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Latest Articles: Corrupt Government
Biden has corporation chief who failed now handling billions of taxpayer dollars
Post Date: 2023-08-25 21:26:32 by Charles_Byrd
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David Crane, NRG Energy’s former CEO who abruptly resigned in December 2015 after making a series of green investments that failed to pan out, is now working for the Biden administration to manage billions of taxpayer dollars designated for green energy projects. During Crane’s tenure at NRG, his large investments in green energy projects yielded poor returns for investors and devastated the firm’s stock price, prompting his resignation from the company, according to The Wall Street Journal. Crane now serves as the DOE’s undersecretary for infrastructure, where he is tasked with shelling out billions of taxpayer dollars from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the ...
Jim Jordan launches probe into Georgia Trump prosecution
Post Date: 2023-08-25 02:08:15 by Charles_Byrd
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House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) fired off a sweeping request for documents dealing with former President Trump’s prosecution for election interference in Georgia, asking Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (D) to turn over all records relating to the case. Sent hours before Trump is expected to surrender at the Fulton County Jail, the letter cites “concerns about [Willis’s] motivation” in bringing the case and suggests her sprawling racketeering indictment against the former president and 18 others highlights “the threat that such state prosecutions can pose to the operations of the federal government.” Click for Full Text!
Trump replaces top attorney in Georgia case
Post Date: 2023-08-25 01:18:43 by Charles_Byrd
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Former President Trump is changing up his defense team in Georgia hours before he is expected to surrender to authorities on charges over his efforts to overturn the state’s 2020 election results. Trump is bringing on Steven Sadow, an Atlanta-based defense attorney who has represented several high-profile clients in previous cases. Sadow will replace Drew Findling, who had been one of the top lawyers on Trump’s team in the Georgia case. Click for Full Text!
Meadows asks for Georgia charges to be dismissed
Post Date: 2023-08-21 19:21:02 by Charles_Byrd
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Mark Meadows, who served as former President Trump’s White House chief of staff, is urging a judge to dismiss criminal charges brought against him last week alongside his former boss. Meadows insisted he is immune from Fulton County (Ga.) District Attorney Fani Willis’s prosecution because the allegations are connected to his role as a federal official.
Rudy Giuliani claims new 'scientific evidence' will prove his innocence
Post Date: 2023-08-21 19:17:00 by Charles_Byrd
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Rudy Giuliani claimed on Sunday to have new "scientific evidence" to prove widespread election fraud and that he is innocent after being charged in Georgia. Click for Full Text!
Texas lawsuit seeks at least $17M in Medicaid reimbursements from Planned Parenthood
Post Date: 2023-08-20 02:12:56 by Charles_Byrd
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A Texas lawsuit is aiming to require Planned Parenthood to return millions of dollars in Medicaid payments for health services and even more money in fines. A hearing was set for Tuesday in front of U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk as the state seeks to recoup at least $17 million from nation's largest abortion provider, according to The Associated Press. Earlier this year, Kacsmaryk invalidated FDA approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. Click for Full Text!
Feds say Hunter Biden gun charge diversion deal no longer valid, deny they reneged on plea agreement
Post Date: 2023-08-20 01:56:59 by Charles_Byrd
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Federal prosecutors on Tuesday said a pretrial diversion deal that they had offered to Hunter Biden on a felony gun charge did not take effect, despite what lawyers for the son of President Joe Biden are arguing. Special Counsel David Weiss also accused Hunter's defense attorneys of "inaccurately" characterizing the collapse of renewed plea negotiations, which fell apart last week after a judge raised questions about the deals Weiss was offering. Click for Full Text!
Hunter Biden's top defense lawyer withdraws from case
Post Date: 2023-08-20 01:41:42 by Charles_Byrd
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Hunter Biden's lead defense lawyer asked a federal judge Tuesday to withdraw from an ongoing high-profile case over tax and gun offenses because he could be called as a witness in future proceedings. Why it matters: Chris Clark's motion to leave comes just after Biden brought on another attorney to represent him in a years-long Department of Justice probe, following the collapse of a plea deal. Click for Full Text!
