspaper reported today [8/29/2010].  The Dallas Democrat, a nine-term member of the House, awarded 15 Congressional Black Caucus scholarships to her grandchildren and great-nephew, among others, The Dallas Morning News reported Sunday [8/29/2010].

Watchdogs not sure Johnson will face ethics probe over scholarship scandal.  Watchdogs are divided over whether the ethics committee should immediately investigate Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas).  Johnson has been accused of awarding thousands of dollars in college scholarships to four relatives as well as the child of a top aide over the past 5 years.

Eddie Bernice Johnson:  'I never heard the rules' on scholarships.  Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson broke her silence in a scholarship scandal this morning, insisting that she had no idea the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation had rules against awarding college aid to her own relatives.

Eddie Bernice Johnson says chief of staff reviewed scholarship applications.  Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson offered a new line of defense late Thursday [9/2/2010], blaming her chief of staff for failing to adhere to Congressional Black Caucus Foundation rules that would have precluded her from awarding college aid to her relatives and those of another top staffer.

Letters bearing Eddie Bernice Johnson's signature ask that scholarship money be sent directly to her grandsons.  Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson apparently asked the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to send scholarship funds directly to her grandsons and great-nephews, rather than to their colleges, according to letters released today [9/7/2010] by her GOP challenger.

Johnson's scholarship committee developing blueprint to evaluate future applications.  The committee formed by Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson to review student scholarships says it is working to "develop a blueprint" for evaluating applications, but is waiting for more details from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.  "We're taking our time in developing because we want to be a model for the nation," said Roscoe C. Smith, a former educator who previously worked as director of Johnson's district office.

D/FW airport official put on leave after daughter got scholarship from Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson.  Troubles involving Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson's scholarship awards spread Tuesday [10/12/2010] to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, where the head of minority contracting has been put on leave amid questions about college aid that Johnson gave his daughter.

Scholarship for airport official's daughter probed.  The head of minority contracting at Dallas-Forth Worth International Airport is the latest focus of ethical questions tied to scholarships awarded by U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson.

Scholarship recipient's mother says D/FW Airport executive had nothing to do with award.  The Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport executive facing questions about a scholarship Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson gave his daughter had nothing to do with the award, the girl's mother said Wednesday [10/13/2010].  "Don was not involved.  We have been divorced 16 years.  He was not involved in filling out the application.  My children live with me," Donna O'Bannon said.

More Corruption from Congressional Black Caucus.  U. S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Dallas Democrat, is one of the nation's foremost practitioners of old-style cronyism and race-based politics.  But even though her current bid for a tenth term has drawn the notice of both Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, most Americans have never heard of her.  That should change.

Dreaming of an Unimaginable Upset in Dallas?  As you know, TX-30 is a heavily gerrymandered "majority minority" district in the southern half of Dallas County that has been represented by Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson since its creation following the 1990 census.  I don't want to "bury the lead" so here it is:  campaign staff for the Republican challenger, Pastor Stephen Broden, are quietly claiming that they have a recent internal putting them only 6% behind "EBJ."  If true, this is nothing short of remarkable.



Representative Maxine Waters

Overview:
What Does Maxine Waters Actually Do In Congress?  Maxine Waters (D-CA) has rebranded herself in the Trump Era as a strong public servant standing up to the corrupt, demagogic president.  Repeatedly, she has harangued the president during speeches that range from AIDS fundraisers to LGBT Gala award dinners.  Today in Michigan, Waters led a raucous chorus at a women's rally, chanting "Impeach 45! Impeach 45!"  But, people would be wise to remember that her career is one of corruption and failure.  Rep. Waters has passed just three bills in her 27 years in Congress.  That means on average, Waters produces something noteworthy for constituents every 9 years.  One of the bills was renaming a Post Office.  Impressive stuff.  In the interim, she is busy making money for her family and allies.  Her family has accrued more than a million dollars during her time in the House, according to Red Alert Politics.  Furthermore, the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has given Rep. Waters the most corrupt member of congress four separate times.

The Ten Most Hateful Americans and Why they Matter.  [#1] Maxine Waters is a highly polarizing Democrat and leading political hate monger.  She recently called on fellow Democrats to harass and abuse Republicans anywhere in public.  "Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up.  And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd.  And you push back on them.  And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere.  We've got to get the children connected to their parents."  Waters is a leader of the so-called resistance movement against Trump.  She refused to attend his inauguration and State of the Union address.  She has been calling for his impeachment since his inauguration.  And then this.  "[Trump is] one of the most deplorable people I've ever encountered in my life."  Ah, deplorable.  There's that word again.  Can't think of a stronger endorsement for Trump.

Even Maxine won't live in Maxine's district.  Say, did you know that Maxine Waters doesn't even live in her district?  Maxine represents District 43 which includes the high crime/high gang area of South Central LA — a region of Los Angeles so bad even Maxine won't live there.  Instead, she resides in the tony neighborhood of Hancock Park — not far from Beverly Hills and West Hollywood.  I did a quick lookie-loo at Wikipedia and learned that Hancock Park is 70.7% white and only 3.8% black.

Also posted under the one-sided separation of church and state.

Maxine Waters keeps saying 'Silicone Valley Bank'.  Until a few months ago, Rep. Maxine Waters, (D-CA) was the chair of the House Financial Services Committee, and currently is the ranking member of the minority.  She represents a district in the very state that contains Silicon Valley.  One would think that any sentient consumer of information — both from media and from Congressional sources — would understand the difference between silicon and silicone.

Have I Mentioned Lately Just How Corrupt Maxine Waters Is?  [Scroll down] I'm speaking, of course, about Sam Bankman-Fried, for former CEO of crypto currency company FTX and either one of the largest rip-off artists in history or biggest morons who managed to swindle, one way or another, billions of dollars from a lot investors.  The extent of his corruption and/or incompetence is not yet known, which is why there are hearings on Capitol Hill being put together right now.  Most investigations will take place next year because, in part, the House of Representatives isn't really interested in finding out what happened.  Why?  Because it appears to have favored Democrats.  Remember that "normal person" I was talking about?  Bankman-Fried isn't that person, he's the one with the friends in high places who gets protected — the guy who calls in the chits he spent tens of millions of dollars spreading around.  The recipient of a big pile of those chits, and buckets of cash from Bankman-Fried is California Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters.  She's Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, exactly the committee that should be all over this FTX scandal.

ANTIFA Terrorists Answer The Calls Of Insurrectionist Democrats; Attack and Beat Innocent Woman.  Yesterday, after the Supreme Court's reversal of Roe vs.  Wade, several Democrat lawmakers addressed angry mobs of supporters to tell them to ignore the Supreme Court ruling.  After she said "the hell with the Supreme Court" and told the media they would "defy" the court's order, Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters (CA) warned America, "You ain't seen nothin' yet!"  She even had the audacity to suggest black women "by the millions" would fight back.  "We are going to make sure we fight for the right to control our bodies!"Does Maxine really speak on behalf of all black women?

Maxine Waters Just Called For An Insurrection In front Of The Supreme Court.  A shaken Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) issued a statement and spoke to reporters Friday on the Supreme Court decision returning abortion lawmaking to the states.  Pelosi called the ruling "cruel", "deadly serious" and blamed President Trump, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and Republicans.  Pelosi also attacked the legitimacy of the Supreme Court, "Pelosi on the court:  "No, I don't respect a process that criminalizes a women's [sic] right to her reproductive freedom.["]

The Editor says...
Fetal homicide is not "reproductive freedom."  Nobody has a right to commit homicide.

Maxine Waters Pulls A Weekend At Bernies As She Seems To Not Be Alive Behind Nancy Pelosi.  Democrat from Commiefornia, Maxine Waters almost seems to be dead, or at least, dead behind the eyes as she stood lifeless behind Nancy Pelosi during a press conference.  Someone should put the word BLINK on the teleprompter.  [Video clip]

Maxine Waters Tells Homeless People to 'Go Home' and Then It Gets Worse.  You have to hand it to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA).  She somehow seems to know exactly the wrong thing to say at any given point.  She has a long history of controversial comments, perhaps most infamously when she encouraged people to get up in the face of Trump officials and "push back."  But she stepped in it, big time, recently in an encounter with homeless people in Los Angeles.  Then she made it even worse with an attempt to cover up her response.  The nonprofit advocacy group Fathers and Mothers Who Care was holding an event in South Los Angeles which was meant to help homeless people get emergency shelter.  But hundreds of homeless people were misled into believing that Section 8 housing vouchers would be given out at the event.  Waters was present at the event and when the staff started to get overwhelmed, Waters told the homeless crowd, "I want everybody to go home."  That's when they started to get angry at her cluelessness.

Maxine Waters continues to pay daughter with campaign cash, adding up to $1.2M so far:  FEC.  House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters has continued to pay her daughter with campaign cash — and has already broken the seven-figure mark.  Since 2003, Karen Waters has received over $1 million in payments from her mother to her and her company, Progressive Connections, for campaign-related services.  Federal Elections Commission (FEC) data reviewed by Fox News Digital shows the payments range from the hundreds to the tens of thousands of dollars for a variety of costs, including "slate mailer management" fees, "campaign managing services," and paying for a "band for [a] holiday event."

Maxine Waters uses race to smear fellow Dems Manchin, Sinema: 'They don't care about blacks'.  In anything but what might be considered a spoiler alert, radical Democrat Maxine Waters claims that U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema "don't care about minorities" because neither Democrat will vote to end the filibuster.  An "always optimistic" U.S. Rep. Waters (D-Calif.) also slammed Republicans, who are supposedly under the spell of Donald Trump, for their opposition to changing the filibuster math, which she argued posed a "difficult time" for Democrats and the country itself.  Democrats would love to end the 60-vote threshold requirement in the upper chamber to enable them to jam through the currently stalled, so-called voting rights legislation, as well as other components of their far-left wishlist.

U.S. Rep. Waters under fire again for paying her daughter with campaign funds.  U.S. House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., is under fire for paying her daughter more than $80,000 in cash from her campaign this year and more than $1 million since 2003, according to media reports.  Campaign finance records show the congresswoman's campaign paid her daughter, Karen Waters, $81,650 in 12 payments over several months during fiscal 2021.  The payments were associated with "slate mailer management" fees and "Get Out the Vote" services.  Slate-mailing operations entail hiring a consulting firm to create pamphlets that list candidates and policy measures and then recommend how voters should vote based on the information on the pamphlet.  Between March 2019 and September 2020, Karen Waters received $212,600 in 26 payments categorized as "slate mailer management" fees, "office expenses," and "canvassing," the New York Post reported at the time.

California Democratic Representative Maxine Waters is hit by nepotism storm.  California Democratic Representative Maxine Waters is in hot water after it was revealed that she paid her daughter more than $80,000 in campaign funds during the last fiscal year, which ended on September 30.  According to financial disclosure records reviewed by DailyMail.com, the House Financial Services Committee chairwoman paid her daughter, Karen Waters, $81,650 in campaign funds.  The total was paid in 12 installments from October 23, 2020 through June 17, 2021.

Maxine Waters Makes Bizarre Comment About Being Hacked but Twitter Calls Her a Liar.  People on social media were surprised and puzzled by a post from Rep. Maxine Waters (Delusional-CA) on Twitter yesterday [10/12/2021].  "I have been hacked and my Twitter account has been erased," the post read.  "I know who has done this.  I will take care of this.  M Waters."  Of course, now the reason people were puzzled was because Waters was claiming to be posting from the account which had very obviously not been erased and was still there, with all her prior posts.  How could that be, how can you be tweeting from a hacked and erased account?  She has a campaign account but that hasn't tweeted since June, so it seems unlikely that's to what she was referring.  Waters' claim prompted a lot of mocking on Twitter. [...]

Waters urges CDC to ignore Supreme Court ruling, extend eviction ban.  After the CDC could not find legal grounds to extend a moratorium on evictions that began early in the coronavirus pandemic, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., is pushing the CDC to do it anyway.  President Biden announced Thursday that he was not going to try to extend the moratorium, calling on Congress to take action instead.  Waters, who unsuccessfully tried to pass a bill, expressed skepticism that the CDC could not extend the moratorium as they had done in the past.  "I don't buy that the CDC can't extend the eviction moratorium — something it has already done in the past!" Waters tweeted.  "Who is going to stop them?  Who is going to penalize them?  There is no official ruling saying that they cannot extend this moratorium.  C'mon CDC — have a heart!  Just do it!"

Maxine Waters Criticizes Declaration of Independence on Fourth of July.  House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) criticized the Declaration of Independence in a tweet on July 4th, suggesting it is a racist document because it was written almost 250 years ago, when there was slavery in the United States.

The Editor says...
Using this reasoning, one could claim that any document or book written in North America in the 18th century is racist.  Are the Federalist Papers racist?  There was plenty of slavery in the Middle East when the Bible was written.  Does that mean the Bible is racist?

Maxine Waters, Like Most Dems, Is a Fraud Who Can't Be Trusted.  In case you didn't know, Saturday [6/19/2021] was a new holiday, another Independence Day to be specific, officially known as "Juneteenth National Independence Day."  As I covered, only seven percent of the GOP base supported making the celebration a federal holiday.  The primary concern of the GOP base was that for the left, the "now-federal holiday is not about national pride.  The holiday now serves only to push forth the left's radical racially driven agenda."  Regardless, the GOP establishment pushed forward with the legislation and handed the left a new tool to browbeat their opponents into submission.  RedState writer Jeff Charles covered some of this exploitation last night.  Charles noted that everybody from Joy Reid to Michael Moore to even the Muslim American Society used the holiday to push their leftist ideas.

Maxine Waters Goes on Depraved Rant: 'I'm Told' Capitol Riot Mob Was Organized by Trump Campaign.  'Auntie' Maxine Waters unfurled a true 'conspiracy theory' on CNN Saturday [6/19/2021].  Absent any corroborating evidence whatsoever, she baselessly accused the Trump campaign of organizing the Capitol riot.  Waters was invited on by Jim Acosta, who recklessly allowed the partisan left-wing California Democrat to unfurl a real stemwinder about Jan. 6, all with the sole intention of smearing her political enemies.  [Video clip]

Maxine Waters Claims Trump Campaign Helped Organize Capitol Riot.  Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters claimed Saturday [6/19/2021] that members of former President Donald Trump's reelection campaign had helped to organize the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.  Waters claimed to Jim Acosta on CNN that she had been "told" that organizing for the riot had been going on within the Trump campaign.  She further claimed that Trump surrogates opposed an investigation because they were afraid of being caught supporting those who swarmed the Capitol.

Maxine Waters among lawmakers accused of using air marshals as a 'concierge service'.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) may not be the biggest fan of police, but she apparently has no qualms about federal air marshals.  The liberal lawmaker is among the members of Congress from both parties accused of turning a program created to protect airline passengers in the wake of 9/11 into a "concierge service," Fox News reported Friday [5/14/2021].  According to the Air Marshal National Council union, lawmakers began requesting extra protection while traveling to and from their districts — and even while going on vacation — in the wake of the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol.  In response to those requests, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) allegedly began pulling marshals from flights deemed "high-risk" so that they could protect members of Congress instead.

Maxine Waters' Anti-Cop Rhetoric Is Getting Black People Killed.  In June 2018, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., publicly exhorted her supporters to harass Cabinet members of the Trump administration.  At an outdoor rally in Los Angeles, Waters, with microphone in hand and amplifiers nearby, shouted:  "Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up.  And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd.  And you push back on them.  And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."  In response, President Donald Trump tweeted:  "Congresswoman Maxine Waters, an extraordinarily low IQ person, has become, together with Nancy Pelosi, the Face of the Democrat Party.  She has just called for harm to supporters, of which there are many, of the Make America Great Again movement.  Be careful what you wish for Max!"

It's Biden's 'First 100 Days' Week.  No word yet if Congresswoman Maxine Waters will be arrested for inciting violence and insurrection and/or kicked out of Congress for encouraging anarchy if the Derek Chauvin trial verdict did not go the way she demanded.  The FBI and the Department of Justice now have two standards of law.  One standard of law for progressives and a much harsher standard of law for patriots.  An obvious example is how the FBI are treating rioters from violent insurrections last summer versus how the FBI is treating participants from the arson-free protest of January 6th.  Two systems of justice, one for progressives and one for patriots, will not end well.

Steve Scalise takes Maxine Waters to task over her 'incitement': 'I was shot because of this kind of dangerous rhetoric'.  Louisiana Republican Rep. Steve Scalise said Monday that California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters' "dangerous rhetoric" is the same kind of language that led to a dangerous shooting at a 2017 GOP congressional baseball practice.  Scalise and at least five other victims were treated for gunshot wounds following what appeared to be a targeted attack on Republican lawmakers and their aides.  Scalise was nearly killed in a hail of gunfire when accused gunman James Hodgkinson opened fire on the practice.  Hodgkinson was fatally shot by police during the attack.

Why Maxine Waters Wanted a Mistrial for Derek Chauvin.  When Maxine Waters called for people in the streets of Minnesota to be more active and confrontational if Derek Chauvin were to be acquitted, like many, I thought she had handed a gift to the defense on appeal.  In some ways, she did.  We all heard Judge Cahill describe her behavior as abhorrent, and, while he didn't think her remarks mattered in terms of the evidence and jury deliberations, he was unequivocal that her actions likely provided the defense with the basis for a mistrial at the appellate level and could well result in the case being thrown out.  Why, if that's what he thought, didn't the judge declare a mistrial himself?  Some might say it's because he didn't want to try the case again, but I think he didn't want to be "that guy" responsible for letting Chauvin off the hook and reaping the wrath of a good part of the country that had long promised to burn it all down.  Why bear that burden himself and potentially subject his family to violence when it's so much easier to pass the buck to the appellate court?

Supreme Court Might Reverse Chauvin Convictions because of Maxine Waters.  The convictions of Derek Chauvin might not mark the end of this racially divisive case.  The US Supreme Court might ultimately decide whether to uphold the convictions.  Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) made a statement — while jurors in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin were not yet sequestered — which demanded street confrontations unless Chauvin were found guilty of murder.  The trial judge correctly suggested that any conviction in the case might ultimately be thrown out on appeal, based on what Waters said.  He condemned Waters' remarks in the strongest terms, but he did not have the courage to grant a defense motion for a mistrial.  Had he done so, that almost certainly would have led to riots — which would have been blamed on the judge, not on Rep. Waters.  So he left it to the court of appeals, months in the future, to grant a new trial — which he should have granted.  The Minnesota appellate courts might not reverse the conviction but the United States Supreme Court well might, as they have done in other cases involving jury intimidation.  In seeking to put her thumb on the scales of justice, Rep. Waters perhaps unwittingly borrowed a tactic right out of the Deep South of the early 20th century.  Though her motives and intentions were far better than those of the white southerners, the tactic is essentially the same.  In the Deep South during the 1920s and '30s, elected politicians would organize demonstrations by white voters in front of courthouses in which racially charged trials were being conducted.  The politicians then threatened, explicitly or implicitly, that violence would follow the acquittal of a black defendant or the conviction of a white defendant.

Swing District Democrats Admit Vote to Table Resolution Censuring Maxine Waters 'Not an Easy Vote'.  Swing district Democrats admitted Tuesday [4/20/2021] that their vote to table the resolution censuring Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was not an "easy vote," while others refused to comment after the vote.  House Democrats voted along party lines to block House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) resolution censuring Waters for her comments over the weekend in which she allegedly incited violence.  If the resolution passed through the House, Waters would have likely lost her position as the House Financial Services Committee chair.

The Face of Hate, Tucker Carlson Outlines Maxine Waters Long History of Inciting Political Violence.  Last night Fox News host Tucker Carlson did a lengthy historical review of California Congresswoman Maxine Waters and how she has requested and supported violence for several decades.  While many people know about Waters' use of race as a tactic to advance division, the compilation of her support for violence is very disturbing when viewed in total.  [Video clip]

Judicial Watch files House Ethics Complaint against Rep. Waters after 'stay on street' comment.  The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch on Tuesday [4/20/2021] filed a House Ethics Complaint against Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters over her comments about the George Floyd trial, including the suggestion that protestors should "stay on the streets" if they aren't satisfied with the verdict for defendant and ex-police officer Derek Chauvin.  The complaint was filed with the House Office of Congressional Ethics and argues Waters, a California lawmaker, violated chamber ethics rules by encouraging violence and attempting to intimidate the jury in the Chauvin trial.  "We've got to stay on the street and we've got to get more active, we've got to get more confrontational," Waters told protesters after the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, just miles from Minneapolis where Floyd died in police custody in May 2020.  "We've got to make sure that they know that we mean business."

House votes 216-210 to kill effort by House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy to Censure Maxine Waters.  California Rep. Maxine Waters said Tuesday [4/20/2021] she was 'not celebrating' following the guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin case — days after her own call for protesters to get 'confrontational' caused an uproar.  She made the comment after the 12-member jury who heard the case pronounced the former police officer guilty on three counts.

Troubled Waters:  Congresswoman's comments complicate the Chauvin case.  Judge Peter Cahill acknowledged that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) may have given the defense a basis to overturn any conviction, while prosecutors seemed to drive a stake through the heart of their cases against three other officers charged in the death of George Floyd.  And it all played out on live television.  Rep. Waters ignited a firestorm of controversy by flying to Minnesota to tell protesters to remain in the streets and fight for "justice," to be "more confrontational," despite days of rioting, looting and other violence.  She said no verdict in the Chauvin trial would be accepted except a conviction for first-degree murder — a demand that might be a tad difficult to satisfy since Chauvin is not charged with first-degree murder.  All of this as the jury literally headed off to deliberate.  Some of us immediately noted that Waters single-handedly succeeded in undermining not just the Chauvin case but her own case against former President Trump.

Dershowitz: Maxine Waters' Tactics Similar to Those Used by Ku Klux Klan.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) was clearly trying to influence the jury in the Derek Chauvin trial when she traveled to Minnesota and said Chauvin should be found guilty, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz charged on Tuesday [4/20/2021].  "Her message was clearly intended to get to the jury — 'If you will acquit or if you find the charge less than murder, we will burn down your buildings.  We will burn down your businesses.  We will attack you.  We will do what happened to the witness — blood on their door,'" he said during an appearance on Newsmax, referring to how the former home of defense expert Barry Brodd was recently vandalized.  "This was an attempt to intimidate the jury.  It's borrowed precisely from the Ku Klux Klan of the 1930s and 1920s when the Klan would march outside of courthouses and threatened all kinds of reprisals if the jury ever dared convict a white person or acquit a black person.  And so, efforts to intimidate a jury should result in a mistrial with the judge, of course, wouldn't grant a mistrial because then he'd be responsible for the riots that would ensue, even though it was Waters who was responsible," Dershowitz added.

Democrats Making Shocking Move, Will Back Petition to Censure Maxine Waters, Will Lose Chair.  A growing number of congressional Democrats are so furious at Maxine Waters for inciting violence in Minneapolis that they are supporting joining Republicans and censuring Waters which will result in her dismissal as chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee.  Over the weekend while on the ground in Brooklyn Center, Minneapolis, Waters encourage Democrats to get "confrontational" and to "make sure that they know we mean business." [...] If Derek Chauvin isn't convicted, Waters told her supporters to "stay on the street."  "And we've got to get more active.  [We've] got to get more confrontational," she said.  "[We've] got to make sure that they know we mean business."  Fox News reporter Chad Pergram explained that Democrats' anger towards Waters "metastasized" after Judge Peter Cahill of the death of George Floyd trial, spoke out against Waters on live television, stating that she may have caused a mistrial.

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Derek Chauvin trial judge slams Maxine Waters' inflammatory comments.  A lawyer defending Derek Chauvin, who is on trial for the death of George Floyd, cited Rep. Maxine Waters', D-Calif., comments to Minnesota protesters over the weekend in court on Monday [4/19/2021].  "And now that we have [a] U.S. representative ... threatening acts of violence in relation to this specific case, it's it's mind boggling...," Attorney Eric Nelson said, as he attempted to argue that the jury may have been unduly influenced by external factors.  Judge Peter Cahill said that he wished elected officials would stop referencing the case "especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law" so as to let the judicial process play out as intended.  He added, however, that he did not believe the comments unduly influenced the jury as they had been told not to watch the news.

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Ri-i-i-ight.  How many of these jurors are really refraining from watching TV news?  My estimate is zero.

Did Wrecking Ball Maxine Waters Give Derek Chauvin Grounds for an Appeal?  Just moments after the jury got the case against former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd, the defense attorney demanded a mistrial be declared because of prejudicial and incendiary comments by Congresswoman Maxine Waters on Saturday night.  Defense attorney Eric Nelson told Judge Peter Cahill that it's "literally impossible" that the jury hasn't heard about Congresswoman Waters's comments.

Chauvin judge says Maxine Waters's comments could lead to overturning of trial on appeal.  Judge Peter Cahill said comments by Rep. Maxine Waters over the weekend could lead to the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin being overturned on appeal.  After defense attorney Eric Nelson criticized "U.S. representatives [for] threatening acts of violence in relation to this specific case," Cahill said Waters' calls for protesters to get "more confrontational" if Chauvin is acquitted may have undermined the legitimacy of the entire trial.  "I'll give you that congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned," Cahill replied.

Maxine Waters repudiates Chauvin trial judge who criticized her 'confrontational' protest comments.  Rep. Maxine Waters dismissed the concerns raised by a judge who criticized her encouraging protesters to get "confrontational" if former police officer Derek Chauvin is acquitted in the death of George Floyd.  "The judge says my words don't matter," the California Democrat repeatedly said, according to CNN's Manu Raju.  When pressed on Judge Peter Cahill's observation that Waters's comments could be grounds for an appeal by the defense, Waters replied, "Oh, no, no, they didn't."  [Tweet]

Chauvin Trial Judge Says Maxine Waters Comments Could Lead to Trial Being 'Overturned' on Appeal.  The judge in the Chauvin trial stated Monday that inflammatory remarks by Representative Maxine Waters could lead to the trial being "overturned" on appeal.  Waters had called for demonstrators to "get more confrontational" and protest in the streets if no guilty verdict was reached in the case.  Waters delivered the comments over the weekend ahead of closing arguments in the high-profile case against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who's been charged with the murder of George Floyd.  Chauvin faces three criminal counts, including second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter.  The defense in the Chauvin case raised an objection that Waters's comments could be prejudicial to the jury and grounds for a mistrial.  In response to the defense attorney's argument, Judge Peter Cahill said, "I'll give you that Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned."

Pelosi says Waters shouldn't apologize for 'confrontational' remark, claims she wasn't inciting violence.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended Rep. Maxine Waters urging protesters to "get more confrontational" over the weekend in the event that Derek Chauvin is acquitted of murder for the death of George Floyd, saying the Democratic congresswoman does not need to apologize.  Over the weekend, Waters, D-Calif., said protesters in Minnesota should "stay on the street and get more active."  Pelosi, D-Calif., was asked Monday whether Waters should apologize for making the remarks.  "No, she doesn't," Pelosi said.  "Maxine talked about confrontation in the manner of the civil rights movement."

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Maxine Waters Asked for Police Protection During Trip Where She Urged Being 'Confrontational'.  According to Townhall Editor Katie Pavlich, travel logs show that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) requested police protection on her trip to Minnesota where she urged activists to get "more confrontational."  The logs show she went from Dulles International Airport to Minnesota-St. Paul International Airport.  She ultimately went to Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, where she met with the activists.  As we previously reported, Waters railed against the police and made comments trying to influence the jury in the Chauvin trial to a guilty verdict.

Republicans blast Rep. Maxine Waters over protest comments.  A chorus of Republicans blasted Rep. Maxine Waters Sunday [4/18/2021] for telling angry protesters to "stay in the streets" and "get more confrontational" during the seven-straight night of unrest in Minnesota — saying the California Democrat's fiery comments could incite violence in a state already on edge.  Waters stood alongside demonstrators in Brooklyn Center early Sunday morning, breaking a curfew set by police, to encourage them to make their voices heard following the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright and ahead of as closing arguments in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd.  "We've got to stay in the streets, and we've got to demand justice," she urged the crowd, who earlier had been chanting:  "No good cops in a racist system!" "[...]!" and "No justice, no peace!"  "We're looking for a guilty verdict" in the Chauvin case, Waters said.  "And if we don't, we cannot go away, we've got to get more confrontational."

Kevin McCarthy:  I Will 'Bring Action' Against Maxine Waters For 'Inciting Violence' If Pelosi Doesn't.  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) demanded on Sunday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) take action against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) over remarks that Waters made over the weekend, otherwise he will be forced to take action.  "Maxine Waters is inciting violence in Minneapolis — just as she has incited it in the past," McCarthy said in a statement.  "If Speaker Pelosi doesn't act against this dangerous rhetoric, I will bring action this week."

Impeach and remove Maxine Waters.  In supporting the second impeachment of President Trump, California Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters said he was "inciting" his followers, and was "trying to create a Civil War."  By her own standards, Maxine Waters should be impeached and removed.  On Sunday [4/18/2021] in Minnesota, Waters, breaking the law by violating curfew (because "she didn't agree with it") said that if ex-police officer Derek Chauvin is not found guilty of murdering George Floyd, "We've got to get more confrontational."  There's been rioting, looting, graffiti — what did Waters mean by "more confrontational?" In Portland, they set fire to an Apple store.  They're trying to take over government buildings.  This isn't the first time Waters has incited her supporters.  In 2018, she told them to harass Trump administration officials.  "Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up.  And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd.  And you push back on them.  And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere," she said.

Trump Got Banned from Twitter Over False Claims of Inciting Violence — Maxine Waters Incites Violence Captured on Video and Keeps Her Account.  On January 8, 2021, Twitter banned the Leader of the Free World and President of the United States over false claims of inciting violence on January 6.  Of course, it was later proven that President Trump did not incite a riot and instead told his supporters to "peacefully" protest at the US Capitol on January 6.  President Trump's account is still banned by Twitter along with several of his top supporters.  Twitter banned The Gateway Pundit account after posting exclusive video of Democrats dropping off 61 boxes of ballots at the TCF Center at 3:30 AM on election night.  On Saturday night Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) flew to Minnesota Saturday to stir up the hate on the streets. [...] Waters urged violent leftists to "get more confrontational" with authorities.  But Mad Maxine still has her Twitter account?

CNN Actually Defends Maxine Waters For 'Inciting' Anti-Police Violence.  Here is yet another reason why no one should take CNN seriously.  The same network that has accused the GOP of "genocide" and ending the country" for violence from Trump supporters on January 6, spent this morning defending a Democrat for what many would call, openly encouraging violence from left-wing protesters (while intimidating a jury!)  California Democrat Maxine Waters went to Minneapolis this weekend to encourage Black Lives Matter protesters to ignore curfews and get more "confrontational" if the jury does not find Derek Chauvin, guilty of murder.  She added, "We've got to make sure that they know that we mean business" and that they would "not go away" if he was acquitted.  Waters made these comments after several days of violent riots and just hours before the Minnesota National Guard and police were shot at in a drive-by shooting in Minneapolis.  After several Republicans called out the Democrat for "inciting violence", CNN's New Day spent two segments attacking the GOP instead.  During the 7 am hour, co-host John Berman went on a tirade ripping Senator Ted Cruz [R-TX] for calling out Waters.

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Republicans to Act on Maxine Waters' Inciting Comments, One Has a Question for Pelosi.  As we reported yesterday, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was in Brooklyn Center at a BLM protest.  She demanded a guilty verdict from the jurors at the Chauvin trial and urged protesters to be "more confrontational," saying people "need to know that we mean business."  After she made her comments Saturday night, members of the National Guard who were patrolling with police in Minneapolis were shot at.  Two were slightly injured in the incident — one from flying glass, and the other had superficial injuries.  Many Republicans blasted her actions, decrying that a member of Congress would behave in that manner.

Genius Maxine Waters just made herself a great defense witness in her lawsuit against Trump.  By traveling across state lines to incite the mob in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Maxine Waters has opened the door on her possible expulsion from Congress, as Andrea Widburg notes today.  But she may have shot herself in her other foot when it comes to the lawsuit she and other Democrats have filed against former President Trump over the January 6 Capitol incursion. [...] I honestly relish the thought of Waters testifying under oath before a lawyer hired by Trump.  It would be glorious if this took place at the same time as Congress was vettng her continued membership.

Trump vs. Waters — in incitement case, she may be best witness in ex-president's defense.  With rioting continuing in Brooklyn Center and around the country, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., went to Minnesota and told the protesters that they "gotta stay on the street" and "get more confrontational."  The statement is ironic since Waters is one of the House members suing former President Donald Trump and others for inciting violence on Jan. 6 with his words on the Mall.  Waters insists that Trump telling his supporters to go to the Capitol to make their voice heard and "fight" for their votes was actual criminal incitement.  Conversely, Waters was speaking after multiple nights of rioting and looting, telling protesters to stay on the streets and get even more confrontational.  Waters has now guaranteed that she could be called as a witness by Trump in his own defense against her own lawsuit.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for Rep. Waters' expulsion from Congress for inciting riot in Minnesota.  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, (R-GA) announced an effort Sunday [4/18/2021] to expel Rep. Maxine Waters from Congress after she told protesters in Minnesota to "get more confrontational" if Derek Chauvin isn't convicted of murdering George Floyd.  In a statement released by her office, Taylor Greene accused the California Congresswoman of inciting "Black Lives Matter domestic terrorists to fire gunshots at National Guardsmen in Minnesota" after she spoke in Brooklyn Center, which has become a flashpoint for protests following the fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright.  "I'll be introducing a resolution to expel Rep. Maxine Waters from Congress for her continual incitement of violence," a statement from Taylor Greene's office reads.  Waters told reporters on Saturday that if former police officer Chauvin isn't found guilty of murdering Floyd, "We've got to stay on the street and we've got to get more active, we've got to get more confrontational.  We've got to make sure that they know that we mean business."

Marjorie Taylor Greene Proposes Expelling Maxine Waters from Congress.  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced Sunday that she plans to introduce a resolution in the House of Representatives expelling Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) from Congress for "inciting Black Lives Matter violence."  Rep. Greene was reacting too Rep. Waters's appearance in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on Saturday night, joining demonstrators outside the local police station angry at the shooting of Daunte Wright by police earlier this month.

It's time for a serious Democrat to call for Waters' resignation.  Once upon a time, there was Senator Joe Lieberman speaking out against President Clinton on the floor of the U.S. Senate.  It was 23 years ago but it seems a lot longer than that.  Or what about that incident from 1992 known now as Bill Clinton's Sister Souljah moment.  In both instances, a Democrat was willing to challenge his party.  No one in today's Democrat Party has the backbone or the willingness to take on another Democrat, especially Representative Maxine Waters.  The lady from California took recklessness and irresponsibility to another zone with her latest remarks.

Minnesota National Guard, Police Team Targeted In Drive-By Shooting Hours After Maxine Waters Incites BLM Protesters.  Hours after Sen. Maxine Waters (D-CA) urged protesters to 'get more confrontational,' a Minnesota National Guard and Minneapolis police team were targeted in a Saturday morning drive-by shooting, according to a press release by the National Guard.  The incident happened at approximately 4:19 a.m. local time when a light colored SUV drove by and unloaded.  Fortunately for the officers, only minor injuries were sustained — with two National Guardsmen suffering minor cuts from shattered glass.  They were taken to a local hospital.  A third Guardsman had "only superficial injuries" according to the statement.

Ted Cruz slams Maxine Waters for 'encouraging riots and violence' after she called on BLM protesters get 'more confrontational'.  Senator Ted Cruz has accused Democrats of 'actively encouraging riots & violence' after California Representative Maxine Waters joined protesters in Minnesota on Saturday night, and urged the crowd to 'get more confrontational'.  Cruz and others slammed Waters for her remarks in Minneapolis on Saturday night — made just hours before two National Guardsmen tasked with keeping the peace there were injured in a drive-by shooting.

Calls For Maxine Waters to Be Immediately Arrested Grow After She "Incited Riots".  Maxine Water, like all Dems, is hell-bent on tearing this nation apart in the twisted name of "justice."  Mad Max took to the streets of Minneapolis, wearing a mask, and a massive plexiglass faceguard (wasn't she vaccinated?) and whipped the crowd up into [a] frenzy, and basically told them to "burn it all down" if Derek Chauvin isn't convicted of the first-degree murder of George Floyd. [...] A sitting US Congresswoman is actually encouraging rioting and looting if our justice doesn't convict Chauvin.

Maxine Waters Makes Inciting Comments, Goes All in With Rashida Tlaib on the Anti-Police Rhetoric.  Rep. Maxine Waters (Delusional-CA) joined a protest action in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, last night [4/17/2021] and made inflammatory comments, saying that people needed to "stay in the streets" and be "confrontational" if Derek Chauvin, the police officer on trial for George Floyd's death, is not convicted of first degree murder.  [Video clip]  Now, of course, this is completely irresponsible for a sitting member of the House to be encouraging "confrontation," especially when things are already at a fever pitch.  If she had been a Republican and said this, she'd probably already be accused of "insurrection."  If she had been President Donald Trump, she'd already be impeached.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Will Introduce Resolution to Expel Maxine Waters From Congress.  Freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said Sunday [4/18/2021] that she plans to introduce a resolution calling on Congress to expel sixteen-term Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) over incendiary remarks Waters made at an anti-police protest in Brooklyn City, Minnesota late Saturday night.  Waters was recorded on video demanding a guilty verdict from the jury in the Derek Chauvin trial and urged protesters to "get more confrontational."

Maxine Waters tells Minnesota BLM protesters 'to get more confrontational' one day after violent anti-police clashes erupted across US.  California Representative Maxine Waters joined protesters in Minnesota as demonstrations entered a seventh night on Saturday after the death of Daunte Wright.  Waters told the protesters at Brooklyn Center that she will fight for justice on their behalf and urged them to 'to get more confrontational' — just one day after protests descended into violence.  'I am not happy that we have talked about police reform for so long,' Waters said. 'We're looking for a guilty verdict,' she added in regards to the Derek Chauvin trial.  'If we don't, we cannot go away.'

Maxine Waters:  Derek Chauvin Must Be 'Guilty, Guilty, Guilty' or We Take to the Streets.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) joined demonstrators Saturday evening outside the police station in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, and told Americans to take to the streets unless Derek Chauvin is convicted for murder in the death of George Floyd.  Waters joined protesters who are angry over the shooting of Daunte Wright, 20, as he fled arrest after a traffic stop earlier this month. [...] The incident was followed by protests and riots, just as the Chauvin trial was taking place several miles away.  "We're looking for a guilty verdict," Waters said.  "And we're looking to see if all of the talk that took place and has been taking place after they saw what happened to George Floyd, if nothing does not happen, then we know that we've got to not only stay in the street, but we've got to fight for justice," she said.

Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition, 1979.
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Maxine Waters, racial insurrectionist.  Congresswoman Maxine Waters, one of the loudest mouths leading the impeachment circus against former President Donald Trump over the events at the Capitol on Jan. 6, is a brazen racial insurrectionist.  The sixteen-term Democrat from South Central Los Angeles has been pouring verbal gasoline and tossing rhetorical Molotov cocktails into the public square since the 1992 L.A. riots.  Now she's the arbiter of civility and keeper of social order? [...] "If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd," Waters shrieked in 2018 at a rally in Los Angeles.  "And you push back on them.  And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."  That's exactly what left-wing professional agitators, from Occupy ICE to antifa to Black Lives Matter to Smash Racism D.C. to the Sunrise Movement, have done over the past two years, targeting prominent Republicans and conservatives and their families on the streets and in their own homes.  But the fact is that Trump lawyers only scratched the surface of Waters' divisive and destabilizing diatribes.

Uncovering Maxine Waters' Full 2018 Speech:  Democrat Celebrated 'Kicking' And 'Stepping On' Donald Trump.  Since giving a speech in 2018, Maxine Waters has faced criticism for the alleged incitement of violence.  "If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd.  And you push back on them," Waters told a crowd of supporters at a Los Angeles rally in June 2018.  "And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."  With Donald Trump being accused of inciting the violence witnessed in Washington D.C. in January, Waters has faced renewed accusations of similar incitement — accusations that often reference the widespread violence which exploded across multiple American cities throughout 2020.  Speaking with MSNBC, Waters — who is also chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee — was asked whether she could say that she had not encouraged violence against conservatives.

'Mad' Maxine Waters Falsely Claims She 'Never Glorified Or Encouraged Violence' Against Trump Allies Even After Seeing Video.  What do you get when you mix gaslighting, hypocrisy, and a smattering of insanity?  You get Rep. Maxine Waters' (D-CA) Sunday morning appearance on MSNBC in which she claimed to be as innocent as a dove when it comes to inciting violence with her rhetoric.  Waters participated in an interview with MSNBC's Ali Velshi, who, surprisingly enough, confronted her on comments she made in 2018 about members of Trump's cabinet.  In light of the fact that the team of lawyers defending former President Donald Trump during the impeachment trial planned to use footage of Waters and other members of Congress calling for violence, he questioned whether or not her remarks constituted incitement to violence.

Maxine Waters:  I Have Never Glorified or Encouraged Violence Against Republicans.  Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said Sunday on MSNBC's "Velshi" denied she glorified or encouraged violence against Republicans.  In a video clip, waters said, "Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up, and if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out, and you create a crowd, and you push back on them.  You tell them that they're not welcome anymore anywhere!  We've got to get the children connected to their parents.  The children are suffering."  [Video clip]

Maxine Waters's paid-mailer racket snowballs.  When we last visited Rep. Maxine Waters's hightly questionable 'slate-mailer' money-making racket in 2019, where candidates and causes get Waters's endorsement in exchange for cash, her daughter Karen who runs the thing had just pocketed $50,000.  Well, the operation seems to have gotten bigger, and Karen appears to be richer, all from mama Maxine's simple word of endorsement. [...] Which raises questions as to why Waters, a far left demogogue, is selling her endorsements for cash, and what the payers of these endorsements, are really getting for their money.  We know the Waters machine is strong, but so strong as to merit inflated fees and salaries for Waters and her family?  This is known as getting rich while in public office.  Waters is the only one who's doing this sleazy machine-politics practice on a national scale, but don't imagine other Democrats aren't also looking to cash in.

Maxine Waters is the new Ilhan Omar.  By the time Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D - MN) finally got around to kicking her husband Tim Mynett's consulting firm, the E Street Group, off of the gravy train, they had managed to flush more than three million dollars of her campaign contributions into her husband's coffers.  When we learned that news, I remarked that there were probably 537 other people on Capitol Hill who were smacking themselves in the forehead and wondering how they didn't think of a scheme like that.  But as it turns out, there was already someone else in Congress who had been engaging in a similar game of nepotism and she'd been doing it since well before Omar was first sworn into office.  California Congresswoman Maxine Waters has been shoveling campaign cash to her daughter for eighteen years.  As the Free Beacon reported this week, Karen Waters has now managed to rack up well over a million dollars in fees for her "consulting services" provided to her mom, and the rate of flow for all that cash has recently ramped up considerably.

Waters Has Shoveled Over $1 Million in Campaign Cash to [her] Daughter.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) has now dished out more than $1 million in campaign payments to her daughter following the 2020 elections.  Karen Waters has pocketed $1.13 million for providing an array of services for her mother's campaign since 2003.  The majority of the cash is for her role in running a controversial slate-mailer operation, in which California politicians gave money to Waters's campaign in exchange for mailers bearing her endorsement.  The mailers have become increasingly lucrative for the younger Waters over the years.  During the 2020 cycle, her payments hit a high of $240,000.  That's significantly more than the $90,000 her firm, Progressive Connections, took in during the 2006 election cycle.  The Federal Election Commission gave Waters the green light for the mailer operation in 2004.

Democrats Furious When Anti-Trump Maxine Waters Quote Is Turned On Them.  Do you remember back in 2018 when Rep. Maxine Waters famously urged her supporters to confront members of the Trump administration in public places?  Democrats don't.  A parody account on Twitter used the exact same quote but changed it to members of the Andrew Cuomo administration and Democrats were outraged.  It's different when they do it.

Rep. Maxine Waters' daughter collected $240K from congresswoman's campaign.  The daughter of California Rep. Maxine Waters netted around $240,000 this past election cycle — from her mother's own campaign, new records show.  The congresswoman's campaigns shelled out payments to Karen Waters for work she did on her 82-year-old mother's re-election campaign, including "slate mailer management" and "GOTV" — or likely "Get Out the Vote" services.  The payments appear in new Federal Election Commission filings reported by Fox News on Friday [1/4/2020].  More than $212,600 in disbursements to Karen Waters are broken down into 26 entries such as "slate mailer management" fees, "office expenses" and "canvassing" between March 2019 and September 2020.

'I Will Never, Ever Forgive Them': Maxine Waters Blasts Black Voters Who Choose Trump.  Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters said Friday that it was "shameful" that young black voters might consider casting a ballot for President Donald Trump. [...] Waters said that she didn't understand how any black American could cast a vote for Trump, saying, "It just hurts me so bad to see blacks talking about supporting Trump.  I don't know why they would be doing it.  I don't know why it is on their minds."  She went on to stress the importance of voter turnout, adding that if Trump were to win a second term he would take the United States in the wrong direction.  "The divisiveness that this deplorable human being has caused, the confrontation, the dog-whistling to the right-wing, the white supremacists, the KKK, and they are coming alive.  They are emboldened because they have a leader," she said.

Top Maxine Waters Staffer Lobbied For Chinese Communist Party Military.  Dana Thompson, a former legislative director and chief counsel to Rep. Maxine Waters, registered as a lobbyist on behalf a host of Chinese Communist Party-linked entities, the National Pulse can reveal.  Thompson, who also served as Chief of Staff for Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, was a former Principal at lobbying behemoth Podesta Group before co-founding Fulcrum Public Affairs, the "only 100% Black and Latinx-owned government relations firm in Washington, DC."

Finger-wagging Maxine Waters confronted for not wearing a mask.  Rep. Maxine Waters spent months wagging a finger at Americans and lecturing about wearing protective face masks but, in the end, did not even follow her own orders.  The California Democrat was caught on camera recently without a face covering, making excuses about her non-compliance and hypocrisy.  Fox News host Tucker Carlson shared a video clip of Waters on Tuesday [10/6/2020] in a segment on the double standards of Democrats who refuse to abide by the same rules they impose on everyone else.

Democrats have directly encouraged violence on the streets.  Winding it back isn't going to be easy.  Protests and riots have spiraled out of control in the US.  However, these aren't spontaneous demonstrations.  Instead they're egged on by Democrats, who seem hell-bent on burning America to the ground.  To those fed a diet of mainstream media disinformation, the protests sweeping the US are just that:  protests.  They're grassroots affairs, expressions of discontent and resentment at a status quo that oppresses African Americans and denies them the rights and privileges afforded to whites.  That may have been true for all of about a day following the death of George Floyd back in May, and some of the protesters no doubt still feel that they're fighting the good fight.  But far more have taken to the streets to commit brazen acts of violence, looting, and criminality.  Thousands have been injured, and more than 32 people have been killed, [...] If any Democrat can claim credit for inspiring violent street harassment, it's California Congresswoman Maxine Waters.  Back in 2018, Waters told her supporters that if they come across an ally of President Donald Trump in public, "you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."  [Video clip]

Maxine Waters:  Use 25th Amendment to Remove Trump from Office.  Saturday [8/15/2020] on MSNBC, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) called on President Donald Trump to be removed from office by applying the 25th Amendment.  According to Section 4 of that amendment, the president can be removed if he is "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office."

What is the difference between this and racism?
Maxine Waters says Biden 'can't go home without a Black woman being VP'.  Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.) said in a new interview that she is confident presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will pick a Black woman to be his running mate.  "We know that we're going to have a Black woman as vice president," Waters told Essence in an interview.  "Let me guarantee you this, based on everything that I know and understand, and the help that he has already gotten from the Black community ... he can't go home without a Black woman being VP."

Maxine Waters:  Trump 'Is a Wanna-Be Dictator Acting Like a Dictator' with Portland Officers.  Wednesday [7/29/2020] Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) told TMZ President Donald Trump was "acting like a dictator" by sending federal agents to Portland to quell protests.

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For an example of "a wanna-be dictator acting like a dictator," look no further than Barack H. Obama.

Democrats continue to lay the groundwork for Resistance II: The Civil War.  It started with Hillary Clinton, who has spent the last three-and-a-half years insisting that she was cheated out of her rightful place in the Oval Office.  Last week, she opined, "Well, I think it is a fair point to raise as to whether or not, if he loses, he's going to go quietly or not."  And then she issued the marching order:  "And we have to be ready for that."  How does one get ready to overthrow the duly elected president of the United States?  After all, the Democrats' Deep State efforts during Trump's first term have failed.  Democrats are therefore getting their ducks in a row for a more aggressive challenge. [...] Now, Rep. Maxine Waters (D., the slums of L.A.) is on the job.  And if you thought Krugman and Pelosi were unhinged, Waters shows that they're rank amateurs.  Waters was on Joy Reid's new "ReidOut" show on MSNBC.  To Waters, when she looks at Portland, it's 1938 in Berlin all over again.

