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Abdul El-Sayed Benefiting From $15 Million Via ‘Epstein Class’ Donors

Michigan Muslim Socialist Abdulrahman El-Sayed promises in his campaign to get money out of politics and campaigns with far-left surrogates like Rep. Ro Khanna railing against the “Epstein class.” But he is secretly benefitting from over $15 million from those associated with the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

After meeting with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in Washington last week, his Senate Majority PAC (SMP) invested an extra $10 million into Michigan’s Senate race, bringing the group’s total investment to $30 million boosting El-Sayed.

SMP has been funded by the same “Epstein class” billionaires that Democrats like El-Sayed say they want to get out of politics. In total, $15,150,000 of SMP donations are linked to Epstein-associated individuals, which now go towards electing candidates like El-Sayed in November.

Those donors include:

Vinod Khosla

  • A February 8, 2011 email from Boris Nikolic to Epstein listed Khosla as a great dinner invitee according to a document in the Department of Justice’s online repository.
  • Later, Khosla helped Nikolic receive office space. Epstein advised Nikolic through the arrangement, saying “take your office at Khosla… it will come together.” Epstein later advised to “find what infrastructure of khosal you can use… find a place where you can have someone over for dinner.” (Department of Justice, 6/14/14 ; Department of Justice, 5/31/14 ; Department of Justice, 6/5/14)

Jon Stryker

  • In 2014, an Epstein associate suggested that he copy Jon Stryker’s playbook to bury his negative press post-conviction.

In addition, George Soros’ Democracy PAC and Michael Bloomberg’s American Opportunity Action, have both contributed to SMP:

George Soros

  • A 2007 article preserved in the DOJ production lists Soros and Epstein among people involved in a group seeking to establish a $10 million endowment led by Henry Jarecki.
  • In an FBI victim statement, George Soros was implicated for being on a yacht with Jeffrey Epstein, in which he witnessed the victim being sodomized and raped, in a heavily drug induced state, with the bottoms of his feet being slashed.

Michael Bloomberg

  • Reporting based on the 2026 DOJ release found that Epstein and Maxwell had contact with Bloomberg’s assistants, invited him to events, and appeared on invitations with him.

Monday is also the day of a major Hollywood fundraiser for El-Sayed at the home of Jeffrey Soros, the nephew of George, with co-hosts including Pod Save America hosts Jon Favreau, Tommy Vietor, and Hamas fanboy Ben Rhodes, according to an invitation.

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USDA Says It Reviewed Biden’s Billions, but GAO Couldn’t Tell What Survived.

President Donald Trump asked federal agencies a fairly basic question when he returned to office: What exactly are taxpayers still paying for? For billions of dollars flowing from two of the Biden administration’s signature spending laws, the Department of Energy came back with an answer.

The Department of Agriculture came back with something closer to, “We reviewed it.”

Great! What survived?

Well, about that.

Trump’s Jan. 20, 2025, “Unleashing American Energy” order directed agencies to pause certain disbursements under the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act while they reviewed whether the spending aligned with his administration’s policies. 

It was a sweeping order, but the assignment itself wasn’t complicated: Review the money and determine what should continue.

The GAO recently examined how the USDA and Energy handled those reviews. Together, the two departments received about $164 billion in budget authority from the laws for programs covered by the GAO’s examination, so this wasn’t an exercise involving loose change found under Washington’s couch cushions.

Energy’s paperwork allows us to follow what happened. By the end of its review, Energy reported that 381 awards totaling about $19.6 billion would continue, while another 155 awards totaling approximately $9.1 billion were terminated.

Whatever you think about those decisions, there’s a scorecard.

The USDA is where things get interesting. The department received approximately $37 billion for the programs the GAO examined and obligated $32.2 billion during fiscal years 2022 through 2025. The USDA officials said their reviews were completed by June 30, 2025, and reported terminating 34 contracts worth approximately $67 million.

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Multimillionaire Democrat Rep. Susie Lee Collected $81K in Taxpayer-Funded D.C. Lodging Reimbursements

Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV), whose estimated net worth reaches as high as $6.46 million based on her 2025 financial disclosure, received $81,615 in taxpayer-funded reimbursements for lodging in Washington, DC, dating back to 2023, according to House spending records.

An analysis of Lee’s 2025 personal financial disclosure provided to Breitbart News estimates her net worth at between $2,173,035 and $6,460,000. House Statements of Disbursements show that she received $81,615 in lodging reimbursements under budget object code 2107, covering expenses dating to January 2023, with payments reported through June 2026.

