The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a> (DOJ) is reportedly asking a federal judge to hold former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>’s team in contempt for failing to turn over classified documents to authorities.
The DOJ reportedly made the request to U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell, unnamed sources told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/08/trump-contempt-mar-a-lago-records/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>. The reported filing remains under seal, so the precise wording and details of the request are unclear.
DOJ lawyers reportedly want the Trump team to appoint a custodian of records who can verify and swear to their claim that the former president has no classified documents in his possession. Trump’s team has said that the request is excessive and that no attorney should make such an unqualified claim.
The FBI raided Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago in August to retrieve suspected classified documents that the former president took with him after exiting the White House. The raid stemmed from a document dispute Trump had with the National Archives, during which the government came to suspect that Trump held classified materials at his residence in addition to unclassified government documents.
Since the raid and amid the ongoing legal battle between the Trump team and the Justice Department, Trump approved a search of several of his properties done by a private firm. That search <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/07/trump-tower-bedminster-records-search/?itid=ap_jacquelinealemany" target="_blank" rel="noopener">turned up</a> at least two materials with classified markings found in a storage unit in West Palm Beach, Florida. No such documents were found in searches of Trump Tower in New York and Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
Trump spokesman Steven Cheung told the Post that Trump’s attorneys “continue to be cooperative and transparent.” He echoed Trump’s attacks against the investigation, saying, “This is a political witch hunt unlike anything like this country has ever seen.”
Questions arose in October whether Trump attorney Christina Bobb could be in legal jeopardy over a statement she reportedly signed in June claiming that all classified material at Mar-a-Lago had been handed over to the federal government. At the time, Bobb was Trump’s designated custodian of record.
That statement was signed roughly two months before the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago and the federal government’s seizure of thousands of classified and unclassified documents along with other items. Bobb was protected from legal liability over the statement because of a key caveat that she reportedly insisted on including in the statement before signing it.
Bobb signed the statement certifying that no more classified documents were located at Mar-a-Lago “based upon the information that has been provided to me,” a source told <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-lawyer-christina-bobb-speaks-federal-investigators-mar-lago-case-rcna51459?cid=eml_nbn_20221010&amp;user_email=d6c7a3a2fe5399b6748a1b08705852493cc7edf3c69007817f41d2c361997f50&amp;%243p=e_sailthru&amp;_branch_match_id=976171573484640584&amp;utm_medium=Email%20Sailthru&amp;_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAAzWP%2FWrEIBDEnyb9z8SPJMaDoxTKvUZYdXORMypqGvr2tYXCwu7M8BvYvdZUbsMQtAl4lR5S6r0Lr0Gk946PIt1xLeB83fP51oyY3dMF8OuZ%2FX3%2FhTvx0fFHm%2Bu6%2Bv8aE4%2FmpOhddaa008YGWVLzeaQm%2FzbxcH1jJmbPrtTWSnTUmpSE8CpkQ4sZPHHhC1v6hBpzIQfkhj0jMVCQZBNgYuOkOvEwznbiEw%2B%2FBh1WTjlnlNGOz2fBvOLRnmi5nY0EAXzDSSilZzkuwDRdJJ2WiY9KGCPRbsLMilK5MLmNzHIjZqaU3Cb6Az1H%2BVIwAQAA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a>.
“She had to insist on that disclaimer twice before she signed it,” one source said.
“She is not criminally liable,” the source added. “She is not going to be charged. She is not pointing fingers. She is simply a witness for the truth.”

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/russia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russian</a>-backed Ukrainian politician faces up to 30 years in prison for fraudulently buying property in California.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ukranian</a> politician Andrii Derkach was charged with seven criminal counts in an indictment unsealed on Tuesday. Derkach was previously sanctioned for trying to influence the 2020 elections, law enforcement officials said in a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/russian-intelligence-agent-charged-fraud-and-money-laundering-connection-purchase-and" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>. Derkach allegedly bought two properties in Beverly Hills in violation of the sanctions, and used a complex financial scheme to hide his involvement.
“Kremlin-backed Ukrainian politician and oligarch, Andrii Derkach, was sanctioned for his efforts to influence the 2020 U.S. Presidential election on behalf of the Russian Intelligence Services,&#8221; Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the FBI&#8217;s New York Field Office said in a statement.
“While participating in a scripted Russian disinformation campaign seeking to undermine U.S. institutions, Derkach simultaneously conspired to fraudulently benefit from a Western lifestyle for himself and his family in the United States,” Driscoll added. “The FBI will continue to use all the tools at its disposal to identify Russian intelligence operations, disrupt Russian information laundering networks, and bring to justice those who seek to engage in criminal conspiracies to undermine the integrity of U.S elections and evade U.S. sanctions.&#8221;
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According to the indictment, the scheme began in 2013. Derkach and an unnamed co-conspirator concocted a plot to purchase and mantain two luxury condominiums in Beverly Hills. To hide his interest in the properties, the oligarch used a corporate nominee — a company that holds assets in place of an individual — a multi-level complex of shell companies based in California, and several accounts with American banks and brokerages.
Derkach then wired nearly $4 million to the nominee corporation from Latvian and Swiss bank accounts that belonged to companies registered in the British Virgin Islands. The corporation then paid $3.2 million in cash for the properties, and placed the remaining $800,000 into a brokerage account the company maintained, which was used to pay expenses on the properties.
But Derkach obscured his involvement from the institutions the money was placed in, so he prevented the companies from transferring money into sanctioned accounts, and instead caused them to conduct transactions with blocked funds and for the benefit of the condominiums, which were also blocked under the sanctions.
Derkach is charged with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Acts (IEEPA), bank fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, and four counts of money laundering. He remains at large. If convicted, Derkach could face up to 30 years in prison.
In the meantime, the DOJ said it was conducting a civil asset forfeiture to seize the properties and the remaining funds in the bank and brokerage accounts.
Derkach has been a member of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukranian Parliament. Originally from the city of Dnipro in Eastern Ukraine, Derkach was a member of the pro-Russia Party of Regions, formerly the governing party in Ukraine from 2010 until the Maidan Revolution in 2014. Derkach was sanctioned by the Treasury Department in September 2020. According to the press release, Derkach was “an active Russian agent for over a decade, maintaining close connections with the Russian Intelligence Services&#8221; as part of an effort to influence the 2020 election.
The DOJ conducted the investigation in conjunction with KleptoCapture, an interagency law enforcement task force created to enforce the U.S. sanctions imposed on Russian actors in response to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine-russia-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>.

