Another Dem lawmaker arrested on federal fraud charges in wild corruption scandal

Well, folks, the Massachusetts Democrat machine just keeps churning out corruption like it’s auditioning for a Scorsese flick. The latest poster boy for Bay State shadiness is State Representative Christopher Flanagan (D-First Barnstable), who got himself arrested Thursday after a federal indictment slapped him with five counts of wire fraud and one count of falsification of records. Why? Oh, just a little scheme to swipe tens of thousands from a local trade association to bankroll his midlife crisis.

This Cape Cod con artist allegedly funneled the pilfered cash into everything from mortgage payments to Macy’s menswear—because nothing screams “man of the people” like a crisp new sports coat. But wait, it gets better: Flanagan also dropped coin on psychic services (guess the spirits didn’t warn him about the feds), kids’ toys, and—naturally—his 2022 campaign. Classy.

Flanagan, 37, reps the quaint Cape towns of Dennis, Yarmouth, and Brewster, but he might be trading those seaside views for a 120-year prison stint if convicted. He was nabbed Thursday morning and is set to face a federal judge at 2:30 p.m. Wonder if he’ll wear one of those fancy ties he bought with stolen money.
The feds’ indictment reads like a bad crime novel. Back in 2021, while Flanagan was playing Executive Officer at the Home Builders Association of Cape Cod (HBA), his personal finances were a dumpster fire—overdraft fees, missed mortgage payments, the works. So, like any upstanding public servant, he allegedly started looting the nonprofit to the tune of at least $36,000 via wire transfers, PayPal, and official checks. Here’s a taste of his shopping spree:Over a grand on ties, dress shirts, and sports coats—because embezzlement demands a sharp look.

 
Hundreds for psychic readings. (Maybe he was asking, “Will I get caught?” Spoiler: Yes.)
Campaign t-shirts disguised as “office supplies.” Subtle.

 
Toys and kids’ clothes from Target—because even crooks love a bargain.

To cover his tracks, Flanagan allegedly cooked up fake expense reports and hacked into the HBA’s bookkeeping system using another employee’s credentials. According to the U.S. Attorney, he passed off luxury splurges as “office supplies” or “travel expenses.” Real genius move there, Chris.

The MA Attorney’s Office laid it bare:

 
As part of his concealment, it is alleged that Flanagan told the HBA Board that he withdrew funds to reimburse himself for HBA-related expenses that he had paid for out-of-pocket with his personal funds.

When the HBA Board requested proof, Flanagan allegedly provided two phony expense reports:

On the first expense report, Flanagan allegedly claimed he had spent $159.36 on “Technology Expenses” at Best Buy on March 4, 2022 and $537.26 on “Office Supplies” at 4Imprint on April 18, 2022.

Records of the actual purchases, however, allegedly showed that the Best Buy purchase was for a portable Bluetooth speaker and that the 4Imprint purchase was for t-shirts supporting Flanagan’s State Representative campaign:

Additionally, in the second expense report, Flanagan allegedly claimed to have spent a total of $3,784.84 on “Office Supplies.” Records of the actual purchases, however, allegedly showed that $2,118.10 of this amount was actually used for Flanagan’s personal expenses.

Specifically: $613.70 and $361.24 Best Buy purchases were allegedly for an electric dryer and an air conditioner, both delivered to Flanagan’s home; a $1,050.30 Macy’s purchase allegedly for men’s ties, dress shirts, slacks and sports coats; and a $92.86 purchase at Target allegedly for children’s clothes and toys.

But Flanagan’s grift didn’t stop at stealing. When the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF) started sniffing around a shady 2022 campaign mailer from a supposed group called “Conservatives for Dennis,” he went full soap opera. The guy allegedly invented a fake persona—meet “Jeanne Louise”—and set up email accounts to play her and others, all to throw OCPF off his trail. When they questioned a $10,000 campaign donation that magically appeared post-theft, Flanagan swore it was his own money. Bank records? Yeah, they showed $42 in his account days earlier. Smooth.

As of now, this guy’s still warming a seat in office, pocketing a taxpayer-funded salary north of $100,000 a year. If convicted, he’s looking at up to 120 years in the slammer and $1.5 million in fines. A federal judge will decide his fate, but I’m guessing “psychic services” won’t help him now.

The MassGOP is, unsurprisingly, fed up, demanding Flanagan’s immediate resignation. Their statement didn’t mince words:

 
The Massachusetts Republican Party is calling on the Massachusetts Democratic Party to demand the immediate resignation of State Representative Chris Flanagan, who was arrested this week on federal fraud charges. The charges allege that Flanagan stole tens of thousands of dollars from his former employer to finance his political campaign, pay his mortgage and credit cards, and fund personal expenses including psychic services and high-end menswear.

“This is not the first time the Massachusetts Republican Party has called for Chris Flanagan to resign,” said MassGOP Chairwoman Amy Carnevale. “Back in January, when the Office of Campaign and Political Finance found Flanagan responsible for violating campaign finance laws—including fabricating a false alias to intentionally mislead his constituents—we said then that he had no place in public office. The federal charges only confirm what was already evident: Chris Flanagan is unfit to serve, and Massachusetts Democrats must demand his resignation now.”

