Nigerian ‘Tech Queen’ Charged in Multi-Million Dollar U.S. Scam
https://headlineusa.com/nigerian-tech-queen-charged-in-multi-million-dollar-u-s-scam/
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The FBI has unmasked Sapphire Egemasi, a 29-year-old tech influencer, as the alleged architect behind a sophisticated international fraud operation that siphoned over $1.3 million from Lexington, Kentucky’s city coffers, according to a report by the Daily Trust.
She was arrested by the FBI in the Bronx this April. Egemasi’s story began in the digital space, where she built a reputation as a successful developer, boasting internships at global brands such as British Petroleum, H&M, and Zara and sharing images of high-end fashion and exotic travel, according to a report by Pulse Nigeria.
But behind her carefully curated online image, federal investigators discovered that she was the mastermind of a cybercrime syndicate that targeted the city government of Lexington, Kentucky between September 2021 and February 2023, according to Pulse Nigeria.
Operating from Cambridge, United Kingdom, after a stint in Ghana, Egemasi allegedly leveraged her programming skills to create convincing fake government websites. These sites were used to trick municipal employees into handing over secure credentials, enabling the syndicate—led by Ghanaian national Samuel Kwadwo Osei—to re-route nearly $1 million into a PNC Bank account and another $330,000 into a Bank of America account in 2022.
The operation’s international reach, with conspirators in Nigeria, Ghana, and the United States, made it difficult for law enforcement to track and stop the fraudulent transfers.
The FBI’s investigation found that Egemasi’s lavish lifestyle was funded almost entirely through these illicit gains, not the tech ventures she promoted online. Text messages and digital evidence detailed her key role in building the infrastructure that enabled the fraud to succeed, while her social media presence helped mask her criminal activity.
Now held in federal custody in Lexington, Kentucky, Egemasi and her co-defendants face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
This fraud incident doesn’t appear to be an anomaly.
In a related scheme that occurred in 2022, the City of Lexington lost about $4 million intended for housing assistance after cybercriminals impersonated a trusted partner and tricked city employees into wiring funds to a fraudulent bank account.
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Has Worms In It
https://newswithviews.com/the-one-big-beautiful-bill-has-worms-in-it/
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.....Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) voted against the bill for many reasons. In a short video interview with the New American Magazine, he explains the many drawbacks to this gigantic bill. Over a period of 10 years, the BBB will add 20 to 30 trillion to the debt. It does not get rid of the Green New Deal. Massie called for the ridiculous spending uncovered by DOGE to be permanently cut from the budget, but on May 7th, Speaker Johnson cancelled the crucial vote to cut billions in funding to USAID, NPR and PBS. I urge you to take the time to listen to Rep. Massie’s interview. He actually reads these bills.
Feds Ban State Regulation of AI for Ten Years
In a House Oversight Committee hearing, Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) expresses her dismay that the House bill would ban states and localities from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade, giving the federal government more control over the policy. It is an approach that has been favored by the AI industry but has drawn concern from members on both sides of the aisle. Should the Senate pass this bill, the states have the right to rebel. Over time, AI will eliminate jobs and the federal government is telling the states, they have no right to intervene for their people! Watch her five-minute video.
Greene states that she voted for the BBB without knowing this piece was in it. We know that there is never enough time for the reps to read these huge bills. Nearly every congress person has 18 full-time and four part-time staff members. The BBB could have been doled out to her staff to check for various additions like this one and to warn her.
.....Forty of The National Association of Attorneys General wrote a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer demanding they remove the unprecedented federal power grab. They oppose the amendment added by the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee to the budget reconciliation bill that imposes a 10-year prohibition on states from enforcing any state law or regulation addressing artificial intelligence (“AI”) and automated decision-making systems.
This federal AI restriction is unconstitutional. Our Constitution lists the federal governments limited enumerated powers, most of which are found in Art. 1, Sec. 8 of the U.S. Constitution. All other powers belong to the states. Gay marriage, abortion, slander and libel belong only to the states. Federal control of abortion was thankfully and constitutionally overturned. Gay marriage and slander and libel should be as well.
Biden’s 30 X 30 Land Grab
The BBB includes a provision which will continue funding for various conservation programs, including the 30X30 initiatives. Biden committed to conserving 30% of US lands and waters by 2030, according to the Land Trust Alliance. According to The Nature Conservancy, this includes protecting both terrestrial and marine environments, inland waters and coastal areas.
The BBB Act includes provisions that continue funding for various conservation programs, including those related to 30×30 initiatives. This means that the Act aims to keep the existing conservation programs, such as the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), running with continued funding authority. While the bill doesn’t necessarily introduce new 30×30 programs or expansions, it does ensure that the current conservation programs can continue supporting the goal of protecting 30% of lands and waters by 2030, according to the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators.
The 30X30 goals are part of biodiversity and climate change goals. Both are from the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Earth Summit, all part of United Nations Agenda 21/30.
Representative Eli Crane (R-AZ) is trying to give Arizona land back to the people. He is also against increased government spending and the lack of fiscal responsibility in the BBB.
While the House bill makes significant cuts to the green new deal agenda, including eliminating pro carbon sequestration pipeline language, the final bill failed to cut one of the key 30X30 programs authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Through 2026, $10,050,000,000 remain authorized for conservation welfare programs that commit private lands to mitigating the climate crisis.
