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Sean “Diddy” Combs spent the night locked up in a notorious Brooklyn federal jail that has long been plagued by tales of “barbaric” and “reprehensible” conditions for inmates — who have included notorious sex abusers R. Kelly and Ghislaine Maxwell. Combs, 54, was hauled away to the infamous Metropolitan Detention Center in Sunset Park late Tuesday after he was ordered held without bail on sex-trafficking and racketeering charges. The embattled hip-hop mogul will be held there ahead of a scheduled Manhattan federal court hearing Wednesday afternoon, when he is expected to appeal the decision to keep him behind bars. The...

In a federal indictment unsealed today, Diddy was charged with racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. Drugs fueled days-long 'freak offs,' videos used to 'ensure ... obedience,' prosecutors say

Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue has accused President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris of purposely allowing “child trafficking” due to their refusal to secure the southern border during an appearance on the podcast “The Cats Roundtable with John Catsimatidis.” Unanue’s remarks came amid broader criticism of the Biden-Harris administration. The CEO explained how Biden-Harris policies contributed to the global instability that drives inflation.

A former North Dakota State Senator pleaded guilty today to traveling to Prague, Czech Republic, to have commercial sex with minor boys. According to court documents and facts established in public proceedings, Ray Holmberg, 80, of Grand Forks, took approximately 14 trips to Prague between 2011 and 2021 to engage in commercial sex acts with minor boys. During some of these trips, Holmberg used the alias “Sean Evans” while staying at a brothel where young boys provided commercial sexual services. Holmberg also went to a public park in front of the main train station in Prague to procure sex from...

Have you heard of the Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan criminal gang? Maybe not, but this is “the little engine that could” that may bring your quiet American neighborhood some dangerous young men with little to contribute and even less to lose. Joseph Humire, an expert on Latin American security, calls the Tren “the fastest-growing transnational criminal organization in the world.” Last year, the Tren de Aragua didn’t even make the Border Patrol’s “Nationwide Apprehensions by Gang Affiliation,” an alphabetical list of 50 Central and South American gangs invading the United States—from the Angelino Heights Sureno 13 to the Zetas....

An Atlanta resident driving on the freeway took decisive action after he noticed something strange on the back of a truck in front of him. Langston Proper noticed what appeared to be a hand or some other body part sticking out from a Budget rental truck. His actions ultimately saved numerous children from a horrific fate. Proper immediately contacted law enforcement, and followed the truck on the freeway. As the situation unfolded, the truck was later discovered to be part of a human trafficking operation. Police arrested the truck driver and took those trapped inside to safety. Watch VIDEO AT...

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna introduced two immigration bills to tackle fake migrant and child trafficking at the southern border while increasing penalties for employers hiring ineligible workers. “Today, Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna (FL-13) introduced a legislative package that aims to combat child trafficking and the hiring of illegal migrants in our country,” Luna said in a press release Friday. The first bill, the Family Reunification Act, will mandate rapid DNA testing for all families detained at the U.S.-Mexico border.

An alleged multistate human trafficking ring forcing immigrant women into prostitution. The mysterious killing of a former police officer in South Florida. Attacks against police officers in New York. The arrest of a drug dealer in Chicago. Local and federal officials say these apparently unrelated crimes have a common denominator: Tren de Aragua, a transnational criminal gang that originated in a Venezuela prison and has slowly made its way south and north in recent years. They say it’s now operating in the United States. The scale of its operations is unknown, but crimes attributed to alleged members of the gang...

Late on an October morning in a quiet neighborhood near Daytona Beach, Florida. FBI agent Steve Friend sits in his kitchen, fidgeting. He’s a wiry, energetic man, built like a marathoner, not muscled up but exuding fitness, not a sitter. This is not a person meant for desk work, much less staying home all day. But as a whistleblower whose name has been all over media after a complaint about statistical manipulation and other problems in the January 6th investigations, this will be his lot for a while. By that morning, the first rush of news stories about Friend’s case...

The American actor, Robert De Niro, was arrested by the French vice squad at the Bristol Hotel in Paris yesterday and held for questioning in connection with an international prostitution ring.... ...Some 40 prostitutes were reportedly matched up with wealthy customers as far away as New York and the Arab Gulf states. Clients included men involved in arms sales and the jewellery business, and the prostitutes received between £600 and £2,400 per meeting, plus travel expenses.

