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Ethics commissioner grilled over failure to sanction Liberal MP

A Liberal MP bought gifts from her own business with her constituency budget, was found to have broken the conflict of interest code, and faced no sanctions. Conservative MP Aaron Gunn wanted to know why.

On Thursday’s Rebel Roundup, Sheila Gunn Reid and Tamara Ugolini played a clip from a committee hearing where Gunn questioned Ethics Commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein about Lori Idlout. Idlout was elected as an NDP MP for Nunavut and later crossed the floor to the Liberals. Sheila directed viewers to FireIdlout.com, which has a petition on the issue.

Gunn said the commissioner found Idlout violated section 8 of the code on five separate occasions, using her taxpayer-funded constituency budget to buy more than $2,000 in artwork and trinkets from her own business. He read a note from her compliance advisor from 2022, which said, “I also advised her she could not purchase gifts from the Indigenous art gallery she owns with her members office budget.”

“So why were there no sanctions and no consequences with this abuse of taxpayer money?” Gunn asked.

Von Finckenstein said the amount was minimal and that the profit to Idlout “would be minimal,” and said he cannot impose sanctions. “This would be the Speaker who would impose sanctions,” he said, adding that under the act he has discretion over whether to recommend any.

Gunn asked whether he would apply the same standard to the prime minister. “Can you guarantee that you would recommend sanctions in that case, or might he just get off with a stern warning?”

“How many times does someone have to violate it for there to be a sanction?” Gunn asked. Von Finckenstein replied that if Gunn kept posing new questions before he could finish answering, “we’re not having a discussion here.”

Tamara said it is hard for Canadians to watch MPs “flout the rules” over what she called a small sum, given “$2,000 is a whole heck ton of money to a lot of Canadians struggling under this Liberal government.” Sheila said she believes a food-bank user would not call $2,000 pocket change.

The hosts compared the case to former Conservative minister Bev Oda, whose $16 glass of orange juice cost her her political career.

“There seems to be no rhyme or reason in terms of who is sanctioned,” Tamara said. Conservatives, Sheila said, hold their own to a higher standard. “They will turn on their own if what they do becomes too unpalatable.”

In his September report, according to coverage by Turtle Island News, von Finckenstein found Idlout acted in good faith and repaid the House of Commons once the errors were raised with her.

He said she “did not realize that making purchases from two businesses would further her or her spouse’s private interests.”

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California Sanctuary Cities Ignored 8,901 ICE Detainers and Released Violent Criminals, House Judiciary Report Finds

A new House Judiciary Committee report states that authorities in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego ignored a combined 8,901 ICE detainers, allowing criminal aliens with records that included homicide, sexual assault, kidnapping, burglary, weapons offenses, and child abuse to be released back into communities.

The 22-page interim staff report, led by Chairman Jim Jordan and Rep. Tom McClintock, was released on Thursday.

According to the report, the Los Angeles Police Department honored just four of the 4,177 ICE detainers it received between January 2020 and June 2026, a compliance rate below 0.1 percent.

The San Francisco Sheriff’s Office rejected all 2,201 detainers it received between January 2020 and August 2026.

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office declined 2,527 detainers between January 2023 and June 2026, including 894 in the last year.

The report details:

The effects of Los Angeles’s longstanding pro-criminal alien policies have been devastating. Herbert Nixon Flores, an illegal alien from El Salvador, “had been ordered removed and physically deported from the United States 10 times” since 1990. His criminal history “included carrying a concealed weapon, trespassing, burglary, disturbing the peace, possession and transportation of a controlled substance, impersonation, driving under the influence, driving without a license, driving with a suspended license, resisting arrest, vandalism, criminal threats and illegal entry.” On September 7, 2020, he was arrested “for a domestic violence with injury charge by [LAPD].” The next day, ICE lodged a detainer with LAPD, but local law enforcement released Nixon Flores onto California streets. Four months later, Nixon Flores murdered his ex-girlfriend in front of their young child. In other cases, LAPD’s compliance with sanctuary laws meant declining detainers for criminal aliens who were later arrested for committing serious crimes, including murder.

