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North Korea funds its weapons programs by defrauding US companies and exploiting American victims of identity theft (Asst Dir Roman Rozhavsky of the FBI Counterintelligence Division).

"North Korean IT workers posed as US citizens, fraudulently obtained jobs with American businesses
<><>they funneled hundreds of millions of US dollars to North Korea’s authoritarian regime."

.........no question........

FTA-——

Assistant Attorney General John A. Eisenberg of the DOJ’s National Security Division said the schemes target and steal from U.S. companies and are designed to evade sanctions while funding illicit programs, including weapons programs, in North Korea.

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Federal authorities have unraveled several schemes by the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK) that were used to fund its regime through remote information technology (IT) work for U.S. companies, resulting in two indictments, tech and financial seizures and an arrest.

<><>North Korean actors were helped by individuals in the U.S., China, the United Arab Emirates and Taiwan to obtain employment with over 100 U.S. companies, including Fortune 500 companies.

<><>In one scheme, U.S.-based individuals created front companies and fraudulent websites to promote the legitimacy of remote workers, while hosting laptop farms where remote North Korean IT workers could remotely access company-provided laptop computers.

<><>In another scheme, IT workers in North Korea used false identities to gain employment with a blockchain research and development company in Atlanta, Georgia, and steal virtual currency worth over $900,000.

According to court documents, law enforcement officers stopped Stefan Andres Correa, 42, on the jet bridge at Miami International Airport as he attempted to board a flight to Bogota, Colombia. During an outbound border search, officers discovered nine cellular phones in Correa’s possession. A search of the cellular phones uncovered over 100 videos of Correa having sex with over 50 minors. The minors were between 11 and 17 years of age. A search of one of the cell phones also revealed a text message exchange with a sex trafficker in Colombia, who Correa agreed to pay $300,000 Colombian pesos (the equivalent of $75 U.S. dollars) to arrange for commercial sex with children that were 10 to 12 years old.

Wilson Tindi.

<>Illegal Kenyan mmigrant,

<>rapist,

<>drunk driver,

<>recently promoted to Tim Waltz's Minnesota DoE director.

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And get this........Records show Tindi was taken into ICE custody in August 2016 as the U.S. government sought to deport him to his native Kenya. In 2016, an immigration judge ordered his removal based on the felony sex crime conviction. The decision was later upheld by the Board of Immigration Appeals but stayed by an appeals court. Tindi filed a federal habeas corpus petition, arguing that his detention had become unconstitutional because it dragged on too long without actual deportation. A federal judge agreed, writing that Tindi’s continued detention no longer “serve[d] the purpose of preventing deportable criminal aliens from fleeing prior to or during their removal proceedings.” After 18 months in ICE custody, Tindi was ordered released in February 2018. In May, Tindi filed a petition for post-conviction relief, asking a Hennepin County judge to vacate his guilty plea. He claims his defense attorney failed to properly warn him that the conviction would have devastating consequences for his immigration status. He says he is a lawful permanent resident.

Democrat Mayoral Jihadi Zoran Mamdani Defended UK Muslim Terrorists
Who Beheaded Lee Rigby On London Public Street in Broad Daylight
Geller Report ^ | June 27, 2025 | Pamela Geller
Posted on 6/28/2025, 5:33:31 PM by george76

Two Muslim terrorists mowed down Fusilier Le Rigby in a car before hacking him to death in the street in front of horrified onlookers near Woolwich Barracks in south-east London in May 2013.

They both said that they were ‘soldiers of Allah.”

Democrat Mayoral Candidate Zoran Mamdani shared an article by leftist Glenn Greenwald questioning whether the killing was terrorism because Rigby was a soldier.

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Democrat Mayoral Jihadi Zoran Mamdani Defended UK Muslim Terrorists
Who Beheaded Lee Rigby On London Public Street in Broad Daylight
Geller Report ^ | June 27, 2025 | Pamela Geller
Posted on 6/28/2025, 5:33:31 PM by george76

Two Muslim terrorists mowed down Fusilier Le Rigby in a car before hacking him to death in the street in front of horrified onlookers near Woolwich Barracks in south-east London in May 2013.

They both said that they were ‘soldiers of Allah.”

