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Trump Frees Executive Who Defrauded Thousands

President Trump has commuted the sentence of David Gentile, setting the private equity executive free after serving less than two weeks of a seven-year prison term for his role in a $1.6 billion fraud scheme. Gentile was convicted in August 2024, alongside co-defendant Jeffry Schneider, on securities and wire fraud charges and sentenced in May. Prosecutors said they used private equity funds controlled by Gentile’s firm, GPB Capital, to defraud about 10,000 investors. US attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. said the sentences were “a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.” Gentile, 59, reported to prison on Nov. 14 and was released Wednesday, the New York Times reports.

The commutation, unlike a pardon, does not erase the conviction. Schneider, who received a six-year sentence, has not been granted clemency. Prosecutors for the Eastern District of New York, said Gentile and Schneider misrepresenting fund performance and used investor capital to make distribution payments, creating a false appearance of profitability. Victims, described as “hardworking, everyday people” including small-business owners and veterans, submitted over 1,000 statements detailing their losses. One investor wrote, “I lost my whole life savings. I am living from check to check.” A White House official defended Trump’s commutation to Reuters.

The claim by the Justice Department during the Biden administration of a Ponzi scheme was “profoundly undercut by the fact that GPB had explicitly told investors what would happen,” the official said. “At trial, the government was unable to tie any supposedly fraudulent representations to Mr. Gentile.” It’s not clear whether the commutation will affect financial penalties, per the Times. In June, prosecutors sought forfeitures of more than $15.5 million from Gentile and $12 million from Schneider, and a court-appointed receiver has access to over $700 million for potential distribution to investors. Civil claims against GPB Capital are ongoing. Adam Gana, an attorney for investors, criticized the release of Gentile, saying, “This guy belongs in prison.”

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‘We Are Being Forced to Fund Our Own Destruction’: The Massive Amount of Taxpayer Dollars Behind Afghan Resettlement Program That Brought National Guard Shooter to U.S.

The two West Virginia National Guard members were ambushed and shot near the White House on Wednesday by an Afghan national who was resettled in the United States through a Biden-era program funded entirely by American taxpayers.

Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, 20, succumbed to her injuries on Thanksgiving, while Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, remains in critical condition.

This incident underscores a harsh reality: billions in U.S. tax dollars have been poured into resettling tens of thousands of Afghans, some of whom pose a direct threat to American lives and security.

Author and political commentator Mike Cernovich shared a post breaking down the cost and wrote, “We are being forced to fund our own destruction.”

The shooter, 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, entered the U.S. in September 2021 under Operation Allies Welcome (OAW), a hasty resettlement initiative launched by the Biden administration following the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal.

Lakanwal, who had previously worked with the CIA and Afghan partner forces in Kandahar, drove cross-country from his home in Bellingham, Washington, to carry out what authorities describe as a targeted ambush.

Since 2021, the U.S. government has spent over $14 billion on Afghan evacuees, including $8.7 billion specifically for OAW through the Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, and Homeland Security.

An additional $5.3 billion went to its successor, Enduring Welcome.

A 2021 Department of Defense contract awarded nearly $974 million, with $888 million outlayed, to URS Federal Services International for OAW refugee support at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.

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Hey, Why Was the DC National Guard Shooter Naked Except for a Pair of Socks?

The first photograph that circulated of Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who shot two National Guard members in Washington on Wednesday, murdering one of them, showed him lying on a gurney, naked except for a pair of socks. Initial reports took due notice of this odd fact, without making any attempt to explain it: the New York Post reported that “the suspect, who was reportedly shot four times, was hauled away nearly naked in an ambulance and acted alone.” 

All right, but why was he “nearly naked”? Did police take off his clothes, perhaps to make sure he didn’t have a bomb? Did they remove his clothes to determine the extent of his injuries from having been shot four times? Both of those explanations are possible, but plenty of people have been searched for bombs, or examined for injuries, without being stripped entirely naked (except for the socks). So it is entirely possible that Rahmanullah Lakanwal was apprehended while nearly naked for another reason: after he fired upon his victims, he took off his clothes.

