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On Halloween, AG Bondi traveled back in time to Sept 22 to appoint Lindsay Halligan -- the current interim AUSA for the EDVA -- retroactively, as a special attorney
...and corrupt
On Halloween, AG Bondi traveled back in time to Sept 22 to appoint Lindsay Halligan -- the current interim AUSA for the EDVA -- retroactively, as a special attorney
Who is the AUSA for the EDVA now that Halligan is a Special Attorney?
Specifically naming the Comey and James prosecutions in this end-run around the appointment problem isn't going to help with the selective and vindictive prosecution motions.
Going after political opponents bad now.....lmao
Is that what Trump is doing?
Yes or no.
if it was bad then it's still bad
unless you're principle-free
Republicans in disarray
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...Chaos in the FBI Continues. Four FBI agents who were fired yesterday over Arctic Frost, then reinstated because US Attorney Jeanine Pirro said they're critical to an active public corruption probe, have been re-fired and walked out today.
you didn't think it was bad then
I don't think investigating and prosecuting Trump was in the least improper.
Trump is the sort of person the criminal justice system and our cons ution were made to punish.
Trump actually committed multiple felonies.
Why do you hate law and order?
Nominated, yanked, then re-nominated
money is the universal solvent
Scott Pruitt got canned for using government resources for personal , looks like Kash Patel is getting away with it
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/..._copyURL_shareOn Halloween morning, FBI Director Kash Patel had a big announcement to make: “The FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack,” he said in a 7:32 a.m. social-media post that referenced arrests in Michigan.
There was one problem: No criminal charges had yet been filed and local police weren’t aware of the details. Two friends of the alleged terrorists in New Jersey and Washington state caught wind of the arrests and moved up plans to leave the country, according to court do ents and law-enforcement officials familiar with the investigation.
Justice Department leaders complained to the White House about Patel’s premature post, saying it had disrupted the investigation, administration officials said.
In his nine months on the job, Patel has drawn flak from his bosses in the Justice Department and from his underlings at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where he has fired dozens of agents deemed hostile to Donald Trump or to conservative ideals.
But the Halloween announcement wasn’t the biggest controversy to envelop the director that week. Patel hit the news for taking an FBI plane to attend a wrestling event where his girlfriend, a country western singer, performed, and then to her home in Nashville. A former FBI agent, Kyle Seraphin, publicized the trip and called the taxpayer funded travel in the middle of a shutdown “pathetic.”
After that, Patel visited a Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch, according to flight records and people familiar with the trip, which hasn’t been previously reported.
Bill Pulte digs weaponization
"pulty"
Noem once again guides public money to Strategy Group, which is owned by her spokesman's husband and at which her boyfriend Corey Lewandowski has worked
She did this in South Dakota too
Trump 2.0 is very corrupt
https://www.propublica.org/article/k...strategy-groupOn Oct. 2, the second day of the government shutdown, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrived at Mount Rushmore to shoot a television ad. Sitting on horseback in chaps and a cowboy hat, Noem addressed the camera with a stern message for immigrants: “Break our laws, we’ll punish you.”
Noem has hailed the more than $200 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign as a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration. Her agency invoked the “national emergency” at the border as it awarded contracts for the campaign, bypassing the normal compe ive bidding process designed to prevent waste and corruption.
The Department of Homeland Security has kept at least one beneficiary of the nine-figure ad deal a secret, records and interviews show: a Republican consulting firm with longstanding personal and business ties to Noem and her senior aides at DHS. The company running the Mount Rushmore shoot, called the Strategy Group, does not appear on public do ents about the contract. The main recipient listed on the contracts is a mysterious Delaware company, which was created days before the deal was finalized.
No firm has closer ties to Noem’s political operation than the Strategy Group. It played a central role in her 2022 South Dakota gubernatorial campaign. Corey Lewandowski, her top adviser at DHS, has worked extensively with the firm. And the company’s CEO is married to Noem’s chief spokesperson at DHS, Tricia McLaughlin.
The Strategy Group’s ad work is the first known example of money flowing from Noem’s agency to businesses controlled by her allies and friends.