Black conservative takes on Maxine Waters.  Joe E. Collins III grew up in South-Central Los Angeles in a neighborhood where crime literally struck home the day a drive-by shooting left bullet holes in both the windows and the family sofa.  Inner city life did not faze the young man, who later joined the Navy, became a fighter-jet mechanic, saw combat in Operation Iraqi Freedom, served as a Navy recruiter, and was certified as both a financial planner and a mental health counselor.  Following the 2016 election, Mr. Collins became acutely aware of the huge populations of disenfranchised Americans, a news media which promoted outrage and politicians who were failing their constituents.  So he decided to run for Congress, and is now opposing Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters in California's 43rd District — determined, he says — to bring "integrity and opportunity" back to his community.  He has endorsements from both the California and Los Angeles County GOP organizations, and currently operates a free food pantry from his campaign headquarters.

Maxine Waters stops in traffic to harass LA cops for pulling over a 'brother'.  As if police officers don't have enough to worry about these days, in Los Angeles they now have to deal with despicable, attention-seeking Democratic lawmakers interfering with their efforts to do their job.  Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., the woman who launched a wave of incidents where Republican officials were accosted in the public by unhinged activists, was captured on video over the weekend pulling her SUV over to monitor a traffic stop by LA police.  Her reasoning being clear — because the driver being stopped was a black man.  "They stopped a brother, so I stopped to see what they were doing," the lawmaker tells some admirers.

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Why didn't they arrest this daffy old bat for jaywalking?  That would have been hilarious.  [Video clip]

Maxine Waters Freaks Out:  Remove Trump 'Before this Would-Be Dictator Takes Us All Down'.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) on Friday, an outspoken progressive politician who has publicly demanded President Trump's removal from office, wondered if anyone in Trump's cabinet would invoke the 25th amendment "before this would-be dictator takes us all down."  Waters, as demonstrators across the country began to take to the streets for Friday night protests, proclaimed that Trump is "amassing the power of a dictator" and asked if any "brave" figure within his cabinet "would move to initiate the 25th amendment to remove him from office."

The Editor says...
When Barack H. Obama conducted himself like a dictator, Rep. Maxine Waters raised no objections.

Maxine Waters Classifies Term 'Rioting' as 'Negative Language ... Used Against Black People'.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), in an interview published Wednesday [6/3/2020], explained why she rejects the term "rioting" in describing violent protests, contending that the word is part of "negative language used far too often in a description of black people by folks who fundamentally don't see black people the same way they see whites and others." [...] She spoke in depth about her experience with Gates, Los Angeles's former police chief, and explained how those events shaped her view of the "negative language" used today.  "A lot of negative language gets used against black people, describing what whites often believe is true about us: that language includes 'lazy,' 'criminal,' and 'rioting,'" Waters told the outlet.

Maxine Waters Says Trump Only Cares About 'White Power Pep Rallies'.  Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Ca., took to Twitter last week to criticize President Trump's coronavirus response and said he has little interest in COVID-19 deaths and more focused on going back to his "white power pep rallies."  Waters, who once said Trump should be put in "solitary confinement" because impeachment is "not good enough," has joined the chorus of Democrats looking to blame the president in an apparent effort to gain support as the November election approaches.

Maxine Waters:  Trump, Protesters 'Should Be Ashamed' — We Don't Want Businesses 'Opened Back Up'.  Monday night [5/11/2020] on Spectrum News 1's "Inside the Issues," Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said President Donald Trump and the lockdown protesters should be ashamed of themselves for pressuring governors to reopen their states.  Waters said, "You know our governors are under great stress.  The protests that have been organized, the protests trying to intimidate our governors to open up everything are protests where the people participating in that should be ashamed of themselves.  They should not be encouraged in any way.  They should not be encouraged from the top leadership of this country to go out and do that."

The Editor says...
As far as I know, Maxine Waters has never owned a business or worked for a profit-making company.  Neither has Barack H. Obama.

The Price Mechanism in Attending College.  In 2019, Maxine Waters (D-CA) ascended to the chair of the House Financial Services Committee.  In April, Waters conducted a hearing for which she had assembled the heads of some of America's largest banks.  Waters asked these titans of finance:  "What are you guys doing to help us with this student loan debt?  Who would like to answer first?" She then went down the line of bankers, who said they were no longer in the student loan business.  Finally, she came to Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, who said, "When the government took over student lending in 2010 or so, we stopped doing student lending."  Tail between her legs, Waters quickly moved on to other matters.  What the exchange demonstrated is that Waters was at the very least unprepared to chair that hearing (about which, more coming up), but what may be even more vexing is that the government takeover Mr. Dimon referred to had received an aye vote from none other than Maxine Waters.

House Dems push legislation requiring banks to receive critical 'diversity and inclusion' rating.  House Democrats are proposing that all banks and credit unions receive a new "diversity and inclusion" rating in an unprecedented step that would fundamentally alter federal regulators' critical "CAMELS" rating system that currently employs a series of metrics that solely assess the financial health of banking institutions.  The "Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in Banking Act of 2019" is draft legislation supported by Democrats on the House Subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion, which was created by House Financial Services Committee chairwoman Maxine Waters Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.  Waters has long pushed for government-led diversity efforts, even as Republicans have challenged her knowledge of fundamental economic issues.

Mad Maxine: 'Fancy Parties' In Beverly Hills Ought To Give CA 'More Say' Than Iowa, NH.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) says her home state of California should have "more say" in the Democratic Party's primaries because they have "fancy" big-money parties in Beverly Hills.  "As you know, we have candidates who fly out to Los Angeles from everywhere to raise money," the California Democrat told CNBC on Thursday [2/13/2020].  "As a matter of fact, it had gotten so that you would have two, three, four at a time in Beverly Hills having dinners.  And some of our contributors who are very rich were holding, you know, fancy parties, trying to accommodate the request for donations and contributions.  And so, you know, the conclusion, the thinking is that if we are supplying tremendous dollars to candidates, we ought to have more say."

Maxine Waters:  CA Should Have More Say In Primary Because Of Big Money Raised At Beverly Hills Parties.  For years now, Democrats have been claiming they want big money out of politics.  Yet Maxine Waters just claimed on national television that California should have more sway in the Democrat primary process because of all the big cash generated for Democrats at fancy parties in Beverly Hills.

Maxine Waters:  Trump's Mental Health an Impeachment Consideration.  While laying out a case for President Donald Trump's impeachment during an appearance on MSNBC's "Kasie DC" on Sunday, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) raised questions about Trump's mental health as one of her arguments.  Waters called Trump "a liar" and told host Kasie Hunt there were issues dealing with the president's mental health, noting psychiatrists have previously diagnosed him from afar.

Liberals Once Again Prove Just How Miserable They Are.  [Scroll down]  The political media protects their own too.  Take, for example, how two Russian comedians are described as being "widely suspected of having ties to the Russian government" because they pranked Maxine Waters into believing something my 2-year-old could've seen through.  It couldn't be that Waters is so dumb that she mistook a Russian accent for Swedish, or that she believed President Trump had cornered Greta at the UN to confess he'd pressured the Ukrainians to investigate Joe Biden while simultaneously promising to squash her dreams (seriously, it's hilarious.  Listen to the whole thing for yourself), it had to be Putin trolls!  The truth exposes Maxine as a gullible moron, the spin paints her as a victim; a target of Russian aggression.

Russian Pranksters:  Maxine Waters Fell for Call from 'Greta Thunberg' Offering a Taped Trump Confession.  The Russian pranksters famous for tricking House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) into seeking nude pictures of President Donald Trump are claiming that they just got Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) — for a second time.

Maxine Waters warns that Trump will invite Vladimir Putin to the White House next year if Senate doesn't removed him from office.  California Democrat Maxine Waters claimed Donald Trump will invite Vladimir Putin to the White House next year if he is not removed from office.  Waters was responding to reports that White House officials feared the Russian president had heavily influenced Trump's views on Ukraine, specifically a conspiracy theory that Kiev had meddled in the 2016 US presidential election.

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There is nothing wrong with the President inviting heads of state from other countries to visit the White House.  That's part of his job.

Maxine Waters's Unhinged Russia Conspiracy Theory Push.  During an interview on CNN on Monday night, House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) pushed a conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election.  She admitted that she doesn't have evidence to support the claim.  Her entire conspiracy theory centers around the idea that Vladimir Putin helped get President Trump elected because he would remove the sanctions placed on Russia.

If Trump is 'racist' for questioning Waters' IQ, What is Waters for questioning the intelligence of Dr. Carson?  [Scroll down]  Waters argues that Carson, because he supposedly "doesn't know the difference between REO and OEO," lacks "the intelligence to do the job."  Why, that's almost as embarrassing as when Waters, chair of the House Financial Services Committee, grilled seven bank CEOs on student loan debt.  Waters asked, "What are you guys doing to help us with this student loan debt?"  Apparently the chairwoman's staff did not inform her that, years ago, the feds took over that business.  The CEO of JPMorgan Chase replied, "When the government took over student lending in 2010 or so, we stopped doing all student lending."  Why, that's almost as embarrassing as the letter Waters wrote to Fidel Castro urging the dictator not send back to America a New Jersey fugitive named Joanne Chesimard, a former Black Panther member who escaped from prison after being convicted of murdering a New Jersey State Highway Patrol officer.  Waters claimed the escapee was persecuted and compared her to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  Did Waters, a sociology major from California State University, Los Angeles accuse Carson, the former director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital and who graduated from Yale and the University of Michigan Medical School, of lacking the "intelligence" to perform his duties as HUD secretary?  She sure did.

Maxine Waters:  Ben Carson Lacks the 'Intelligence' to Be HUD Secretary.  On Sunday's broadcast of MSNBC's "AM Joy," Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said former neurosurgeon Ben Carson did not have the "intelligence" for his current position as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.  Carson had said Waters lacks basic manners after she had written President Donald Trump a letter demanding answers on reports that the administration was considering moving homeless people off the streets in California.

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If someone like Ben Stein, or John Sununu, or Bruce Schneier, were to question Ben Carson's intellectual capacity, I might stop and listen.  But Maxine Waters?  No.

Ben Carson on Maxine Waters Letter: 'Basic Manners Elude You'.  Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson said Monday [11/18/2019] that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) lacked "basic manners" in penning a letter to President Donald Trump last month saying his "shamelessness knows no bounds."  Waters' October 28 letter demanded answers from the Trump administration about its plan to push homeless Californians out of homeless encampments, Politico reported.  The Washington Post reported in September that the administration has pushed for a crackdown on homeless encampments in California, with aides discussing the possibility of moving them to government-run facilities.

Waters Pays Daughter $56K More From Campaign.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) continues to pay tens of thousands of dollars from her campaign's coffers to her daughter for running a slate mailer operation while other debts remain untouched, filings show.  Waters's campaign committee disbursed $56,000 to the congresswoman's daughter Karen during the third quarter, according to the committee's most recent filings.  The committee's payment to Karen reduced some of the accrued debt owed to her for running a slate mailer, or endorsement mailer, operation for the campaign.  At the end of 2018, the campaign reported being $183,000 in the red to Karen.  Since that time, it has steadily chipped away at the debt, bringing the amount currently owed down to $52,000. As Waters has continued to pay her daughter from her campaign's coffers, other committee debts have remained untouched.

Maxine Waters learns about life.  Madame Maxine Waters, who represents South-Central LA from somewhere else in the city, complains that she can no longer "go to the grocery store anymore by myself" without being accompanied by bodyguards.  "I have death threats constantly," she said in a TV interview.  People "have been convicted for threatening to kill me."  The man responsible for all this is the Orange Master of Assassins, Donald Trump.  "He is setting some of us up to be killed."  Maxine, of course, is the politician who in 2018 called on people to publicly confront and attack Trump officials and supporters.

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Here we have one of the most over-privileged people in America playing the role of victim.  When was the last time Maxine needed something from the grocery store that she couldn't get someone else to fetch for her?

Waters Campaign Pays $30K More to Daughter, Ignores Other Debts.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) continues to push tens of thousands of dollars in campaign payments to her daughter for accrued debt even as much smaller campaign debts have remained untouched, Federal Election Commission filings show.  Rep. Waters has paid her daughter Karen more than $800,000 from her campaign committee to run a slate mailer operation since the mid-2000's.  The endorsement mailers have proven lucrative for both Rep. Waters's federal committee and her daughter.  As of Oct. 17, 2018, Karen had collected $108,000 from the campaign to run the operation for the 2018 midterm cycle, with another $94,000 reported as being owed to her.  However, Waters's post-general filings on Dec. 11 showed that the amount owed to Karen had increased by nearly $90,000 to $183,000.  During the first quarter this year, Waters's campaign paid out $50,000 to Karen.

Maxine Waters Echoes Iranian Propaganda on Downed Drone.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) on Sunday echoed the Iranian government's position on the recent downing of a U.S. drone in a tweet rebuking President Donald Trump.  The tweet came in response to Trump's decision to cancel a retaliatory air strike against Iran for shooting down the American spy drone.  Iranian officials claim the drone was flying through Iranian air space and they were justified in destroying it, but American defense officials have denied the claim, saying the drone was flying over international waters.  Rep. Waters appeared to endorse the Iranian position on the issue in her attack on Trump.

Maxine Waters Is On A Quest To Find Trump A Nickname — It's Not Going Well.  California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters went to Twitter Friday to find a new nickname for President Donald Trump. [...] A significant amount of users responded with answers that were likely not what Waters had in mind.

This Trump-Hating Congresswoman Has a Beautiful Wall.  Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters is no fan of President Donald Trump.  Waters has repeatedly called for the president's impeachment and has impugned his immigration proposals as racist.  The liberal firebrand is perhaps Trump's harshest critic.  But, what if we told you Waters uses a wall for her own security?

Maxine Waters Let Obama's Cat Out of the Bag in 2013.  Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), one of the left wing's most prominent and vocal figures, has a 30-year history of ill advised, frothing rhetoric.  "Auntie Maxine" is atop no one's list of vise-lipped confidantes, yet because of her prominence, she is clued in on much of the darker machinations of the Democratic Party and its backers.  Occasionally, she reveals more than intended.  February 2013 was one of those times.

Adolescent name-calling is now the best we can expect.
Maxine Waters Attacks Trump as 'Traitor,' 'Porn Star Fornicator'.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), one of Congress's loudest and consistent voices advocating impeachment, is ratcheting up her criticism of President Donald Trump after he mocked former Vice President Joe Biden during a recent visit to Japan.  Over Memorial Day weekend, President Trump insulted Biden after North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un referred to the leading 2020 Democratic presidential candidate as a "fool of low IQ."

Maxine Waters Busted Red-Handed Paying Her Daughter $50K From Campaign Funds.  Rep. Maxine Waters paid her daughter $50K from campaign funds for accrued debt.  This is just one example of how lifers dig in and get real cozy.  With liberal Democrats lying, cheating, and self-dealing are the standard modus operandi.  Waters is currently in her 15th term in the House.  But I'm sure there is a good explanation for this.  Folks, this 50k is just the tip of the iceberg.

What's Maxine Waters doing on any congressional committee seat with that slate-mailer op run by her daughter?  Apparently, it's not just ballot-harvesting that has made the state of California impenetrably blue.  If you ever wondered why a political charlatan such as Rep. Maxine Waters could have so much power, well, take a look at how her daughter makes money.

Maxine Waters Paid Daughter $50K from Campaign Funds for Accrued Debt.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) paid $50,000 from her campaign's coffers to her daughter in recent months to chip away at six figures of accrued debt for an operation that pulls in large sums of money for the congresswoman's campaign committee, Federal Election Commission filings show.  Rep. Waters's committee disbursed two payments to her daughter, Karen, in the amounts of $42,000 and $8,000 during the first quarter, which runs from Jan. 1 to March 31.  The $50,000 in payments were made to Karen for running a slate mailer, or endorsement mailer, operation from the campaign and were the most paid out by the committee for any activity throughout the first three months of the year.

House Financial Chair Maxine Waters [was] thoroughly humiliated by bank execs she was determined to vilify.  In 2010 then-President Barack Obama signed a bill that ended a longtime program under which private-sector entities such as banks had provided government-guaranteed student loans to young college students in exchange for federal subsidies.  By doing so, Obama essentially nationalized student loans.  "By cutting out the middleman, we'll save the American taxpayers $68 billion in the coming years," Obama proudly announced at the time.  "That's real money."  Though every media outlet covered the then-president's paradigm-changing move at the time, for some reason House Financial Services Committee chair Maxine Waters just learned about it Wednesday [4/10/2019].

Maxine Waters beclowns herself to the big red nose level on student loans.  Thinking she had reeled in a big one, Democratic Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) planned to line up the country's big bank presidents (you know, like the famous tobacco executives) and call them on the carpet over the student loan debt issue.  She was loaded for bear. [...] Much to the House chairwoman's surprise, she was calmly advised, by bank president after bank president after bank president, that they didn't do student loans anymore.  President Obama had nationalized the entire market.

Maxine Waters Humiliates Herself Grilling Bank Executives Over Student Loans They Don't Offer.  The student loan debt crisis is real and a very serious issue.  No one disputes this.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), who now chairs the House Committee on Financial Services, brought it up during a hearing with bank executives this week and made a complete fool of herself.  Apparently, no one has told Waters that banks stopped offering student loan services ten years ago.

Oops: Maxine Waters grills banks on student loan crisis even though feds took over in 2010.  House Financial Services Committee chairwoman Maxine Waters was brought up short Wednesday after she targeted banking chiefs over the student loan crisis, even though the federal government took over student lending in 2010.  At a hearing featuring a panel of seven bank CEOs, Ms. Waters ticked off figures on student loan debt and defaults, then asked, "What are you guys doing to help us with this student loan debt?  Who would like to answer first?  Mr. Monahan, big bank."

House Financial Chair Maxine Waters [was] thoroughly humiliated by bank execs she was determined to vilify.  In 2010 then-President Barack Obama signed a bill that ended a longtime program under which private-sector entities such as banks had provided government-guaranteed student loans to young college students in exchange for federal subsidies.  By doing so, Obama essentially nationalized student loans.  "By cutting out the middleman, we'll save the American taxpayers $68 billion in the coming years," Obama proudly announced at the time.  "That's real money."  Though every media outlet covered the then-president's paradigm-changing move at the time, for some reason House Financial Services Committee chair Maxine Waters just learned about it Wednesday [4/10/2019].

Maxine Waters beclowns herself to the big red nose level on student loans.  Thinking she had reeled in a big one, Democratic Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) planned to line up the country's big bank presidents (you know, like the famous tobacco executives) and call them on the carpet over the student loan debt issue.  She was loaded for bear. [...] Much to the House chairwoman's surprise, she was calmly advised, by bank president after bank president after bank president, that they didn't do student loans anymore.  President Obama had nationalized the entire market.

Maxine Waters is a stuttering, sputtering screwball.  If you think Rachel Maddow lost her mind, she's got nothing on Maxine Waters.  From the very get-go this stuttering, sputtering screwball has been burping out unhinged conspiracy theories and mindless rants over President Trump and the Kremlin.  So certain is she that Donald Trump is Vladimir Putin's secret deep cover asset, that Maxine has had this tweet pinned to the top of her timeline for over two years.

Maxine Waters Loses It In Wild Rant Against Trump, Drops Shakespearean Curse.  Democratic congresswoman and leader of the "Impeach Trump" brigade Maxine Waters exploded on the president Monday [3/4/2019] in a series of tweets packed with all the allegations and incriminations she could muster — and even threw in a Shakespearean curse for good measure.  Waters, who infamously urged her followers last year to personally harass members of the Trump administration, has been calling for Trump's impeachment since before he was even sworn-in as president.

Maxine Waters' 'Diversity Committee' May Pressure Banks to Make Bad Loans.  Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., has a habit of redoubling her efforts when her ideas fail.  That's especially true given that she now chairs the House Financial Services Committee.  One of her top priorities is bullying banks into boosting mortgage lending to marginally qualified borrowers based on race or ethnicity.  And her main vehicle for that now is a proposed subcommittee on diversity and inclusion.

Rep. Maxine Waters facing new legal questions over campaign mailers.  Rep. Maxine Waters took the helm of the Financial Services Committee this month after easily winning re-election as part of the Democrats' House takeover.  But according to the California Democrat's post-election filing — which has prompted fresh calls for a full audit — her campaign may have some financial issues of its own to sort out.  The Citizens for Waters report to the Federal Election Commission from Dec. 11 lists $183,022 in debt to her daughter Karen Waters, who is in charge of distributing "slate mailers."  The mailers have faced scrutiny since 2010 because the campaign, beginning in 2004, has paid Waters' daughter or her public relations firm Progressive Connections to produce, print and mail the sample ballots.  Watchdog groups have raised questions about the propriety of campaign funds financially supporting a family member, as well as Waters raising contributions in excess of federal limits through an unusual process.  Since 2004, the campaign has paid the younger Waters almost $1 million, based on previous news reports.

Maxine Waters meets with CBS News representatives over lack of black 2020 reporters.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) met with representatives from CBS News to discuss the ongoing controversy over the network's lack of black reporters slated to cover the 2020 presidential race. [...] "CBS admitted they had a lot of work to do & committed to including Blacks on their 2020 election team & all other teams.  True diversity is the inclusion of ALL.  I won't let them off the hook!" Waters tweeted Tuesday night [1/15/2019].  The California Democrat had earlier sent a tweet panning the network for its lack of diversity in its campaign team.

Mad Max Can't Get Away From Trump — Maxine Waters Annoyed as Trump Float Passes by in Bahamas Parade.  Nancy Pelosi isn't the only California Congresswoman enjoying Christmas vacation in a tropical location.  Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters was spotted partying in the Bahamas this week while the government is in the middle of a partial shutdown over a border wall funding dispute.

The Perfectly Legal Corruption No One Cares About.  California Democrat Maxine Waters won her first term in Congress in 1990 with 79 percent of the vote.  Her toughest reelection bid came in 2012 when she squeaked by with 71 percent.  Yet every two years she raises a campaign war chest for that foregone conclusion.  With the millions of dollars she's raised, Waters has paid her own daughter, Karen, more than $800,000 since 2004 to run a statewide mail campaign promoting other Democrats.  This past election, where Waters took 75.8 percent of the vote, was a good year for Karen too.  According to the Washington Free Beacon, "Karen is now owed $183,022.15 on top of the $108,000 she has already collected during the midterms."  Nice pay for essentially licking stamps.

Rep. Maxine Waters' family continues to profit directly from her position in Congress.  In 2005, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., was added to a liberal watchdog's running list of the most corrupt members of Congress.  Waters was added again in 2006 to the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington's annual report on D.C. corruption.  They added her again in 2009 and one more time in 2011.  The group may want to consider saving a spot for Waters for its upcoming report for 2018.  The congresswoman's daughter, Karen Waters, is set to collect more than $200,000 for heading a slate mailer operation for her mother's 2018 re-election campaign, the Washington Free Beacon reported, citing new Federal Election Commission data.

Maxine Waters' Daughter Doing Very Well For Herself Off Mom's Campaign.  With all the attention being paid to razor-thin vote margins in various races, you'd think there wouldn't be much of a call to examine the candidates who won by a landslide.  But one of those races is in the news this week, not because of questions about vote totals, but about money spent by the campaign.  We're talking about Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters of California's 43rd District.  She ran up quite a few bills over the course of the campaign (as almost all elected officials do), but some scrutiny is being applied to the generous payday being collected by one of the people operating her mail distribution operations this year.  That's because the campaign worker in question is her daughter and she's set to cash in for more money than her mother will make from her congressional salary.

If Democrats Control the House.  Mad Maxine Waters [...] This is a woman who, were she not a duly elected Democratic Party congresswoman, couldn't get a job requiring her to ask, "Would you like fries with that?"  But not to worry.  She will only be the head of the Financial Services Committee in the House of Representatives.  Financially, she obviously has done well for herself with mansions and servants and other accoutrements of great wealth that the Democrats always seem to acquire while serving the public in their destitute districts.  What can anyone say?  Despite being rated one of the most dishonest politicians in Congress, it hasn't hurt her yet.

Maxine 'Stormy' Waters frantically babbles right over constituent, dismissing her every concern.  Democrat Maxine Waters repeatedly ignored a constituent's questions about illegal immigration by bleating stale liberal talking points in an effort to distract the voter's attention.  Suzanne Armstrong of Venice, California captured Waters on video, where the 80-year-old Congresswoman repeatedly dismissed her questions about the need to curb illegal immigration.  "You know, this is going to be an important election, and I've got to fight for Social Security and Medicare," Waters said.  Armstrong followed up by asking, "How about lower taxes?  I want the wall built.  I don't want a sanctuary city."  Maxine Waters ignored the voter's concerns and kept yapping about Social Security — presumably in response to polls showing that older Americans are more reliable voters in midterm elections.

Pres. Trump:  Rep. Waters considered 'most corrupt member of Congress'.  President Trump discourages Americans from voting democrat calling out prominent leaders like Congresswoman Maxine Waters.  In a tweet Saturday [11/3/2018], he cited a Fox News report labeling the congresswoman as "the most corrupt member of Congress."  He warned if Democrats win control of the House, she would be put in charge of the country's finances.

Maxine Waters Suggests "Knocking Off" Trump Then "Going After" Pence.  You can always count on Rep. Maxine Waters to give away the plans to destroy Trump's presidency and administration.  The latest of which occurred Friday and included a suggestion to "knock off" Trump, which was greeted with applause and cheers.  The National Newspaper Publishers Association gave Waters a National Leadership Award and Waters used her platform to trash Trump.  [Video clip]

Here's why Maxine Waters is the 'poster person for term limits'.  A California Republican congressional candidate slammed his opponent, Rep. Maxine Waters, for being "weak" and "ineffective" as well as inciting "mob" violence against supporters of President Donald Trump.  Republican candidate Omar Navarro argued that a message of "unity" has to be brought back to communities, not the divisive rhetoric that Waters has been spewing.

Maxine Waters snubs Chicago's Democrat royalty as no-show at a fundraising event that was supposed to feature her.  The entire Democrat establishment of Chicago was publicly humiliated last week after selling expensive ($200) tickets to a fundraiser in the grand ballroom of the Hilton Hotel downtown, only to have the "special guest," Maxine Waters, missing in action, with no notice and no excuse.  Representative Waters has titillated angry Democrats with her incitements to harass their political opponents, and her demands for impeachment of President Trump that began even before he took office.

Watchdog presses FEC for audit on Maxine Waters fundraising practices.  California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters is facing a new complaint about an obscure fundraising tactic that rakes in thousands from state politicians in exchange for being listed on her slate mailers — this time, involving supporters of a former Los Angeles mayor defeated in the June gubernatorial primary.  The National Legal and Policy Center, a conservative watchdog group, filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against Waters, her campaign and a pro-charter school group called Families and Teachers for Antonio Villaraigosa — which backed the former Democratic mayor of Los Angeles.

FEC Complaint Filed Against Rep. Maxine Waters Alleging 'Slate Mailer' Election Law Violations.  Today, NLPC filed a Complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) violated federal election law in a transaction related to her so-called slate mailer during her last re-election campaign.  The transaction was a payment to Waters' campaign fund from the Democratic State Central Committee of California (DSCCC) in the amount of $35,000 for the inclusion of then-Senate candidate, and now Senator Kamala Harris, on Waters' slate mailer.  Whereas candidates like Harris may legally pay Waters' campaign for the proportional costs of their inclusion on her slate mailer, it is not legal for such payment to be made by a third party like the DSCCC.  Waters' slate mailers have been a matter of controversy for years.  They resemble a sample ballot distributed by political parties before and during elections, but contain Waters' personal endorsements.

Maxine Waters is one of Trump's fiercest critics.  She'll get a powerful new platform if Democrats take the House.  Rep. Maxine Waters has tried for months to get a House committee chairman to subpoena documents from Deutsche Bank about Russian money laundering and the finances of President Trump and his family.  If Democrats win the House majority in November, the 14-term Los Angeles lawmaker is almost certain to gain the committee's gavel.  That would give Waters, one of Trump's fiercest critics, the power to issue those subpoenas along with something more — a high-profile platform to battle the administration.  She's indicated she'll do just that.

IP Address of Person Who Doxxed GOP Senators Points to Maxine Waters's Office — Maxine Waters Denies Charge!  Many Republicans on the Senate Judiciary had their home addresses and phone numbers published on their Wikipedia pages Thursday [9/27/2018].  Shortly after Lindsey Graham went off on Senate Democrats for destroying Kavanaugh's life in order to derail his confirmation, Republicans were doxxed.

Unhinged: Mad Maxine Waters Encourages 'Resistance' to "Knock Off" President Trump.  Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) took her calls for violence against the President to the next level this weekend and encouraged the resistance to "knock off" Trump.  Maxine Waters accepted a 'Diversity' award in Washington DC this weekend when she went on a warpath against President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.

Newspaper Publishers Association honors Maxine Waters with 'leadership' award.  Mad Maxine Waters is a leader worthy of honor, according to the National Newspaper Publishers Association.  The group honored the California congresswoman with a "National Leadership Award" on Friday, according to Diversity Inc.  During her acceptance, Waters denounced President Trump, prompting applause from the audience of media leaders.

Maxine Waters, the New Face of the Democratic Party.  A big part of the reason Democrats are fleeing their party in the #WalkAway movement is because of leadership like Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.).  The 80-year-old lawmaker has been in office since 1991, representing large parts of south-central Los Angeles and surrounding areas.  She is best known for corruption and hyperbole.  In recent years, she has escalated her public appearances representing Democrats.  In June, President Trump declared, "The face of the Democrats is now Maxine Waters."  Her notorious public life started back in 1992, when she called President H.W. Bush a racist.  In 2004, an article in The Los Angeles Times revealed that Waters used her position to help companies, candidates and causes.  They then turned around and did business with her family members, earning the family more than $1 million.  If she had been a Republican member of Congress, she would have been prosecuted.

Maxine Meltdown.  Mad Maxine Waters is obsessed with President Trump.  The California Congresswoman went after the president while accepting an award from the Stonewall Young Democrats on Saturday [9/8/2018] in Los Angeles.  At one point in the 20-minute speech, she bragged about threatening Trump supporters.

Death to the Rule of Law.  [Scroll down]  And, of course, while there are lots of others we could name, the one that tops the list is Democrat California Congressman, Maxine Waters, a corrupt, multi-millionaire representing south-central Los Angeles, a low-income neighborhood she chooses not to live in.  On June 23, Waters, in a rabble-rousing speech and again later in a TV interview said, "Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up.  And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd.  And you push back on them.  And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."  This is an extremely thinly veiled call for violence against members of President Trumps administration, and by extension, to anyone, repeat:  anyone, who supports him.

Maxine Waters Subject of FEC Complaints After Reportedly Funneling $750k to Daughter.  Congresswoman Maxine Waters is on the hot seat over the ways she raises money and the money she has paid to her daughter.  Waters raises money by charging other California Democrats big bucks to be listed on the sample ballot of candidates she supports that she sends out with her mail pieces, Fox News reported.  Over the past 14 years, her campaign committee, Citizens for Waters, has spent about $750,000 with Waters' daughter, Karen Waters, or her daughter's PR firm, Progressive Connections, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

Maxine Waters hit with FEC complaint over mailer money.  Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, one of the most outspoken members of the anti-Trump 'resistance' in Congress, is facing fresh questions about a longstanding controversy regarding how her campaign raises money and how those funds have flowed to her daughter.  The California congresswoman has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars each election cycle from some of her state's biggest politicians paying to be listed on her slate mailers — sample ballots traditionally mailed out to about 200,000 voters in Los Angeles highlighting whom she supports.

Democrat Mouthpiece Maxine Waters Hit with FEC Complaint Over Campaign Mailers.  Mad Maxine Waters is facing charges regarding how she raises campaign money and how much goes to her employed daughter.  Maxine's daughter, Karen Waters, has been paid $750,000 for helping produce flyers for her mother's campaign.

Maxine Waters:  People Should Be "Out in the Street Screaming" About Trump.  I don't see any media cautioning Batty Auntie Maxie, even though recently she cried for muscle — well, hinted for it — to stop a protest and the Black Panthers showed up to beat people up.  Just words, as Barack Obama said?  A Trump supporter was just attacked by Democrats, encouraged by Maxine Waters and her ilk, and encouraged further by a media that implicitly blesses violence against its own political enemies.

Maxine Waters:  People Should Be 'Out In The Streets Screaming' Over Trump.  California Rep. Maxine Waters said that Americans should be "out in the streets screaming" about President Trump in a Wednesday [7/25/2018] interview.  Waters told CNBC's John Harwood, "I think [Trump's] dangerous."  "I don't know why people take it.  I think Americans should be out in the streets screaming to the top of their voice.  Do something.  Make something happen," she continued.  During the interview, she also said, "[Trump is] one of the most deplorable people I've ever encountered in my life."

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I'm sure Mr. Trump could say the same thing about Ms. Waters.  But if he did, that would be racist!

Maxine Waters:  I've been sent by God to get Trump!  Move over Jake and Elwood, Maxine Waters is on a mission from God.  After acknowledging the children in the audience, the California Congresswoman ripped into President Trump during a Sunday [7/22/2018] appearance at First AME Church in Los Angeles.

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A politician who makes a political speech in an all-black church is a hero, but a politician who makes a political speech in an all-white church is a racist.

Maxine Waters Suggests in Church Sermon That She Was Sent by God to Stop Trump.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has been one of President Trump's most outspoken critics, recently going so far as to encourage people to publicly harass members of the Trump administration.  On Sunday [7/22/2018], however, Waters suggested in a church sermon in Los Angeles that she's on a divine mission to stop the president, blasting the Trump administration on a range of issues.  [Video clip]

Maxine Waters supporters burn American flag outside California rep's office.  Supporters of Democratic Rep.  Maxine Waters reportedly burned and stomped on an American flag they snatched off a pickup truck Thursday [7/19/2018], while chanting "Black power" outside her California office.  The demonstrators showed up with the intent of countering a planned protest from a far-right group.  That group, the Oath Keepers, had said they would rally against the congresswoman they call a "protest terrorist inciter" early Thursday afternoon, prompting counterprotesters to rally in support of Waters.  But the Oath Keepers did not arrive, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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These violent, America-hating black racists appeared at a Congresswoman's office to counterbalance an anticipated demonstration by the Oath Keepers, not because they support the United States Congress, but because they hate white people, and evidently believe that whoever shouts the loudest is right.

Maxine Waters reacts to flag burning demonstration outside her office this week.  U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters said that the counterprotesters who burned and stomped on an American flag outside her California office this week, while exercising their right to express themselves, were also acting to further "their own agenda."  Waters issued a statement Saturday [7/21/2018] saying that the protesters who appeared outside her Los Angeles office Thursday did so despite her calls to "steer clear" of a planned protest by a far-right group, the Oath Keepers.

Maxine Waters Finally Reaches Her Limit, Is Forced To Condemn Flag Burning.  It turns out, even Rep. Maxine Waters' activism in the name of anti-Trump resistance, has its limits.  After a near-riot took place outside of her offices last week, Waters was forced to concede that she does not support burning the American flag.  Waters has, of course, had a stunning few weeks at the helm of the American "resistance" movement, presiding over a leftist sticking it to the Second Hitler by refusing to serve organic food to a handful of Administration appointees.  She's been criticized for facilitating violence against Trump supporters and condemned by prominent Democrats for encouraging a climate of harassment, but nevertheless, she persisted.

Woman Who Wanted Republicans Hounded Moans Over Being Hounded.  Remember when Maxine Waters was saying that activists should haunt the steps of every person associated with the Trump administration and let them know they were "not welcome" in polite society?  Well, the shoe is on the other foot now and the congresswoman isn't very pleased.  Oath Keepers has announced that they will be protesting Waters at her Los Angeles congressional office and she's issuing a warning to her supporters to stay away from the dangerous "gun nuts" who will probably start a war or something.

Maxine Waters warns supporters of possible 'armed protests' against her.  Rep. Maxine Waters warned supporters on Wednesday [7/18/2018] of potential "armed protests" against her after an extremist group called for ongoing demonstrations outside her office in Los Angeles.  In a lengthy statement issued late Wednesday, Waters, D-Calif., said she'd been notified about forthcoming protests by the Oath Keepers, which she described as "an anti-government militia" that's staged armed protests in cities across the country.  She warned her supporters against being "baited" into counter-demonstrations or confrontations with the organization, which she said has a track record of "violent and provocative behavior."

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ABC News is happy to pass along demonstrable lies, as long as they come from an elected Democrat. Anyone who spends five minutes examining who the Oath Keepers are and what they stand for will see that the Oath Keepers are not an anti-government organization.  Nor is there any evidence (known to me) that the Oath Keepers have ever engaged in "violent and provocative behavior."  If anyone in this story has a "track record" of encouraging violence, it is Representative Maxine Waters.

The Maxine Waters Marxist Minstrel Show.  "When you attack a Black woman for speaking out about injustice, and when you call for 'civility' in the face of blatant racism, you invoke a long history of white supremacist power."  So reads a letter in defense of the call by Rep. Maxine Waters to harass Trump administration officials.  "The concept of respect is culturally mediated; there is no single, objective standard," it concludes.  There are clear objective standards.  They include not harassing the people you disagree with in their private lives.  The only people who think that standard is "culturally mediated" are leftist thugs.

Maxine Waters Incited 'Very Definition of Mob Violence,' Says Group Filing Ethics Complaint with House.  Conservative watchdog and activism group Judicial Watch has filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), said Tom Fitton, the organization's president, on Fox News on Thursday [7/5/2018].  "The number one House ethics rule is you've got to act in a way that reflects credibly on the House at all times, and when you're out there... inciting mob violence against sitting Trump cabinet members, that doesn't obviously reflect credibly on the House," said Fitton on Fox & Friends.  "And the House has to decide whether they're going to allow its members to use the House as a platform and its power and position to attack and incite violence against Trump cabinet members."

Judicial Watch Files Ethics Complaint Against Maxine Waters.  Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said his organization filed an ethics complaint with the House of Representatives seeking reprimand against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.).  Fitton said Waters used her stature as a member of Congress to incite harassment and potentially cause violence against Trump administration officials.  He said the top House ethics rule is to act in a way that "reflects credibly on the House at all times," adding that Waters' recent public call to tell political opponents "they're not welcome" at a store or service station does not adhere to that rule.

Why Maxine Waters Is Going Crazy.  Maxine Waters has never been the mildest and most judicious of politicians, but there is a method to her current (extreme) madness.  She does have something to be afraid of.  Identity politics — her bread and butter — is, for the first time in years, in some trouble.  This is particularly true in the black community, where Donald Trump's approval level is climbing.  And the reason for this isn't all Kanye West.  African Americans have the lowest unemployment rate ever under Trump and are beginning to have more cash and better lives.  This is not good for Maxine and she knows it.  No more fancy house in Hancock Park.  She might have to go back and live with her constituents in South Central.

Maxine Waters: 'The People' Want Dems to Be 'Forceful,' 'Confrontational' Against the Trump Administration.  Sunday on MSNBC's "AM Joy," Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said the protest over the weekend about President Donald Trump's immigration policies prove "the people" wanted Democrats to be "more forceful" and "more confrontational" with regards to their opposition.

Maxine Waters brushes off alleged threats, vows to 'Impeach 45'.  During a speech Saturday [6/30/2018] at an immigration rally in California, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters reacted defiantly to alleged threats reportedly directed at her following her previous remarks about the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy.  Waters took the podium at the Families Belong Together rally in downtown Los Angeles, one of the many rallies staged across the country urging for the reunification of families who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.

GOP Lawmakers Introduce Censure Measure, Call On Maxine Waters To Resign.  Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs on Monday introduced a measure that would censure Rep. Maxine Waters and ask her to resign for inciting people to publicly confront Trump administration officials.  Biggs told The Hill that Waters' comments do "not become somebody who's in Congress" and warrant disciplinary action.  "So we just introduced it, we have some cosponsors, but what she did was to basically incite people to come after and attack members of the president's cabinet," the Arizona Republican told The Hill.  "And also spread that out to more people."  "Everybody agrees that it was just highly objectionable what she did," he added.

Maxine Waters is a Clown and a Joke.  Throughout all this, Maxine Waters has consistently demonstrated that she has absolutely no idea what she's talking about, whether it's Russians or millennials.  All Waters knows how to do is glom on to whatever the trend is.  Like so much of the political class, she repeats back what she hears.  But twice as angry.  And so she climbed on board the whole "harass Trump officials" thing.  And then climbed down after being reproached by Pelosi and Schumer.  While taking no responsibility for anything she said.  Because that's Waters in a nutshell.  Rep. Maxine Waters is a clown and a joke.  That she became one of the faces of the so-called resistance is a testament to how worthless and stupid it is.

Maxine Waters:  It's Time to Do What Must Be Done.  Maxine Waters continues to thump the impeachment drum, but is now calling for the open harassment of Trump Administration officials: [...] This is not representative government.  This is not passionate debate.  This is the open obstruction of the governmental process.  Waters is not bringing debate or legislation to the floor of the US House of Representatives, she is openly engaging in an overt act of aggression against people who have sworn an oath to serve, protect and defend the US Constitution and to execute the roles of their positions faithfully.

After Mad Maxine Waters Calls for Violence, She Gets Worst News of Political Career.  We're not quite sure why Maxine Waters is still a lawmaker.  Ever since Trump entered office, she has behaved more and more erratically.  I'm not talking about simply criticizing the president.  You can expect most political rivals to speak out against an opponent.  What Waters has done defies belief.  Her words are of a raving lunatic.

This is called backpedaling:
Waters denies she called for anyone to 'harm' Trump officials.  On Monday, Waters said she had no control over how people might protest the administration but argued that, contrary to complaints about a lack of civility in the type of political discourse she had encouraged, "protest is civility. ... Protest is about peaceful resistance to the kind of actions that we are experiencing."  "I have nothing to do with the way people decide to protest," the lawmaker said.  "I have no way of telling people how to protest, what they should protest.  Again, it started with the restaurateur, it started with people in a restaurant.  I did not create that, I did not design that, but I support their right to protest."

7 Examples from the Last Two Weeks That Show How Dangerous and Insane Liberals Have Become.  [#4]  Maxine Waters Calls for Public Harassment of Trump Officials.  Congresswoman Maxine Waters AGREED that Sarah Sanders should have been kicked out of a restaurant for not being liberal and doubled down on it by saying, "If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere." In other words, EVERY SQUARE INCH OF AMERICAN SOIL should be a political war zone and somehow, some way, she seems to assume that no Democrats will suffer any blowback from all of this.  Again, the response to Waters' comments on the Left has been overwhelmingly positive.

Representative Maxine Waters Calls for Political Violence.  Democratic congresswoman Maxine Waters, calling for attacks on the Trump administration at a rally in Los Angeles Saturday [6/23/2018]:  "If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."  How exactly does Maxine Waters think this is going to shake out?  Does she think this tactic will be used only by leftist protesters, only against Trump cabinet officials, and that in no circumstance will "pushing back at them" lead to violence against those targeted individuals?  Does she think that there is no possible scenario where the security details assigned to protect cabinet officials from harm respond to threatening behavior with force?

Mad Max and Nancy Pelosi:  The twin faces of the Democratic Party.  The list of crazed anti-Trump imbeciles is long and pathetic, but the senile, corrupt, and never bright Maxine Waters takes the cake.  She is out there every day, screaming at the top of her eighty-year-old lungs that her like-minded ignoramuses should attack persons of the Trump administration anywhere they find them.  Restaurants, gas stations, department stores — surround them and shame them.  These are the depths to which the Democratic Party has fallen.  Every single person on MSNBC and CNN defends Maxine, of course.

Trump: 'Be careful what you wish for Max!'  President Trump slammed Rep. Maxine Waters on Monday afternoon [6/25/2018], after her speech calling for supporters to heckle members of the Trump administration went viral over the weekend.

Maxine Waters Incites Violence.  Sen. Maxine Waters (D-CA) is blatantly inciting violence against the Trump administration.  Yesterday, she called for leftists to attack members of President Donald Trump's administration, screaming to a group of supporters that they should not be welcomed anywhere in society.  We've seen four high-profile women in Trump's orbit get attacked now.  It started with Tomi Lahren.  She was having brunch with her mother when a leftist threw water on her.  Then this week things really kicked into high gear.  Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi were all harassed and attacked this week.  Waters wants this to be the new norm.

Rep. Maxine Waters Could Face Five Years in Prison for Inciting a Riot.  Rep. Maxine Waters went on MSNBC this weekend and declared war on Republicans.  "Auntie Maxine" later told supporters at a rally to verbally assault and harass Republicans wherever you find them.  [Video clip]

President Trump has responded to violent threat from Maxine Waters and it's serious!  President Trump is watching the Democrats and their threats closely as he condemns the violence against supporters.  Trump sent a message to Maxine Waters telling her, "Be careful what you wish for".  The President knows his supporters will not be kicked around.

Lock her up!
Maxine Waters: 'I Stand By My Speech' Calling Public to 'Harass' Trump Staffers.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) told a press conference on Capitol Hill on Monday that she stands by her speech calling on the public to harass members of the Trump administration.  Waters spoke at a press conference, as recorded by Fox News.  She said that she did not think that Democrats had criticized her — despite statements from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) that Waters's rhetoric was "unacceptable," and from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) that her words were "not American."

Is Maxine Waters Calling On Her Allies To Get Shot?  [W]hat she did recently was incredibly stupid, even for her.  You see, following Sarah Sanders being kicked out of a restaurant simply because of who she was — apparently, only people who make wedding cakes can be forced to serve others — Waters thinks she sees blood in the water.  Now, she's calling on her allies to harass Trump cabinet members anywhere they go in public.  [Video clip]

Maxine Waters:  People Are 'Going to Harass' Trump Administration Officials at Restaurants, Stores, and Gas Stations.  Saturday [6/23/2018] on MSNBC, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) suggested people harassing, and protesting members of the administration of President Donald Trump at stores, restaurants, and gas stations was the new reality for the United States of America.  Waters was referencing White House press secretary Sarah Sanders being asked to leave a Red Hen restaurant in Virginia this weekend.

11 People Show Up to Maxine Waters' Campaign Event to Energize Millennials.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) held an event on Sunday to get millennials energized about her re-election campaign, but it was sparsely attended.  The two-hour "Auntie Maxine Meet & Greet Tweet-a-thon" was billed as a chance for young people to join "top social media influencers" to support "our fearless champion in Congress" and "reclaim our time."

Maxine Waters plays to empty seats as only 10 millennials show up to campaign event.  Maxine Waters likes to say millennials love her, but if her own campaign event is any indication, that might be more rhetoric than reality. 79-year-old "Auntie Maxine" held a Meet & Greet Tweet-A-Thon on Sunday [6/3/2018] for two hours, and while it's hard to know what she hoped the outcome would be, but the turnout seemed to be underwhelming.

Maxine Waters' campaign committee will pay daughter $100,000, FEC filings show.  Rep. Maxine Waters' campaign committee has paid the California Democrat's daughter nearly $50,000 this election cycle, with an additional $65,000 forthcoming, campaign finance documents show.  Disclosures with the Federal Election Commission show Karen Waters received $42,862 from Citizens for Waters through a series of nine payments made between May 2017 and January 2018.  The most recent payment, of $5,000, was made Jan. 19, according to FEC filings.

That's about enough of Maxine Waters's race-baiting nonsense.  Whenever black Democrats do not have a factual or credible argument to claim racism, they just go ahead and claim it anyway.  This happened recently on the floor of the House of Representatives, during an exchange between U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pennsylvania), and U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-California).  Kelly was defending the automobile industry, of which he is a part through his family business ties.  Waters was claiming his industry was guilty of racist practices.  This is typical of black Democrats who have no credible information.  They know they are unlikely to be challenged because white people find it uncomfortable to disagree with blacks claiming racism.

Watch:  Maxine Waters Curses Trump.  Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters condemned support for Donald Trump during a speech to a Teamsters union group in Los Angeles.  [Video clip]

Waters Bucks Pelosi: 'I'm With the 70 Percent' of Democrats Wanting Trump Impeached.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) again defied her party leadership and called for impeaching President Donald Trump on Sunday [4/29/2018].  MSNBC host Joy Reid asked about Trump's latest comments at a rally criticizing Waters' impeachment stance, and the congresswoman embraced her status as one of the president's most strident critics.  "Well, first of all, he's absolutely correct that I am encouraging impeachment, but he's incorrect when he says and implies that at the rallies people are saying he's done nothing wrong," Waters said.

Maxine Waters:  Trump Is the Most 'Despicable,' 'Deplorable' Human 'I've Ever Encountered'.  Sunday on MSNBC, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said President Donald Trump was "most despicable, the most deplorable human being" that she had ever encountered in her life.  Waters said, "The president calling Comey a liar is laughable.  The president is the biggest liar in the universe.  The president accusing Comey of having leaked classified information — well, look what the president has done.  He gave classified information to the Russian ambassador and foreign minister right in the White House, and it certainly made our ally, Israel, very upset that he had done that.  So the president trying to defend himself against Comey and trying to make someone believe that he's telling the truth really does not fly."

