Billionaire Dem Donor Who Turned on the Party After Swalwell Allegations Gets Arrested

The billionaire timeshare kingpin who suddenly ditched former Rep. Eric Swalwell and booted him from his California mansion over sexual misconduct allegations was arrested Tuesday. 

Stephen Cloobeck, the founder of Diamond Resorts International, turned himself in to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department in West Hollywood. He faces a felony charge of attempting to prevent or dissuade a victim or witness from testifying, the California Post reported.

Details on exactly what went down remain fuzzy. He posted $300,000 bail and walked out, per jail records. Fox News Digital asked the sheriff's department and Cloobeck himself for comment. 

"These charges are false, and we look forward to our day in court," a spokesperson for Cloobeck told the newspaper.

Cloobeck, a former gubernatorial candidate, had been backing Swalwell's run for California governor until the sexual assault claims surfaced. That was enough for him to bail on his old pal and the entire Democratic Party.

"I am no longer supporting Eric. F---ing tell everyone I’m a libertarian. F--- you, Democratic Party. I’m a libertarian now," Cloobeck told the Post at the time.

"I am now a Republican," he added to Fox 11 LA.

Swalwell has denied the claims against him in a video filmed inside Cloobeck's home. At the time, Cloobeck, who briefly ran for governor before dropping out and endorsing his former friend, said he kicked Swalwell out of his Beverly Hills mansion, stating that Swalwell "busted the trust" between them.

"I am no longer associated with a man that takes advantage of women," Cloobeck told reporters. "I support women’s rights."

Even in the clown world of California politics, this one has some extra layers of delicious irony. A big-money Dem donor finally sees the light, flips the bird to the party, and now finds himself in legal hot water. Hollywood could not script this stuff any better.

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His girlfriend refused abortion so he held her down and forced abortion drugs into her

Hassan Abbas, a 32-year-old scumcrumpet, could face up to five years in prison after pleading no contest to four felonies: disrupting public services, unlawful distribution of an abortion-inducing drug, identity fraud, and deception to obtain a dangerous drug, according to Lucas County Prosecuting Attorney Julia R. Bates.

According to the Ohio Bar Association, “By entering a no contest plea, he does not accept guilt but acknowledges that facts laid out by prosecution in charging documents are true,” Samira Asma-Sadeque reported for People Magazine.

The State Medical Board of Ohio issued a summary suspension in November 2025. The board said there was “clear and convincing evidence” that his continued practice presents a danger of immediate and serious harm to the public.

The baby died after Abbas, on December 18, allegedly crushed the abortion pills into a powder, according to prosecutors.

Online court records show Abbas was indicted on Dec. 4, 2025, a year after he allegedly carried out the attack, which, according to the prosecutor’s statement, was days in the making, according to Asma-Sadeque’s story.

The notice from the State Medical Board of Ohio reports that the now-former resident surgeon in Toledo, Ohio, was separated from his wife in 2024 when he began sleeping with a woman identified only as “patient 1.”

On December 7th, 2024, when the victim told Abbas she was pregnant, he wanted her to have an abortion which she resisted. Asma-Sadeque explains that around Dec. 11, 2024, Abbas used his former wife’s details, such as her name, birthdate and driver’s license number, to order two abortion drugs online: one 200 mg mifepristone pill and 12 200 mcg misoprostol pills.

Prosecuting Attorney Bates’s press release then explains what happened next:

A week later, on Dec. 18, 2024, Abbas invited the victim to his home in Holland, Ohio. The investigation showed Abbas crushed the abortion pills into a powder. While the victim slept, Abbas, knowing the victim believed she was pregnant and did not want to terminate the pregnancy, climbed on top of her, held her down against her will and shoved the crushed pills into her mouth. 

The victim was able to break free from Abbas and attempted to call 911. Abbas forcefully took the victim’s phone from her hand and hung up the call. The victim later left Abbas’s residence and went to a hospital for treatment. Abbas later left his home and disposed of the remaining abortion medication by throwing it out of the window of his moving vehicle, which made it unavailable for investigative purposes or trial.