Other examples used included David Mora Rojas, a Mexican national who overstayed a visa and was arrested five days before the February 2022 Sacramento church shooting in which he killed his three daughters and another man before killing himself.

ICE had requested notification of his release, but he was freed on bail.

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Alaska Senate Decoy Candidate Dan Sullivan DISAPPEARS as US Attorney Announces Surge in FBI Agents to Investigate Peltola Campaign Scandal

US Attorney for Alaska Michael Heyman, held a press conference on Friday afternoon to update the public on his office’s ongoing criminal investigation into Alaska’s Senate ‘spoiler’ candidate Dan J. Sullivan.

The Justice Department has launched an aggressive criminal investigation in Daniel J. Sullivan. Federal prosecutors have issued more than 40 subpoenas.

News of the criminal investigation comes after The New York Times confirmed that Mary Peltola’s campaign recruited the decoy Dan J Sullivan to confuse Alaska voters.

Democrat operatives in Mary Peltola’s campaign worked to register a man named Daniel J. Sullivan as Dan S. Sullivan (the incumbent Senator’s name) as a GOP challenger.

The Times reported that the plan involved traveling to “far-flung Alaskan communities and the appearance of a mysterious Midwestern operative, who traversed the state using a fake name and made his pitch to would-be candidates over beers at brew pubs.”

“The plan worked. This spring, a retired teacher from a tiny fishing village along the Alaska Panhandle, reachable only by air and sea, announced his candidacy for Senate. His name was Dan J. Sullivan,” the New York Times reported.

Michael Heyman provided an update on the ongoing investigation into Mary Peltola’s campaign.

“Every Alaskan deserves a fair election and they’re going to get one, Michael Heyman said. “We will not let anyone or any group undermine this election,” Michael Heyman said.

“This new information has resulted in a significant surge of law enforcement assets to Alaska, and I have assigned several attorneys in my office to assist in the matter as well,” he said.

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Illinois Teachers Union Reportedly Gave Peoria Public School Staff Cards Telling Them How to Document and Report ICE Agents, While Assisting Illegal Aliens

Every staff member at Peoria Public Schools in Illinois reportedly received cards from the Illinois Federation of Teachers union instructing them on how to document federal immigration agents and assist illegal aliens facing immigration enforcement.

Libs of TikTok posted an image of the cards on Thursday, writing, “A source tells me that all staff members at Peoria Public Schools in Illinois received these anti-ICE cards instructing them on how to dox ICE agents and assist illegal aliens.”

The account tagged DOJ Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon, urging her to investigate the union immediately.

“Just imagine what they’re indoctrinating your kids with…” the post concluded.

The cards are labeled “Guidelines for Bystanders: Documenting Federal Agent Activity” and carry the Illinois Federation of Teachers logo.

One side uses the left’s SALUTE acronym to direct staff to record the size (number of agents), activity (including violence, physical force, property damage, or “hate speech”), location, unit details such as names, badges, and uniforms, the time and date, and equipment including weapons, vehicles, and license plates.

A QR code instructs users to scan and send the documentation to the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and the IFT.

The back of the card states that bystanders have the right to record federal agent encounters as long as they do not interfere with officers’ duties, and that they may remind a person being detained of constitutional rights such as the right to a judicial warrant, the right to remain silent, and the right to an attorney.

It includes a suggested statement to say, “I’m exercising my constitutional right to document. I’m not interfering.”

The card also lists refusals staff may make, including refusing a request to stop recording, to search or delete the recording without a judge’s warrant, or to unlock a phone or provide a passcode.

Neither Dhillon nor the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division had publicly responded to the post by Thursday evening.