Maxine Waters:  Trump 'Doesn't Deserve' To Be President.  Waters argued that Trump's campaign to "discredit" special counsel Robert Mueller has proven that the president is "out of control."  "Donald Trump is out of control and I think he will go there and I think the American people should be very concerned about him," Waters said, noting that Trump initially said he would not sign the recent Omnibus spending bill.  "He said he would sign it then changed his mind.  Then he changed his mind again and he signed it and so the American people should be concerned about this man's behavior."  [Video clip]

Unearthed Video:  Maxine Waters Powwows With Racist Louis Farrakhan.  Democrats have a serious problem with espousing racist and anti-Semitic sentiments, and unearthed footage of Rep. Maxine Waters with black supremacist bigot Louis Farrakhan proves it.  As reported by the Wall Street Journal, in 2006, "the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity held hearings in New Orleans and Gulfport, Miss., on the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina."  After the hearing in New Orleans, at least four members of the Congressional Black Caucus, including Rep. Waters, headed to St. Augustine Church to meet with Farrakhan.

The Editor says...
What kind of a church would host a miniature political convention for the lying baby-killing Democrats?  What kind of a church would allow someone like Louis Farrakhan to speak to the congregation at all?  Answer:  An all-black church in New Orleans.

Crazy Bernie Sanders Calls Maxine Waters Smart and Compassionate.  Crazy communist Bernie Sanders who wasted tax payer funds all weekend to hang out with the Dodgers in Arizona and who's wife is the subject of a bank fraud case finally jumped the shark (officially.)  Sanders claims that racist, nasty witch Maxine Waters is "smart and compassionate."

Maxine Waters, a parrot who can't seem to stop.  Rep. Maxine Waters, who spent the better part of the inauguration season calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump — before he even took over the White House seat, mind you — and the better part of Robert Mueller's Russia investigation calling for the same, has found a new "let's get 'im, guys" cause to crow, and it's named Stormy Daniels.  Honestly, Waters is like a parrot with a vocabulary of one word.

Maxine 'Impeach 45' Waters Receives 'National Unity Award'.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), who has repeatedly called President Donald Trump a racist and vowed to get Trump impeached, received the "National Unity Award" at Sunday's [3/4/2018] Martin and Coretta King Unity Breakfast in Selma, Alabama.  According to the Selma Times-Journal, the award goes to "someone special who has gone the extra mile to make a difference in the world for his or her race."  The breakfast kicked off the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee event that commemorates "Bloody Sunday" on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

The Editor says...
If I went to extraordinary lengths to make a difference in the world exclusively for my race, I'd be called a racist.

Waters promises 'reparations' if Dems take over in 2020.  How radical can the Democrats get if they take over the government again?  What used to be an extreme position — reparations to black people for slavery — is now entering the mainstream of Democratic party thought and could become a reality once the Democrats regain power.  Reparations have been mentioned since the end of slavery, but in recent years, it has been elevated to a serious issue by liberal Democrats.  Rep. Maxine "Mad Max" Waters, appears to want to make it a cornerstone of a run for the presidency in 2020.

Maxine Waters promises reparations in 'stump speech for 2020'.  If Democrats win back the House in 2018, Maxine Waters is promising financial reparations for black Americans.  During an appearance in Selma, Alabama on Saturday, Waters appeared alongside CNN commentator Angela Rye.  Waters took her time to — what else — attack President Trump, criticizing him for his alleged connections to Russia.

Twitter suspends user for calling Maxine Waters 'crazy old lying lunatic in a bad wig'.  Bastion of free speech, Twitter is not.  Maxine Waters has been accusing critics of being Russian bots, and apparently @TrueJackDaniel didn't appreciate it.

Maxine Waters Attended Nation Of Islam Convention Where Farrakhan Defended Suicide Bombers.  Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters attended a Nation of Islam convention where the hate group's leader, Louis Farrakhan, defended Palestinian suicide bombers.  The convention, which took place in California in 2002, is just the latest tie to emerge between Democrats and the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist group known for being viciously anti-Semitic.  "We have Maxine Waters here," Farrakhan told the convention audience, gesturing to the seats behind him, "our great congresswoman from this area."  The audience cheered Waters' name.  Later in his speech, Farrakhan excused Palestinian suicide bombers and defended Iran for arming Palestinian terrorists.

Maxine Waters Delivers Fifth Democrat Party Response On BET.  From the beginning, it was obvious why BET waited to release the response rather than jump on the internet wave the night of the SOTU speech.  They needed to make sure she didn't say anything crazy.  Ironically, Waters took the same path as President Trump, choosing to carefully stick to the script.  Even crazy people have good advisors.  The result was a clearly edited, measured response that most certainly did nothing to endear Waters to the base who have inexplicably foisted her to celebrity pop culture status.  The congresswoman became beloved for her impulsive, if not zany remarks and attitude.  Muting that with a script had the predictable consequences of making her look like a typical, boring, old politician.  Waters' response didn't even graze the very tip of intellectual.

Maxine Waters says Trump speeches should come with a 'disclaimer'.  Radical, racist, crazy, ignorant — Maxine Waters has demonstrated all of those character traits and more over her 30 years in politics.  That she has risen so far in the Democratic party hierarchy is a testament to the liberal's penchant for delusional thinking and race politics.  But above all else, Waters is a hypocrite, as she showed in her "response" to the president's state of the union speech broadcast on BET. [...] Waters has been calling for the impeachment of the president almost before the inaugural ball champagne went flat.  To date, she has yet to identify any high crimes or misdemeanors that would necessitate the removal of Trump by Congress.

Rep. Maxine Waters calls for a parental advisory when Trump appears on TV.  Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., who appeared on BET Wednesday to lambast President Trump's State of the Union Address, called for a parental advisory each time the president appears on television.  "Whenever he appears on TV there should be a disclaimer that says 'This may be may not be acceptable for children,'" she said.  Waters recorded a pre-taped response to Trump's address, which was broadcast on attorney and political commentator Angela Rye's BET special.

Maxine Waters Makes an FCC Suggestion for Trump.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was one of five Democrats to offer a response to President Trump's State of the Union address.  She didn't actually attend, so to put it another way she offered a response to a speech she didn't even watch.  Still, she has Trump figured out.  He's a "despicable human," he's a "racist," he's "not a role model," and — her latest description — he's not fit for TV.  "Whenever he appears on TV there should be a disclaimer that says 'This may be may not be acceptable for children,'" Waters said during her pre-taped response for Angela Rye's BET special Wednesday [1/31/2018].

Maxine Waters Caught Having 'Dirty Little Liaison' With Former Haitian President.  [Scroll down]  Accusations that Waters was also money laundering in Haiti are coming out, too.  From Maxine's ethics probe, it was found that "Congresswoman Waters has been involved in a money laundering operation involving several 'dummy corporations' she set up with Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide before he was ousted in a 2004 coup d'etat."  Well, looks like Auntie Maxine has no room to talk about "election interference."  It's something she did herself, yet she feigns outrage about the Russians while making false allegations about Trump.

The 17 Most Annoying People of 2017.  [#10] Congresswoman Maxine Waters has represented the same South LA district since Reconstruction.  She lives in a white neighborhood and has never gone for more than five consecutive minutes without reminding everyone that she's black.  As unintelligent as she is self-righteous, she claimed in 2017 that Vladimir Putin invaded Korea, referred to Trump and his associates as "scumbags," called the White House "the White Supremacists' House," and has repeatedly demanded for Trump's impeachment based on little more than the fact that he has thin lips and almost invisible eyebrows.  It is my sincere belief that Maxine Waters is a racist, and as everyone knows, I disavow racism not only because it is evil, but because it is unpopular.

Maxine Waters Starts 'Impeach 45' Chant At Women's Convention.  California Rep. Maxine Waters led a loud chant of "Impeach 45" during her speech at the Women's Convention Saturday [10/28/2017].  Waters, the headlining speaker for the Women's March event, devoted part of her speech to leading the female attendees into a chant calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump.  Video footage shows women on their feet with their fists in the air shouting "Impeach 45! Impeach 45!"

ARREST HER! Maxine Waters threatens Trump assassination.  California Congresswoman Maxine Waters has made a name for herself since President Donald Trump was sworn into office.  Waters travels the country and never misses the opportunity to promise the impeachment of the president — including during her friend's eulogy.  Last week, Waters took her anti-Trump hysterics to the next level and vowed to "take Trump out" to a cheering crowd of Democrats.

Maxine Waters Makes Threat She Will 'Take Trump Out'.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) is no fan of President Donald J. Trump, but at a recent awards gala for LGBT youth, the bombastic Democrat made a disturbing claim that she would "take Trump out."  Kyle Olson of the American Mirror reported the statement on Friday [10/20/2017], but Youtube pulled down the original video.  At the Ali Forney Center gala in New York City, Waters jumped right into the liberal audience's applause by making the off putting, only a mere four months after multiple Republican members of Congress were gunned down by a democrat mad-man who actually wanted to take them out.

Rep. Maxine Waters: 'Housing Is a Necessary Human Right'.  Prominent liberals, Sen. Bernie Sanders among them, insist that health care is a human right, and the same can be said about housing, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said on Thursday [10/12/2017].  Waters, the ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, was among several African-American Democrats on the committee who blasted HUD Secretary Ben Carson as uncaring and incompetent because he supports the Trump administration's budget cuts.  "In the face of the immense housing needs in our country, President Trump chose Dr. Ben Carson to serve as the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development," Waters said in her opening statement at the HUD oversight hearing.

Maxine Waters Goes on Anti-Trump Rant During Eulogy at Dick Gregory's Funeral.  Some people have little to no class at all.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is one of those people.  Waters was invited to deliver a eulogy at the funeral for civil rights activist and comedian Dick Gregory.  However, instead of merely remembering and celebrating the life of Gregory, Waters decided to railroad President Trump, because — well, she's Maxine Waters.  "I'm cleaning out the White House," Waters said in her typical arrogant fashion.  "We're going to sanitize the White House."

The Editor says...
The time to sanitize the White House was the day after Bill Clinton's last encounter with Monica Lewinsky.

Crazy Maxine Waters Pushes Trump Impeachment — During a Eulogy!  This is your 21st century version of the Democrat party.  Maxine Waters, who may run for POTUS in 2020 (we are all hoping she does and becomes the nominee) is now pushing the impeachment of Donald Trump during a eulogy!

Democratic Congresswoman Lumps In Ben Carson With White Nationalists.  You already know that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) has gone off the deep end on a consistent basis, whether it is peddling conspiracy theories about Rep. Jason Chaffetz's (R-UT) resignation from Congress, or pushing for Donald Trump's impeachment, she's a politician who [doesn't care about] achieving her goals.  [Indeed], you saw the shameless side when Water [sic] said it wasn't fine for Trump to fire James Comey from the FBI, but she would have been okay with it if Hillary had won the election and done the exact same thing [...] Now, there's a new circle of nutty.  Waters has called Ben Carson a white nationalist.

Maxine Waters Won't Rule Out All-Black Party.  California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters wouldn't rule out the concept of an all-black political party when asked about it on Monday [8/7/2017].  Waters joined "The Breakfast Club" radio show on Monday morning and was asked if it was time for black people to form their own political party.  "No, not at this point," Waters said.  "You have to show that you're willing and you're able to put the numbers together and exercise your influence."

Where Does Maxine Waters Get Her Money?  Bloomberg reporter Anna Massoglia recently "fell down a rabbit hole" when she began looking at California Democrat Maxine Waters' recent tax filings.  Massoglia stared at the paperwork for hours and simply could not make the math work.  Between high priced dinners, paying her daughter exorbitant amounts, and paying for big fundraising events it seemed that Mad-Max-ine should be broke — but she's not.

Tucker Carlson to Keep Asking Maxine Waters 'Where Did the Money Come From?'.  Tucker Carlson says he's not going to stop asking Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) how she became one of the richest members of Congress — even if she keeps calling him "racist."  Monday [7/24/2017] on "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Host Carlson lashed out at Waters for claiming he was "racist" for asking "Where did the money come from?"  In particular, Carlson questioned how Waters, who represents one of the poorest districts in California, lives in a $4.3 million home.  "We're not alleging wrongdoing here, but really, how did this happen?" he asked.

NH Dems ban mainstream media from Maxine Waters appearance!  New Hampshire Democrats are trying their best to keep Mad Maxine Waters's wild conspiracy theories hidden from the public today [7/23/2017].  According to WMUR, the party has banned the media from covering the Strafford County Democratic Committee's annual picnic this afternoon, where "Great Autie" Maxine will be serving up red meat to the liberal audience.

'Resistance Hero' Maxine Waters Pulls in Only $22K in Individual Contributions.  Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.), who has been considered a leader of the movement within Congress to "resist" Donald Trump, has received a little more than $20,000 in individual contributions to her campaign so far this year despite her elevated profile.  Waters is also $100,000 in debt to her daughter, who runs a lucrative endorsement mailer operation for the campaign, filings show.  Citizens for Waters, Rep. Waters' campaign committee, reported receiving just $12,600 individual contributions throughout the second quarter, which runs between April 1 and June 30.  During the first quarter, which spans from Jan. 1 to March 31, the campaign reported $9,508.79 in individual contributions.  Waters has now pulled in just $22,108.79 in total individual contributions.

Tucker: How Did Maxine Waters Afford a $4.3M Mansion?  How did Rep. Maxine Waters afford a 6,000-square foot, $4.3 million mansion in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Los Angeles after working 40 years in government?  [Video clip]

Mouthy Maxine Part 1.  [Scroll down]  To understand what these progressive/socialists really intend let's take a look at one who is being called a "rockstar" by the media.  Congresswoman Maxine Waters.  "Auntie Maxie", as she is being called by the media and supposedly millennials (although I have yet to meet one who even knows who she is), is front and center in the resistance, she combats hate by hating those that disagree with her and is a main point in what she calls the "counterinsurgency" as shown to the American people by groups like antifa and BlackBloc.  Maxine Waters have served 37 years in office, and just what has she accomplished?

Mouthy Maxine Part 2.  California Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters has been in a shrieking mode since Donald Trump refused to release his tax returns.  She is screaming about how we can't be sure that Donald Trump has no conflict of interest with business dealings he may have with Russia.  She has gone so far as to call for impeachment numerous times because of Trump not releasing his tax returns because, well, you know, RUSSIA!  It makes as much sense as the other reasons she had dredged up from the recesses of her fevered mind devoid of reasoning.  On an almost daily basis, the reason for impeachment expand to cover everything and anything President Trump says or does.  But there are things that Congresswoman Waters also needs to explain.

Madness: Maxine Waters Leads 'Impeach 45' Chant, Says We're On Verge Of Revolution.  Last Wednesday [7/5/2017], Maxine Waters railed at the California African American Museum in LA against President Trump and they cheered her.  She called over and over for Trump to be impeached.  She led her infamous 'Impeach 45!' chant and then claimed we are on the verge of a revolution.  Sedition anyone?  She also called Trump crazy... I guess she would know.  She's moonbat crazy and is really piling on to dredge up hatred against Trump for her political agenda.

Maxine Waters as Resistance Leader?  What a Joke.  Thirteen-term Democratic congresswoman Maxine Waters, Beltway barnacle permanently affixed to USS Government, is now the fresh-faced "rock star" of the Democratic party. [...] Waters has spent 37 years in office — many of those years as head of the Congressional Black Caucus — promising to make life better for constituents in economically ravaged South Central Los Angeles.  What do the denizens of her district have to show for it?  Staggering levels of persistent unemployment, poverty, and gang violence as the 25th anniversary of the L.A. riots looms this coming weekend.  What does Representative Waters have to show for it?  She's earned a lifetime of left-wing adoration for whitewashing the deadly riots as a "rebellion," excusing the week-long shooting, looting, and arson orgy as "a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice and a lot of alienation and frustration," and coddling Crips and Bloods gang members — with whom she performed the Electric Slide as part of her "fearless support and understanding of young people and their efforts at self-expression."

Angry Trump Supporters Lay Siege to Welfare Queen Maxine.  Congresswoman Maxine Waters, aka Welfare Queen Maxine, held her second town hall.  This woman has taken out-of-touch insanity to a whole new level.  She still demands the impeachment of our president, even though the fired FBI Director admitted that he was leaking classified data to the press, and both sides of the aisle now acknowledge (Republicans knew it all along) that Trump and Russia never colluded to fix the election.  But that has not stopped Waters from lying repeatedly to her constituents.

Maxine Waters flees reporter asking about her financial ties to Russia.  Earlier this month, a citizen journalist caught up with Rep. Maxine Waters, the California Democrat obsessed with impeaching Donald Trump over a tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory that the president colluded with Russia to win last year's election.  But when the citizen journalist asked Waters about her financial ties to Russia, she stormed off.  [Video clip]

Maxine Waters Melts Down In Outburst Against Conservative Voter.  Maxine Waters (D-CA) lashed out at a Trump supporter and constituent this past weekend, dismissing her as just "one of 700,000" voters, blasting the President as a "horrible man," and claiming that she, as a member of Congress, can't be impeached.  Video of the incident has been posted online, and it's clear that the 'new face of the Democrat party' is bringing crazy back.

Maxine Waters meltdown: 'You can't impeach a woman of Congress!'  Is all the impeachment talk boomeranging on Maxine Waters?  A constituent filmed an encounter with the California Congresswoman on Monday [5/29/2017] and the two clashed before Waters declared that a member of Congress couldn't be impeached.

Video: Maxine Waters confronted by constituent who vows to work for her impeachment.  On Monday [5/29/2017], Josh Caplan, editor-in-chief of Vessel News, posted a video to Twitter of a conversation between Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and a Trump-supporting constituent who wanted to know why she is so obsessed with impeaching the president.  Waters responded with a string of mostly fact-free talking points and conspiracies, including one in which she claimed Trump and Putin are working to bring America down over oil.

The Rosenstein Doctrine.  First of all, now that we know we can have Special Prosecutors without there being any meaningful evidence of a crime, or in fact any evidence at all of a crime besides gossip and endless political campaigning, let's have a Special Prosecutor for Maxine Waters.  She's the screaming voice of the most anti-Trump, shrillest slice of the Democrat party.  She's been a civil servant all of her life, earning a modest wage.  Somehow, she has a $4.5 million dollar home and other property here in L.A.  True, there's no evidence so far that's she's taken bribes.  But under the logic of Rod Rosenstein, that only means she's all the more guilty and needs a Special Prosecutor to investigate every aspect of her whole life.

Maxine Waters just can't shut up.  Does Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) have a verbal diarrhea problem?  Apparently, yes, considering that it was Democrats in her home state of California who had to yank the microphone on her when she ignored her alloted time, wrecked the local Democratic Party convention speaker schedule, and just wouldn't shut up.  Naturally, this has created a brouhaha among her loyal supporters, who — give it time — will undoubtedly be calling it racism.  The Los Angeles Times has a series of video clips in a blog post, submitted without comment.  It's not the first time it's happened, either.

Maxine Waters Gets Brutal Karma In Front Of Her $4.5 Million House.  Maxine Waters makes $174,000 per year, but she has a $4.5 million mansion in Los Angeles in addition to two other homes worth around $1 million.

Rep. Maxine Waters Named One of the Nation's Most Corrupt Lawmakers.  In the midst of a national financial catastrophe, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) used her position as a senior member of Congress and member of the House Financial Services Committee to prevail upon Treasury officials to meet with OneUnited Bank.  She never disclosed that her husband held stock in the bank.  This outrageous conduct has led Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) to include the congresswoman as one of the Most Corrupt Members of Congress.  "By contacting then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to request a meeting, allegedly for a group of minority-owned banks, but then arranging for only one bank — OneUnited, in which she had a financial interest — to attend, Rep. Waters violated House conflict of interest rules," said CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan.

Maxine Waters Slated to Pay Daughter Another $108K From Campaign Funds.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) is slated to pay her daughter another $108,000 for running a lucrative campaign operation that pulls in hundreds of thousands of dollars each election cycle, FEC filings show.  Karen Waters, the daughter of Rep. Waters, collected nearly $650,000 to date for running the operation for her mother's campaign.  Karen is in charge of a "slate mailer" operation for Citizens for Waters, Rep. Waters' federal campaign committee.  Slate mailers, or endorsement mailers, involve a candidate or political group paying for the endorsement of another politician.

Maxine Waters as Resistance Leader?  What a Joke.  [Scroll down]  Waters has spent 37 years in office — many of those years as head of the Congressional Black Caucus — promising to make life better for constituents in economically ravaged South Central Los Angeles.  What do the denizens of her district have to show for it?  Staggering levels of persistent unemployment, poverty, and gang violence as the 25th anniversary of the L.A. riots looms this coming weekend.  What does Representative Waters have to show for it?  She's earned a lifetime of left-wing adoration for whitewashing the deadly riots as a "rebellion," excusing the week-long shooting, looting, and arson orgy as "a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice and a lot of alienation and frustration," and coddling Crips and Bloods gang members — with whom she performed the Electric Slide as part of her "fearless support and understanding of young people and their efforts at self-expression."

Maxine Waters's claim that she didn't call for Trump's impeachment is too much even for MSNBC.  What could possibly motivate Maxine Waters to claim twice that she never called for Donald Trump's impeachment when the video evidence is so compelling?  It is one thing for conservative websites to call her out, but even MSNBC, the broadcast leader in Trump-hatred, is taking notice of the absolute falsity of her claim.

Rep. Maxine Waters: 'I Think It's In the Best Interest of My Constituents to Get Rid of (Trump)'.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said again on Friday she doesn't "honor" or "respect" President Donald Trump.  "I don't think that he deserves to be president of this great country.  I am very concerned about him.  And I really think he's dangerous," Waters told MSNBC's "Morning Joe."  Waters also said she thinks "it's in the best interest of my constituents to get rid of him."  The congresswoman backed up her poor opinion of the president by pointing to a "scathing" six-part series about Trump in The Los Angeles Times, and she once again said she believes he will be impeached.  In the meantime, she said, "I'm not going to be able to work with him."

Maxine Waters Now Saying That She Never Called For President Trump To Be Impeached.  This is rich, don't you think?  Especially the part when she says that she never called for President Trump to be impeached:  [Several video clips]

Maxine Waters Falsely Denies Calling For Trump's Impeachment.  California Rep. Maxine Waters is denying ever having called for Donald Trump's impeachment, a bizarre claim since she was recorded on video just this weekend leading a crowd of activists in an "Impeach 45!" chant.  In an interview on Tuesday [4/18/2017] with MSNBC's Craig Melvin, Waters was asked about a tweet she sent out earlier in the day saying that she was going to fight "everyday until [Trump's] impeached."  Waters said that allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government need to be investigated.

Maxine Waters' Latest Scandal to the Tune of Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), is involved in yet another ethically troubling situation.  The Washington Free Beacon is reporting that her daughter Karen Waters and her firm Progressive Connections has been paid over $600K by her mother since 2006.  She was paid nearly $70,000 during the 2016 election cycle alone.  She has done it before.  CREW lists Maxine as the most corrupt member of congress in 2005, 2006, and 2009.  Waters is one of the few members of Congress with a record of unethical dealings that can compare with Hillary Clinton's, CREW writes.  This isn't the first time that Waters has gotten herself into ethical hot water, in fact, it's happened several different times over the nearly three decades she's been in Congress.

Maxine Waters rallies Tax March crowd for Trump's impeachment.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) renewed her call for impeaching President Trump during Saturday's Tax March in Washington.  "I don't respect this president.  I don't trust this president.  He's not working in the best interests of the American people," Waters said.  "I will fight every day until he is impeached," she added, before leading the crowd in chants of "impeach 45."  Waters has been among the most vocal critics of Trump in Congress, and she has repeatedly signaled that she would be willing to impeach the president.

Can Maxine Waters Even Spell Impeachment?  Some might ask why a confused Dem hack would become the voice of the "resistance".  A better question might be why not.  Maxine Waters has built her career on getting out there and yelling angrily about things.  That makes her perfectly qualified in a political atmosphere where all the left-wing wants is angry shouting.  Waters has picked up on the fact that anything involving impeachment is perfect prog-bait feeding the fantasy that President Trump will go away soon.

Maxine Waters Is a Hypocrite — For Starters.  On her best days, Congresswoman Maxine Waters is just a hypocrite.  On a normal day, she is a national disgrace.  Maxine Waters didn't hesitate to call the Trump administration "a bunch of scumbags."  While Congresswoman Maxine Waters can condemn the Trump administration, falsely accuse the CIA of bringing drugs into Los Angeles, and even tell the Tea Party to go "straight to hell," she refused to condemn the scumbags who killed 55 people and injured 2,000 people during the 1992 L.A. Riots.

Maxine Waters questions patriotism of Trump supporters from House floor.  Note to Donald Trump supporters:  Maxine Waters is a bigger patriot than you are.  At least that's what she thinks.  During a screed on the House floor Monday night [3/27/2017], Waters played the race card and the patriotism card against supporters of the president.

Maxine Waters isn't in any position to lecture on ethics.  The longer a politician stays in Washington, as a rule of thumb, the more difficult it becomes to keep his nose clean.  Democrats ought to apply that reasoning and skip over Maxine Waters if they're looking for a new conscience of the House.  After three decades in Congress, the California Democrat has a more than checkered past.  But that didn't keep her from predicting President Trump's political demise.  "Get ready for impeachment," Waters cryptically tweeted out of the blue on Trump's 61st day in office and without further explanation.

Maxine Waters goes completely unhinged.  Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is making a strong case to become the poster child for Trump Derangement Syndrome.  Long an exploiter of loony left memes, such as the contention that the CIA deliberately spread a crack epidemic in America's inner cities, Waters loves the attention and praise she garners from voicing the radical thoughts other crazy lefties shy away from.  She owes her national profile to her readiness to glorify the 1992 Rodney King rioters in Los Angeles as participating in a "rebellion," not a "riot," justifying the looting of many Korean-owned stores as "mothers who took this as an opportunity to take some milk, to take some bread, to take some shoes[.] ... They are not crooks."  For Waters, President Trump represents an opportunity to capitalize on the anger and resentment the sore losers on the left are embracing.

Maxine Waters Says [Some Peculiar] Things.  Here are some of the unusual things Waters has said since the election:
  •   1.  She didn't know the name of Trump's chief of staff.  "Let me just say this, Mike Preibus..."
  •   2.  When she told reporters that Russia invaded Korea.  "The fact that he is wrapping his arms around Putin while Putin is continuing to advance into Korea."
  •   3.  When she called Trump and his aides a bunch of 'scumbags.'  "This is a bunch of scumbags.  That's what they are."
  •   4.  Waters revealed her greatest desire.  "And my greatest desire is to lead him right into impeachment."
  •   5.  She referred to Trump as a dictator.  "People are not gonna take this new president who thinks he's a dictator."

US congresswoman advocates impeaching Trump because Putin's attacking... Korea?  Representative Maxine Waters has argued that US President Donald Trump will inevitably be impeached because of his alleged ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin who she claimed is "advancing in Korea."  Waters, a 13-term Democrat from Los Angeles, has called for Trump's impeachment several times now, however she has yet to explicitly accuse the president of breaking the law.

Ethics-Tainted-Hater Maxine Waters, Calls For Trump Impeachment.  Gotta hand it to Maxine Waters, the California Congresswoman has never met a Republican she didn't hate, or a corrupt liberal movement she didn't love, but that doesn't stop her from spewing her venom in public.  Ms. Waters has been feasting on her hatred of Donald Trump ever since he won the election, even to the point of saying she would never meet with or work with the new president.  Last week she tweeted that she wanted to lead trump into impeachment (I don't understand how she intends to do that without meeting with him).

Maxine Waters Wants to Impeach Trump Because She Disagrees With Him, Or Something.  Democrats have been throwing temper tantrums on Capitol Hill since before President Trump was officially sworn in on January 20 and have given every indication we shouldn't expect their obstructionist behavior to end anytime soon.  Speaking to reporters Monday [2/6/2017], Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters said she isn't calling for Trump's impeachment... yet.

A Modest Proposal — To All Those Boycotting Members of Congress.  The first time I met Democrat Maxine Waters was nearly a generation ago when she was a Member of the California State Assembly.  At the State Capitol with the Republican Minority Leader of the State Assembly, I entered a "Members Only" elevator just as Assemblywoman Waters was about to close the door.  She gave the Republican Leader a dirty look, then glanced at the customary "no smoking sign" and blew smoke in my face.  A Member of the U.S. Congress since since 1990, Maxine Waters remains perennially angry.  If Al Sharpton were a transsexual, he would be Maxine Waters, except she may be more demagogic, if that is possible.  A quintessential political hack, she sees everything in terms of race, gender, class, in that order.  Extra points if you're a Palestinian or Muslim.

Guerrilla warfare against Maxine Waters on the streets of Los Angeles.  [D]ecades of experience with Democrats running cities with circumstances worsening eventually take a toll on the orthodoxy.  So, too, at a national level, the Congressional Black Caucus, for all its posturing (and fundraising), has not done much to help blacks below the elite levels.  Consider the lockstep support for policies that flood the labor market with new entrants, legal and illegal, who compete with blacks for jobs, driving down wages in the segments of the labor market where blacks are most affected.

Somebody's Flexin' Maxine!  It appears someone is flexin' ol' Maxine Waters, the openly socialist Democratic Congresswoman from south central Los Angeles.

Waters secures top Democratic spot on House Financial Services Committee.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has been officially named the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee.  The outspoken liberal vowed Tuesday to protect the Dodd-Frank financial reform law from GOP attempts to dismantle it, while pursuing reform of housing finance with the new chairman, Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas).

Maxine Waters: Boehner and Cantor 'Demons'.  Maxine Waters reminded us today that, should Democrats win back the House, she is in line to become the next chairwoman of the Financial Services Committee.  If that doesn't scare you, then just watch this video.  In it, she calls Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor "demons" who "would rather do whatever they can to destroy this president, rather than for the good of this country."

Maxine Waters calls Republican leaders 'demons'.  Rep. Maxine Waters, no stranger to controversy, is turning heads once again, this time for describing House Republican leaders as "demons."  The California Democrat's comments, which surfaced Wednesday [2/15/2012], were made last weekend at a state party convention in San Diego.  Video of her speech shows her rallying Democrats to win back control of the House in November.

House ethics panel investigates Rep. Maxine Waters.  The House Ethics Committee is investigating Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles), who has come under scrutiny because of her husband's ties to a bank that received federal bailout funds.

Maxine Waters:  Banking on Hypocrisy.  [Scroll down]  The ethically conflicted Waters has her own special definition of what's in "the best interest" of the people she claims to serve.  While she crusades against crony pseudo-capitalism, she is one of its most hypocritical beneficiaries and advocates.  Cronyism comes in all colors. Waters has once again earned her title as one of the "Most Corrupt" members of Congress from the left-leaning (yes, left-leaning) Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).

Maxine Waters ties to banks questioned.  Questions have been emerging over the last few months about the actions of an L.A. congresswoman who reportedly set up a meeting between federal regulators and a bank seeking $50 million in bailout funds.  Maxine Waters did so even though her family had financial ties to the bank.

Waters helped bank whose stock she once owned.  When Rep. Barney Frank was looking to aid a Boston-based lender last fall, the Massachusetts Democrat urged Maxine Waters, a colleague on the House Financial Services Committee, to "stay out of it," he says.  The reason:  Ms. Waters, a longtime congresswoman from California, had close ties to the minority-owned institution, OneUnited Bank.

Rep. Waters' troubling ties:  The possible conflict involving OneUnited Bank is just the latest example of her seeming inability to distinguish her family interests from her public obligations.

Ethics to investigate Reps. Richardson, Waters; Graves criticizes the OCE.  The House ethics panel voted Thursday [10/29/2009] to launch investigative subcommittees into separate charges against California Democratic Reps. Maxine Waters and Laura Richardson.  The moves signal the panel believes there is enough evidence to warrant further serious inquiry.

Waters makes personal defense of ethics after investigation leak.  Rep. Maxine Waters defended herself after news broke Friday that she has been under investigation by the House ethics committee.  Waters (D-Calif.), who was one of the 30 lawmakers named in a Washington Post article as being under scrutiny from the committee, waged a personal defense of her role in having allegedly helped arrange a meeting at the Treasury on a bailout for a minority-owned bank in which her husband maintained a financial stake.

House probes California Rep. Waters.  The House ethics committee said Thursday [10/29/2009] it's investigating whether California Rep. Maxine Waters used her influence to help a bank in which her husband owned stock — and whether the couple benefited as a result.

House Raps Rep. Maxine Waters on Ethics Charge.  Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters today [8/2/2010] proclaimed her innocence concerning charges of ethics violations made by the House Ethics Committee and said she will participate in a public hearing rather than admit to any wrongdoing.

Troubled Waters.  Rep. Maxine Waters who may be facing a formal House of Representatives ethics trial over her activities on behalf of a bank, is just the most recent member of the Congressional Black Caucus to face such an investigation.  Currently New York Rep. Charles Rangel is facing an ethics trial, following in the footsteps of ethically challenged Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson.

Black Caucus:  Too PC To Fail?  Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters' banking scandal is a cautionary tale about the Congressional Black Caucus, a group that's enjoyed little scrutiny while influencing major legislation.  The 42-member caucus helped write whole sections of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that have more to do with advancing its radical redistributionist agenda than heading off another crisis.  Both Waters, D-Calif., and Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., are caucus leaders, and both face trial for serious ethics breaches.

Mad Maxine's Minority Fat-Cat Bankers.  Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California is notorious for her high-decibel rants against corporate executives and career exploitation of identity politics.  Class warfare and racial division are her two-decade-long stock and trade.  She would normally be first in line (and in front of the cameras) to lambaste the very kind of Porsche-driving, luxury beach house-partying bank officials who begged her for a government handout.  If they were white, that is.

Rep. Maxine Waters charged with three violations.  The House ethics committee released its formal charges against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) on Monday [8/9/2010], accusing her of three counts of violating the letter and spirit of House rules and federal regulations by assisting a bank in which her husband owned stock.

A Grandmother on Trial.  Ultra-leftist Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) faces three ethics charges related to her attempt to get federal bailout money directed to a bank, OneUnited, in which her husband, Sidney Williams, was an investor.  The value of Williams' ownership had dropped from over $350,000 at the end of June, 2008, to $175,000 in September, 2008, after the government put Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into "conservatorship" (because OneUnited had substantial investments in FNM and FRE-backed securities.)  Williams had also been a member of the bank's Board of Directors.

Maxine Waters' Blame Game.  Just when it appears that no one could possibly get away with blaming former President George W. Bush for even one more thing, another crazed liberal Democrat exercises the right to do just that.  The latest knee-jerk, Bush-bashing excuse came from none other than Rep. Maxine Waters, perhaps the second dumbest member of Congress, right after Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas.

Sheila Jackson Lee: My Constituents are Ill-Informed.  When a politician refers to the general public as "ill informed" on an issue (in this case it's hospital closures due to the health care law) it's just another way of calling them ignorant or stupid.  Even so, it's hard to argue with Sheila Jackson Lee (D-umb Constituents) when she makes the claim about some of the voters in her district.  Why?  Well, they keep voting for Sheila Jackson Lee don't they?  I'm forced to admit that her logic is iron-clad on this one.  Note to those in the 18th congressional district of Texas:  When a woman who once asked if NASA's Pathfinder took pictures of where Neil Armstrong planted the flag on Mars calls you ill-informed, it's time to hit the books.

Rep. Waters's lawyers cry foul on ethics probe.  Lawyers for California Rep. Maxine Waters are fighting an attempt by investigators to gather more evidence now that three formal ethics charges have been filed against her.  Waters, a Democrat, has been charged with improperly seeking government help in 2008 for a minority-owned bank in which her husband owned stock.

Waters' mailers a family business.  Rep. Maxine Waters has turned political endorsements into a family business, using federal election laws to charge California candidates and political causes to include their names as her personal picks on a sample ballot, or "slate mailer," she sends to as many as 200,000 South Central Los Angeles voters, records show.

Boxer Tied to Dubious Waters Cash-for-Endorsement Scheme.  Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Chair of the Senate Ethics Committee, has paid some $30,000 since 2004 for the endorsement of embattled Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) in the context of a scheme that critics charge is unethical and amounts to Waters using her political station to benefit her family members.

Rangel, Waters Ethics Trials May Be Delayed.  Democratic Reps. Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters, both of whom have been recently overwhelmed by media attention devoted to House ethics charges brought against them, may not face hearings related to those charges until after the November midterm elections, according to political watchdog organizations.

Ethics charges against Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., looking much worse.  Things looked pretty bad when Congresswoman Maxine Waters was caught helping arrange a taxpayer bailout for a bank where her husband was a former board member and had a significant financial interest in.  The House Ethics Committee report on the matter was pretty damning.  Today [9/17/2010], the Washington Post has a lengthy and terrific piece of reportage that shows the circumstances of the OneUnited Bank bailout are even more suspicious than previously thought.

Maxine Waters Triggers FDIC Probe.  An ethics investigation into Rep. Maxine Waters (D.-Calif.) has found that "connections to prominent people" were a consideration in giving millions of TARP dollars to an unqualified failing bank in which her husband was heavily invested.  Now Rep. Darrell Issa (R.-Calif.), ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is investigating the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) saying that this and other questionable practices "raises concerns that the FDIC may be making decisions based on factors other than protecting the best interests of taxpayers and depositors."

Lobbyist paid $15K to Waters' husband.  A lobbyist known as one of California's most successful power brokers while serving as a legislative leader in that state paid Rep. Maxine Waters' husband $15,000 in consulting fees at a time she was co-sponsoring legislation that would help save the real-estate finance business of one of the lobbyist's best-paying clients, records show.

Another Maxine Waters Scandal.  As a congressional ethics panel prepares to try Maxine Waters for steering federal funds to her husband's failing bank, a newspaper reports that the veteran California lawmaker is embroiled in a separate corruption scandal involving her beloved hubby.  Citing federal records, the story says that a powerful lobbyist paid Waters' banker husband (Sidney Williams) $15,000 in "consulting fees" as she co-sponsored a law aimed at saving a business that was among the lobbyist's top clients.

Bombshell Evidence May Make Waters an Ethics Nightmare for Dems.  Apparently, the Charlie Rangel ethics trial was just the warm-up act.  The New York Times reported over the weekend that the House Ethics Committee suddenly postponed the trial of Maxine Waters on ethics violation because it found more evidence of direct intervention by her office to benefit the bank in which her husband owned a substantial interest.

Ethics panel postpones Rep. Waters' hearing.  The ethics trial of Rep. Maxine Waters was postponed Friday [11/19/2010], as the House ethics committee found new documents connected to charges that she improperly tried to help a bank in which her husband owned stock.

Maxine Waters: I've been denied due process.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is calling on the House ethics committee to schedule her ethics trial on three counts of violating House rules before the end of the lame-duck session.  That trial was set to begin on Nov. 29, but Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the ethics committee, announced 10 days ago that it would be delayed after the panel uncovered new evidence.

Ethics probe of Rep. Waters derailed by infighting, sources say.  A lengthy House investigation of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has been derailed by infighting within the politically charged ethics committee over errors in building a case against her, according to congressional sources with direct knowledge of the probe.

Months later...
Hey, What Happened To That Maxine Waters Ethics Trial?  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was supposed to have faced trial for ethics violations last year, but the trial was suddenly delayed until after the November 2010 elections.  Waters stands accused of obtaining $12 million in TARP money for the bank OneUnited, on whose board her husband Sidney Williams once sat, and in which he owned more than $350,000 in stock. ... Her trial was delayed because new evidence had supposedly come to light.

Second lawyer investigating Maxine Waters out of ethics committee.  The two lawyers who led an ethics investigation of LA Congresswoman Maxine Waters don't hold that job any more.  The two lawyers, Morgan Kim and Stacey Sovereign, were suspended the same day the House Ethics Committee postponed indefinitely a hearing into the Waters matter.

Government reform groups call on ethics committee to resume Maxine Waters probe.  Six government reform organizations are calling on the House Committee on Ethics to resume its work on an investigation into Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) that has been stalled since late last year.  The groups — the Campaign Legal Center, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Common Cause, Democracy 21, the League of Women Voters and Public Citizen — sent a letter Wednesday [3/23/2011] to the ethics committee in which they said they were concerned that the case was still pending nearly two years after the Office of Congressional Ethics began its investigation in April 2009.

The ethics case against Maxine Waters:  Last week, half a dozen public interest groups, including Common Cause and the League of Women Voters, asked the House Ethics Committee when it will resume its investigation of Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters of Los Angeles.  The case has existed for nearly two years.  It's alleged that the Congresswoman used her political clout to help a bank in which her husband owned stock.

It's called stonewalling.
What's the Hold Up on the Maxine Waters Investigation?  [Scroll down]  On the heels of the massive investigation and very public trial of Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), there was reason to be somewhat optimistic that Waters would be held accountable.  That is until House Ethics Committee Chairman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) started meddling in the process.  Not only did Lofgren fail to issue subpoenas for records related to the scandal, but she also delayed the ethics committee hearing after doing everything in her power to undermine the professional committee staff leading the investigation.  And, as if that were not enough, Lofgren then improperly fired two attorneys working on the investigation.

Maxine Waters: Swamp Queen.  Last summer, the House Ethics Committee charged the entrenched California congresswoman with three violations related to her wheeling and dealing on behalf of minority-owned OneUnited Bank in Los Angeles.  The panel accused Waters of bringing discredit to the House for using her influence to seek and secure taxpayer-subsidized special favors for the failing financial institution.  Eight months have passed since the House ethics panel charged Waters.  But to date, there has been no action.  No trial.  No consequences.

What About Waters?  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has called for an ethics investigation of Rep. Anthony Weiner for possibly misusing official resources.  But what about the probe of Rep. Maxine Waters for abusing her power?  The ethics trial of Waters, accused of swinging millions in federal bailout cash to her husband's ailing bank, was set to begin last November.  But the Democrat leadership has delayed Waters' trial by blocking subpoenas and firing the lead lawyer working on the two-year investigation.

Capitol Hill's Other Dirty Laundry.  [Democratic New York Rep. Anthony] Weiner's dirty laundry is just the latest addition to a teeming heap of scandal.  To wit:  The committee still hasn't issued a final report into last year's reckless Capitol Hill predator du jour, former Democratic New York Rep. Eric Massa.  He's the notorious creep who serially groped male staffers and subjected interns to "tickle fights" for months while then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi looked the other way.  Then there's Beltway swamp queen Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters.

House Ethics Committee should hold Waters accountable.  Remember when Rep. Maxine Waters and her friend Rep. Barney Frank helped secure a bailout grant for the failing MA bank OneUnited — a bank in which her husband had a significant investment and was a member of the board?  Could the conflict of interest be any more egregious?

Groups want House to restart Waters probe.  A coalition of reform groups wants the House Committee on Ethics to resume its work on the long-pending investigation of Rep. Maxine Waters and provide a public accounting of the status of the case against the California Democrat.  In a statement Friday [7/8/2011], the Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause, the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), Democracy 21, the League of Women Voters and Public Citizen said no public notice of the status of the 2-year-old case has been provided "since the abrupt and unexplained cancellation" of a scheduled hearing in November.

Did ethics staff taint Maxine Waters probe?  The former staff director of the House Ethics Committee accused two top committee lawyers last year of secretly communicating with Republicans on the panel regarding the investigations of Democratic Reps. Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel, raising concerns over whether the long-running inquiries were compromised by key staffers, according to internal committee documents obtained by POLITICO.

House Ethics picks outside counsel to handle Waters case.  The House Ethics Committee on Wednesday [7/20/2011] appointed a high-profile attorney to serve as an outside counsel handling ethics charges against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.).  The move comes in response to complaints from Waters and ethics watchdog groups that the panel cannot deal with her case impartially, and Waters was quick to argue Wednesday that the committee's odd step vindicates her claims that the investigation is "misguided."

Rep. Maxine Waters again calls for ethics case to be dropped.  Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) on Tuesday [7/19/2011] launched a new drive to push the House Ethics Committee to drop its long-running case against her, saying that internal committee documents show she cannot get a fair hearing from the panel.

Maxine Waters' Ethics Trial Stalls. Again.  Waters threatens to sue the House Ethics Committee for mishandling her case.

Tea Party Group Slams Rep. Waters Over Outburst.  A national Tea Party group urged Democrats to adhere to their own calls for civility after Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters told a restless crowd over the weekend that the "Tea Party can go straight to hell."  Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin, who lead the Tea Party Patriots, suggested President Obama should step in to put a check on the overheated rhetoric.

The Editor says...
In my opinion, Ms. Waters will be very surprised someday to see who's in Hell and who isn't.

Maxine Waters Needs a Mirror.  Queen of the poverty pimps Maxine Waters must so wish that Obama were a whole white man.  Democrat or not, if Obama were white, Waters would be heaping all the blame on those frail little shoulders of his.  But because Obama has been presented as "authentically black," Waters was recently forced to stop short of condemning him.  Instead, she unleashed on the closest white item she could find:  the Tea Party.  Anything to keep her ignorant followers from actually thinking about where to place the blame.

The Editor apologizes for the profanity in this headline.
Kerosene Maxine to Tea Party: "Go to Hell!".  [Representative Maxine] Waters once said of the then-sitting president:  "I would like to ... say ... very clearly that I believe George (H.W.) Bush is a racist."  She routinely refers to the Republican Party as "the enemy."  She also referred to Republican former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan as a "plantation owner."  She called the 1992 Los Angeles riots a "rebellion," and bellowed, "No justice, no peace!"  She defended looters:  "There were mothers who took this as an opportunity to take some milk, to take some bread, to take some shoes.  Maybe they shouldn't have done it, but the atmosphere was such that they did it.  They are not crooks."

Top 10 Outrageous Maxine Waters Quotes.  We rarely agree with Rep. Maxine Waters (D.-Calif.), the loud-mouth, left-wing congresswoman from South Central Los Angeles, home of the 1992 Rodney King riots.  But recently she said, "We're supportive of the President, but we're getting tired.  We're getting tired.  The unemployment is unconscionable."  Yes, Maxine, we are also getting tired of the President.  And we are getting tired of you as well...

Rep. Maxine Waters Calls For A Trillion-Dollar Jobs Program.  "I'm talking about a jobs program of a trillion dollars or more.  We've got to put Americans to work.  That's the only way to revitalize this economy.  When people work they earn money, they spend that money, and that's what gets the economy up and going," Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) told NBC's "Meet the Press."

Does Maxine Waters' Support Run Deep?  Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank's decision to retire at the end of his current term means the probable elevation of California Rep. Maxine Waters to the top Democratic slot on the House Financial Services Committee.  She is, after all, next in line in seniority behind Frank.  But not everyone in Washington is convinced it will be an automatic rise.

With Barney leaving, ethically challenged Maxine Waters waits in wings.  With [Barney] Frank's retirement, the next in line to be ranking Democrat on House Financial Services (or chairman if Democrats retake the House in 2012) is Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., who remains the subject of a never-ending, unresolved House Ethics Committee investigation.  She has been credibly accused of using her congressional position in 2008 to intervene on behalf of a bank seeking a bailout — OneUnited Bank.  It just happened that her husband was heavily invested in OneUnited Bank.

Maxine Waters ethics case may take more time.  The outside counsel investigating the House Ethics Committee's handling of the case against Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters may his miss his year-end deadline to complete the probe.  The committee's chairman and ranking member, Reps. Jo Bonner (R-Ala.) and Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.), made the admission Wednesday [11/30/2011] during an appearance before the House Administration Committee, which is in charge of setting panel budgets for next year.

Ethics lawyer gets more time to investigate Maxine Waters case.  The House Ethics Committee has given an outside lawyer more time to examine whether the committee's staff acted improperly in investigating allegations of misconduct against veteran Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles), further delaying an inquiry that could cost taxpayers as much as $800,000.

House Ethics Committee still investigating Rep. Maxine Waters.  The House Ethics Committee offered Speaker John Boehner and other House leaders an update on its investigation of Rep. Maxine Waters.  The committee wants to know whether the L.A. Democrat's due process rights have been violated.

Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2011.  In August 2010, an investigative subcommittee of the House Ethics Committee charged Rep. Waters with three counts of violating House rules and ethics regulations in connection with her use of power and influence on behalf of OneUnited Bank.  She was expected to face an ethics trial in late 2010, but the committee delayed the trial indefinitely on November 29, 2010, citing newly discovered documentary evidence that may impact proceedings.  The delay apparently has less to do with evidence and more to do with infighting on the panel.

Ethics panel members recused in Maxine Waters case.  Six members of the House Ethics Committee — including all five Republicans on the secretive panel — have recused themselves from the long-running case involving Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.), an unprecedented move that raises new questions on whether the Waters case can be finished.

Republicans need to stand up against Waters racist rhetoric.  At the heart of this tediously ongoing investigation is that Maxine Waters (D-CA) is an old school house bully and if you are going question her, get ready to fight.  Feeding on emotionally energized behavior during the 2012 California Democratic State Convention, Waters was calling House Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor "demons" whom she doesn't want to see "in our hall, on our screens."  The Republicans will always be called demons and devils until they learn how to fight back with logic and solution to urban social subsidized issues versus the emotional rhetoric coming from democrat leaders like Waters who has a method to her oratory madness.