DOJ: Russian-Backed Ukrainian Oligarch Bought Two California Condos, Used Convoluted Scheme To Get Around U.S. Sanctions

Russian-Backed Ukrainian Oligarch Bought Two California Condos, Used Convoluted Scheme To Get Around U.S. Sanctions, DOJ Says

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Serious mismanagement, &#8220;bureaucratic incompetence,&#8221; and bad policy contributed to the death of a former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI&#8217;s</a> Most Wanted fugitive.
According to a <a href="https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/23-007_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Department of Justice Inspector General, the federal Bureau of Prisons grossly mishandled the transfer of former mob boss James &#8220;Whitey&#8221; Bulger from the Coleman federal prison in Florida to the Hazelton prison in West Virginia. Bulger, who was placed on the FBI&#8217;s Most Wanted list in 1999 until his arrest in 2011, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/three-men-indicted-in-connection-to-prison-murder-of-boston-crime-boss-james-whitey-bulger" target="_blank" rel="noopener">murdered</a> by three Hazleton inmates who allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inmates-suspected-of-involvement-in-murder-of-james-whitey-bulger-were-allegedly-aware-of-his-prison-transfer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">knew of his arrival in advance</a>.
&#8220;The fact that the serious deficiencies we identified occurred in connection with a high-profile inmate like Bulger was especially concerning given that the BOP would presumably take particular care in handling such a high-profile inmate’s case,&#8221; the Inspector General&#8217;s office wrote. &#8220;We found that did not occur here, not because of a malicious intent or failure to comply with BOP policy, but rather because of staff and management performance failures; bureaucratic incompetence; and flawed, confusing, and insufficient policies and procedures. In our view, no BOP inmate’s transfer, whether they are a notorious gangster or a non-violent offender, should be handled like Bulger’s transfer was handled in this instance.&#8221;
According to BOP records cited in the report, Bulger had suffered from atrial fibrilation since his arrest in 2011; he was regarded as a medical care level 3 inmate, requiring a high standard of medical care. But while bureaucrats within the BOP discussed his transfer, the then 89-year-old Bulger was kept in a cell by himself in a &#8220;Special Housing Unit&#8221; away from the general population for eight months. The IG report claimed that this placement led him to tell a psychologist during a Suicide Risk Assessment that he had &#8220;lost the will to live&#8221; and ask to be placed in the general population at Hazelton.
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Furthermore, the final paperwork for his transfer went against the clear direction of the Bureau&#8217;s Chief of Health Programs, and placed him in a facility with a lower standard of medical care. Worse than that, the decision to lower his care level &#8220;was actually based on a plausible interpretation of BOP guidelines, and we therefore determined that the guidelines themselves were flawed and lacked clarity,&#8221; the report stated.
On top of the medical concerns, the IG report found that the Bureau of Prisons woefully mishandled the transfer itself.
Due to standard Bureau procedures, more than 100 officials were aware of Bulger&#8217;s transfer in advance. Hazleton personnel spoke openly about Bulger&#8217;s arrival, against BOP policy, which in turn led to a large number of inmates being aware of Bulger&#8217;s transfer before it even happened, exposing him to a risk of imminent harm, while making it impossible for the IG to identify which employees were responsible.
The BOP also did not take appropriate steps to reduce the risk of harm. Bureau policy did not require the transfer to be assessed by a &#8220;BOP Senior Intelligence Designator&#8221; beforehand. Several BOP employees told the Inspector General that they had no idea of Bulger&#8217;s notoriety, neither was his notoriety a consideration in decisions about his transfer.
The IG report did not conclude malicious intent, but the IG concluded that policies should be more considerate of security risks when transferring a high-profile inmate like Bulger.

