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“The OIG investigation substantiated that the SSA violated federal law or regulation in making false representations related to two mortgage loans and filing false annual financial disclosure forms by not reporting income received from the contractor. The OIG investigation also substantiated that the SSA violated federal law or regulations, and the FBI ethics policies, by working for a contractor that was currently under contract with the FBI, accepting gifts from an applicant for the FBI employment and assisting the applicant in the selection process, misusing the SSA’s government vehicle by allowing family members to ride in the vehicle, and exchanging...

Documentation was released yesterday, reportedly from Roger Stone's lawyer, that claims that CNN didn't just happen upon Mr. Stone's home right before a 29-person FBI team raided it and took him into custody based on a "gut instinct," as the FBI claimed.  The letter was produced by Mr. Stone's lawyer, Grant Smith, who sent it to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees.  It details a frightening tale of CNN acting on behalf of the FBI in regard to the continual Russia probe. The proof that CNN was tipped off by an official within the FBI investigation to Roger Stone's pending indictment...

CEO of NY’s Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Tainted by Scandal Msgr. Gregory Mustaciuolo linked to gay priest corruption and malfeasance NEW YORK (ChurchMilitant.com) - The CEO of one of the country's wealthiest foundations is linked to multiple priest scandals in New York, and critics are calling on him to be voted out of office. Alfred Kelly (top left), Carla Harris (top right) Catherine Kinney (bottom left), Samuel DiPiazza (bottom right) Monsignor Gregory Mustaciuolo, former vicar general for the archdiocese of New York, is currently CEO of the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, worth $3.2 billion in assets (all cash). It's among the...

A photo from Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook shows two men, one in blackface and one in a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood, on the same page as the governor. The photo, which The Virginian-Pilot obtained a copy of Friday from the Eastern Virginia Medical School library, comes from the 1984 yearbook, the year Northam graduated. On the half-page set aside for Northam, there is a headshot of him in a jacket and tie, a photo of him in a cowboy hat and boots and a third of him sitting casually on the ground, leaning against a convertible....

In a display of raw federal power unseen since Barack Obama rappelled from a Blackhawk helicopter to personally beat Bin Laden to death with an autographed copy of The Audacity of Hope, Roger Stone was arrested at his home by a 29-man, 17-vehicle tactical unit of the FBI. Another Trump figure has fallen -- the end is near, and the noose is tightening. All Trump associates now fear for their lives and freedom. Yet some people who have committed crimes much more serious than any of the Mueller indictments remain, as always, unafraid. That list, by no means comprehensive, includes,...

St. Louis’ top prosecutor is accusing the police department of using an “obstructionist tactic” to prevent drug and alcohol testing of cops who were present during the Russian roulette death of their colleague, according to a new report. In a letter released Tuesday, Circuit Attorney Kimberly Gardner chronicled the difficulties she says her investigators faced in trying to obtain blood tests of Officer Nathaniel Hendren and his partner in the hours after Officer Katlyn Alix’s shooting death last Thursday.

As scores of Americans remain angry and frustrated by the FBI’s seemingly inappropriate arrest of political operative and Trump associate Roger Stone on Friday, in which the bureau employed 29 heavily armed agents, many in SWAT gear, the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General quietly announced “findings of misconduct” by a pair of current FBI officials and one that has since retired. “The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) initiated this investigation upon the receipt of information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concerning multiple allegations involving an FBI contractor and three FBI officials,” the...

This is really interesting. Unfortunately, we don’t get the names. Findings of Misconduct by Two Current Senior FBI Officials and One Retired FBI Official While Providing Oversight on an FBI Contract . https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2019/f190129.pdf Key phrases: “two current senior FBI officials”, “one former”, relating to an “FBI Contractor”. Could this be an FBI contractor like Fusion-GPS or Crowdstrike? I wish we could know more.

Shortened title. Full title: HAITI 2.0-> Clintons Travel to Puerto Rico to ‘Assist’ with Hurricane Recovery Efforts – Accuse Trump of Blocking Funds The Clintons arrived in Puerto Rico over the weekend to ‘assist’ the US territory in their hurricane recovery efforts. This is Haiti 2.0. The Clintons perhaps ran out of the billions of dollars they reportedly stole from the Haitians years ago after a devastating earthquake, so they decided to scam Puerto Ricans under the guise of ‘hurricane relief.’ The professional grifters spoke to local Puerto Rican reporters on Monday after a meeting with Ricardo Rossello, the far...

