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In Chicago, the price of illegal guns soared during the pandemic, but gangs were able to pay for them with COVID-19 relief money obtained fraudulently, agents say. When COVID-19 struck in 2020, the government quickly put together massive aid programs to help struggling businesses, along with the people who lost their jobs. But other kinds of enterprises with names like the Traveling Vice Lords and the Wild 100s — criminal street gangs in Chicago and across the country — soon figured out how to take advantage of that safety net. They defrauded those programs of millions of dollars that they...

The government of California is prepared to pay off past-due rent accumulated during the coronavirus pandemic as the state's eviction moratorium nears expiration. Derived from several packages of financial aid distributed to states and localities by Congress, California has roughly $5.2 billion at the ready — an amount that Jason Elliott, a senior counselor to Gov. Gavin Newsom on housing and homelessness, said should be more than enough to cover unpaid rents, according to the Associated Press. Newsom and lawmakers are set to hold meetings this week to discuss the state’s roughly $260 billion operating budget. One topic they are...

It's not sexist to say that Hillary Clinton is a nasty woman, because it's the truth. ... 1. That Time She And Her Husband Funneled Haitian Relief Funds To Clinton Foundation Donors ... Clinton has long been an enabler of sexual predators and has even laughed about it. .. 3. When She Laughed About Getting a Rapist Off. Hillary laughed about getting a convicted rapist she was representing a super short sentence after he brutally raped a 12-year-old girl. ... Clinton says .. . ‘I had him take a polygraph, which he passed – which forever destroyed my faith in...