Carnevale didn’t stop there, pointing out that Flanagan’s just one rotten apple in a very moldy Democrat barrel:

 
“The Massachusetts Democratic Party has a serious problem,” continued Carnevale. “This is not about isolated bad actors—it’s about a culture of corruption and entitlement that’s gone unchecked for far too long. The MassDems must demonstrate they are capable of holding their own accountable, starting with calling for Chris Flanagan’s resignation today.”

She’s not wrong. In just the past two weeks, Boston City Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson (yep, another Dem) pleaded guilty to fraud and is somehow still in office. Then there’s a high-ranking MassDems operative nabbed for crimes too vile to print here. And now Flanagan’s playing Bernie Madoff with nonprofit funds. Pattern? You bet.

So, will the Massachusetts Dems finally grow a spine and boot Flanagan? Or will they keep circling the wagons around their own, as usual? I’m not holding my breath, but the popcorn’s ready.

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Former Sen. Menendez learns his fate in corruption, bribery case

Former Democratic Senator from New Jersey, Robert Menendez, has finally learned his fate in the bribery and corruption case that had him resigning his seat in disgrace.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “As the grand jury charged, between 2018 and 2022, Senator Menendez and his wife engaged in a corrupt relationship with Wael Hana, Jose Uribe, and Fred Daibes – three New Jersey businessmen who collectively paid hundreds of thousands of dollars of bribes, including cash, gold, a Mercedes Benz, and other things of value – in exchange for Senator Menendez agreeing to use his power and influence to protect and enrich those businessmen and to benefit the Government of Egypt. My Office is firmly committed to rooting out corruption, without fear or favor, and without any regard to partisan politics. We will continue to do so.”

In June 2022, the FBI raided the New Jersey home of Menendez and his lovely wife Nadine. During the search, they uncovered evidence of a bribery scheme, which included cash, gold bars, a luxury convertible, and furniture. They found more than $480,000 in cash, a lot of it hidden in envelopes stuffed into clothes, closets, and a safe. Additionally, over $70,000 in cash was discovered in Nadine Menendez's safe deposit box, which was searched under a different warrant. Some envelopes had fingerprints or DNA from Daibes or his driver. Others were tucked inside jackets with Menendez's name on them, hanging in his closet. 

But today is the day of reckoning. Bob Menendez got sentenced to 11 years in prison and his career in public life is in the toilet of time. Boss Bob, as he is known in the Garden State, had evaded accountability for his shady schemes but his past has finally caught up to him.

Did I mention Menendez is a Democrat?

In 2015, the Obama Justice Department tried to convict him regarding his relationship with a Florida-based ophthalmologist and donor, Salomon Melgen. In return for allegedly pushing his business interests, Melgen plied him with expensive gifts. Later, the business man would be found guilty of being involved in a Medicare fraud scheme. And while Menendez was able to skate by the law, the Justice Department kept an eye on him.

In 2023, he was indicted after almost $500,000 in cash was discovered throughout his home, including a horde of gold bars. He earned the moniker “gold bar Bob” over this discovery.

Last July, a jury found him guilty on all counts.

His sentencing came hours after the judge sentenced developer Fred Daibes to seven years behind bars for bribery.

For now, Nadine Menendez hasn't been sentenced. She was charged alongside Bob, a Democrat, but her trial has been indefinitely delayed as she is undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Her trial was to start on March 18, 2025, after a previous delay. The judge stated there will be no further extensions.

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Mexico blames migrant deaths on Texas buoys: Abbott says that's "Flat-out wrong"

In an attempt to eliminate US border barriers to keep illegal aliens out of the country, the Mexican government has blamed the deaths of two illegal aliens on the floating buoy installed in the Rio Grande. Gosh, it's almost as if Mexican officials are getting paid off by the cartels to make their job smuggling people into the United States easier.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) scoffed at the claim.

On Wednesday, two corpses were found near buoys in the river that are part of the buoy installment and the Mexican government was on the case before anyone else discovered this tragedy. Mexico informed the public about the incident and linked the deaths to the floating buoys. 

Gee, when you come to think of it, wouldn't buoys help people who were drowning rather than cause them to drown?

Anyway, Abbott's office called the finger-pointing balderdash, fully rejecting the claim.

“The Mexican government is flat-out wrong,” Abbott’s spokesman Andrew Mahaleris said, according to the Washington Examiner. 

“To be clear, preliminary information points to the drowning occurring before the body was even near the barriers. The Texas Department of Public Safety previously reported to Border Patrol the dead body floating upstream from the barriers in the Rio Grande.”

Is it possible a card carrying cartel tour guide stuck the bodies by the buoys to create a scene supporting Mexico's theory? But that would be dishonest.

