The Drug Enforcement Agency&#8217;s (DEA) Rocky Mountain Division led a multi-agency raid early Sunday morning, swarming a nightclub that was being used as a base for Tren de Aragua gang members, and coming out with over 100 illegal immigrants in custody.
The DEA shared video from the raid, which included assistance from the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department, during which they also recovered weapons and drugs.
&#8220;#DEA Rocky Mountain led a multi-agency enforcement operation along with our local and federal partners early this morning. @DHSGov has taken more than 100 illegal aliens into custody. Drugs and weapons have also been seized at this underground nightclub in Colorado Springs,&#8221; the caption read.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DEA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DEA</a> Rocky Mountain led a multi-agency enforcement operation along with our local and federal partners early this morning.<a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DHSgov</a> has taken more than 100 illegal aliens into custody. Drugs and weapons have also been seized at this underground nightclub in Colorado Springs. <a href="https://t.co/R4Smb3voAg">pic.twitter.com/R4Smb3voAg</a>
&mdash; DEARockyMountain (@DEAROCKYMTNDiv) <a href="https://twitter.com/DEAROCKYMTNDiv/status/1916459097404080541?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Stephen Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff and adviser to President Donald Trump, added, &#8220;Early this morning, DOJ and DHS launched a joint raid of an illegal alien underground nightclub used by TDA in Colorado. More to come &#8230;&#8221;
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Early this morning, DOJ and DHS launched a joint raid of an illegal alien underground nightclub used by TDA in Colorado. More to come… <a href="https://t.co/70UPGUSjCe">https://t.co/70UPGUSjCe</a>
&mdash; Stephen Miller (@StephenM) <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenM/status/1916492155905835434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In the hours since, additional reports have filled in some key details about who was involved in the raid — and who was apprehended.
Attorney General Pam Bondi explained, &#8220;This morning @DEAHQ apprehended over 100 illegal aliens at an underground night club frequented by Tda and MS-13 terrorists. Cocaine, meth, and pink cocaine was seized. 2 people were also arrested on existing warrants. As we approach his 100 days in office @POTUS Trump’s directive to make America safe again is achieving results!&#8221;
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This morning <a href="https://twitter.com/DEAHQ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DEAHQ</a> apprehended over 100 illegal aliens at an underground night club frequented by Tda and MS-13 terrorists. Cocaine, meth, and pink cocaine was seized. 2 people were also arrested on existing warrants.
As we approach his 100 days in office <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> Trump’s… <a href="https://t.co/DvYUNrmzvd">pic.twitter.com/DvYUNrmzvd</a>
&mdash; Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGPamBondi/status/1916515090418839624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin added, &#8220;Spotted in this video helping make arrests of illegal aliens at this Colorado underground nightclub. US Postal Service police IRS Criminal Investigations Along with ICE, DEA, &amp; FBI. Trump admin taking a whole of federal gov approach to bring in every agency for deportations.&#8221;
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Spotted in this video helping make arrests of illegal aliens at this Colorado underground nightclub.
US Postal Service police IRS Criminal Investigations
Along with ICE, DEA, &amp; FBI.
Trump admin taking a whole of federal gov approach to bring in every agency for deportations. <a href="https://t.co/OO6NMpqLfg">https://t.co/OO6NMpqLfg</a>
&mdash; Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1916536549308563951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The party is OVER. Law and order has returned. Under the leadership of @POTUS Trump and @Sec_Noem, we are taking a whole of government approach to removing criminal illegal aliens from American communities,&#8221; the official DHS account posted.
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The party is OVER. Law and order has returned. 
Under the leadership of <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> Trump and <a href="https://twitter.com/Sec_Noem?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Sec_Noem</a>, we are taking a whole of government approach to removing criminal illegal aliens from American communities. <a href="https://t.co/lUoGCxYdZg">https://t.co/lUoGCxYdZg</a>
&mdash; Homeland Security (@DHSgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov/status/1916578183303901457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The news of the Colorado Springs raid comes just days after a four-day multi-agency operation in Florida — referred to as Operation Tidal Wave — netted the captures of some 800 illegal aliens.
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In a first-of-its-kind partnership between state and federal partners, ICE Miami and Florida law enforcement arrested nearly 800 illegal aliens this week during the first four days of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OperationTidalWave?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#OperationTidalWave</a> — a massive, multi-agency, immigration enforcement crackdown.
💡Learn how… <a href="https://t.co/LbH3j4OJU9">pic.twitter.com/LbH3j4OJU9</a>
&mdash; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/ICEgov/status/1916149859217719528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Former FBI Director Andy McCabe — who was fired by President Donald Trump in 2018 — admitted during a recent CNN appearance that the case against a Wisconsin judge appeared to be on solid legal footing, despite the objections of Democrats.
Judge <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-arrests-judge-accused-of-intentionally-misdirecting-ice-agents-away-from-illegal-immigrant" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hannah Dugan</a> was arrested for her role in assisting an illegal alien in his attempts to evade capture by federal immigration authorities — a move which prompted immediate outrage from Democrats who, after years of insisting that &#8220;no one is above the law,&#8221; claimed that arresting the judge sounded the death knell of democracy.
Though he did concede the legitimacy of the charges against Dugan, McCabe still did his best to suggest that the attacks on Trump&#8217;s Justice Department were justified, arguing that the way in which the judge was taken into custody was &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; and indicative of the Trump administration&#8217;s &#8220;cruelty.&#8221;
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🚨McCABE: Judge Dugan case is solid legally, but the way she was arrested was “unprecedented” and “performative cruelty.&#8221;
&#8220;These things are unprecedented, typically upstanding members of the community who have no criminal history and aren&#8217;t accused of a violent act are allowed… <a href="https://t.co/1U8EnE8jqs">pic.twitter.com/1U8EnE8jqs</a>
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&#8220;It&#8217;s not an unreasonable complaint,&#8221; McCabe said of the charges against Dugan, saying that there was certainly enough evidence to &#8220;move beyond the probable cause phase&#8221; — but that he took issue with &#8220;how the judge was treated after the events that led to the charge.&#8221;
&#8220;These things are unprecedented, typically upstanding members of the community who have no criminal history and aren&#8217;t accused of a violent act are allowed to self surrender at the time of their arraignment,&#8221; McCabe said. &#8220;The fact that they did not offer that courtesy to her, and instead went out of their way to treat her harshly, I believe is an act of performative cruelty on behalf of the Department of Justice, which is not the way any Department of Justice should be acting.&#8221;
Cash Loren posted in response, &#8220;These same people were fine with the FBI doing a predawn raid on Trump’s residence heavily armed with permission for deadly force order.&#8221;