Now, why would he do that? The answer lies in Lakanwal’s worldview and motive. The Post reported that “police have not revealed a motive for the attack,” but other reports say that Lakanwal screamed “Allahu akbar” as he fired upon the Guard members, and if politically motivated myopia and willful ignorance don’t get in the way, that’s ample indication of his motive. Lakanwal would then have been firing upon the National Guard members because he is an Islamic jihadi and viewed them as the forces of an enemy of Allah and Islam, the United States.

Those who think that Lakanwal could not possibly believe such a thing, because he worked for the CIA in Afghanistan and was therefore obviously a friend of the United States, are displaying a dangerous naivete. For many of those Afghans who aided American forces, it was just a job; others preferred the Americans to the Taliban, yet still hated the Americans. There is no reason why working for the Americans in Afghanistan would definitively rule out the possibility that Rahmanullah Lakanwal was a jihadi.

In fact, his being naked reinforces the likelihood that he was a jihadi. Islamic paradise is a physical place, where the blessed recline in “enclosed gardens and vineyards” (Qur’an 78:32), where there will be “fruit in plenty, neither out of reach nor forbidden, and raised couches” (Qur’an 56:32-4). On those couches, there will be “large-breasted women of equal age” (Qur’an 78:32-3). These are the famous virgins of paradise: “Indeed, we have created them a special creation and made them virgins, lovers, friends” (Qur’an 56:35-7).

These women are, according to Islamic tradition, waiting with tremendous enthusiasm for those who “kill and are killed” (Qur’an 9:111) for Allah, and are rewarded for doing so with an immediate trip to paradise. That is why 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta packed a fancy suit in his luggage (which was flagged, while he himself wasn’t) on that fateful day.

Atta was actually anticipating changing into this suit before he flew the plane he hijacked into one of the World Trade Center towers. He wanted to make this change so that he would turn up in paradise looking his very best for the heavenly virgins. According to a letter that was also in his luggage, Atta was looking forward to “marriage” with the “women of paradise,” whom he would encounter “dressed in their most beautiful clothing.”

In Boulder, Colo. back in March 2021, a Muslim named Ahmad Al Issa (which was how he himself spelled his name, although the establishment media, perhaps to obscure his Islamic identity, has consistently referred to him ever since as “Alissa”) was more direct. He walked fully clothed into a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder and murdered ten people; then he stripped to his shorts, which is all he was wearing when he was arrested.

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Sweden: $375 Million in Fraudulent State Welfare Funds Siphoned Off by Foreign Criminal Gangs Ravaging the Nation

A government investigation has revealed Sweden’s catastrophic betrayal, exposing how the nation’s welfare state—forged through centuries of Swedish ingenuity, sacrifice, and national pride—has been hijacked by criminal gangs, overwhelmingly fueled by unchecked mass migration from third-world countries.

The probe finally rips the veil off a scandal that Sweden’s globalist elite—those cosmopolitan liberals and social-democratic enablers who have ruled the country for decades—deliberately buried, ignored, and denied while the rot spread unchecked through the Swedish state apparatus.

Thousands of these gang members, many with deep roots in Sweden’s migrant enclaves, have been taking state handouts for years, draining the equivalent of over €325 million ($375 million) straight from the pockets of honest, tax-paying Swedes who built this system for their own people.

These so-called “benefits”—from fake sickness payouts to unemployment welfare—have become a taxpayer-funded safety net for these foreign predators, bankrolling their empires of drug dealing, extortion rackets, and brutal violence that terrorize Swedish streets and erode the country’s national sovereignty.

What this report unmasks is a national disgrace. Sweden’s jewel of a welfare system—a beacon of excellence built by generations of Swedes—has become little more than a slush fund propping up the fake refugees and economic migrants from the Third World who are dismantling the Swede’s one and only homeland from within, all thanks to spineless, traitorous globalist elites and their open-borders insanity.

Nils Öberg, chief of the Social Insurance Agency, conceded what patriotic Swedes have known for years—these migrant-dominated crime syndicates have embedded welfare fraud into their anti-Swedish operations, treating its national treasury like their personal ATMs.

