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A former Connecticut state representative pleaded guilty Tuesday in connection with the theft of more than $1.2 million in federal coronavirus relief funds from the city of West Haven, using some of the money for gambling at a casino, according to prosecutors. Michael DiMassa, a West Haven Democrat, appeared in federal court in Hartford and pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud conspiracy. DiMassa's wife and his former business partner also pleaded guilty earlier this year, while a fourth person charged in the scheme awaits trial. At the time of the theft, DiMassa was both a state representative and...

Oval Office2:42 P.M. ESTPRESIDENT TRUMP:  Well, thank you very much.  It’s great to be with the President of Ecuador — and it’s one of the most beautiful countries in the world — and perhaps equally as important, and maybe even more importantly, your great First Lady.  Thank you very much for being here.  This is a tremendous honor.  Some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world and one of the most beautiful places on Earth, they say.  I’ve heard that for a long time.And we are working on trade deals, we’re working on military options, including the purchase of...

MADISON, Wis. – In January, testifying before the Legislature, Government Accountability Board director Kevin Kennedy called his agency a “Wisconsin success story.” “The Legislature should be proud of the Board, not only for its nonpartisan nature, but for its accomplishments and performance over the first seven years existence,” Kennedy said in defending the campaign finance, elections, and ethics regulator against a growing list of critics concerned that the agency was alarmingly partisan and less than accountable. SAVE MARY: An email obtained by Wisconsin Watchdog shows former GAB legal counsel Shane Falk worrying about what a prosecutor’s statement might mean for...

Link to the first 7 e-mails. https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/?q=bobama&mfrom=&mto=&title=&notitle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=&noto=&count=50&sort=6#searchresult

Democrats donate money raised by fugitive from lawAs Democratic politicians raced to shed contributions from a wealthy fund-raiser who turned out to be a fugitive from the law, Hillary Clinton said yesterday that her presidential campaign will be more careful about scrutinizing donors. Norman Hsu, who has donated large sums to numerous Democrats including Clinton and Barack Obama, has been wanted by California authorities for 15 years in connection with a fraud case. "We have a vetting process," Clinton said in a telephone interview. "It didn't work on this one instance, apparently, for any of us. There were many, many...

Election commissioner aided ex-congressman Sealed records couldn't keep former congressman Harold Ford Sr. from tapping precise, sensitive details of a voter fraud investigation surrounding his sister's narrow win in a Tennessee state Senate race. Newly obtained documents show Ford spoke with keen accuracy this month when discussing five suspicious ballots cast in the Sept. 15 election that Ophelia Ford won by 13 votes. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is reviewing the ballots cast in a heavily Democratic North Memphis precinct, including two cast in the names of elderly voters who had died weeks before the election. Ford had told a...

A complaint filed by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) with the Senate sergeant at arms caused the Capitol Police to confiscate computer records of the Senate Judiciary Committee after sealing off the room. Durbin’s complaint to William Pickle, the sergeant at arms, focused on memos written by Durbin’s staff in late 2001 about the opposition of liberal groups to President Bush’s conservative nominees to the federal bench. The memos were cited last Friday in an editorial that ran in The Wall Street Journal and in The Washington Times. In a letter to Pickle, Durbin said that his office “did not release...