Georgia clerk says ‘mishap’ caused erroneous release of list of Trump charges
Post Date: 2023-08-20 01:32:18 by Charles_Byrd
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The clerk of the Fulton County, Georgia, court system acknowledged Tuesday accidentally releasing what appeared to be a list of criminal charges against Donald Trump before he was actually indicted, and sought to deflect blame amid mounting criticism from Republicans who have seized on the blunder to characterize the case as rigged. After refusing to explain what happened for more than a day after Reuters posted the document the media outlet said was published on the court’s website, clerk Che Alexander’s office said she was doing a “trial run” of the court’s filing system on Monday “in anticipation of issues that arise with entering a potentially large ...
Hunter Biden loses chance to give courthouse speech — and the special counsel loses more credibility
Post Date: 2023-08-19 01:21:26 by Charles_Byrd
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Breaking news: Hunter Biden was robbed of the chance to win the Emmy Award for Best Tear-Jerking Performance on Courthouse Steps by a Media Darling. The Washington Post revealed Thursday that Hunter had written “a statement about his desire to close a difficult chapter in his life, and was planning to read it to news cameras outside the courthouse after entering his plea” July 26 at the federal courthouse in Delaware. Click for Full Text!
Big Tech Lobbyists Scoring Big Wins in State Legislatures
Post Date: 2023-08-18 00:30:09 by Charles_Byrd
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State lawmakers are taking the issue of Big Tech into their own hands. In response, Silicon Valley is opening up its war chest to stop reform dead in its tracks. As Politico reports, Oregon is just one of several states in which proposals to protect user privacy were shot down thanks to lobbying from the tech industry. Click for Full Text!
Obama Foundation fundraised $311M in 2022, highest year yet
Post Date: 2023-08-15 23:21:48 by Charles_Byrd
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The Obama Foundation raised record sums in 2022 for its programming and ongoing construction of the presidential center in Jackson Park. The foundation received $311.4 million in contributions and grants last year, according to the foundation’s 2022 IRS filing and annual report. This is the largest sum the foundation has made since its founding in 2014, per Obama Foundation spokesperson Courtney Williams. It’s almost double the previous year’s fundraising of $160.21 million. Click for Full Text!
GOP lawmaker files bill to defund special counsel Jack Smith's salary
Post Date: 2023-08-15 22:37:30 by Charles_Byrd
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As special counsel Jack Smith continues his investigations and criminal cases against former President Donald Trump, freshman Rep. Andy Ogles (R- TN) filed a bill on Friday that would block him from drawing a salary by preventing federal funds from being used to pay him. Smith has been a main target of Republicans, especially those who support Trump, since he was appointed special counsel. After two separate indictments charged the former president with over 40 different criminal charges related to him holding on to classified documents and his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, calls for Smith to be fired or have his investigation defunded have grown. Click for Full Text!
Meet the 18 people charged with Trump in Georgia indictment
Post Date: 2023-08-15 22:35:34 by Charles_Byrd
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Former President Trump was indicted in Georgia late Monday night on 13 charges ranging from making false statements and impersonating a public officer to conspiracy and racketeering — a charge generally reserved for organized crime. But the former president is far from the only person tied to the 2020 plot to keep him in power to face serious charges. Click for Full Text!
Fani Willis says Trump, 18 co-defendants to voluntarily surrender in Georgia by Aug. 25
Post Date: 2023-08-15 22:28:19 by Charles_Byrd
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Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis (D) late Monday gave former President Trump and 18 co-defendants until noon on Aug. 25 to voluntarily surrender following an indictment that unveiled multiple charges in connection to their attempts to interfere in the 2020 election. Willis during a press conference also indicated her desire to try all of the defendants, hoping to begin a trial within the next six months. Click for Full Text!
Former US senator claims he once threatened to ‘kick the s---’ out of Joe Biden for treatment of his wife
Post Date: 2023-08-15 22:21:02 by Charles_Byrd
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Former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown claimed he once had to tell President Biden to back off his wife or he'd "kick the s--- out of him." Brown, who later served in the Trump administration as ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, was discussing the relationship he had with Biden when he served in the Senate representing Massachusetts. On the "Burn Barrel" podcast, Brown said he had to give Biden a strong warning during his swearing-in ceremony several years ago. Click for Full Text!
