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FEC Opens Probe of Rep. Jasmine Crockett Donations

The Federal Election Commission opened an investigation into firebrand Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, regarding donations to her 2024 campaign made through ActBlue, a Democrat fundraising powerhouse organization.

The Coolidge-Reagan Foundation, a conservative advocacy group, made the FEC complaint on March 26, as first reported by The Daily Signal. 

On April 2, the FEC notified the Coolidge-Reagan Foundation it would review the matter and notify Crockett. 

“The respondents will be notified of this complaint within five business days,” Wanda D. Brown, the FEC assistant general counsel for complaints examination and legal administration, said in the letter. 

“You will be notified as soon as the Federal Election Commission (FEC) takes final action on your client’s complaint. Should you receive any additional information in this matter, please forward it to the Office of the General Counsel.”

Brown wrote the letter to Dan Backer, a Washington lawyer representing the Coolidge-Reagan Foundation. 

“The FEC opened an investigation. There is a process, but they are investigating,” Backer told The Daily Signal. 

The complaints reference a specific suspect donor reported to have given 53 separate donations totaling $595 to Crockett’s campaign through the ActBlue portal.

The suspect donor was a 73-year-old Texas resident named Randy Best, according to the FEC complaint.  

However, Best’s wife—in a video promoted by one of Crockett’s opponents for 2026, Sholdon Daniels—denied knowing anything about the donations. The complaint contends this possibly means Best—and potentially other donors through ActBlue—did not make the donations listed under their names. 

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Slimy congressman is hit by multiple shocking scandals including one that involving a stillborn baby

A scandal-prone Tennessee lawmaker is facing fresh scrutiny over his campaign finances years after he fundraised $25,000 for a playground in memory of his stillborn baby that was never built.

Congressman Andy Ogles raised the cash to create a tribute to his late son Lincoln which could be used by other bereaved parents shortly after the baby’s death in 2014.

But more than a decade on and the garden has yet to materialize at the proposed spot at at Mount Hope Cemetery in Franklin.

Ogles insisted he has not spent the cash and blamed ‘government bureaucracy’ for the lack of progress when approached by the the Tennessean the year after his fundraiser launched.

Now the Maury County Republican is facing renewed questions over his campaign spending after News Channel 5 uncovered evidence he has been misrepresenting payments to various companies.

Among the findings, were tens of thousands of dollars of spending which was attributed to companies providing different services to those claimed by Ogles, the outlet reports. 

Ogles, who lives in a $1 million mansion on eight acres of land, reported a $14,000 expenditure with JL Tech Sales for 2022 and 2024 ostensibly for ‘office supplies, internet and TV services’.

However, when News Channel 5 investigated they found that the Virginia address Ogles listed for the business belonged to USA Custom Solutions, according to a man who told their reporter he works there.

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The Letitia Files: Did Letitia James Illegally Hire a Nonprofit for Her 2013 Campaign?

New York Attorney General Letitia James’ multi-family apartment building in Brooklyn has begun to resemble a crime scene. Last week, I revealed two major incidences of potential mortgage fraud by James.

I detailed Letitia’s misrepresentations in her government HAMP Loan application whereby she falsified the number of apartment units in her building to obtain a loan at 2.7% on the back of the American taxpayer.

I also revealed that James once obtained a home loan by claiming she had married her father. By borrowing with her father, Robert James, as “husband and wife,” she was able to secure a home loan when she was 24 years old.

Now the spotlight is shining on what could be considered illegal campaign activity by Letitia James in 2013 when she ran for New York City Public Advocate.

The New York City Campaign Finance Board is an independent, nonpartisan agency that oversees the city’s campaign finance system.

Its main responsibilities include ensuring candidates comply with NYC’s campaign finance laws, including contribution limits, spending restrictions, and financial disclosure requirements.

Searching their records for Letitia James, it indicates her campaign hired New York Communities for Change (NYCC), a non-profit 501(c)(4) organization, to engage in political campaign activity on her behalf in September, October, and November of 2013.

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Josh McKoon Fundraiser Referred To The FBI

The Georgia Record has become aware of contact between multiple sources in Georgia and FBI offices stationed in Georgia.

One such source reports that the FBI has been made aware of circumstances surrounding McKoon’s fundraising dinner held in November 2023.

McKoon is employed as General Counsel for the Technical College System of Georgia, hence he is a State employee.      His LinkedIn account confirms that he has been employed in this role since 2020.

McKoon was elected to Chair the Georgia Republican Party (Now referred to as the “Georgia Republican Party, Inc.”) at the GOP State Convention held in June 2023, approximately 5 months before the aforementioned fundraising dinner.