Retiring Alderman Danny Solis (25th Ward) received sex acts, Viagra, free weekend use of an Indiana farm once owned by Oprah Winfrey and a steady stream of campaign contributions in exchange for shepherding official City Council actions, according to allegations in a federal court affidavit obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times. Although no charges have been filed publicly against Solis, the 2016 affidavit lays out in detail a federal corruption case against the veteran alderman, who was one of the closest City Council allies of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Emanuel’s predecessor, Richard M. Daley. It also alleges that among the people...

Excerpt: The FBI secretly recorded Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan trying to get business for his private law firm from a developer brought to him by Ald. Danny Solis, who was weighing the developer’s request to build a hotel in Chinatown, according to a federal court affidavit obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.

For nearly ten years now, Americans who have been paying attention have known that our government has become corrupt, that its premier institutions were weaponized by the Obama administration to the point that we have become something of a police state or banana republic. ... In the 1980s, Mueller sent four men to prison who he knew were innocent. He did it to protect a confidential informant. Two of them died in prison. The lawsuits filed cost taxpayers $100M. That trial was connected to the murderous mafia hit man Whitey Bulger, who was finally caught after sixteen years. He died...

Civilian data obtained by sources close to law enforcement confirms that CNN crime and justice producer David Shortell lives in Washington, D.C. How did Shortell end up in Florida? Special counsel’s office leaking will be a paramount issue of the Stone case. Here is Stone on Tucker Carlson Tonight: Even though David Shortell does not live near Roger Stone, former NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson apparently does: BLP reported: Exactly 618 days since Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s official investigation into “Russian collusion” began on May 17, 2017, and more than 800 days after news broke that authorities...

Documents Detail Nancy Pelosi’s Love of Flying at Our Expense Your Tax Dollars: FOIA Goes to the Supreme Court Senate Ethics Committee Gives Senator Cory Booker a Pass U.S. Grants Thousands of Spousal Visas for Underaged Children Documents Detail Nancy Pelosi’s Love of Flying at Our Expense Nancy Pelosi’s plan to fly into a war zone to thank the troops, which President Trump put on hold, was déjà vu all over again. We’ve been watching her taxpayer-supported travel for years. I discuss our prior work here in an op-ed for Fox News. Just this week, we released documents we...

On Friday January 25, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that 95,000 individuals registered to vote in the Lone Star State have been identified as "Non-US Citizens," meaning they are illegally registered to vote. Further evidence brought forth by Texas Secretary of State David Whitely confirms that 58,000 of these individuals have broken the law and voted in "one or more" recent elections. “Every single instance of illegal voting threatens democracy in our state and deprives individual Texans of their voice," AG Paxton said in a statement. "My Election Fraud Unit stands ready to investigate and prosecute crimes against the...

California is suing one of its own cities for not allowing the construction of enough affordable places to live, signaling an aggressive approach to the state’s housing crisis by the new governor, Gavin Newsom. Huntington Beach, an upscale coastal city outside Los Angeles,

A former Democrat and current Trump supporter unloaded on Democrats. Jeffrey Peterson says the reason the Democrats will never support the border wall – the reason is that they are being paid off by the Mexican cartels. Jeffrey Peterson states in his profile on Twitter that he is a former Democrat who ‘walked away’. He now is a Trump supporter! He claims that the Democrats will never give in on a wall due to the Democrats being funded by the Mexican mafia. He says he has connections with Arizona politics and says Mexico is the main reason the wall is...

The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan rushed a financial agreement between Turkey and Qatar through Parliament for approval ahead of his decision to turn over a $20 billion tank and pallet factory to a company run jointly by his associates and the Qatari army. The deal, the avoidance of double taxation agreement, came just in the nick of time before the ErdoÄŸan government presented a multibillion-dollar national tank factory on a silver platter to Turkish-Qatari armored vehicle manufacturer BMC, a company run by Ethem Sancak, a member of the MKYK executive body of the ruling Justice and Development...

Former Secretary of State John Kerry spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday during which he took aim at President Trump. Kerry was asked what his message to Trump would be, to which he first hesitated before answering “resign,” CNBC reported Tuesday. “He doesn’t take any of this seriously. He doesn’t have the ability to have that kind of conversation,” Kerry said in his hesitation. His ultimate answer “resign” elicited laughter and applause from the audience. Watch his comments below:

When Kamala Harris looks back on her first campaign, a run for San Francisco district attorney, she remembers a brutal awakening. “San Francisco is hard-knocks politics,” the freshly declared 2020 White House hopeful once said in an interview. “People sling mud. They punch the gut.” San Francisco is indeed a crucible that has forged state and national political leaders in numbers far out of proportion to the city’s relatively small size, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Harris’ fellow U.S. senator, Dianne Feinstein. If she wins, Harris, 54, who announced her candidacy Monday, will be the...