Mark Meadows, Trump's former White House chief of staff, will face his first post-2020 election-related indictment in Georgia
Post Date: 2023-08-15 22:18:51 by Charles_Byrd
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Mark Meadows, a Freedom Caucus conservative who rose to become Donald Trump's final chief of staff, will face a criminal indictment in Georgia alongside former president. Fulton County District Attorney Fanni Willis unveiled her sprawling indictment late Monday evening, ending Meadows' run thus far of successfully ducking some of the legal serious legal liability that others in Trump's orbit have faced stemming from their actions that took place during the waning weeks of his presidency. Click for Full Text!
The Bidens' Case Will Keep on Giving
Post Date: 2023-08-14 19:21:01 by Charles_Byrd
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The judicial case against Hunter Biden will stay alive. That increases the possibility that Joe Biden will have to answer questions about his own corrupt dealings related to Hunter Biden’s businesses. Click for Full Text!
Merrick Garland’s latest dirty trick to protect the Bidens
Post Date: 2023-08-14 19:02:41 by Charles_Byrd
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Attorney General Merrick Garland may have just played his last trick card to save Joe Biden: appointing a special counsel to delay prosecution of his son Hunter. With any luck, the official Justice Department final report on Biden family shenanigans will be released in December 2024, one month after the presidential election. Click for Full Text!
Evidence of Biden corruption is becoming overwhelming — even as the left pooh-poohs it
Post Date: 2023-08-14 00:14:53 by Charles_Byrd
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Yet another $3.5 million from Russian billionaire and Moscow’s former first lady Yelena Baturina went to an entity controlled by Hunter and his business partner, Devon Archer — as Archer’s congressional deposition last month detailed. Other records show funding went to nine different members of the Biden clan. Click for Full Text!
Judge warns Trump about public statements in 2020 election case
Post Date: 2023-08-13 02:26:24 by Charles_Byrd
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U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan concluded a Friday hearing in former President Trump’s 2020 election criminal case by giving a word of caution to the parties about making public statements about the case. She urged both sides to take “special care” to avoid prejudicing the jury pool or intimidating witnesses, including making any ambiguous statements that could be reasonably interpreted as doing so. Click for Full Text!
Atlanta-area prosecutor expected to seek more than a dozen indictments in Trump case
Post Date: 2023-08-11 17:24:00 by Charles_Byrd
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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is expected to seek more than a dozen indictments when she presents her case regarding efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Georgia before a grand jury next week, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Willis, a Democrat, has been eyeing conspiracy and racketeering charges, which would allow her to bring a case against multiple defendants. Her wide-ranging criminal probe focuses on efforts to pressure election officials, the plot to put forward fake electors and a voting systems breach in rural Coffee County, Georgia. Click for Full Text!
Napolitano to Newsmax: Weiss Special Counsel Just 'Political Title'
Post Date: 2023-08-11 17:17:03 by Charles_Byrd
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Former Judge Andrew Napolitano told Newsmax Friday that Attorney General Merrick Garland's appointing U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware David Weiss as a special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden on Friday is just giving him "a political title." "The special counsel is supposed to be an independent human being from outside the [Department of Justice]. It doesn't always happen," Napolitano said during "American Agenda" Friday. "If David Weiss is just going to change hats, he's still the U.S. attorney in Delaware. Click for Full Text!
Hunter Biden Delaware Plea Deal Collapses
Post Date: 2023-08-11 17:15:25 by Charles_Byrd
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A potential plea deal between Hunter Biden and the Justice Department collapsed Friday after attorneys for both sides failed to finalize an agreement. "Hunter Biden's plea deal has collapsed. Talks with gov't at an impasse," Vox.com's Andrew Prokop tweeted Friday with a screen grab of a court filing. Click for Full Text!
DOJ Says 'No Comment' When Asked if Joe Biden Part of Probe
Post Date: 2023-08-11 16:59:07 by Charles_Byrd
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The Department of Justice reportedly issued a "no comment" when asked if Joe Biden would be part of the newly appointed special counsel's investigation into Hunter Biden. Fox News host Sandra Smith gave the update live on the air. Click for Full Text!
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