The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it was notified by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) about a “lifeless body caught in the southern part of the buoys.” Texas DPS Lt. Chris Olivarez, however, said the river’s stream moved the dead body “down into the buoy,” explaining that the buoy did not lead to the death, the Examiner reported. The 1,000-foot stretch of buoys is placed in a shallow area where it is easy to walk across the river, according to Olivarez. 

“The water is between knee and waist level,” Olivarez said. “There’s no way the body would have drowned there. … There’s nothing in the buoy — no objects, no sharp objects, no wire, no hook.”

Unless the buoys were remotely controlled by an evil Texan that could cause it to grab an illegal alien and drag them under.

Olivarez said Mexico acknowledged the second body recovered was found “miles upstream from the marine barriers,” which blows the theory out of the water. 

Mexico claimed that Abbott’s barrier in the river is a “violation of our sovereignty.”

Yeah, but sovereignty goes both ways.  

“We express our concern about the impact on the human rights and personal safety of immigrants that these state policies will have, which go in the opposite direction to the close collaboration between our country and the federal government of the United States,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

Sounds like Mexico, the cartels and the Biden administration are working hand-in-glove to keep illegal border crossings as copious as possible.

The Biden administration has targeted Abbott for installing the buoys, filing a lawsuit against Texas last month. The Department of Justice claims that it was unlawful for Texas to put up the barriers and said there were humanitarian concerns. 

If the Biden administration was really concerned about humanitarian concerns, they would be concerned for U.S. citizens living near the borders whose land is being overrun by illegals and for those in American towns and cities where the homeless crisis has gotten out of hand. If they were really concerned about the humanitarian situation, the administration would make it clear to those who would seek illegal entry into the US that they would be wasting their time--this would save countless lives of those who die in the process.

“The floating barrier poses a risk to navigation, as well as public safety, in the Rio Grande River, and it presents humanitarian concerns,” a warning letter from the department said.

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AOC has no idea what dangers TikTok poses to US

Largemouth Lass

If Rep. Alexandria Obviously-Comatose (Socialist-NY) had any idea of the threats that the Chinese Communist Party's company TikTok poses on the American people, she probably wouldn't be shilling for them, but maybe she would, come to think of it.

The House of Representatives recently held a series of congressional hearings regarding TikTik and the company's control by communist China. Even the engineers in China had to admit that the company does indeed have access to personal information of many millions of Americans, and thus, so does the Chinese government, which would use that information for their goals, and those conflict with ours.

When asked about the horrendous security issue, TikTok's CEO claimed that criticism of his company and the Chinese government is xenophobia and even when pressed, he refused to comment on the Uyghur genocide.

Another group supporting the invented right that China has the right to have our information is the Democrat Party, at least some of their members. Rep. Comatose, for example, put out her "first" TikTok and heaped praise on the communist company's spy operation.

ICYMI: @AOC has joined tiktok to talk about tiktok — & she’s spot on📲🫡👏pic.twitter.com/QwqsXNWq94

— Annie Wu (all socials: @annie_wu_22) (@Annie_Wu_22) March 25, 2023

While Wu obviously supports AOC, it isn't known if she has slept with Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) as of now.

Granted, some Democrats actually see the problems that allowing TikTok to operate under the cloak of communist China can cause. Having our information is like having influence over us as the company learns more about us, item by item.

But is AOC merely defending and lauding them out of ignorance, of which she has more than her fair share, or is it because TikTok's parent company, Bytedance, gave the Hispanic Congressional Caucus Foundation $150,000 this past December, and AOC sits on the advisory board? Hmm.

Another Democrat Rep. Jamal Bowman (D-NY) also supports the communists and has decided to be vocal about it. Can it be that he supports China spying on us because Bytedance has supported the Congressional Black Caucus, which Bowman also sits on its board. And there are additional Democrats who sit on the boards of these two foundations who have been greased by Bytedance.

Money talks, patriotism walks. Is that the way it's going to be? 

Leftists like Comatose and Bowman don't mind selling Americans' personal information to China as long as the wheels of their foundations are greased with donations. They could care less about the average person, even while AOC pretends to care about the little guy while she profits and goes to Met Galas and create a corruption scandal in her "Tax the Rich" dress.

"Let them eat crickets."

Investigate everyone who supports TikTok spying on us.

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Democrat Senator under investigation . . . again

According to Semafor, Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez (NJ) is the subject of a new federal investigation, they reported Wednesday. Prosecutors contacted those connected with Menendez and at least one subpoena has been issued.

This isn't the senator's first rodeo. In 2015, he and Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen were indicted whereby Melgen allegedly provided flights on a private jet and expensive vacations in exchange for Menendez's helping him out with government contracts, among other scummy things.

Sadly, the case ended in a mistrial in 2017 as the jury failed to reach a verdict. According to the senator's lawyers, he and Melgen were merely good friends without benefits.

Now it appears that the new probe is similar to the 2017 case, according to sources who wish to remain anonymous to avoid future mishaps. But these sources say that in this case, other people are involved, not the same original alleged miscreants as before.