Democrat Mayoral Candidate Zoran Mamdani shared an article by leftist Glenn Greenwald questioning whether the killing was terrorism because Rigby was a soldier.

poor brolin-——has to look at that across the b/fast table

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How can you even live with yourself without Lavender eggs for breakfast? Huh?

right———During the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, Maryland’s First Lady, Yumi Hogan, played a significant role in “Operation Enduring Friendship”. This initiative involved securing 500,000 COVID-19 test kits from South Korea. Yumi Hogan, who is Korean American and fluent in Korean, helped facilitate negotiations and communications with the South Korean government and the company producing the tests, LabGenomics. Governor Hogan emphasized the importance of their relationship with the South Korean Ambassador to the U.S. and credited his wife as a “champion of this operation”.
However, the purchased tests were later found to be flawed and were not widely used. A state audit in 2021 revealed that the purchase was based on a flawed agreement. The Hogan administration paid the South Korean company an additional $2.5 million for replacement tests, most of which were also likely unused.

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Apr 21, 2020 — Larry Hogan called his wife Yumi a “champion” of the negotiations with South Korea to bring the tests into his state.

Israel’s prime minister and defence minister have denied allegations IDF soldiers were given orders to shoot at Palestinians seeking humanitarian aid in Gaza.

Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel Katz called the claims, published in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, “malicious falsehoods” designed to defame the military. The Israeli military says it is investigating several shooting incidents in which Palestinians were injured around aid distribution sites.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz have rejected a report in the left-leaning Israeli daily Haaretz that claimed Israeli soldiers were given orders to shoot at Palestinians approaching aid sites inside Gaza.

More than 500 Palestinians have been killed and hundreds more wounded while seeking food since the newly formed US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) began distributing aid at four main hubs across the territory about a month ago, according to Gaza’s health ministry.

Thousands of Palestinians walk for hours to reach the hubs, moving through Israeli military zones where Palestinian witnesses say Israeli troops have opened fire on the aid seekers.

Haaretz quoted unnamed Israeli soldiers as saying they were told to fire at the crowds to keep them back, using unnecessary lethal force against people who appeared to pose no threat.

Israeli strike kills 18 in central Gaza amid turmoil over food distribution Photo shows People carrying white bags over their heads as they walk in front of a damaged buildingPeople carrying white bags over their heads as they walk in front of a damaged building

Israeli strike hits a street where witnesses said people were getting bags of flour from a Palestinian police unit that had confiscated the goods from looters. Mr Netanyahu and Mr Katz on Friday called the allegations in Haaretz’s report “malicious falsehoods designed to defame” the Israeli military.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed it was investigating incidents in which civilians had been harmed while approaching the sites, but rejected any allegations “of deliberate fire toward civilians”. GHF, meanwhile, said on social media it was “not aware of any of the incidents” in the report, but the allegations were too grave to ignore “We therefore call on Israel to investigate them and transparently publish the results in a timely manner,” the group said.

Eighteen killed in IDF air strike near aid site
Palestinians trying to find food have frequently encountered chaos and violence on their way to, and on arrival at, GHF aid sites. In one such incident on Thursday, 18 people were killed after an Israeli air strike hit a street in central Gaza’s Deir al Balah, where a crowd was collecting bags of flour from a Palestinian police unit, witnesses said. The police unit had confiscated the food supplies from gangs that have been looting aid convoys across Gaza in recent weeks.

Palestinians carry humanitarian aid packages near a GHF distribution centre in Khan Younis on Thursday. (AP Photo: Abdel Kareem Hana)

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are desperate for food after Israel imposed a two-and-a-half month aid blockade on Gaza, preventing any food, water and medicine from entering the territory pending the set-up of the GHF sites. Looting of aid has escalated since Israel resumed entry of supplies into Gaza in mid-May, albeit only a fraction of what is needed.

Shifa Hospital director Mohamed Abu Selmyiha told the Associated Press a further eight bodies arrived on Friday from a GHF site in Netzarim, although it was not immediately clear how they had died. A GHF spokesperson challenged that assertion, saying they did not know of any incidents at or near their sites on Friday. Twenty other bodies Dr Semlyiha’s hospital received on Friday were the result of air strikes across northern Gaza, he said.

Independent efforts to prevent aid looting
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday urged a return to the UN’s long-tested distribution system for aid in Gaza, where he said Israeli military operations have created “a humanitarian crisis of horrific proportions”.

“The search for food must never be a death sentence,” Mr Guterres told UN reporters, while also urging Israeli and Palestinian leaders to show “political courage” and agree to a ceasefire like the one forged between Israel and Iran.

Humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders also condemned the GHF aid distribution system as “a slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid”, and called for it to be immediately shut down. An association of Gaza’s influential clans and tribes said on Wednesday they had started an independent effort to guard aid convoys to prevent looting. The National Gathering of Palestinian Clans and Tribes said it helped escort a rare shipment of flour that entered northern Gaza that evening.

AP/Reuters

Fetterman reacts to socialist mayoral wannabe Mamdani’s success in NYC:
“I’d describe it as Christmas in July for the GOP”

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A Sen kennedy vibe there.