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DOJ IG: Mismanagement, ‘Bureaucratic Incompetence,’ Bad Policy Contributed To Prison Murder Of Former Most Wanted Fugitive ‘Whitey’ Bulger

Mismanagement, 'Bureaucratic Incompetence,' Bad Policy Contributed To Prison Murder Of Former Most Wanted Fugitive 'Whitey' Bulger, DOJ Inspector General Finds

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Several months after former Senate staffer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tara-reade">Tara Reade</a> accused <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sexual-assault">sexual assault</a>, the Department of Justice (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/doj">DOJ</a>) issued a subpoena to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter">Twitter</a> demanding personal information on her accounts, including credit card or bank account numbers.
The subpoena was only <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/02/doj-tara-reade-twitter-joe-biden-sexual-assault-allegations/">recently revealed</a> by the Daily Caller, which obtained emails and documents relating to the incident showing the DOJ asked Twitter to testify in front of a grand jury on December 16, 2020, to provide “all subscriber information” for Reade’s accounts. The information was requested of two accounts belonging to Reade, including @ReadeAlexandra and @TaraMcCabe.
The DOJ requested the following information from the accounts, according to the Caller:
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<li>Subscriber name;</li>
<li>Address;</li>
<li>Records of session times and durations, to include attempted/failed/unauthenticated logins;</li>
<li>Length of service (including start date) and types of service utilized;</li>
<li>Telephone or instrument number or other subscriber number or identity, including any temporarily assigned network address; and</li>
<li>Means and source of payment for such service (including any credit card or bank account number)</li>
</ol>
Reade told the Caller that she didn’t “know why” the DOJ requested the information.
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“Other than coming forward about Joe Biden, there would be no reason for them to do that,” she told the outlet.
The grand jury was scheduled for July 9, 2020, but Hayden Schottlaender, a Perkins Coie lawyer representing Twitter, didn’t reach out to Reade until December 8, 2020, to tell her about the subpoena.
Reade told the Caller that Schottlaender spoke to her on the phone that day, telling her Twitter tried to fight the subpoena in court but “then had to file a motion” to let her know it “was happening.” Schottlaender followed up that conversation with an email obtained by the Caller.
“To recap our conversations to date, I represent Twitter and have contacted you to inform you that Twitter received the attached subpoena from the United States Department of Justice, seeking data related to your Twitter account(s). The subpoena issues in a sealed proceeding,” Schottlaender wrote in the email.
“As I mentioned, Twitter intends to comply with this subpoena on December 16, 2020, unless it receives notice from you that a motion to quash or otherwise invalidate this subpoena has been filed. If you do file any such motions, please send a copy directly to me at this email address. If, on the other hand, you have no concerns with Twitter producing the requested data, please similarly let me know,” Schottlaender added.
Earlier in 2020, Reade said she had filed a police report in April 2020 alleging Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993 while he was a senator. Reade <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schow-the-metoo-women-the-democratic-party-doesnt-care-about">reportedly</a> told friends of Biden’s alleged assault that year. Her story has apparently evolved over time, however, from sexual harassment to assault, and her claim that Biden assaulted her in a “side area” somewhere between Biden’s old Senate office and the gym isn’t possible, as no such side area exists in that space.

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DOJ Sought Personal Information From Tara Reade’s Twitter Account After She Accused Joe Biden Of Sexual Assault

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U.S. Department of Justice authorities announced Wednesday that two former officials of a Louisiana city were sentenced to one year in prison for paying or offering to pay citizens for votes.
Court documents show Jerry Trabona, 73, the former Amite City police chief, and Kristian “Kris” Hart, 50, a former Amite City councilmember, conspired to pay citizens residing in Tangipahoa Parish to vote during the 2016 open primary election and the 2016 open general election — contests in which Trabona and Hart were candidates.
“Trabona and Hart’s vote buying scheme included the solicitation and hiring of individuals responsible for identifying potential voters, the transportation of those voters to the polls, and payment and offer of payment to the voters for voting,” a<a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-louisiana-police-chief-city-councilmember-and-additional-co-conspirator-sentenced-vote"> news release</a> from the DOJ stated.
Authorities also ordered Trabona to pay a $10,000 fine for his role in the conspiracy.
The Sinclair Broadcast Group&#8217;s National Desk <a href="https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/former-sheriff-city-councilmember-sentenced-in-vote-buying-scheme-jerry-trabona-kristian-hart">reported</a> federal authorities initially charged Trabona and Hart with one count of conspiracy to commit vote-buying and multiple counts of vote-buying and aiding and abetting.
Trabona allegedly concealed his scheme by soliciting voters to sign contracts that falsely stated they would not “make any overture of any kind to any voter or other person of financial award or benefit in exchange for a vote.”
“The Department of Justice is committed to ensuring that illegal voting, including vote buying, has no place in our nation’s electoral system,” Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr., of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, said in a<a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-edla/pr/former-louisiana-police-chief-and-city-councilmember-plead-guilty-vote-buying"> news release</a> last summer.
U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans for the Eastern District of Louisiana said in a press release that the state must have “fair elections, free from the taint of corruption, to ensure a fully functional government.&#8221;
“Safeguarding the voting process is of paramount importance to our office and the Department of Justice,” Evans said.
Authorities said that providing voters with money or something of value in exchange for a vote constitutes a federal crime.
Officials said co-conspirator Sidney Smith, 69, of Amite City, paid voters with money provided by Trabona and Hart.
Smith was sentenced to four months in prison for his role in the scheme.
Two other co-conspirators — Calvin Batiste and Louis Ruffino — were also involved. Officials said they would be sentenced at a later date.