For This Old Socialist, Maxine Waters, Socialism Starts at Home.  Maxine Waters, the ranking Democrat on the Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee and who serves as the deputy whip for the Democrats in the House — and who will take over for Frank now that he is retiring — is embroiled in another scandal involving money and nepotism.

Maxine Waters Ethics Probe Continues.  The ethics investigation of Maxine Waters, the California representative accused of steering $12 million in TARP funds to a minority-owned bank with ties to her husband, is set to resume.  Today [6/6/2012] the House committee on Ethics released a letter to Waters, dismissing the embattled Democrat's allegations that her constitutional rights had been violated.

After $800K probe, Dems want answers in Waters case.  A contingent of 68 House Democrats is demanding more answers from the Ethics committee about its decisions to move forward with the 2-year-old case against Rep. Maxine Waters and to dismiss the California Democrat's argument that her due process rights were violated.

Outside counsel for Rep. Waters case may cost taxpayers $1.3M.  The House Ethics Committee could end up spending more than $1 million on an outside counsel's investigation of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and the panel itself.  The secretive committee on Thursday [8/2/2012] voted to extend the contract of outside counsel Billy Martin, who has cost more than $800,000 since being hired last July to continue investigating allegations against Waters and the ethics panel itself.

House ethics panel extends case of L.A. lawmaker.  [Rep. Maxine] Waters has been accused of intervening improperly on behalf of OneUnited Bank, on whose board her husband served from January 2004 to April 2008 and in which he owned stock.  Waters has said that her actions were in keeping with her work to aid minority-owned businesses and that she didn't benefit financially from her actions.

House Ethics Committee finds no violations in Rep. Waters case.  Now serving her 11th term, Waters won her last race with 79 percent of the vote.

No Ethics Charge for Democratic Calif. Rep. Waters.  California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters won't be charged with ethics violations following allegations she steered a $12 million federal bailout to a bank where her husband owns stock.

Just what does it take to remove a corrupt Democrat?
Maxine Waters Skates Again And Democrats' Culture Of Corruption Carries On.  The California Democrat was accused of using her position as a member of the House Financial Services Committee in 2009 to steer $12 million in bailout money to the failing Boston-based OneUnited Bank, in which her husband had substantial stakes.  The federal cash had been earmarked for solvent banks with good banking practices, yet OneUnited, which failed all such criteria, got an exemption from the FDIC accounting rules.  Maybe that's because Treasury Department bank examiners were subject to a barrage of calls from Waters' grandson, Mikael Moore, muscling into an operation that was supposed to be judged impartially.

Report details Waters ethics case debacle.  The long saga of the Maxine Waters ethics investigation is a chronicle of mistakes, partisan and intraparty squabbles, allegations of racism, bitter personal rivalries and failed attempts to bring the investigation to a close months and even years before it ended.

Inside the Maxine Waters Ethics Committee Debacle.  On September 12, the House Ethics Committee released a report detailing its Waters investigation, which was characterized by Politico as a "chronicle of mistakes, partisan and intraparty squabbles, allegations of racism, bitter personal rivalries and failed attempts to bring the investigation to a close months and even years before it ended."

Scandal-Plagued Maxine Waters Top Dem on Banking Committee.  Even for Washington this is a bit much. Democrats have chosen a scandal-plagued college, veteran Congresswoman Maxine Waters, to be the ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee despite her many transgressions over the years.  The influential congresswoman has helped family members make more than $1 million through business ventures with companies and causes that she has helped, according to her hometown newspaper.


Waters and Rangel

Republicans Say Dems Are Stalling on Rangel, Waters Ethics Cases.  Republicans on the House ethics committee accused Democrats of stalling the public trials of Democratic Reps. Charles Rangel of New York and Maxine Waters of California, and called for hearings to begin next month — before the November elections.

Dems delay ethics trials.  This should come as no surprise to anyone with a basic understanding of politics, but House Democrats are postponing pre-election ethics trials for two Democratic House members and Republicans are not happy about it.  Reps. Maxine Waters of California and Charlie Rangel of New York both faced charges they violated the rules of the House in separate cases that were scheduled to be adjudicated in public hearings some time in September.

Pelosi ethics pledge falters.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised four years ago that Democrats would lead "the most honest, most open, most ethical Congress in history."

Post-election ethics trials set for Rangel, Waters.  Ethics trials for two prominent House Democrats were set Thursday [10/7/2010] for after the midterm elections, depriving Republicans of headlines that could become campaign ads.

Dates set for Rangel, Waters congressional ethics trials.  The chair of the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, a.k.a. House Ethics Committee, just released a statement announcing the trial dates for Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif. Both ethics trials will start after the election.

Drain the swamp.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously promised to "drain the swamp" back in 2006 when Democrats successfully campaigned against corruption in the Republican-led Congress.  She formed the Office of Congressional Ethics two years later to show that she meant business.  Now, the charges filed against Reps. Charles Rangel of New York and Maxine Waters of California are putting her promises to the ultimate test — public ethics trials against members of her own party at a time when the GOP is hoping to recapture control of the House.

Waters, Rangel make a mockery of House rules.  Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., has received a temporary reprieve.  Her ethics trial, originally set to begin Nov. 29, has been indefinitely postponed.  Waters was to go on trial for her role in helping get a $12 million Troubled Asset Relief Program bailout in 2008 for a bank in which her husband owned $350,000 worth of stock.  But now congressional investigators have discovered new e-mails between Waters' Chief of Staff Mikael Moore (who is also Waters' grandson) and the staff of the House Financial Services Committee.  The e-mails indicate that Waters was actively engaged in getting the bank bailout after she was warned by House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., to stay out of it.  The e-mails also appear to contradict what she has told the congressional ethics committee.



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Longest serving black congressman John Conyers dies at 90.  Former Democratic Michigan Rep. John Conyers died Sunday [10/27/2019] at 90 in his sleep. [...] The former congressman represented his district in Michigan for more than 50 years.  He was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and the longest serving black legislator in U.S. history.

Former Michigan Congressman John Conyers Jr. dies at 90.  John Conyers was the only African American lawmaker in history to mark a golden anniversary in office.  But after 53 years on the hill, his career would come to a stunning and sudden end in 2017 when former staffers came forward with allegations of sexual misconduct.  He denied the claims.  But the congressman who fought so hard for the rights of others did not think he could get a fair shake in his own battle.

Keep Your Hypocrisy-Stained Hands Off Our President.  There is a profound difference between (i) the soap-opera charges now being leveled by some opportunistic women against President Donald Trump and leveraged for cheap political gain by the Gillibrand Hypocrites within the Democrat Party and (ii) the pants-dropping of The Icon, John Conyers, and the butt-squeezing, tongue-slithering obscenities of Sen. Al Franken (who now indeed will have to leave the upper chamber, with no Roy Moore to counterbalance).  Conyers and Franken have lost all legitimacy.  By contrast, the American people elected President Trump with full transparent cognition of his public and private portfolio, thereby validating his office.  The difference between the President and Disgraced Franken-Conyers is that the charges against President Trump fully were litigated before the voters during the 2016 Presidential election.

Conyers' House seat to remain vacant for nearly a year.  Michigan's Republican governor announced Friday that Democrat John Conyers' congressional seat will not be filled until the regularly scheduled November election, leaving it vacant for nearly a year.

Why 'Chandra Levy' Is Trending Again.  For those of tender years, the 24-year-old Chandra Levy disappeared in Washington in 2001 at the same time she was having an affair with Democrat sleazeball congressman Gary Condit of California.  Courtney Morse, a 20-year-old at the time of her internship with Conyers, told the Post she quit her job after Conyers "drove her home from work one night, wrapped his hand around hers as it rested in her lap, and told her he was interested in a sexual relationship."  According to Morse, when she rejected Conyers's come-on, he brought up the Levy investigation.  "He said he had insider information on the case.  I don't know if he meant it to be threatening, but I took it that way," Morse told the Post.  "I got out of the car and ran."

A Conyers Civil War In Detroit's Dirty Dynasty.  After spending almost 60 years in Congress as a politician and a staffer, Rep. John Conyers II has to decide which of his many relatives to pass Michigan's 13th congressional district to.  It's like King Lear, if Shakespeare's fictional monarch had been forced to step down after groping a woman in church.  The 13th is a very nice district to inherit.  Conyers has won it by 77%, 79% and 82%.  Fidel Castro couldn't ask for better elections.  Whichever Conyers clan member gets it will be staying in Congress for 60 years.  And will inherit Rep. Conyers' government Cadillac Escalade.  The Conyers fief stretches from Detroit to Highland Park to Garden City in Michigan's lower peninsula.  It's majority African-American.  A quarter of the population is unemployed.  Median household income is $29K.  Only 14% of the serfs on the Conyers political plantation even have a college degree.  It's a typical Democrat plantation where only the politicians have a future.

John Conyers' Resignation Is 50 Years Too Late.  Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., hospitalized for an undefined stress-related illness, announced his retirement after serving more than 50 years in the House. [...] Despite his sudden retirement, Conyers "vehemently" denies all accusations that he ever committed sexual harassment.  "My legacy can't be compromised or diminished in any way by what we are going through now," Conyers said in a radio interview from the hospital.  "This too shall pass.  My legacy will continue through my children."

The John Conyers Abdication.  On Tuesday, Representative John Conyers (D., Mich.) announced that he would "retire" from Congress, effectively immediately.  Conyers, who has spent the last 53 years in office — Bonanza was the top-rated television show in America the year he joined Congress — didn't exactly retire: he actually resigned in disgrace, thanks to allegations of sexual harassment and abuse.  The most recent allegation:  A woman says Conyers groped her in church.  In church.  He stepped down only because news broke that taxpayers had been footing the bill for his games of footsie.  But fear not:  The city of Detroit shall not go without a Conyers.  The Old Man appointed his son, 27-year-old John Conyers III, to run in his stead.

Conyers' Son Reportedly Arrested For 'Domestic Abuse'.  John Conyers III, the son of embattled Democratic Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, was arrested under suspicion of domestic abuse in Los Angeles but was not charged, NBC News reported on Wednesday [12/6/2017].

Rep. John Conyers' son — who he endorsed to replace him — was reportedly arrested on suspicion of domestic abuse.  On Tuesday [12/5/2017], the elder Conyers dismissed such reports as politically motivated said they would not impact his reputation.  "My legacy can't be compromised or diminished in any way by what we're going through now.  This too shall pass," he said.  "I want you to know that my legacy will continue through my children."

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John Conyers III Was Arrested in February, Accused of Stabbing His Girlfriend.  John Conyers III, who was endorsed by his father on Tuesday to succeed him in the House, was arrested in February after his girlfriend suffered knife cuts during an argument.  Mr. Conyers, in an interview Wednesday, tried to head off a possibly disqualifying scandal just a day after his father resigned from Congress amid multiplying allegations of sexual harassment.  As issues of sexual harassment and abuse roil Washington, any violent altercation against a woman could doom his effort to take the seat that his father held since 1965.

John Conyers III Allegedly Body-Slammed His Girlfriend And Cut Her With A Knife.  John Conyers III, son of disgraced former Rep. John Conyers Jr., allegedly body-slammed his girlfriend and then spat on her during a domestic dispute, according to a new report.  Conyers Jr., who resigned on Tuesday after a flood of sexual harassment allegations against him, has said that he wants Conyers III to run for his empty seat.

Conyers mentioned Chandra Levy case when intern rebuffed sexual advance: report.  A former congressional intern reportedly says she too was a victim of inappropriate sexual contact by now-retired Rep. John Conyers, saying Conyers even claimed during that encounter to have "inside information" on then-missing federal intern Chandra Levy.  Courtney Morse, 36, described the incident from 16 years ago to The Washington Post.  She said Conyers, D-Mich., mentioned the Levy case when Morse was a college intern for him and the congressman drove her home one night.

Rep. Conyers announces he's retiring today, endorses son to fill seat.  Currently facing multiple allegations of sexual harassment, veteran Congressman John Conyers, D-Mich., announced he is retiring today [12/5/2017].  Conyers, 88, confirmed the news on the Mildred Gaddis radio show, calling in from a hospital in Detroit recovering for a stress-related illness. [...] Ian Conyers, 29, the grandson of Rep. Conyers' brother, confirmed the news of John Conyers' retirement by phone with ABC News early Tuesday.  Ian Conyers, a Michigan state senator, said that he would also seek his granduncle's seat.

John Conyers' Son And Appointed Successor.  John Conyers III., the son and appointed successor of John Conyers' Jr., the disgraced Democratic politician who announced his resignation on Tuesday [12/5/2017], is a former attempted rapper who bragged that his friends are drug dealers [...] The aspiring artist also rapped about some of the challenges he's had to live through, such as when his mother, former Detroit councilwoman Monica Conyers, was sentenced to three years in jail for taking bribes, or when Conyers Jr. had to repay the U.S. Treasury for Conyers III's misuse of a taxpayer-funded Cadillac Escalade.

Rep. Conyers: 'I'm retiring today'.  Embattled U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., the longest-serving member of Congress, said he will retire effective Tuesday, rather than seek re-election amid allegations that he sexually harassed staffers.  "I am retiring today," Conyers said in what is effectively also a resignation.  "I want everyone to know how much I appreciate the support that — the incredible, undiminished support I've received across the years from my supporters, not only in my district but across the country, as well."  Conyers has been in the U.S. House for 53 years — the longest-serving African-American in history.

Conyers of accused of sexual misconduct at a church amid looming announcement.  Another woman has come forward accusing Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., of putting his hand up her skirt and rubbing her thighs in the front row of a church.  The latest allegation hit the congressman just hours before he is set to make announcement on a Detroit radio station Tuesday [12/5/2017].  Elisa Grubbs made the allegation in an affidavit publicized late Monday by attorney Lisa Bloom.  Grubbs worked for Conyers for more than a decade and is the cousin of another accuser, Marion Brown, who reached a confidential settlement with the Michigan politician over sexual misconduct allegations.

Democratic leaders grapple with standoff over embattled John Conyers.  The longest-serving active member of the House, Rep. John Conyers, bristled at calls this week for him to resign amid allegations of sexual misconduct — bucking party leaders.  The standoff puts Democratic leadership in a precarious position. [...] In the span of one week, Conyers has gone from ceding his post as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee to defiantly brushing off calls for him to resign by leaders.  On Sunday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wouldn't call on Conyers to resign, calling him a civil rights "icon" and alluding to the difficult position facing members in her caucus on how to handle their response to the allegations against a member who's been respected for decades in Congress.  By Thursday, Pelosi was urging Conyers to resign.

Democrats need to find some honor and get rid of Al Franken and John Conyers.  Democrats need to find some honor and address their side of the sexual harassment problem, by forcing out Conyers and Franken.  Not only do harassment victims deserve a measure of justice, Democrats' political reputation is on the line.  These two — and I would guess probably a few others — need to go.

Democrats turning on John Conyers as his accuser details harassment on NBC.  Suddenly, John Conyers is in deep trouble.  And the power of television news has plenty to do with it.  A tipping point for Conyers may have taken place on the "Today" show — that's right, the very same program that is reeling from the firing of Matt Lauer over mounting allegations of sexual misconduct and serious questions about whether any NBC executives knew about it.  But it was on "Today" that Lauer's former co-host Savannah Guthrie interviewed one of Conyers' accusers — and it was a powerful moment.

The Other Conyers Bombshell That Was An Open Secret:  A Top Congressman's Deteriorating Mental Health.  The sexual harassment scandal surrounding Michigan Democrat Rep. John Conyers has shed light on another major scandal:  Conyers' deteriorating mental health, which is said to have been an open secret in Washington and Michigan political circles.  That the 88-year-old Conyers, until recently a ranking member on the powerful House Judiciary Committee, is reportedly losing his mental health is emerging as common knowledge among political insiders at the same time that Democrats push Conyers toward resigning.

CBS, NBC Skip $100,000 to Dem Congressman's Harassment Victims.  While the pressure mounted on Democratic harassers Representative John Conyers and Senator Al Franken to resign, more details broke on Thursday [11/30/2017] of the congressional slush fund used to pay off such victims.  ABC World News Tonight was the only network evening broadcast from the big three (ABC, CBS, and NBC) to report that the male victims of former New York Democratic Congressman Eric Massa were paid a settlement of nearly $100,000 combined.  At the end of a report about the claims against Conyers and the mounting pressure from party leadership for him to resign, ABC briefly (37 seconds) discussed the new revelations.

Pelosi Calls on Conyers to Resign.  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Speaker Paul D. Ryan in separate remarks Thursday called for Michigan Democrat John Conyers Jr., the longest-serving member, to resign amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct.  "I pray for Congressman Conyers and his family and wish them well," Pelosi said.  "However, Congressman Conyers should resign."

Pelosi, Ryan Call on Conyers To Step Down; Franken Under Senate Ethics Inquiry.  Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., is coming under increasing pressure to step down, after a former aide made public her allegations of sexual harassment against the veteran congressman.  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called the allegations against Conyers "serious, disappointing and very credible" and said Conyers, the House's most senior member, "should resign."  Pelosi's comments were echoed by House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who also said Thursday [11/30/2017] that Conyers should "resign immediately," and by Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., the highest-ranking African-American in Congress and one of Pelosi's top deputies in House Democratic leadership.

Nancy Pelosi the fake feminist.  When House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Sunday that Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., has done a great deal to protect women, many people thought they still hadn't recovered from their Thanksgiving coma.  Did the female leader of House Democrats just tell us that Conyers — who reportedly paid a member of his staff at least $27,000 to settle a sexual misconduct complaint in 2015 — is someone who protects women?  Pelosi seemed to walk back her statement Monday, saying she spoke with former Conyers staff member Melanie Sloan, who said Conyers had verbally abused and harassed her in the 1990s and once met with her in his office in his underwear.

Clyburn: Charges against Conyers might be false because all complaining women are white.  The assistant leader of the House Democrats reportedly said Wednesday that the sexual-misconduct charges against Rep. John Conyers Jr. might be false because all the complaining women are white.  Rep. James E. Clyburn, South Carolina Democrat, made the purported remarks Wednesday at a meeting of the House Democratic Caucus, according to Robert Draper, a reporter for New York Times Magazine and National Geographic.  "At this morning's House Democratic caucus:  James Clyburn compared Conyers' accusers to the child murderer Susan Smith, who initially claimed a black man had abducted her kids.  Clyburn said, these are all white women who've made these charges against Conyers," Mr. Draper tweeted.

Thanks to Conyers, Identity politics finally is splitting the Democrats.  [Scroll down]  The problem with that outcome is that [Rep. John] Conyers wants to hang tough.  He has, after all, ridden out scandals before, such as when his wife, Monica Conyers (35 years younger than he), was sentenced to prison for bribery.  And he made his political bones in the Civil Rights Movement, which confers a form of sainthood upon him in the eyes of many.  In all likelihood, he will stick out his term and not run for re-election, which does no good for the Get Trump Gang and leaves his victims with no satisfaction.

Congressional Black Caucus members trying to get Conyers to resign: report.  Multiple members of the Congressional Black Caucus are reportedly urging Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) to resign.  CNN reported that several members of the caucus are talking to Conyers to get the Michigan Democrat to resign after allegations of sexual misconduct against him, according to several Democratic sources.  A staffer for a caucus member told CNN that "there is a feeling among some of our members that we need to protect his legacy."

Pelosi:  Conyers should resign.  Facing criticism for going too soft on sexual harassment, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday [11/30/2017] called for Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) to resign as the allegations of sexual misconduct have mounted against him.  "The allegations against Congressman Conyers, as we have learned more since Sunday, are serious, disappointing and very credible," Pelosi said during a briefing in the Capitol, reading from a statement.  "It's very sad.  The brave women who have come forward are owed justice.  I pray for Congressman Conyers and his family and wish them well.  However, Congressman Conyers should resign," she said.

Report: Congressional Black Caucus Members Trying to Convince Conyers to Resign.  Several Congressional Black Caucus members are trying to convince Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) to resign, according to a report Tuesday [11/28/2017].  A few Democratic sources told CNN that these members are attempting to ensure that Conyers leaves Congress without tarnishing his legacy as the longest currently-serving member of the House.  The sources say that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is not spearheading the effort, but is providing support for it behind-the-scenes.

John Conyers Is the Albatross that Democrats Deserve.  There are sexual harassers, and then there is John Conyers, the Democrat from Detroit who made his congressional office an adjunct of his libido.  The evidence suggests that Conyers believed that as a 27-term congressman, he was entitled to the Washington, D.C., equivalent of the Ottoman imperial harem.  He routinely hit on his female staffers, and his office was a den of sexual intrigue — allegedly featuring a jealous wife and a vindictive mistress — that properly belongs in a Bravo reality show if the network ever extends its franchise to Capitol Hill.  A political party is rarely provided an easier test case for its bona fides.  Conyers is an 88-year-old man who finds it increasingly difficult to carry out his duties.  He holds an exceedingly safe seat that, should he resign, will be taken over by another reliably progressive Democrat.  In this case, the political cost to the party of showing that it's serious about "zero tolerance" for sexual harassment is almost nil.

Second ex-staffer accuses Conyers of sexual harassment.  A former staffer of U.S. Rep. John Conyers said the veteran lawmaker made unwanted sexual advances toward her, including inappropriate touching, adding to allegations by other unnamed former employees that have prompted a congressional investigation.  Deanna Maher, who worked for him from 1997 to 2005, told The Detroit News that the Detroit Democrat made unwanted advances toward her three times.  Maher is the second former Conyers staffer to go public with accusations about the veteran lawmaker.  Conyers on Sunday stepped aside as the the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee amid a congressional ethics probe of sexual harassment allegations involving former staffers.

Conyers Reluctantly Leaves House Judiciary Committee.  Michigan Democratic Rep. John Conyers announced Sunday that he will step down from his top position on the House Committee on the Judiciary in the wake of allegations he sexually harassed and then paid off his accusers over several years.  "After careful consideration and in light of the attention drawn by recent allegations made against me, I have notified the Democratic Leader of my request to step aside as Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee during the investigation of these matters," Conyers said in a statement and on Twitter.

S.E. Cupp:  If Dems Keep Protecting Franken and Conyers, They Can't Talk About Trump or Moore Again.  In recent days, two heavyweights in the Democratic Party have been hit with numerous allegations of sexual misconduct.  Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) has been accused of forcibly kissing and groping Leeann Tweeden as well as inappropriately grabbing several other women.  Meanwhile, it was reported that Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) settled a lawsuit with a woman who claimed she was wrongly dismissed from her position because she wouldn't succumb to his sexual advances.  During tonight's [11/27/2017] broadcast of SE Cupp Unfiltered, host S.E. Cupp took aim at Democrats in Washington for not forcefully demanding both men leave Congress.

DC Dems Deploy Countermeasures.  It is being reported by 'some' media outlets that Democrat John Conyers has stepped down from the House Judiciary Committee, that is false.  Conyers is staying on the committee and just removing himself from the seniority position of "ranking member".

Joe Scarborough Gives Impassioned Defense of John Conyers: 'I Would Call That an Icon!'  MSNBC's Joe Scarborough launched into an impassioned defense of Rep. John Conyers, arguing on Morning Joe that despite the sexual harassment allegations, the congressman is still an American icon.  Scarborough was responding to Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's train-wreck interview on Sunday's Meet the Press, in which she stumbled over a number of questions on Conyers's fate in Congress, and called the civil rights leader "an icon in our country."  The Morning Joe co-host noted that Conyers might have dementia, stating "he's clearly not capable of being a United States congressman."

Female News Anchor:  Everybody Knew Don't Get in the Elevator with Conyers.  An ABC panel led by ABC's Martha Raddatz discussed the sexual abuse rampant throughout Congress.  In their discussion, they pointed out that Congress doesn't do a very good job of policing itself.  After all, when they use taxpayer money to pay for your bad deeds, how can we trust them?  Put another way, these clowns don't even have the decency to pay for their own sins.

Cokie Roberts:  Oh, We All Knew To Avoid Getting in An Elevator With Rep. Conyers.  Speaking on ABC's "This Week," Cokie Roberts made a startling admission: "every female in the press corps knew" to avoid being in an elevator with Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), and has apparently known about this "for years."  Conyers has been accused of multiple instances of sexual harassment and has stepped down from the House Judiciary Committee.  Despite the allegations against him, major players in the Democratic Party have defended Conyers and will not say that he should resign.  Pelosi even referred to the embattled congressman as an "icon."

John Conyers Is the Furthest Thing From an 'Icon'.  John Conyers is not an "icon," as Nancy Pelosi would have it, or would pretend to have it anyway, unless you mean an icon for everything that went wrong with the civil rights movement.  He's also an icon for identity politics (a favorite of despots globally), grievance culture and economic decline (Detroit).  Oh, and there are the little matters of sexual assault and governmental corruption.

John Conyers steps aside from House Judiciary Committee amid probe into sexual allegations.  Michigan Rep. John Conyers on Sunday [11/26/2017] stepped aside as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, but again denied recent allegations of sexual and inappropriate conduct.  "In light of the attention drawn by recent allegations made against me, I have notified the Democratic leader of my request to step aside as ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee during the investigation of these matters," Conyers said in a statement.

Rep. John Conyers steps down from committee leadership position amid harassment accusations.  Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., stepped down as the ranking Democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee on Sunday, following sexual harassment accusations.  The 27-term congressman said he denied the allegations, but was stepping down because of the ongoing House Ethics Committee investigation.

Conyers' 2006 Staffers:  Felt like 'House Servants', Baby Sat His Kids Six Weeks at a Time.  Yesterday [11/24/2017], Cortney [O'Brien] covered new comments from John Conyers' (D-MI) former lawyer, Melanie Sloan, regarding his alleged sexual misconduct.  But a 2006 CNN interview with Sloan and two other former staffers shows that he regularly established a pattern of inappropriateness, borderline negligence, and a hostile environment for his staffers and subordinates.  As reported yesterday, Conyers on at least one occasion placed Sloan in an uncomfortable and lewd situation.

Conyers stepping aside as ranking Dem on House Judiciary Committee.  Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) announced he is stepping aside as the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee pending an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment.  "After careful consideration and in light of the attention drawn by recent allegations made against me, I have notified the Democratic Leader of my request to step aside as Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee during the investigation of these matters," he said in a statement on Sunday [11/26/2017].

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Nancy Pelosi:  John Conyers deserves 'due process'.  [Scroll down]  Appearing on "Meet The Press" earlier in the day [11/26/2017], House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi urged "due process" before making conclusions about Rep. Conyers, saying the congressman is "an icon" who has worked to protect women.  "We are strengthened by due process.  Just because someone is accused — and was it one accusation?  Is it two?" Pelosi asked.

Nancy Pelosi Botches the #MeToo Moment.  On Meet the Press [11/26/2017], House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi laid an absolute stink bomb in an interview with host Chuck Todd. [...] Todd pressed Pelosi on whether Michigan Democrat John Conyers, who, after a secretive process, settled sexual harassment complaints from a former female employee who says she was fired for resisting the congressman's sexual advances.  Others have come forward alleging misconduct as well, but Democrats — led by Pelosi — took no action against Conyers.  Pelosi expressed unfamiliarity with the allegations, asking Todd if it was one or two.  She called Conyers an "icon."  Todd asked Pelosi if she believed the accusers, and she said she didn't know who they were because they were anonymous.  She called for due process, even though Conyers, as Todd pointed out, had already gone through a process that resulted in him settling with his former employee.  It's not clear what other process Conyers is due.

Of course Pelosi backs Conyers.  Of course Nancy Pelosi backs John Conyers.  She is part and parcel to the system that allowed Conyers and all the other Chesters the Molester in the House get away with harassing underlings, and firing those who turned them down.  Paul Ryan also is part of this.  The congressional slush fund is a bipartisan to settle sexual predation claims without the public hearing a peep.

Rep. Conyers lawyer hints he will take down many other Congressional harassers if he is pushed too hard.  We have already reached the cornered animal stage of Democrats caught up in the sexual harassment hysteria.  Is there anything more amusing than watching your enemies play a game of chicken with each other, threatening mutual assured destruction?  Even better:  a threat that comes written in all caps, the cyber-equivalent of shouting, hinting that "many members" could find themselves in a similarly difficult situation.

New Accuser:  Rep. John Conyers Showed Up To A Meeting In His Underwear.  An attorney who worked with Rep. John Conyers told the Congressman's hometown paper, the Detroit Free Press, that Conyers was verbally abusive to her while she was in his employment, that he was critical of her appearance, and that, at least once, he showed up to a meeting wearing nothing but his underwear.

Third accuser comes out against John Conyers as calls strengthen for his resignation.  Representative John Conyers has been hit with a third allegation of harassment by a woman who spoke to the Washington Post.  Calls for his resignation have been growing, and are sure to strengthen on the news.

John Conyers' hometown newspaper calls for resignation after 'public betrayal'.  Rep. John Conyers' hometown newspaper is calling for his resignation in the wake of sexual harassment allegations against the Michigan lawmaker — and a questionable payout to one alleged victim.  Conyers is accused of using taxpayer dollars to settle a claim in secret, after a former staffer reportedly claimed she was fired for rejecting his advances.  In a scathing editorial published late Tuesday [11/21/2017], the Detroit Free Press demanded the Democrat step down immediately.

Will House Ethics Comm.  Let Conyers' Sex Scandal Slide Like His Past Corrupt Acts?  The prominent Michigan congressman who illegally forced congressional staffers to be personal servants and work on state and local campaigns is embroiled in a major sex scandal.  Various media outlets report that John Conyers, the longest serving House member and ranking Democrat of the powerful Judiciary Committee, secretly settled a sexual harassment claim by an employee with taxpayer funds from his office budget.  Additionally, multiple former staff members accuse the 88-year-old lawmaker of repeatedly making sexual advances toward female staff.  Democratic colleagues have already called for a House Ethics Committee probe, but there's little hope Conyers will be punished since the notoriously remiss panel let him off the hook the last time it investigated his corrupt acts, determining that he had "accepted responsibility" for the violations.  A former staffer said the legislator, a civil rights icon and founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus, is untouchable.

U.S Rep. John Conyers must resign.  John Conyers Jr. has a long and complicated legacy in southeast Michigan and the U.S. Congress.  He has been an undisputed hero of the civil rights movement, a legislator of uncommon influence and power, and an aging icon whose felonious wife and sometimes-wandering pace have confounded his place in history.  But the revelations of Conyers' alleged sexual harassment scandal and his documented use of taxpayer dollars to bury that scandal, in violation of congressional ethics rules, is less ambiguous.  It is the kind of behavior that can never be tolerated in a public official, much less an elected representative of the people.

Conyers admits financial settlement with former staffer but denies misconduct.  Rep. John Conyers admitted Tuesday to reaching a financial settlement with a former staffer who had accused him of sexual misconduct but the lawmaker denied having done anything improper.  The House Ethics Committee announced several hours later it had opened an investigation.  "I expressly and vehemently denied the allegations made against me, and continue to do so," Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, said in a statement.

Ethics Committee Opens Investigation Into Top Democrat Who Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accuser.  The House Ethics Committee has opened an investigation into Michigan Democrat Rep. John Conyers, after it was revealed Monday [11/20/2017] that Conyers paid a former employee more than $27,000 in taxpayer funding after allegedly firing her for refusing his sexual advances.  Sworn affidavits signed by former Conyers staffers portray him as a serial sexual predator who preyed on young, vulnerable female staffers.  Conyers confirmed the settlement on Tuesday but denied any wrongdoing.

Another Woman Accused Rep. John Conyers Of Sexual Harassment In Court Filings This Year.  A former scheduler for the Democratic congressman said she faced daily harassment from him, in a suit she later abandoned after a court denied her request to keep it sealed.  A BuzzFeed News investigation on Monday showed that Conyers had settled a sexual harassment complaint with another former staffer.

Top Democratic congressman settled sexual harassment complaint for $27K.  Democratic Congressman John Conyers reportedly sexually harassed a female staffer — leading to a wrongful-termination settlement in 2015 that essentially silenced his accuser.  Conyers, the longest-serving member of the House of Representatives, is accused of repeatedly making sexual advances to female staffers, according to BuzzFeed.  One woman filed a complaint in 2014 claiming she was fired because she would not "succumb to [his] sexual advances."  The woman signed a confidentiality agreement in exchange for a $27,111.75 settlement, the website said.

Michigan Congressman John Conyers settled complaint over sexual misconduct in 2015.  Michigan Representative John Conyers 'vehemently' denies the accusations of a woman who got a $27,000 settlement payment after she lost her job and accused the senior lawmaker of sexual harassment.  Unlike several recent powerful men who have issued mea culpa statements in recent days after being confronted with statements by accusers, Conyers, the 88-year-old senior Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, called for 'due process.'  He says he made the settlement payment — which he called 'severance' came from his taxpayer-funded office budget — to avoid 'protracted litigation.'

House Democrats demand ethics probe into sexual harassment claims against John Conyers.  House Democrats are calling for the House Committee on Ethics to investigate Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., after it was reported he settled a wrongful dismissal case related to sexual harassment accusations.  Reps.  Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., and Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., who both serve with Conyers on the House Judiciary Committee, said the sexual misconduct allegations against the Michigan Democrat are "troubling" and "serious."  The two lawmakers believe the Ethics Committee should probe the accusations involving Conyers, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.

Maxine Waters to women:  John Conyers 'has impeccable integrity on our issues'.  Rep. John Conyers, newly facing sexual misconduct charges from former aides, was praised by fellow Rep. Maxine Waters just last month as a champion of women.  During an address to organizers of the national Women's March in which she lashed out at "rape culture" and President Trump, she singled out the Michigan lawmaker for special attention.  "You know, there is a member of Congress who has been supportive of women for many, many, many years," said said in a keynote address to the Women's Convention Sojourner Truth Luncheon in Detroit.

Sometimes politicians term-limit themselves.
Wayne Co. clerk throws Conyers off primary ballot.  The political future of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, the longest-serving African-American in Congress, hinges on a federal legal challenge and an appeal to the state's top elections officer after the Detroit Democrat Tuesday was thrown off the primary ballot.  Wayne County Clerk Cathy Garrett agreed with her staff that Conyers had 592 signatures — 408 less than the 1,000 required by state law — and called the decision unfortunate.  But Garrett said she's "bound by the current laws and statutes of the State of Michigan that set forth very specific and narrow instructions regarding candidate petitions and the authority of the County Clerk."

This 50-Year Congressman Can't Find the Ballot.  After nearly 50 years in Congress, John Conyers may end his political career in the most undignified way possible, by not even making the ballot.  The Michigan representative is the longest serving African-American in congressional history and will be the most senior elected official on Capitol Hill if he's returned to office next year, but a snafu with the signature-gathering process may cost him a place on the ballot and make a formidable opponent out of a challenger who would otherwise be a long-shot.

Long-Time Dem Rep. John Conyers Fails to Qualify for Election Ballot.  Wayne County, Michigan officials reported this weekend that long-time Detroit Democrat Representative John Conyers didn't submit enough signatures to qualify for the ballot this year.  Authorities say Conyers was 400 signatures short of having enough to qualify to run for re-election.  Many of the signatures were thrown out because some of his signature-gatherers were not registered to vote in Michigan as required by law.

John Conyers's Glass House:  If it's not the Bush White House, it's the FBI; if it's not the NSA, it's the Justice Department.  Interrogation, surveillance, the Patriot Act — you name it, he's against it, and he's investigating it.  All this, and still he must find time to manage ethics investigations against … himself.

Reports: Wife of Rep. Conyers threatened with indictment.  Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, the wife of longtime Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) received a letter Tuesday [6/16/2009] indicating a pending indictment from federal authorities on corruption-related charges.

Conyers accepts responsibility for possible ethics violations.  Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) has "accepted responsibility" for possibly violating House rules by requiring his official staff to perform campaign-related work, according to a statement quietly released by the House ethics committee late Friday evening [12/29/2006].

Has Michigan passed its tipping point?  Case in point:  The president of Detroit City Council is quoted as telling WXYZ-Channel 7:  "I do not believe that the majority of the council members that I work with on a daily basis are criminals."  That's reassuring.  Another:  Kenneth Cockrel Jr.'s chief of staff is allegedly videotaped taking bribes.  The council's president pro tem — Monica Conyers, wife of the House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Detroit — is said to be under investigation by the FBI in connection with the probe.

Detroit politician admits bribery.  Monica Conyers, Detroit's embattled City Council president pro tempore, pleaded guilty Friday [6/26/2009] to conspiring to commit bribery, a federal court representative in Michigan told CNN.  Conyers, 44, admitted accepting bribes in exchange for her vote to sway the City Council to approve Synagro Technologies Inc.'s $1.2 billion contract in 2007.

Conyers's wife pleads guilty.  Monica Conyers, the chairwoman of the Detroit City Council and wife of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.), pleaded guilty Friday [6/26/2009] to federal bribery charges, the latest blow to a city still reeling from the collapse of the U.S. auto industry and the jailing of its former mayor.

Conyers pleads guilty to conspiracy.  Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers pleaded guilty this morning to conspiring to commit bribery and is free on personal bond.  U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn said, "The defendant now stands convicted."  The one count of conspiring to commit bribery is punishable by up to five years in prison.  No sentencing date has been set.

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At least she did the right thing by pleading guilty, saving the taxpayers a lot of money.

Conyers's wife resigns after conviction.  Monica Conyers, wife of House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.), submitted her resignation from the Detroit City Council on Monday following a bribery conviction.  Conyers will leave the council effective next Monday after pleading guilty to charges that she sold her vote on a recycling contract.

Conyers pleads guilty to conspiracy.  Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers pleaded guilty this morning to conspiring to commit bribery and is free on personal bond. ... She has long been under suspicion in the Synagro Technologies bribery probe, not least because she had been a vocal opponent of the contract before suddenly switching her sentiments.  She became the deciding voice in the city council's 5-4 vote to approve the sludge-hauling deal in November 2007.

Wife's Guilty Plea Raises Question of What Conyers Knew.  In the snow-covered parking lot of a McDonald's in Detroit two years ago, City Council member Monica Conyers met with a waste-management consultant who slipped her an envelope stuffed with as much as $3,000 in cash.  The under-the-table payment, made shortly after she cast the swing vote on a $1 billion city sludge deal, drove Conyers's guilty plea to a bribery charge that could send the Democratic politician to prison for up to five years.

Conyers Aides Say He Used Them as Servants.  Three former aides to U.S. Rep. John Conyers say the lawmaker used them as baby sitters and personal servants while they were supposed to be working in his Michigan offices.

Five weeks later, the same story showed up on CNN's web site.
Congressman accused of using staff to baby-sit.  Two former staff members of U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Michigan, say the longtime Detroit congressman made them baby-sit his children, run errands and work on political campaigns while they were on his congressional payroll.

Ethics probe of Rep. Conyers sought.  The Landmark Legal Foundation filed Monday [7/13/2009] a House ethics complaint against Rep. John Conyers Jr., Michigan Democrat, over his role in writing a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency that supported a waste project tied to his wife, a former Detroit City Council member who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery. ... The foundation said Mr. Conyers attempted to influence the EPA on behalf of a family member, whose office reviewed a draft of the EPA letter he sent.  He also violated house rules by failing to report funds in a transaction by his wife, the complaint stated.

Riddle, Conyers teamed up to extort at least $65,000, U.S. says.  Detroit political consultant Sam Riddle was indicted today on a host of federal charges ranging from bribery to extortion, mail fraud and making false statements and court documents contend that former City Councilwoman Monica Conyers participated at every turn of the conspiracy.

Conyers quiet on missing office equipment.  Just days before Detroit City Council President Pro Tem Monica Conyers announced her resignation after pleading guilty to a bribery charge, she apparently had two new computers delivered to her office.  And now, city officials say those computers and dozens of other items are missing, and they want them back.

Conyers to be sentenced Dec. 1.  Detroit — Former Detroit City Council President Monica Conyers will be sentenced Dec. 1 on a felony bribery charge, a federal judge ordered Tuesday [10/27/2009].

Angry Conyers vows to appeal 37-month sentence.  Former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers was sentenced to 37 months in prison today [3/10/2010], but not before controversy and confusion erupted when she announced she wanted to withdraw her guilty plea to bribery.

Her husband makes $174,000 a year, and yet...
Judge says Conyers indigent, assigns her tax-funded lawyer.  Monica Conyers is indigent, according to a federal judge who has appointed a tax-funded public defender to help her appeal the three-year sentence she received last week for bribery conspiracy.

Rep. Conyers won't help his wife pay for a lawyer.  The National Law Journal reports that former Detroit City Councilwoman Monica Conyers, wife of House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., has been declared indigent by a federal judge.  That means she gets a public defender in her attempt to appeal her three-year prison sentence on a bribery charge to which she pleaded guilty. ... The article notes that according to federal guidelines, a family member's wealth cannot be considered when determining a defendant's ability to pay, "unless the family indicates willingness and financial ability to retain counsel promptly."

Federal prosecutors:  Monica Conyers isn't entitled to appeal.  Monica Conyers, the former Detroit city councilwoman who was sentenced to 37 months in prison for bribery in June, has no right to appeal, federal prosecutors said in a court filing Thursday [4/8/2010].

Monica Conyers wins 2½-month delay in heading to prison.  A federal judge today [6/23/2010] gave former Detroit Councilwoman Monica Conyers a 2½-month extension in beginning to serve her bribery sentence.

It's not just Rangel — Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., to be tried on ethics charges.  Waters' defiant stance could result in yet another high-profile ethics scandal that House Democrats would rather not see happen in an election year.

Monica Conyers behind bars in West Virginia prison camp.  With roughly 20 minutes to go until her deadline, Monica Conyers obeyed a judge's order and turned herself in to a federal prison camp in West Virginia this afternoon [9/10/2010] to begin her 37-month sentence for taking bribes.  Conyers, federal inmate No. 43693-039, self-surrendered at roughly 1:40 p.m. at the Alderson Federal Prison Camp — nicknamed Camp Cupcake for its cushy atmosphere and one-time home to domestic guru Martha Stewart.

Monica Conyers' guilty plea should stand, prosecutors argue in filing.  Monica Conyers got the sentence she bargained for, and shouldn't be allowed to take back her guilty plea because she had a change of heart at the last minute, federal prosecutors argued in court documents filed Monday [11/22/2010].

Scandal-plagued John Conyers in the fight of his political life.  [Scroll down]  The congressman's wife, Monica, the disgraced former president of the Detroit City Council, is serving a 37-month federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to bribery conspiracy charges.  The suggestion that John Conyers was implicated in his wife's scandal has hurt him politically, even though he has not been charged or accused of criminal wrongdoing.  And potential voters probably won't be happy about the fact that despite his salary of almost $175,000 a year, taxpayers picked up the tab for Mrs. Conyers' legal defense.



Former DC Mayor Marion Barry

Former Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry dies at age 78.  Marion Barry, the longtime mayor of the District of Columbia who staged a remarkable political comeback after a 1990 FBI sting videotaped him smoking crack cocaine, died early Sunday [11/23/2014].  He was 78.

Crack-Smoking Democrat Refuses to Pay Parking Tickets.  After D.C. Councilman and former crack-smoking Mayor Marion Barry was involved in a car crash, reporters began delving into Barry's parking tickets on the DMV website and discovered $2,824 in unpaid parking and speeding tickets.  When FOX reporter Emily Miller cornered Barry to ask him about some of these tickets, Barry did not respond well to questioning, berating the young reporter and telling her she should find something else to do.

Marion Barry censured, fined $13,600 for accepting gifts from contractors.  D.C. Council member Marion Barry has agreed to be censured and fined $13,600 for accepting gifts from city contractors, the District's ethics board said Thursday [7/11/2013].  The Board of Ethics and Government Accountability voted unanimously to approve a settlement at its monthly meeting following a two-month investigation into gifts he listed in a financial disclosure report.

Marion Barry Is D.C.'s Most-Popular Elected Official.  Now a member of city council, Barry, 76, has been convicted of cocaine possession and served six months in federal prison.  He was also found guilty of a misdemeanor for failure to pay his taxes, although marijuana-possession and stalking charges were dropped.  But his approval rating is 52 percent, higher than Mayor Vincent Gray's and all his fellow council members, according to a Washington Post poll released this week.

Delegate for Life.  Washington, D.C., city councilmember Marion Barry was elected Saturday to represent the city as a delegate to the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. Barry and fellow Democratic Councilmember Jack Evans (D., Ward 2) were the top vote getters in D.C. District 1, trailing gay rights activist Gregory Cendana, the executive director of the Asian-Pacific American Labor Alliance, in total votes.  Barry and Evans reportedly bused dozens of supporters to the polls at the University of District of Columbia to ensure that they would be elected as two of Washington's 15 delegates.

Washington Ex-Mayor Is Arrested.  Marion Barry, the former mayor of the District of Columbia, was arrested over the weekend and charged with stalking a female acquaintance, the latest in a long string of legal troubles for him.  Federal Park Police said Mr. Barry, who is a member of the Council of the District of Columbia, was arrested after a woman told an officer that Mr. Barry was stalking her.  He was charged with misdemeanor stalking and released.

Stalking charges against Marion Barry dropped.  Prosecutors have decided not to pursue a stalking case against D.C. Councilman Marion Barry, following their review of the "strengths and weaknesses of the evidence," the U.S. attorney for D.C. said Wednesday [7/8/2009].  Barry, 73, was accused by the U.S. Park Police of stalking Donna Watts-Brighthaupt, a woman he had dated until recently when the relationship came to an ugly end.

Marion Barry takes another crack.  Barry has continued to provide both drama and comedy in a seemingly endless (and loopy) loop.  Recently, it came to light that this big-government politician, who spends other people's money so easily, sort of forgot to pay most of his federal and city income taxes for the last six years.  Oops!  Barry is now free on bond pending his sentencing next month on the tax evasion charges.

Ex-Mayor Avoids Jail Time Over Tax Case.  A federal judge rejected a request by prosecutors to send former District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry to jail for violating his probation in a criminal tax case. … Barry, 71 and now on the District of Columbia Council, pleaded guilty in 2005 to misdemeanor charges for failing to file tax returns from 1999 to 2004.  As part of his plea bargain, he agreed to file future federal and local tax returns annually.

Judge ordered to consider effort to imprison Barry.  The District's chief federal judge yesterday [4/26/2007] overturned an earlier court ruling and ordered a magistrate judge to consider sending D.C. Council member Marion Barry to prison for failing to file his taxes.

I, Marion Barry:  The dashiki-wearing Democratic former mayor of the District of Columbia who years ago aggressively led the capital city into insolvency, has yet again failed to file his personal tax return, the Washington Post reports.  Barry did this while on probation after being convicted in 2006 of failing to file federal and district income tax returns from 1999 through 2004.  This is just the latest incident in a lifetime of law-breaking for the liberal municipal lawmaker who now represents Ward 8 on the Washington, D.C. city council.

Barry Says Kidney Issues Kept Him From Filing Taxes.  D.C. Council member Marion Barry said last night that he has been undergoing dialysis and expects to have a kidney transplant, which has distracted him from filing a recent tax return.  His failure to file a 2007 return has led prosecutors to urge a judge to revoke his probation for past tax offenses and send him to jail.

Barry owes $277,000 in taxes.  Federal authorities say D.C. Council member Marion Barry failed to pay more than $277,000 in back taxes and are continuing to ask that the former mayor's probation be revoked, according to court documents.

Barry contract probe begins.  Federal law enforcement authorities have begun a preliminary investigation into whether D.C. Council member Marion Barry broke any laws when he awarded a city contract to a former girlfriend and arranged for city grant money to go to nonprofit organizations controlled by people close to him.

New report on Barry's earmarks recommends criminal prosecution.  D.C. Councilman Marion Barry should be criminally prosecuted for helping himself to thousands of taxpayer dollars through earmarks, a damning new report has found.  Special counsels Robert S. Bennett and Amy R. Sabrin also recommended that the former mayor be condemned by his colleagues for abusing earmarks.



Senator Chris Dodd and Countrywide Financial

A Culture of Greed.  The Senate Ethics Committee intends to open an investigation into the relationship of several Democrat Senators, senior executives, and lobbyists for Fannie Mae, and Countrywide Financial, the home mortgage company, which was purchased at bail-out price by Bank of America.

Congress and the Countrywide Scandal:  Countrywide Financial Corp.'s "friends of Angelo" program provided sweetheart loans to key banking players in Washington, D.C.  They included former Fannie Mae chief executive Jim Johnson, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D., N.D.) and Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.).  The growing scandal surrounding the "friends of Angelo" loans (so-called by company employees, referring to Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo) should serve as a political wake-up call.

Dodd Releases Countrywide Mortgage Documents.  In response to pressure since last year that he demonstrate his full relationship with home mortgage lender Countrywide Financial, Sen. Chris Dodd release (sic) his 2003 mortgage documents today [2/2/2009] in Connecticut.  "I regret I did not do this sooner and I apologize to the people of Connecticut for the delay," he said in a statement.

Hold on...  Maybe "release" isn't quite the right word.
Dodd's Peek-A-Boo Disclosure.  Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd has finally, sort of, kind of, ended 193 days of stonewalling about his sweetheart loans from former Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo.  At least he did if you were a fast reader and were one of the few reporters he invited to his Hartford office yesterday to review — but not copy or take — more than 100 pages of documents related to his 2003 mortgage financings through Countrywide's "Friends of Angelo" program.