“We expect doctors to uphold the highest standards of integrity and professionalism and not abuse another person in such an unacceptable way,” Bates added. “Doctors hold positions of trust and respect in the community, and this conduct represented a serious abuse of that trust. The conclusion of this case will likely never alleviate the trauma experienced by the victim and others who have heard about this case.”

Sentencing is set for June 24, 2026. The judge could impose a sentence of up to 60 months in prison and a fine of up to $15,000.

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ICE Drops ‘Uncontrolled’ Fraud Bombshell Involving Thousands of Foreign Students, ‘Phantom Employees’

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons just dropped a massive reality check on yet another immigration program that's been running wild. Homeland Security Investigations officers have uncovered potentially thousands of fraudulent foreign workers [aka illegal aliens]. Acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons announced that federal investigators have uncovered more than 10,000 foreign students connected to "suspect employers" as part of another potentially massive fraud scheme, this time involving the federal STEM Optional Practical Training (OPT) extension program.  

At a news conference Tuesday, Lyons said the cases uncovered thus far are "just the tip of the iceberg."

OPT is a U.S. immigration program that lets international students on F-1 visas work temporarily in the country in jobs related to their field of study. Lyons said that when the program was first created under the Bush administration and expanded under the Obama administration, the Department of Homeland Security expected "only a few thousand foreign students would receive training approval before returning home."

"Instead," Lyons said, that OPT "ballooned into an uncontrolled guest worker pipeline with hundreds of thousands of foreign students working in the United States." He added that "as the program size exploded, so has the fraud."

"Today, we are announcing we have identified over 10,000 foreign students who claim to be working for highly suspect employers, and that’s just among the top 25 OPT employers. This is only the tip of the iceberg," Lyons said. "We’ve dramatically expanded our oversight of OPT and can report that we found fraud nationwide."

According to Lyons, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officers have visited "problematic OPT worksite employers" in Virginia, Texas, Georgia, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina and Florida. He said that many of the suspicious employers include nongovernmental organizations [NGOs].

According to Lyons, investigators have "discovered empty buildings and locked doors at addresses where hundreds of foreign students are allegedly employed." Investigators have also found hundreds of foreign students listed as working out of residential addresses. But no Learing Centers were discovered in the operation.

"In many places," he continued, "multiple OPT employers claim to operate from the same address, but none actually lease the facility."

"When someone does open the door, their statements are inconsistent, or they claim no knowledge of the business," said Lyons. It's akin to the guy stopped by cops who, when searched say, "These are not my pants."

The ICE director also said investigators uncovered what he referred to as "phantom employees," who he said are foreign students who obtained work authorization through OPT but never actually showed up for work at the sites they claimed to work out of.

"This is not accidental," Lyons concluded. "This is deliberate, coordinated and criminal."

He added that "this fraud is not victimless," calling it a "blatant attack on the goodwill of the American people."

Vice President JD Vance, who President Donald Trump appointed "fraud czar," celebrated the discovery in an X post as "another great win for our fraud task force."

Vance wrote that the administration "will not tolerate foreign nationals abusing our visa system at the expense of the American people."

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Patel posts Van Hollen's bar receipt for imbibing with "gang-banging rapist"

FBI Director Kash Patel cranked up the heat on Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen (D) on Tuesday by blasting out the leftist's eye-watering bar tab from a swanky D.C. spot on social media. 

Patel and Van Hollen went at it during a hearing earlier that day over some Atlantic hit piece claiming the FBI boss has a drinking problem. After the fireworks, Patel dropped a campaign filing from December 12, 2025, showing Van Hollen's operation blew $7,128 at the Lobby Bar in D.C.

“The only person that ran up a $7,000 bar tab in Washington, D.C., at the Lobby Bar was you. The only individual in this room that has been drinking on the taxpayer dime during the day is you,” Patel said during the hearing.

A spokesman for Van Hollen told NBC that “this was a catering charge at a local restaurant where the Senator hosted an after-hours holiday reception as a thank you to the 50+ members of our team, paid for by campaign funds, not taxpayer dollars.”