The investigation shines a bright light on the ugly reality. Foreign-born individuals and their descendents, imported en masse under reckless, delusional multicultural fantasies, dominate the ranks of these welfare-scamming gangsters, proving once and for all that mass migration isn’t “enrichment”—it’s a direct assault on Sweden’s cultural and economic integrity.

One fraudster, claiming total disability to milk the system, was caught pumping iron in gyms, jetting off on lavish trips, and orchestrating gang hits—all while living off Sweden’s generous social welfare system designed to help vulnerable Swedes.

Another unemployed migrant was exposed as the kingpin of a sprawling criminal empire with over 30 convictions, yet still collecting welfare checks courtesy of our liberal-globalist policies that prioritize migrants—mostly military-aged men from alien cultures—over native Swedes.

Thousands of these gang-linked migrants declare such small “legal” earnings that the Swedish state is obligated to pick up the tab for their child-support payments, costing hardworking families another €10 million annually in this grotesque wealth transfer from Swedes to foreigners.

Authorities also found deep infiltration of legitimate businesses by these criminal networks, where they own, run, or manipulate companies to file fake sick-pay claims. Shockingly, many of these outfits trace back to migrants exploiting Sweden’s trust-based system.

The “personal assistance” industry—long a playground for fraud—emerged as a prime target, filled with gangs using fake staffing and ownership schemes to siphon funds that should safeguard Swedish elders and the disabled, not finance foreign crime lords.

Social Insurance Minister Anna Tenje labeled the findings “astonishing,” declaring that “if Sweden is going to to break the gangs, it must throttle this supply of our common tax funds.”

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CIA cut deal bringing Afghan ‘Zero Unit’ fighters, including accused guardsman killer, to the U.S.

The Afghan national who has been charged with shooting two members of the West Virginia National Guard this week was reportedly a member of the elite Afghan “Zero Unit” forces backed by the CIA — with the U.S. spy agency apparently having struck a 2021 deal with these Afghan commandos to bring thousands of the fighters and their families to the United States.

The CIA appeared to have quietly cut a deal with thousands of its paramilitary-style Zero Unit forces in Afghanistan in August 2021 as the Taliban took over the country and its capital of Kabul. According to a former intelligence officer who spoke with Just the News who declined to be identified, the terms of the deal were that if the Zeroes helped secure Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) during the chaotic non-combatant evacuation operation (NEO) then, in exchange for that and for their years of coordination with the U.S. spy agency, the fighters and their families would earn an airlift to the U.S.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a former member of the National Strike Unit (NSU) forces, which were tied to the CIA and to the former Afghan government’s National Directorate of Security (NDS), reportedly assisted in securing HKIA during the NEO and arrived in the U.S. with his family in September 2021. The Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021 following then-President Joe Biden’s April 2021 go-to-zero directive ordering the full withdrawal of U.S. troops.

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New Yorker magazine ripped for peddling sob story about illegal migrant convicted of murder

The New Yorker has been ripped for peddling a gushing sob story about an illegal migrant and convicted murderer who was recently booted from the United States by the Trump administration.

Jamaican Orville Etoria, 62, was one of five illegal migrants shipped off to Africa in September as part of the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program.

His case was featured in a lengthy feature in the New Yorker this week, months after the Department of Homeland Security ripped a similar story on him in the New York Times as “disgraceful and disgusting.”

A teaser for the New Yorker’s story on X quoted Etoria as crying about how being taken “to another land in shackles and chains” helped him “imagine how the slaves might have felt” — without focusing on his violent record for murder and other gun crimes.

“I see you conveniently forgot to mention here that he was not a US citizen and had spent 25 years in prison for murder,” one person griped on X.

The teaser on X even got a brutal reader’s note adding much-needed context.

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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz Says Trump to Blame For Killing of National Guardsmen, ‘Pretty Disgusting’ He Won’t Accept Responsibility 

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has said that President Trump is to blame for the assassination of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C.

The two guardsmen were murdered on Wednesday in cold blood just steps away from the White House.

Law enforcement agencies have since confirmed the suspect as 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal.

Lakanwal entered the United States on September 8, 2021, under Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome, following his regime’s disastrous and chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.