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Spokesman for Menendez, Francisco Pelayo, would not comment on the report, nor would a spokesman for the Southern District of New York.

But Menendez isn't worried. Corruption cases have historically been hard to prove, even when it involves a former President and the late, not so great, Jeffrey Epstein.

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Joe Biden busted by whistleblowers: knew and may have been involved with Hunter's shenanigans

Whistleblower documents reveal that President Biden was aware of his son Hunter's shady business deals and may have even been directly involved in at least some of them, according to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA). He implied that the FBI has "voluminous evidence" regarding the possible criminality of those business ventures. If this can be proved, President Joseph Robinette Biden could be the first U.S. President indicted without a functioning brain.

Sen. Grassley sent a leter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray and U.S. Attorney for Delaware David Weiss on Monday morning. The letter specifies new allegations by whistleblowers that the bureau possesses "significant, impactful and voluminous evidence with respect to potential criminal conduct by Hunter Biden and the president's brother, James Biden." 

David Weiss has oversight of the Hunter Biden investigation.

Grassley explained that the FBI has a series of documents related to information on Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings. The president's brain addled son, Hunter, sat on the board of that company. Hunter's major qualification for that position is his ability to successfully snort an entire eight ball from the belly button of a prostitute.

"The documents in the FBI’s possession include specific details with respect to conversations by non-government individuals relevant to potential criminal conduct by Hunter Biden," Grassley wrote.

"These documents also indicate that Joe Biden was aware of Hunter Biden’s business arrangements and may have been involved in some of them," the Iowa Senator said. He added it is "unclear whether the FBI followed normal investigative procedure to determine the truth and accuracy of the information or shut down investigative activity based on improper disinformation claims in advance of the 2020 election."

"It is also unclear whether U.S. Attorney Weiss has performed his own due diligence on these and related allegations," Grassley wrote.

Senators Grassley and Ron Johnson (R-WI) led an investigation into Hunter Biden  in 2019 and found that Obama administration officials "knew" that Hunter Biden’s position on the board of Burisma was "problematic" and that it interfered "in the efficient execution of policy with respect to Ukraine."

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But you know that nothing is going to happen to the Biden circus clowns. They are all judgment-proof because the laws don't work the same for them and us. I could go on and discuss how the Bidens were outed by Tony Bobulinski on Tucker Carlson's show "Tucker Carlson Tonight," but that won't matter. They will most probably get away with it like they've been getting away with it for years. 

"Rules for thee, not so much for me."

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Hunter Biden's China chicanery includes Whitey Bulger's nephew, John Kerry's stepson, a village idiot and the town wh*re

Former vice president Joe "It's a Big F***ing Deal" Biden's son Hunter, partnered with former mob boss and currently dead, Whitey Bulger's nephew and former secretary of state John "Hair Plugs" Kerry stepson, for his sweetheart business deal with Bank of China, according to Peter Schweizer in his latest book.

It's possible, Schweizer believes, that the reason Joe is so ready to placate China is because of Hunter's relationship with the $1.5 billion private equity investment between the bank and Hunter's company in a deal that was signed just weeks after Joe brought Hunter along on an "official trip" to China back in 2013.

Also in 2013, Hunter joined the U.S. Naval Reserve and was able to receive an age-related waiver since he was over the cut-off age of 42. As fortune would have it, he was also able to receive a waiver due to a past drug-related incident. He was granted a direct commission as a Naval ensign and served in public affairs in Norfolk, Virginia . In 2014 he was thrown out of the Navy for testing positive for cocaine but claimed he ingested it involuntarily. However, he declined to fight the discharge.

Hunter's brother, Beau, died of brain cancer May 30, 2015 and soon after Hunter, who was married at the time, had an affair with Beau's widow in 2016 until they broke it off the following year as Hunter moved on to "greener fields" to plow.

Uncle Whitey

In terms of the $1.5 billion deal with Hunter's company, he partnered with the Thornton Group, and not the Billy Bob Thornton Group but the one headed by James [aka Jimmy] Bulger, son of MA state senator Billy Bulger. James was named after his now deceased uncle, James "Whitey" Bulger, a notorious mobster/murderer that put him on the FBI's Most Wanted list, and who was snuffed in prison.

Hunter also partnered with Chris Heinz, the son of ketchup queen Teresa Heinz Kerry, making him the stepson of John Kerry. Chris and Hunter control Rosemont Seneca Partners, a private equity firm that received billions of investment bucks from, you guessed it, China.

A representative for Heinz claims Chris' involvement in the deal has been "misreported." He says that neither he nor his firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners, had any role in the deal. He says an unaffiliated second firm, Rosemont Seneca Bohai, is the firm doing business with Bank of China, and that Heinz is not involved. The representative also says the closest Heinz has come to being in China is a Chinese restaurant called Sum Ting Wong.

Schweizer's book, Secret Empires, should be required reading for people who want to better understand how political elites accumulate wealth by their political power.


