Free Republic

Bestselling author Peter Schweizer joined The Daily Wire’s “Morning Wire” to explain the federal investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes and its possible links to his father, President Joe Biden. Schweizer, who also serves as president of the Government Accountability Institute, spoke to “Morning Wire” for its Friday episode. The bestselling author known for his investigations into government corruption said that the FBI and IRS’s investigation into Hunter Biden consists of four parts. “One is tax evasion, that he failed to pay millions of dollars in taxes from money that came overseas. There’s also allegations potentially of money laundering; that would...

A majority of voters now agree that senior Justice Department and FBI officials are “likely to have acted criminally when they secretly discussed removing President Trump from office.” Voters also think a special prosecutor is needed to investigate the situation, said a new Rasmussen Reports poll released Tuesday. It found that 56 percent of likely U.S. voters believe these officials have broken the law during their discussions in May 2017 to oust Mr. Trump; 36 percent say it’s unlikely, the rest are undecided.

Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe said Tuesday that none of the top eight congressional leaders objected when he briefed them in 2017 on the bureau's decision to open a counterintelligence investigation into President Trump. "The purpose of the briefing was to let our congressional leadership know exactly what we’d been doing," McCabe, who was the acting FBI director at the time, said during an interview on NBC's "Today" show. McCabe acknowledged that he ordered the investigation, but pushed back against suggestions that he'd acted alone in doing so. He said that he consulted with his team, reviewed it with...

If Republicans hold the Senate and Sen. Lindsey Graham becomes chairman of the Judiciary Committee, he’ll continue to investigate the Justice Department and the FBI’s actions ahead of the 2016 election, the South Carolina Republican said Sunday. Mr. Graham praised the work House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican, and Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, South Carolina Republican, have done in their probe of the controversial Trump dossier’s connection to a FISA warrant on Trump campaign associate Carter Page.

Statement from President @realDonaldTrump: “I’ve ordered the FBI to conduct a supplemental investigation to update Judge Kavanaugh’s file. As the Senate has requested, this update must be limited in scope and completed in less than one week.”

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says Republicans on the Judiciary Committee can’t be trusted to conduct an impartial review of the allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Schumer says voting on Kavanaugh scheduled for this week must be delayed so these “serious and credible” allegations can be investigated by the FBI.

Back in June, we highlighted an awkward television exchange in which Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders really, really didn't want to answer questions from CNN anchor Erin Burnett about a federal bank fraud investigation targeting his wife -- and in which he himself was also implicated. It wasn't the first time the Socialist lawmaker got testy on the subject, which he's cynically tried to dismiss as a "pathetic attack" that was "launched by" a Trump supporter against his wife. As explained at the time, this FBI probe into financial misconduct was actually kicked off by the Justice Department during the Obama...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Hillary Clinton’s supporters here are nervous about her campaign, fearing the renewed scandal over her emails will dent her — and she is hoping to counter with a full slate of surrogates urging voters to back the Democratic team, even if they are not excited about its star player. “I think it is making people doubt her again,” said Connie Boehner, who attended a Clinton rally this week. “Every time I think we get past all this nonsense, much of which has not come close to being proven, this stirs people up.” A Washington Post/ABC tracking poll...

FBI is reopening its Clinton email probe The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reopened its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails after finding new evidence on seized devices belonging to Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin. The devices were seized after it was revealed that Weiner, a former member of Congress and mayoral candidate, had been sexting with an underage girl. The feds began to investigate Weiner, 52, after he sent a slew of sexual messages and shirtless selfies to a 15-year-old North Carolina girl. Weiner allegedly shared his “rape fantasies” with the teen and even sent her pornographic videos. He also...

Hillary Clinton used misleading language in Thursday night's Democratic debate to describe the ongoing FBI investigation into her use of a private email server to conduct official government business while she was secretary of state, according to former senior FBI agents. In the New Hampshire debate with Senator Bernie Sanders, which aired on MSNBC, Clinton told moderator Chuck Todd that nothing would come of the FBI probe, "I am 100 percent confident. This is a security review that was requested. It is being carried out." Not true says Steve Pomerantz, who spent 28 years at the FBI, and rose from...