During Tuesday’s hearing, Van Hollen unloaded on Patel over the drinking-on-the-job smears.“Director Patel, these reports about your conduct, including reports of your being so drunk and hungover that your staff had to force entry into your home, are extremely alarming,” Van Hollen said.

“So, there have been no occasions when your security detail had difficulty waking or locating you?” Van Hollen asked Patel.

“Nope, it’s a total farce. I don’t even know where you get this stuff, but it doesn’t make it credible, because you say so,” Patel fired back.

Patel has already slapped The Atlantic with a defamation lawsuit over the anonymous-source hit job. When Van Hollen kept swinging, Patel clapped back with a photo from El Salvador President Nayib Bukele showing the Democrat senator cozying up to accused MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia at a table that sure looked like it featured margaritas.

Bukele captioned the photo by saying that Abrego Garcia was “sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador.”

“Unlike your baseless reports, the only person that was slinging margaritas in El Salvador on the taxpayer dollar with a convicted gang-banging rapist was you,” Patel said.

Both Patel and Van Hollen dared each other to take sobriety tests right there in the hearing. Classic.

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Anti-Semitic/anti-Israel protester who interrupted Super Bowl LIX halftime show found guilty

The Super Bowl LIX halftime performer who decided to play protester by unfurling a pro-Palestinian flag on the field of the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans has been convicted in court and now faces a fine and possible jail time.

Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu was found guilty of resisting police, according to the Associated Press.

Nantambu, 41, is looking at up to a $500 fine and six months in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced on June 1.

The guy was originally tapped to be part of Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime performance on Feb. 9, 2025, but things went sideways when he yanked a flag of Sudan and Palestinian territories sewn together out of his wardrobe and took off running across the field waving it like a complete genius.

Security and law enforcement personnel chased Nantambu, but he refused to comply with their commands to stop, according to Louisiana State Police.

Nantambu eventually surrendered. He was booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center on charges of resisting an officer and disturbing the peace by interruption of a lawful assembly.Chief Judge Juana Marine-Lombard this week found him guilty only of the resisting an officer charge, which is a misdemeanor.

"We appreciate the chief judge's careful consideration of the evidence and the decision to hold this individual accountable for resisting law enforcement officers who work every day to protect our communities," Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said in a statement.

While Nantambu's sentencing may or may not land him actual jail time, he does face a steep penalty from the NFL.

The NFL previously banned Nantambu from all future league events for life.

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North Korea Updates Constitution To Automatically Nuke Everyone If Anyone So Much As Looks At Kim Jong Un Funny

PYONGYANG—In a bold move to ensure that the glorious eternal paradise of North Korea remains a thriving utopia even after its Dear Leader is turned into radioactive confetti, the hermit kingdom has amended its constitution to legally require a full-scale retaliatory nuclear strike in the event that Kim Jong Un is assassinated by any meddling foreign power.

The aggressive pivot comes as a direct response to the events of February 28th, when a joint U.S. and Israeli military operation resulted in the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his inner circle during a targeted strike on his Tehran compound. North Korean officials reportedly watched the footage on state TV, paused it, rewound it, and immediately said, “Yeah, we’re not doing that.”

By codifying this “dead hand” policy, Pyongyang aims to establish an irreversible deterrent against decapitation strikes, signaling that the removal of its leadership would trigger an automatic and catastrophic escalation to “everyone has a very bad day.”

“If the command-and-control system over the state’s nuclear forces is placed in danger by hostile forces’ attacks … a nuclear strike shall be launched automatically and immediately,” read the revised Article 3 of North Korea’s nuclear-policy law.

The constitutional revision was likely ratified during a session of North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly that convened in Pyongyang on March 22nd, with the details subsequently briefed to senior South Korean government officials who probably responded with a polite golf clap and several stiff drinks.

According to reporting by the New York Times, this information was only disclosed to the public last week. While Kim Jong Un already maintains absolute authority over the nation’s nuclear arsenal—along with the nation’s haircuts, the nation’s emotions, and the nation’s supply of functioning light bulbs—this specific constitutional amendment codifies a formal protocol for the nuclear forces to follow in the event of his assassination, presumably by turning every missile silo into a giant “Launch If Fat Man Dies” button.