Environmentalists managed to authorize trillions of dollars for existing programs through the IRA by adding funds to the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), the Agriculture Conservation Easement Program (ACEP) and the Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP). These programs are funded through the Farm Bill. The IRA also changed the purpose for these funds now obligating private landowners who enrolled to mitigate climate change and reduce livestock emissions.
Most landowners had no idea the legal purpose for the funds had been changed, and the Biden USDA failed to inform landowners of this switch. This was deliberate so they could create a federal nexus to private lands obligating the use of these lands to mitigating the made-up climate crisis. It is theft of private property…Marx would be thrilled.
The federal government owns roughly 640 million acres of land in the United States.
This represents approximately 28% to 30% of the total land area of the United States, which is estimated to be around 2.27 billion acres.
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has not commented on the 30X30 initiative in the BBB.
All of these usage regulations and land confiscation plans are based on the primary principle of Marxist philosophy that the private ownership of land must be forbidden.
.....CO2 Pipeline Land Grabs
The Republican-controlled Congress has snuck a federal eminent domain land grab for CO2 pipelines into the BBB.
Last month, groups in the anti-carbon pipeline camp raised alarms about the reconciliation bill over a provision tucked within its 1,100 pages. It would have given the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission exclusive authority to issue licenses for pipelines carrying natural gas, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, oil or other energy products and byproducts. (Unlike a continuing resolution, a reconciliation bill aimed at making changes to mandatory spending programs like entitlements and tax policy deals with longer-term legislative changes.)
This proposed law would establish a “federal permit” for interstate CO2, hydrogen, and oil pipelines. It would expressly overrule all state pipeline laws, such as routing laws, moratoriums, bans on eminent domain, and construction mitigation requirements, as well as county pipeline ordinances.
The proposed law would give the federal government authority to take your land via eminent domain on behalf of corporations. It would also provide “expedited review,” meaning that federal agencies would have just one year in which to approve needed federal permits. If a federal agency failed to approve a permit within this time period, the permit would be automatically approved “in perpetuity” without consideration of landowner or community concerns. Again, this is not one of the enumerated powers of the federal government and belongs only to the states, i.e., it is unconstitutional…why is this even in the BBB and who proposed it?
Instead of public hearings by state and county agencies, pipeline permits would be approved by distant bureaucrats in Washington, DC.
This provision to let pipeline companies bypass state permitters is expected to be stripped from the BBB federal budget reconciliation bill, but anti-pipeline activists also want Congress to kill a carbon tax credit program before they pass the bill along to President Donald Trump.
That was the message from a group of South Dakota carbon dioxide pipeline opponents during a virtual press conference in May. Representatives from Dakota Rural Action, the South Dakota Property Rights and Local Control Alliance, and the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association joined the call. Many 3rd and 4th generation South Dakota farmers and ranchers had experienced eminent domain land grabs for the CO2 pipeline from Iowa and into South Dakota. When they asked Governor Kristi Noem to help them, she told them she wouldn’t fight their battles. She allegedly sold the easements to those pipelines to China.
CO2 pipelines will cover 3/4th of America by 2050. Link (https://www.desmog.com/2023/05/31/princeton-maps-ccs-us-plans-co2-pipeline-buildout/)
Republicans Stripped “Terminating Terrorist Tax Exempt Status”
There was a portion in the BBB which stated that all terrorist organizations will lose tax exempt status.
Robert A. Bodisch Sr., Retired Deputy Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety for Texas Homeland Security and a Senior Fellow of the Center for Security Policy, wrote an article entitled, Congressional Cowardice exposing how House Republicans stripped Section 112209 from the BBB.
He writes, “Congress has given in to terror-supporting organizations by stripping Section 112209 from President Trump’s BBB, which would have amended the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to terminate the tax-exempt status of terrorist supporting organizations.”
(Section 112209 in the federal tax reconciliation bill, grants the Executive Branch unprecedented authority to revoke the tax-exempt status of nonprofits it labels as “terrorist supporting organizations”—without requiring due process, transparency, or public accountability.)
Bodish explains, “This action took place during the third weekend of May 2025. In a 17-16 vote, with four Republicans voting ‘present,’ the House Budget Committee advanced the revised version of the bill without the nonprofit clause.
.....Daniel Greenfield’s recent article, IRS Lets Terror Fundraiser That Praised D.C. Attack Get Tax-Exempt Donations, exposes how terrorist groups gets tax-exempt status.
“How does a front for a terrorist group get tax-exempt donations anyway? Through a dubious practice known as fiscal sponsorship in which yet another front group accepts tax-exempt donations for it making it the front group for a front group for a terrorist organization.”
Greenfield explains, “One part of Treasury is sanctioning a terrorist front group while another is helping to fund it.”
......Conclusion
The BBB is supposed to be about delivering President Trump’s campaign promises on taxes, America First energy, and sweeping border security. We need to make his tax cuts permanent. It has been proven time and again, when taxes are lowered, more funds come into the treasury as businesses, hiring and incomes grow. Trump’s tax cuts, border security and energy are at the top of the lists for the majority of Americans. The BBB should include those things alone and other issues should be single bills.
Unfortunately, this bill has been hijacked with horrific destructions of states’ rights for the AI industry and a Marxist land grab for the fraudulent climate change insanity of collecting CO2.
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These 3 sections need to be eliminated. Otherwise IMO these section are attempts by corporatist RINOs to either satisfy their donors or crash BBB due to constitutional issues these sections bring up. There is no excuse MTG and her cohorts didn’t know or read this. They could read it or have their staff read it and tell them about these nefarious sections.