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Former Local Louisiana Officials, Co-Conspirators Sentenced For Vote-Buying Scheme

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/washington-d-c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington, D.C.</a>, jury convicted Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes of seditious conspiracy for his role in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6, 2021, riot</a> at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/us-capitol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Capitol</a> on Tuesday.
The jury convicted Rhodes alongside Kelly Meggs, who headed the Oath Keepers Florida chapter, on sedition charges after three days of deliberation. Three other Oath Keepers — Kenneth Harrelson, Jessica Watkins, and Thomas Caldwell — were convicted of related felony charges over January 6, according to the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-oath-keepers-and-oath-keepers-member-found-guilty-seditious-conspiracy-and-other" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a>.
“As this case shows, breaking the law in an attempt to undermine the functioning of American democracy will not be tolerated,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a statement. “The FBI will always uphold the rights of all citizens who peacefully engage in First Amendment protected activities, but we and our partners will continue to hold accountable those who engaged in illegal acts regarding the January 6, 2021, siege on the U.S. Capitol.”
Rhodes and Meggs’ cases are among over 900 that the Justice Department has brought against people accused of crimes related to the January 6 riot. Wray’s FBI has led the investigation into the hundreds of defendants.
The trial took about eight weeks. The seditious conspiracy cases against Rhodes and Meggs are the first to be successfully prosecuted since 1995 when a group of Islamic militants were found guilty of planning to set off a series of bombings across New York City, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/us/politics/oath-keepers-trial-verdict-jan-6.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>.
In addition to sedition, Rhodes was found guilty of obstruction of an official proceeding and tampering with documents and proceedings. Meggs was also found guilty of conspiracy to obstruct and of obstructing an official proceeding, conspiracy to prevent an officer from discharging duties, and tampering with documents or proceedings.
Rhodes, Meggs, Harrelson, and Watkins will remain in prison until sentencing. Caldwell will remain on release until sentencing, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/29/stewart-rhodes-oath-keepers-verdict-00071248" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a>.
Rhodes’ attorney Ed Tarpley called the verdict a “mixed bag,” noting that the jury acquitted each defendant on at least one charge. Another defense attorney, Lee Bright, said that he thought the jury was fair, but believed the defendants would have had a better outcome had they been tried outside of Washington, D.C. Tarpley said he plans to appeal the jury’s decision.
Of the five defendants, Meggs faces the longest potential stint in prison with a max sentence of 86 years. Rhodes faces a maximum sentence of 60 years. Watkins, Harrelson, and Caldwell face a max sentence of 56 years, 46 years, and 40 years in prison, respectively.

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Oath Keepers Founder Convicted Of Seditious Conspiracy Over Capitol Riot

