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  • 'Alarming' surveillance: Feds asked banks to search private transactions for terms like ‘MAGA,’ ‘Trump’

    01/18/2024 9:12:08 AM PST · by Rusty0604 · 80 replies
    House Judiciary ^ | 01/17/2024 | Brooke Singman
    Federal investigators asked banks to search and filter customer transactions by using terms like "MAGA" and "Trump" as part of an investigation into Jan. 6, warning that purchases of "religious texts" could indicate "extremism," the House Judiciary Committee revealed Wednesday. Fox News Digital has learned the committee also obtained documents that indicate officials suggested that banks query transactions with keywords like Dick's Sporting Goods, Cabela's, Bass Pro Shops and more. The House Judiciary Committee and its subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government have been conducting oversight of federal law enforcement’s "receipt of information about American citizens without legal...
  • Robbing America Blind

    09/13/2023 4:52:41 AM PDT · by RandFan · 2 replies
    Rumble ^ | Sep 13 | Col. Douglas Macgregor
    @DougAMacgregor Over the last few decades the United States Government has lost, JUST IN PAYMENT ERRORS over 2.4 Trillion Dollars. We must stop this. 3 Minute Video
  • EXCLUSIVE: Bloomberg News Busted! Guess Which Biden Appointee Is Trying to Control the Press

    06/19/2023 9:00:51 AM PDT · by JV3MRC · 1 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | 6/19/2023 | Joseph Vazquez
    A government watchdog group shared exclusive documents with MRC Business exposing an apparently incestuous relationship between Bloomberg News and President Joe Biden’s Treasury Department. The Functional Government Initiative obtained documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. According to FGI’s press release shared with MRC Business, Bloomberg reporters gave Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen such favorable “coverage that they chafed under Treasury’s censorship of their stories, and weren’t shy about letting the Treasury Department know their displeasure.” This reeks of quid pro quo journalism. One July 16, 2021 email caught in the FGI’s FOIA net involved correspondence between Bloomberg News...
  • J1 – The Anniversary of the BLM Insurrection at the White House

    06/01/2023 5:45:55 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 16 replies
    Front Page Magazine ^ | by Daniel Greenfield | June 1, 2023
    Before there was J6, there was J1. On May 29th, 2020, the nationwide insurrection by the racist hate group BLM and its leftist allies arrived in the nation’s capital in a very big way. On Friday night, a violent racist leftist mob, falsely described as “peaceful” by its media allies, converged on the White House. The insurrectionists assaulted Secret Service and Park Police officers. They shouted obscenities and threatened President Trump even as they fought their way past law enforcement personnel to reach the White House. “It looks like a war zone outside the White House,” Adam Parkhomenko, the former...
  • Wall Street — not taxpayers — will pay for the SVB and Signature deposit relief plans

    03/12/2023 7:14:06 PM PDT · by Beave Meister · 82 replies
    CNBC.com ^ | 3/12/2023 | Christina Wilkie
    WASHINGTON — Plans announced Sunday to fully reimburse deposits made in the collapsed Silicon Valley Bank and the shuttered Signature Bank will rely on Wall Street and large financial institutions — not taxpayers — to foot the bill, Treasury officials said. “For the banks that were put into receivership, the FDIC will use funds from the Deposit Insurance Fund to ensure that all of its depositors are made whole,” said a senior Treasury Department official, who spoke to reporters Sunday about the plan on the condition of anonymity.
  • White House stands by Biden nominee Saule Omarova, who was arrested in 1995 for 'retail theft'

    11/18/2021 1:54:32 PM PST · by Beave Meister · 35 replies
    Fox News.com ^ | 11/18/2021 | Houston Keene
    President Biden's nominee to lead a branch of the Treasury Department was arrested in 1995 for "retail theft." Fox News obtained a Wisconsin Department of Justice criminal background check of Saule Omarova, the president’s nominee to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). According to the background check, Omarova was arrested by Madison, Wisconsin, police officers on June 2, 1995 and charged with a misdemeanor count of "retail theft."
  • Opinion: So The United States Treasury Got Hacked By Cyber Thieves?