Government contracting experts said the depth of the ties between DHS leadership and the Strategy Group suggested major potential violations of ethics rules.
“It’s corrupt, is the word,” said Charles Tiefer, a leading authority on federal contract law and former member of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said that the Strategy Group’s role should prompt investigations by both the DHS inspector general and the House Oversight Committee.
“Hiding your friends as subcontractors is like playing hide the salami with the taxpayer,” Tiefer added.
Federal regulations forbid conflicts of interest in contracting and require that the process be conducted “with complete impartiality and with preferential treatment for none.”
“It’s worthy of an investigation to ferret out how these decisions were made, and whether they were made legally and without bias,” said Scott Amey, a contracting expert and general counsel at the watchdog group Project on Government Oversight.
The revelations come as the amount of money at Noem’s disposal has skyrocketed. The so-called Big Beautiful Bill granted DHS more than $150 billion, and Noem has given herself an unusual degree of control over how that money is spent. This summer, she began requiring that she personally approve any payment over $100,000.
Asked about the Strategy Group’s work for DHS, McLaughlin, the agency spokesperson, said in an interview, “We don’t have visibility into why they were chosen.”
“I don’t know who they’re a subcontractor with, but I don’t work with them because I have a conflict of interest and I fully recused myself,” she said. “My marriage is one thing and work is another. I don’t combine them.” Her husband, Strategy Group CEO Ben Yoho, didn’t respond to questions.
In a written statement, DHS said, “DHS has no involvement with the selection of subcontractors.” They added that the Strategy Group does not have a direct contract with the agency, saying “DHS cannot and does not determine, control, or weigh in on who contractors hire.”
Contracting experts said that agencies can and do sometimes require that subcontractors be approved by officials. It’s not clear how much the Strategy Group has been paid.
This is not the first time that the Strategy Group has gotten public money through a Noem contract. As governor of South Dakota in 2023, her administration set off a scandal by hiring the Ohio-based company to do a different ad campaign, paying it $8.5 million in state funds. While the state said the contract was done by the book, a former Noem administration official told ProPublica that Noem quietly intervened to ensure the Strategy Group got the deal. ProPublica granted some people anonymity to discuss the deals because of their sensitivity.
rank and file officers hate like this
https://www.ms.now/news/kash-patel-g...ins-rcna243999FBI Director Kash Patel’s country music performer girlfriend currently enjoys the protection of an FBI security detail to shield her from potential threats, prompting concerns that the arrangement may delay law enforcement from responding to other incidents, two people with direct knowledge tell MS NOW.
Alexis Wilkins, Patel’s girlfriend, has a security detail made up of elite FBI agents usually assigned to a SWAT team in the FBI field office in Nashville, where Wilkins spends time for her work. She and Patel first met in Nashville and while they travel together at times, they do not share a residence. Patel often travels to Washington for work but keeps a legal residence in Las Vegas.
People familiar with FBI security protocols said they were unaware of any instance in which the girlfriends of top FBI officials received government-staffed security details. Former FBI Director Christopher Wray’s wife Helen received a security detail; she lived with Wray in their home in Atlanta.
SWAT team agents on a detail with Wilkins would presumably be unable to respond or delayed in responding to crises that might develop in their territory, such as mass shootings or terror attacks, according to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive security matters.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...mi-prosecutor/Jason Reding Quiñones left the Southern District of Florida in 2024 after years of "poor performance evaluations," sources tell The Washington Post.
read all the way to the end
https://www.telos.news/p/part-1-how-i-found-out
Nuzzi moved in with Keith Olberman when she was a teenager, lived with him for four years
Got "rescued" from sugar-daddydom by Ryan Lizza, 20 years her senior
Had an affair with a presidential candidate she was covering in 2014 -- Mark Sanford, 30 years her senior
Had an affair with a septuagenarian presidential candidate she was covering in 2024 -- RFK Jr
Last edited by Winehole23; 11-20-2025 at 11:37 PM. Reason: Oldberman, dammit
she's now the west coast editor of Vanity Fair
this is real
deep trauma, this is unironically disturbing
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