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Thousands of convicted pedophiles in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/california">California</a> served less than a year in prison after committing lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old, according to an investigative <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11453859/Thousands-convicted-pedophiles-California-getting-year-prison-time.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>.
The Daily Mail analyzed a statewide database of sex offenders that showed more than 7,000 child molesters were released within months after federal authorities sentenced them to prison.
Former Los Angeles sex crimes prosecutor Samuel Dordulian told Daily Mail that the statistics &#8220;shocked&#8221; him, adding the reality is &#8220;frightening for society.&#8221;
&#8220;Statistics clearly show that pedophiles don&#8217;t get reformed,&#8221; Dordulian said. &#8220;They&#8217;re going to come out, and they&#8217;re going to commit again. Letting these people out early, we&#8217;re allowing for a lot more victimization — and that&#8217;s terrifying.&#8221;
California law requires sex offenders to register their address and update their location upon moving with the Department of Justice. Those names and other personal details are then placed in a public database under Megan&#8217;s Law, which the Clinton administration passed in 1996 after a pedophile murdered 7-year-old Megan Kanka.
According to the report, 54,986 sex offenders were listed on the website in July 2019, of which 76% committed offenses involving children.
The average pedophile served two years and ten months in prison.
One of the examples outlined in the Daily Mail report said an offender in the database named Carlos Alexander Nahue, 48, of Reseda, California, lives one block from Royal Montessori School daycare and three blocks from Reseda Elementary School after allegedly being convicted of &#8220;continuous sexual abuse of a child&#8221; in 2015.
Authorities charged Nahue in October 2014. He pled no contest to the crime in January 2015, which resulted in a judge sentencing him to only two days in an L.A. county jail and five years of probation.
According to the database, some pedophiles committed misdemeanors, such as indecent exposure or attempting to send lewd pictures to children, and convicts received less jail time. However, the most common offenses were &#8220;lewd or lascivious acts&#8221; against children under 14 years old, and 7,152 pedophiles who committed this crime served less than a year.
Dordulian said the statistics were &#8220;&#8216;surprisingly very low.&#8221;
&#8220;In my days [in the L.A. DA&#8217;s office], we made every effort to get as long of a prison sentence as we could because we knew that the minute they&#8217;re going to come out, they&#8217;re more likely to re-offend and another child&#8217;s gonna get harmed,” he told Daily Mail.
Dordulian said as a lawyer who represents victims of sexual abuse, California Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s policies shorten prison sentences to reduce the population locked up.
&#8220;That has been the push for the last at least five years: letting people out of prison much earlier than what their sentences were for,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But these types of individuals, they&#8217;re not amenable to rehabilitation, and studies have shown that. They&#8217;re gonna harm another child — It&#8217;s a very, very scary trend.&#8221;
A spokesperson for the state&#8217;s attorney general told Daily Mail that &#8220;public safety is a top priority for the California Department of Justice,&#8221; adding that the issue generally falls on the responsibility of local district attorneys, courts, and state lawmakers.
&#8220;Our office actively works with law enforcement across the state to protect our state&#8217;s children and families, whether that&#8217;s through conducting sting operations targeting sexual predators, issuing guidance to reduce harm to sexually exploited youth, or launching Human Trafficking and Sexual Predator Apprehension Teams,&#8221; the spokesperson said.
Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami, a child abuse prosecutor in the Los Angeles District Attorney&#8217;s Office, said the situation was &#8220;a disgrace&#8221; to Daily Mail, adding the problem is only getting worse under his boss George Gascón, who supported Proposition 57, which allows early parole for nonviolent felons.
&#8220;Thousands of child victims are being denied justice, and George Gascón and his group of radical prosecutors can care less,&#8221; Hatami said.
Hatami said the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation stopped notifying the child victims and their families of such early releases.
&#8220;It&#8217;s shameful,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Furthermore, most of these sex offenders who are released early have not been rehabilitated whatsoever. This will clearly endanger our future generation of children and our entire community — it&#8217;s a disgrace that the state of California is not prioritizing the safety and well-being of our children.&#8221;

Thousands Of Pedophiles Serve Less Than One Year In California Prisons: Report

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-mexico" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Mexico</a> mother used her children to allegedly traffic a fatal dose of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fentanyl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fentanyl</a> to their father, according to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a>.
Authorities arrested and charged Magdalena Silva Banuelos, 46, with distribution of a controlled substance resulting in death, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/mother-accused-using-children-mule-fatal-fentanyl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> on Tuesday. Silva Banuelos’ boyfriend and father of her two sons died in an airport bathroom in May after overdosing on fentanyl.
“I feel for these children. To lose one parent due to the actions of the other is a calamity for a child,” U.S. Attorney Chad Meacham said in a statement. “This defendant allegedly concealed fentanyl – a synthetic opioid 50 times more potent than heroin – in her own minor sons’ luggage. This drug has stolen too many futures and ruined too many lives. The Justice Department remains determined to hold accountable those who spread it.”
Silva Banuelos faces up to life in prison if convicted. The charge carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years.
The defendant placed her two sons, ages 8 and 10, on a flight from Albuquerque to Dallas on May 31 to visit her on-again, off-again boyfriend — the boys&#8217; father. Surveillance video shows the father meeting his sons at the gate, going through their luggage, and entering a nearby airport bathroom at 10:26 p.m., according to authorities. The man died a short time later after overdosing on fentanyl.
At a November 17 detention hearing in New Mexico, prosecutors said the defendant “used her minor children to mule drugs.”
Investigators recovered a makeup container holding more than a gram of fentanyl from inside the bathroom stall the man died in. Investigators also recovered a series of text messages between the defendant and the deceased that, according to authorities, suggest she knew about the fentanyl and trafficked it to him using their children. According to the DOJ, the messages said:
<blockquote>“Hey you need to be careful,” she wrote a few hours before he died.
“Yes ma’am. Very slow and easy,” he replied.
“Just one and then wait you’ll see,” she said. “Just one.”
“Ok cool. Thank you. Will do,” he said.
“No passing out on the kitchen floor,” she responded. “Seriously you could od. No dying on the kitchen floor … It’s going to f*** you up!!!&#8221;</blockquote>
“This arrest and detention is yet another example of the devastation that fentanyl continues to reap on families throughout the country. The actions of Ms. Banuelos risked the lives of her minor children by concealing a highly potent drug in their luggage during a flight from Albuquerque to Dallas,” Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) acting Special Agent in Charge W. Guy Baker said. “The DEA will continue to work side-by-side with our state and local partners in investigating drug related poisonings and overdose deaths to hold those accountable for their actions.”