    12/14/2020 10:24:43 AM PST · by MJacks4 · 6 replies
    WayneDupree.com ^ | 12/13/2020 | Wayne Dupree
    So the Treasury Department was “hacked” via a cyber attack. Common sense would tell us to get these critical government offices off of the internet so they can’t be hacked by anyone. Let’s be real. The federal government agencies, along with state and local agencies are generally dumber than a box of rocks when it comes to IT stuff. They always think they are the smartest in the room, when in fact they can’t fight their way out of a wet paper bag.
  • Ex-Treasury Employee Pleads Guilty Of Leaking Trump Team Info, After Dramatic Bust With Flash Drive In Hand

    01/14/2020 5:35:50 AM PST · by blam · 33 replies
    Fox News ^ | 1-14-2020 | Gregg Re
    A former top Treasury Department official pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy for leaking confidential banking reports associated with members of the Trump campaign, following her dramatic arrest in October 2018 as she toted a flash drive full of sensitive documents. Natalie Edwards, 41, entered the plea in Manhattan federal court, where U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods set sentencing for June 9. Although the conspiracy charge carried a potential penalty of up to five years in prison, Edwards signed a plea deal with prosecutors that recommended a potential prison sentence of zero to six months.(Prosecuters are probably Democrats too) Edwards...
  • Treasury Department rejects Dem subpoena for Trump tax returns

    05/17/2019 2:58:26 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 21 replies
    The Hill ^ | 05/17/19 | Naomi Jagoda
    Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Friday defied a subpoena from House Democrats for President Trump's tax returns, a move that's likely to trigger a court battle for the documents. “We are unable to provide the requested information in response to the Committee’s subpoena,” Mnuchin said in a letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.). Mnuchin reiterated in the letter that Treasury has determined that Neal's request "lacks a legitimate legislative purpose." Both Mnuchin and Neal have said they think the dispute will be decided in the courts. Neal told reporters hours before Mnuchin sent his letter...
  • AP source: Trump to tap critic of agency to lead World Bank

    02/05/2019 8:28:52 AM PST · by Olog-hai · 6 replies
    Associated Press ^ | February 5, 2019 | Darlene Superville
    President Donald Trump plans to nominate David Malpass, a Trump administration critic of the World Bank, to lead the institution. That’s according to a senior administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official wasn’t authorized to comment publicly on personnel decisions.Trump is expected to make an announcement later this week. Malpass, the undersecretary for international affairs at the Treasury Department, has been a sharp critic of the World Bank, especially over its lending to China. …
  • U.S. Treasury official charged with leaks linked to Russia probe

    10/17/2018 10:19:02 AM PDT · by SpeedyInTexas · 43 replies
    Yahoo ^ | 10/17/2018 | Brendan Pierson
    A U.S. Treasury Department official has been criminally charged with leaking confidential documents relating to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, the Russian embassy and others, to a reporter from digital media company BuzzFeed, Manhattan federal prosecutors announced on Wednesday. Natalie May Edwards, a senior adviser in the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), was arrested on Tuesday and charged with unauthorized disclosure of suspicious activity reports, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman. She was expected to make an initial appearance in Virginia federal court later in the day.
  • Overthrow the Establishment to Fix the Economy

    06/17/2016 6:22:07 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 3 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 17, 2016 | Larry Kudlow
    Famed investor Wilbur Ross recently told CNBC that “Trump represents a more radical new approach to government that the nation’s economy desperately needs.” He’s right. Trump seeks an overthrow of the establishment. He’s a disrupter. Just what we need to fix the economy. The situation is that desperate. The last 15 years of economic policy, especially the last eight years, represent a relapse that harks back to the 1970s. Now like then, we have a high-tax, high-spend, high-regulation, Fed-pump-priming, standard-less dollar-manipulation policy mix. In general, it’s a government-planning approach in the U.S. and around the world. We’ve not experienced high...
  • Debt ceiling lifted, and the same day, debt jumps $339B

    11/03/2015 5:01:07 PM PST · by Beave Meister · 23 replies
    The Washington Examiner ^ | 11/3/2015 | PETE KASPEROWICZ
    The U.S. national debt jumped $339 billion on Monday, the same day President Obama signed into law legislation suspending the debt ceiling. That legislation allowed the government to borrow as much as it wants above the $18.1 trillion debt ceiling that had been in place. The website that reports the exact tally of the debt said the U.S. government owed $18.153 trillion last Friday, and said that number surged to $18.492 on Monday. The increase reflects an increasingly common pattern that can be seen in the total U.S. debt level when the debt ceiling is reached.
  • O'Neill Received Secret Papers Through Error, Not Wrongdoing