Dodd gives journos the idiot's treatment on mortgage document disclosure.  Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen, Chris Dodd, D-CN, has pulled what has to be an all-time classic evasion stunt against journalists covering Congress and the economic crisis concerning his promise six months ago to make public all of the documents about his sweetheart loan deal with Countrywide Mortgage..  Dodd invited a select few Connecticut reporters to his office in Hartford Monday [2/2/2009] and gave them a few minutes to view — but not copy — a small selection of documents that he claims proves he did nothing wrong in accepting special treatment from Countrywide that saved him a reported $75,000 in refinancing a couple of loans worth a total of $800,000.

Dodd's New Dodge.  Sen. Chris Dodd is hoping to make his sweetheart deals with Country wide Mortgage — which saved him tens of thousands of dollars on two mortgages — disappear.  Dodd, the chairman of the Banking Committee, announced this week that he'll have the mortgages refinanced and managed by a third party to protect against allegations of influence peddling.

Why We Just Can't Trust Dodd:  Sen. Christopher J. Dodd went one contrivance too far last week at his carefully choreographed press event to explain his mortgage deals with Countrywide Financial.  Dodd has engaged in so many contradictions in trying to manage the gathering storm that he probably did not recognize his stunning blunder.

Angelo Who?  After months of delay, Senator Christopher Dodd has offered a fuller but less than satisfactory account of the V.I.P. mortgage loans extended to him by a key player in the subprime mortgage crisis.  Mr. Dodd, the banking committee chairman who oversees remedies for the continuing financial crisis, denied any ethical wrongdoing or "sweetheart deals" in the $781,000 house refinancings he got through the Countrywide Financial Corporation.

Coming clean, or burnishing lies?  Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd has come clean on his latest real-estate scandals in the same way he came clean on his sweetheart mortgages from Countrywide Financial:  limited release of carefully selected documents that underpin improbable scenarios that put him in the least corrupt light.

Time to Get the Heck Outta Dodd.  First there was the Countrywide mortgage scandal which revealed Dodd — head of the Senate Banking Committee overseeing Fannie and Freddie, the institutions on which Countrywide unloaded risky loans — as one of the recipients of sweetheart mortgages due to his "friend of Angelo" status.  Despite promising to release documents that will clear his good name, Dodd has yet to release them.

Sen. Dodd's Cavalcade of Scandal.  It's been a rotten year for Chris Dodd.  Time and again, the Connecticut senator has been caught both doing favors for heavy hitters and receiving them — and then lying about it.  Sometimes the mess involves a firm like AIG or Countrywide, enmeshed in the abuses that have so damaged the US economy.  Sometimes Dodd's pal is just a felon in need of a presidential pardon.  But the cavalcade of scandal clearly puts the five-term senator in danger of losing his next re-election bid.

Loan Officer:  Dodd Knew He Got VIP Deal.  Despite his denials, Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd knew from the start he was getting a VIP mortgage break from a major lending group, an official involved in the loan testified secretly to Congress.  Dodd and Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND) both got preferred treatment from Countrywide Financial Corp., but have maintained all along they didn't know they were benefiting at the time their mortgage packages were crafted.

Chris Dodd, Kent Conrad deny knowing about VIP deals.  Sens. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) and Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) are fiercely denying a report that they knew they were getting sweetheart mortgage deals — accusing a Countrywide Financial loan officer of distorting their relationships with the former mortgage giant.  'There is nothing new here,' Conrad spokesman Christopher Gaddie told POLITICO Monday night.

The Culture Of Corruption Continues.  Somehow, I don't think we'll be hearing the self-righteous left clamoring for transparency and hearings that will reveal the Democrats (once again) as the privileged crooks they've always been.

Dodd and Obama:  Corrupt Birds of a Feather.  Connecticut voters are not smiling about Dodd's hypocritical bashing of lobbyists on the airwaves while he parties with them behind closed doors.  And as they scrimp through the recession, they haven't forgotten about Dodd's dozy Irish cottage deal with convicted insider trader Edward Downe Jr. (who received a Clinton pardon with Dodd's generous help).

Criminal-Probe Time.  Whoa.  It's looking like Sen. Chris Dodd's involvement with a sub prime-lending company warrants far more than a mere Senate Ethics Committee look-see.  Or so suggests closed-door committee testimony from a fomer executive of the firm in question.

Dodd Man Out?  Chris Dodd's teetering re-election chances weren't helped by news that the senator may have lied about not knowing he got preferential treatment as one of Countrywide Financial's Friends of Angelo program.

Robbing the bank.  With so much money at stake in the financial services sector, corruption and impropriety are common.  Last week, Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, and Sen. Kent Conrad, North Dakota Democrat, were caught prevaricating about below-market interest loans they received from Countrywide Financial. ... Those sweetheart deals from Countrywide were highly improper given that Mr. Dodd is chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and Mr. Conrad serves on the Senate Finance Committee, both of which write laws related to Countywide's business.

'Countrywide Chris' Dodd.  In sworn testimony last week, Robert Feinberg, a former executive at Countrywide Financial testified under oath that Sen. Dodd knew he was "getting special VIP treatment" for his mortgage applications.  That VIP treatment came as part of the "Friends of Angelo" program at Countrywide, the once-mighty mortgage firm — formerly run by Angelo Mozilo — which was purchased by Bank of America last July for $2.5 billion.  In June, the SEC filed fraud charges, including for disclosure fraud and insider trading, against Mozilo.

Dodd, Conrad cleared in Countrywide probe.  The Senate Ethics Committee on Friday [8/7/2009] dismissed complaints against Democratic Sens. Chris Dodd (Conn.) and Kent Conrad (N.D.) over their participation in Countrywide Financial Corp.'s VIP lending program.  But the panel cautioned the senators that they should have "exercised more vigilance" in their dealings with the mortgage giant to avoid an appearance of preferential treatment.

The Countrywide Senators.  The three Republican and three Democratic Senators say they conducted an exhaustive probe and inspected 18,000 pages of documents.  They say they found "no substantial credible evidence as required by Committee rules" that the Senators received mortgage rates or services that weren't commonly available to the public, and thus did not violate the Senate gift ban.  We'll have to take their word that the evidence wasn't "substantial," because they didn't release those documents, nor did they encourage Mr. Dodd to release any of his records.

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The most obvious way to refute this claim is to have "Joe Average" approach Countrywide and demand the same favorable treatment received by Senator Dodd.

It Still Reeks.  A committee of their fellow senators has decided that Chris Dodd and Kent Conrad did nothing unethical when they took out loans from Countrywide Financial on the kind of favorable terms not available to mere mortals without their financial or political standing — or a personal connection to the head of Countrywide.  The very Select Committee on Ethics did recognize that the whole deal looked bad, and gave its colleagues a gentle pat on the wrist for creating "the appearance that you were receiving preferential treatment based on your status as a senator."  But in the end, one hand washed the other, if not very well.

Democrats skip out on Countrywide vote.  Faced with a promised vote to subpoena documents on Countrywide Financial's "Friends of Angelo" program, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee fled a scheduled 2 p.m. markup today [10/15/2009]. ... The committee's Democrats simply failed to appear.  Republican staffers say they caught them on tape leaving by a back door at 2:35.

The Vote Democrats Don't Want.  If you think moderate Democrats are afraid of voting for ObamaCare, you should see how they react to a potential vote on the Countrywide Financial loan scandal.

Something Strange.  [Scroll down]  "A committee press release later claimed the postponement was 'due to conflicts' with a markup occurring at the same time in the financial services committee.  But Mr. Issa's staff videotaped several financial services members leaving the back-room gathering with Mr. Towns at the conclusion of the meeting.

Dems running scared on Countrywide scandal.  And when I say, "scared," I mean petrified.  Some big name Democratic lawmakers as well as contributors would be embarrassed and possibly liable for ethics violations if the truth about the list of "VIP's" who benefited from overly generous mortgage terms offered by Countrywide Financial ever came out.

Dodd, At It Again.  Sen. Chris Dodd's proposed overhaul would replace the Federal Reserve with a "super regulator" to oversee the banking and financial industries.  Will it work?  Consider the source.  Along with fellow Democrat Barney Frank, now chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Dodd, who heads the Senate Banking Committee, has done as much to damage this nation's financial system as anyone...

Sen. Dodd, D-Conn., slashed aviation security funding for pet constituency.  Now that our attention is focused on airline security measures thanks to the failed airline attack on Christmas Day, it's worth mentioning that one Senator took money away from aviation security to line the pockets of constituency that supported his presidential campaign in a big way.

Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2009.  [Including] Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT):  This marks two years in a row for Senator Dodd, who made the 2008 "Ten Most Corrupt" list for his corrupt relationship with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and for accepting preferential treatment and loan terms from Countrywide Financial, a scandal which still dogs him.  In 2009, the scandals kept coming for the Connecticut Democrat.

At last!
Exit Dodd.  Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, who has announced that he is not seeking re-election, will leave behind a lot of friends when he leaves office: Most notably, he was a "Friend of Angelo" — that's Angelo Mozilo, former CEO of kamikaze mortgage-lender Countrywide — having secured from him a sweetheart mortgage deal that saved him $75,000 or so, and a friend of Harry Reid, who helped to keep the Senate's ethics watchdogs, such as they are, off Dodd's ankle over that dodgy deal.

Abandon ship!  Party is sinking.  Sen. Chris Dodd's announcement yesterday that he would abandon his hopeless bid for re-election is only the latest in an alarming and growing body of evidence that President Obama and Democrats in Congress have blown through more political good will in one year than most parties do in a decade.  With elections still 10 months off, 13 incumbent congressional Democrats have decided to give up rather than face the certain wrath of voters.

Investors allege massive fraud by Countrywide.  A lawsuit alleges Countrywide Financial Corp. and two of its former executives misled institutional investors who were stuck with huge losses from mortgage-related investments that they say were portrayed as low-risk.



Sandy Berger

The Alchemy of Democrat Cover-ups:  [Scroll down]  Soon after the formation of 9-11 commission was officially announced the Clinton administrations National Security Advisor, Sandy Berger, went to National Archives over a period of weeks to steal and destroy highly classified records of the Clinton administration decision-making process in handling Al-Qaeda and terrorism.  He stuck them in his pants and socks and later burned and shredded them.  You can bet they held incriminating evidence, evidence that would have tanked the Democrats on security issues and ripped away the "Clinton Legacy."  It was a very successful cover-up, about which the press is remarkably silent.

Hillary's 'Low Profile' National Security Adviser:  Sandy Berger.  It's gotten very little mainstream media coverage (surprise!) but Hillary Clinton's national security adviser is none other than Sandy "Docs In My Socks" Berger, who pleaded guilty to stealing and destroying classified documents related to the Clinton administration's anti-terror efforts, immediately before Bill Clinton's testimony to the 9/11 commission.

It's about time Americans found out what Sandy Berger stuffed in his pants.  The theft and destruction of classified national security documents by former National Security Advisor Samuel "Sandy" Berger is a topic that never received the attention it should have. ... My outrage, though, comes from the actual theft of the documents, rather than the way the media largely ignored it.

Sandy Berger in trouble?  Send in the media!  The media — on its own — lowered Berger's stature in the Kerry campaign.  Way back in May 2004, The Washington Post called Berger "a top Kerry advisor."  After the scandal, the Post busted him down to "informal advisor."  Similarly, the Los Angeles Times in May called Berger a "Kerry foreign policy advisor."  It now tags him as an "unpaid consultant."  The Boston Globe in May called Berger a "top advisor."  Now the paper relegates him to "informal advisor."

Sandy's socks:  Surely it was an innocent mistake, former Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger's stuffing classified documents into his pants, jacket and perhaps even his socks before leaving the National Archives building last fall.  After all, what could he possibly have been trying to hide?

Sandy Berger gets off easy.  Recently the Bush Justice Department entered into a plea bargain with Sandy Berger, the now infamous former National Security Advisor to President Clinton, who admitted to stealing top secret documents from the National Archives, but only after he was caught red-handed.

Report Says Berger Hid Archive Documents.  Former national security adviser Sandy Berger removed classified documents from the National Archives in 2003 and hid them under a construction trailer, the Archives inspector general reported Wednesday [12/20/2006].  The report was issued more than a year after Berger pleaded guilty and received a criminal sentence for removal of the documents.

Clinton aide forfeits law license in Justice probe.  Samuel R. Berger, the Clinton White House national security adviser who was caught taking highly classified documents from the National Archives, has agreed to forfeit his license to practice law.

Bergergate, &c.  Call me a right-wing paranoid — it's been done before! — but I think that, if Sandy Berger were a conservative Republican, the story of his criminality would be a really, really big deal.  Bear in mind that the man was national security adviser. … If Berger were a Republican, the word "Nixonian" would be making a big, big comeback — at a minimum.

Berger took papers to a hiding place.  The National Archives Office of Inspector General said that during a 2003 visit to the facility, Mr. Berger left the building unescorted for a break, during which time he "placed the documents under a trailer in an accessible construction area outside Archives 1 (the main Archives building)."  The report said Mr. Berger acknowledged that he later retrieved the documents from the construction area and brought them to his office.

Report should be cure for nostalgia for Clinton crew.  Although Democrats enjoy impugning the integrity of the current president and his administration, the ethical lows achieved by his predecessor, Bill Clinton, and his motley crew of senior advisers still cast the current administration, for all its foibles, in a favorable light.  [And now] along comes former national security adviser Sandy Berger to remind us of how "ethically challenged" they were.

Davis won't give up probe into Berger-Archives case.  The outgoing chairman of the House Government Reform Committee says questions remain about former National Security Adviser Samuel R. Berger's removal of classified documents from the National Archives and pledged yesterday [12/21/2006] to get the answers. … Describing the material removed as "code-word documents," meaning only a limited number of people had access to them, Mr. Davis said Mr. Berger's conduct in hiding the papers "exposed this country to more serious national security breaches than previously thought."

Networks Spike Revelations About Berger's Pilfering of Secret Papers.  Despite the colorful details about how Sandy Berger cut the documents, about the Clinton administration's reaction to terrorist threats in 1999, into small pieces, the broadcast networks weren't interested Thursday morning or evening [12/21/2006] even though the report discredits Berger's claims he simply accidentally mishandled the documents.

[There are more examples of suppressed news items on this page.]

Classified Info.  With the release of an internal investigation last week, we now know that former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger not only knowingly flouted laws for handling classified documents, but he went to incredible lengths to cover his tracks and thwart investigators.  While Mr. Berger's "punishment" was a pittance of a fine, former Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin has been financially ruined and sentenced to 12½ years for passing along far less-classified information to unauthorized third parties.

What did Berger destroy?  If you forgot to make a New Year's resolution, or are still trying to decide on one, let me suggest that you resolve to devote a little time this year to solving the mystery of Sandy Berger and the Destroyed Documents.  Pressure on Berger is what is needed, and the united voices of several thousand outraged Americans would provide it.

Did Clinton cause 9/11? Ask Sandy Berger.  There is a lot of water under that bridge, and obsessive hatred of Bill Clinton bores me.  And yet the hissy fit Bill Clinton and his former colleagues threw calling for ABC to pull this TV movie is also deeply repellent.

Thanks a lot, Bill.
Bill Clinton authorized Sandy Berger's access.  President Bill Clinton signed a letter authorizing former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger's access to classified documents that later came up missing, according to a newly released investigation report by the National Archives and Records Administration.

Clinton Library Won't Release Berger Documents.  The William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library will not make available to the public the documents that former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger illegally took from the National Archives in 2003.  A letter from the library said the total 502 pages from the Millennium Alert After Action Review (MAAR) are "restricted in their entirety," under federal law and that the documents are "classified in the interest of national defense or foreign policy."

Damage from Berger's theft understated, Davis says.  Samuel R. Berger's theft of documents from the National Archives compromised national security "much more than originally disclosed" and resulted in "incomplete and misleading" information being given to the September 11 commission, says the former chairman of the House Government Reform Committee.  "It is now also clear that Mr. Berger was willing to go to extraordinary lengths to compromise national security, apparently for his own convenience," Rep. Thomas M. Davis III, Virginia Republican, said yesterday [1/9/2007].

The Berger Files:  The more we learn about Sandy Berger's brilliant career as a document thief, the clearer it becomes that there is plenty we still don't know and may never learn.  On Tuesday [1/9/2007], the House Government Reform Committee released its report on Mr. Berger's pilfering of classified documents from the National Archives.  The committee's 60-page report makes it clear that Mr. Berger knew exactly what he was doing and knew that what he was doing was wrong.

Why Does Trousergate Go Ignored?  A House Oversight Committee report details the real and potential damage to national security of Sandy Berger's theft and destruction of classified documents.  And we may never know what was in them.  The report released this week by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee shows, as ranking Republican member Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia put it, how former Clinton National Security Adviser Berger "compromised national security much more than originally disclosed."

Bad News for Berger.  There have been many distinguished former government officials who lived to write their version of the history they participated in.  Sandy Berger is the rare government official who has lived to erase history.  A polygraph test might reveal how much history he erased.  Berger's lawyer, a veteran Clinton smog artist, Lanny Breuer, insists there is no "evidence" that his client did anything wrong.  That is classic Clinton obfuscation.  Berger was caught stealing classified documents from the National Archives.  For a former national security adviser to do such a thing is without precedent.

The Secret Sandy Risked His All For.  If not the most skillful of embezzlers, Samuel "Sandy" Berger is a far more formidable character than the media would have us believe.  When he made his now storied sorties into the National Archives, he risked his career and his reputation in so doing, and he knew it.  Rest assured, he would not have done so were the secrets to be preserved not worth the risk of pilfering them.  True to form, the major media refuse to even ask the most fundamental question:  just what secrets would justify so much personal exposure.

Part two of the above article:
Why Bush Justice Rolled Over For Sandy Berger.  The Bush White House is not fully in control of its own Justice Department and FBI.  In truth, the decision to protect Berger may have more to do with saving the Clinton legacy than with stabilizing the nation.

Berger Should Take Promised Polygraph.  Republican members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform mailed a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales last week asking the Department of Justice to administer a polygraph test to former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger.  Berger agreed to a polygraph in 2005 when he pleaded guilty to removing highly classified documents from the National Archives.  Justice department lawyers should take advantage of the plea deal because questions remain about what other documents he may have removed.

Socks, Scissors, Paper:  The Sandy Berger Caper.  Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., is charging a cover-up by the Justice Department in connection with the 2003 theft and destruction of top secret documents by Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger.  Davis also told FOX News that he is not convinced that Berger was not acting under direction from the Clinton Administration.

Another Pants Check.  Last we heard of Sandy Berger, Bill Clinton's national security adviser, he was being fined and placed on probation for stealing top-secret documents.  Is there more to this tale of purloined papers?  Rep. Tom Davis thinks there is.

The End of the Line for the Sandy Berger Investigation.  Berger's voluntary disbarment has nothing to do with the Justice Department or Capitol Hill.  It is entirely the result of Berger's desire to head off an investigation by the District of Columbia Bar.  By giving up his license voluntarily, before an investigation was set to begin, Berger effectively closed another probe into his activities.

Document(ed) Thief.  By voluntarily surrendering his law license, Clinton White House aide Sandy Berger has avoided cross-examination in Trouser-gate.  This is the behavior of a man who's still hiding something.

Sandy Berger gives up law license.  Sandy Berger, who served as national security adviser during the Clinton administration, has given up his license to practice law in the District of Columbia, two years after admitting he illegally sneaked classified documents out of the National Archives. … Berger had only copies of documents; all the originals remain in the government's possession.

The Editor says...
Oh, really?  Previous reports indicated that he had destroyed original documents, and suggested that we may never know what he took.

Clinton Unzipped: One of the Worst Presidents Ever.  [Scroll down]  And who can forget the Clintons' most heinous betrayal of all, which was... what, exactly?  We'll probably never know because Sandy Berger took care of that.  Remember him?  "Sandy Burglar" is the light-fingered bandit who served as Clinton's National Security Advisor and pled guilty to stealing and destroying classified documents from the National Archives.  At Clinton's behest, Berger was prowling the Archives to prepare testimony for the 9/11 Commission.  By his own admission, Berger secretly stashed classified documents in his socks on multiple occasions, hid them under a construction site trailer, snuck back to retrieve them, and then cut them to shreds.

Update:  Mr. Berger is still one of Hillary Clinton's advisors.



Congressman John Murtha

Murtha Intervenes for Company That Broke Export Law.  Rep. John P. Murtha, the Pennsylvania Democrat known for delivering federal money to defense contractors in his district, is now going to bat for a constituent's company that was convicted last year of illegally exporting components of military equipment.

Murtha Scandal Time Arrives.  Months before the midterm elections, this new media-anointed hero announced he would run for the post of House Majority Leader under a potential Speaker Pelosi.  During that time, Democrats were hammering a so-called Republican "culture of corruption," with Pelosi pledging to "drain the swamp" of the majority's ruinous ways in Washington.  But the national media didn't exactly wonder how Pelosi would square fighting corruption with installing someone thoroughly tainted with that odor of corruption — John Murtha.

Nonprofit Connects Murtha, Lobbyists.  "It's a real tangled web between the congressman, the nonprofit, the defense contractors and the lobbyists," said Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan watchdog group.  "It's hard to say where one stops and the others start."  Murtha declined to respond to numerous phone calls and e-mails from The Washington Post requesting comment.

"King Corruption" Reigns.  Republicans returning to the House floor on Friday morning Aug. 3 after their walkout the night before were surprised to find as presiding officer the Democrat they call "King Corruption":  Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, master of earmarks and backroom deals.

Earmarks and Congressional Corruption:  Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, recently reported that every private entity [Representative John] Murtha (D-PA) favored with an earmark in this year's defense bill has given money to his campaign in the last two years.  Political Action Committees (PACs) and employees of the 26 groups in Murtha's district that received Federal monies have contributed $413,250 to him, $100,750 of which was donated in the two weeks leading up to March 16, the original deadline for lawmakers to file their earmark requests.  Murtha rewarded these groups for their political contributions by allocating $114.5 million to them.

Pennsylvania defense firm raided by FBI.  Federal agents raided the offices of a Western Pennsylvania defense contractor that has received millions in federal earmarks at the request of Rep. John Murtha, according to local media reports.  The offices of Kuchera Industries and Kuchera Defense Systems were shuttered for the day following the raids, the chief financial officer told the Johnstown Tribune-Democrat.

Is the Law Finally Closing in on John Murtha?  I had not paid much attention to Congressman Murtha since 1980, when he was taped suggesting he might accept a bribe to push through private asylum bills for Arab sheiks (who were actually FBI agents working undercover in an operation to uncover corruption known as Abscam) if only they'd invest in businesses in his district.  Then came his Haditha accusations ... .

Following Mr. Murtha's Money:  The mantra of criminal investigators — follow the money — often reveals a decidedly circular route when it comes to Capitol Hill politics.  Consider the recent raids by federal agents on the offices of a lobbyist and a Pentagon contractor, both with lucrative ties to Representative John Murtha, the powerful Democratic defense appropriator from Pennsylvania.  Mr. Murtha, who has not been named as a target, is the reigning master at reaping handsome campaign donations from firms that he regularly blesses with rich government contracts.

FBI Eyes Charity Linked To Rep. Murtha.  CBS News has learned the FBI is investigating a little-known not-for-profit organization called Commonwealth Research Institute.  It's located, like a lot of Rep. John Murtha's, D-Pa., pet projects, in his hometown, Johnstown, Pa. Commonwealth gets the same benefits as the Salvation Army or any other charity:  It doesn't have to pay taxes.  But its line of work may be surprising.  It's a defense contractor.

Swept Under the Rug.  In the Democrat majority, it is now perceived as an article of faith that the party will suffer not if they fail to root out corruption in their own ranks, but if they fail to adequately cover it up.  Fortunately, 29 courageous House Democrats refused to go along with it, voting against tabling a resolution that would have launched an ethics investigation into Congressman John Murtha (D-PA) and several of his fellow Congressmen for their role in earmarking $300 million to a lobbying firm's clientele.  The PMA Group is headed by Paul Magliocchetti, who is currently under an FBI investigation.

Exec with Murtha ties took kickbacks, feds say.  A former executive for a defense contractor with ties to Democratic U.S. Rep. John Murtha has been charged by federal prosecutors with taking about $200,000 in kickbacks from a subcontractor.  Richard Ianieri, of Doylestown, Pa., served as president and CEO of Coherent Systems International Corp., the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.

Ex-Contractor With Murtha Ties Accused Of Kickbacks.  A former executive for a defense contractor with ties to Democratic U.S. Rep. John Murtha has been charged by federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh with taking about $200,000 in kickbacks from a subcontractor.

House Ethics Office Ends Probe of Murtha, 2 Others.  A key House investigating body has dropped its probe of Rep. John Murtha (D., Pa.) and two other members of the House's defense-spending committee, according to people familiar with the matter. ... The development doesn't mean that the lawmakers are in the clear.

Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2009.  [Including] Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) and the rest of the PMA Seven:  Rep. John Murtha made headlines in 2009 for all the wrong reasons.  The Pennsylvania congressman is under federal investigation for his corrupt relationship with the now-defunct defense lobbyist PMA Group.  PMA, founded by a former Murtha associate, has been the congressman's largest campaign contributor.  Since 2002, Murtha has raised $1.7 million from PMA and its clients.  And what did PMA and its clients receive from Murtha in return for their generosity?  Earmarks — tens of millions of dollars in earmarks.

John Murtha:  Requiem for a Corruptocrat.  John "Jack" Murtha was an unrepentant smear merchant and corruptocrat to the bitter end. ... From his character assassination of innocents to his insatiable appetite for pork and power, Jack Murtha embodied everything that is wrong with Washington.

A Profile in Arrogance.  Congressman John "Jack" Murtha, who died last week at the age of 77, represented western Pennsylvania's Twelfth District in the House for 35 years.  But Murtha's impressive longevity belies his more dubious political legacy.  The narrative of Murtha's legislative career was punctuated on virtually every line by self-absorption, self-interest, secret dealings, and an ugly brand of political hackery that placed Murtha's own lust for power above the welfare of his country.

Sink the Murtha.  The late Rep. John Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat, has achieved his highest undeserved honor.  Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has decided to name the Navy's newest San Antonio Class amphibious transport-dock LPD 26 the USS John P. Murtha.  This is a slap in the face to every service member who bridled when Murtha publicly accused Marines in Iraq of intentionally killing women and children in cold blood.

Critics Slam Decision to Name Navy Ship for John Murtha.  The Navy's decision to name a ship for the late Rep. John Murtha has outraged some critics who have not forgiven the Pennsylvania Democrat for accusing U.S. Marines of murdering Iraqi civilians "in cold blood" five years ago.

Scuttle the USS Murtha.  There is another reason to think twice before naming an American warship for John Murtha:  He was not honest.  Routinely cited by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, and various news organizations, as one of the most corrupt members of Congress, he was notorious for his hostility to ethics legislation and famous for the hundreds of millions of dollars in earmarks he shunted toward his district — including defense appropriations for companies that employed his brother and a former staffer.

They should have called it the U.S.S. Abscam.  Disregarding public outrage, the U.S. Navy will name a warship after the late Rep. Jack Murtha, D-Pa.,who had accused Marines of murdering Iraqi civilians in 2006.  But the problem with naming the ship doesn't just stop at what Murtha called a branch of the military that would occupy the ship, but also with his willingness to entertain bribery.

Months later...
FBI Saw Dark Side of Rep. John Murtha.  Last week's release of FBI documents finally put in writing what nobody had ever said on the record:  The FBI suspected that former Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) and lobbyists close to him were running a scheme to funnel earmarks to sham companies and nonprofits to benefit the lawmaker's friends and former staffers.



Detroit's Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick

Wife of disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who may still owe $1M in restitution, buys $800K suburban home.  The wife of Kwame Kilpatrick, the former mayor of Detroit who was convicted of a slew of federal and state charges and served years behind bars, has now bought a lavish home in a wealthy Detroit suburb, even as her husband likely still owes more than $1 million in restitution and back taxes.  Last Friday, the Detroit Metro Times reported that LaTicia Kilpatrick, Kwame Kilpatrick's second wife, recently purchased an expansive, 5,600 square-foot home for $807,000 in an upscale neighborhood in Novi, Michigan, located about 30 miles northwest of Detroit.  According to the latest census data, the median household income in Novi is more than $110,000, roughly three times the median household income in Detroit, which is less than $38,000.  Mrs. Kilpatrick appears to have purchased the home through Pathfinder Consulting Firm, a company she owns and that is headquartered in Warren, Michigan, another Detroit suburb.  She took out a mortgage for $645,600 to make the purchase, the Metro Times said.

Ex-Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick set to be released from prison due to pandemic, lawmaker says.  Disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will be granted early release from a federal prison where he is serving a 28-year sentence for corruption and currently in quarantine due to the coronavirus, according to a Michigan state lawmaker.  State Rep. Karen Whitsett, a Detroit Democrat, told WJB-TV that she was notified by President Trump of Kilpatrick's impending release during his Thursday [5/21/2020] visit to Michigan.

Throw away the key.
Supreme Court rejects Kwame Kilpatrick's new trial bid.  The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected disgraced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's appeal of his public corruption conviction, putting a final end to Kilpatrick's bid to overturn his 28-year prison sentence.  Kilpatrick, 46, was convicted of using his position as mayor of Detroit and state House representative to execute a wide-ranging racketeering conspiracy involving extortion, bribery and fraud.

The Corrupt Bargain.  Detroit has long been run by criminals.  Former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, currently known as prisoner No. 44678-039 in the federal lockup at El Reno, Okla., ran an outright criminal enterprise out of City Hall, and was subsequently convicted on charges ranging from racketeering and extortion to bribery and fraud.  He managed to make sewage even dirtier than it is, taking at least $1 million in kickbacks for contracts in the city's water department.

Prosecutors: Give Kwame Kilpatrick 28 years in prison for 'astonishing ... devastating' corruption.  When it comes to public corruption, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is the worst of the worst.  That's what federal prosecutors argued on Thursday [10/3/2013] in asking a judge to sentence Kilpatrick to at least 28 years in prison for his multitude of crimes — a request that raised eyebrows within the legal community as some experts said Kilpatrick could get the stiffest punishment for public corruption in U.S. history.

Mayor Kilpatrick, chief of staff lied under oath, text messages show.  Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his chief of staff lied about their relationship last summer at a police whistle-blower trial that has cost the cash-strapped city more than $9 million, according to records obtained by the Free Press.  The false testimony potentially exposes them to felony perjury charges, legal experts say.

Detroit Mayor Decries Media "Lynch Mob".  Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick lashed out at his opponents and the news media Tuesday night [3/11/2008], accusing them of showing a "lynch mob mentality" in the aftermath of the scandal over his exchange of sexually explicit text messages with a former top aide.

Detroit mayor swamped with calls for resignation.  The walls are crumbling for embattled Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who is under increasing pressure to resign over his role in a police whistleblower settlement scandal that many say is paralyzing the already struggling city.  High-profile critics have been lining up to call for Mr. Kilpatrick's resignation.

Stalemate in Detroit:  City Council Asks Mayor to Resign, but He Refuses to Go.  The City Council on Tuesday asked Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick to resign in light of evidence that he had lied under oath and plotted to cover up an extramarital affair with his former chief of staff.  The 7-to-1 Council vote is not binding, and Mr. Kilpatrick has vowed to remain in office.

Detroit Mayor Charged With Perjury.  Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a one-time rising star and Detroit's youngest elected leader, was charged Monday [3/24/2008] with perjury and other counts after sexually explicit text messages contradicted his sworn denials of an affair with a top aide.  Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy also charged the popular yet polarizing 37-year-old mayor with obstruction of justice and misconduct in office.

Texts, Lies and the Mayor of Detroit.  It's been an unusual season of political sex scandals, but Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's is particularly lurid:  there are allegations of parties featuring strippers at the mayoral mansion and explicit text messages between Kilpatrick and his alleged mistress who was, until recently, his chief of staff.

Backers Act to Aid Detroit Mayor.  Supporters of Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick, who was charged Monday with obstruction of justice, perjury and other felonies, have begun soliciting donations to help him pay for a defense team that promises to be expensive. … "Just because people accuse you of things and charge you with things doesn't mean you're guilty," [Rev. Horace L.] Sheffield said.

The Editor says...
I beg to differ, "Reverend," but very few felony trials end in acquittal. [1] [2]  It's much more likely that he'll enter into a plea bargain.

His Arrogance, Not His Honor.  As the saga of felony-indicted Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of Detroit continues, it comes as no surprise that he's utterly unwilling to even consider resigning for the good of the city and the surrounding, economically depressed region.  But what has now added insult to injury is that some of Kilpatrick's well-heeled friends have "stepped up" to establish a defense fund for the embattled and indefensible mayor.

Indicted mayor refused by Detroit council.  The City Council delivered a stinging rebuke to embattled Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on Monday, telling the mayor it would not accept his budget recommendation.  It was the first time Kilpatrick had come before the City Council since it voted 7-1 last month to ask him to resign….

Kilpatrick:  Ousting me would be danger to city.  Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said today [4/18/2008] that he should remain in office because the alternative would put a city and state in economic turmoil even more at risk.

A moment of truth for Detroit.  Federal agents appear quite deep into an investigation of unknown scope that has already reached the point of informants passing money on hidden video, and at least one high-ranking staffer resigning under a cloud of suspicion.  And, of course, the city labors under the rule of a renegade executive too arrogant and immature to step down in the wake of serial misconduct on his part.

Jailed Kilpatrick faces more charges for allegedly shoving cop.  Shortly after Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick wakes up in jail Friday morning [8/8/2008] — still reeling from becoming the first sitting mayor in Detroit's 307-year history to spend a night behind bars — Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox is expected to charge him with felony assault.

Judge:  Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to Stand Trial in Assault Case.  A judge ruled Friday [8/15/2008] there is enough evidence for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to stand trial on two felony assault charges stemming from a confrontation with two investigators.  The investigators testified that an angry Kilpatrick shoved one of them into the other and made racial remarks while they were trying to deliver a subpoena in the mayor's perjury case to a Kilpatrick friend last month.

Kilpatrick Pleads:  'I Lied Under Oath'.  Detroit Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick ... pleaded guilty to two felonies — a plea that will require him to spend four months in the Wayne County Jail, resign his office and pay $1 million in restitution.  Kilpatrick also will agree not to seek office during the five years he is on probation and will surrender his state pension to the county.  And he will surrender his law license.

The Editor asks...
Now where are all the people who so boldly insisted Kilpatrick was innocent?

Judge orders ex-Detroit mayor Kilpatrick to pay $319,000.  A judge branded former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick a liar Wednesday [1/20/2010], ordering him to cough up $319,000 within three months toward the $1 million in restitution.  Kilpatrick owes the city from his 2008 perjury conviction or face further punishment.

FBI prepares charges against former Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick.  Reports that the FBI is preparing to file new corruption charges against former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his father shocked the Michigan political establishment over the weekend and may prove damaging to Democratic candidates facing a hostile electoral climate this fall.

Prosecutors:  Kilpatrick should be jailed.  Wayne County prosecutors today [4/14/2010] filed written arguments saying former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has violated his probation and should be jailed.

Prosecutor wants prison for former Detroit mayor.  A prosecutor wants former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to serve two to five years in prison for violating his probation in a criminal case.

Judge gives Kilpatrick 18 months to 5 years in prison.  An audible gasp erupted in the courtroom as Judge David Groner sentenced former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to 18 months to five years in state prison for probation violation.

Ex-Detroit mayor in trouble with the law — again.  Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, already in prison for probation violations, was indicted Wednesday [6/23/2010] on federal fraud and tax charges, accused of turning a charity into a personal slush fund for cash, travel, yoga, summer camp and even anti-bugging equipment.

Ex-Detroit Mayor Faces New Charges.  This city's former mayor and his father were indicted Wednesday [12/15/2010] by a federal grand jury for allegedly accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars of ill-gotten gains from rigged municipal contracts.  The 38-count federal racketeering indictment could wrap up a six-year-old probe into Kwame Kilpatrick, whose reign at City Hall was brought down initially by a text-messaging scandal involving an affair with his chief of staff.

Ex-Detroit mayor released from prison.  Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was released from prison Tuesday [8/2/2011] and will go to Texas to rejoin his family, officials said.  Kilpatrick, 41, was allowed to transfer supervision of his two-year parole to Texas, where his wife and sons live in Grand Prairie, a Dallas suburb, The Detroit News reported.

Ex-Detroit mayor faces charges in alleged pension scam.  [Detroit]'s former mayor and his longtime friend are facing fresh allegations of wrongdoing in federal court, where the pair are accused of accepting lavish gifts in an influence-peddling scheme involving pension funds.  In a federal Securities and Exchange Commission civil complaint filed Wednesday [5/9/2012], former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Jeffrey Beasley — the former city treasurer — are accused of accepting gifts including private jet travel and golf outings from an investment adviser to the city's pension funds in exchange for favoritism.

Culture of corruption festers on.  If you imagined that Detroit could wash the stink off its politics by exiling Kwame Kilpatrick to Texas, the latest text message dump will set you straight.  The exchanges made public Monday make it clear that Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty were only the most conspicuous symptoms of a political culture that was rotten to the core.  They also remind us that some of the leading exponents of that culture continue to hold public office in Michigan, although they have probably become more cautious since Kilpatrick's spectacular flameout.

Detroit Mayor Loses Fight Over Secret Papers.  The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday [2/27/2008] ordered the release of a trove of documents that revealed how Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick of Detroit and city lawyers tried to cover up Mr. Kilpatrick's extramarital affair with his chief of staff, as well as text messages that could expose the mayor to perjury charges.

Dem Mayor Convicted of Racketeering, Extortion.  A federal jury convicted former Detroit Democratic Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick on Monday of 24 charges, including racketeering, extortion, attempted extortion, bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud, and filing false tax returns, according to the Huffington Post.

Ex-Detroit mayor convicted of widespread corruption.  Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, once seen as a rising star in Democratic Party politics, was convicted on Monday [3/11/2013] on two dozen federal charges of corruption and bribery during his seven-year tenure.

Ex-Detroit Dem Mayor Denied Bond.  A federal judge denied Detroit's former Democratic Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's request to leave prison while he awaits sentencing to receive treatment for a "serious knee injury," according to CBS Detroit. [...] Kilpatrick was convicted earlier this month of 24 charges including racketeering, extortion, attempted extortion, bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud, and filing false tax returns.

In Detroit, racial rhetoric concealed corruption.  Living in the Detroit metro area most of the last decade, I have experienced many of the events leading to its bankruptcy.  Take, for example, the 2008 State of the City address by then-mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.  With Detroit facing a perilous fiscal future and him facing ethics complaints, Kirkpatrick highlighted race.  He sparked controversy by using the "n-word" while referencing an insult he received from some random person.  Kirkpatrick vowed to stand strong against this attack, and asked citizens to stand by him against a "lynch mob mentality."  He essentially used that slur to leverage racial tension, inciting and dividing the mostly-black city against mostly-white suburbs.




Congressman Charles B. Rangel

Charlie Rangel: I Only Cared About Dead Soldiers When They 'Looked Like Me'.  Congressman Charlie Rangel who is quick to slander the tea party with charges of racism, was a guest on Monday's [1/5/2015] "The Ed Show" on MSNBC, where he made a statement that appeared to be startingly racist:  "I was in combat, and I'm telling you, I saw more dead people, but I never was moved until I saw dead people that looked like me in my uniform."

Rangel Failed to Report $75,000 in Income.  Representative Charles B. Rangel has earned more than $75,000 in rental income from a villa he has owned in the Dominican Republic since 1988, but never reported it on his federal or state tax returns, according to a lawyer for the congressman and documents from the resort.

Tricky Charlie's Carib 'Hideaway'.  For 20 years, Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel has owned a beachfront villa in a sun-drenched Dominican Republic resort, yet has only sporadically declared income on the property in federal filings.  While the villa was rented to paying guests for the past two years, for instance, Rangel reported no income from it in 2006 and 2007, The Post has learned.

Rangel had no-interest mortgage more than 10 years.  Rep. Charles Rangel paid no mortgage interest on a beach resort property for more than 10 years, a lawyer for the powerful House committee chairman said Friday.  The New York congressman's lawyer, Lanny Davis, told The Associated Press that Rangel got his no-interest deal for the villa in the Dominican Republic because he was an original buyer in the resort development, and in the early days after Rangel's 1987 purchase the rental income it generated failed to meet expectations.

Rangel Admits Mistakes, $5,000 Bill to Uncle Sam.  The head of the House tax-writing committee admitted Wednesday [9/10/2008] that he owes about $5,000 to the Internal Revenue Service for failing to report income on his returns.  But Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., asked colleagues to let the ethics committee investigate and urged Republicans to stop trying to have him removed from his post.

Rangel Has a Bad Chair Day.  Embattled Harlem Congressman Charles Rangel is facing possible ouster from his powerful committee chairmanship as he scrambles to file new tax returns in a desperate bid to hold on to his job.  The amended returns will reflect years of income he never bothered reporting from renting out his beachfront Caribbean villa, his lawyer said yesterday [9/9/2008].

More errors for Rangel; hires new accountant.  A new set of potential problems in Rep. Charles Rangel's financial papers has prompted the tax-writing lawmaker to hire a forensic accounting expert to try to unravel the mess.  Rangel, chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, is already the subject of ethics committee investigations on several fronts, including unreported income and unpaid taxes on his beach house in the Dominican Republic.

Weighty, Shady Pol is a Threat to His Own Party.  This was supposed to be the year Democrats could not lose. ... That was before [Charlie] Rangel launched his "Monument to Me — The Rangel Center at CUNY" — with your money and greedily grabbed four rent-stabilized apartments, using a system designed to help less fortunate New Yorkers from getting squeezed out onto the street.

Dems shoot down GOP attempt to punish Rangel.  Democrats shot down a second GOP attempt in as many months to punish Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) for a series of alleged ethics violations.  Democrats easily tabled a motion House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) offered that was aimed at forcing Rangel to give up his chairmanship of the powerful Ways and Means Committee while the ethics committee investigates the charges.

Rep. Rangel:  Resign post ... or be removed.  When Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., took the gavel in January 2007 to become the first woman to fill the post of House Speaker, she proclaimed that Democrats would run the chamber "with the highest ethical standards."  That was then.  This is now:  Rep. Charles Rangel, D.-N.Y., chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, is caught in a scandal in which he didn't pay taxes on property he owns in the Dominican Republic.  But Speaker Pelosi is singing a different tune.

Step aside.  As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Charles Rangel writes the nation's tax laws for the rest of us.  But he seems to have a hard time understanding them himself.  The Manhattan Democrat calls himself "irresponsible" for not paying taxes on $75,000 in rental income from a villa in the Dominican Republic, but he seems oblivious to the hypocrisy of his situation.

Tow-Nailing Charlie 'Parker'.  Embattled Rep. Charles Rangel's Mercedes-Benz was towed yesterday from the House of Representatives parking space he had been using for years in violation of congressional rules.  As a tow truck pulled away the 1972 silver sedan under the watchful eyes of five Capitol police officers, House Republicans voted almost unanimously to oust the Harlem Democrat from his chairmanship of the powerful Ways and Means Committee in the midst of several ethics scandals.

Un'stable' Rangel.  Rep. Charles Rangel's tax disclosures not only are an embarrassment for the Democratic congressman — they put him far over the limit to qualify for his rent-stabilized Harlem apartments.  While the powerful Ways and Means chairman previously disclosed income at or slightly above the $175,000-a-year stabilization ceiling on previous congressional documents, new revelations could put his earnings at more than $200,000 a year.  The disclosure could put pressure on Rangel to give up his New York housing perks, critics say.

House To Launch Investigation Into Rep. Rangel.  CBS 2 has learned the House of Representatives will conduct an inquiry into Rep. Charles Rangel, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.  The ethics committee of Congress announced they established a subcommittee to investigate Rangel, who has already been in plenty of hot water recently.

The Rangel Example For All Taxpayers?  Republicans lost control of the Congress two years ago in part because of corruption.  Some of their Members had to step aside because indictments hung over their heads.  The Republicans years ago changed the rules governing their own Members.  They ruled that anyone who was indicted had to step aside.

Rangel Un-Moved.  Three months after Rep. Charlie Rangel admitted he improperly converted a rent-stabilized apartment into his political campaign office — and promised to give it up — the embattled pol still has not moved out.  For the past decade, Rangel's political operation has been headquartered in a $682-a-month, one-bedroom apartment at Lenox Terrace — the same Harlem building where he has three other rent-stabilized apartments for personal use.

Mr. Rangel's mess:  This legendary black congressman suffered from allegations about misusing his position as a powerful committee chairman.  Questions arose about his travel habits and a seaside property.  His displays of wealth ill-represented his poor Harlem constituency.  Is it Charles Rangel, the embattled current chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee?  No, but it's close.  It's Adam Clayton Powell Jr. — the man Mr. Rangel defeated in 1970.  Four decades later, Mr. Rangel is experiencing uncanny parallels to situations that destroyed Mr. Powell's congressional career.

Rangel Stalls.  Rep. Charles Rangel has not hired the forensic accountant he said he needed in order to provide answers regarding his messy tax records, The [New York] Post has learned.  Meanwhile, the Harlem Democrat has paid more than $120,000 in campaign money to a law firm to represent him in the scandal.

Waiting for Charlie.  What's the holdup, Charlie?  Emboldened by the Democrats' newly bolstered majority in the House, Rep. Charles Rangel doubtless anticipates siccing his Ways & Means Committee on the nation's financial mess.  But what about his own financial mess?  The one being probed by the House Ethics Committee?

Embattled Rangel hires firm to probe finances.  Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) has hired the accounting firm of Watkins, Meegan, Drury and Company to investigate his financial records and prepare a report for the House ethics committee.  The selection of Watkins, Meegan comes two months after Rangel first announced he would hire a forensic auditor to investigate 20 years of his personal income taxes and financial disclosure records, which are riddled with areas [sic].

Rangel Double-Deal$.  Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel took a "homestead" tax break on a Washington, DC, house for years while simultaneously occupying multiple rent-stabilized apartments in New York City, possibly violating laws and regulations in both cases.  The situation raises a number of potential problems for the congressman.

Ditch Charlie.  Are congressional Democrats truly committed to dealing with the economic and fiscal policy challenges they face next year?  The answer will be seen in how they address their increasingly problematic Charlie Rangel situation.  Scarcely a day goes by without yet another ethical impropriety coming to light regarding the chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee. ... The Obama team will have enough to worry about without having its tax and spending bills drafted by a profoundly ethically challenged committee chairman.

Washington Post says Rangel should step down.  The Washington Post has joined the New York Times in calling for Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) to step down as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in light of new ethics charges that emerged earlier this week.  The Times reported Tuesday [11/25/2008] that Rangel helped preserve a valuable tax loophole for an oil and gas drilling company while the company's chief executive, Eugene Isenberg, was pledging $1 million to the Charles B. Rangel School of Public Service at City College of New York.

'Fit' for Office.  Welcome to Charlie Rangel's personal gym.  It may look cramped, but while members of Congress are forced to shoehorn office staff and equipment into windowless closets and other tiny corners of the Capitol complex, Rep. Rangel's taxpayer-funded workout room is just another example of the trappings of his power and seniority in Washington.  The tiny office space holds everything a busy chairman needs to shed a few pounds in comfort — a flat-screen television, an exercise machine, a mirror, a small refrigerator and a telephone.

Black Conservatives Call for Rangel's Removal as House Ways and Means Chairman.  Project 21, a prominent group of black conservative leaders, is the latest to call on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to remove Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.  "It's galling that the head of the committee in charge of levying taxes has either a profound ignorance of tax law or a disinterest in adhering to the laws he wants others to follow," Bishop Council Nedd II, a national advisory board member of Project 21, said in a Nov. 26 news release.

Pelosi 'Pledge' to Keep Rangel.  Rep. Charles Rangel said yesterday [12/2/2008] that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has promised him he will keep his chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee as long as he wants — even though investigators haven't completed their report on ethical allegations facing the Harlem Democrat.

Report:  Rangel paid his son nearly $80K for 'poorly designed' websites.  The Politico reports that Rep. Charles Rangel, the New York Democrat, paid his son nearly $80,000 for two "poorly designed" campaign websites.  That's not illegal, but it does raise questions about whether the powerful Ways and Means Committee chairman was using campaign funds to enrich a relative, the paper says.  "Steven Rangel's design for his father's National Leadership PAC site appears to have been slapped together in a hurry, intermittently updated and never spell-checked," the paper says.

House Ethics Panel Expands Rangel Investigation.  The House ethics committee is expanding an investigation of Rep. Charles Rangel, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.  The ethics panel issued a statement Tuesday [12/9/2008] saying it had voted to expand an already far-ranging probe into the New York Democrat to examine whether he protected an oil drilling company from a big tax bill when the head of that company pledged a $1 million donation to a college center named after the congressman.