Fentanyl

Mother Charged With Using Sons Ages 8, 10 To ‘Mule’ Lethal Dose Of Fentanyl To Their Father

New Mexico

Texas

Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> is asking a federal judge to force the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a> (DOJ) to turn over an unredacted copy of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fbi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI</a> affidavit used to justify a raid on Trump’s Florida residence.
Trump’s legal team filed the request with U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who has overseen Trump’s legal efforts to push back against the DOJ investigation into classified documents the former president allegedly stored at his Mar-a-Lago estate after he left the White House. Cannon previously approved Trump’s request for a special master to oversee the FBI’s audit of a trove of documents confiscated from Trump in an August FBI raid.
In a Tuesday court <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/609516253/Trump-Affidavit-Motion#fullscreen&amp;from_embed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filing</a>, Trump’s attorneys argued that they need access to the underlying affidavit to ensure the information the FBI used to justify the raid was accurate and to ensure that their client’s rights are being respected. The publicly-released version of the affidavit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-doj-releases-affidavit-justifying-fbi-raid-on-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contained</a> significant redactions.
“In the public version, … 50 of the affidavit’s 84 total paragraphs are blacked out; of the 55 paragraphs following the header ‘Probable Cause,’ only four are fully unredacted,” the filing says. “There is no legitimate basis to withhold the redacted information from Plaintiff.”
The DOJ has said that the redactions to the affidavit are necessary to protect sources that have aided in the FBI investigation into the Mar-a-Lago documents. The DOJ’s sources’ identities must continue to be protected in case the department should need them later in its investigation, the government has said. The redactions also protect important FBI methods of investigation, according to <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-lawyers-doj-ordered-turn-unredacted-mar-lago/story?id=93807888" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC News</a>.
Trump’s attorneys said that repeated leaks about the investigation from the DOJ to the media have undermined the government’s case to keep its own sensitive information protected.
“The exceptional circumstances here — including a virtually limitless search of a President’s home, the seizure of huge amounts of personal materials including attorney-client privileged documents, and an Attorney General’s publication of the Government’s position in an unprecedented press conference — require the disclosure of the affidavit,” the filing says.
“The idea that the Government must keep the details of the affidavit from Plaintiff is further undermined by the repeated leaks by DOJ of selected and misleading information,” it continued. “The Government’s conduct alone justifies the release of the affidavit to Plaintiff.”
The filing in Cannon’s court came hours before the former president’s legal team faced off with prosecutors in front of a three-judge panel at the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. The judges heard arguments over the basis of Cannon’s decision to approve Trump’s request for a special master.
The judges on the panel, two of whom were Trump appointees, appeared skeptical of the Trump team’s arguments, according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/22/feds-battle-trump-over-outside-review-of-seized-mar-a-lago-documents-00070541?nname=playbook&amp;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nrid=0000015e-f320-d26d-a7fe-fbf341270000&amp;nlid=630318" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a>. The judges pushed Trump’s attorneys for a basis for a special master in a case where the affidavit has not been found to be incorrect. Trump’s team argued about the unprecedented nature of the case in which the home of a former president was raided by the FBI.
Attorney General Merrick Garland <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/from-the-hague-to-obamas-irs-scandal-meet-jack-smith-the-new-special-counsel-to-investigate-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">named</a> a special counsel last week to take over the DOJ investigation into the documents. Garland said that Trump’s announcement of his candidacy for president in 2024 necessitated that the investigation is moved under a special counsel outside the DOJ’s purview.

Trump Says DOJ Should Spill All Its Secrets About Mar-A-Lago Raid After ‘Repeated Leaks’ To Media

Former Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/william-barr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">William Barr</a> told PBS in an interview this week that he believes that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has a legitimate criminal case against former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>.
Barr made the remarks during an interview on &#8220;Firing Line&#8221; with host Margaret Hoover.
Barr said at the start of the interview that he does not believe that Trump is &#8220;the right person to lead either the Republican Party or the country forward&#8221; and that he was disappointed when Trump announced he would seek the White House again.
Barr said that part of the reason that Trump was maybe was running again was to insulate himself from unprecedented federal, state, and congressional investigations. &#8220;But I think he, you know, he has a monumental ego, and he doesn’t want to go down in history as a loser,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And he also would like to get revenge on the people that he feels didn’t give him his due.&#8221;
Regarding the poor showing Trump&#8217;s candidates had in key races during the recent midterm election, Barr said that Trump &#8220;picked candidates that were weak candidates simply because they were willing to show their fealty to him by saying that the election was stolen. And that backfired completely.&#8221;
Regarding the FBI&#8217;s raid on Mar-a-Lago earlier this year as part of their criminal investigation into Trump&#8217;s handling of U.S. government records, Barr said, &#8220;If the Department of Justice can show that these were indeed very sensitive documents, which I think they probably were, and also show that the president consciously was involved in misleading the Department, deceiving the government, and playing games after he had received the subpoena for the documents, those are serious charges.&#8221;
When asked if Trump&#8217;s actions were a &#8220;serious enough crime&#8221; to prosecute, Barr said, &#8220;That&#8217;s serious.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I’ve said that I personally think that they probably have the basis for legitimately indicting the president. I don’t know, I’m speculating,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But given what’s gone on, I think they probably have the evidence that would check the box. They have the case.&#8221;
Barr said that the argument for charging Trump with crimes is that &#8220;if you let someone like this who, you know — if the facts are as raw as they may be, and you let someone get away with it, how can you protect these secrets?&#8221;
&#8220;How can you insist on people in government taking this stuff seriously?&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So, you know, that’s an important thing to weigh, as well as what the, you know, what it will do to the country and to the office of the presidency. And I think Merrick Garland is going to have to make that call.&#8221;
Despite Trump&#8217;s legal troubles, Barr said that he remained open to supporting Trump again in the future should he once again be the Republican Party&#8217;s nominee for president in 2024.
&#8220;I’m just hoping that never comes to that, because I think it would be a tragedy if he’s our nominee, if he’s the Republican nominee,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I’ll have to see what’s going on in the world, who the Democratic nominee is. If it’s a progressive Democratic nominee, I can’t imagine voting for them.&#8221;
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Former AG Bill Barr: Criminal Probe Into Trump ‘Serious,’ DOJ Has ‘Basis For Legitimately Indicting’ Him