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Luigi Mangione, who faces federal murder charges after the December shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, pleaded not guilty in federal court on Friday.
Mangione appeared in Manhattan federal court in a prison jumpsuit and shackled at the wrists and ankles, entering not guilty pleas to charges of murder, two counts of stalking, and a firearms offense.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the DOJ intends to pursue the death penalty in the case, causing Mangione&#8217;s attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, to request that the court prioritize starting his federal trial before his state cases in New York and Pennsylvania, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/us/luigi-mangione-federal-charges/index.html">reported</a>.
According to authorities, Mangione “<a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-pamela-bondi-directs-prosecutors-seek-death-penalty-luigi-mangione">murdered</a>” Thompson, a father of two young children, in a “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination” as an act of “political violence.”
Thompson was gunned down in Midtown Manhattan on December 4, leading to a five-day manhunt that ended with Mangione&#8217;s arrest in Pennsylvania, more than 270 miles from the shooting scene.
At the time of his arrest, Mangione possessed “fake ID used by the suspect, the gun they believe was used in the shooting and a handwritten ‘claim of responsibility,’ authorities have said,” according to CNN.
Mangione&#8217;s targeting of Thompson appears meticulously planned, according to the DOJ, and three 9mm shell casings recovered from the crime scene had the words &#8220;delay,&#8221; &#8220;deny,&#8221; and &#8220;depose&#8221; written on them, an apparent reference to a 2010 book criticizing insurance industry tactics, according to the NYPD.
The case has sparked considerable public attention, with supporters of Mangione gathering outside the courthouse Friday, some wearing green, referencing Nintendo&#8217;s &#8220;Luigi&#8221; character, and holding banners with messages like &#8220;Luigi Before Fascists&#8221; and &#8220;Stop the Violence: End the Death Penalty Now.&#8221;
Chelsea Manning, the former Army soldier convicted of violating the Espionage Act after leaking documents to WikiLeaks, has appeared at multiple hearings in support of Mangione.
Many people, according to CNN, seem to be channeling their frustration with the health care system through Mangione, with some going as far as calling him a vigilante.
A legal defense fund in Mangione&#8217;s name has raised more than $950,000 from supporters.
Mainstream politicians have condemned Mangione&#8217;s alleged actions. &#8220;In America, we do not kill people in cold blood to resolve policy differences or express a viewpoint,&#8221; Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said the day Mangione was arrested, adding, &#8220;He is no hero.&#8221;
Judge Margaret Garnett scheduled Mangione&#8217;s next federal hearing for December 5, when a trial date will be set. She indicated she expects the trial to begin in 2026.