Peoria Public Schools has maintained a “Safe Haven” resolution since 2017 that directs the district to refuse access to immigration officials seeking to enforce immigration laws except under certain unique and specified circumstances required by law.

In January 2025, after the Trump administration ended the prior policy limiting ICE activity at sensitive locations, then-Superintendent Sharon Desmoulin-Kherat sent a letter reaffirming the policy, stating the district has a legal duty to educate all children regardless of immigration status and that employees would direct any immigration officials to a designated safety director.

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California’s High-Speed Rail to Nowhere Chief Abruptly Resigns Amid Questions About Multi-Billion Dollar Boondoggle

Ian Choudri, the CEO of California’s high-speed rail to nowhere abruptly resigned late Wednesday night amid questions about the multi-billion-dollar boondoggle.

Originally greenlit by the voters with the promise of linking Los Angeles to San Francisco in a modern, efficient bullet train system for a mere $33 billion with a completion date set for four years ago, the project has ballooned to an eyewatering $128 bilion to $130 billion, with no clear completion date in sight, according to abc30.

Ian Choudri, who came on board in summer 2024, claimed last year that the high speed train might be finished in twenty years. That would be the year 2045.

Via Cal Matters:

The CEO of California’s high-speed rail authority resigned late Wednesday, saying he needs to focus on “important personal and family priorities,” according to a copy of the emailed resignation obtained by CalMatters.

“This has not been an easy decision, as leading the Authority has been one of the most meaningful and rewarding chapters of my professional life,” wrote Chief Executive Ian Choudri.

He will be replaced by Joe Stephenshaw, who has led the state Department of Finance since July 2022 after working as a policy analyst in the state Legislature for more than a decade, the board announced Thursday morning following a closed session.

The abrupt announcement comes in the midst of a two-day meeting of the board that oversees the project, which continues Thursday. It follows Choudri’s tumultuous two-year tenure, which has been troubled by budget woes, project delays, transparency concerns and various scandals including the misuse of nearly $600,000 in taxpayer money for questionable trips by rail authority consultants.

In 2025, President Trump went off on California Governor Gavin “Newscum” and announced he is officially canceled funding for the state’s “failed” high speed railroad to nowhere.

“To the Law abiding, Tax paying, Hardworking Citizens of the United States of America, I am thrilled to announce that I have officially freed you from funding California’s disastrously overpriced, “HIGH SPEED TRAIN TO NOWHERE.” This boondoggle, led by the incompetent Governor of California, Gavin Newscum, has cost Taxpayers Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we have received NOTHING in return except Cost Overruns. The Railroad we were promised still does not exist, and never will,” Trump said.

“This project was Severely Overpriced, Overregulated, and NEVER DELIVERED. Thanks to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, not a SINGLE penny in Federal Dollars will go towards this Newscum SCAM ever again. This was an ill-conceived and unnecessary project, and a total waste of Taxpayer money — But no more!” Trump said on Truth Social.

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Progressive DAs Have Nothing to Say About Downcharging for Illegal Immigrants

Earlier this week, Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee released a report titled “New York City: The Dangerous Consequences of Sanctuary Policies.” The gist of the report is that DAs throughout the city have a habit of downcharging crimes to make sure that the individuals being charged don’t get deported.

Today, several of those DAs and AG Letitia James gave a press conference about some gun seizures and were asked about the report. Suddenly, none of them had anything to say.

From the NY Post:

The attorneys — state AG Letitia James, and city District Attorneys Melinda Katz and Eric Gonzalez — stared blank-faced when asked by The Post about the damning report at a Thursday gun-safety press conference.

“Did any of you order prosecutors to downgrade gun charges to keep illegal immigrants in the US, per the Judiciary Committee report the recent house judiciary report?” a reporter asked, explaining the report could clearly indicate a gun-safety issue.

But the attorneys merely smiled and blinked — with Katz even throwing her hands up in a shrug.