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William Barr

Jack Smith, appointed special counsel by Attorney General <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/merrick-garland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Merrick Garland</a> on Friday, spent years as a prosecutor for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a> under former President Barack Obama and in the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
Garland named Smith special counsel to take over two DOJ investigations into former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>, including parts of the investigation into the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, as well as the investigation into documents seized from Trump’s residence in Mar-a-Lago. The move by Garland comes days after Trump announced his 2024 bid for U.S. president.
“Throughout his career, Jack Smith has built a reputation as an impartial and determined prosecutor who leads teams with energy and focus to follow the facts wherever they lead,” Garland <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-merrick-b-garland-delivers-remarks-appointment-special-counsel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at a Friday press briefing. “As special counsel, he will exercise independent prosecutorial judgment to decide whether charges should be brought.”
Smith did not attend the briefing in Washington, D.C., that announced his appointment. The DOJ said he will return to the U.S. from the Netherlands after he recovers from a recent bicycle accident, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/us/politics/jack-smith-special-counsel-trump.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> (NYT). Smith has already resigned from his role as chief prosecutor at The Hague, where he has worked since 2018 investigating war crimes.
Smith accepted the appointment in a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/statement-special-counsel-jack-smith" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>: “I intend to conduct the assigned investigations, and any prosecutions that may result from them, independently and in the best traditions of the Department of Justice. The pace of the investigations will not pause or flag under my watch. I will exercise independent judgement and will move the investigations forward expeditiously and thoroughly to whatever outcome the facts and the law dictate.”
Smith began work as a prosecutor in 1994 for the New York County District Attorney’s office investigating and prosecuting sex crimes and domestic violence offenses, <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/18/who-is-newest-trump-special-counsel-jack-smith/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the New York Post. He later moved to the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/11/18/trump-justice-department-mar-a-lago/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">served</a> in a number of supervisory roles, at one point overseeing the work of about 100 prosecutors.
In 2008, Smith left Brooklyn for the Netherlands to take on the role of investigation coordinator in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, NYT reported. He spent the next two years overseeing war crimes investigations into foreign governments and high-profile militia groups.
Smith returned to the United States in 2010 to take up a post at the Justice Department under former President Barack Obama. For the next five years, he led the DOJ Public Integrity Section and oversaw numerous corruption cases brought against politicians and others, including the high-profile cases of former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell and former Arizona Rep. Rick Renzi, both Republicans.
Smith took over the Public Integrity Section at a period of turmoil for the division after a high-profile case against Republican then-Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska broke down, according to NYT. After Smith took charge, the division dropped a number of cases against other lawmakers, raising questions that the division may shy away from pursuing cases against lawmakers.
“I understand why the question is asked,” Smith told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/us/politics/21justice.html?searchResultPosition=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> at the time. “But if I were the sort of person who could be cowed — ‘I know we should bring this case, I know the person did it, but we could lose, and that will look bad’ — I would find another line of work. I can’t imagine how someone who does what I do or has worked with me could think that.”
In the case against McDonnell, Smith&#8217;s team won initially — a jury convicted McDonnell on 11 corruption-related felony charges. The Supreme Court later overturned the conviction in a ruling rebuking the prosecution for its “boundless” interpretation of the law.
“There is no doubt that this case is distasteful; it may be worse than that. But our concern is not with tawdry tales of Ferraris, Rolexes, and ball gowns. It is instead with the broader legal implications of the Government’s boundless interpretation of the federal bribery statute,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in a 2016 <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/15pdf/15-474_ljgm.PDF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion</a>. “A more limited interpretation of the term &#8216;official act&#8217; leaves ample room for prosecuting corruption, while comporting with the text of the statute and the precedent of this Court.”
In contrast to McDonnell, Smith’s prosecution of Renzi stuck. The former congressman was <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-congressman-richard-g-renzi-sentenced-extortion-and-bribery-illegal-federal-land-swap" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced</a> to three years in prison in October of 2013. Renzi later received a pardon from Trump in 2021 as he was preparing to vacate the White House for incoming President Joe Biden.
During his stint at the DOJ, Smith was linked to one of the most <a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/10/27/560308997/irs-apologizes-for-aggressive-scrutiny-of-conservative-groups" target="_blank" rel="noopener">infamous scandals</a> of the Obama administration: the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2010 <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/2008/08-205" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decision</a> in Citizens United, the IRS unfairly scrutinized and delayed hundreds of conservative organizations’ applications for tax-exempt status from 2010-2012, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/14/politics/irs-conservative-targeting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> a 2013 report from the U.S. Treasury Inspector General.
A congressional investigation into the affair uncovered that an official from the DOJ met with Lois Lerner, then-head of the Exempt Organizations Division at the IRS, in October of 2010. Days later, Lerner <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH1ZRyq-1iM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a discussion at the Sanford School of Public Policy that “everybody is screaming at us right now, fix it now before the election,” referring to Citizens United and the relaxed rules on corporate political funding.
In May of 2014, Richard Pilger, then the director of the DOJ’s Election Crimes Branch, told congressional investigators that the DOJ-Lerner meeting was set up at the behest of Smith to discuss campaign finance law. More specifically, Smith wanted to discuss the IRS being “more vigilant to the opportunities from more crime in the … 501(c)(4) area,” Pilger said <a href="https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/release/testimony-2010-justice-department-sought-lois-lerners-help-prosecute-tax-exempt-groups-engaging-politics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), then chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Republicans said the meeting was part of a pressure campaign on the IRS to target conservative groups in the wake of Citizens United. Both Pilger and Smith in meetings with lawmakers denied that any such pressure or influence was brought against Lerner over the Supreme Court ruling.
Smith left the DOJ in 2015, and from February of that year to August 2017, Smith worked as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney and Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Smith then <a href="https://www.scp-ks.org/en/spo/specialist-prosecutor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">served</a> as vice president and head of litigation for the Hospital Corporation of America before taking a post at The Hague in 2018.

