Posted on 11/12/2025 2:40:23 PM PST by DFG
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff was arrested Wednesday and charged with plotting with accomplices to swipe $225,000 from an inactive political campaign and funnel it straight into a friend’s pocket, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday.
Dana Williamson, 53, is now facing a sweeping 23-count federal indictment charging her with conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, defrauding the United States, obstructing justice, filing false tax returns, and lying to authorities, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California.
“Today’s charges are the result of three years of relentless investigative work, in partnership with IRS Criminal Investigation and the U.S. Attorney’s Office,” FBI Sacramento Special Agent in Charge Sid Patel said in a statement.
“The FBI will remain vigilant in its efforts to uncover fraud and corruption, ensuring our government systems are held to the highest standards.”
Prosecutors said Williamson, who was Newsom’s top aide from 2022 until December 2024, plotted with registered lobbyist Greg Campbell, federal employee Sean McCluskie, and two others to siphon money from a dormant campaign account into McCluskie’s for personal use between February 2022 and September 2024.
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Trim five years from her sentence if she provides evidence that convicts her former boss.
$225,000 split between four people?
Real charges for real crimes. Its nice to live in a more real USA finally.
Three years it took them to decide crimes were being committed. I guess they couldn’t do much with the Biden Crime Administration in power.
This is akin to Ohtani using his ‘translator’ to do his gambling... She’ll take the fall, but Newsom likely got his cut.
Those wacky California boyz.
Would be nice if that former Chief of Staff knows where the Newscum skeletons are and cuts a deal—like maybe where the high speed rail money went?
Is that all???
All of the democRAT and RINO grifters look at that puny amount, and laugh.
Maybe this person can spill the beans about NewSCUM’s involvement in the Palisades fire
the Palisades fire, I want to know if NewSCUM ordered it done, made sure it would happen in order to “Reimagine” the Palisades in his own vision
Only $250k?
When will NewScum be investigated for his likely scams and grifts?
“Today’s charges are the result of three years of relentless investigative work, in partnership with IRS Criminal Investigation and the U.S. Attorney’s Office,” FBI Sacramento Special Agent in Charge Sid Patel said in a statement.
A lot of resources to throw at this. They act like they busted a billion $ fraud scheme. Clowns.
“$225,000 split between four people?”
I guarantee you this wasn’t their first scheme.
Steal $225,000,000, and you get honorary degrees and cocktail parties in your honor.
Steal $2,500,000,000, and you're governor of California.
They’re so much more moral and ethical, donchaknow.
five people illegally plotted to steal a lousy $225,000.00, risking years in Federal court and decades in Federal prison? ... seriously? ... what kind of street drugs were these fools on when they hatched this scheme?
I didn’t even know that was a crime.
What did newscum know and when did he know it???
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