It’s odd that they have nothing to say because the report has been out since Monday and it’s all about them and their office policies. This is from the 22-page report:

  • Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz employs an “Immigration Specialist” to help dangerous foreign nationals avoid immigration consequences for their criminality. Recognizing that “[a] broad range of criminal convictions may trigger severe immigration consequences” for criminal aliens, the Immigration Specialist “helps Assistant District Attorneys navigate through plea options and assist in framing dispositions that will prevent unwanted immigration consequences.”…
  • Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has admitted that “consider[ing] any likely immigration consequences” is “appropriate” in cases involving foreign nationals. Bragg previously specified in a January 2022 memorandum that his office would “seek dispositions that avoid immigration consequences for all misdemeanors, and all felonies for which non-carceral outcomes are the presumptive outcome.” In correspondence to the Committee and Subcommittee, Bragg’s office described that policy as “outdated” and replaced by a policy that broadly directed assistant district attorneys “to apply their judgment on a case-by-case basis to achieve public safety and justice.”
  • Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark requires prosecutors in her office to consider “immigration” along with a “broad range of other potential collateral consequences when initiating a prosecution.” She has even boasted that her office agreed to dozens of requests “to re-plead to an alternative crime, primarily due to immigration concerns.”
  • Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced nearly a decade ago that his office was “implementing a new policy aimed at minimizing collateral immigration consequences of criminal convictions, particularly for misdemeanor and other low-level offenses.” At that time, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office “hired two immigration attorneys to train all staff on immigration issues and to advise prosecutors when making plea offers and sentencing recommendations on cases of non-citizen defendants in an effort to avoid disproportionate collateral consequences, such as deportation, while maintaining public safety.” To achieve “an immigration-neutral disposition,” Gonzalez directed prosecutors to “consider alternative offenses the defendant can plead to as well as reasonable modifications to the sentence recommendation,” even suggesting that a criminal alien be offered “a plea for a lesser offense in light of the disproportionate immigration consequences a higher level offense may result in.” Gonzalez has boasted that his policy has resulted in reaching “plea deals with immigrant defendants that allowed them to avoid deportation.”
  • Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon established an Immigrant Affairs and Collateral Consequences Unit to advise prosecutors “on cases with collateral consequences” to ensure that criminal aliens can avoid deportation. This work includes drafting motions related to “immigration collateral consequence[s] and pardon requests” and even “[c]ontacting [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] to postpone removal proceedings against defendants, witnesses, and victims for the interest of justice.”

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PSYOP: Washington Post Claims Trump Voters See Abdul El-Sayed as an ‘America First’ Candidate

Just yesterday, the Gateway Pundit highlighted a clip of writer Walter Kirn saying that everything that happens before the election is a psyop.

And here is a perfect example of what he was talking about.

The Washington Post is claiming that Trump voters see Abdul El-Sayed as an ‘America first’ candidate.

Does anyone believe this? It doesn’t even make sense. All the guy ever talks about is the Middle East.

From the story:

In Dearborn, the first Arab American-majority city, many Trump 2024 voters describe El-Sayed as an “America First” candidate due to his opposition to unconditional military aid to Israel and focus on the domestic economy.

El-Sayed himself recently embraced the America First label in a campaign ad on the conservative Fox News and Newsmax networks.

“Mike Rogers will put Israel first,” said Michigan voter Mustapha El-Jaroudi, 27.

Having voted for Trump twice, El-Jaroudi now calls the president “a con artist” who betrayed his campaign refrain of “no new wars.”

So the Washington Post found this person and built a story around him.

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REVEALED: The OBAMA ADMINISTRATION Investigated Ilhan Omar and Found Evidence She Married Her Brother – Here’s Why They Ultimately Did Not Take Action

The investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) marriage to her “dirty dandy” alleged brother goes back further than anyone realized, and she previously got off on a technicality.

As TGP readers know, Omar has long been dogged by allegations that she married her second husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, as part of a scheme to get him U.S. citizenship. This has now become part of the sprawling federal investigation into Omar’s immigration fraud actions that could result in her deportation or imprisonment.