Jack Smith

From The Hague To Obama’s IRS Scandal: Meet Jack Smith, The New Special Counsel To Investigate Trump

Merrick Garland

Former President Donald Trump responded to Friday&#8217;s big news that the Justice Department was handing over its criminal investigations into him to a special counsel to avoid potential political bias by claiming that the DOJ was being &#8220;weaponized&#8221; against him.
Attorney General Merrick Garland named Jack Smith, a former war crimes prosecutor, as special counsel overseeing the Department&#8217;s criminal investigation into Trump&#8217;s handling of U.S. government records after leaving office and his actions related to the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
“The Department of Justice has long recognized that in certain, extraordinary cases, it is in the public interest to appoint a special prosecutor to independently manage an investigation and prosecution,” Garland <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-merrick-garland-to-name-special-counsel-to-determine-charges-against-trump-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a Friday press briefing. “Based on recent developments, including the former president’s announcement that he is a candidate for president in the next election and the sitting president’s intention to be a candidate as well, I have concluded that it is in the public’s interest to appoint a special counsel.”
Trump first <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-he-wont-partake-special-counsel-investigation-slams-as-worst-politicization-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> in an interview with Fox News, claiming that he was &#8220;not going to partake&#8221; in the investigation.
Trump demanded that the Republican Party &#8220;stand up and fight&#8221; amid the announcement of a special counsel.
&#8220;It is unfair to the country, to the Republican Party, and I don’t think people should accept it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I am not going to accept it.&#8221;
The 76-year-old later addressed the matter during an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-uUw02Yyuw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">event</a> Friday night at Mar-a-Lago, claiming that he thought that the investigations into him were winding down and saying that he believes the administration had &#8220;weaponized&#8221; the DOJ against him.
The active investigation about the classified materials that were discovered in his private residence when the FBI raided his home back in August was paused 60 days prior to the midterm elections due to DOJ policy about trying to not interfere in elections.
Trump then turned his attention to President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, who is also under criminal investigation by the DOJ.
&#8220;Where&#8217;s their special prosecutor, by the way?&#8221; Trump asked. &#8220;Where&#8217;s their special prosecutor? They said, when I announced they had to do this. Well, he announced too, he said he wants to run, where&#8217;s their special prosecutor?&#8221;
The U.S. attorney overseeing the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-federal-prosecutors-have-enough-evidence-to-charge-bidens-son-with-multiple-crimes-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David C. Weiss</a>, a holdover from the Trump administration.
&#8220;Why isn&#8217;t there a special counsel being set up for them?&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;Tremendous corruption, they&#8217;re corrupt people, they&#8217;re criminals. I&#8217;ve done nothing wrong. They participated in massive criminal activity with many other nations.&#8221;
Trump then suggested that the special counsel was appointed because House Republicans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-an-investigation-of-joe-biden-house-gop-leaders-vow-corruption-probe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that they would be investigating the Biden family.
&#8220;And it&#8217;s not a fair situation what&#8217;s going on and I guarantee you they get a fair investigation, this will not be a fair investigation,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;But again, I thought this was all done or very close to being done. These people are corrupt, and yet they go after innocent people under the guise of legitimacy.&#8221;

Former U.S. President Donald Trump  Makes An Announcement At His Florida Home

Trump Responds To DOJ Tapping Special Counsel To Handle Two Of Its Criminal Investigations Into Him

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