Police chief, DA ask for help after killings by cops are allegedAllegations of unlawful killings involving one or more Portland cops more than two decades ago have prompted Portland Police Chief Rosie Sizer and Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Schrunk to bring in the FBI. The allegations, which were aired by a prominent local criminal defense lawyer and described by Portland Tribune columnist Phil Stanford, caused the two local officials to ask the FBI to review a 1981 probe of assorted felonies by several then-members of a special unit of the Portland Police Bureau. Stanford’s columns described allegations that longtime...

GREENEVILLE - When those prison doors clang shut behind this dirty cop, U.S. District Judge Ronnie Greer wants the good guys to hear something else - praise. The way Greer sees it, the two-year prison term he doled out Tuesday for the former second highest-ranking law enforcer in Cocke County is as much a tribute to the good cop as it is an indictment of the bad. "Very simply put, Mr. (Patrick Allen) Taylor, a message needs to be sent," Greer told the former Cocke County Sheriff's Department chief deputy at his sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court. "Honorable_law enforcement...

SACRAMENTO—State Sen. Gloria Romero of Los Angeles was summoned Wednesday to appear before a grand jury in the FBI probe of Senate chief Don Perata's business dealings. Romero, a member of Perata's Democratic leadership team and one of his closest allies, said an FBI agent delivered a subpoena to her Capitol office requiring her to appear in July in Oakland, Perata's hometown. Romero said in an interview that she is being called to testify as a witness. She said she declined to be interviewed by FBI agents and asked that they issue the subpoena. "All along, I've thought this has...

State Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata's legal defense fund, formed to deal with an FBI corruption probe, helped close its deficit with $204,000 transferred from another political fund controlled by the Oakland Democrat. Taxpayers for Perata gave the Friends of Don Perata Legal Defense Fund $204,000 on Oct. 28, campaign finance reports show. Other state documents show Perata created Taxpayers for Perata in August to raise money so he can run for the Board of Equalization in 2010. Overall last year, the legal fund shelled out $742,389, mostly to Perata's Sacramento lawyers and an Emeryville private investigation firm. Spokesman...

Feds Want to Know How Cleveland Papers Got Leaked Documents Published: July 22, 2005 10:00 AM ET CLEVELAND After a weekly paper in Cleveland published a report, The Plain Dealer ran a previously delayed story about an investigation of the city's former mayor, and now a federal prosecutor is asking a judge to find out who leaked the information. U.S. Attorney Gregory A. White filed the motion Thursday, the same day The Plain Dealer reported that former Mayor Michael R. White was a target of a federal investigation that began three years ago and that led to the indictment of...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to blow up the boxes of state government. Now, incoming Senate leader Don Perata is giving the upper house a makeover. Perata, an Oakland Democrat, outlined his plan Wednesday to combine and eliminate several Senate committees, cut the number of members on each panel and reduce the amount of bills introduced next session. In some cases, the changes reflect core Democratic values, such as taking a "smart growth" approach to housing and transportation needs by combining the two issues into one committee. But Perata also hopes the moves will force inexperienced lawmakers to focus on fewer...

Federal Investigations Target Drug Ring, Government POSTED: 5:03 pm EDT May 20, 2004 A Philadelphia religious leader is now seen as the link between two separate federal probes into a local drug ring and City Hall corruption. Shamsud-din Ali is an at a large mosque in West Philadelphia and a fixture in city politics. He also was on Mayor John Street's 1999 transition team. According to sources, Ali is believed to have connections with some of the 27 defendants named in two federal drug-trafficking indictments released Thursday. No city employees were named in the indictments, sources said. Federal investigators wouldn't...

Posted on Fri, Nov. 14, 2003 UNION LEADERS, PROBE FIGURES LINKED By ERIN EINHORN & DAVE DAVIES eeinhorn@phillynews.com THE FATHER AND son labor leaders who have been subpoenaed to testify in the public-corruption probe swirling around the Street administration have strong ties to key figures in the investigation. Samuel Staten Sr. and Samuel Staten Jr. - the business manager and president, respectively, of Local 332 of the Laborers' International Union of North America - have not been identified as suspects. There is no indication that they are targets or subjects of the investigation, but their union was named last month...