Among the largest individual reimbursements were $4,176 for October 2023, $3,354 for March 2023, and another $3,354 for May 2023. More recently, Lee received $2,744 for January 2025, $2,760 for June 2025, and $2,484 for April 2026, according to the records.

The House established a reimbursement program in late 2022 that allows lawmakers to recover qualifying lodging, meal, and incidental expenses incurred while conducting official business in Washington. The program was intended to help members offset the costs of maintaining residences in both Washington and their home districts, particularly those who could not afford accommodations in the capital. A June 2024 Pop Vox Foundation report noted that some lawmakers previously slept in their congressional offices because they could not afford accommodations in Washington.

Lee has previously faced scrutiny over her financial disclosures. In September 2021, Business Insider reported that she failed to properly disclose more than 200 stock transactions dating to early 2020, valued between approximately $267,000 and $3.3 million. Her office said the transactions had been executed by a third-party money manager without her input and that she worked with a financial adviser and the House Ethics Committee to submit the disclosures after becoming aware of them.

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) subsequently filed an ethics complaint against Lee. In August 2022, Business Insider reported additional late disclosures involving eight transactions made by Lee and her husband during 2021, valued at up to $155,000. FACT filed another complaint the following month, arguing that lawmakers remain responsible for timely disclosures regardless of whether or not they personally execute their trades.

A September 2022 New York Times investigation also identified Lee among 97 members of Congress whose families had traded stocks in industries potentially affected by their committee assignments. The investigation identified six potential conflicts involving Lee’s transactions, including pharmaceutical and healthcare stocks, while she served on a committee examining drug pricing and surprise medical billing. Her spokesperson said a money manager executed the trades without her input.

Lee has also taken several international trips sponsored by Center Forward, a bipartisan dark-money group that has historically received funding from major corporations and the pharmaceutical industry group PhRMA, according to the Detroit News. Her latest travel disclosure shows that the organization spent $13,765.13 on her June 2026 trip to Amsterdam, including $11,660.13 for transportation and $1,780 for lodging. Lee stayed at the W Amsterdam, which costs $450 per night and is marketed by Marriott as a luxury spa hotel.

In June 2025, Center Forward spent $23,868 for Lee and her adult son to attend an International Issues Conference in London, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. They stayed at the five-star InterContinental London Park Lane, where accommodations cost approximately $290 per night. The House Ethics Committee approved the trip.

The organization also paid $3,450 for Lee and her daughter to attend an ethics committee-approved conference in Lisbon, Portugal, in June 2024. They stayed at The Ivens Hotel, where rooms cost approximately $300 per night. Altogether, the three disclosed trips accounted for more than $41,000 in Center Forward-sponsored travel expenses between 2024 and 2026, separate from the taxpayer-funded Washington lodging reimbursements.

House rules permit members to claim qualifying lodging expenses incurred while conducting official business in Washington. The reimbursement program was designed in part to help lawmakers who struggle to afford housing in both Washington and their home districts, although the information reviewed does not establish a personal-wealth restriction. Lee’s reported $81,615 in reimbursements does not, on its own, establish a violation of House rules.

Lee’s office did not respond to Breitbart News’s request for comment by the time of publication.

Lee, who is seeking reelection in Nevada’s Third Congressional District, drew criticism from Republican candidate Dr. Jeff Gunter in March, who claimed she “just wants to line her pockets,” said she had “aided and abetted Joe Biden in flooding our country with illegal aliens,” and called her “out of touch.” Despite touting her bipartisan record, Lee deleted a post about Trump’s planned Supreme Court visit in April in which she wrote, “I’ll pray they fuck him to his face.” She later said War Secretary Pete Hegseth made her want to “beat the shit out of him.” In July, Lee voted for legislation banning congressional purchases of individual stocks amid backlash of a trust tied to her that sold up to $1 million in casino shares in July 2025, approximately two weeks before the stock declined sharply. Her office said she was transferring holdings received in her divorce into diversified funds, “going above and beyond what’s required of her by law and ethics rules.”

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Fauci diary reveals alarm that U.S. had aerosolized Ebola virus: ‘Never should have been done’

Dr. Anthony Fauci privately sounded the alarm when he learned the U.S. Army had conducted an experiment a decade ago that aerosolized the lethal Ebola virus, which is not normally transmitted by air, and then shared the results publicly amid an ongoing outbreak in Africa, according to diary entries obtained by Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul. 