Insurance CEO Murder Suspect Luigi Mangione Is Extradicted To New York

Luigi Mangione Pleads Not Guilty As DOJ Seeks Death Penalty

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Former Rep. George Santos (R-NY), who was expelled from Congress last year after extensive fraud revelations, received a hefty 87-month prison term on Friday.
Santos, 36, pleaded guilty last year to committing wire fraud and aggravated identity theft while also admitting he “filed fraudulent FEC reports, embezzled funds from campaign donors, charged credit cards without authorization, stole identities, obtained unemployment benefits through fraud, and lied in reports to the House of Representatives,” per a Department of Justice press <a href="https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/former-congressman-george-santos-pleads-guilty-fraud-and-identity-theft#:~:text=In%20pleading%20guilty%2C%20Santos%2C%2036,to%20the%20House%20of%20Representatives">release</a>.
As U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert handed down the sentencing, Santos could be seen putting his hands over his head in apparent disbelief, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/former-congressman-george-santos-sentenced-to-seven-years-for-fraud-90d88f55">reported</a>.
Despite Santos saying in a Monday <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/852698897/Letter-From-George-Santos">letter</a> to the presiding judge that he &#8220;accepted full responsibility&#8221; for his crimes and was &#8220;profoundly sorry&#8221; for his actions, John J. Durham, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York under President Donald Trump&#8217;s DOJ, had pushed for an 87-month sentence, characterizing Santos as “unrepentant,” and “blamed his circumstances on misplaced trust in others,” per The Wall Street Journal.
Judge Seybert reportedly concurred with this sentiment, saying at the sentencing, &#8220;Where’s the remorse? Where do I see it?&#8221;
After his expulsion from Congress, Santos attempted to monetize his notoriety, likely in an attempt to pay the $375,000 in restitution, through personalized videos on Cameo and launching a podcast aptly titled &#8220;Pants on Fire&#8221; – a possible reference to his numerous falsehoods about his education, work history, and personal background, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/nyregion/george-santos-sentencing-prison.html">according</a> to The New York Times.
Santos was making &#8220;twice his congressional salary&#8221; through the personalized video platform, according to The Times, with the former congressman pushing a &#8220;last week on Cameo&#8221; promotion in a last-ditch effort to raise money before his sentencing.
Durham <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.497086/gov.uscourts.nyed.497086.118.0.pdf">argued</a> in a supplemental court memo that Santos&#8217; recent social media posts claiming he is a “<a href="https://x.com/MrSantosNY/status/1909311390160240990">scapegoat</a>” and a victim of DOJ overreach and selective prosecution &#8220;suggested he had little remorse for his actions.&#8221;
“His actions speak louder than any words, and they cry out for a significant carceral sentence in this case,” the U.S. attorney said.
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Hi my name is George Santos and the DOJ has had a hard on for me since December of 2022.
I refuse to let them break me or my spirit and that makes them big Mad… they have used elaborate language to drag me and hinder my ability to earn income…
Long story short, I will NOT…
&mdash; Pants On Fire with George Santos (@MrSantosNY) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrSantosNY/status/1908567430403596655?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Santos&#8217; dramatic fall began shortly after his 2022 election victory when it was <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/new-york-congressman-elect-santos-admits-to-lying-about-employment-history-and-college-education?utm_source=chatgpt.com">revealed</a> that he had fabricated much of his background, such as graduating from Baruch College, working for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, and even playing collegiate volleyball.
“I didn’t graduate from any institution of higher learning. I’m embarrassed and sorry for having embellished my resume,&#8221; Santos admitted in 2023, adding, “I own up to that. … We do stupid things in life.”
Santos was expelled from the House of Representatives after fellow Republicans led the charge following a bipartisan House Ethics Committee report, which found that he had stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars from donors. Some funds were <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/onlyfans-botox-george-santos-ethics-report-b2457313.html">reportedly</a> spent on luxury goods, OnlyFans, and Botox.
His attorneys had requested the minimum 24-month sentence, arguing that his actions &#8220;stemmed largely from a misguided desperation related to his political campaign, rather than inherent malice,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/nyregion/george-santos-sentencing-prison.html">according</a> to The New York Times, with the judge ultimately accepting the prosecution&#8217;s recommended sentence.