A community of Catholic monks on a reputably 'holy island' off the coast of Wales is at the centre of a major child abuse scandal going back more than 50 years. Thousands of tourists visit Caldey off the Pembrokeshire coast each year unaware of its dark history of sex abuse against infants as young as three. Visiting children, who have now grown to adults, say they were raped in the historic abbey, sexually abused in the ornate gardens and threatened that they would go to hell if they breathed a word to anyone back on the mainland. This week, The...

A suspected member of the notorious MS-13 street gang is accused of sex trafficking a 17-year-old migrant girl he recruited out of a Queens shelter — while still on the lam for allegedly fondling a 9-year-old girl years earlier. Alfredo Morocho, 37, who was also hit with a bail jumping charge for skipping out on the 2018 child molestation case, is finally being held on Rikers Island without bail, according to officials and court records. He is now charged with two counts of sex trafficking of a child, five counts of promoting prostitution and two counts of patronizing a person...

Actor Robert De Niro suffered another unhinged meltdown while trashing former President Donald Trump on Jimmy Kimmel this week. While discussing his recent Oscar nomination for Killers of the Flower Moon, De Niro pivoted to calling Trump a “malignant narcissist” and “socio-psychopath.”

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other social media executives were grilled over the issue of child sexual exploitation on their platforms. Instagram, the popular social-media site owned by Meta Platforms, helps connect and promote a vast network of accounts openly devoted to the commission and purchase of underage sex content, according to investigations by The Wall Street Journal and researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Wall Street Journal. reported. Pedophiles have long used the internet, but unlike the forums and file-transfer services that cater to people who have an interest in illicit content, Instagram connects...

On Wednesday, Judge Loretta Preska confirmed the release of the initial names from Jeffrey Epstein’s extensive client list, comprising over 150 individuals. Concurrently, a collection of previously sealed documents was made public. Following the release, the Court Listener website experienced a crash due to the overwhelming public interest. ** The Gateway Pundit posted the collection of files released by the New York judge here. However, The Gateway Pundit managed to secure a backup of this crucial information. Three individuals, known in the court documents as Doe 105, Doe 107, and Doe 110, have made appeals. Documents related to Does 105,...

The release of court documents detailing the names of Jeffery Epstein's scandal has thrust the case back into the spotlight in recent days. The list, which was brought forward as part of the lawsuit by accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, names a staggering 170 associates, one of which was that of Bill Clinton. It's been reported that the former US president could be heavily implicated in the scandal, having been featured on the infamous list on more than 50 occasions under the pseudonym "John Doe 36". In addition, flight records note numerous trips by the former politician to...

Another apocalyptic conspiracy theory is going around on TikTok — but there’s a simple answer to it. The online panic started when a video of Friedrich Merz, a German politician, posted to Twitter saying, “Dear Colleagues…September 24, 2022, will be remembered by all of us as a day which we will say, ‘I remember exactly where I was.’ “ The remark sparked several conspiracy theories of things going wrong that day, including that a big solar flare would hit the earth and create tropical cyclones resulting in mass destruction, according to Middle East Mashable.

One of the bombshells in the latest documents pertains to the great lengths Clinton allegedly went to protect his pedophile friend. Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre was discussing her book in a May 2011 email with journalist Sharon Churcher when she mentioned that as she was researching Vanity Fair, she grew concerned about them writing about her. The reason is that the former president had previously marched into headquarters and demanded they lay off Epstein.

A second cache of Epstein docs was unsealed on Thursday. Judge Loretta Preska on Wednesday unsealed the first cache of documents from lawsuits related to Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse which potentially included names of over 150 people. The first set of documents detailed Ghislaine Maxwell’s recruiting techniques, Prince Andrew’s abuse of the trafficked victims, and Bill Clinton’s fondness for “young” girls. According to the second tranche of documents obtained by The Gateway Pundit and reviewed by this reporter, one Epstein victim, a minor teen dubbed “Jane Doe 3,” said she was trafficked to “prominent American politicians” to “obtain potential blackmail information.”...

An alleged victim of deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein celebrated Wednesday after it was revealed that more than 170 people with ties to the accused sex trafficker will soon be exposed — calling the reveal an early Christmas gift. Virginia Giuffre — who settled a $12 million lawsuit over allegations Epstein sex-trafficked her to Prince Andrew — appeared to taunt the dozens of associates and ex-employees whose names will be dredged up in a trove of court documents to be unsealed in the coming weeks. “There’s going to be a lot of nervous ppl over Christmas and New Years, 170 to...