The ethical shoe now on the other foot.  The most damning of questions for the ethics panel is Rangel's meeting with Eugene Isenberg in February of 2007 to discuss his $1 million donation to the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College of New York, according to The New York Times.  It was at that same meeting that Isenberg had Rangel talk with his lobbyist about keeping the multimillion-dollar tax loophole that benefits his oil-drilling company.

GOP handed gift in Rangel ethics case.  House Republicans were heading toward a down-in-the-dumps holiday.  Then the House ethics committee handed them a gift.  The committee's investigation of Rep. Charles Rangel's tax problems is expanding, turning what has been a minor headache for Democratic leaders into a New Year's migraine.

Pelosi Defends Rangel.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told NBC's Meredith Vieira in an interview taped Monday [12/8/2008] that Rep. Charles Rangel should not step down as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.  Pelosi said she didn't see "any reason" that Rangel should step down.

Why Geithner and Rangel Matter:  The Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and the U.S. Treasury Secretary are literally the two highest ranking political figures with regard to the Internal Revenue Service.  If any two people on the planet should set an example in their tax behavior, it is the two people who hold those positions and anyone who aspires to them.

Rangel faces questions about book royalties.  Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) is facing new questions about why he has not disclosed any royalty income on his 2007 memoir ... And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since:  From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress.  The Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan advocate for government transparency, wants to know why the chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee has failed to report royalty income and has not voluntarily disclosed details of his book contract.

Rangel's Financial Disclosures Omitted Data Over 30 Years, a Report Says.  Representative Charles B. Rangel's financial disclosure forms had at least 28 omissions in the past 30 years and failed to account for what became of more than $239,000 in assets, according to a report issued Wednesday by a private government-ethics group.

Rangel to taxpayers:  "Mind your own [expletive deleted] business".  That was Rep. Charlie Rangel's response when I recently confronted him about his mounting ethical and financial scandals.  Rangel's uncouth snit began in the Longworth House Office Building after I asked the New York Democrat about his publicly-subsidized luxury vehicle, shady property deals, and unpaid taxes.

Spread of swearing video caps Rangel's tough week.  Jason Mattera, a spokesman for the right-wing group Young Americans for Freedom and a conservative commentator and blogger, approached Rangel in the halls and told the Harlem Democrat that he was from Brooklyn. Rangel welcomed the man who appeared to be a fellow New Yorker until Mattera asked him about why he leases a Cadillac with taxpayer money and about his failure to pay taxes on a villa in the Dominican Republic.

Pandering To The Greedy Poor.  I was watching with my usual level of incredulity as Chris Wallace sought the opinion of yet another Democrat tax cheat, this time Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-NY, on Fox News Sunday.  Rangel, who represents Harlem in Congress, serves as the chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, which writes all of this nation's tax laws.  The irony here is that Rangel apparently sees no need to pay the taxes he himself owes.

NY's Artful Dodger.  President Obama this week began cracking down big- time on tax havens — and he's enlisted Rep. Charles Rangel to help.  Will this dynamic duo be swift and fair in meting out tax justice?  It shouldn't take long to find out:  After all, if Rangel and Obama are looking for culprits, they can begin in their own offices.

Update:
Ten months in, new twist in Rangel ethics inquiry.  Already embroiled in an ethics probe now entering its tenth month, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, received more bad news Wednesday night as the House ethics committee announced it would look into Caribbean trips taken by the veteran lawmaker and four other Democrats.

Charlie Rangel pays lawyers $1,000,000.  Rangel's latest campaign finance disclosures show that his campaign and his leadership PAC have now paid more than $1 million to lawyers defending against a wide-ranging investigation of his personal finances.  The New York Democrat thus joins Reps. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) and Don Young (R-Alaska) among current lawmakers who have shelled out at least $1 million to their defense attorneys.

Morality and Charlie Rangel's Taxes:  Ever notice that those who endorse high taxes and those who actually pay them aren't the same people?  Consider the curious case of Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel, who is leading the charge for a new 5.4-percentage point income tax surcharge and recently called it "the moral thing to do."  About his own tax liability he seems less, well, fervent.

Rangel's Wealth Jumps After Disclosure.  House Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel, already beset by a series of ethics investigations, has disclosed more than $500,000 in previously unreported assets.

'Forgetful' Charlie finds another 780G.  Embattled Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel — who is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee — failed to reveal personal assets totaling as much as $780,000 in financial-disclosure reports filed with Congress, records released yesterday [8/25/2009] show.  Democrat Rangel, the chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, submitted corrected documents with the House Clerk earlier this month, more than a year after filing handwritten and wildly inaccurate 2007 disclosure forms that left out a hefty checking account, several sizable investments and land in New Jersey.

Oops!  Charlie Forgot This $1M House.  Rep. Charles Rangel failed to report as much as $1.3 million in outside income — including up to $1 million for a Harlem building sale — on financial-disclosure forms he filed between 2002 and 2006, according to newly amended records.

Rangel, Again.  Rep. Charlie Rangel's multimillion-dollar "oops" this month raises plenty of good questions, but this may be the best:  How can Democrats continue to close their eyes to such sleaze?  And, more to the point, this: Will prosecutors follow up on any of it?

The Absent-Minded Chairman.  When normal people happen to "find" their own money, it might mean a twenty left in a winter coat, or discovering change beneath the sofa cushions.  But if you're Charlie Rangel, it means doubling your net worth.  Earlier this month the Chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee "amended" his 2007 financial disclosure form?to the tune of more than a half-million dollars in previously unreported assets and income.

Charlie's Mortgage Bares Home Untruth.  Rep. Charles Rangel claimed on mortgage papers that a Harlem brownstone was his principal residence — even though he was living elsewhere at the time, The [New York]Post has learned.  When the Democrat — who is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee — took out the mortgage in 1990, he said the property on West 132nd Street was his "principal residence," records show.

Rangel Untangle:  House Democrats are willing to rally around Rep. Charles Rangel in his latest spate of tax missteps — but only as long as no more embarrassing revelations come to light, sources told The Post.  The head of the powerful Ways and Means Committee last week amended six years' worth of financial disclosure forms and revealed he'd earned $1.3 million in previously unreported income.

The Editor says...
Can you imagine what the press would say if a Republican kept "remembering" million dollar assets that he had conveniently "forgotten" to report?  And if the Republican party rallied to his defense?

Rangel should resign.  Charlie Rangel always has been an entertaining congressman.  And not to damn him with faint praise, an effective one, too.  But the New York City representative, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is having a problem with his numbers as they relate to the truth.  He now can be neither entertaining nor effective.  He needs to go.  If he won't, Speaker Nancy Pelosi needs to push him.

Fire Rangel.  Has he no shame?  Of course not.  He's Charlie Rangel, head of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee — who can't be bothered to tend to his own tax returns, but now intends to punish ordinary folks for making arguably minor mistakes on their forms.

How do you spell 'cahoots'?
Staff as 'Forgetful' as the Boss.  Charlie Rangel's "forgetfulness" is apparently contagious.  Two of his top aides are among about a dozen highly paid staffers on the powerful tax-writing Ways and Means Committee who have filed a flurry of amendments correcting their financial-disclosure statements since 2002.

Boehner's 'Dear Charlie' letter to Rangel:  Step down.  House Republican leader Rep. John Boehner has just sent a "Dear Charlie" letter to Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Charles Rangel, asking Rangel to step down until the Ethics Committee finishes its investigation of Rangel's nonpayment of taxes and non-disclosure of hundreds of thousands of dollars on his legally-required financial disclosure forms.

'Ethics' for sale.  Is Charlie Rangel worried that the House Ethics Committee  — notorious for handing out little more than a slap on the wrist for even the most egregious congressional misconduct  — might make an exception in his case?

Rep. Charles Rangel — Sign of the Times.  Currently, Rangel is under investigation by two House subcommittees for illegally holding four rent-stabilized apartments in New York and not disclosing more than $75,000 in income from a rental villa he owns.  He also took free Caribbean trips paid for by corporate cronies and used his congressional letterhead to press for money for the City College of New York's new educational center, which bears his name.  Rangel also acknowledged that he improperly listed his assets, as required by law, and failed to report additional checking accounts valued between $250,000 and $500,000 — princely sums acquired on a congressional salary.

Charlie in rental di$order.  Rep. Charles Rangel reported no rental income for eight years on his rundown Harlem row house, even though public records show tenants were living there.  The powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee said he received nothing from 1993 to 2000 on the six-unit building, according to federal financial disclosure forms.  But one current tenant told The Post she had lived at the building for 20 years — and paid rent during that period.

Rangel:  The Most Corrupt Dem?  First there was "Countrywide Chris" Dodd (D-Conn.), whose combination of poor judgment and possible corruption qualifies him to be Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.  Then there was Tim "TurboTax" Geithner, whose false tax return filings qualify him to be Secretary of the Treasury.  And now, in keeping with the Democrats' recent tendency to have scoundrels in the highest positions involving regulation of the nation's finances, we have the Chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), who recently filed amended financial disclosure reports showing a net worth about double what he had previously reported.

The case against Charlie Rangel.  [Scroll down slowly]  So it would go for Charlie Rangel over the next four decades — a pattern of tax evasion, special treatment and enrichment that seemed to increase with his power and prestige in Congress.  Whether it's living in rent-stabilized apartments while making a hefty salary, or failing to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in earnings and assets, his actions betray a consistent, defiant sense of entitlement.  And when he is caught, the powerful Democrat blames a right-wing conspiracy.

Shaming Charlie's pals.  House Republicans, clearly frustrated by the sloth-like pace at which the Ethics Committee is looking into the tangled financial affairs of Rep. Charles Rangel, have finally decided to take the bull by the horns.  Good move.  Unless Rangel steps down this week as chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee — the House's tax-writing body — the GOP will introduce a resolution demanding his removal.

Rangel is Robin Hood in reverse.  How does Rangel have so much money and where did it come from?  This is a man who draws a salary from the government of about $175,000 a year.  It's a comfortable salary, but it certainly isn't going to make anybody this rich — especially someone living in one of the world's most expensive cities.  Rangel did not inherit a fortune and did not marry one.  And nor had he built some huge fortune before he first won election to Congress in 1970.

Charlie sneaks $3M in pork for CCNY.  Two years after creating a center in his own name at City College, Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel has come through with a $3 million defense grant for the school — for a project the Pentagon doesn't even want, The [New York] Post has learned.

Angles on Rangel — the final vote.  House Democrats have successfully killed a privileged resolution by Rep. John Carter, R-Tex., which called for the removal of an alleged tax evader from the House's top tax post, pending an ethics investigation.  The vote on whether to oust Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y. as chairman of Ways and Means fell largely along party lines, with a final tally of 246-153, with 19 members voting "present" and 14 not voting.

Another Vote to Spare Rangel.  Rep. Charlie Rangel, who has collected tax and ethics scandals the way some people collect stamps (in big batches, that is), sits atop the House Ways and Means Committee because neither the Speaker of the House nor his colleagues have the nerve to kick him out.

It's looking impossible to clean this House.  Every criminal operation has its code of silence.  The Mafia enforces omerta.  Bad cops erect their blue wall of silence.  And Democrats running Congress have their "motion to refer."  That was the slimy tool Speaker Nancy Pelosi wielded on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday [10/7/2009] to cover up for her tax-dodging top committee chairman, Charlie Rangel.

How long can Democrats stand by Charlie Rangel?  Even some Democrats who have stuck with him through his messy financial problems are beginning to wonder if they can't stick with him anymore.  The House ethics committee expanded a sprawling investigation into Rangel Thursday [10/8/2009], digging into allegations stemming from an August restatement of his personal finances, in which he under-reported hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets.

House ethics panel to expand Rangel probe.  The House panel investigating alleged ethics violations by Rep. Charles B. Rangel, New York Democrat, said Thursday [10/8/2009] it voted unanimously to expand the probe.  A statement by the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct said its investigative subcommittee already has issued nearly "150 subpoenas, interviewed approximately 34 witnesses resulting in over 2,100 pages of transcripts."

Rangel Innocent Until Proven Guilty, Pelosi Says.  Innocent until proven guilty — that's why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refuses to remove New York Rep. Charles Rangel from his powerful chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee.  As the House Ethics Committee investigates a string of allegations against Rangel, who represents New York's Harlem district, a spokesman for Pelosi said Friday that the "bipartisan process" should be allowed to finish before the congressman's fate is decided.

The Editor says...
Under a truly bipartisan process, he would already have been ousted.

Swamp Creature Rangel Needs to Find the Exit.  It is with great regret that I write that Democrats must remove Charlie Rangel from his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee.  Almost everyone likes Rangel, which is why he's survived a raft of allegations of financial impropriety that would make a Wall Street banker blush.

Pelosi's Sinking In the Swamp.  If she hopes to survive a bloody battle in 2010 — one where her own words and actions will be used against her — Speaker Pelosi must insist that New York Congressman Charlie Rangel resign immediately.

Charlie Rangel has let us all down with his fiscal shenanigans.  New York waited for decades to gain the kind of congressional clout that Rep. Charlie Rangel has wielded as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and now he has let the home team down.  Big time.  To say that Rangel has become damaged goods is to engage in understatement.

Will Rangel ever step down?  The House Ethics Committee is continuing its 16-month investigation into House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-New York), who is accused of failing to disclose more than $600,000 in previously unreported assets, and tens of thousands of dollars in unreported income.

N.Y. Dems agitate for Rangel action.  Support for Charles Rangel within his home state delegation is showing signs of strain — with upstate New York Democrats grumbling about the impact of Rangel's ethics woes on their already tenuous reelection chances.

Not as Much Fun Being Charlie Rangel.  Being Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee normally guarantees lucrative fund-raising.  But having trouble with House ethics rules — and the law — appears to be putting a crimp in Rep. Charlie Rangel's fund-raising.

Ethics probes may saddle Democrats in 2010.  The House ethics committee investigation of Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) is likely to extend well into 2010, according to sources familiar with the probe, meaning that the fate of the powerful chairman of the Ways and Means Committee could become a major political issue for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and the Democratic leadership during a difficult election year.

Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2009.  [Including] Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY):  Rangel, the man in charge of writing tax policy for the entire country, has yet to adequately explain how he could possibly "forget" to pay taxes on $75,000 in rental income he earned from his off-shore rental property.  He also faces allegations that he improperly used his influence to maintain ownership of highly coveted rent-controlled apartments in Harlem, and misused his congressional office to fundraise for his private Rangel Center by preserving a tax loophole for an oil drilling company in exchange for funding.  On top of all that, Rangel recently amended his financial disclosure reports, which doubled his reported wealth.  (He somehow "forgot" about $1 million in assets.)

Has the MSM Forgotten the Rangel Investigation That Has No End?  Back in early 2009, while the MSM noted the tax evasion problems of several of Obama's appointees, Congressman Charlie Rangel (D, NY) sat nearby, grinning like the Cheshire Cat from Wonderland.  The tax transgressions of Timmy Geithner, Tommy Daschle, Nancy Killefer, et al are equivalent to shoplifting a candy bar from a convenience store when compared to Charlie's multiple, long-term, bank heists.  Cholly's been at it for four decades!

House Panel Admonishes Rangel for Taking Trips as Gifts.  A House ethics committee said on Thursday that it had admonished Representative Charles B. Rangel for violating Congressional gift rules by accepting corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean in 2007 and 2008.

Why Pelosi can't just get rid of Rangel:  Suddenly, it looks like Nancy Pelosi will have to confront her Charlie Rangel problem after all.  For more than a year, the House Speaker has managed to buy herself time every time Republicans or the media (or both) have made noise about Rangel and his ethical issues.

Charlie Rangel ruling puts Nancy Pelosi in a jam.  The House ethics committee's decision to admonish New York Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel over improper corporate-sponsored trips to the Caribbean leaves Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the ethics committee itself facing difficult questions.  When then-Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) was admonished by the ethics committee in October 2004, Pelosi and other Democratic leaders went on the offensive against him.

Rangel refuses to step aside after ethics slap.  New York Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel said Friday [2/26/2010] he won't step down as chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee despite being admonished for violating rules by letting corporations pay for his Caribbean trips.  Rangel asserted that that [sic] the ethics report "exonerates" him because it says there is no evidence that he knew the trips were sponsored by corporations.  The report said his staff knew who paid for the trips.

Dems call for Charlie Rangel's gavel.  After months of holding ranks, some Democrats are finally turning on House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) in the wake of an ethics committee finding that he violated House rules by accepting a Caribbean junket.

Relieve the Chairman of His Gavel.  Congressman Charles Rangel was far from humbled after the ethics committee admonished him for taking corporate-paid Caribbean junkets in violation of the House ethics code.  Rather, the New York Democrat berated the panel's leaders on the House floor.

Charlie the coward.  This newspaper has had its share of differences with Rep. Charlie Rangel over the years, but one word we never thought to associate with the Harlem lawmaker is "coward."  Yet what other term is appropriate when a 79-year-old political veteran, the dean of the New York delegation and chairman of one of the most powerful panels on Capitol Hill, ducks responsibility for a pretty obvious personal ethical lapse by throwing his staff under the bus?

Pelosi:  Rangel stays — for now.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Sunday [2/28/2010] she wants let House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., hold onto his gavel for now, despite his admonishment by the House ethics committee last week.

Defiant Rep. Charles Rangel vows reelection bid despite uproar over alleged ethics violations.  Rep. Charles Rangel made it clear Saturday: He's running this year for a 21st term as Harlem's congressman.  Rangel, under fire for alleged ethics violations, acknowledged he was aware of calls for his retirement or resignation.

The Editor says...
Mr. Rangel seems to be conveniently unaware of a lot of stuff.  He sounds a lot like former congressman William Jefferson, who is now serving 13 years for bribery.

Nancy's dirty house.  This is a mess ideally suited for Nancy Pelosi's broom — if it weren't stashed in a closet alongside President Obama's promises to curtail earmarks drastically and to broadcast sensitive legislative negotiations.  Pelosi pleads for patience for Rangel, who's still being investigated in many other matters and, after all, has not done "something that jeopardized our country in any way."  This means Rangel will only step down as chairman after exacting the maximum possible political embarrassment.

Ethics Scandal Will Hurt Democrats in November.  The Charlie Rangel scandal is the latest in a series of embarrassing episodes that have plagued Democrats over the past year as they have struggled to get control of an agenda that is dead, dying or on life support.  The New York congressman lost the chairmanship of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee last week, 24 hours after he said "you bet your life" he would hold on to the plum post, despite a long list of troubling congressional investigations into unethical and possibly illegal activities, such as not paying his taxes.

Meet Your Lords and Masters.  Don't like the way America's tax code is shaping up?  Well then, at least some of the blame goes to Charles Rangel because as the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, he had a lot to do with it.  Of course, Rangel apparently didn't like America's tax code very much either — or at least that's the conclusion that you might draw from the fact that he cheated on his taxes.

House to Try Top Democrat.  House investigators have laid out a series of ethics accusations against Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel, the once-powerful tax-writer who is one of the most senior members of Congress, presenting his party with a new complication in advance of the fall elections.  Mr. Rangel, of New York, will have the opportunity to defend himself at a public trial before the House ethics committee beginning next week, according to a statement Thursday [7/22/2010] from the panel, formally known as the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.

Rangel's Chickens Come Home to Roost.  A House ethics investigative committee today announced what amounts to a Congressional indictment of Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) on multiple ethics violations.  These charges will be made public next week by an adjudicatory subcommittee set up to try the charges.

Charlie Rangel Is Toast.  Charlie Rangel, oleaginous octogenarian extraordinaire, put on a press conference at lunchtime on Friday [7/23/2010] that was such a master class in shifty-eyed flimflam that no one who watched it can have left its Harlem venue (or their TV screens) unconvinced that he is, by some great distance, the most knavish congressman in Washington.

The Rangel Standard.  The House ethics committee announced on Thursday that it would bring charges against Charlie Rangel, and the Manhattan Democrat responded by telling reporters that "I look forward to airing this thing."  Don't we all.

House Democrat calls on Rep. Rangel to resign.  In a major development, Rep. Betty Sutton (D-Ohio) on Friday night [7/23/2010] called on beleaguered Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) to resign.  Sutton's statement comes one day after the House ethics committee charged the 80-year-old Democrat with multiple violations.

The End Of Rangel's Arrogant Rule.  The former Ways And Means chairman faces possible expulsion for playing fast and loose with his finances and taxes.  Since that's what the Congress has done with ours, maybe they should all face expulsion.

Rangel Scrambling to Make Deal on Ethics Charges.  Embattled Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel was meeting with the head of the House ethics committee and other top Democrats amid rumors he may try to work out a deal rather than face a full vetting of the charges he is now facing.  A settlement would mean Rangel must admit he committed some ethical misconduct.

Panel hits Rangel with 13 alleged ethics charges.  House investigators accused veteran New York Rep. Charles Rangel of 13 violations of congressional ethics standards on Thursday [7/29/2010], throwing a cloud over his four-decade political career and raising worries for fellow Democrats about the fall elections.

The Enablers of Charlie Rangel.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is the world's worst cleaning lady.  How has she fulfilled her vaunted promise to "drain the swamp" and preside over the "most ethical Congress in history"?  By shrugging her shoulders, downplaying the gravity of myriad ethics charges against corruptocrat Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel and waiting for the "political chips" to "fall where they may."  Imagine a custodial service that fixed toilet clogs by letting the overflowing waste and polluted waters "fall where they may."

He's ready for crime time, feds.  Hey, feds, do you need a road map?  Well, here it is.  The charging documents in the sprawling House investigation into the shady, double-dipping deals of Charlie Rangel reads like a crime novel.

Charlie Rangel's Career Comes Full Circle.  Congressman Charlie Rangel's congressional career began 40 years ago as a battle against corruption.  It seems as if his life has come full-circle, or, a commentary on two distinguished political careers; both brought down by a combination of personal hubris and institutionalized congressional corruption.

House of Entitlement.  My favorite part of the ethics report on Charlie Rangel involves his efforts to "close" a $10 million gift "to create AIG Hall" as part of the Rangel Center at the City College of New York.  Yes, that AIG. ... The insurance giant wasn't so sure about writing the check, citing the "potential headline risk."

A Party for Charlie Rangel?  A House ethics panel charged Rangel with serious violations of House rules.  Some suggest he could be charged by the IRS for not reporting income.  And the band plays on.  Donations to his campaign coffers pour in.  About two-thirds of his campaign cash in 2009 went to legal fees — so when donors cough up for Charlie's campaign they likely indulge in a bit of nudge, nudge, wink, wink:  "this money is for getting old Charlie off the hook."

Charlie Rangel's Birthday Bash: A Night for Ethics Amnesia.  It was the antithesis of Chelsea Clinton's wedding  — a glittering social event on the New York political calendar that many prominent politicians wished (very privately) they did not have to attend and hoped (very secretly) would somehow be canceled.

Charles Rangel loses ethics lawyer.  Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), who faces an ethics trial next month, has parted ways with his lead defense attorneys in the case, according to several sources familiar with the matter.  It is unclear what, if any, impact this will have on the Rangel trial, which is scheduled to begin Nov. 15.  It is also not clear whether Rangel decided to get rid of his attorneys or if they left of their own volition.

Rangel's new rush.  Oh, so now he's in a hurry.  Following a two-year probe, Rep. Charlie Rangel, "dean" of the New York congressional delegation, reportedly now suddenly wants to face his accusers quickly and to put all of his legal woes to rest at an upcoming House ethics committee trial.  This, though he hasn't said boo about the trial in weeks — even as House Democrats staged a 60-day game of stall-ball to stave off any pre-election, Rangel-related embarrassing publicity.

Rangel:  'I have no real chance of fighting back'.  Embattled Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) struck a defeated tone Monday, hours after he walked out of his own ethics trial.  Rangel reiterated his claim that his due process rights had been violated over his lack of legal representation at the trial that began Monday morning [11/15/2010].

Charlie Rangel found guilty of 11 ethics violations.  Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) was found guilty Tuesday [11/16/2010] of breaking 11 separate congressional rules related to his personal finances and fundraising efforts for a New York college.

Rangel Found Guilty.  A House subcommittee has found Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., guilty of 11 counts of breaking ethics rules.  Rangel declined to offer a reaction, saying "No, I really haven't studied it."  Asked whether he was hoping the punishment would be limited to a reprimand, he said:  "I don't know."

Ethics watchdog renews call for Rangel resignation.  After Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) was found guilty of violating House ethics rules, the ethics watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) again called on him to resign from Congress.  CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan approved of the decision and said Rangel should resign.

Rangel Claims He Doesn't Have a Lawyer.  Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) asked the House Ethics Committee to postpone his ethics trial because he does not have legal representation. ... One of Rangel's excuses for not having a lawyer is that accepting free legal representation would violate the House gift ban.  Meanwhile, famed defense lawyer Abbe Lowell accompanied Rangel to the hearing and departed with him.

Rangel Should Have Worked for the UN.  Rep. Charles Rangel is having an unpleasant season, convicted on Tuesday [11/16/2010] by a House panel on 11 counts of ethics violations — including failure to properly disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal financial assets.  Rangel would have done far better to work for the United Nations.  For UN senior staff members, as long as they don't get carried away and attempt an act of genuine transparency, it is virtually impossible to fail to properly disclose their personal financial assets to the public.

Rangel Convicted on 11 of 13 Corruption Charges.  The former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Charlie Rangel, has been convicted on most of the corruption charges brought against him.

Rangel Brings Shame on Democrats.  In almost any other election year, Rep. Charlie Rangel's ethics problems would have been a major campaign issue, in much the way that Republicans' myriad ethics and corruption scandals framed the 2006 election.  The only reason Democrats got a "pass" on Rangel before the election is that so much else was going wrong for them and dominating the headlines.

Charlie Rangel Is a Symptom of a Bigger Problem.  Charlie Rangel, convicted of eleven ethics violations — the most ever found against any member of Congress — was resoundingly re-elected, getting 80% of his district's vote.  After 40 years representing these folks, you can't conclude he was an unknown commodity.  Granted, the conviction occurred after the election, but the charges were well publicized.

House censures Rangel for ethics violations on 333-79 vote.  The House has voted to censure Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), the once-powerful chairman of the Ways and Means panel, for a string of ethics violations.  In a vote of 333-79, the House handed down its steepest form of punishment short of expulsion to one of the most senior and beloved members of the House.

House censures Charles Rangel by overwhelming vote.  The House voted overwhelmingly on Thursday [12/2/2010] to censure Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), who pleaded for leniency but now finds his 40-year career tarnished after his colleagues rebuked him using a rare form of public punishment for ethics violations.

At long last, the tide is turning in swamps of Washington.  The fall of Charlie Rangel is bigger than the fate of one 80-year-old man.  It is the tale of hubris, of arrogance drunk with power, meeting its match in an aroused citizenry.

The Rangel Censure Joke.  For months now, we've witnessed a charade when it comes to the wrongdoing of Rep. Charles Rangel, Democrat of New York.  The charade came to a climax yesterday with the official vote to censure Rangel.  But what is censure?  Censure is nothing.  Rangel will have to stand before his colleagues and have the details of his wrongdoing read aloud to him.  That's it.

Censure, then Dinner and Back to Work.  The nauseating fight over which word was a more appropriate punishment for Charles Rangel is everything that's wrong with Congress.

Censure without shame.  The bipartisan House Ethics Committee found Mr. Rangel guilty of 11 ethics-rules violations related to unpaid taxes on rental income from his villa in the Dominican Republic, failure to disclose personal financial assets and improper solicitation of donations.  Additionally, last spring, Mr. Rangel resigned as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee after being found guilty of accepting corporate-financed travel.  Now the Federal Election Commission is investigating whether Mr. Rangel improperly used $400,000 from his National Leadership PAC to fund his defense on the previous ethics charges.

Charlie Rangel should leave the Congress on His Own Terms.  Rangel did not do anything the Congressmen before him hadn't, and many still do.  The difference is that Rangel was starting to be considered a liability by the Pelosi camp, so she fed him to the Republicans and public as the token Democrat to live up to her rhetoric on "draining the swamp" of corruption in the Congress.  Strangely, the earliest charge only dates back 10 years ago.  It seems odd that after 40 years of public service, Rangel would suddenly start betraying the public trust.

$$ party for Charlie.  Charles Rangel wants to party away his legal bills.  The embattled Harlem congressman — who has been buried under a mountain of debt from his ethics case — is throwing a fund-raiser next month to raise money for his legal-defense fund.  Tickets to the event — co-hosted by former state Comptroller Carl McCall — start at $250 and go up to $5,000.

Rangel says U.S. 'not broke,' should reject GOP cuts.  Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) on Wednesday [3/9/2011] said the federal government is not broke, and that Congress should not begin cutting programs in the way that Republicans have proposed.  "Make no mistake about it, we're not broke," Rangel said in a floor discussion with Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.) "It wasn't that we overcompensated public employees.  They didn't cause this deficit."  Rangel's remarks go against those made by Republicans, who argued that continued deficit spending is unsustainable.

The Democrats' 'Culture of Corruption'.  Remember Rep. Charles Rangel?  A quick recap of his rap sheet:  The onetime chairman of the House Ways and Means committee, which writes the nation's tax laws, was guilty of massive tax evasion.  The Sunlight Foundation catalogued "28 instances in which Rangel omitted assets worth between $239,026 and $831,000 that were either purchased, sold, or held from his financial disclosures."  He further solicited millions for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College directly from his congressional office — even from a number of interests that had business before his powerful committee.  There's also his illegal use of rent-controlled apartments and the House parking garage, as well as other infractions too numerous to name.

Charlie Rangel's Religious Awakening.  There are few things in politics as sacred to liberals as the so-called separation of church and state.  Even the slightest reference to God or Jesus in the public square leaves the left quivering and blubbering about imposing religious values upon the public. ... Yet when it comes to scoring cheap political points, Democrats are always eager to cloak themselves in religion and more than willing to sermonize.  Enter disgraced New York Democrat Charles Rangel, last seen defending the honor of Anthony Weiner.

Charlie Rangel Is Back Living the High Life.  Censure by the House hasn't cramped his style one bit.

Another Underling Prosecuted as Rangel Gets Free Pass.  James Capel, who until February was a top aide to Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), pleaded guilty yesterday in Manhattan Criminal Court to charges resulting from his failure to file a tax return for the years 2007, 2008 and 2009.  Capel reportedly did not file a tax return from 2003 onward, but was saved from prosecution by the statute of limitations for the earlier years.  Capel must pay $42,088 in back taxes and pay a $1,000 fine.

Rangel Junket Figure Karl Rodney Sentenced Today.  Karl Rodney, the organizer of the Caribbean junkets that contributed to the downfall of Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), was sentenced today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to two years probation and 500 hours of community service.  He was also fined $2,500.  District Judge Emmet Sullivan included no jail time in the sentence.

Albany's gift to Charlie Rangel.  Even as his fellow pols in Albany swore up and down that their gerrymandering — er, redistricting — efforts are as pure as the driven snow, Assemblyman Denny Farrell was giving the true game away.  The way Farrell tells it, the Assembly's top priority is making Rep. Charles Rangel happy — and keeping him in Congress for one more term.

23G rent fine for Rangel.  Scandal-scarred Rep. Charlie Rangel has agreed to pay a $23,000 fine for using a rent-stabilized apartment as a campaign office, The [New York] Post has learned.  Rangel, a Democrat now seeking his 22nd term representing Harlem, entered into an agreement with the Federal Election Commission to pay the fine.

Rangel Fined $23K For Using Rent-Controlled Apartment as Campaign Office.  In response to a Complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), the Federal Election Commission (FEC) has entered into a conciliation agreement with Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) and his so-called National Leadership PAC (NLP).  The FEC found that "there was reason to believe" that Rangel and NLP violated the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 by using a rent-stabilized apartment as a campaign office. Rangel and NLP agreed to pay a fine of $23,000.

No Vote Fraud? New Twist in Rangel "Win".  At a time when Democrats around the country, including Attorney General Eric Holder, have been vociferously claiming there is no such thing as voter fraud in the United States and that efforts to uphold the integrity of elections are a form of racism, the senior member of the Congressional Black Caucus appears to have engaged in a variety of forms of fraud himself.  The latest results from the June 26 election show Rep. Charles Rangel holding a more than 900-vote edge on challenger Adriano Espaillat.  But Espaillat is screaming bloody murder over the way Rangel's party establishment followers may have cooked the results.

Rangel surrendered his dignity a long time ago.  [I]f there was ever a fellow who embodies the dysfunctionalities of Washington, Congress and contemporary elective politics, he is Rep. Charles Bernard Rangel of Harlem — the only chairman of the tax-writing House Ways & Means Committee ever to be pressured from that post for failure to pay his own taxes.  Rangel's humiliation occurred four years ago.  But the House, ever eager to protect its own, unsurprisingly waited until after the November 2010 election to censure Rangel — depriving his constituents of an opportunity to deliver immediate judgment.

Rep. Rangel: Free College Important to The Security' of U.S.  Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) says two years of free college "is really so important to the security of the United States of America."  In a TellDC video posted on YouTube last Friday, Rangel says, "The president's recommendation that we have two years of free college is really so important to the security of the United States of America."

Charlie Rangel is retiring. So why is he raising campaign cash?  Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., sure sounds like a man running for re-election.  "Contribute now to support Congressman Rangel's fight for a deal benefiting everyday Americans!" reads a May 13 fundraising appeal from Rangel's campaign committee to supporters, referencing a trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.  Click the words and a Rangel for Congress donation page pops up.

Isn't this the same guy who wanted to bring back the draft a few years ago?




Governor Rod Blagojevich

Part 1:  Articles written about Governor Blagojevich before he was arrested on December 9, 2008.

Obama's Iraqi Oil for Food connection.  Rezko's relationship with Barack Obama goes back to at least 1990, when Obama's law firm did work relating to a Rezko housing development.  Rezko was a key early-money fund raiser in Obama's state Senate campaigns and his failed run at the US Congress.  In June 2005, when the mansion was purchased, Rezko was widely known to be under federal investigation.  Rezko also is a key fundraiser for Illinois Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich.

Four Stumps in the Water for Obama:  [Scroll down]  The Rezko trial highlights another problem for Obama, potentially a devastating one, though it is unlikely to arise for several months or more.  Antoin "Tony" Rezko is on trial for taking large bribes in return for political favors.  The feds allege that he was able to steer state contracts and policy decisions, such as authorization to build hospitals in specific locations, because he was so close to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (for whom he was a top fundraiser) and because he was willing to share the graft with his cronies.

Illinois Governor's $1 Million Grant Under Investigation.  "The Chicago Tribune … uncovered 235 donations of exactly $25,000 apiece (for a total of $5,865,000) to the governor.  Three-fourths of those donations came from persons who received financial benefits from the Blagojevich administration."

Is Rezko working with the feds?  As his sentencing nears, pressure is mounting on Tony Rezko to cooperate with federal investigations into some of the highest-profile politicians in the state — including Gov. Blagojevich.  Two more trials — one in Chicago next spring, one in Las Vegas — hover over the Wilmette businessman and onetime prolific political fund-raiser for the governor and Barack Obama.

Feds indict friend of governor.  Christopher Kelly, one of Gov. Rod Blagojevich's (D-Ill.) closest advisers and the chief fundraiser on his two campaigns, was indicted Thursday [12/13/2007] on tax fraud charges alleging he improperly used corporate funds to cover gambling debts he had run up in Las Vegas and with a local bookie.

Gambling expansion stalls in wake of indictments.  The political fallout from the indictment of Gov. Rod Blagojevich's friend and gambling adviser began today as a potential vote next week on a massive state gambling expansion was canceled. ... On Thursday federal prosecutors indicted Chris Kelly, a South suburban roofing contractor and close personal friend of the governor, on charges stemming from alleged illegal betting and breaking the law to conceal gambling debts.

Indicted insider has story, home to sell.  Christopher Kelly — our unreform governor's gambling point man — was indicted Thursday on federal tax evasion charges involving huge gambling losses with Chicago bookies and Las Vegas casinos.  And I was busy enjoying an online tour of his sumptuous castle, a Burr Ridge estate with a $3.3 million asking price.  It was put up for sale weeks ago as if Kelly knew this could happen.

Obama giving away indicted donor's cash.  Barack Obama is getting rid of an old $5,000 campaign donation that was given to him by an Illinois businessman who was indicted this week.  The money was donated to Obama's U.S. Senate campaign in 2003 by Abdelhamid "Al" Chaib of LaGrange Park, Ill.  Chaib was indicted Thursday on federal charges of taking part in a scheme to fraudulently obtain a $3.4 million loan.

Probe is closer to governor.  A federal corruption probe moved closer to Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Friday [12/21/2007] as prosecutors issued a document in which the governor allegedly boasted to a key witness that he "could award contracts, legal work and investment banking" to boost campaign fundraising.  Blagojevich is not quoted by name but is referred to as "Public Official A" in the 78 pages that prosecutors filed….

Patti's $47K Rezko deal.  [Illinois] Governor Blagojevich's wife got nearly $50,000 from a real estate deal in late 2002 involving Antoin "Tony" Rezko, a developer and former top Blagojevich political fund-raiser now under federal indictment.  In the following two months, the governor began giving friends of Rezko seats on influential state boards and began hiring former Rezko employees to upper-level state jobs.

Possible Evidence To Indict Gov. Blagojevich.  A source tells CBS 2 News Wednesday night that a team of federal agents believes it has the evidence needed to indict Governor Rod Blagojevich.  Investigators believe they've established solid evidence of fraud and conspiracy.


Part 2:  Articles written about Governor Blagojevich after he was arrested on December 9, 2008.

This section includes occasional references to Tony Rezko, but for more information about Mr. Rezko, please refer to this page.  Nobody (so far) has accused Barack Obama of any involvement in Governor Blagojevich's alleged schemes, but you might want to read the subsection about Obama's shady Chicago background.  I had been expecting to see Obama's presidency punctuated by minor scandals, but this bombshell was big — and close!

Why Can't Blagojevich Sell a Senate Seat?  "Blagojevich also was charged with illegally threatening to withhold state assistance to Tribune Co., the owner of the Chicago Tribune, in the sale of Wrigley Field, according to a federal criminal complaint.  In return for state assistance, Blagojevich allegedly wanted members of the paper's editorial board who had been critical of him fired." ... This is just the beginning.  As the Chicago Machine rolls into Washington DC, "change" is here!  How do you like it so far?

Illinois First Lady Prominent in FBI Affidavit Charging Governor.  Illinois first lady Patricia Blagojevich's official Web site says she's "committed to spreading the governor's message."  That's putting it mildly, according to the 76-page FBI affidavit released Tuesday accusing her husband, Gov. Rod Blagojevich, and his chief of staff of corruption.

Questions Arise About the Obama/Blagojevich Relationship.  Asked what contact he'd had with the governor's office about his replacement in the Senate, President-elect Obama today [12/9/2008] said "I had no contact with the governor or his office and so we were not, I was not aware of what was happening."  But on November 23, 2008, his senior adviser David Axelrod appeared on Fox News Chicago and said something quite different.  While insisting that the President-elect had not expressed a favorite to replace him, and his inclination was to avoid being a "kingmaker," Axelrod said, "I know he's talked to the governor and there are a whole range of names many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a lot of them."

The Blithesome Banality of Blago's Blunders.  There's no tragedy here.  No wasted potential.  No undeserving victims.  No profound and complicated symbolic issues (I somewhat doubt the Serbian-American lobby is going to cry racism).  This is the sort of criminality we want the Feds to find, particularly in Chicago.

Jackson gets pulled deeper into scandal.  President-elect Barack Obama tried to further distance himself from the burgeoning scandal in Illinois Wednesday, joining a near-unanimous chorus of public officials calling on Gov. Rod Blagojevich to step down.  At the same, another prominent Illinois politician — Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. — was getting drawn even deeper in to the case, admitting for the first time that he was, in fact, the "Senate Candidate 5" in the criminal complaint but denying any wrongdoing.

Rep. Jackson under scrutiny by ethics panel.  Congressional ethics officials are investigating Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s actions in connection with Gov. Rod Blagojevich's alleged attempt to sell the U.S. Senate seat left open by Barack Obama's election to the presidency, the congressman confirmed today [4/8/2009].

House ethics panel defers probe on Jesse Jackson Jr.  A House ethics panel said it is investigating allegations against three lawmakers, including Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.  Jackson allegedly launched a "public campaign" to be appointed to President Obama's former Senate seat in Illinois.

Jackson expects to be 'vindicated' in ethics probe.  U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. said Saturday night [10/29/2011] he expects to be "vindicated" in a House ethics probe looking at his involvement in trying to secure President Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat from then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich.  Jackson also said he has never met or spoken to Robert Blagojevich, the former governor's brother and then-head of campaign fundraising, who has offered to appear before the House Committee on Ethics to testify about Jackson's interest in the seat.

Blago Senate scheming even before Obama win.  Even before Barack Obama won the presidential election, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was plotting how he could make money off it or steal political leverage from it.  To capture a glimpse of the high drama and palace intrigue, it's useful to connect the internal Blagojevich conversations taped by the FBI with the public movement of the Obama transition team.

Chicago Tugs on Obama's Sleeve.  Does what happens in Chicago stay in Chicago?  Tuesday's arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on charges that included trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat has brought renewed national attention to the state's corrupt political culture while creating a headache for the incoming administration.

Who Loses?  Aside from the criminal defendants and the Illinois Democratic Party, who are the big losers in Blago-gate?  Really anyone who wants to get away with something or get something they don't really deserve.  I'd put in that category:  Al Franken, Charlie Rangel, Caroline Kennedy and Eric Holder.  No one now has the stomach for even a hint slick dealing or nefarious politics — at least for awhile.

Obama Was Mute on Illinois Corruption.  What remains to be seen is whether this episode will put an end to what Chicago Tribune political columnist John Kass calls the national media's "almost willful" fantasy that Mr. Obama and Chicago's political culture have little to do with each other.  Mr. Kass notes that the media devoted a lot more time and energy to investigating the inner workings of Sarah Palin's Wasilla, Alaska, than it has looking at Mr. Obama's Chicago connections.

Obama and Blagojevich:  A picture is worth a thousand words.

The Tainting of the President-Elect.  The notion that a newly elected president who is also a sitting U.S. Senator would have no "contact" whatsoever with the governor charged with appointing his Senate successor is a fantasy.

Obama must explain Blago ties.  Time magazine foolishly gave Chicago politics its clean government seal of approval last month.  Celebrating Barack Obama's election, the magazine said John McCain's attempts to tie Obama to corruption in the Windy City failed because they were "based on an outdated caricature."  The left-leaning magazine went on to note that Obama was bringing the Chicago trio of David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel and John Podesta to the White House and insisted that these days, "Chicago Democrat appears to be a winning label."  Oops.

Jackson denies Senate bribe.  Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. vehemently denied Wednesday trying to bribe Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich to name him to President-elect Barack Obama's old Senate seat, as Mr. Obama and all 50 members of the Senate Democratic caucus called on the embattled governor to resign.  Mr. Jackson's attorney acknowledged that his client was the "Senate Candidate 5" mentioned 16 times in a 76-page affidavit laying out the FBI's corruption case against Mr. Blagojevich, but he said Mr. Jackson was not aware of anyone cutting deals on his behalf.

The Blago Saga Begins.  Perhaps the most shocking part of the wiretaps revealed so far was a sequence where Blago talked of needing to get out of the Illinois Governors' chair so as to avoid impeachment, and instead get to the US Senate, which would also serve to position him better for a 2016 Presidential run.  How do you describe someone so delusional?

Axelrod's Comment on Talk with Blagojevich Seems to Contradict Obama.  As Obama works to set up his new administration and deal with a national economic crisis, suddenly he also is spending time and attention trying to distance himself from Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and charges that the governor was trying to sell the now-vacant Senate post.

Blagojevich's arrest puts spotlight on his wife.  Gov. Rod Blagojevich has some close company in his misery.  His arrest this week on corruption charges also shone a spotlight on Patti Blagojevich, his wife and a mother of two.  The first lady may have been introduced to the public by profanity-laced tirades as outlined by federal prosecutors, but she already was being investigated for her real-estate dealings.

Blagojevich's Big Conference Call and Valerie Jarrett's Clean Break.  The call lasted about two hours.  On the phone were Mr. Blagojevich, his wife, his general counsel, an unnamed adviser, and John Harris, the governor's chief of staff and his co-defendant in this week's case.  But what's drawing the most interest is who was on the line from Washington, and the sequence of political events that followed that same night and in the ensuing days regarding Barack Obama's close friend and adviser, Valerie Jarrett.

Democratic Party Scandal:  How High Will It Go?  The Blagojevich True Crime Drama is not criminality as usual in Illinois politics.  The malfeasance of Governor Rod Blagojevich is so outrageous, so brazen, so breathtaking in its scope and character that even jaded journalistic hacks whose beat has been the statehouse for years are shocked.

The Democratic Culture of Corruption.  Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi can stop clucking now.  For the last three years, Democratic leaders cheered GOP ethics woes.  Dean accused Republicans of making "their culture of corruption the norm."  Pelosi touted cleanliness as a liberal virtue.  But with the eye-popping pay-for-play and bribery case against Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich topping a year of nationwide Democratic scandals, the corruption chickens are coming home to roost.

Good Old-Fashioned Graft?  Seeing himself in possession of a valuable commodity, Blagojevich wasn't about to give it away for mere gratitude.  "It's not coming for free.  I've got this thing and it's (expletive) golden, and, uh, uh, I'm just not giving it up for (expletive) nothing.  I'm not gonna do it."  Then, demonstrating a fine appreciation for his legal authority, he added, "I can always use it.  I can parachute me there."

Absolutely Corrupt.  The media had a frenzy Tuesday with the "stunning" news that Illinois Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich had been arrested on corruption charges.  The only thing stunning is it doesn't happen more often. ... For years, Illinois' state legislature has been controlled by one party, the Democrats — just as Washington will be in January.

Why Tony Rezko Isn't Blago's Best Friend Forever.  In the run-up to election day we heard a great deal about Tony Rezko, and how his criminal associations reflected poorly on Obama.  Little did we suspect then that the biggest crook Rezko knows is the governor of Illinois.  With the arrest of Governor Blagojevich this morning, it becomes clear that Tony Rezko played a significant role in putting him in jail.

Union Official Allegedly Liaison Between Governor, Obama Team.  Among the revelations contained in the complaint brought against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich yesterday [12/9/2008] was the description of an official with the Service Employees International Union acting as an apparent intermediary between the governor and Barack Obama's camp in discussions over Obama's Senate seat.

Case Confirms Rezko Is Talking With Prosecutors.  A footnote to the 76-page criminal complaint and affidavit charging Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) with soliciting bribes confirms what has long been rumored — that a former longtime friend and fundraiser for President-elect Barack Obama is talking to federal prosecutors in hopes of a reduced sentence.

Prosecutors unsure if he will testify at a Blagojevich trial.  While allegations that Gov. Rod Blagojevich tried to sell a Senate seat have grabbed the headlines, the complaint filed against him contained a nugget that might have once been front-page news:  One-time confidant Antoin "Tony" Rezko has given federal authorities damaging information about the governor.

Blagojevich:  Who Is Advisor B?  Barack Obama has flatly said that he has "not discussed the Senate seat with [Rod Blagojevich] at any time."  If that is true — and Obama will undoubtedly be asked the broader question of whether he communicated in any way with Blagojevich on the subject — then the big story in the Blagojevich scandal is the role of intermediaries.

Covering (Up) Obama.  The mainstream media's covering for Barack Obama on his relationship with Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is predictable, laughable and tragic.  The only reporter really doing any kind of investigative journalism on the connection between Obama and Blagojevich is ABC's Jake Tapper.

Here It Comes.  It took awhile, but the MSM is starting to flex its muscles.  After all, they can't let a scandal as juicy as Blago-gate go uncovered.  Faced with a tight-lipped presidential team, you knew that sooner or later the media would start — brace yourself — asking hard questions and becoming irritated by non-answers.

A Little Blago for Everybody.  The past comes alive as Chicago's grand tradition of corruption is sustained for another generation.  As the Chicago Tribune once wrote, "corruption has been as much a part of the landscape as corn, soybeans and skyscrapers."  According to the Chicago Sun-Times, as of 2006, when Blago's predecessor, George Ryan, was sent to prison for racketeering, 79 elected officials had been convicted of corruption in the past 30 years.  Among the perps:  27 aldermen, 19 judges, 15 state legislators, three governors, two congressmen, one mayor, two turtledoves and a partridge in a stolen pear tree.

Rahm Emanuel Reportedly Spoke with Blagojevich About Senate Seat.  The firestorm surrounding Governor Blagojevich is putting some heat on Barack Obama's transition team.  Fox Chicago News has learned about possible conversations between a top Obama aide and the governor regarding the open senate seat.

Obama Bungles Blagogate.  Here's some free P.R. advice:  if you've got nothing to hide, don't hide.  The media may have been in bed with the president-elect during the 2008 campaign but they're bored and desperate to increase sales with something sexy.  Until Obama explains himself more fully a cloud will hang over his head while leaving the public to ask what he knew, when he knew it and where else this drama will spray.

Union Is Caught Up in Illinois Bribe Case.  The Service Employees International Union has long boasted that it is on the cutting edge of the labor movement.  But the union found itself badly embarrassed this week when it was named in the federal criminal complaint charging Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois with maneuvering to secure financial gain from the appointment of the state's next senator.