Former Representative George Santos Faces Sentencing For Fraud

Disgraced Ex-Congressman George Santos Sentenced To More Than 7 Years In Prison

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In a reversal from the Biden administration’s policy, the Trump administration&#8217;s Department of Justice has stripped the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) — which has been accused of working with Hamas during the October 7, 2023, massacre of more than 1200 people in Israel — of immunity from prosecution. That decision will enable the billion-dollar lawsuit filed by the October 7 victims&#8217; families to move forward.
In a  letter from the United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, to U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres regarding the case Estate of Tamar Kedem Siman Tov et al. v. UNRWA, the text stated:
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The complaint in this case recounts atrocious crimes committed by Hamas on October 7. And its factual allegations, taken as true, detail how the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (&#8220;UNRWA&#8221;) played a significant role in those heinous offenses. Previously, the Government expressed the view that certain immunities shielded UNRWA from having to answer those allegations in American courts. The Government has since reevaluated that position, and now concludes UNRWA is not immune from this litigation. Nor are the bulk of other defendants.
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The lawsuit<a href="https://unwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/001-UNRWAComplaint.pdf"> states</a>:
<blockquote>The atrocities committed by Hamas in the October 7 Attack were not only acts of terror, genocide, and crimes against humanity, they were torts in violation of the law of nations. Because, as detailed below, the Defendants’ actions aiding and abetting those torts in violation of the law of nations, including but not limited to their funding of Hamas, occurred in significant part in the State of New York and in this federal judicial district, this Court has subject matter jurisdiction and venue over Plaintiffs’ claims against these Defendants. Many of the Plaintiffs separately have claims against Defendants for aiding and abetting Hamas’ violations of the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 (“TVPA”), which requires no such New York nexus.</blockquote>
“The US administration&#8217;s determination that UNRWA lacks diplomatic immunity could substantially facilitate Israel&#8217;s efforts to end the agency&#8217;s operations within Israeli territory,” Israel Hayom <a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/04/25/trumps-doj-strips-unrwa-of-immunity/">pointed out</a>. “The lawsuit presents evidence alleging UNRWA orchestrated a $1 billion money laundering operation that funded Hamas, while simultaneously reducing humanitarian aid to Gaza residents and playing a critical role in the October 7 attack.”
Documents shared with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/world/middleeast/hamas-unrwa-schools.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a> last December impelled the media outlet to admit that senior staff at UNRWA schools doubled as members of Hamas’ military wing.
As shown by the detailed records kept by the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, which were seized by Israel, at least 24 people employed by the anti-Israel UNRWA in their schools were members of Hamas or Islamic Jihad. “A majority were top administrators at the schools — principals or deputy principals — and the rest were school counselors and teachers, the documents say,” The Times reported. “Almost all of the Hamas-linked educators, according to the records, were fighters in the Qassam Brigades.”
“The Constitution does not grant immunity to foreign sovereigns or organizations. Instead, such immunity &#8216;is a matter of grace and comity on the part of the United States,’” the letter continued. “The interactions among two treaties, one statute, and one proposed convention govern whether UNRWA is entitled to such grace here. First, the International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945 (‘IOIA’) creates the ‘default rules’ for the immunity enjoyed by international organizations in the United States. Although apparently aimed at many of the same entities that now comprise the United Nations (‘UN’) system, id., the JOIA applies to any ‘public organization in which the United States participates pursuant to any treaty or under the authority of any Act of Congress &#8230; and which shall have been designated by the President through appropriate Executive order as being entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions, and immunities provided in this subchapter.’&#8221;
