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Cori Bush’s Husband Indicted for Wire Fraud, Allegedly Submitted False Applications To Obtain COVID Relief Funds

Former left-wing congresswoman Cori Bush’s husband was charged on Thursday with defrauding the federal government to illegally collect tens of thousands of dollars in loans under COVID-era small business relief programs.

Cortney Merritts, who secretly married Bush in 2023, falsified details about his purported businesses in order to obtain more than $20,000 in loans from the Small Business Administration in 2020 and 2021 under the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program, the Department of Justice said in a statement.

Bush represented St. Louis before suffering a primary loss last year that she blamed on the Jews. She was a member of the far-left “Squad” that includes Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) and Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.). She refused to call Hamas a terrorist group and was one of two House members to vote against a resolution to ban Hamas terrorists from entering the United States.

The indictment comes roughly one year after the DOJ launched an investigation into Bush over a separate ordeal: Bush’s campaign payments to Merritts.

Bush used her congressional campaign budget to pay for more than $812,000 on questionable private security services. She paid more than $150,000 to her husband.

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Non-Citizen Former USPS Worker Convicted in $1.7 Million Mail Theft and Bank Fraud Scheme, Lying on Citizenship Papers

A former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee, Hachikosela Muchimba, has been convicted of masterminding a $1.7 million mail theft and bank fraud scheme and falsifying his citizenship application.

Muchimba, 44, worked as a letter carrier at the Friendship Post Office in D.C.

During his tenure, Muchimba stole 98 checks, primarily from the U.S. Treasury, valued at over $1.6 million, by altering payee names or forging endorsements to deposit them into seven bank accounts he controlled.

Surveillance footage from banks showed him often making transactions in his USPS uniform.

“Muchimba used the proceeds of the stolen checks to fund a lavish lifestyle that included international travel, stays at luxury hotels, and purchases at gentlemen’s clubs,” the Department of Justice said in a press release.

The press release added, “During the scheme, Muchimba applied to become a naturalized U.S. citizen and provided false information to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers by telling them that he had not committed any crimes for which he had not been arrested. That offense carries a maximum penalty of ten years of incarceration and possible administrative denaturalization.”

In September 2023, Muchimba was arrested at Dulles International Airport. He was carrying $2,000 in cash, a Zambian passport, and a ticket to Zambia.

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Mortgage Fraud Alert: Did Letitia James Marry Her Father?

My recent revelations in The Gateway Pundit demonstrated that New York Attorney General Letitia James obtained a federal government HAMP loan in 2011 to refinance her apartment building based on false unit information and a highly questionable hardship claim.

In her loan documents, James claimed her multi-family apartment building at Lafayette Avenue in Brooklyn had only four units, even though the official Certificate of Occupancy indicates five apartments.

This may seem a minor point, but James’s false claim helped her obtain a 2.7% government-backed HAMP loan unavailable to landlords with more than four apartments in a given building. James also claimed financial hardship to qualify for the loan, despite an income of over $126,390 in 2011.

There seems to be a pattern of possible mortgage fraud in regard to Letitia James. New questions have now arisen about a home Letitia James purchased with her father, Robert James.

In the Spring of 1983, Letitia James was 24 and living in Brooklyn with her parents. She had graduated from CUNY’s Lehman College in 1981. She would not begin law school at Howard University in Washington, DC, until the fall of 1984.

According to New York City Department of Finance records, on May 20, 1983, Letitia James and her father, Robert James, took out a real estate loan from Kadilac Funding Ltd. for $30,300 as “husband and wife.” For the record, Letitia James’ mother is Nellie James.

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Big Development: Is Letitia James Guilty of Mortgage Fraud?

For over two decades, Letitia James repeatedly claimed her Brooklyn apartment building was a four-unit property on mortgage applications—despite official records proving it had five.

This may seem a minor discrepancy, but misrepresenting the unit count enabled her to secure more favorable loans, including a 2011 Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) loan that saved her tens of thousands of dollars annually.

Now, the same legal principles she used to prosecute others may be turning against her.

It all began in 2001 when Letitia James purchased a four-story multi-family apartment building with five apartments in Brooklyn for $550,000.

In 2005, James refinanced the building with an adjustable loan from Aegis that started at an interest rate of 7.2% with a ceiling of 10.2%.

For the next two decades, James took out refinancing mortgages and always listed the number of units as four.

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Conservative Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman on Waste Uncovered by DOGE at Education Department: ‘Money Laundering at its Absolute Best’

Conservative Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming recently appeared on Winston Marshall’s podcast and talked about the waste, fraud and abuse that’s being uncovered by DOGE.

Using the Education Department as one example, Hageman pointed out that while the department gets billions in tax dollars, very little of that money actually goes towards educating students. Where does the rest of it go?

Hageman suggests that it goes to consultants and then gets funneled back to politicians. She comes right out and calls this a form of money-laundering.

From Real Clear Politics:

WINSTON MARSHALL: So, is the DOGE program targeted at these bureaucrats? And so, how — what can you expect?

REP. HARRIET HAGEMAN: Well, let’s look at the Department of Education. The Federal Department of Education spends — has a budget of about $280 billion a year. Less than 25% goes to educating our students.

So where does the other $220 billion go? It goes to a bureaucracy. It goes to a consultant, and that consultant then donates money back to the Democrats. And then it goes to a different consultant, and then it goes to an NGO, and then it goes to—I mean, it is money laundering and money churning at its absolute best. And you can look at almost every single agency, and you will find it.