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Entire W. Va. Supreme Court justices impeached

They look so innocent and nice

Trials will be held in West Virginia beginning next month for all 4 Supreme Court justices in spite of Democratic efforts to remove the charges against some of them, which were rejected.

The state Senate voted on Tuesday voted down a resolution to drop the articles of impeachment against Robin Davis, who retired soon after she was impeached last month by the House of Delegates.

The vote was held after Senate President Mitch Carmichael, ruled in a separate resolution that to censure justices Beth Walker and Margaret Workman, rather than subjecting them to impeachment trials, was out of order. Had that resolution been approved, they would have kept their seats on the court and continued their miscreant behavior.

Trial dates are set for Oct. 1 for Walker, Oct. 15 for Workman, Oct. 29 for Davis and Nov. 15 for suspended Justice Allen Loughry.

The Senate, comprised of 34 members will serve as a jury and some from the House of Delegates will serve as prosecutors. If convicted, the justice would be disqualified from holding public office but will not be banned from Twitter and will be permitted to say anything at all, so long as it is against POTUS, Kavanaugh, Pence, Fox News or the NRA.

Democratic lawmakers, who hold minorities in the House and Senate, and who are hoping to get illegal aliens into West Virginia to vote Democrat, have characterized the impeachments as an "unprecedented power grab by the GOP," Fox News reported.

The reason for impeachments in these cases stem from questions involving office renovations for the justices. Davis spent a whopping $503,000 in taxpayer money; Loughry spent $367,000; only $131,000 was spent by Walker; and a paltry $113,000 by Workman.

Evidently, they installed swimming pools and saunas in their offices.

The questions became accusations or corruption, incompetence and neglect of duty.

The aforementioned censure agreement made with House managers was announced earlier Thursday, but Ohio County Republican Sen. Ryan Ferns, objected to a resolution to approve the agreement because he said it would be premature to make a decision without hearing any evidence. After some back and forth, Carmichael agreed.

Loughry was the only justice at the Tuesday hearing. A 25-count federal indictment against him alleges, in part, that he repeatedly lied about using his office for personal gain.

A fifth justice, Menis Ketchum, [aka Denis the Menis Ketchum] resigned in July and pleaded guilty in August to a felony count of fraud related to his personal use of a state vehicle and gas fuel card. He faces up to 20 years in prison. Imagine his embarrassment when an inmate named Tiny asks him, "Hey, what aya in for?" and he tells him, "I used a government car and gassed it up with a government gas card."

Don't drop the soap, Menis, and maybe get a few interesting face tattoos.

The departures of Ketchum and Davis ahead of a deadline for justices to step down or be removed means their replacements will be decided by the voters, not gubernatorial appointments. A special election will be held in November.

If the Senate convicts any other justices, Gov. Jim Justice [seriously] would name their replacements. And with a name like "Big Jim Justice," you know he's going to make the right choices.

And they took Kris Paronto's Twitter account away for tweeting the truth.


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BREAKING: Rep. Duncan Hunter and wife indicted on corruption charges

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) and his wife, Margaret, were indicted on charges of converting campaign funds for personal expenses and filing false records. That is illegal and if true, Hunter is in big trouble.

Hunter was born in San Diego, California and is the son of former congressman Duncan Lee Hunter. He graduated from Granite Hills High School, in El Cajon, and San Diego State University and earned a degree in Business Administration.

On September 12, 2001, the day after the terrorist attacks, Hunter quit his job and joined the US Marine Corps. He attended Officer Candidates School in Quantico and graduated in March 2002 and commissioned as a Second Lieutenant and served as a field artillery officer in the 1st Marine Division, the oldest and largest  active duty division in the Marine Corps after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He completed a second tour in Falluhah, Iraq and participated in Operation Vigilant Resolve.

Hunter was honorably discharged from active duty in September 2005 but remained in the Marine Corps Reserve. In 2007 he was recalled to active duty and deployed to Afghanistan on a third tour of duty now in the War on Terrorism [which is a rather stupid name for a war, being that terrorism is a tactic and you don't fight a war against a tactic]. He was promoted to Major in 2012.

It so totally sucks that Hunter has been indicted on these charges and I hope that he's innocent. If he is found to be guilty, then he has made the biggest mistake of his life along with his wife. But when charges like this come up, it generally doesn't bode well for the accused.

This is a developing story and more will follow. Keep your fingers crossed.


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Brooklyn assemblywoman resigns before fraud trial

Albany -- Pamela Harris, a Brooklyn assemblywoman, [no relation to Kamala Harris] resigned on Monday. 

Harris, a Democrat, was indicted in January on a boatload of fraud and corruption charges along with multiple counts of wire and bankruptcy fraud and making false statements, witness tampering and conspiracy.

She announced her resignation in a letter to Carl E. Heastie, the Bronx Democrat and speaker of the Assembly [of crooked liberals]. The letter said that "recent events interfere with my ability to continue to effectively represent my constituents." 

Yes, it's difficult representing your constituents from the slammer.