83 y/o whiner.

Former Hochul Aide Tied to China Got Kickbacks for COVID Gear, Feds Charge. Linda Sun steered COVID protective equipment contracts to two family firms, one run by her husband and another by a second cousin.

by Yoav Gonen
June 26, 2025, 4:52 p.m.

A former staffer in the governor’s office accused of working as an agent for China allegedly steered contracts for personal protective equipment during the COVID pandemic to a firm co-owned by her husband and another that belongs to a second cousin, federal prosecutors announced Thursday. The prosecutors allege that former Deputy Chief of Staff Linda Sun, who worked for Gov. Kathy Hochul after being hired years earlier in the administration of former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and her husband, Chris Hu, reaped millions of dollars from the deals — some in the form of kickbacks.

“When masks, gloves, and other protective supplies were hard to find, Sun abused her position of trust to steer contracts to her associates so that she and her husband could share in the profits,” said Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella. “We demand better from our public servants, and this office will continue to hold accountable public officials who enrich themselves at the expense of the New York taxpayers.” The charges against Sun and Hu include honest services wire fraud, bribery and conspiracy to defraud the United States. They mark the third indictment of the couple. In September 2024, a grand jury indicted Sun on charges that she worked as an unregistered foreign agent for the Chinese government, for which prosecutors claim she sought to influence the state government toward pro-China stances, in exchange for payments and perks from representatives of the country.

This included restricting access to the governor’s office for Taiwanese government officials and massaging statements made by Cuomo and Hochul to be more favorable to China, prosecutors alleged.

Sun’s husband was charged with money laundering and other crimes in September, and hit with additional money laundering counts in a superseding indictment brought in February. Sun, 41, and Hu, 40, pleaded not guilty to the prior charges. Attorneys for Sun, Jarrod Schaeffer and Kenneth Abell, said she vehemently denies the latest charges and plans to fight them.

“Scrambling to develop new theories and shoving new charges into an indictment as trial looms is both unfortunate and telling, but it is also unsurprising given how this case has proceeded and the government’s recent efforts to further delay trial in this case,” said Schaeffer. “The newest allegations continue the government’s trend of making and publicizing feverish accusations unmoored from the facts and evidence that we expect will actually come out at trial.” Attorneys for Hu didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Sun was terminated from her job in Hochul’s executive office in March 2023, days after a probe by the State Inspector General found that Sun had improperly obtained official proclamations for a Chinese government official, as well as for her father and a family friend, according to Gothamist.
When the COVID pandemic landed in New York in March 2020, Sun was working as deputy chief diversity officer for the Cuomo administration. As part of her role she helped coordinate the procurement of protective equipment, such as masks, from Chinese firms amid shortages across the state.

Wednesday’s indictment says Sun referred her husband’s and second cousin’s firms to preferred vendor lists by falsely claiming they had been recommended by affiliates of the Chinese government. Neither company is named in the indictment. In one instance, Sun allegedly doctored an email she forwarded to officials in the governor’s office in March 2020, which contained a list of recommended vendors, to include the second cousin’s company and that claimed that its surgical masks were the “gold standard.”

In another instance, she included the name of her husband’s company on an email to government officials listing mask suppliers, and an internal government document falsely claimed that the firm had been recommended by a Chinese chamber of commerce, prosecutors alleged.

Prosecutors claim they found documents on Sun and Hu’s computers that listed $2.3 million in kickback payments to them from the second cousin’s firm in 2020 and 2021. Hu was charged with allegedly laundering the payments from the relative’s firm, and for failing to report the taxable income to the IRS.

Prosecutors said a spreadsheet that belonged to Hu puts the expected payments to Sun and Hu across the contracts for both firms, including the alleged kickbacks, at more than $8 million. Prosecutors alleged in the first indictment that Sun and Hu’s earnings from illicit activities went toward a lavish lifestyle that included a $3.6 million mansion in Long Island, a $1.9 million condo in Hawaii and a Ferrari, Range Rover and Mercedes.

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Yoav is a senior reporter for THE CITY, where he covers NYC government, politics and the police department.THE CITY is an independent nonprofit newsroom dedicated to serving the people of New York.

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.........looks mighty good.......

Absolutely appalling. Dept of Energy Secretary Chris Wright testified
<><>in the 76-days between the day Trump was elected and the day Biden left office,
<><>Biden handed out $93 BILLION tax dollars
<><>in the form of “loans” to businesses and individuals who had no clear business plan or concept.
<><>over twice as much as the DofE handed out in the PREVIOUS FIFTEEN YEARS.

Wonder how much went to the Biden crime family in bribes and kickbacks?