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A Iraq War veteran accused of defrauding donors out of $350,000 (£268,747) in a bid to build a southern border wall has now agreed to plead guilty, according to a court filing. Brian Kolfage, of Miramar, Florida, was indicated in August 2020 alongside former Donald Trump aide Steve Bannon for allegedly scraping off the top of millions they raised to privately build the border wall. Of the $25m (£19m) in GoFundMe donations, Mr Kolfage allegedly took $350,000 and Mr Bannon took $1m, prosecutors said. Both were charged with conspiracy to commit fraud with a third person, Timothy Shea. As Law&Crime...

Guatemala's former military leader Efrain Rios Montt, who briefly ruled the country in the 1980s, has died at the age of 91. In 2013, he became the first former head of state to face genocide charges in his own country. Gen Rios Montt was accused of ordering the killing of more than 1,700 ethnic Mayans during a civil war. The last several years of his life were spent fighting a legal battle against the allegations in court. Gen Rios Montt seized power during a 1982 coup d'etat, in the midst of a bloody civil war in the country between the...

Hayworth joins Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Sen. Judy Burges and an impressive list of state Senators and Representatives, law enforcement professionals, NRA, former Senate President Russell Pearce, and Arizona’s conservative voters in supporting Attorney General Tom Horne "Dear Tom: You have done a very effective job as Arizona’s Attorney General; that’s why I’m proud to endorse your candidacy for re-election. Your insistence on truly protecting our Borders and opposing Amnesty for illegals has earned you the scorn of the Open Borders/ Establishment crowd. I hope that Arizona Republicans won’t again be deceived by candidates who talk tough during the campaign season…only...

Does Mitt Romney, an elder and former missionary of the Mormon Church, believe he will one day be a god ... equal to Jesus ... ruling his own planet? Does he agree with Mormon teaching that Jesus and Satan are brothers? That America is the Promised Land where Jesus will return one day to rule from the Garden of Eden, which Mormons believe to be Jackson County, Missouri? And do American voters have the right to know this? When Barack Obama was running for president, he assured us he was a Christian. Pastor Rick Warren brought Candidate Obama to his...

Madison County Coroner Ned Dunnichay said late Saturday morning he ruled the death of convicted killer Simon Rios as a suicide by asphyxiation due to hanging. Rios, convicted by an Allen County jury last year in the deaths of his wife and three daughters after he pleaded guilty in Delaware County to killing a 10-year-old Fort Wayne girl, was found hanging in his cell Thursday morning at Pendleton Correctional Facility. He was serving five consecutive life sentences. Rios, 37, was convicted of strangling his wife, Ana Casas, and their daughters, 4-year-old Katherinne Rios, 20-month-old Thannya Rios and 10-month-old Liliana Rios...

The Sandy Rios Show on AM1160 WYLL Chicago Selected Audio Archives:  Barack Obama, Saul Alinsky, The Weather Underground, William Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, and other socialists Download MP3 Fri 02/22/2008 Hour #2: [Subject STARTS at time-mark 6 minutes] Sandy comments and talks to callers re: the article Obama's International Socialist Connections by Cliff Kincaid, Editor of Accuracy in Media Download MP3 Mon 02/25/2008 Hour #2: Sandy re-visits previous day's subject of Senator Barack Obama's socialism with comments from callers Download MP3 Thu 10/11/2007 Hour #2: Journalist Kyle-Anne Shiver (Day 1) re: her article in The American Thinker Hillary, Soros, Alinsky,...

Today 9/30, 4.06pm Central Time -- Streamed live on http://www.wyll.com - WYLL 1160AM, Chicago, IL Hear James Simpson interviewed by Sandy Rios. James Simpson is the former White House economist who has just published "Barack Obama & the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis" on AmericanThinker.com. Simpson lays out the positioning of Barack Obama relative to the neo-Marxist tactics of Saul Alinsky, plus Obama's implied relationship to the "Cloward-Piven Strategy" of generating national, financial crises, in order to turn the nation toward ever stricter socialism. He also connects the dots of what this has to do with the "community organizers" of ACORN...

True American Hero Honored SSgt Vincent Rios, USMC (Ret.), was the Chair of Honor at the Memorial Program on Sunday, May 25, 2008, Lands End, Fort Miley, San Francisco. FReepers Scott and Saundra Hawkins file this first-hand account. Saundra met Vince Rios when they both worked for a federal agency in San Francisco in 1977 and they have remained close friends ever since. “Vince Rios is a true American hero if ever there was one,” says Saundra. Why is Vince Rios a true American Hero? After Sgt. Rios served his first tour of duty in Vietnam, he volunteered to go...

Colombia will pay a reward to a FARC guerrilla who shot dead his commander and cut off the man's hand to prove his identity in a case that sparked debate over a program to compensate informants, authorities said on Friday. Pablo Montoya, alias Rojas, killed Ivan Rios, one of the FARC's top seven secretariat commanders, and turned himself in to soldiers in what the government described as a serious blow to Latin America's oldest rebel insurgency. ... Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos said the government would pay up to $2.5 million in bounty to Montoya and three others because of...

MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) --The fugitive founder of a violent Puerto Rican independence group was killed in a gunfight with federal agents at a mountain farmhouse in western Puerto Rico, the FBI said Sunday. Filiberto Ojeda Rios, 72, opened fire on agents who were trying to arrest him at a house in the Hormigueros area of Puerto Rico on Friday, the FBI said. Ojeda Rios was killed, and an FBI agent was shot in the stomach and severely wounded, the agency said. Ojeda Rios was the founder and leader of Puerto Rico's radical Boricua Popular Army, which sought independence for the...

An FBI sweep launched in Puerto Rico to prevent a "domestic terrorist attack" is eliciting widespread outrage on the island - and as far away as New York City - with critics accusing the agency of trying to use terrorism as a guise to turn public opinion against Puerto Rico's independence movement. The Friday morning raid on the U.S. commonwealth, which targeted five private homes and one business, was launched to prevent attacks from the Boricua Popular Army, the FBI said. The special agent in charge of the San Juan Division of the FBI, Luis Fraticelli, said the searches were...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Puerto Rican police tightened security at federal buildings and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton canceled a visit to the island amid fears the killing of a Puerto Rican nationalist in an FBI shootout could lead to a resurgence of pro-independence violence. Police chief Pedro Toledo acknowledged the potential for unrest, saying the death of Filiberto Ojeda Rios had generated "rancor and rage." Ojeda Rios, 72, was shot to death Friday by FBI agents who came to arrest him at his farmhouse in southwestern Puerto Rico for the 1983 armed robbery of a Wells Fargo depot in...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A fugitive considered one of Mexico's most dangerous criminals was arrested Tuesday in Southern California, nearly 19 years after a sensational armed escape from a courthouse, immigration officials said. Alfredo Rios Galeana was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at his home in the city of South Gate, said agency spokeswoman Virginia Kice. The arrest on immigration violations was the result of a multi-agency investigation by authorities in the U.S. and Mexico, she said. Rios, who was accused of numerous bank robberies, kidnappings and murders, escaped from a Mexican federal courthouse during a hearing...

Even though people on both sides of the issue deny it, it is increasingly obvious that homosexuality is dominating a new place on the scale of American political life. Even in conservative circles, prominent voices – some of whom I call friends, all of whom I respect – continually find themselves divided on not only the issue, but also how people of conscience respond to it. In recent weeks, David Horowitz, president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, and Robert Knight of Concerned Women for America, have been "duking it out" on the issue of whether or...