By explicitly outlining these retaliatory measures, the update transforms a matter of personal command into a rigid state directive, ensuring a definitive response even in the absence of the supreme leader. Because nothing says “stable regime” like guaranteeing mutually assured destruction from beyond the grave.

“This may have been policy before, but it has added emphasis now it has been enshrined in the constitution. Iran was the wake-up call. North Korea saw the remarkable efficiency of the U.S.-Israeli decapitation attacks, which immediately eliminated the greater part of the Iranian leadership, and they must now be terrified,” said Andrei Lankov, an international relations professor at Kookmin University in Seoul, South Korea.

In addition to the new nuclear protocols, the constitutional revision includes amendments that formally define North Korea’s sovereign territory and excise long-standing references to “peaceful reunification,” which was always code for “we’ll invade them the second they let their guard down.”

Notably, the update to Article 2 marks the first time the country has incorporated a specific territorial clause into its constitution, explicitly stating that North Korea’s boundaries encompass the land bordering the People’s Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation to the north and the Republic of Korea to the south.

According to analysts, this geographical clarification serves to legally solidify the permanent division of the peninsula and represents Pyongyang’s rejection of a shared national identity with Seoul. Or, in simpler terms: “We hate you guys, please stay on your side of the DMZ, and if you kill our God-King we will glass the planet. Thanks.”

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Disturbing details about what Hamas did to Israelis on October 7

WARNING: The content of this post may be disturbing to many individuals, but I feel that it must be made known.

Former newspaper The New York Times, has become a disgusting propaganda rag that yesterday said Israel abused Palestinians, including training dogs to rape prisoners. Anyone with a functioning cortex knows by now that allegation has been debunked and condemned.

Finally, we are now learning even more of the sick, depraved behavior of Hamasshole terrorists toward Israelis, including men, women, children and babies, on October 7, 2023.

Among the mutilated and butchered bodies of young women slaughtered on October 7, it was their colorful, polished nails that many of the morgue staff remember.

Hamas-led scum had not just executed these women. They had “deliberately and systematically” defiled them, as the most comprehensive account of the atrocity released by The Civil Commission today shows.

The terrorists shot their eyes, their faces and their breasts, and even targeted their most intimate parts, to destroy their beauty and rob their loved ones of a final goodbye. The bast***ds even used GoPro cameras to record their atrocities.

Women were stripped, bound, stabbed, shot and burned. They were executed both during and after rape amid an orgy of violence in which 1,200 people were killed and 250 taken hostage. Heads were decapitated. Pelvic bones shattered. Even after death, sexual assault continued. A grotesque, medieval obsession with sexual organs pervaded the crime scenes at the Nova Festival and in the Kibbutzim near Gaza.

This is disgusting. This is monstrous, and it is precisely what anyone who chants “globalize the intifada” is, in effect, endorsing. And if this post gets taken off my blog, then that's another censoring of free speech.

It is almost unbearable to contemplate. Yet it is even more breathtaking to watch people in the West defend and justify such savagery, not despite their hatred of Jews and Israel, but because of it.

That, too, is part of the moral collapse we are witnessing.

And unlike the equivocations that sometimes appear in outlets such as The New York Times, Hamas proudly recorded these atrocities for posterity. We have hundreds of witnesses and more than two years of painstaking research.

That is exactly what happened and anyone who condones it, is evil.

And still segments of the Western Left justify it, including figures such as Hasan Piker, who have found ways to excuse the systematic rape of Israeli women.

If they can justify this in Israel, they will justify it in Europe and America too. The same ideological sickness travels.

Yes, it does. The world must see Hamas for what it truly is—especially as Hamas and Hezbollah sympathisers march through the streets of New York, and as a Hezbollah-linked terrorist recently attempted to murder Jews in Michigan.

This is the barbarism the anti-Semitic Left now supports and excuses. And in doing so, it reveals far more about itself than it ever intended.