The dishonorable Ms Harris has been accused of a potpourri of schemes including falsely claiming to have been displaced from her Coney Island home by damage inflicted by Hurricane Sandy. She pocketed $25,000 in federal disaster funds for that one.

She is also accused of siphoning money from a nonprofit organization she ran, Coney Island Generation Gap, to pay personal expenses that included her mortgage and shopping trips to Victoria's Secret. She pleaded not guilty and refused to drop her drawers to see a pair in her latest "Dream Angel" collection. 

Coney Island Parachute Jump
Photo: Rob Hoey

She pleaded not guilty.

Her lawyer, Jerry H. Goldfeder [yes, she hired a smart Jewish lawyer] said that Ms. Harris had served through recent state budget process and had "resigned to fully address her pending case."

If she's anything like Hillary Clinton, she walk free and blame Trump.

Harris, a retired corrections officer [aka: a "screw"] is expected go to trial in July.


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Maxine Waters wants white folks to pay black folks reparation

If Democrats win the House in this year's midterms, crazy Maxine Waters promises that white people will pay black people for being black people. It's called reparations but it doesn't repair anything, but it certainly does make everyone angry and divided.

And I suspect Waters has a plan to pocket some of those nice reparations all for herself. After all, she had been named  one of the most corrupt members of Congress by  Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. 

Waters appeared in Selma, Alabama on Saturday with CNN commie Angela Rye. She attacked President Trump, which is her main political platform, saying: "He's a bully--he has a bully mentality." Of course, she never gave specifics but that usually doesn't matter when you're preaching to the choir.

"We need someone in the presidency who not only has good sense, but understands diplomacy and understands what we need to do to have peace in this world so we can all look forward to the possibility that we're someday going to have a world that's about peace and justice and respect for individual liberty," she said, not mentioning how that can be done when the world still has North Korea, China, Russia, Iran and other dictatorships that would like to destroy us.

Comrade Rye asked the raving lunatic "Is that your stump speech for 2020?" 

Waters giggled like a little confused child as the crowd applauded. Rye went on, "Is she running? Is she running?"

Oh, I hope so, but Waters didn't answer due to a low hearing aide battery, perhaps.

The an attendee pushed Waters to call for reparations and take up a bill John Conyers sponsored in this House previously.

Waters said she would call for reparations. "I'd be happy to do that. That's no problem," she shouted through her dentures.

"In order to get where we need to go on this issue and other issues, we really got to understand that 2018 is important in taking back the House and taking back the Senate," she said, adding, "And of course, we've got to get the White House back."

She ended her bloviating by criticizing HUD Secretary Dr. Ben Carson. She told the crazed audience that she was going to "take care" of him, which sounds either like a threat or a sexual innuendo.

Hopefully for Dr. Carson's sake, it's the former.


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Hillary Clinton shielded her top adviser accused of sexual harassment in 2008

Washington -- Burns Strider, a senior adviser to Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, had been accused of sexually harassing a young subordinate. In spite of this, Hillary kept Strider on, according to four people familiar with the allegations, a NewYork Times article reports.

Even Clinton's campaign manager at the time, Patti Solis Doyle, recommended to Clinton that Strider ought to be fired, but Hillary kept him on anyway and merely docked him several weeks pay and ordered he undergo counseling. 

The alleged victim, however, was moved to a new job.

Strider [not to be confused with Strider from "Paw Patrol"] was Clinton's faith adviser, a co-founder of the American Values Network, and provided her with scripture readings every morning during the campaign.

Hillary's "faith adviser" had strange American values, and he didn't get that from scripture, that's for sure.  

Five years after the alleged harassment occurred, Strider was hired to lead an independent group that supported Clinton's 2016 candidacy, Correct the Record, which was created by none other than the "King of Smear," David Brock.

But Strider was fired after a few months for workplace issues, which included allegations that he harassed a young female aide, according to the leftist group's management.

A Clinton mouthpiece provided a statement from Utrecht, Kleinfeld, Fiori, Partners, the law firm that represented her campaign in 2008. The statement said:

"To ensure a safe working environment, the campaign had a process to address complaints of misconduct or harassment. When matters arose, they were reviewed in accordance with these policies, and appropriate action was taken. This complaint was no exception."

The event had not been previously reported and until now, Clinton associates were not willing to discuss the events for publication. However, this all changed as a result of the #MeToo movement in which dozens of men across the nation, and across different professions, have been fired or suspended for sexual misconduct.

The Times account was based on interviews with eight former campaign officials and Clinton associates, and there is a chance that it may influence her decision as to whether she has a snowball's chance in hell of winning the nomination for the Democratic Party. [But they're hypocritical so there remains that possibility.]

Solis Doyle, and other senior campaign officials spoke with Clinton about the situation involving Strider and Ms. Clinton's response at the time. Some were troubled by her decision to allow Strider to remain on the campaign.

The complaint against Strider was made by a 30-year-old woman who shared an office with him. She reported to a campaign official that Strider rubbed her shoulders inappropriately, kissed her on the forehead and sent her suggestive emails, including one during the evening, according to three former campaign officials familiar with the events.