Omar previously said, “Not to my knowledge,” when asked whether she was related to her former husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi.

Now, a new bombshell has arrived courtesy of The New York Times.

The investigation into Omar’s reported marriage to her fashionable brother did not begin under President Trump. Nor did it begin under Joe Biden.

It began under the Obama regime!

Per the Times, Team Obama actually found evidence that Omar’s marriage to her brother was fraudulent.

But the case allegedly stalled because the crime fell outside a five-year statute of limitations.

Of course, when it comes to Team Obama, take this with a grain of salt.

From The New York Times:

The F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security investigated the marriage in summer 2016, during the Obama administration, and found some evidence that it was fraudulent, current and former officials said.

Speculation that Ms. Omar committed marriage fraud with a brother has shadowed the Minnesota Democrat’s political career for more than a decade, and President Trump repeated the accusation last week. She has long called it a right-wing conspiracy theory that federal officials debunked during her first race for elected office in 2016.

But that case stalled chiefly because prosecutors concluded that the potential crime, a felony, fell outside a five-year statute of limitations, according to the current and former officials, most of whose law enforcement careers spanned several presidential administrations.

A source familiar with the probe told the New York Post that the “Biden US Attorney in Minnesota shut it down” shortly after entering office in 2021.

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Alaska’s Senate Decoy Candidate Dan Sullivan Refuses to Go Under Oath as DOJ Issues Flurry of Subpoenas in Expanding Criminal Investigation

Alaska’s Senate decoy candidate Daniel J. Sullivan refused to go under oath during the initial investigation, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy revealed on Thursday.

News of the criminal investigation comes after The New York Times confirmed that Mary Peltola’s campaign recruited the decoy Dan J Sullivan to confuse Alaska voters.

Democrat operatives in Mary Peltola’s campaign worked to register a man named Daniel J. Sullivan as Dan S. Sullivan (the incumbent Senator’s name) as a GOP challenger.

The Times reported that the plan involved traveling to “far-flung Alaskan communities and the appearance of a mysterious Midwestern operative, who traversed the state using a fake name and made his pitch to would-be candidates over beers at brew pubs.”

“The plan worked. This spring, a retired teacher from a tiny fishing village along the Alaska Panhandle, reachable only by air and sea, announced his candidacy for Senate. His name was Dan J. Sullivan,” the New York Times reported.

On Thursday, it was reported that the Justice Department ramped up its investigation into how Daniel J. Sullivan appeared on the Alaska ballot as a spoiler and issued a flurry of subpoenas in the last 24 hours. According to Fox News, more than 30 subpoenas have been issued.

It was also revealed on Thursday that the decoy Dan Sullivan hasn’t even done any campaign events.

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DEA whistleblower says agency allowed millions of fentanyl pills on the streets

As New Mexico officials sounded alarms this month about a growing fentanyl crisis, a veteran Drug Enforcement Administration agent has alleged the agency has contributed to the problem by allowing the deadly pills to reach the streets.

“For three years, I’ve told my DEA managers that we’re allowing dangerous amounts of fentanyl to hit the street, and we’re doing nothing to stop it, and they didn’t listen to me,” DEA Special Agent David Howell told CBS News in his first television interview.

Howell, who is still an active agent, claims the agency tasked with enforcing federal drug laws has allowed millions of fentanyl pills to “walk” — a tactic in which investigators allow drug traffickers to distribute their product and then follow the trail to build bigger cases.

But because fentanyl is so lethal, Howell said the tactic has done more harm than good.

“We at the DEA have let drugs hit the street, yes. The difference was we were told not to with fentanyl,” he said.

In 2023, Howell was part of a team tracking a suspect in Albuquerque from the air. Images obtained by CBS News from congressional investigators on the House Oversight Committee showed a person driving a white SUV picking up a child.

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