During an interview with CNN on Friday, the Florida Congresswoman said that the president needed to look at the consequences of his own policies rather than

This is a deeply concerning situation, but, you know, it’s one that I think we have to.. it begs the question, would an individual have flown across the country to target law enforcement officers in Washington, D.C.? And, I mean, the answer is likely no.

So why wasn‘t the president‘s first thought, ‘Wow, you know, maybe I should reconsider deploying military troops in the nation‘s capital or in any city?’

Particularly not when they haven‘t coordinated closely with the leadership of these cities and when we have law enforcement that are quite capable of handling the criminal justice issues that are — that we need law enforcement to focus on, and not our military.

I just think, you know, the president looks everywhere except inward to blame his own policies.

We need to make sure that we don‘t have our military deployed in our cities, doing — handling law enforcement responsibilities. And we need to make sure that we address gun violence.

We certainly need to make sure we always have the proper and appropriate and tight, tight vetting processes, and those should be reviewed.

But it‘s never the president‘s fault or his policies when it comes to his reaction, and it’s pretty disgusting.

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Brother of DC National Guard Shooter Was Elite CIA Platoon Leader

The brother of Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the 29-year-old Afghani charged with the ambush murder of National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, served as a platoon leader in the same elite CIA-backed “Zero Unit” as his murderous sibling.

Lakanwal, who entered the United States in 2021 under Biden’s rushed Operation Allies Welcome program after claiming to aid U.S. forces against the Taliban, began his career in the Zero Unit in 2012 as a security guard.

He advanced to roles as a team leader and GPS specialist, operating in the volatile southern province of Kandahar.

His brother, who has not been publicly identified, reportedly held a higher position as a platoon leader in the unit and now resides in America, thanks to Biden.

The Biden administration allowed over 100,000 Afghans into the U.S. amid the 2021 withdrawal chaos. Lakanwal arrived with his wife and five children, and President Trump has not ruled out deporting the family, stating his team is “looking at that right now.”

A Kandahar resident identifying as Lakanwal’s cousin told the Associated Press that both brothers served in Kandahar with the CIA-backed force.

A former Zero Unit official, speaking anonymously, corroborated the brother’s leadership role.

The Zero Units were elite Afghan commando teams funded and trained by the CIA, known for high-risk operations against the Taliban but also criticized for alleged human rights abuses during the war.

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“Got To Be CIA Front”: Internet Sleuths Scour Web For Clues On DC Afghan Shooter

The ex-CIA-linked Afghan national who killed one National Guard soldier and critically injured another just blocks from the White House has set off alarm bells across the nation and in national security circles.

The attack – likely soon to be designated as terrorism – highlights how nation-killing open borders, reckless Afghan intake policies, and broader migrant inflows from hellish third worlds, combined with the Democratic Party’s suicidal empathy, have worked in unison to flood the country with tens of millions of poorly vetted people.

Former CIA targeting officer Sarah Adams has repeatedly warned about this threat: individuals with prior militant training or hostile intent have flooded the nation through these migrant inbound intake pipelines during the Biden-Harris regime years.

FBI Director Kash Patel has stated that Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal’s brutal attack in DC earlier this week, which horrified the nation, is being investigated as an act of terrorism.

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National Murder Rate Is ‘Lowest in Modern History’: FBI Director

FBI Director Kash Patel said Nov. 26 that homicide rates nationwide plummeted 25 percent compared to last year.

“I’m happy to announce, finally, that one of the big targets we had for this year, obviously, was to reduce the murder rate across America,” Patel told The Epoch Times’ Jan Jekielek, during an exclusive interview set to air on EpochTV at 5 p.m. ET on Nov. 29.

“This FBI is going to be releasing murder rates in December, which is the lowest it has been in modern history, by double digits.”

The murder rate in 2024 was 5 per 100,000 people, down 15.8 percent from the year before and about 1 percent higher than in 2015, according to Department of Justice data published in August.

Approximately 17,000 people were murdered in the United States in 2024, representing a drop of about 15 percent from the prior year but an increase of nearly 7 percent from 2015, the statistics show.

More details about this year’s data are coming in next month, according to Patel.

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