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FRAUD CRACKDOWN: House Ethics Committee rules that all but two of two-dozen+ allegations against Florida Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick have been proven with "clear and convincing evidence" Cherfilus-McCormick reportedly "stole millions in federal relief funds and funneled some of that to her congressional campaign"

As Gov. Kathy Hochul looks to rework New York's climate goals, Mayor Zohran Mamdani's climate chief says the city's own environmental benchmarks are critical to improving affordability in the five boroughs. Hochul is asking lawmakers to push the timeline set forth in the state’s climate law, which called for cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 40%, from 2030 to 2040. The governor has said her actions are motivated by affordability, and that implementing the law under the existing terms would be onerously expensive for New Yorkers. In contrast, New York City is moving ahead without political delays. Chief Climate Officer Louise...

An Israeli Air Force reservist is suspected of having used classified information to place bets on the Polymarket prediction site relating to Israel’s war with Iran last year, a Tel Aviv court revealed on Thursday. The defendant, who served as a major in the Air Force, was indicted alongside his alleged accomplice last month on severe security offenses, as well as bribery and obstruction of justice, on suspicion of having bet on the timing of Israel’s opening strikes that kicked off the 12-day war in June 2025. Authorities have not provided further information on the suspects’ identities or the nature...

Back in late January, we reported on how House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (KY-01) announced that the committee was going to be looking into the sudden wealth of Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-05).It was revealed at the time that her husband, purported venture capitalist Tim Mynett, "went from nearly broke to being worth up to $30 million in just a year, according to her 2024 disclosure forms."Specifically, Comer noted that "There are a lot of questions as to how her husband accumulated so much wealth over the past two years. It’s not possible. It’s not. I’m a money guy....

<p>Vice President JD Vance said Friday that Rep. Ilhan Omar defrauded the US by allegedly marrying her brother to help him remain legally in the country.</p><p>Vance added that he’s been discussing legal remedies with White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, explaining that questions have been raised: “How do you go after her?"</p>

from Libby Dean, White House Correspondent for News Nation Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Bill Pulte made two new criminal referrals to the DOJ today against New York Attorney General Letitia James, alleging homeowners insurance fraud. Referring it to two U.S. attorneys in Florida and Illinois, according to documents reviewed by @NewsNation The DOJ did not secure a conviction against James on mortgage fraud charges last year.

🚨 Trump Drops Hammer on Census Fraud Illegals Will No Longer Be Counted New testing begins for citizenship verification as Democrats face losing congressional seats they never earned.

70 hospice and home health providers in Los Angeles were cut off from federal funding in one week after being flagged for fraud by Vice President JD Vance’s anti-fraud task force, with officials indicating that additional providers are likely to be flagged as the review widens. Early findings point to a broader network of activity than the initial suspensions suggest. “As the task force to root out waste, fraud and abuse ramps up, we expect this number to grow exponentially.” As RedState previously reported, the GOP-led House Oversight Committee has now opened an investigation into what they describe as “rampant”...

The federal government on Friday accused a drug middleman owned by CVS Health of overbilling a program that covers 9 million federal employees by $615 million over a four-year period. The audit’s findings were similar to those found by one commissioned by the Ohio Department of Medicaid in 2018. It found that pharmacy middlemen owned by CVS and UnitedHealth billed the state $224 million more for drugs that it paid pharmacists in 2017.

Millions of people's lives were destroyed during the Covid pandemic. Attorney Bryan McKenna took advantage while others suffered. Now he is crying like a baby after being sentenced to up to 6 years in prison for stealing $4.4 MILLION in COVID funds.

Los Angeles homeless people are being put up in brand new apartments in ritzy neighborhoods that cost taxpayers up to $1.5 million per room, the California Post can reveal. At least $2.6 billion of taxpayers cash has been spent buying and renovating hotels, motels and dorms for the huge unhoused population in the city and county since 2020. The properties were all purchased with $1.3 billion from Governor Gavin Newsom’s Homekey initiative, which then renovated with another $1.3 billion in funding from the city and county of Los Angeles. Some of the suites, which are staggered across neighborhoods such as...

Republican House Oversight Committee members announced that the committee had launched an investigation into claims of hospice fraud in California. “Despite clear red flags, it appears California leaders have enabled hospice providers to DEFRAUD hardworking American taxpayers,” Chairman James Comer wrote on X. “The House Oversight Committee is moving to protect taxpayer funds from waste, fraud, and abuse.” The outrage started in January when Dr. Mehmet Oz, the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), said California owed over $1 billion in Medicaid funds improperly used for health care for illegal aliens.