The promotional announcement for the Dinner shown above indicates the option of paying $5000 to be seated at a table with Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, $3000 to be seated at other tables, or $1000 to attend a reception only.

The FBI was reportedly contacted concerning questions surrounding a current state employee, recently elected to GOP office, raising funds via an event which seems to provide access to himself and/or potentially the Lt. Gov. of Georgia.

Also of note is that Josh McKoon is listed as “Josh McKoon for Georgia” on the promotional announcement.   Many candidates, as they run for office, utilize various descriptions such  as “for Georgia” or “4 Georgia”  during their campaign.

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Mayor Johnson takes campaign cash from lawyer whose firm has pending lawsuits against City Hall

Chicago lawyer Antonio Romanucci has become one of the better-known civil rights and personal injury attorneys, known for handling high-profile lawsuits, including one that led to a $27 million settlement for the family of George Floyd after his 2020 murder by a Minneapolis cop.

Locally, his Loop law firm Romanucci & Blandin, LLC, represents clients in nine pending lawsuits against City Hall, with one of those cases involving allegations that Chicago cops framed a South Side man for the 1988 murder of a little boy. Two other lawsuits involving the firm have been settled by City Hall since Mayor Brandon Johnson took office in May 2023.

Even though Johnson’s Law Department holds huge sway over such legal cases — often helping decide if and how to settle them, affecting bottom lines for clients and Chicago taxpayers — the mayor continues to accept campaign contributions from Romanucci and other employees of his law firm, records show.

While Johnson is not supposed to accept campaign donations from city contractors under municipal ethics rules, there’s no prohibition on taking campaign cash from lawyers doing battle with City Hall.

A founding partner of his firm, Romanucci gave $5,000 to Friends of Brandon Johnson in a contribution dated Feb. 18, according to Illinois State Board of Elections records.

Elizabeth Romanucci, who handles event planning for the firm, gave $1,000 in a contribution dated Feb. 24, records show.

Stefanie Stein, director of marketing for the firm, gave another $1,000 on the same date.

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Biden aides, more Democrats pile on ex-prez’s offer to boost party fundraising after 2024 disaster: ‘This is an SNL skit’

Former aides to Joe Biden and other Democratic flacks were aghast Friday following a report that the 46th president recently met with party bosses to offer to put himself back in the spotlight and boost the ailing party’s image and fundraising.

Biden, 82, and wife Jill sat down with newly elected Democratic National Committee chairman Ken Martin last month to pitch themselves for a revamped campaigning effort, according to NBC News.

Recent public polling shows Democrats’ support has cratered, with less than one-third of Americans approving of the party’s performance since President Trump returned to the White House Jan. 20.

“The Bidens are still living in an alternative universe that revolves only around them,” a onetime senior White House adviser told The Post in response to the NBC report.

“Their irresponsibility, family ego and selfishness put the Democratic Party in this position in the first place … The Biden family — and the disconnected reality that they and their ineffective little circle live in — is responsible for the Trump sequel and the wilderness the Democratic Party finds itself in today,” this person said.

“Why?” asked another former Biden administration official. “That is my first question.”

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Georgia Senate Launches Investigation Into Stacey Abrams and Her Nonprofit For Committing Election Fundraising Crimes

The Georgia Senate launched an investigation into Stacey Abrams and her nonprofit The New Georgia Project for illegal fundraising activity.

“Abrams and the New Georgia Project, from which she is no longer affiliated, are being investigated by the same Senate panel that has been examining Fulton County DA Fani Willis’ historic indictment of Donald Trump during the time he was out of the Oval Office,” Atlanta News First reported.

“The Senate committee will focus on alleged campaign finance violations and possibly the recent New Georgia Project firings allegedly tied to efforts to unionize the voting rights organization,” the outlet reported.

As previously reported, Francys Johnson, the head of Stacey Abrams’ nonprofit The New Georgia Project, announced he is resigning from his post after the firm was hit with a massive fine for committing campaign fundraising crimes.

Twice-failed Democrat Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams created the nonprofit in 2013 to get out the black vote.

Abrams has repeatedly claimed, without providing any evidence whatsoever, that Georgia Republicans engage in black voter suppression. She blamed her previous crushing election loss to Brian Kemp on black voter suppression.

The New Georgia Project was slapped with a $300,000 ethics fine for illegal campaign fundraising in January.

“The [State Ethics Commission’s] investigation, which lasted five years, revealed that the organization raised $4.2 million in dark money and spent $3.2 million on campaign activities,” Fox 5 Atlanta reported last month.

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Head of Stacey Abrams’ Nonprofit Resigns After Firm Slapped with $300,000 Ethics Fine For Illegal Campaign Fundraising

Francys Johnson, the head of Stacey Abrams’ nonprofit The New Georgia Project, announced he is resigning from his post after the firm was hit with a massive fine for illegal campaign fundraising activity.