“In other words, Congress controls in the first instance whether the United States participates in such ‘public organizations’ and it empowered the President to decide whether to extend immunity to these organizations including ‘at any time to revoke the designation’ entitling the organizations to immunity,” the letter explains.
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The Trump DOJ has reversed the Biden admin&#39;s position and made it clear that UNRWA and its employees are not entitled to immunity for their atrocious terroristic conduct. 
File this under the category of &quot;things that should not have to be said but thank God someone said them.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/iRVSFZdV4v">pic.twitter.com/iRVSFZdV4v</a>
&mdash; Mark Goldfeder (@MarkGoldfeder) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkGoldfeder/status/1915591397521969386?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The Justice Department this week slashed millions of dollars in grant funding for leftist organizations studying things like &#8220;toxic masculinity&#8221; and &#8220;systematic racism&#8221; as Attorney General Pam Bondi pushes to cut government waste, The Daily Wire has learned.
Before the cuts, which were described as &#8220;wave one,&#8221; millions of taxpayer dollars were going toward initiatives like filming black police officers in the name of racial equity, looking for ways to &#8220;resolve&#8221; drug crimes outside of the judicial system, and addressing so-called &#8220;toxic masculinity,&#8221; according to a list of several cut programs viewed by The Daily Wire. Teasing the cuts on Wednesday, Bondi <a href="https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/1915184169069818356" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that there would be &#8220;more to come.&#8221;
The first wave included cuts to over 360 programs and grants that were determined not to be in line with President Donald Trump&#8217;s law and order agenda. According to the Justice Department, organizations whose funding was cut will have 30 days to win back their funding if they can prove it &#8220;actually helps victims of crime as opposed to being a nebulous slush fund for vague liberal causes.&#8221;
The Justice Department said programs that do things like provide housing to domestic violence victims and provide opioid treatment will not be cut.
One specific grant sent $1.5 million toward a training program that included the creation of a “powerful 17-minute film documenting the journey of three Black police leaders” to “promote racial equity in police practice.” Another $1.5 million was going to an organization for “culturally and linguistically specific, trauma-informed, and accessible services” for “former justice-involved individuals,&#8221; a euphemism used by leftists for criminals.
Another $1 million had been allocated to “bridge socio-ecological contexts” by working with “culturally specific community-based organizations,&#8221; while a whopping $5 million was going to an organization that promotes &#8220;racial equity in victim services&#8221; and hosts &#8220;listening sessions in targeted communities.&#8221;
Several of the cut programs dealt with drug crimes, including one that appeared oriented toward letting drug offenders off the hook. One million dollar grant went toward an organization that pushed &#8220;an innovative approach to resolving&#8221; drug crimes “away from the court system.”  Another sent $1 million to an organization looking at “how universal service delivery could mitigate the impact of systemic racism” on drug diversion programs.
Yet another grant on the chopping block was $2 million given to a &#8220;feminist, culturally specific nonprofit organization&#8221; to address “structural racism and toxic masculinities.”
These programs were flagged with the help of the Department of Government Efficiency, which is scouring the federal government for partisan programs and wasteful spending.
“Under Attorney General Bondi’s leadership, the Department of Justice is committed to ensuring its resources are spent on arresting criminals, getting drugs off the streets, and crucial litigation,&#8221; Justice Department spokesman Gates McGavick told The Daily Wire. &#8220;We will always protect victims of crime and legitimate law enforcement initiatives, but we will no longer spend millions on ‘listening sessions’ and  ‘bridging socio-ecological contexts.’”

AG Bondi, FBI Director Patel Hold Press Conference In Florida After Drug Seizure

Bondi Ending Taxpayer Funded ‘Slush Fund’ Studying ‘Toxic Masculinity’ And ‘Structural Racism’