Man behind curtain is wizard of Rod, Rahm.  When it comes to being the guy behind the guy, there is no one more conspicuous than Rahm Emanuel.  As chief of staff for President-elect Barack Obama, he's usually at Obama's news conferences, standing off to the side, glowering like some fiercely loyal mini-me.  But Emanuel wasn't there Thursday when Obama faced reporters to answer questions about federal charges against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Dead Meat), accused of trying to sell Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder.

Obama and the Curse of Illinois:  During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama's critics said he was a typical product of a seamy political culture.  The arrest of Blagojevich, a fellow Democrat, validates the claims about Illinois.  It also gives Obama a chance to prove he has managed to tiptoe through the sewer without getting dirty.  Except for something that took place in 2001, this expose might not have happened.

Did Obama Have Contact with Blago or Didn't He?  "I had no contact with the governor or his office and so I was not aware of what was happening," Barack Obama told reporters today in the wake of the Blagojevich arrest, the Chicago Tribune reports.  But Jake Tapper notes that on November 23, Obama adviser David Axelrod was singing a different tune.

Scandal casts cloud over Obama presidency.  Authorities stressed that Mr. Obama was not involved in the far-flung corruption probe, but a 76-page FBI affidavit mentions a top Obama adviser who will be a senior White House staffer, a prominent labor union that worked for his candidacy, convicted felon and former Obama fundraiser Tony Rezko, and Washington-based consultants.  Within hours, lawmakers from both parties were calling for Mr. Blagojevich's resignation and Republicans were trying to exploit the scandal by demanding that Mr. Obama offer more details about his relationship with the disgraced governor.

Obama Must Be Forthcoming.  If the charges laid out by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald are anywhere close to being true — and Fitzgerald is nothing if not a careful, meticulous, and relentless prosecutor — then the breadth and depth of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's corruption is staggering. ... But the question that has Washington atwitter is not simply, or even primarily, about Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris; it is whether the Blagojevich scandal will in any way touch Team Obama.

The 'Lady Macbeth' behind the Illinois governor:  In secretly recorded tapes central to the case against the Illinois Governor, wife Patricia Blagojevich is the voice in the background that can be heard egging him on.  The stream of expletives directed at her husband's enemies reveal she may be the real power behind the throne.

Illinois Law May Protect Patricia Blagojevich in Corruption Case.  A word of advice to the Blagojeviches:  whatever you do, don't get a divorce.  An Illinois law dating to the 1960s may help protect the state's foul-mouthed first lady as the federal government proceeds with its investigation and prosecution of her husband, Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

Emanuel Not a Target of Blagojevich Probe, Sources Say.  People who have been briefed on the Illinois governor corruption investigation say Barack Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is not a target of the probe.  Emanuel, a Chicago congressman who would have been a likely contact between the Obama transition office and Gov. Rod Blagojevich, has been a focus of media attention since Obama said Thursday he has asked for an internal review of contacts between his staff and Blagojevich.

Rendell:  Obama bungled Blago response.  Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell today criticized Barack Obama for not being more upfront about the Illinois corruption scandal.  Now, he said, the story will continue to dominate the media's attention.  "They have never been in an executive position before," Rendell said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."  "The rule of thumb is whatever you did, say it and get it over with and make it a one-day story as opposed to a three-day story.  Politicians are always misjudging the intelligence of the American people."

The documents:  Madigan's case for Blagojevich's removal.  Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan has called on the Illinois Supreme Court today to temporarily remove Gov. Rod Blagojevich from office and appoint Lt. Gov. Patrick Quinn as acting governor, "so the business of the state of Illinois can go forward."

Blagojevich fundraiser held by Jackson allies Saturday.  As Gov. Rod Blagojevich was trying to pick Illinois' next U.S. senator, businessmen with ties to both the governor and U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. discussed raising at least $1 million for Blagojevich's campaign as a way to encourage him to pick Jackson for the job, the Tribune has learned.  Blagojevich made an appearance at an Oct. 31 luncheon meeting at the India House restaurant in Schaumburg sponsored by Oak Brook businessman Raghuveer Nayak, a major Blagojevich supporter who also has fundraising and business ties to the Jackson family, according to several attendees and public records.

Did Obama team have contact with Ill. governor?  Barack Obama insists he didn't have any contact with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich or anyone else who might have been scheming to sell the president-elect's U.S. Senate seat.  But he has not yet given his transition staff the same clean bill of health — perhaps with good reason.

Unfortunate Timing.  Last week, the New York Post published its top ten political scandals of 2008. ... A more accurate and comprehensive list would include Representative William "Cold Cash" Jefferson (D-LA); Christopher Ward ... Representative Rick Renzi ... and Birmingham's Democratic Mayor Larry Langford ... But the real shame is that they published their list on December 7 — two days before Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was arrested by the FBI for corruption of an almost-unprecedented scale.

The Fall of the House of Blago:  How a Governor Self-Destructed.  Wednesday was Rod Blagojevich's 52nd birthday, but you can bet it was not a happy one.  After having been charged by federal authorities with trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat that President-elect Barack Obama vacated, the Illinois governor spent most of the day hidden from view inside the state office building in downtown Chicago.  The few allies he had left have vanished.

Obama's rules or Chicago rules?  There's nothing unusual about a senator or his staff talking with a governor about who will get a vacant Senate seat.  That's normal politics, even outside Chicago.  So far, it seems that Obama's team did the right thing.  The question is, when the tapes and transcripts of their conversations are released, will there be something that makes us cringe?  Obama's staff includes several people who know Blagojevich well.  The president-elect's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, once bragged that he was one of the governor's most important advisors.

Barack Obama has to come clean about Rod Blagojevich — and fast.  No one is suggesting that Obama ... was involved in this pay-to-play scheme.  On the other hand, does anyone really think he had no interest in who took over his Senate seat?  He made it known that his friend Valerie Jarrett (who's being cited on CNN as the best qualified candidate — which is true if being a friend of the president-elect is the best qualification) was his preferred candidate.  Jarrett wanted the job.  So why did she drop out so abruptly.  Did she know what was going on?  If so, did she tell the feds?

What Obama Offered Blagojevich:  While Obama said he had never spoken with the governor about the Senate seat — understandable, given how toxic the scandal-plagued Blagojevich was — he did not say his staff had not done so.  Which raises several questions:  Did Obama direct or ask any staffer to speak to Blagojevich?  Did Rahm Emanuel or David Axelrod, both of Chicago, never speak to the governor about the Senate appointment?  Did Barack's aides all treat Blagojevich as a political leper and not communicate to him any interest in or concern about whom he might appoint to succeed Obama?  This defies credulity.

Rahm Emanuel talked with governor's office about who should fill Obama's Senate seat.  The revelation does not suggest Obama's new gatekeeper was involved in any talk of dealmaking involving the seat.  But it does help fill in the gaps surrounding a question that Obama was unable or unwilling to answer this week:  Did anyone on his staff have contact with Blagojevich about his choice for the Senate seat?

Rod Blagojevich Puts Obama in a Bad Light.  In an interview on Fox News November 23, Obama's chief political strategist David Axelrod said matter-of-factly that Obama had talked with the governor about the Senate replacement.  Now Axelrod has now said that he was "mistaken" about that.  It strains credulity to suppose that no one on Team Obama communicated with Blagojevich on this matter, and circumstantial evidence that someone, maybe not Obama but someone obviously entitled to speak for him, did.  The Obama transition team is now being pressed to detail all those contacts, and will probably be forced to confess to some.

Moral Vacuum in Illinois.  In his profane and selfish ranting, Blagojevich provides the perfect example of a keeper of the public trust whose sense of responsibility has utterly absquatulated.  Power corrupts, especially in Illinois, it would seem, where, even Chicago residents will admit, jail is beginning to look like a rite of passage for the state's governors (this, boys and girls, is what we mean by "Chicago politics").

Pssst ... Wanna Buy a Senate Seat?  "Saddened and sobered" — that was Barack Obama's first response to the corruption charges against Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, charges that include an attempt to sell Obama's old Senate seat to the highest bidder. ... Wrong emotion.  If someone had taken a poll of the rest of the people of Illinois that day I'd guess very few of them would have offered "saddened" in response to a question on their feeling about Blagojevich's efforts to make money on just about everything that happened in Illinois over the past six years.  Outraged?  Certainly.  Disgusted?  Sure. ... But "saddened" is the kind of reaction you have if a friend loses a spouse or if someone you trust lets you down.  It's not the kind of reaction you have if you've run a campaign for a politician only to have him embarrass himself in wiretaps from a federal investigation into his six-year orgy of corruption.

Chicago Politics Find A Home In The White House.  Obama has chosen three long-time associates, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel and Valerie Jarrett, to fill key posts in his administration.  All are products of the scandal-ridden Richard Daley machine that dominates the city's politics, and by virtue of that fact alone they are unfit to serve in top White House posts. ... [I]f you're closely associated with a notoriously corrupt political machine such as Chicago's Daley machine — you are more than merely tainted by the corruption, you share in it.

Senate scandal snares Obama's chief aide.  The bullish, foul-mouthed but effective Chicago arm-twister Rahm Emanuel has come under pressure to resign as Barack Obama's chief of staff after it was revealed that he had been captured on court-approved wire-taps discussing the names of candidates for Obama's Senate seat.  Emanuel's presence at the heart of the scandal threatens to roil the president-elect's administration as a Chicago prosecutor builds his corruption case against Rod Blagojevich, the Illinois governor.

Axelrod, the Obama team, and political corruption.  The Obama team will vigorously deny they knew anything about Blago's attempts to sell his senate seat but that just doesn't pass the smell test.  Given how careless Blagojevich was about the spread of such information, it is inconcievable that the president-elect, whose Chicago and Springfield connections are as good as anyone's, wouldn't have been aware of what was going on.

Holder as AG may have to withdraw from overseeing Chicago probe.  If confirmed as attorney general, Eric Holder may have to consider removing himself from overseeing the Chicago corruption probe that ensnared Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, legal experts say.  Holder was a co-chairman of Barack Obama's presidential campaign, joining in 2007 when the long-running investigation focused on a businessman who had been among the biggest fundraisers for Obama and Blagojevich.  The legal ethics issue that Holder may have to deal with, called recusal, could arise if Holder had conversations about the Chicago investigation with Obama or his staff.

Swimming in the cesspool.  What does Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich have to trade for a lighter sentence?  Pondering this question is, I suspect, keeping many prominent people in Chicago awake nights.  Mr. Blagojevich is accused of conspiring to sell government favors for personal benefit.  But his great crime, in the eyes of many politicians, is that he has made "pay to play" all too easy for ordinary people to understand and too ugly for them to ignore.

No Mandate For A Tarnished Party.  Here's the bottom line:  While many media talking heads are working overtime to create the illusion of distance between Mr. Obama and his staff and anyone remotely connected to Gov. Blagojevich, the governor has been under investigation for three years.  All the key actors here are Chicago politicians.  And there's a union boss involved too.  To borrow a phrase, it requires the willing suspension of disbelief to suggest that the junior senator from Illinois; Axelrod, a long-time political insider from Illinois; Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, a former congressman from Illinois; and the governor of Illinois have not talked since the election.  This is how the "game" of politics is played by hardball Chicago liberals, union bosses and community organizers.

Obama's 'My Pet Goat' moment.  "I was appalled and disappointed by what we heard in those transcripts," Barack Obama said Thursday about the documented misconduct of the governor of Illinois.  That's right.  He was appalled.  And it took him only 48 hours to realize it.

The Real Story Behind the Rushed Blagojevich Bust.  Members of Fitzgerald's team are livid the scheme didn't advance, at least for a little longer, according to some people close to Fitzgerald's office.  Why?  Because had the plot unfolded, they might have had an opportunity most feds can only dream of:  A chance to catch the sale of a Senate seat on tape, including the sellers and the buyers.

Two sides of troubled Illinois governor, sinking deeper.  Blagojevich, 52, rarely turns up for work at his official state office in Chicago, former employees say, is unapologetically late to almost everything, and can treat employees with disdain, cursing and erupting in fury for failings as mundane as neglecting to have at hand at all times his preferred black Paul Mitchell hairbrush.  He calls the brush "the football," an allusion to the "nuclear football," or the bomb codes never to be out of reach of a president.

The Blago Scandal:  What's the Rush?  There's no doubt the problems in Illinois are serious.  But a closer look at events suggests that some key state officials, all of them close allies of Barack Obama, are actively fostering a sense of crisis and, in the case of Madigan, actually taking steps to make the crisis worse — while citing the worsening crisis as the reason Blagojevich must go immediately.

The Shifting Tale.  The most recent version of the Obama transition team's contacts with Gov. Blagojevich or his staff follows an internal review.  In a statement the transition team explained: "...that the President-elect's staff was not involved in inappropriate discussions with the governor or his staff over the selection of his successor as US Senator."  Well, for those paying careful attention, this is a change.  The line now is that there were no "inappropriate" conversations with Blago.  That is a bit different from Obama's broader denial on December 11.

Could the Blago Scandal Ensnare Team Obama? You Betcha.  The probe is being conducted, after all, by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, the man who prosecuted one of the most intensely investigated and politically-charged perjury-and-false-statements cases in Washington history. ... You don't think the Blagojevich matter could cause trouble for Obama?  Then you haven't looked closely enough at the Plame affair.

Blago drama for Obama.  President-elect Barack Obama's incoming chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, was pushing for Obama's successor just days after the Nov. 4 election, sources told the Chicago Sun-Times.  Emanuel privately urged Gov. Blagojevich's administration to appoint Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett, and the Sun-Times learned Tuesday [12/16/2008] that he also pressed that it be done by a certain deadline.

The Real Housewives of Crook County.  Mrs. Blago, the former Patti Mell, won the hearts of old-school thugs everywhere with her f-word-filled rants captured on FBI wiretaps, some of which were colorfully detailed in the criminal complaint against her hubby last week.  It's old news to folks in Chicago, but the woman who masquerades as a sweet gubernatorial spouse dedicated to children's advocacy is a cutthroat wheeler-dealer in heels who schemed with the gov to fire pesky editorial writers and get herself placed on paid corporate boards in exchange for naming the president-elect's pick to the Senate.

Corruption and the untouchable Obama.  First there was the federal trial of Obama supporter and fundraiser Tony Rezko.  The charges against Rezko had nothing directly to do with Obama, who has donated $150,000 in Rezko-related contributions to charity.  But Rezko did raise money for Obama's Senate run, to which he also personally contributed more than $21,000.

Source:  Illinois gov nixed job for Jackson Jr.'s wife.  Shortly after his 2002 election, Gov. Rod Blagojevich told Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. he didn't appoint the congressman's wife as lottery director because he had refused him a $25,000 campaign donation, a person familiar with the conversation told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

What Democrat Scandal?  With the governor caught on tape unloading obscenity after obscenity about how he expected to reap a financial bonanza for handing out his gubernatorial perks, this story was so undeniably big, even the Obamaphile press couldn't ignore it.  So instead these reporters tried to downplay its impact on the President-elect and the Democrats.

Does Obama team have something to hide?  It may be that neither President-elect Barack Obama nor anyone else on his staff has anything to hide regarding the pay-to-play scandal involving Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.  Then, by all means, Obama and his team should stop acting as if they do have something to hide.

Democrats and the Culture of Corruption:  As the Rod Blagojevich scandal continues to unfold, it's worth recalling that Democrats in 2006  — led by Representative Rahm Emanuel — ran on the theme that they would end "the culture of corruption."  Indeed, Emanuel, in dismissing wrongdoings by Democrats at the time, explained them away as simply the actions of a few individuals.  About Republicans, Emanuel said, "They have institutional corruption."  The argument put forth was that Democrats would bring ethics and high standards to public office and that the Democratic Party would embody integrity and police its ranks.  It hasn't quite worked out that way.

The Perils Of Special Elections.  The scandal of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's alleged attempt to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat, and the much smaller controversies surrounding open seats in New York and Delaware, have led to questions about the way most states replace senators who leave office early — by direct gubernatorial appointment.  Is this really a good way to fill such an important elective office?

Why the Guilty Conscience?  Governor Rod Blagojevich is certain to go down in flames, but Barack Obama should make it through this scandal just fine.  Why, then, is the President-elect acting so guilty?  For example, Obama came out immediately and denied that he had any talks with Blagojevich or his folks about filling Illinois' vacant Senate seat.  That is just not credible.

Chicago Cops Dodge Blagojevich/Sears Tower Investigation.  No one should be surprised that 'Blago' and company are part of a conspiracy.  It wasn't so long ago that Illinois officials conspired with Al Capone.  The Chicago cops stood by and played dumb then, too.

Rod Blagojevich scandal a ticking bomb for Rahm Emanuel.  So the Obama team's internal report into its contacts with Governor Rod Blagojevich is out — held, conveniently enough, until late afternoon on the day before Christmas eve when Obama is in Hawaii and the normally very available Rahm Emanuel is en route to Africa.  The US attorney's interviews with Obama, Valerie Jarrett and Emanuel were completed on Saturday so the report could have been released then.  Instead, Team Obama waited another three days, during time which they made a strategic Sunday leak to ABC News to draw the sting.

What Did Barack Obama Know and When Did He Know it?  On December 23, when all of us were busy wrapping gifts and preparing for Christmas, the Obama team issued a report exonerating everyone on his team of any wrongdoing in the scandal to sell Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder.  However, the report written by Greg Craig, famous for fighting the Clinton impeachment, raises more questions than it answers.

Obama Questioned by FBI for Two Hours.  Two hours is a long time to talk to the FBI when you claim you've had no contact with Blagojevich.  Obama is the first black President-Elect but he's also the first President-Elect to be questioned by the FBI about a major criminal investigation.  Did the FBI ask Obama about this subject or was it just about Blagojevich?

Barack Obama questioned by FBI agents over Blagojevich scandal.  President-elect Barack Obama has been interviewed for two hours by four federal investigators about the scandal surrounding the alleged sale of his Senate seat by Governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois.  Mr Obama has broken new ground by becoming the first US leader to face questioning by federal agents between election day and inauguration.

Obama Report Raises Questions.  Last week's report from the Obama transition team raised more questions than it answered about President-elect Obama's staff's contacts with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.  The report, issued by Obama attorney Greg Craig, cleared all Obama personnel, including Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), Obama's soon-to-be chief of staff, of any wrongdoing.  But Craig failed to ascertain how many phone calls Emanuel actually made to the embattled governor.

The Twenty Biggest Stories Of 2008:  (#14)  Rod Blagojevich peddles Obama's Senate seat:  The governor of Illinois was [allegedly] engaged in various illegal shenanigans including shaking down a children's hospital and peddling the barely used Senate seat of our current President-elect.  Now, everyone wants to know how much Obama and his staff knew, whether Blago's appointee is going to be seated, and how long Blago will be in office before he's removed or thrown in jail.  It's political soap opera at its finest.

Blago costs Jackson $100K in legal bills.  Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) spent $100,000 on legal expenses one week after it became clear that he was listed in Gov. Rod Blagojevich's (D) arrest documents as "Senate Candidate No. 5," according to Federal Election Commission documents.  Jackson paid Chicago attorney James Montgomery $100,000 from his campaign account in one lump-sum payment on Dec. 18.  The payment represents a very large amount — nearly one-tenth of what Jackson raised last cycle.

New Illinois House Votes to Impeach Governor.  The new Illinois House has voted 117-1 to impeach Gov. Rod Blagojevich with his sister-in-law as the lone "no" vote.  Rep. Deborah Mell voted Wednesday [1/14/2009] not to impeach the two-term governor.  Her sister is married to Blagojevich.

Unanimous Vote:  Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich Thrown Out of Office.  Gov. Rod Blagojevich was thrown out of office Thursday [1/29/2009] without a single lawmaker coming to his defense, brought down by a government-for-sale scandal that stretched from Chicago to Capitol Hill and turned the foul-mouthed politician into a national punchline.

Judge denies Blagojevich's bid to lighten 14-year sentence.  A federal judge on Tuesday [8/9/2016] upheld Rod Blagojevich's 14-year prison sentence on corruption counts, setting aside pleas for leniency by the former Illinois governor's wife and daughters during his resentencing hearing.

Blagojevich: 'The Democrat Political Establishment Very Fearful of What I Know and What I Can Say'.  Ex-Democrat Illinois governor turned "Trumpocrat" Rod Blagojevich said he believes current Gov. J.B. Pritzker tried to keep him in jail because the Democrat establishment is "afraid of what he knows" and "what [he] will say soon."  In a video obtained exclusively by Breitbart News, Blagojevich, who was Illinois governor from 2003 to 2009, can be heard talking about his relationship with the current governor, some of the events leading up to his time in federal prison, and his standing with the party he left behind.

More about Obama's Chicago connections.

More about Chicago itself.

Former Illinois Governor Indicted.  A federal grand jury charged former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich on Thursday [4/2/2009] with racketeering, extortion and fraud, opening a new chapter in the prosecution of the voluble Democrat, who could spend years behind bars if convicted.

Blagojevich, his brother, top aides indicted.  Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, his brother, and a former top fundraiser were among six men indicted today on political corruption charges, the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago announced.  In addition to Rob Blagojevich, 53, and fundraiser Christopher Kelly, 50, charged were Lon Monk, 50, a lobbyist and former Blagojevich chief of staff; John Harris, 47, also a former chief of staff to Blagojevich; and William Cellini, 74, a Springfield insider for decades.

The Case Against Blago Looks Overwhelming.  The beauty of tying everything together as a conspiracy is that jurors will be able to see the totality of the pay-to-play practices carried out by Blagojevich:  from fund-raising schemes carried to completion early in his administration — on which his own fingerprints may be less distinct — to the shakedown interruptus captured on the wiretaps where his involvement will ring through loud and clear in his own voice.

The Blago Code.  Rod Blagojevich has a message to his former political cronies:  "If I'm going down, I'm taking all of you with me."  And given his close, 14-year relationship with Barack Obama and Tony Rezko, this can only be bad news for the White House.

Ex-Blagojevich aide pleads guilty to corruption.  A former chief of staff and longtime friend of ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich pleaded guilty to wire fraud Tuesday [10/20/2009] and promised to cooperate with federal prosecutors in their corruption case against the former governor.

Blagojevich sentenced to 14 years behind bars.  After learning he will spend the next 14 years in prison, former Gov. Rod Blagojevich said "this is a time to be strong."  Judge James Zagel sentenced Blagojevich to 168 months in prison on Wednesday afternoon [12/7/2011].  Blagojevich was hunched over in his seat, listening intently as Judge James Zagel handed down the 14-year prison sentence Wednesday.

Holder, Blago, Richardson: Triangle of Sleaze.  It was a rough week for the corruptocracy.  White House officials better ho-ho-hold on tight because the sleigh ride isn't going to get any smoother.  On Wednesday, disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, D-Ill., received a 14-year prison sentence for scheming to sell President Barack Obama's Senate office, along with several other pay-for-play schemes.


Part 3:  It's beginning to look embarrassing for President Obama.

Blagojevich Trial Nears:  Can Obama Be Implicated?  Will President Obama have to testify under oath about the appointment of his Senate successor?

Redactions Revealed ... From the Obama Subpoena Request.  Former governor Rod Blagojevich's defense team asked Thursday [4/22/2010] to issue a trial subpoena to the President of the United States of America.  The motion, intended to be heavily redacted, was improperly edited — the full document was easily viewable if the text is copied and pasted to another document (an error first revealed on Capitol Fax).

Blagojevich sends not-so-subtle message to Obama.  Rod Blagojevich finally made good on a promise:  He put President Barack Obama right in the middle of Blagojevich's own political corruption case.

Blago's lawyers:  Obama lied twice.  [Scroll down]  Blago's lawyers also accused Obama of not telling FBI agents the truth when he said Rezko never relayed a quid pro quo offer from a lobbyist who wanted to hold a fundraiser for Obama in exchange for favorable legislation, and again when he denied having any conversations with Rezko about a license for a casino linked to the Chicago mob.

Blago's blacked out court docs made public.  A computer glitch allowed some sealed information in court papers in Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial to become public Thursday.  The court documents contained numerous blacked out portions.  But several media outlets, including ABC7, discovered it was possible to unseal that information, which first appeared on an online blog that tracks TV and newsmakers.

Oops:  You can read the Blago motion's redactions.  Capitol Fax, one of the best sources for all things Illinois politics, didn't have to do too much work to discover that you can copy and paste former Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich's motion to subpoena President Obama and read the redacted portions.  (Oops.)

Did Obama LIE?  Did the President lie?  Blago thinks so.  Rod Blagojevich's team asked the court to issue a rial subpoena to President Obama to get him to answer some key questions in Blagojevich's trial.  The ex-guv is accused of attempting to sell Obama's vacant Senate seat.  The motion was made public but was supposed to have been heavily redacted.  Unfortunately for the prosecution, the computer file released to the press was easily restored to an un-redacted state through simple computer features.

Judge won't allow Blago defense to subpoena Obama.  The judge overseeing the corruption case against former Gov. Rod Blagojevich has denied a defense motion to issue a subpoena for the testimony of President Barack Obama.

What if Obama was aware of a bribe to fill IL Senate seat?  The real reason the judge and Fitzgerald want to bury Obama's testimony is that if he was indeed aware of a bribe, and failed to report it, he would be guilty of the federal crime of misprision of a felony, which is the same charge Arlen Specter has made against Joe Sestak...

Supreme Court rules against delaying Blago trial.  Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens refused today [5/28/2010] to delay the June 3 trial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.  Stevens, who handles emergency appeals from the 7th Circuit Court, turned down a motion from Blagojevich's lawyers who sought a 30-day delay.  The defense team had argued the trial should be put on hold until the high court rules in several pending cases on constitutional challenges to the law that makes it a crime to deprive the public of "honest" services.

The Resurrection of Rod Blagojevich.  It's going to be a long, hot summer of Chicago corruption.  On Thursday, jury selection begins in the federal trial of disgraced former Democratic governor Rod Blagojevich of Illinois.  The timing couldn't be worse for Blago's old Chicago pals in the White House.  Just as Team Obama tries to bury one job-trading scandal, another one resurfaces.  It's a useful reminder that Washington didn't turn Obama into a business-as-usual politician.  He was born and bred among the slimiest in their class.

Rod Blagojevich trial rattles insiders.  The corruption trial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich is already shaping up to be a political circus, promising to lay bare the underbelly of Chicago politics.  But while the stakes are clear for Blagojevich — he could be the fourth Illinois governor in 40 years to retire to a federal prison — some of the most powerful Washington insiders are braced for potential political damage from the trial, which begins Thursday.

Patti got cushy job with Rezko, Monk testifies.  [Alonzo "Lon"] Monk, a onetime close friend and adviser to former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, has been detailing the mechanics of corruption in the administration during his testimony this week.  He has had a lot to say about the ways Rezko sought — and bought — influence.

Blago trial confirms:  Obama's 'political godfather' is a sleaze.  State Senate President Emil Jones, D, was President Obama's mentor.  He also wanted to be Obama's successor, enough that he cut a deal with Gov. Rod Blagojevich, D, to make himself a U.S. Senator, according to testimony yesterday in the Blagojevich trial.

Blago once offered Holder a $300K job.  Here's a Blagojevich-Obama connection you may not know about unless you've been reading the Chicago newspapers for quite some time.  Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, D, tried to hire Eric Holder (now the U.S. Attorney General) six years ago to give a clean bill of health to a gaming company that prosecutors say had just paid Blagojevich a $40,000 bribe.

Blagojevich Trial Testimony Contradicts Obama and Jarrett.  The transition team report on the president-elect's contacts with Blagojevich and what he knew about Blago's wheeling and dealing is at odds with sworn testimony.

Months later...
Ethics Committee re-launches probe into whether Jackson attempted to buy Obama's Senate seat.  The House Ethics Committee announced Tuesday afternoon [10/18/2011] that it would resume its inquest into Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr.'s role in possibly attempting to purchase the Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama.  A statement on the committee's website notes that the chairman of the committee, Alabama Republican Rep. Jo Bonner, and the ranking member, California Democratic Rep. Linda Sanchez, "have jointly decided to extend the matter."

Obama's political pal is now Inmate No. 40892-424.  Rod Blagojevich, former Illinois governor, long-time political ally and picnic pal of Barack Obama and loud-mouthed mediagenic felon, is now Inmate No. 40892-424, a resident of Federal Correctional Institution Englewood, just outside Denver.  He's scheduled to reside there for the next 14 years after his conviction on 18 counts of corruption, including trying to sell or trade his gubernatorial nomination to fill President-elect Obama's empty U.S. Senate seat.

Appellate court throws out five counts on Blago; likely to be resentenced.  The U.S. Court of Appeals threw out five of 18 criminal convictions against Rod Blagojevich in a long-awaited decision Tuesday. The ruling opened up the possibility — however unlikely — of a third trial.  More significantly, it meant Blagojevich could get a new sentencing hearing more than three years after he began a 14-year prison term.

Court overturns some Blagojevich Senate-seat convictions.  A federal appeals court Tuesday [7/21/2015] overturned some of the corruption convictions that sent former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to prisoner for 14 years for trying to sell President Obama's vacated Senate seat.  The unanimous ruling from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago means Blagojevich, 58, could serve less than his original sentence, of which he has currently served just over three years in a Colorado prison.  The three-judge panel dismissed five of the 18 counts and ordered that the former governor be resentenced, although it suggested the original sentence wasn't necessarily extreme.

Watchdog group sues for FBI records on Obama.  A watchdog group on Thursday announced it was suing the federal government to obtain records on President Obama held by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  The lawsuit from Judicial Watch, filed against the Justice Department in the U.S.  District Court for the District of Columbia, follows a 2011 Freedom of Information Act request in which the group sought information the bureau obtained from 2008 interviews with associates of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.  Those included meetings with Obama, his former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, and senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett.

Judicial Watch Files Lawsuit against Department of Justice Relating to Criminal Investigation of Blagojevich.  Judicial Watch announced today [12/5/2016] that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice seeking access to FBI reports of interviews — "302s" — of President Obama, Valerie Jarrett, and Rahm Emanuel.  The interviews were taken as part of the FBI's criminal investigation of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.

Obama to exit with no clemency for Blagojevich.  President Barack Obama made his final grants of clemency on Thursday with less than a day left in office, and imprisoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was not on the list.  Blagojevich was handed a 14-year sentence on corruption charges, with one of the most sensational being his attempt to "sell" the U.S. Senate seat that then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama was vacating after being elected president in November 2008.  The Justice Department earlier confirmed that Blagojevich, in year four of his imprisonment, filed a request to have his sentence commuted.  He was arrested in December 2008, a few weeks after the presidential election.  The former governor, 60, is not due to get out of prison until 2024.




Senator Roland Burris

Illinois GOP leader calls on Sen. Burris to resign.  Just as Illinois was moving past the agony and embarrassment of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich's ousting, the fellow Democrat whom Blagojevich appointed to the U.S. Senate was hearing calls for his own resignation Sunday amid allegations he lied to legislators.  Freshman Sen. Roland Burris released an affidavit on Saturday that contradicts his statements last month to a House committee investigating Blagojevich's impeachment.

The Rod Blagojevich train wreck continues — now Burris contradicts himself.  In January, the Illinois House impeachment committee asked Senator Burris if he had spoken to Blago or any of his people about his desire for the Senate seat once held by President Obama.  Back then he said he had only spoken to Lon Monk, a former aide of Blago's.  Now he's updating his statement a bit.  He has suddenly recalled speaking to three or maybe four more people.  Including Blago's brother Rob three times about the Senate seat.

Burris changes his story again; the scandal that will not die.  Roland Burris testified in January that he had not had any conversations with Governor Blagojevich of Illinois, or his people, regarding the Senate seat vacated by President Obama.  He revised his testimony days later to say that he had discussed the matter with Blagojevich staffers, but never with the Governor's brother.  Yesterday it was released that now Senator Burris had submitted yet another revised affidavit ... .

Perjury or not, Burris shows he is at least a liar.  The word preposterous comes to my mind to describe Burris' explanation — and accompanying performance Sunday — in which he basically says his previous failure to disclose relevant contacts with Rod Blagojevich's inner circle about the Senate vacancy was simply a matter of everyone else's failure to ask him the right questions or give him time to answer.  I was at that hearing, and I have reviewed the transcript.  Burris had plenty of opportunity to tell the whole truth and, for whatever reason, failed to do so.

Burris denies lying to panel.  Amid Republican calls for his resignation, Sen. Roland W. Burris of Illinois denied perjuring himself to a state House panel considering the impeachment of then-Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich, saying Sunday afternoon [2/15/2009] that he never misled anyone.  The freshman Democratic senator was peppered with questions in a frenzied and combative Chicago news conference about a quietly filed affidavit that appears to contradict his testimony in January about the Blagojevich associates with whom he had spoken about Barack Obama's Senate seat.

Burris tried to raise funds for Blagojevich.  U.S. Sen. Roland Burris is pleading with ordinary Illinoisans to stop a "rush to judgment" amid growing fury over the new senator's shifting accounts of how he came to be appointed to the Senate.

Burris now acknowledges fundraising effort for Blagojevich.  U.S. Sen. Roland Burris has acknowledged he sought to raise campaign funds for then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich at the request of the governor's brother at the same time he was making a pitch to be appointed to the Senate seat previously held by President Barack Obama.

Burris lied, and liars get fired.  Lying on your resume gets you fired.  If you claim you graduated from college when you actually didn't, and your boss finds out, you usually get shown the gate, even if you're doing a good job.

The Beginning of the End for Senator Burris.  Roland Burris insists that he wasn't "trying to slip something by anybody" last month, even though that's precisely what he did.  In early January, Mr. Burris appeared before the Illinois state legislative committee that was looking into impeaching then-Governor Rod Blagojevich.  It was a critical moment in his suddenly revived political career.

Burris perjury probe vexes Democrats.  As if enough hasn't already gone wrong, with Cabinet nominees dropping like flies, bipartisanship out the window after just 30 days and the world's economy squarely on his back, President Obama has a new problem with the man who took his old Senate seat [—] a problem he thought had been solved.

Dems abandon Burris.  Sen. Roland Burris is rapidly losing any political support he once had among colleagues, with Democrats from the statehouse to the White House raising questions about his entanglements with ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.  In a statement issued Wednesday evening, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said that "the accuracy and completeness of his testimony and affidavits have been called into serious question.

Burris' future in Senate 'in question'.  U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said today the political future of U.S. Sen. Roland Burris "is in question" amid growing concern about his contacts with ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich.  The comments from Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, came hours after Burris, his Illinois colleague, pleaded with fellow politicians and Illinoisans to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Roland Burris, resign.  The benefit of the doubt had already been stretched thin and taut by the time Roland Burris offered his third version of the events leading to his appointment to the U.S. Senate.  It finally snapped like a rubber band, popping him on that long Pinocchio nose of his, when he came out with version four.

Durbin:  Senate investigation of Burris under way.  U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin says he believes the testimony that Sen. Roland Burris gave to Illinois lawmakers about his appointment to the U.S. Senate was incomplete and that a Senate ethics investigation now under way is appropriate.  Durbin made those comments Wednesday [2/18/2009] while on a trip to Greece to discuss security in the region.

Democrats self-destructing over ethics.  The Obama administration and the new Congress are quickly handing over to Republicans the same "culture of corruption" issue that Democrats used so effectively against the GOP before coming to power.  Freshman Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., is only the latest embarrassment.

Black pastors to ask Burris to resign.  A group of black ministers who supported U.S. Sen. Roland Burris as he fought to get his job now plan to ask for his resignation following revelations that he tried to raise money for the disgraced governor who appointed him, one of the ministers told The Associated Press on Thursday [2/19/2009].

Will Roland Burris Resign?  Almost from the day that Obama clinched the Democratic nomination, Burris was pushing himself forward to replace him in the Senate ... Burris' current problems can be traced directly to this overarching desire to top his career off with a bang.  Instead, he is likely to end it in shame.

Quinn calls on Burris to quit.  Gov. Patrick Quinn today called on U.S. Sen. Roland Burris to resign amid the furor of questions over his contacts with former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.  Burris should "act as quickly as possible for the best interests of Illinois," Quinn said at a late morning news conference.  "This should not be a matter that takes weeks."

Too late for ex-Burris backers to cut and run.  [Scroll down slowly]  As for the senator himself, here's a man who is roundly ridiculed for his pomposity and yet still refers to himself in the papal plural; isn't embarrassed about etching everything but his grade point average into his mausoleum, and once actually said that someday Illinois, the "Land of Lincoln," might come to be known as the "Land of Burris."  Sadly, that last delusional dream is coming true as once again Illinois politics rockets into headlines, editorials and satires across the country.  In addition to a perjury probe of Burris' testimony before the Illinois House and an ethics investigation in Washington, there is the possibility of a challenge to his law license by a state board.

The silence of the Dems:  By what he said and what he chose not to say, Roland Burris lied his way into the United States Senate.  Our questions, then, for leaders of Burris' Democratic Party: ...What's your moral calculus here?  Do you think it's acceptable for someone to take a Senate seat by lies of commission and of omission?  That is, by saying what isn't true — and by declining to say what is? ... The longer you [Democrats] tolerate this, the more you own it.

Sen. Roland Burris questioned in probe of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.  U.S. Sen. Roland Burris was interviewed by federal authorities for several hours Saturday as part of the ongoing corruption investigation into charges that former Gov. Rod Blagojevich tried to sell a Senate seat for personal or political profit, sources familiar with the talks said.  Burris' interview, which had been delayed for weeks, took place at his attorney's offices in downtown Chicago.  He has been informed he is not a target of the probe, the sources said.

Fellow Illinois senator calls on Burris to resign.  Sen. Richard Durbin, the Senate Democratic whip who also represents Illinois, asked for Sen. Roland Burris to resign during a meeting Tuesday [2/24/2009].  Burris said he would not.

The 'culture of corruption' is alive and well with Democrats.  While Blagojevich's ethics were questionable, his political instincts were not.  He nominated Roland Burris, former Illinois Attorney General and an African-American, to succeed Obama.  There was just no way that the Democrats were going to block a qualified black from joining the U. S. Senate, regardless of the ethical issues of Illinois's impeached and ousted governor.  Unfortunately Senator Burris may have told the truth, but not the whole truth, to Illinois legislative committees investigating Blagojevich's behavior.

Roland Burris Goes From the Frying Pan into the Fire.  Just when it looked like things couldn't get any worse for Illinois Sen. Roland Burris, it got worse.  The state's governor and its senior U.S. senator, Majority Whip Richard Durbin, had already called for his resignation over his conflicting testimonies about his contacts with Rod Blagojevich, the scandal-rich governor who appointed Burris to the Senate seat formerly held by Barack Obama.  Then Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana called on Burris to step down, though Vitter has, for the better part of two years, ignored calls for his own resignation.

Senate panel reprimands Burris.  Sen. Roland Burris was reprimanded Friday [11/20/2009] by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics for his "inconsistent, incomplete and misleading" testimony before Springfield lawmakers about his appointment by then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich to the seat once held by President Obama.  The Senate panel issued a "public letter of qualified admonition," a stinging rebuke of Burris' shifting explanations about his appointment.

Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2009.  [Including] Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) [and] Senator Roland Burris (D-IL):  One of the most serious scandals of 2009 involved a scheme by former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to sell President Obama's then-vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder.  Two men caught smack dab in the middle of the scandal:  Senator Roland Burris, who ultimately got the job, and Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. ... Burris changed his story five times regarding his contacts with Blagojevich prior to the Illinois governor appointing him to the U.S. Senate.  Three of those changing explanations came under oath.

Why has Jesse Jackson, Jr. escaped prosecution in Blago case?  The great John Kass of the Chicago Tribune reveals what most of the press has avoided in the Blagojevich case, there's evidence that Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. was involved in a plan to pay off then-Governor Blagojevich for appointing him to Obama's vacant Senate seat.




Senator Laphonza Butler

Cronies: Laphonza Butler defended fallen Los Angeles political kingpin at his sentencing for corruption.  On the right, much has been made of newly appointed Sen. Laphonza Butler's non-residence in California, being a union official living and being registered to vote in the state of Maryland.  [Tweets]  She may be a non-resident swiftly changing her voter registration, as reported, but she's not an outsider.  Actually, she is an insider, right there in the inner circle of all the worst blue-state cronies.  When Los Angeles's most powerful machine pol, Mark Ridley-Thomas, was indicted for impossible-to-ignore corruption charges, Butler was right there to tell the judge to go easy on her "mentor":  [Tweet]  Which tells us a lot about her insider status in the one-party blue state of California.  Corruption breeds when there's no chance of any change of power, no opposition looking over one's shoulder, no checks or balances.

Laphonza Butler Wrote Letter Supporting Lenient Sentencing for Corrupt CA Politician Mark Ridley-Thomas.  In the 24 hours or so since the news broke that California Gov. Gavin Newsom had chosen Laphonza Butler to replace Dianne Feinstein in the United States Senate, the bulk of the news about the appointment has swirled around the fact that Butler has lived in Maryland for at least the last two years and wasn't even registered to vote in California.  Since Butler is being appointed she doesn't face the same qualifications those who run for the office face, and simply has to be a registered voter in the state by the time she's sworn in on Wednesday.  While the fact that she only lived in California from 2009 through 2020 and left the state to continue her climb up the Democrat grift ladder is maddening and insulting, it's not necessarily the issue conservatives should be focusing on when it comes to future Sen. Butler.

Radical Abortion Activist Laphonza Butler Sworn In, Maryland Resident Becomes Next California Senator.  Laphonza Butler has been sworn in to replace the late Senator Diane Feinstein.  That means the radical abortion activist and Maryland resident is the new senator from California.  California Governor Gavin Newsom selected the most radical abortion activist he could possibly find to replace pro-abortion Senator Diane Feinstein, who passed away last week.  Butler, the president of Emily's List, will fill the late senator's seat for the remaining 15 months and a bit in her term.  Butler heads the extreme group Emily's List, a pro-abortion organization that advances abortions up to birth funded at taxpayer expense.  It works to elect candidates that also support unlimited abortions and fund their campaigns with tens of millions of dollars from elites across the country.

Lesbian Marxist Laphonza Butler of Maryland Sworn in to Replace Feinstein as California's Newest Senator.  Radical Marxist lesbian Laphonza Butler was sworn in as California's newest Senator on Tuesday.  Butler replaced the late Dianne Feinstein.  California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) appointed abortion activist Laphonza Butler to fill Feinstein's vacant Senate seat.  Laphonza Butler lived in Maryland and registered to vote there LAST YEAR prior to Newsom choosing her as Feinstein's replacement.

Newsom's bottomless cynicism reflected in his appointment of a black, lesbian, Maryland voter to fill remainder of Feinstein's Senate term.  It's impossible to be too cynical about Gavin Newsom, the Brylcreem-topped governor of California who lusts after the Democrats' nomination for president, even as he publicly mouths support for Biden.  This is a man who bedded his best friend's wife, after all.  Caligula looks on in envy at the brazenness of Newsom's designation of Laphonza Butler to fill the remainder of Dianne Feinstein's Senate term, expiring in January 2025.  As a way of mocking the institution, Caligula only joked about appointing his horse Incitatus as consul, a role reserved for senators, while Newsom has actually appointed a longtime Maryland resident and registered voter to represent California in the Senate, a body the Constitution designated to represent that sovereign states in the federal government.  Butler will take a big pay cut to join the Senate, which pays $174,000 for non-leadership solons.  The top-paid executive at Emily's List reportedly earns $950,000, almost five-and-a-half times what a Senator earns, and more than 30 times the average income in the United States.  But don't expect the usual critics of CEO compensation to utter a peep.

Newsom's 'First Black Lesbian' Senate Appointee Immediately Hit With Scandal, Cover-Up.  The recent death of former Sen. Dianne Feinstein left Gov. Gavin Newsom in a predicament.  Would he keep his promise to fill the seat with a black woman even though two white people (Adam Schiff and Katie Porter) are leading the 2024 race for the seat?  As RedState reported, the answer is yes.  Newsom appointed Laphonza Butler, whose only qualifications appear to be working on Kamala Harris' failed 2020 presidential campaign while being a "black lesbian."  Naturally, the California governor is touting the latter.  [Tweet with video clip]  I'm just really glad we select the most powerful people in the country based on race and who they sleep with.  I mean, what could possibly go wrong with such an approach?  What does merit have to do with governing competently anyway?  Let's ask Newsom, who apparently appointed a Maryland resident to the seat, birthing an immediate scandal.

Gavin Newsom Picks The Perfect Democrat.  Is it really that weird that Laphonza Butler, California Governor Gavin Newsom's pick to replace Diane Feinstein in the Senate, lives in Maryland?  Now, incidentally, this isn't one of those instances where a politician is spending an inordinate amount of time in DC (before leaving office and becoming a lobbyist and making it official).  Newsom's spokesperson confirms that Butler resides in Silver Spring, Maryland, and is registered to vote in that state.  We're just skipping the part where we pretend senators represent states rather than political parties. [...] At this point, any Democrat who doesn't treat skin color as at least partly determinative of a person's worth is going to be in trouble.  And it's not just moral preening over race.  Butler, Newsom notes, will be the first "lesbian Black woman to join Congress in US history."  In most news pieces on the appointment, we learn who Butler prefers to sleep with before we hear any of her accomplishments.

Newsom's appointment confirms that abortion is the heart of the Democratic Party.  It's normal, if mildly corrupt, for presidents to appoint their top fundraisers to ambassadorships.  It's remarkable that Democrats have transferred one of their top fundraisers to a U.S. Senate seat.  Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) has announced he is appointing Laphonza Butler to fill the Senate seat left vacant by Dianne Feinstein's death.  Butler is one of the leaders of the abortion lobby, and as such she is one of the leading Democratic fundraisers.  She is the president of EMILY's List, which raises money for Democratic women who defend abortion. [Tweet]  "Fundraising juggernaut" is a good description of EMILY's List.  In the prior presidential election, EMILY's List spent $79.6 million.  It's one of the top ideological PACs in spending and fundraising, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.  Its affiliated super PAC, called Women Vote!, spent another $47 million in the 2020 cycle.  But EMILY's List isn't merely a fundraising juggernaut.  The group is basically a gatekeeper for the Democratic Party.




On the other hand...

There have also been a few Republicans whose actions haven't made other Republicans too proud.  Democrats see to get into the headlines because of situations that look a lot like graft, or tax evasion, or bribery or improprieties involving lots of money.  Republicans tend to embarass themselves with personal scandals that show poor judgment but usually don't put the taxpayers' money in the politicians' pockets.  But corruption is corruption, regardless of the party in which it appears.  I say, go to the ballot box and throw these bums out, too.

Kari Lake Reveals Second Bribery Attempt.  Arizona Republican Senate Candidate Kari Lake spoke out on a second allegation of bribery against her — this time from a very wealthy supporter with deep pockets and deeper ties.  While speaking directly to supporters last night on a live-stream, after Arizona GOP Chairman Jeff DeWit was captured on leaked audio appearing to bribe Lake and resigned from his position, Kari Lake revealed the story of ANOTHER instance in which she was offered money to make political strategy changes.  [Video clip]

Arizona GOP Chairman Jeff DeWit steps down after Kari Lake tape leak.  Arizona Republican Party Chairman Jeff DeWit announced he would step down as head of the party after audio of him allegedly attempting to bribe Kari Lake to not run for Senate was released on Tuesday.  The audio featured DeWit asking Lake what price she would take to not enter the Senate race, which she is now running in.  Lake said that DeWit should resign in the aftermath of leak.  DeWit announced on Wednesday that he would be stepping down in a lengthy statement accusing Lake of leaking the recording herself.

Kari Lake Demands Resignation Of "Corrupt" GOP Chair Caught Trying To Bribe Her.  One day after the Daily Mail published a leaked recording of Arizona GOP Chairman Jeff DeWit trying to bribe Trump ally Kari Lake to stay out of politics for two years, DeWit resigned.  "This morning, I was determined to fight for my position," he said in a statement reported by Just the News.  "However, a few hours ago, I received an ultimatum from Lake's team: resign today or face the release of a new, more damaging recording.  I am truly unsure of its contents, but considering our numerous past open conversations as friends, I have decided not to take the risk.  I am resigning as Lake requested, in the hope that she will honor her commitment to cease her attacks, allowing me to return to the business sector — a field I find much more logical and prefer over politics."

George Santos Announces Ethics Complaints Against Top RINO Tormenters and One Democrat.  The US House of Representatives voted Friday morning on Resolution 878 — the expulsion of House member Representative George Santos.  Democrats and 105 Republican lawmakers voted him out.  Republicans now hold only a 3-vote majority in the House.  This was not one of their finer moments.  These same GOP lawmakers could not even impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas, but they gladly tossed Santos out the door.  This was the first time in our nation's history that a lawmaker was expelled from Congress for being accused of a crime.  George Santos is an innocent man.  He was never found guilty by a court of criminal conduct.  The RINOs didn't care.  They voted him out anyway.  But George Santos is not going quietly.  The conservative Republican announced over the weekend that he is filing ethics complaints against several of his top New York tormenters.