Twice-failed Democrat Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams created the nonprofit in 2013 to get out the black vote.

Abrams has repeatedly claimed, without providing any evidence whatsoever, that Georgia Republicans engage in black voter suppression. She blamed her previous crushing election loss to Brian Kemp on black voter suppression.

The New Georgia Project was slapped with a $300,000 ethics fine for illegal campaign fundraising in January.

“The [State Ethics Commission’s] investigation, which lasted five years, revealed that the organization raised $4.2 million in dark money and spent $3.2 million on campaign activities,” Fox 5 Atlanta reported last month.

Francys Johnson said he will be resigning from the nonprofit in a recorded phone call obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“I’ve probably done all the good I can do, and my presence is a distraction to our mission,” Francys Johnson said in a phone call on Monday according to the AJC. “It’s unfortunate, and it’s a reality I can recognize. It’s time to let the organization move forward beyond all this.”

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Harris Campaign Paid $100K to Obama for ‘Travel’ and $58K to Rapper Cardi B, Who Claimed She ‘Didn’t Get a Dollar’ From Campaign

Kamala Harris’s campaign paid nearly $100,000 to a shell company for former president Barack Obama to travel to events and roughly $60,000 to rapper Cardi B, who said she “didn’t get a dollar” to appear alongside the failed presidential candidate.

Harris for President paid $95,576 to Renegade44, LLC. for “travel” expenses and $58,867 to Washpoppin, Inc. for “campaign event production,” according to campaign records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon. Public records show the firms are owned by Obama and Cardi B, whose real name is Belcalis Marlenis Cephus, respectively.

It’s the latest example of the Harris campaign’s elaborate spending on celebrities and influencers—a spending spree that has stoked intense scrutiny after Harris’s decisive loss to President Donald Trump. The campaign spent $1.5 billion in just three months, with tens of millions of dollars going to celebrities and activists, most of whom did not disclose their payments from the Harris campaign. The campaign records also undercut Cardi B’s public comments about her appearance at a Harris event in Milwaukee on Nov. 1.

“I didn’t get paid a dollar and that’s on my three!!” Cardi B, referring to her three children, said in a social media exchange with pundit Candace Owens on Nov. 14. “I actually came out of pocket for glam and travel because it’s somewhere I wanted to be.”

The Harris campaign paid Cardi B’s company on Dec. 12, records show. The terms and timeline of the campaign’s agreement with Cardi B’s firm were not immediately clear. Representatives for the rapper and Harris did not respond to requests for comment.

Cardi B didn’t perform any songs at the Harris campaign event. She spoke for 10 minutes, saying she “wasn’t going to vote” in the election until Harris entered the race against “bully” Trump. “Vice President Kamala Harris, thank you for having me. I do not take lightly the call to show up,” she said.

Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama appeared at events in Atlanta, Detroit, and Pittsburgh on behalf of the Harris campaign. Obama sparked controversy after his Oct. 10 appearance in Pittsburgh, during which he suggested many black men harbored misogynistic beliefs about Harris.

A lack of enthusiasm for Harris, Obama said, “seems to be more pronounced with the brothers.”

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RFK Jr. TORCHES Bernie Sanders For Taking Big Pharma Donations

The crowd went wild with applause on Thursday after Donald Trump Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. slammed hypocrite Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for taking millions of dollars from Big Pharma.

The moment came during day two of Kennedy’s Senate confirmation hearing, where he told Sanders, “By the way Bernie, the problem with corruption is not just in the federal agencies, it’s in Congress too. Almost all the members of this panel are accepting, including yourself, are accepting millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry.”

When the audience clapped in approval of RFK’s comment, Sanders angrily waved his hand in the air, saying, “Oh no! No, no, no, no… I ran for president like you. I got millions and millions of contributions. They did not come from the executives, not one nickel of PAC money from the pharmaceutical industry, they came from workers.”

Kennedy responded, “In 2020 you were the single largest receiver of pharmaceutical money… Bernie, you were the single largest accepter of pharmaceutical dollars. $1.5 million.”

“Yeah, out of $200 million,” Sanders answered.

During Wednesday’s confirmation hearing for Kennedy, the socialist senator launched into an unhinged tirade at Robert F. Kennedy Jr. regarding baby clothes that celebrate not taking vaccines.

Highlighting Kennedy’s former group Children’s Health Defense (CHD) advertised baby clothing that said “Unvaxxed Unafraid” and “No Vax, No Problem” on its website, Sanders shouted, “ARE YOU SUPPORTIVE OF THESE ONESIES?!”

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