Part II of ‘Cash for Ballots’ reveals forgery pyramid scheme targeting homeless petition This article has been edited to include a response from the White House. In a second video drop of an ongoing series, independent investigative journalist James O’Keefe and the O’Keefe Media Group (OMG), working with citizen journalist Cam Higby and the Citizen Justice League, have released explosive hidden-camera footage documenting what appears to be a brazen, large-scale election fraud operation on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Titled “Cash for Ballots Part II,” the undercover videos show petition circulators (petitioners) paying homeless individuals as little as $2–$3...

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice just got a leader to oversee its newly created unit to prosecute fraud, and it so happens he’s from California, which has been making headlines for its alleged fraud cases. The US Senate on Tuesday confirmed Colin McDonald, an associate deputy general at the Justice Department, 52 to 47 to be in charge of the DOJ’s new fraud division. The division is part of a broader attempt by the Trump administration to declare “war on fraud” that was exposed in Minnesota and could also appear in California. “Similar schemes are now surfacing within California’s...

A Nevis, Minnesota, man who served as an election judge for Badoura Township during the 2024 election has pleaded guilty to accepting the vote of an unregistered voter, online court records said. The 65-year-old man pleaded guilty to the charge in the incident on Monday. One count of neglect of duty on Election Day will be dropped as part of a plea agreement, according to court documents. An investigator received a copy of an email from Hubbard County Auditor Kay Rave to Attorney Jonathan Frieden on Nov. 7, 2024, two days after the election, the criminal complaint said. The email...

Democrats and their media propaganda arm have kept one narrative vibrantly alive for at least six years: 2020 was the most honest, fraud-free election in American history. As evidence they say: “because we say so,” and present Joe Biden’s 306 electoral votes and his 81.2 million popular votes, the most ever in a presidential election, far more than those of Barack Obama--The Lightbringer—in either of his elections. Normal Americans have always been skeptical of those assertions, as Biden, who ran a campaign from his basement and was clearly already in the throes of dementia, shouldn’t have been able to win...

Vanessa Motta and Jason Giles were found guilty Friday of numerous charges related to the Louisiana staged accident scam, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana. According to news reports from local Louisiana media, the jury deliberated about six hours Friday after closing arguments wrapped up at the end of the day Thursday. The case was heard in the U.S. Eastern District of Louisiana. The news reports also said the pair were remanded to federal custody after the verdicts were read. Local news reporting painted a picture of post-verdict chaos. ... The Motta/Giles trial was the...

ransomnote: Elon's DOGE decentralized and are now embedded throughout the gov. agencies. The DOGE referenced below is an agency established prior to Elon's DOGE.https://x.com/USDS/status/2036128942550110443 U.S. DOGE Service@USDSOver $1 BILLION in federal student aid fraud has been stopped since January 2025.This is what was uncovered: 🧵U.S. DOGE Service@USDS·43mNearly $90 million in fraudulent aid had already been disbursed.More than $30 million went to individuals who were deceased.More than $40 million went to bots posing as students.U.S. DOGE Service@USDS·43mFraudsters used AI-generated identities and stolen personal information to create applications that appeared legitimate.These were fake students enrolling to access real money.U.S. DOGE Service@USDS·43mUnder the...

In Minnesota, the Somali fraudsters who have managed to have diverted to themselves billions of dollars through the state’s welfare system for services, from child care to hospice care and everything in between, never rendered, are outraged that any of the luxury goods they bought with that money should be taken away from them. When the government repo men appear, the Somalis fly into a fury. It’s amazing how much anger they manage to summon up. They feel genuinely put-upon, victimized by racists depriving them of their new possessions only because they are Somalis. Here are just five of those...

At 10:00 this morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the issue of ballots arriving after election day.QUESTION PRESENTED: The federal election-day statutes-2 U.S.C. § 7, 2 U.S.C. § 1, and 3 U.S.C. § 1-set the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in certain years as the "election" day for federal offices. Like all other States, Mississippi requires that ballots for federal offices be cast-marked and submitted to election officials-by that day. And like most other States, Mississippi allows some of those timely cast ballots (mail-in absentee ballots, in Mississippi's case) to be counted if they are...