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Walz's Minnesota: Million-Dollar SNAP Fraud Scheme In Governor's Backyard Sparks Outrage: 'Cruel Joke'

T. Tim Walz

In a shocking development that has left exactly zero people who have been paying attention to Minnesota even mildly surprised, authorities have uncovered a million-dollar food stamp fraud operation running right in Tim Walz's backyard, as if he was clueless.

The scheme, which authorities described as involving "a high degree of sophistication," apparently consisted of buying stuff at Sam's Club and Costco and then reselling it; truly the kind of criminal mastermindery that would make Ocean's Eleven look like a grocery run, and might actually eliminate Walz from suspicion for that reason.

Abdidwahid Mohamed, owner of the creatively named Minnesota Food Grocery LLC, allegedly racked up $1,141,082 in EBT payments using cards registered to other people. Investigators say they watched him make the purchases, followed him back to his store, and confirmed it all with surveillance and GPS. Many of the actual cardholders were either out of the country or insisted they never shopped at those stores. Shocking to think that such skulduggery exists in Minnesota.

"Mohamed received $1,141,082 in EBT payments," according to the complaint, which added that the plan "involved a high degree of sophistication or planning or occurred over a lengthy period of time."

Mohamed faces up to only 20 years in prison or a $100,000 fine if found guilty, penalties that in Minnesota probably come with a participation trophy and a strongly worded letter.

Minnesota Congressman Tom Emmer is demanding accountability from Governor Tim Walz amid the state's broader fraud woes, including a staggering $9 billion Medicaid probe. Emmer alleges Walz is either incompetent or complicit in the theft of taxpayer funds, highlighting what critics call a thriving culture of corruption. One thing for sure, if Walz is complicit, he's certainly not the mastermind.

"Minneapolis didn't become America's fraud capital by accident," Dalia al-Aqidi (a Republican running for Congress in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District against Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar) told Fox News Digital. "It was earned. This week, it's a grocer charged with running up $1.1 million in charges on other people's EBT cards. Next week, it will be something else, but the bill always lands on the Minnesotans who actually pay taxes."

Aqidi says that families tell her "affordability" is what "keeps them up night" and the "cruel joke is that the money is here to really make a difference for people."

"It is just lining the wrong pockets and paying for luxury cars and houses on the other side of the world. The fraudsters are only half the story. The other half are the people administering these programs, from the front lines all the way up to Ilhan Omar, Attorney General Keith Ellison, and Governor Tim Walz. There has been talk about ending fraud in Minnesota for years. I am going to Washington to actually do it."

Two Republican lawmakers echoed the frustration. State Sen. Mark Koran called it "yet another example of why Minnesota is target number one for fraudsters."

"The sheer volume of welfare programs, combined with the inability of state agencies to detect obvious fraud is alarming. Once again, it was a private retailer, not the state, that uncovered this fraud scheme," Koran added, referencing the suspect being initially flagged by Walmart’s Global Investigation Team.

"All individuals involved, including the people that sold their EBT cards to Abdi Mohamed, have to be fully prosecuted," Koran said. People who come here to steal from hardworking Minnesota taxpayers deserve serious consequences.

State Sen. Michael Holmstrom kept it real: "This may be the laziest one yet."

"We had this guy, Abdi Mohamed, and he named his scam company 'Minnesota Food Grocery LLC.' They aren’t even trying, because they have been conditioned to believe there are no consequences."

The bust comes as part of a larger fraud scandal centered in Minnesota's social services programs, particularly within the Somali community, and a fresh Trump administration push against food stamp abuse.

"Since its inception, SNAP has helped our most vulnerable citizens afford the essential and nutritious food they need," Rollins and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote in a Fox News op-ed in March. "At least, that is what the program is supposed to do.

"Over time, however, SNAP has been taken advantage of, allowing many to game the system and leaving millions of vulnerable Americans without healthy, nutrient-dense food options."

In related news, Minnesota officials continue to express bewilderment that when you create a massive, poorly supervised pile of free money, people occasionally treat it like a pile of free money. Walz could not be reached for comment, as he was reportedly busy checking the state couch cushions for another $9 billion.

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