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The Associated Press Westar Energy Inc.'s top executive and the president of a Topeka bank were indicted by a federal grand jury on fraud charges, U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren announced today. David Wittig, Western's chairman, president and chief executive officer, faces four counts of submitting false entries, books, reports or statements to a federally insured bank; one count of conspiracy and one count of money laundering. The indictment also alleges in a separate count that the government is owed $1.5 million because of the alleged actions.There was no indication that the indictment involved Westar's business matters. Westar is the...

PART 2 OF 3. The Hunter Biden Files Hunter Biden and his business partners were involved in discussions about possible deals in dozens of foreign countries, often corrupt backwaters, at times invoking official channels like ambassadors, emails reviewed by The Daily Wire show. While most attention has focused on Ukraine, where a gas company paid the now-president’s son tens of thousands of dollars a month while he was in deep crack addiction, and China, Hunter and his partners at a consultancy called Rosemont Seneca were eager to do business in a vast array of other places. The map below highlights...