The then-top scientist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease was particularly concerned in 2016 that the Army medical research arm’s experiment seemed to show that exposure to aerosolized Ebola caused more damaging effects in subjects that had been vaccinated. This was almost four years before he championed shutting down the U.S. economy and social life over the COVID-19 virus outbreak.

Fauci wrote he believed such research should be kept secret, preferably classified, so that it didn’t undermine public confidence in vaccination in the African countries suffering an outbreak of the virus. 

“What idiots those guys at USAMRIID [U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases] are,” Fauci wrote in a March 2016 diary entry. “This should have been a classified experiment that never should have been done in the first place.”

He added, “Now I have to speak with the NSC [National Security Council] from the SKIF [sic] tomorrow to pick up the doo-doo and explain why this is an irrelevant experiment.” Fauci was likely referring to a “SCIF” which is a room designed to prevent leaked electronic communications. 

The entry is the latest evidence to chronicle how widespread dangerous U.S. research on viruses has become, following revelations earlier this year from the Director of National Intelligence that the U.S. has funded scores of pathogen labs across the globe, including in war zones.

President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order mostly banning gain-of-function research that enhances viruses to make them more deadly to humans.

Paul told Just the News he believed the new diary entries reveal an effort by the federal government to hide dangerous research rather than stop it.

“These records show NIAID was funding risky research with the Defense Department, and when the results turned problematic, Dr. Fauci argued they should have been classified,” Paul said.”The email he sent demanding answers went to his longtime special assistant, who has since declined to answer the Committee’s questions.

“Americans deserve to know what kind of risky research their taxpayer dollars are funding. It is clear additional oversight is needed into what Dr. Fauci’s institute was paying for long before COVID,” he added. “This is exactly why Congress should pass the Risky Research Review Act. Under my bill, an independent board of outside scientists would have to review research like this before a single taxpayer dollar went out the door.“

At the time of the Ebola experiment, the United States was planning to deploy vaccines to West Africa to address the ongoing Ebola outbreaks there. Fauci noted that African officials from Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone were “going batshit” because they were concerned the U.S. would deploy ineffective vaccines in their countries. 

Fauci’s diary and communications were obtained by Paul as part of his committee’s ongoing investigation into COVID-19 origins, dangerous viral research and alleged cover-ups. The latest memos, which the senator plans to release on Monday, were shared with Just the News. 

You can read the latest release below: 

2026.09.28_FINAL_SRP EBOLA DOC RELEASE.pdf

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28% of US Voter Verifications Have NO MATCH at Social Security Administration

Since 2004, the Social Security Administration has provided a simple process to help States with verifying voter applications. It’s called the HAVV System. States send in the name, DOB, and last four digits of the voter’s SSN. The SSA then notifies the State if that person is deceased, alive, matches SSA records, or No Match Found!

A whopping 13% of all HAVV verifications processed in 2025 came back as NO MATCH. That’s 318,217 of the 2.37 million submitted. Since 2011, an astounding 28.8% of all HAVV submissions have come back as NO MATCH. For the past 15 years, the federal government (SSA) has been unable to match 28.1 million voter submissions from States, to the information in its comprehensive computer systems. The Feds have every right to know what garbage is being processed at the State level for our Federal elections.

These alarming percentages most certainly are justification for the DOJ to have access to any State’s voter rolls, including the voter’s full SSN. Yet, activist Judges in MI, OR, and CA tossed out the DOJ cases for voter rolls. The HAVV program was created to process new voters who can’t provide a valid Driver’s License during registration.

This amount of “Non Matches” is why passing the SAVE Act, which requires voter ID, is simply imperative.

When a blue State receives a “NO MATCH” report from their own Federal Government, do you think they reject, or approve that voter application?

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Watchdog Says Trump Control of $400 Million Political War Chest a ‘Clear-Cut Violation of Campaign Finance Law’

An election spending watchdog on Friday accused President Donald Trump of committing a “clear-cut violation of campaign finance law” through his stated control over spending decisions made by the MAGA Inc. super political action committee.

Citing decades of legal precedent, the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) argued that federal office holders are prohibited from directing spending for super PACs, which raise money outside the scope of federal campaign laws.

Saurav Ghosh, director of federal campaign finance reform at CLC, noted that Trump has stated publicly on multiple occasions that he will decide where MAGA Inc.’s $400 million war chest will be deployed in the 2026 elections—which Ghosh said would be flatly illegal.