    03/23/2004 6:28:25 AM PST · by OESY · 17 replies · 551+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | March 23, 2004 | GLENN SIMPSON
    <p>WASHINGTON -- Sensitive national-security information was mistakenly released by the Treasury Department to former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, but no criminal statutes were violated, records show.</p> <p>Mr. O'Neill drew on some of the material -- part of a cache of 19,000 documents -- for a memoir released in January that was critical of President Bush. When a document stamped "Secret" was displayed on a CBS "60 Minutes" episode concerning the book, the Treasury Department sought an investigation.</p>
  • SIGTARP: Excessive Pay at Bailed-Out GM

    09/30/2014 10:32:50 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 3 replies
    NLPC ^ | September 30, 2014 | Mark Modica
    A special inspector general report on compensation for executives at General Motors and Ally Financial blasts the Treasury Department for allowing excessive pay at the companies as taxpayers lost billions of dollars on the auto bailouts. The watchdog group issuing the report monitors the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which was set up to save financial corporations deemed "too big to fail" due to systemic risk to America's financial system. The program was expanded to allow for the bailing out of the auto industry, despite the questionable use of funds specifically designated for financial institutions. A NY Times piece...
  • Watchdog Says Treasury Let GM, Ally Give Executives Big Raises During TARP

    09/24/2014 10:52:26 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 12 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | September 24, 2014 | Alan Zibel
    Report Criticizes Treasury for Allowing Pay Packages Worth at Least $1 Million a YearWASHINGTON—The Treasury Department allowed General Motors Co. GM +0.69% and Ally Financial Corp. ALLY +0.43% to give big pay raises to top executives while the firms struggled to exit their federal bailouts, a federal watchdog said Wednesday. The report criticized the Treasury for allowing Ally and GM to pay compensation packages worth at least $1 million in 2013 for all 25 top executives at each company. The companies paid those executives an average of $3 million annually, an increase of 28% from 2009, the report found. The...
  • EPA's move to administratively garnish wages

    07/03/2014 2:21:23 PM PDT · by Outside da Box · 33 replies
    The Daily Signal ^ | 07/03/2014 | Robert Gordon
    Just in time for the Fourth of July, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it has added a new regulatory weapon to its arsenal. In a Federal Register notice on July 2 titled “Administrative Wage Garnishment,” the EPA stated that by the authority of the Debt Collection Improvement Act (DCIA ) of 1996 it issued a proposed rule that “will allow the EPA to garnish non-Federal wages to collect delinquent non-tax debts owed the United States without first obtaining a court order.” According to the Treasury Department, under DCIA, such debts include “unpaid loans, overpayments or duplicate payments made...
  • U.S. Takes $9.7 Bil Hit in GM Bailout

    10/29/2013 1:29:52 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 21 replies
    Judicial Watch ^ | October 29, 2013
    President Obama loves taking credit for saving the American auto industry and this week a federal audit reveals that the rescue effort has fleeced U.S. taxpayers out of an astounding $9.7 billion. While this may seem inconceivable to most, the numbers don’t lie. The United States Treasury has recorded a $9.7 billion loss on its $49.5 billion bailout of General Motors, according to a report released this week by the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Remember the $700 billion boondoggle created to help stabilize the nation’s financial system during the 2008 crisis by purchasing “toxic...
  • No, Failure To Raise Debt Ceiling Won't Cause Default

    10/10/2013 3:53:01 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 13 replies
    Investors.com ^ | October 10, 2013 | IBD Editorial
    Debt Talks: When Treasury Secretary Jack Lew repeatedly says the government has no choice in paying its bills if the debt ceiling is breached, he must surely know it's not true. So why say it? In a word, politics. As the nation's chief financial officer, the Treasury secretary has an enormous responsibility to shoot straight with the American public about the state of our finances. So does President Obama, for that matter. But when it comes to the political dispute over raising the debt ceiling from its current $16.7 trillion, Lew unfortunately has not leveled with us. Opting for political...
  • Obama Administration Still Stonewalling on Delphi Pension Scandal

    07/29/2013 1:32:44 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 13 replies
    NLPC ^ | July 29, 2013 | Mark Modica
    The lack of transparency from the Obama Administration continues as leaders of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee continue to try and persuade the Treasury Department to hand over documents relating to the Administration's involvement in the termination of non-union Delphi retirees' pension benefits. Non-union Delphi retirees saw their benefits lost while unionized UAW retirees at the company had their benefits "topped off" and preserved with taxpayer dollars funneled through General Motors during the 2009 auto bailout process. Evidence surfaced about a year ago that the Obama Administration played a role, once again, in choosing winners and losers by...