Solis Doyle took the complaints to Hillary Clinton and urged her to fire the Strider, who was married at the time. Clinton said she didn't want to fire him.

The alleged victim signed a nondisclosure agreement and has abided by it. Solis Doyle declined to comment. Hillary Clinton still smells of corruption and is perhaps the biggest hypocrite to ever be elected to public office.

Hillary Clinton still has possession of Harvey Weinstein's generous financial donations to her corrupt foundation.

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Clinton's email probe a problem for Comey and Lynch

(Photo: Reuters)

Can you believe it? FBI Director James Comey reportedly did not trust the trustworthy and honorable Attorney General Loretta Lynch and some other senior Justice Department officials. He speculated they may give Hillary some political cover over the email scandal during the presidential election.

Comey's "go-it-alone strategy" during the Clinton investigation came from his suspicions that Lynch and other Justice Department liberals might try to downplay the email probe and let Clinton off the legal hook, The New York Times reported Sunday.

In 2015, Lynch tried to soften the investigation and told Comey to use the word "matter" instead of "investigation" when discussing the investigation publicly. 

She also wanted Comey not to use the words "traitor," "liar," "incompetent," "Russia," "hacked," "illegal server," and "Benghazi."

This was when Comey became a little suspicious. Lynch explained to him that using the word "investigation" would raise other [legitimate] questions and she argued that the department should maintain its policy of not confirming whether an investigation was ongoing.

After meeting with Comey, Lynch then met with Bill Clinton on June 16th along an airport tarmac at Phoenix airport. They met for a half hour, not for a romantic tryst, as is Bill's wont, but to discuss things out of the public eye, like their grandchildren and other private matters not for public consumption.

However, after the public found out about the private "chat" with the accused's husband, Lynch was called on to recuse herself from the Clinton investigation. 

She refused. Evidently Lynch believed she could be of more help by not recusing herself, just in case she was needed to help Hillary wipe the server with a cloth.

Lynch was forced to say that she would accept any conclusions reached by federal authorities.

However, new problems floated to the surface like a hotel cesspool at a laxative festival.

A separate investigation into former New York congressman Anthony "Carlos Danger" Weiner's emails uncovered a slew of incriminating evidence against Clinton. 

Weiner, who is married to Hillary Clinton's top aide and confidante, Huma Abedin, had emails on his computer that were between Huma and Hillary and some were highly classified State Department emails that should not have been there.

Luckily for Hillary, she is judgment-proof and could quite possibly get away with murder--some people believe she and Bill already have.

Comey wanted to alert Congress about what it found on the Weiner laptop, worried that if he didn't tell them, it would appear the FBI was withholding information before the election.

Lynch, who may have put a lot of money down on Hillary winning the election, didn't want Comey telling anything like that to Congress. But she was wise enough not to order him to not send it, just in case she got outed.

It would make her look dishonest.

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Trump revives Clinton "pay to play" scheme

Donald Trump loves WikiLeaks. "The more emails WikiLeaks releases, the more the lines between the Clinton Foundation, the Secretary of States' office, and the Clintons' personal finances are blurred," he said in a statement Thursday. 

Trump and fellow GOPers are reviving old allegations of roily deals involving 'pay to play' surrounding the Clintons now that the latest emails were published, showing how the Clinton family, their foundation and Hillary's State Department were in bed with each other. 

Yuck--I said 'in bed' and Hillary in the same sentence and I just threw up in my mouth.

The emails did not come from Hillary's illegal private server, but from the more 'secure' (LOL) GMail account of her Campaign Chairman John Podesta.

Podesta's hacked emails reveal many conflict-of-interest concerns that Clinton Foundation (CGI) staffers raised and later tried to separate the entangled companies and roles that put a king's ransom of money directly into the pockets of the Clintons. The emails also suck up from the slime several companies that donated to CGI with concurrent business with the State Department while Hillary was in charge.

These findings did not escape the Trump campaign's scrutiny. "If the Clintons were willing to play this fast and loose with their enterprise  when they weren't in the White House, just imagine what they will do if they are given the chance to control the Oval Office," Trump said.

If the Clintons return to the White House (heaven forbid) we will need to count the silverware and check to ensure all the furniture is intact when they depart.

There are plenty of "smoking guns" in the WikiLeaks revelations but nothing in the past has ever kept the Clintons from suffering real consequences and there is no reason to believe that anything we discover now will make a difference. If the Director of the FBI can be corrupted and manipulated by the Clintons, what makes anyone think they're not going to get away with the current corruption?




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Holder: Should He Stay or Should He Go

Eric Holder, the 82nd Attorney General of the United States, is the first African-American to serve in this position. But who is he, and does he have a clue about what he's doing? You make the call.

How'd they find out?