“Our laws are clear: No federal officeholder or candidate is allowed to direct the money raised or spent by a super PAC,” said Ghosh. “President Trump, MAGA Inc., and anyone else who breaks campaign finance laws must be held accountable to help ensure that our political system is free of corruption.”

Last week, CLC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that cited statements Trump made to reporters, whom he told funds raised by MAGA Inc. were “my money that I control.”

This statement alone, the group said, was “a remarkable admission of a serious campaign finance violation.”

The complaint then asked the FEC to seek “appropriate sanctions for any and all violations” of campaign finance law committed by Trump and MAGA Inc., “including civil penalties sufficient to deter future violations and an injunction prohibiting the respondents from any and all violations in the future.”

While MAGA Inc. has a formidable stash of campaign cash at its disposal, it is unclear how much of an impact it will have on the 2026 midterms given that polls show the president and his party are in a deep hole with voters.

A report from The New Republic published last week revealed that the pro-Trump super PAC is plugging significant money into at least 17 districts that the president won by more than five points in 2024, and six districts that he won by more than 10 points.

David Wasserman, elections analyst for Cook Political Report, told The New Republic that this spending in pro-Trump districts is “an acknowledgment that things have shifted in a huge way since 2024.”

“Republicans have hemorrhaged support among independent voters, they’ve got a real enthusiasm problem,” said Wasserman, “and as a result, districts that ordinarily would vote handily for Trump and Republicans are now in play.”

A Friday report in The Washington Post examined the states where Trump is preparing to campaign in the coming days, and found the president is being deployed in deep-red states such as Alabama and Oklahoma.

“Oklahoma is a state Trump won in 2024 with 66% of the vote—and won all 77 counties,” the Post reported. “In Alabama, Trump won with 65%.”

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FDA Commissioner Nominee Says Every Vaccine On US Market Is Safe, Effective

The doctor nominated by President Trump to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) told senators this week that vaccines available in the United States are safe and effective.

Dr. Heidi Overton, the nominee, said that if confirmed, she could use her scientific training and clinical background to describe to the American public what is currently known about products that fall under Food and Drug Administration oversight.

“And what is currently known is that the vaccines that have been approved by the FDA meet the standards for safety and efficacy,” she said.

Overton, 37, also endorsed the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, saying it is not lethal and that it is the best tool in the public health response to measles outbreaks that are ongoing in the United States.

She said that mifepristone, an abortion pill, was safe and effective because it had been approved by the FDA. Overton wrote in a 2023 article that chemical abortion through products such as mifepristone was “dangerous to women,” drawing criticism from Democrats in the Senate.

As Zachary Stieber reports further for The Epoch Times, Overton would take the helm of an agency that has been under acting leadership since Dr. Marty Makary stepped down in May.

While signing an executive order in August that encouraged breaking up the measles combination vaccine, Trump told reporters that the vaccine is possibly “quite lethal” and that separate shots for measles, mumps, and rubella appeared to be “not at all lethal but just very effective.”

When asked after the signing, the White House declined to provide any citations for Trump’s description of the vaccine.

Leaders in the Make America Healthy Again movement recently called for removing vaccines containing messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) technology.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), an outspoken vaccine proponent, has been asking people whom Trump nominated to serve in high-level health positions about Trump’s comments, as well as other questions about vaccines, during their confirmation hearings before the Senate Health Committee, the panel he chairs. Chris Klomp, selected to be the top deputy to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., recently voiced support for vaccines in response to Cassidy, as did Dr. Nicole Saphier, tabbed to become surgeon general.

Cassidy said on Sept. 24 that Kennedy, whom he voted for, made him guarantees but later backtracked on those promises, citing directives from the president.

Kennedy’s department did not return a request for comment.

Cassidy asked Overton how she would handle it if she made guarantees and the president then directed her to go against them.

“I’ve had robust discussions with the president,” said Overton, who was part of Trump’s first administration.

“I would give him my best advice, and I would follow the statutory requirements for the role of FDA commissioner regarding individual product determinations for safety and efficacy, and that would be what would guide every decision if confirmed to this role.”

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Delaware Judge Orders Fox Corp. to Dump Hundreds of Files on Murdoch, Deleted Texts, Phone Hacking, and the Dominion Settlement In Massive Shareholder Lawsuit

A Delaware judge has just ordered Fox Corporation to hand over a mountain of internal records in a long-running shareholder lawsuit aimed at Rupert Murdoch, his son Lachlan, and other Fox directors. The files cover phone hacking, board minutes, emails, and the deletion of Rupert Murdoch’s text messages.