Republicans [were] suckered into expelling George Santos and the most conservative voting record in NY.  You don't have to approve of George Santos to understand it should have been left to his constituents in Long Island and Queens to decide on his suitability to remain in Congress.  Nonetheless, despite a slim majority in the House and crucial votes looming as they head into an election year, 105 Republicans were suckered by moral vanity into expelling one of their own Friday.  The 35-year-old gay son of Brazilian immigrants, Santos had the most conservative voting record of the entire New York delegation, and now he is gone, taking his vote with him.

Iowa Evangelical Admits to Receiving $95k Payment Before Endorsing Ron DeSantis.  A top evangelical leader in Iowa, Bob Vander Plaats, confirmed Tuesday that his organization received $95,000 from what Reuters originally described as the "DeSantis campaign, a super PAC linked to him and a nonprofit group" before he endorsed the governor's presidential election.  Fox News's Bret Baier questioned Vander Plaats on the report, which asserts that Gov. Ron DeSantis's (R-FL) campaign and groups associated with him gave a total of $95,000 to the nonprofit, the Family Leader Foundation, which Vander Plaats heads up.

House Ethics Committee head to move to expel George Santos after release of report.  The chairman of the House Ethics Committee will move to expel Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., from Congress after the release of a damning report into the embattled Long Island Republican.  "Chairman Guest feels that the evidence uncovered in the Committee's investigation is more than sufficient to warrant punishment, and that the most appropriate punishment is expulsion," Republican Mississippi Rep. Michael Guest's personal office told Fox News Digital on Thursday.  "So, separate from the Committee process and his role as Chairman, he plans to file an expulsion resolution during tomorrow's 9:00 am pro forma session."  The ethics committee released a [critical] report that accused Santos of having "used campaign funds for personal purposes" and "engaged in fraudulent conduct," among other allegations.

Rep. George Santos survives effort to expel him from the House.  But he still faces an ethics report.  Rep. George Santos easily survived a vote Wednesday to expel him from the House as most Republicans and 31 Democrats opted to withhold punishment while both his criminal trial and a House Ethics Committee investigation proceed.  The effort to kick Santos out of the House was led by his fellow New York Republicans, who are anxious to distance themselves from a colleague infamous for fabricating his life story and accused of stealing from donors, lying to Congress and receiving unemployment benefits he did not deserve.

George Santos Threatens Other Republicans After He's Indicted on 23 Counts.  Rep. George Santos (R-NY) threatened other Republicans on Wednesday after he was indicted on 10 new felony counts in a 23 count superseding indictment that was returned this week stemming from alleged crimes related to campaign finance.  The new charges included one count of conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, two counts of wire fraud, two counts of making materially false statements to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), two counts of falsifying records submitted to obstruct the FEC, two counts of aggravated identity theft, and one count of access device fraud.  Santos told reporters that he was not willing to take a plea deal because he claimed that he could prove his "innocence." ... "Remember if I'm in fact ousted fascism will officially be well and alive in the United States of America and these members will be the champions of it," he claimed.  "I do want to remind my dear colleagues who all but one have deep long troubling careers in politics that I will have a lot of time on my hands to return the favor in the most expedient fashion mankind has ever seen."

Here's How a Former State Senator Transformed COVID Relief Funds into Porsches and a Ferrari.  Questions as to where the trillions of dollars in federal taxpayer COVID funding have gone have been looming for years.  Yet, there do not seem to be any solid answers, which indicates a significant chunk of the money has gone to waste, and in this case, the wallets of corrupt government officials.  Andy Sanborn, a former Republican New Hampshire state senator, is being accused of misappropriating about $844,000 in COVID relief funds to purchase luxury cars and pay for other lavish expenses. [...] Since the pandemic began, Congress passed six COVID-related pieces of legislation, which amounted to a whopping $5 trillion in relief spending.  Taxpayers Against Fraud (TAF) noted that only about $1 for every $12,000 was allocated to promoting oversight of the use of the funds.  Apparently, our intrepid elected officials were not too concerned about where these trillions of dollars were going, were they?  It can be no wonder that Americans are now wondering where all that cash went.

Rep. George Santos charged by Justice Department in federal probe.  Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against New York Rep. George Santos, the Republican lawmaker whose astonishing pattern of lies and fabrications stunned even hardened politicos, according to three sources familiar with the matter.  Santos is expected to appear as soon as Wednesday at federal court in New York's eastern district, where the charges have been filed under seal.  The exact nature of the charges couldn't immediately be learned but the FBI and the Justice Department public integrity prosecutors in New York and Washington have been examining allegations of false statements in Santos' campaign finance filings and other claims.

DOJ Strategically Timed Political Arrest To Coincide With Press Conference Detailing Evidence Of Biden Corruption.  The Department of Justice coincidentally decided to arrest New York GOP Rep. George Santos on money laundering and other charges on Wednesday at the same time House Republicans held a press conference revealing damaging evidence about the Biden family's corrupt, foreign business ventures.  On Tuesday, the DOJ filed charges against Santos in the Eastern District of New York.  While originally under seal, the 13-count indictment unveiled Wednesday morning shows the DOJ charging Santos with "seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds, and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives."

The Editor says...
Yes, throw the book at George Santos, but he isn't the President.  He's a first-term Congressman who is apparently disliked even by the people who voted for him.  Dozens of other U.S. Representatives should undergo the same scrutiny.

Congressman-elect George Santos can't seem to explain his wealth.  [J]ust last year in 2021, Santos' financial disclosure statements indicated that he had "no assets" and was earning a salary of $55,000.  He didn't even have his own residence in New York and was boarding with a friend.  He had been threatened with eviction from his previous apartment for not paying the rent.  All of these facts painted a picture of someone who was in serious financial peril.  Then he somehow incorporated a company in Florida named the Devolder Organization.  An assessment of that company's value this May by Dun & Bradstreet estimated that Devolder had a revenue of only $43,688.  Then, seemingly out of nowhere, the Devolder Organization came into millions upon millions of dollars.  Santos then loaned almost three-quarters of a million dollars to his political campaign.

Analysis of RNC Spending Since 2017 Shows Millions Were Spent on Private Jets, Limousines, Luxury Retreats, Broadway Shows, and More.  Back in 2010, RNC Chair Michael Steele was heavily criticized and eventually lost his position because donors were angry about what they believed was luxurious spending on private jets, floral arrangements, chauffeur services, and member meetings in expensive tropical locales.  Donors were used to frugality from the RNC under the George W. Bush administration, when "Karl Rove would [complain] if there were flowers on the tables" and staff holiday parties were catered by Chick-fil-A.  Despite Joe Biden's economy and three straight cycles of election losses, the RNC's big-spending days are back with a vengeance.  Perhaps because of these losses both RNC donors and committee members are intensely interested in the committee's finances, particularly the spending.  Late last week, RedState was provided a report dated October 7, 2022 that examined RNC's 2021-22 spending.  It calculated more than $500,000 in private jet expenses, $64,000 at clothing retailers, and $321,000 in floral arrangements.

Open Records Request for Emails Between Brad Raffensperger and Taiwan Immigrant Finally Received But Were 90% Redacted.  Self-proclaimed man of integrity Brad Raffensperger doesn't want Americans to know what he really knows.  A request for emails between Raffensperger and a Taiwan immigrant was finally returned but 90% of the documents were redacted.  What's really going on?  Brad Raffensperger became famous for his actions in certifying the 2020 Election in Georgia for Joe Biden.  Despite impossible results that Raffensperger himself said weren't possible the day after the 2020 Election, a few days later Raffensperger certified the election in the state for Joe Biden.  Raffensperger was provided evidence of tens of thousands of ballots counted in the state's 2020 results being invalid or fraudulent and he ignored the data and certified the election for Bidey by 12,000 votes. [...] Today Raffensperger spoke in front of the unconstitutional kangaroo court labeled the Jan 6 committee.  Raffensperger is not innocent of election crimes, he's part of it but that isn't why he was there.  He was there in an effort to accuse President Trump of wrongdoing for daring to suggest that the election results in Georgia should be fair and transparent.

Texas Rep 'Failed To File Timely' Stock Trades Worth Millions, House Ethics Office Finds.  The House's ethics office found a GOP congressman likely violated federal law by disclosing up to $21 million worth of stock trades long past the filing deadline, according to a report published Tuesday [5/31/2022].  The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) said there is "substantial reason to believe" Texas Rep. Pat Fallon "failed to file timely" periodic transaction reports for 122 transactions, in accordance with the STOCK Act, according to the OCE's report.  Fallon's transactions, worth between $9 million and $21 million, included trades of Apple, Amazon, American Airlines, Chevron and Walt Disney.  He also purchased between $300,000 and $750,000 worth of Boeing stock while sitting on the Armed Services Committee.

Texas Rep. Pat Fallon dumped Microsoft stock before Pentagon nixed $10B JEDI contract.  A congressman who supervises the Defense Department's tech spending dumped up to $250,000 worth of Microsoft stock two weeks before the Pentagon revealed it was canceling a $10 billion contract with the software giant, according to public documents.  US Rep. Pat Fallon, a Texas Republican who sits on a key subcommittee overseeing the Department of Defense's technology policy, sold between $100,000 and $250,000 of Microsoft shares on June 21, government disclosures show.  Two weeks later, the Pentagon made the surprise announcement that it would cancel a $10 billion cloud computing contract — called JEDI, or Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure — that it had awarded to Microsoft in 2019 after the company fought a bidding war and legal battle against Amazon.

Elaine Chao Cited for Misuse of Office by Inspector General.  The Transportation Department's Inspector General made public on Wednesday [3/3/2021] a report that cites repeated examples of former Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao allegedly using her staff and her office to help benefit her family and their business operations and revealed that staff members at the agency had raised ethics concerns.  Elaine Chao is Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) wife, who notably resigned the day after the Capitol riot.  The inspector general's investigation detailed a series of instances in which Elaine Chao reportedly directed her staff to spend federal government time and resources to help with matters related to a family shipping company and her father.  "A formal investigation into potential misuses of position was warranted," Mitch Behm, the department's deputy inspector general, said on Tuesday in a letter to House lawmakers, accompanying a 44-page report detailing the investigation and the findings of wrongdoing.

DeceptiCon Dealing, DOJ Declined to Take Up Chao Ethics Probe After Meetings With McConnell, Which Led to Chao Departing To Assist Insurgency Narrative.  I'm not saying Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao resigned after the January 6 Capitol Hill riot just because she owed the DC team a favor following the post-election meeting between her husband, Mitch McConnell, and Attorney General Bill Barr; who just happened to *not* take up the ethics probe of Chao following the same meeting, but [i]t sure does look sketchy. [...] At first blush this rather obtuse article seems like no big deal.  However, when you overlay the post election meetings between AG Bill Barr and then Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, one has to wonder if the dropping of this investigation was not part of the meeting that also never had a purposeful explanation.  In hindsight the appearance of some sketchy quid-pro-quo then takes on another level of sketch when we remind ourselves what Elaine Chao did to support the Deep State "insurrection" narrative after January 6, 2021.

The Wages of Trump Hatred.  [Scroll down]  For example, it was quickly evident that the Lincoln Project luminaries were not just fixated on destroying Trump and derailing the most conservative presidential agenda since Ronald Reagan's, but also on refuting their own supposedly lifelong commitment to conservative causes by abetting the Biden campaign and the hard-Left interests that drove it.  When Republicans hired them, they were conservative; when they did not, these buskins were liberal.  To ensure their own continued largess, they were not just to be Romneyite rejectionists, not just Bidenites, but abettors of the neo-socialist cause of Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, and the squad.  Money was the prime impetus to the project.  Again, we were supposed to forget that some of the Lincoln Project luminaries were flat broke.  Who cared that others owed huge sums in back taxes, with no apparent way of repayment — given their own reputations for failed campaigns and expensive, but otherwise mediocre consultancy?

7 Reasons Fake News Media Had a Very Bad Friday.  [#5] Lincoln Project Implodes:  Credibly accused sexual predator.  Shielding a credibly accused sexual predator.  Lying about shielding a credibly accused sexual predator.  Toxic, sexist, homophobic workplace.  Lining their own pockets with tens of millions of donor dollars.  Lying about lining their own pockets with tens of millions of donor dollars.  Their own wretched cofounder (father of the year and liar George Conway) publicly accusing them of committing a felony for publishing private correspondence.  Donors bailing.  FBI investigation.  Multiple resignations.  The fake media knew exactly who these grifters were, knew the "open secret" about John Weaver, knew everyone was lining their own pockets, and still boosted and enabled these monsters; and now they have all been exposed.

Lincoln Project's Undisclosed Relationship with Obama Operatives Draws More Scrutiny Over Finances.  Trump may be gone, but Trumpism will remain an entrenched element of the Republican Party.  The GOP traitors at the Lincoln Project who wanted to purge that element are finished.  In a couple of weeks, the group that vowed to soldier on after its co-founder, John Weaver, was ensnared in a web of sexual misconduct, has folded.  Everyone resigned as dozens of young men came forward about how Weaver had harassed them through private messages.  Some of them were as young as 14 when contact was made.

Walk Away From Never Trump.  [Scroll down]  As it stands now, a pattern of narcissistic abuse endemic to toxic relationships is recognizable in the American ruling class.  Everything the rich implicitly owe to the rest has been inverted.  The Lincoln Project is the apotheosis of this dynamic.  Marketed to mild-mannered conservatives as the best chance to take down Trumpism without sacrificing principle, the group turned out to be even more corrupt than its critics on the Right suspected.  On January 10, Ryan Girdusky broke the story:  John Weaver, founding member, has been soliciting sex from young male interns for years on end.

The Lincoln Project's Implosion Has Derailed Its Founders' Plan For A Media Empire.  If the meteoric rise of the Lincoln Project — a collection of longtime Republican operatives who branded themselves Never-Trumpers — seemed to happen overnight, the organization's downfall has been just as dramatic.  In the course of a week, [bad] report after [bad] report has come out about the group: that cofounder John Weaver allegedly sexually harassed more than 20 young men (allegations he acknowledged in an apology); that it funneled more than $50 million of the roughly $90 million it raised into firms with ties to its members; that senior members of the independent legal team hired by the Lincoln Project to perform a "comprehensive review" of its "operations and culture" are in fact donors to the super PAC themselves.

Twitter Says Lincoln Project Posting Private Messages Doesn't Violate Their Policy.  The Lincoln Project's publication of co-founder Jennifer Horn's private messages does not violate Twitter's policy, a spokesman told the Daily Caller News Foundation Friday [2/12/2021].  "The Tweets referenced are currently not in violation of the Twitter Rules," the spokeswoman told the DCNF.  Twitter further elaborated that the tweets are not in violation of Twitter's private information policy.  The Lincoln Project published Horn's private messages with 19th News correspondent Amanda Becker, then deleted the tweets Thursday evening after backlash.  The series of messages shows Becker and Horn discussing, mostly off the record on Horn's part, Horn's reasons for leaving the Lincoln Project, her compensation and other Lincoln Project co-founders.  It is not immediately clear how the Lincoln Project obtained Horn's messages.  The Lincoln Project has not responded to requests for comment from the DCNF.

The 'Insurrection Hallucination' and How We Got There.  [Scroll down]  Much the same was the liberal front Lincoln Project, a gaggle of self-described "Republicans" opposed to the very President responsible for more conservative policies and programs than Republicans could have hoped for.  Apart from personal animus, nothing better to do (since Trump didn't and wouldn't hire them, probably because John McCain, who had hired two of them — John Weaver and Steve Schmidt — and John Kasich, for whom Weaver had worked, both lost), and ego, it was a way to really line their pockets.  Cable news bookers and the New York Times loved them and got out the old air pump for them, too.  This week the Lincoln Project seems to have grounded its flight and locked its doors over substantial claims that one of its founders, John Weaver, engaged in abusive homosexual activities with young men, including some who were working there.

The Lincoln Project, Facing Multiple Scandals, is Accused by its Own Co-Founder of Likely Criminality.  The group of life-long Republican Party consultants who, under the name "The Lincoln Project," got very rich in 2020 with anti-Trump online messaging has spent weeks responding to numerous scandals on multiple fronts.  Despite the gravity of those scandals, its conduct on Thursday night was in a whole new category of sleaze.  It not only infuriated their long-time allies, but also constituted the abuse of Twitter's platform to commit likely illegal acts.  That the primary effect of the Lincoln Project was to personally enrich its key operatives by cynically exploiting the fears of U.S. liberals has long been obvious.  Reporting throughout 2020 conclusively demonstrated that the vast majority of the tens of millions of dollars raised by the group was going to firms controlled by its founders.  One of its most prominent founders — GOP consultant Rick Wilson — personally collected $65,000 from liberals through GoFundMe for an anti-Trump film he kept promising but which never came; to this date, he refuses to explain what he did with that money.

Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt resigns.  Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt resigned from the embattled anti-Trump organization Friday night [2/12/2021], claiming he did so to "make room for the appointment of a female board member as the first step to reform and professionalize the Lincoln Project."  "Presently, the Lincoln Project is made up of four middle-aged white men.  That composition does not reflect our nation, nor our movement.  I am resigning my seat on the Lincoln Project board to make room for the appointment of a female board member as the first step to reform and professionalize the Lincoln Project," Schmidt said in a statement.  Axios was first to report on Schmidt's exit, which follows an exodus of senior staff since the Associated Press and New York magazine ran bombshell reports indicating that leadership at The Lincoln Project were aware of at least ten sexual harassment allegations against co-founder John Weaver in June 2020. Two of those allegations involved Lincoln Project employees and were communicated to leadership after Schmidt and other colleagues denied having any knowledge of Weaver's behavior.

Lincoln Project Ex-Employees Want Out From Non-Disclosure Agreements So Can Reveal What Leadership Knew About Weaver.  Hailed as heroes who were taking a principled Never Trump stand by the Democratic Party's unofficial media activist arm, the Lincoln Project is quickly going the way of Michael Avenatti; having served their anti-Trump purpose, the media that built them up is busily tearing them down.  And as with Avenatti, the damage to the Lincoln Project is self-inflicted; now that the election is over, the second sham impeachment circus wrapping up, their vileness is no longer being ignored, buried, and/or spun by a TDS-afflicted media willing to embrace any scourge to score points against President Trump.  The New York Times, who recently reported on the alleged sexual predation of Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver — a story first reported by Ryan Girdusky, reported Thursday that six former Lincoln Project employees want to be released from their non-disclosure agreements in order to publicly discuss Weaver and the allegations against him.

The resistance was great for business.  The Lincoln Project was founded by a group of rabidly anti-Trump Republican and former Republican consultants.  Their attack ads, often tougher than those produced by Democrats, were a huge hit with the rabidly anti-Trump Resistance.  The Lincoln Project paired those ads with an aggressive fundraising effort, and the money poured in, mostly in small donations:  more than $90 million in all.  Where did the money go?  It's been known for a while that the Lincoln Project directed a lot of the donors' money to companies that just happened to be controlled by members of the Lincoln Project.

Twenty-one young men accuse Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver of sending them inappropriate messages.  Twenty-one men have come forward to accuse longtime Republican strategist John Weaver of sexually harassing them online.  The New York Times outlined interviews with those 21 accusers — many who were not named — in an article published Sunday [1/31/2021].  It came two weeks after Weaver publicly admitted to sending inappropriate messages to men and stepped down from the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump super PAC he co-founded.

Lincoln Project co-founder John Weaver admits sending 'inappropriate messages' to men and confirms he is leaving the anti-Trump group.  John Weaver, a longtime Republican aide and one of the co-founders of the Lincoln Project, has admitted to sending 'inappropriate messages' to men promising them employment.  The letter from Weaver, obtained by Axios, comes as several men have come forward this week sharing DMs the political adviser allegedly sent them.  'To the men I made uncomfortable through my messages that I viewed as consensual mutual conversations at the time:  I am truly sorry,' said Weaver, who is married with two kids, but admitted to being gay in the letter.

'Never Trump' kingpin John Weaver admits uninvited gay sexting to multiple men.  John Weaver, a co-founder of the anti-Trump conservative group Lincoln Project, admitted Friday [1/15/2021] to sending several men sexually explicit messages and propositions for sex, according to a report.  Reports of his uninvited homosexual advances surfaced this week but Mr. Weaver, a longtime Republican operative, acknowledged the behavior Friday, according to Axios.  "To the men I made uncomfortable through my messages that I viewed as consensual mutual conversations at the time:  I am truly sorry.  They were inappropriate and it was because of my failings that this discomfort was brought on you," Mr. Weaver told the news website.

Never Trump Lincoln Project Targets Trump Attorneys: 'Make Them Famous'.  The Never Trump Lincoln Project, a political action committee run by multiple GOP campaign operatives opposed to President Donald Trump, shared a post to social media on Tuesday targeting two Porter Wright attorneys in Pennsylvania who are working to assist the Trump campaign with claims of voter fraud.  "Here are two attorneys attempting to help Trump overturn the will of the Pennsylvanian people," the committee wrote in a tweet, which has now been removed.

Richard Burr's insider trading scandal is a national security risk.  [T]he FBI seized Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr's cellphone, pursuant to a warrant issued by a judge upon probable cause, in an investigation of Burr allegedly misusing information from a classified Feb. 4 briefing on the coronavirus to dump as much as $1.7 million in stock on Feb. 12.  Stock markets shed nearly 30% of their value over the next five weeks.  Aggravating the situation are Burr's contradictory statements to constituents in public on Feb. 7 that the United States "is better prepared than ever before to face emerging public health threats, like the coronavirus" and to donors in private on Feb. 24 that coronavirus would resemble the cataclysmic Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.  The surrender of Burr's phone to law enforcement was not done quietly and voluntarily through counsel, as in a typical white-collar case with a cooperative witness.

FBI Deliver Search Warrant to Senator Richard Burr — Seize Cell Phone.  It likely takes a lot of main justice approvals to serve a search warrant for the device of the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).  The Chairman of the powerful committee also sits on the congressional oversight team known as the gang-of-eight.  According to the Los Angeles Times the FBI served a search warrant on North Carolina Republican Senator Richard Burr Wednesday.  The warrant appears connected to an ongoing investigation on whether or not Burr violated a law that prevents members of Congress from trading insider information they learn from their work.  According to the report federal agents seized Burr's cell phone after they served the warrant at his residence in the Washington DC area.  The sketchy guardian of swamp secrets is retiring at the end of his term so he's probably just willing to wait out the investigation and negotiate with the DC justice-tier to pay a fine and move on.  DC has a totally different set of laws and outcomes than everywhere else.

Burr Stepping Down as Chair of Intelligence Panel Amid Probe.  Republican Senator Richard Burr is temporarily stepping down as chairman of the Intelligence Committee amid a federal investigation into whether he sold stocks as a result of secret briefings on the threat of the coronavirus pandemic.  "Senator Burr contacted me this morning to inform me of his decision to step aside as chairman of the Intelligence Committee during the pendency of the investigation," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement.  "We agreed that this decision would be in the best interests of the committee and will be effective at the end of the day tomorrow."

FBI serves warrant on Sen. Richard Burr over coronavirus-related stock sales.  FBI agents reportedly seized the cellphone of a North Carolina senator Wednesday [5/13/2020] as part of a Justice Department investigation into the lawmaker's eyebrow-raising stock trades at the start of the coronavirus crisis.  Sen. Richard Burr, the North Carolina Republican who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, handed over his phone to the agents after they served him with a search warrant at his Washington-area home, an anonymous official told Yahoo News.  The Justice Department began probing Burr's stock transactions at the end of March to gauge whether he violated a law preventing members of Congress from trading on insider information they received through their jobs.  Burr had sold off $1.7 million in publicly traded stocks a week before the intensifying spread of COVID-19 led the market to crash.  He was among a handful of lawmakers who received confidential briefings on the virus from US health officials.

Republican senator Richard Burr's brother-in-law dumped shares on the same day as the politician — who had just received a secret coronavirus briefing.  Senator Richard Burr was not the only member of his family to sell off a significant portion of his stock holdings in February, ahead of the market crash spurred by coronavirus fears, an investigation by ProPublica has revealed.  On the same day Burr sold, his brother-in-law also dumped tens of thousands of dollars worth of shares.  The market fell by more than 30% in the subsequent month.  Burr's brother-in-law, Gerald Fauth, who has a post on the National Mediation Board, sold between $97,000 and $280,000 worth of shares in six companies — including several that have been hit particularly hard in the market swoon and economic downturn.

Sen. Richard Burr's Pre-Pandemic Stock Sell-Offs Highly Unusual, Analysis Shows.  Sen. Richard Burr's sale of up to $1.7 million in stocks shortly before the recent market crash was one of the lawmaker's only market-beating trades since record keeping began eight years ago, according to a new study.  The new analysis, presented by researchers at Dartmouth College, shows just how unusual the North Carolina senator's transactions were.  On a single day, Feb. 13 of this year, Burr unloaded a significant portion of his net worth — a departure from his typically low-volume trading history.

Sen. Burr sold DC townhouse to lobbyists with business before his committee.  Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr sold his Washington DC townhouse to a group overseen by a donor and powerful lobbyist who had business before his committee, according to a report.  Burr (R-NC) never listed the $900,000 townhouse he sold to a team led by John Green, a lobbyist and longtime donor to Burr's political campaigns, according to ProPublica, which raised ethics questions regarding the circumstances of the sale.  Not only was the small townhouse, located in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, sold as an off-market listing, it was also priced tens of thousands of dollars over estimates of the property's value, the outlet reports.  The elevated price would allow the property to be purchased as a gift.

Georgia Sen. David Perdue's stock trades increased during coronavirus.  U.S. Sen. David Perdue's financial portfolio saw heavy trading during the month of March, a period during which Congress passed three different spending bills to address the spread of COVID-19 and the markets took a turn for the worse.  The report lists 112 transactions, including 76 stock purchases costing as much as $1.8 million and 34 sales worth up to $825,000.  Compared with the 26-month period before the coronavirus swept across America, Perdue's portfolio activity has increased nearly threefold.  There were an average of 38 individual transactions in monthly reports from January 2018 through February 2020.

Duncan Hunter's lawyers seek to block evidence of extramarital affairs in corruption case.  Lawyers for embattled Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., are asking a federal judge to block the government from introducing evidence that he charged his campaign thousands of dollars to finance extramarital relationships with several women.  The lawyers argued in an eight-page document filed Friday [6/28/2019] that federal prosecutors are seeking to introduce evidence not pertinent to the corruption charges against Hunter.

Wife accuses former Republican senator of bank fraud.  The wife of former New York Republican Sen. Alfonse D'Amato said she has gone to federal authorities, alleging that her husband committed bank fraud and that he forged her signature on checks from a secret bank account for millions of dollars spanning seven years.  Katuria D'Amato, who has been in several rounds of legal battles with her husband over the last few weeks, said in an interview with Law&Crime that she found out about the account when the U.K.-based bank HSBC sent a letter to her home about the account opened in her name.  The couple, who have been married for 15 years, are going through a complicated and contentious divorce.

Arkansas state senator indicted for allegedly misusing campaign funds for personal use.  Arkansas State Senator Jeremy Hutchinson was indicted Thursday [8/30/2018] on wire and tax fraud charges, the Justice Department announced on Friday [8/31/2018].  Mr. Hutchinson allegedly created a plan to misappropriate thousands of dollars in campaign donations for personal use and then buried the trail by filing fake state campaign finance reports and tax filings.  Some of the tax fraud counts stretch back to when Mr. Hutchinson, a Republican and nephew of Gov. Asa Hutchinson, took office in 2011.

Hunter indictment sheds light on 'personal relationships' for congressman.  The criminal indictment issued against Rep. Duncan Hunter and his wife, Margaret, late last month alleges years of cavalier spending — luxury resorts, fine dining, tequila shots and more — all paid for with political contributions.  The 47-page document also says the five-term Republican from Alpine had "personal relationships" with five unnamed individuals.  The federal indictment offers few details about the relationships, and Hunter's lawyer objected to the turn the investigation took.

Rep. Duncan Hunter and wife indicted on fraud and campaign finance charges.  Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, and his wife, Margaret, were indicted Tuesday on dozens of criminal charges including wire fraud and campaign finance crimes.  The indictment, filed in federal court in San Diego, accuses the couple of converting more than $250,000 in campaign funds to pay for personal expenses and filing false campaign finance records with the Federal Election Commission to cover up the true nature of the expenses.

Rep. Duncan Hunter, wife indicted on corruption charges in California.  Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and his wife, Margaret, were indicted on charges of illegally converting $250,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses and filing false records, prosecutors announced Tuesday [8/21/2018].  In response, House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday evening [8/21/2018] that he would remove the congressman from all committee assignments for the time being, calling the charges against Hunter "deeply serious."

Paul Ryan strips Duncan Hunter of committee assignments after indictment.  House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on Tuesday stripped Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., of his committee assignments after he was indicted for stealing campaign funds.  "The charges against Rep. Hunter are deeply serious," Ryan said.  "The Ethics Committee deferred its investigation at the request of the Justice Department."  "Now that he has been indicted, Rep. Hunter will be removed from his committee assignments pending the resolution of this matter," Ryan added.

Collins suspends re-election campaign after indictment.  New York Republican Rep. Chris Collins suspended his re-election campaign Saturday amid allegations of insider trading.  The upstate congressman, who represents the counties surrounding Buffalo, still plans to fight the charges and won't resign.  He also vowed to serve out the final four and a half months of his term.  But within hours, a dozen local Republicans started vying to become his replacement.

Upstate New York Congressman Chris Collins arrested on federal insider trading charges.  Insider trading was a family affair for upstate New York congressman Chris Collins, federal prosecutors charged Wednesday [8/8/2018].  The Republican lawmaker, one of President Trump's earliest supporters, is accused of sharing inside information about a biotechnology company with his son and the father of his son's fiancée in a scheme that allowed them to dodge nearly $800,000 in stock losses, prosecutors say.

Wilbur Ross alleged to have siphoned more than $120 million from associates, Forbes reports.  Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross could rank "among the biggest grifters in American history," according to a Forbes report that details claims he wrongly siphoned or "outright stole" millions of dollars from former business associates.  The magazine spoke with 21 people who know Ross, who formerly headed private-equity company WL Ross & Co.  All told, Forbes said, the allegations come to more than $120 million in aggregate value.

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens announces resignation.  Embattled Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens announced in a press conference today that he is resigning.  Politicians and lawmakers in the state began calling for Greitens, 44, to resign last month amid allegations of sexual misconduct.  Greitens said the decision to resign was a difficult one, but maintained that he's done nothing wrong.  His resignation is effective June 1.

Former Texas congressman Steve Stockman found guilty of 23 felonies.  Steve Stockman, a Republican former congressman from Texas, has been convicted of defrauding two conservative mega-donors and funneling their $1.25 million into personal and campaign expenses as part of what prosecutors have described as a "white collar crime spree."  A jury in federal court in Houston ruled Thursday afternoon [4/12/2018] that Stockman is guilty of all but one of the 24 felonies he was charged with last March.  After about 16 hours of deliberations over three days, the 12-person panel only declined to convict on one of four counts of wire fraud.  Stockman will appeal the verdict, his defense team said.

Grand Jury Indicts Missouri Governor Eric Greitens On Felony Charges.  On Thursday [2/22/2018], a grand jury indicted Missouri Governor Eric Greitens in St. Louis on felony invasion of privacy charges stemming from a recently-revealed affair that is alleged to have taken place in 2015.  The charges come after an investigation was launched last month amid allegations that Greitens "threatened to release a nude photograph of the woman, taken while she was blindfolded and her hands were bound, if she ever spoke publicly about the affair," The Kansas City Star reports.  The Star reports that officials have confirmed that Greitens was taken into custody and booked at St. Louis Justice Center on Thursday.

Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens indicted over nude photo.  The governor of Missouri was indicted Thursday on a felony charge that accuses him of taking a nude photo of a woman without her consent, a move that Gov. Eric Greitens called a "misguided political decision" and his lawyer denounced as virtually without precedent.  Mr. Greitens was charged with invasion of privacy by a City of St. Louis grand jury Thursday [2/22/2018], causing Democratic lawmakers to demand that Mr. Greitens resign or face impeachment and prompting Republican lawmakers to launch their own probe.

Tim Murphy resigns after pressure mounts following texts on abortion.  Rep. Tim Murphy announced Thursday [10/5/2017] that he was resigning, a day after he said he would not run for re-election.  The Republican congressman from the 18th District faced a storm of criticism after reports that he urged the woman with whom he was having an extra-marital relationship to get an abortion.  Mr. Murphy, 65, has long been staunchly pro-life.

Alabama governor will face impeachment hearings after state Supreme Court ruling.  The Alabama Supreme Court ruled on Saturday to allow lawmakers to move ahead with an effort to oust Gov. Robert Bentley, who is fighting to stay in office amid fallout from an affair with a top aide.  Bentley will face impeachment hearings beginning on Monday [4/10/2017].

Aaron Schock, ex-Illinois congressman, indicted on 24 criminal counts.  Former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock loved the good life — from trips on private planes to skybox seats for Chicago Bears games to posh office furnishings.  He once had a $5,000 chandelier installed in his government office where, as a rising Republican star, he supposedly conducted the people's business.  What he liked less, according to federal prosecutors, was opening his own wallet.  In a sweeping 24-count grand jury indictment handed up Thursday [11/10/2016] in Springfield, prosecutors lay out in gripping detail charges accusing Schock of using House and campaign funds to support his lavish, jet-setting lifestyle.

Corker blames 'technical errors' for failure to report millions in income.  U.S. Sen. Bob Corker says "technical errors" by his former accounting firm resulted in him failing to properly disclose millions of dollars in income from real estate and other investments since he entered the Senate nearly nine years ago.  The Chattanooga Republican filed a series of amendments to his financial disclosure statements late Friday [12/11/2015] to correct the omissions and sent a letter to the secretary of the Senate acknowledging the errors.

Ex-Rep. Grimm sentenced to 8 months in prison in tax evasion case.  Michael Grimm, a former New York congressman and FBI agent who once investigated white-collar crime, was sentenced Friday [8/7/2015] to eight months in prison for tax evasion by a judge who said his "moral compass" needed adjustment.

Feds indict ex-House Speaker Hastert for allegedly hiding payments to apparent blackmailer.  Federal prosecutors indicted former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert Thursday [5/28/2015] on charges he allegedly hid payments he made to an apparent blackmailer in order to compensate for and conceal "prior misconduct."  The 73-year-old Illinois Republican is accused of structuring the withdrawal of $925,000 in cash in order to evade the requirement that banks report cash transactions over $10,000.  He is also accused of lying to the FBI about the withdrawals.  Hastert was indicted on two counts, both carrying a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Former Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives Dennis Hastert Indicted.  Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives J. Dennis Hastert was indicted on federal charges Thursday [5/28/2015] for allegedly structuring the withdrawal of over $950,000 in cash in a way to avoid reporting requirements, and then lying to the FBI about it.  Hastert allegedly took out the cash and handed it over to a Yorkville, Illinois, resident "in order to compensate and conceal his prior misconduct" against that person, according to the indictment.

Bill Shuster aided Virgin Islands — then asked for cash.  For two decades, the tropical U.S. territory's top officials pushed to overturn an obscure regulation that limited the number of passengers on uninspected commercial charter boats to six.  The regulation cost the islands hundreds of millions of dollars in tourism revenue and boosted the economy of its neighbor, the British Virgin Islands.  In 2014, the territory finally found a friend in Washington:  House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster.  The Pennsylvania Republican championed a provision that doubled the number of passengers permitted to be on board.

Ex-Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell gets 2 years for corruption.  Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, once on the short list to be Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate, was sentenced Tuesday [1/6/2015] to two years in federal prison for taking bribes to promote a dietary supplement.

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The Witch-hunt Against Bob McDonnell.  [Scroll down]  Federal District Court Judge James R. Spencer could have sentenced McDonnell to community service, but instead threw the book at him.  Tellingly, it came out in December that McDonnell had opposed the appointment of Spencer's wife 18 years ago to the Virginia State Supreme Court during a partisan battle in the state legislature.  McDonnell nominated someone else instead, and Margaret Spencer never made it onto the State Supreme Court, instead becoming a Circuit Court judge in Richmond.

Why a Crooked Staten Island Republican Abandoned Congress.  It's not often that a member of Congress gets indicted on a raft of felony corruption charges, proclaims his innocence for months, wins re-election to another term from a sympathetic electorate, and then promptly pleads guilty and resigns from office.  Michael Grimm, however, didn't have much of a choice.  The Staten Island Republican late Monday [12/29/2014] gave up the House seat he had just secured for another two years, bowing to pressure from a party leadership that wanted him gone.

After Guilty Plea, NY Congressman Says He'll Resign Jan. 5.  A New York congressman who pleaded guilty to tax evasion just days ago has announced he'll resign from office next week because he would not be able to give the job his full attention anymore.

Rep. Grimm pleads guilty to felony tax charge, but he won't resign his House seat.  Rep. Michael G. Grimm, New York Republican, said Tuesday he does not plan to resign his seat after pleading guilty to one felony tax charge tied to activities involving a restaurant he co-owned prior to winning election to Congress in 2010.  Grimm pleaded guilty to helping prepare a false tax return, a charge stemming from a 20-count indictment against the congressman handed up in April.  The former FBI agent faces up to three years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced June 8.

Grimm's Fairy Tale of Innocence Collapses.  Representative Michael Grimm, the Staten Island congressman best known nationally for threatening to throw a reporter off a congressional balcony last January, has agreed to plead guilty to a felony tax-evasion charge tomorrow [12/23/2014] in New York City.  Grimm, a Republican, was facing a 20-count federal indictment that alleged he concealed income from a Manhattan restaurant he co-owned and hired illegal immigrants.

Never mind that indictment: Rep's tenure defined by vulgar balcony threat.  People may not be familiar with the particulars of the congressman's 20-count, federal indictment which accused him of everything from mail fraud to lying under oath while operating a now-defunct restaurant called "Healthilicious."  All of that is in the fine print.  Instead, Grimm's scandal is encapsulated in a brutish exchange with NY1 congressional reporter Michael Scotto following President Obama's State of the Union address in January.

Rep. Michael Grimm, facing federal charges, surrenders to FBI.  Rep. Michael G. Grimm (R-N.Y.) surrendered Monday morning to federal authorities in New York as he faces multiple charges connected to a restaurant business he operated before entering Congress in 2011, according to sources familiar with the long-running probe into the lawmaker's finances.

Bombshell Indictment: Rep. Michael Grimm Hid over $1 Million from IRS, Hired Illegals.  Prosecutors released a searing indictment of Rep. Michael Grimm today, alleging he hid over $1 million in revenue from the IRS by paying employees — including illegal immigrant workers — in cash.  Grimm, a former FBI agent, is facing over 20 charges relating to a health food restaurant, Healthalicious, he ran from 2007-2010, including wire fraud, perjury, and obstruction of justice.

Feds close to filing charges against Rep. Michael Grimm, officials say.  Federal prosecutors are preparing to announce criminal charges against Rep. Michael Grimm, capping a two-year FBI investigation that ranges from his business dealings to his first campaign for Congress in 2010, according to his lawyer and U.S. officials briefed on the matter. [...] The former FBI agent and two-term Republican lawmaker from New York made headlines when he was shown on camera threatening to throw a reporter over a Capitol Hill balcony after an interview following the State of the Union address in January.  A former Marine, Grimm represents Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn.

Exclusive: Cantor Challenger Calls for Investigation of New Executive Director of the Republican Party of Virginia.  David Brat, the long-shot challenger to Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA) in Virginia's 7th Congressional District, is demanding an investigation into the new executive director of the Virginia Republican party, Shaun Kenney, after it was revealed Kenney's consulting firm is now on Cantor's payroll.  "If Eric Cantor's campaign or any of his affiliates has hired Shaun Kenney's consulting firm, any pretense of fairness in the upcoming Seventh District Congressional Race is diminished," Brat wrote in a letter to Pat Mullins, chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia (RPVA).

Congressman threatens to throw reporter off balcony during interview.  It's certainly not the first time a politician has walked out during a live interview. But what happened next is shocking even to the most jaded observer.  After Stotto returned to his report, Rep. Grimm, a former FBI agent and Marine, suddenly stormed back into the camera frame, whispering a threat to the reporter.  "I will break you in half," he said, reportedly threatening to throw the journalist over a balcony inside the U.S. Congress.

NY1 Reporter Describes Altercation with Rep. Grimm: 'Angrier Than I've Ever Seen a Politician'.  NY1 Washington reporter Michael Scotto spoke to Morning Joe about his altercation with Representative Michael Grimm (R-NY) after last night's State of the Union, in which Grimm reacted angrily to Scotto's question about corruption allegations and threatened to throw the reporter off the rotunda balcony (he phrased a bit differently).

Grimm Not Apologizing For Apparent Threat to Reporter.  Rep. Michael Grimm (R-Staten Island) is not saying sorry for threatening to asasult a NY1 reporter for asking Grimm about a federal investigation into his 2010 fundraising. [...] In a statement Wednesday morning [1/29/2014] NY1 Political Director Bob Hardt said, "It is extremely disturbing when anyone threatens one of our reporters — let alone a U.S. Congressman.  The NY1 family is certainly alarmed and disappointed by the behavior of Representative Grimm and demands a full apology from him.  This behavior is unacceptable."

Capitol Police won't pursue case against NY Rep. Grimm.  United States Capitol Police told The Hill on Friday that it won't pursue a case against Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.) regarding his confrontation with a reporter this week.  "Consistent with our law enforcement responsibilities, we looked into the event, determined there isn't a complainant and have closed the matter," Capitol Police spokesman Shennell Antrobus told The Hill.

Trey Radel to resign from Congress.  U.S. Rep. Trey Radel, the Florida Republican who pleaded guilty to cocaine possession last November, will resign from Congress on Monday [1/27/2014], he wrote in a resignation letter to House Speaker John Boehner.  Radel was caught buying cocaine from an undercover federal agent in Washington and spent nearly a month in a substance abuse program in Florida.

Grimm's reaper of campaign cash busted in campaign finance fraud scheme.  A fundraiser for Republican Rep. Michael Grimm was arrested by federal agents on charges tied to campaign finance violation allegations.  Diana Durand was taken into custody by the FBI on Friday [1/10/2014] and accused of setting up a straw donor scheme to funnel $10,000 to the New York Republican's campaign, NBC New York reported.

Speaker Boehner Collected 'Tollbooth Fee' Before Key Votes.  An explosive new book alleges Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) collected over $200,000 in donations from executives and companies just days before holding votes on three bills of critical importance to their industries.

Nearly 60 charged in Florida gambling scandal as lieutenant governor quits amid probe.  Florida's lieutenant governor resigned and nearly 60 other people were charged in a scandal involving a purported veterans charity that authorities said Wednesday [3/13/2013] was a front for a $300 million gambling operation.

GOP assemblyman indicted on fraud, theft charges totaling millions.  Embattled Republican Assemblyman Robert Schroeder has been indicted on charges he stole more than $1.8 million from individuals who loaned him money and that he wrote more than $3.4 million in bad checks to creditors, the state attorney general said on Friday [12/21/2012].

Ard resigns as lieutenant governor, pleads with judge for mercy.  Ken Ard quickly rose to prominence in S.C. politics as a tea party favorite, hailing his business credentials and his family's roots in Pamplico, a Florence County town so small it lacked a traffic light.  Ard's political career crashed around him Friday [3/9/2012], and the Republican lieutenant governor resigned in disgrace.

Culture of corruption knows no party boundaries.  If a congressman wants to go junketing to the really nice vacation spots of the world, he must pay for it himself.  Gone are the days when lobbyists can pay for visits to famous golf courses, or spectacular beaches where the member is put up in luxury and wants for nothing, right?  Wrong.  Those days are still with us.

Corrupt conservatives:  [South Carolina Gov. Mark] Sanford is only one in a long line of Republican politicians who, while sounding like preachers and priests, have behaved like perverts and pimps.

Fla. politician's deal: 1 book, 1 copy, $152K.  Florida's new Senate president, who wants the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate next year, got $152,000 from a coastal community college to write a book on politics, a product taxpayers will have to share if they want to see.  The lone copy of "Florida Legislative History and Processes" by Mike Haridopolos can only be read at Brevard Community College's administration office.

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Mike Haridopolos's web site doesn't say which political party he is a member of, as far as I can tell.

Nevada Sen. John Ensign announces resignation.  Nevada Sen. John Ensign (R) on Thursday [4/21/2011] announced that he is resigning his Senate seat, effective May 3, bringing to an end a once promising career that imploded following a seedy sex scandal.

Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2010.  According to ABC News:  "In two years, [Kentucky Representative Hal] Rogers pushed through 135 earmarks worth $246 million.  He's brought tens of millions of dollars into his hometown of Somerset, Ky., so much so that the town has been dubbed 'Mr. Rogers' neighborhood.'"  Among the most egregious earmarks was a $17 million grant Rogers obtained for an "Airport to Nowhere," a Kentucky airport with "so little traffic that the last commercial airline pulled out in February (2010)."  But the most serious charge against Rogers involves an earmark he obtained that could benefit one of his own family members.

Crossroads takes flight with "Air Claire".  American Crossroads is going back to the controversy over Sen. Claire McCaskill's (D-Mo.) private plane Tuesday [9/13/2011], unveiling a radio spot and two aviation-themed billboard ads near local airports, POLITICO has learned.  "Sky-high airfares got you down?" the billboards near the St. Louis and Springfield airports say.  "Senator Claire McCaskill flies in her own jet — and you pay for it!"

McCaskill sells private plane.  Sen. Claire McCaskill, has sold a private plane she co-owns with her husband, months after her use of it for official business and failure to pay back taxes created a political headache.

What Has Barack Obama Wrought?  Republicans and Democrats in Congress have finally achieved bipartisan unity, when it comes to making millions through actions that would get average Americans a lengthy jail term.  The term for what they are engaging in is "crony capitalism," which conservatives and liberals should both demand be ended immediately.  One of the worst offenders is my own representative in the House, Rep. Shelly Capito (R), who sold between $100,000 and $250,000 in shares of Citigroup after leaving a briefing with Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke.  She and her husband then accrued as much as $50,000 in capital gains from the Citigroup transactions made throughout the financial crisis.

Former Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White calls voter fraud verdict 'a travesty'.  Republican Secretary of State Charlie White was charged with illegally registering to vote at his ex-wife's house, and was convicted on six of seven felony voter-related counts in the early hours Saturday morning [2/4/2012] by a Hamilton County jury in Noblesville, Ind., just north of Indianapolis.

McCotter Resigns: 'Strike Another Match, Start Anew'.  McCotter did not qualify for the November ballot after a considerable number of signatures collected for his campaign were disqualified.  The Congressman cites pressure surrounding the investigation of the disqualified signatures as the primary reason for his departure before the end of his term.

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter resigns from House.  Rep. Thaddeus McCotter abruptly announced his resignation on Friday afternoon [7/6/2012], bringing an end to a Capitol Hill career that spanned a decade.  The surprise announcement came at the end of a quiet holiday week with Congress on recess, capping an astonishing six-week collapse for the Michigan Republican, who as recently as one year ago was waging a bid for the GOP presidential nomination.

More fake petitions for Thaddeus McCotter discovered.  A review of the nominating petitions turned in for McCotter's elections from 2002 through 2012 shows he did not have enough signatures to qualify to run in at least the 2008, 2010 and 2012 elections.  The skullduggery wasn't detected until this year, when a part-time staffer for the Secretary of State found that of the more than 1,800 signatures turned in by the McCotter campaign for 2012, only 244 were valid.

Serial Fraud Kept Congressman in Office.  This month, four staffers for former Michigan congressman Thad McCotter were indicted for forging signatures on petitions to place him on the ballot.  McCotter resigned from Congress after evidence surfaced that his district office had been run like a political version of Animal House.  Now, the Detroit Free Press reports that McCotter, Inc. had apparently been forging petitions for years, and he didn't actually qualify for the ballot in at least the 2008, 2010, and 2012 elections.

Thad Cochran's administrative assistant accompanied him to 42 countries.  Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) lives in the basement apartment in a house owned by his executive assistant, Kay Webber, which he has listed as his primary address on official forms.  Now public records show Webber accompanied Cochran on dozens of taxpayer-funded trips overseas.  According to the Congressional Record, where trip details including cost are listed, Webber has traveled with Cochran at taxpayer expense to 42 countries across five continents since 2002.  For example, Cochran and Webber traveled eight times to France, five times to Italy, four times to Israel, and twice to Japan.

Schock case a reminder of why reporting matters.  As a guy who both practices and teaches journalism, I find this week's resignation announcement by Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., a comforting reminder of the value of Actual Journalism. [...] His problems, as these things often do, started with what could have been an innocuous story.  Washington Post reporter Ben Terris saw Schock's newly redecorated office and wrote a hilarious tale about the spokesman's efforts to kill the piece.  Two journalism lessons emerge here:  1) a large part of the job is just showing up and 2) whenever someone says there's no story here, there is almost certainly a story.

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert negotiating a guilty plea.  Prosecutors and defense attorneys for former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert have told a federal judge [9/28/2015] they're talking about a possible plea deal in the Republican's hush-money case.

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