Holder is from the Bronx, New York, where he went to Stuyvesant High School and Columbia College. He was a judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, was a US attorney and also a Deputy Attorney of the US. He worked at the Covington and Burling law firm in Washington D.C. and in 1997 was the Deputy Attorney General under the lovely and talented Janet Reno.  Holder was the Senior legal advisor to B. Hussein Obama during his presidential campaign. 

 Holder's first controversy that I will address is when he was involved with a Bill Clinton decision to reduce the criminal sentences of 16 members of the Boriqua Popular Army, which was categorized as a terrorist organization by the FBI.  Holder's clemency request was originally opposed by US Pardons Attorney Margaret Love in 1996m but in 1997, after there was no Love to be found, he proposed clemency to Clinton with a report from then US Pardons Attorney Roger Adams, whose opinion was neutral where Holder's was to allow for clemency of these terrorists. Clinton, feeling benevolent, granted clemency, which, under the circumstances, was unusual because the FBI, the federal prosecutor, and the victims of these 16 terrorists were against clemency.

Perhaps this can be explained by better understanding the Boriqua Popular Army, just in case they somehow got a bad reputation, or as they might say, "a bad rep."

The Boriqua Popular Army, aka Los Macheteros, or The Machete Wielders, was formed in Puerto Rico and they support PR's independence from "Colonial US rule." In 2007, one source reported they had about 5700 members, and many non-member supporters, perhaps even Holder, but there is no proof of that, other than his apparent support in court. The members of the Boriqua Popular Army pass the time writing letters to the government, reading law in order to make change, and helping old ladies cross the busy streets of San Juan before rescuing kittens from trees. Just kidding--they blow stuff up, attack US military targets, and commit armed robberies.
Their leader, fugitive Filiberto Ojeda Rios, died of a gun overdose in 2005. Holder, as far as we know, did not attend his funeral.

February 2009, Holder, a brave black man, gave his famous speech during Black History Month in which he called the US, "a nation of cowards," when it came to dealing with racial issues. This should explain why slavery was abolished, blacks have the right to vote, go to school, hold any job they are qualified to hold, and become President of the United States, and why Saudi Arabia doesn't even allow women to drive cars, go to school, hold any job, etc. Forget what they do to Jews, Bibles, and Christians trying to build churches in Saudi Arabia. Obama, in his infinite political wisdom toward the next election said of Holder's remark, "I think it's fair to say that if I had been advising my attorney general, we would have used different language." Doesn't this make you smile and realize that our president has an incredible set of brass balls? How much stronger could a president possibly rebuke his AG? How indirect can he get? "Are you hungry?" "Well, I'm not starving."

May 2009: The DoJ ended a civil suit originally begun with the Bush administration against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation due to their conduct during the 2008 election. Two men of the New Black Panthers were dressed in paramilitary uniforms, one holding a club, and both yelling racial insults at white voters and blocking their entrance to the voting booths inside the building.  None of the defendents appeared in court, but hey, why inconvenience them since they figured that Holder was going to drop the charges due to "lack of evidence." Evidence evidently doesn't include Youtube video that half the country viewed shortly after this disgusting incident in which the civil liberties of people were taken away from them. Some contend that the real reason Holder dropped the charges was because the DoJ is unwilling to prosecute minorities over civil rights violations.  In fact, during a House subcommittee discussing these issues, Holder argued that his behavior with the New Black Panther Party was not comparable to historical voter intimidation against minorities, "When you compared what people endured in the South in the '60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, to compare what people subject to that with what happened in Philadelphia . . . I think does a great disservice to people who put their lives on the line for my people."  So if he sees any group that's smaller than all of America as "my people" then why is he a United States of America Attorney General?

Does he CAIR?

And now we have the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) an unindicted co-conspirator to the Holy Land Foundation trials, being let off the hook by Holder. He has refused to prosecute and this keeps the US open for further terrrorist attacks. 

CAIR has been shown to be an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in the US. The documents recovered by the feds prove that CAIR, ISNA, MAS, and many more Islamic organizations are terror-tied in this country. But Holder, who in November 2009, spoke at a dinner for a group of community organizations, one of which was CAIR, and it appears he is siding with the wrong people. 

It's obvious that Holder refuses to do his job, but the latest story to float to the top of the toilet is Operation Fast and Furious, or Gunwalker. You are probably aware that ATF officials have been allowing the "bad guys" to buy illegal weapons for the Mexican drug gangs and that the DoJ is part of the equation. Since the start of the operation, ATF Special Agent, Brian Terry, was killed with one of the weapons sold to the gangs. Since it's inception, about 150 agents have been shot at or killed.

Gunwalker violates Federal Law Title 18 Section 922 that states that only a licensed dealor or manufacturer can engage in interstate or foreign firearms commerce. It's also a federal offense for a person to buy a weapon for another (straw buyer). Since this operation began, several agents have resigned from the ATF, and Special Agent John Dodson blew the whistle, but nothing was done about it and he was told to keep his mouth shut.

Did Holder know about Operation Gunwalker? Maybe; but if he didn't, and he is the Attorney General, what does that say about his competency? See the photo to the left . . . the far left.

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