The order landed last week from Vice Chancellor Bonnie David. Fox fought to keep the material sealed. The judge sided with the plaintiffs across the board.

According to NPR, the haul includes roughly 700 documents that mention “phone hacking,” years of Fox board meeting minutes, emails from former Ford CEO and longtime Fox director Jacques Nasser’s Ford accounts, and a list of every email address ever used by Nasser or Rupert Murdoch.

Shareholders’ lawyers will also get sealed records from the still-pending Smartmatic case that deal with what the court calls Murdoch’s “spoliation” of records, legal speak for wiping texts.

The case was filed about three years ago by five New York City public-employee pension funds and Oregon’s public employee retirement system.

Those are Democrat-run, taxpayer-backed institutions using Delaware corporate law to try to pin Fox’s legal bills on the Murdochs personally.

The Associated Press reported earlier that the same funds accuse Murdoch and other Fox leaders of ignoring “red flags” after 2020.

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DHS: Two FBI Agents Removed After ‘Stifling’ Investigation into ‘Very Serious Threats’ Made to Katie Miller

Two veteran Washington, DC, FBI agents have been reassigned over their handling of a probe involving threats made to conservative podcaster Katie Miller, the wife of senior White House adviser Stephen Miller, CNN claimed in a report late Saturday.

Sourcing “two people familiar with the move,” the network reported that Michael Burgwald, the special agent in charge of counterterrorism matters at the bureau’s D.C. field office, and his deputy, Courtland Rae, “were ousted from their positions by bureau leadership after investigators determined that allegedly harassing phone calls Katie Miller received from unknown individuals did not warrant further investigation.”

According to CNN:

The field office team that reviewed the reported harassing calls determined they did not meet the threshold required for an FBI investigation, and no nexus to terrorism was identified, the sources said. This decision did not sit well with bureau leadership, and the two senior field office agents were removed from their positions, according to the sources.

The CNN report intimated the move could have been generated by FBI director Kash Patel, who it called “a fierce loyalist of President Donald Trump,” writing he has “fired, demoted, or forced into retirement countless career employees who handled past investigations into Trump and his allies.”

Those moves have resulted in lawsuits, the cable news network reported.

Bloomberg Law also reported the reassignment, and the FBI specifically called out writer Ben Penn on what it called “FAKE News.”

In a post on the official FBI’s Rapid Response X account, leading with the words “Dear FAKE News…,” Darren Cox, senior executive for the D.C. Field Office, said in a statement:

Director Patel did not order this decision. This was a personnel decision made at the Washington field office level alone based on our constant evaluation of mission needs. Any suggestion otherwise is false.

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Tech CEO Found Guilty In $2 Million Ponzi Scheme

Michelle Bisnoff, the CEO of wearable tech company Esos Rings Inc., was convicted of running a nearly $2 million Ponzi scheme.

Bisnoff tricked investors into believing she owned patents for “smart rings” payment technology that rightfully belonged to her former employer, according to a statement by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday. Of the $2 million scammed from investors, the victims lost roughly $1.4 million.

Bisnoff, 59, from Boca Raton, Florida, was hired by United Kingdom-based company McLear Ltd. to develop a market in the United States for its near-field communication wearable payment rings, which embedded credit card information. McLear received a patent for this “smart ring” technology in 2016.

In addition, Bisnoff fraudulently obtained $150,000 in COVID-19 pandemic business relief loans. Instead of using funds for business expenses as initially claimed, Bisnoff used some of the money to pay for personal expenses.

In 2017, Bisnoff formed Esos, and as part of bringing investors into the company, she falsely represented that Esos owned patents for its smart rings, which were actually patents owned by McLear, according to an August 2024 complaint filed in the case.

According to the DOJ, Bisnoff deceived investors, saying that Esos was profitable, had made use of investor money for expanding manufacturing capabilities and inventory for meeting demand from major retailers like Target and Walmart, and received large infusions of capital from tech companies such as Apple and Roc Nation.

“She also falsely claimed to be on the cusp of a licensing arrangement with Middle Earth Enterprises (MEE), which controls The Lord of the Rings brand,” the DOJ said.

However, Esos had no agreements with Target; sold only six smart rings on Walmart.com, out of which three were returned; generated little revenue; did not finalize any licensing agreement with MEE; and did not secure investment from Roc Nation or Apple, the department said.

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