So, the brilliance of DOGE isn’t that he’s going in and cutting spending—he doesn’t have the authority to do that. We’re the ones that have the authority to do that. What I want him to do is come up with a report, go through agency by agency by agency, identify every single program that we should not be funding, put a number attached to it.

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Texas Lawmaker Introduces Bill to Criminalize ‘Gender Identity Fraud’

A Texas lawmaker is taking new steps to regulate “gender identity” policies, proposing a bill that would make it a felony to misrepresent biological sex on official documents.

The legislation, introduced by Rep. Tom Oliverson (R-Conroe), is part of the state’s broader effort to define gender recognition strictly by biological sex. House Bill 3817 seeks to create a new criminal offense called “gender identity fraud.” 

Under the measure, knowingly providing false gender information to a government agency or employer—if it contradicts biological sex—could result in up to two years in jail and a $10,000 fine.

The bill comes as Texas continues to battle over gender markers on state-issued IDs. Last year, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) implemented a policy barring gender marker changes that do not align with biological sex, according to Just the News. 

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$312 Million In COVID Loans Went To Children As Oversight Failures Mount

A major federal audit has revealed that government mismanagement during the pandemic led to thousands of loans being granted to ineligible recipients. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) confirmed that 5,593 loans totaling $312 million were approved for applicants younger than 12 years old.

The loans, issued under the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) pandemic relief programs, were all found to have been processed using incorrect Social Security numbers. DOGE officials stated that the scale of these mismatches indicates widespread fraud, as children do not typically own or operate small businesses.

Further investigation revealed that another $333 million in loans was distributed to individuals listed as being at least 115 years old. One applicant recorded as 157 years old received a $36,000 loan, despite their age making them ineligible for any type of business relief assistance.

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Is Ashley Biden In Hot Water With IRS Over $250K Unreported Donation From Meghan Markle and Prince Harry During Her Dad’s Presidency?

In the final days of his Auto-pen presidency, Joe Biden sparked outrage among Americans by pardoning his son Hunter, his siblings and their spouses for any past or future crimes. He issued a statement explaining his controversial actions, “The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that they engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense.”

Unfortunately, Joe Biden forgot to pardon his and Jill’s only child, Ashley, who famously outed him in her now famous diary as the father she remembers taking “probably not appropriate showers with her at a young age. In her diary, which has now been confirmed to be authentic by Ashley herself in a court document, she wrote about being “Hyper-sexualized at a young age.” In her diary she asked the question, “Was I molested?” to which she responded, “I think so,” adding, “I can’t remember the specifics but  I do remember trauma- I remember having sex with friends a young age; showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate)

The Daily Mail has revealed a considerable discovery about a quarter-million dollar donation from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to Ashley Biden’s non-profit while her dad was “President” in 2023.

This new revelation raises many questions that need to be answered, starting with why Joe Biden didn’t offer his daughter a pardon.

– Did Joe not offer his daughter, who exposed him in her diary, a pardon on purpose?

– Why did the highly popular B-actress and her woke husband, who have both fallen out of favor with the Royal Family, give the former president’s daughter’s “non-profit” their largest donation of the year?

– Was Ashley selling access to her dad like her older brother, Hunter did for several years, or was it simply an innocent accounting mistake?

According to the Daily Mail – Ashley Biden’s nonprofit is facing an official IRS complaint after failing to publicly disclose its $250,000 donation from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

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Rep. Biggs Seeks FBI Probe Of Democrat Fundraising Platform ‘ActBlue’ Over Foreign Influence, Fraud Claims

GOP Arizona Representative Andy Biggs sent a letter to FBI Director Kash Patel requesting that the FBI investigate ActBlue, the top fundraising arm of the Democrat Party.

In his letter, Biggs (R-Ariz) highlighted how the Treasury Department discovered “hundreds of suspicious transactions with ActBlue, reported by banks” under former Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration.

“In 2024, President Biden’s Treasury Department found hundreds of suspicious transactions with ActBlue reported by banks,” Biggs wrote on Thursday, noting that the platform has been able to raise over “$16 billion for progressive causes since 2004. However, it appears the platform has been used to skirt the integrity of federal campaign finance laws.”

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Musk: Democrats “Don’t Want Waste And Fraud To Be Turned Off”

During a Fox Business interview, DOGE head Elon Musk explained that there is so much pushback on the efficiency project’s activity from the left because Democrats desperately don’t want their incentives to illegal immigrants to be turned off.

Musk stated, “So the waste report in entitlement spending, which is most of the federal spending is entitlements. So that’s like the big one to eliminate. That’s the sort of half trillion, maybe 600, 700 billion a year.”

“That is also a mechanism by which the Democrats attract and retain illegal immigrants by essentially paying them to come here and then turning them into voters,” Musk added.

“So this is why the Democrats are so upset about the situation,” he continued, adding “Because they’re losing. You know, if we turn off this gigantic money magnet for illegal immigrants, then they will leave and they will lose voters.”

“Where you’ll see the biggest outcry is from the Democrats who are, they don’t want the waste and fraud to be turned off because it is a gigantic magnet to attract illegal immigrants and have them stay in the country,” Elon further noted.

“I mean, you see some of the crazy stuff like where money from FEMA, FEMA is an agency that’s meant to take care of Americans in distress. And a bunch of their money was being sent to pay for luxury hotels in New York for illegal immigrants,” he added, referring to The Roosevelt Hotel in NYC, among many others.

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