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The Many Ways Trump Is Kneecapping White-Collar Crime Enforcement

Earlier this week, Bloomberg broke the news that the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, which helps regulate the securities market, was told to stop investigating an eye-popping case of potential insider trading. The direction came from a top adviser to the agency’s Trump-appointed chairman, who ordered investigators to retract a referral to the…

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New Jersey deputy AG charged with heinous child sex crimes allegedly involving 'prepubescent female'A man entrusted with prosecuting bad guys in New Jersey is accused of being a bad guy himself. Brian Richard Fitzgerald, a 51-year-old deputy attorney general in the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, has been arrested and charged with three felonies in connection with alleged child sexual abuse material. At least one 'image mentioned in the probable…

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Trump will rally Georgia Republicans despite party divisions in battleground statePresident Donald Trump's midterm campaign blitz arrives in Georgia on Friday for a rally with top Republican candidates in a state that has long been the epicenter of the president's false claims about election fraud.

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“You Can See Everything” Will Make You Question EverythingFor all the despicable acts Elizabeth Holmes carried out as the CEO of Theranos, that long list of criminal behavior somehow manages to feel small under Nathan Fielder’s analytical masterpiece, You Can See Everything. Which is not to say they are treated trivially; Holmes’ dramatic fall from entrepreneurial wunderkind to convicted fraudster, along with…

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Trump’s ‘Potential Destruction’ of Presidential Records Revealed in New EmailsDOJ and FBI emails obtained by FOIA Files reveal how federal investigators probed allegations in 2022 that President Donald Trump tore up presidential records and why a prosecutor declined to pursue a separate criminal investigation.

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GOP's favorite get-out-the-vote guru has a felon problem in a key swing state: reportOne of the Republican Party’s best-known voter-registration activists has reportedly paid at least two people with serious criminal records to run get-out-the-vote operations in Pennsylvania , according to a new investigation. The Bulwark reported Friday that GOP operative Scott Presler paid two convicted felons through his super PAC, Early Vote Action,…

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Suspicious package sent to Jayapal’s Seattle office prompts evacuationU.S. Rep Pramila Jayapal’s Seattle office was evacuated Friday afternoon after receiving a suspicious package that was described as similar to others received by election officials and Congress members.

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PPP relief fraud during COVID nets prison time for AZ manHere's how long a Phoenix man will be serving in prison for millions he defrauded the federal government of during the COVID pandemic.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s attorneys demand return of property seized in federal search of her homeWASHINGTON — Attorneys for Rep. Ilhan Omar asked the Justice Department on Friday to immediately return property that federal agents seized from her home this week, arguing that the search stemming from an immigration fraud investigation was “neither justified nor lawful.” In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, lawyers

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Trump warns California election officials about counting ballots from noncitizensThe DOJ says election officials "risk becoming aiders and abettors to a federal crime" if they knowingly tabulate noncitizens' ballots.

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Trump threatens California officials with imprisonment over stance on mail ballotsThe US Justice Department on Friday warned Los Angeles County and California election officials they could be liable as abettors of a federal ‌crime if they count mail ballots returned by more than 20,000 people the Trump administration says are probably noncitizens.

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