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A former intelligence officer with the U.S. Army was sentenced on Wednesday to seven years in prison for selling critical military documents to an individual believed to be tied to the Chinese government.
Korbein Schultz, 25, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/army-intelligence-officer-pleads-guilty-to-selling-defense-information-to-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pled guilty</a> last year to conspiring to collect and transmit national defense information, unlawfully exporting controlled information to China, and accepting bribes in exchange for sensitive government information. The sale of the documents, which included information on American military technology, took place over a three-year period from May 2022 to March 2024, according to the Justice Department. 
“This defendant swore an oath to defend the United States — instead, he betrayed it for a payout and put America’s military and service members at risk,” <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-us-army-intelligence-analyst-sentenced-selling-sensitive-military-information">said</a> Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “The Justice Department remains vigilant against China’s efforts to target our military and will ensure that those who leak military secrets spend years behind bars.”
He could have faced 65 years in prison if given the maximum on all counts.
Schultz was paid $42,000 for sending the information to an unidentified foreign national living in Hong Kong believed to be connected to the Chinese government.
The information that he provided included his unit&#8217;s operational order before it was deployed to Eastern Europe, information applying lessons from the Russia-Ukraine war to Taiwan, technical manuals for the Army&#8217;s HH-60 helicopter and F-22A fighter aircraft, manuals on Intercontinental Ballistic Missile systems, American intelligence on the Chinese military and the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force, details on American military exercises in South Korea and the Philippines, and documents on American military satellites and missile defense systems.
Schultz was first contacted to sell the secrets over a freelance web-based work platform by an individual pretending to work for a geopolitical consulting firm, according to the Justice Department. The department added that Schultz attempted to recruit a friend who worked for the Department of Defense’s Indo-Pacific Command to take part in the scheme as well.
The FBI&#8217;s Nashville office led the investigation, with assistance from the Department of Defense and the Army Counterintelligence Command.
“This sentencing is a stark warning to those who betray our country: you will pay a steep price for it,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. “The People’s Republic of China is relentless in its efforts to steal our national defense information, and service members are a prime target. The FBI and our partners will continue to root out espionage and hold those accountable who abandon their obligation to safeguard defense information from hostile foreign governments.”

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Former Army Intel Officer Sentenced After Selling U.S. Military Secrets To China

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Attorney General Pam Bondi opened up the first meeting of the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias on Tuesday by hearing stories about how the Justice Department was weaponized by the Biden administration to go after Christians.
President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eradicating-anti-christian-bias-trump-signs-executive-action-ending-targeting-of-christians" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed an executive order</a> in February directing Bondi to convene a task force composed of top Trump admin officials with the goal of securing religious liberty. During the inaugural meeting, those in attendance shared examples of how the Biden administration &#8220;weaponized&#8221; government to go after Christian colleges and federal employees who refused the COVID vaccine for religious reasons.
“As shown by our victims’ stories today, Biden’s Department of Justice abused and targeted peaceful Christians while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses,” Bondi said. “Thanks to President Trump, we have ended those abuses, and we will continue to work closely with every member of this Task Force to protect every American’s right to speak and worship freely.”
In her opening remarks, Bondi added that protecting the First Amendment would be a high priority for the administration.
“The First Amendment isn&#8217;t just a line in the Constitution, it&#8217;s the cornerstone of our American liberty. It guarantees every citizen the right to speak freely, worship freely, and live according to their conscience without government interference,” she said. “Protecting Christians from bias is not favoritism, it&#8217;s upholding the rule of law and fulfilling the constitutional promise.”
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Other admin officials who attended the meeting included FBI Director Kash Patel, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
During the meeting, the task force heard from lawyer Michael Farris, who is represented the Cornerstone Church as it was under investigation by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for an alleged Johnson Amendment violation. The Johnson Amendment is a decades old provision in federal law that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-north-carolina-republican-leads-effort-to-restore-free-speech-for-pastors-churches" target="_blank" rel="noopener">allows pastors</a> to be prosecuted for making political statements from the pulpit.
The panel also heard from Phil Mendes, a Navy Seal who was relieved of duty by the Department of Defense after it denied his request for a religious exemption to the COVID vaccine.
During his 2024 campaign, Trump pledged to reverse many of the actions taken by the Biden administration, including the aggressive prosecutions of peaceful Christian pro-life protesters outside of abortion facilities. Multiple pro-lifers were sent to federal prison for their participation in peaceful protests after trials that were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-89-year-old-woman-convicted-faces-over-a-decade-in-prison-for-peaceful-pro-life-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">covered extensively</a> by The Daily Wire.
&#8220;Those convicted included a Catholic priest and 75-year-old grandmother, as well as an 87-year-old woman and a father of 11 children who were arrested 18 months after praying and singing hymns outside an abortion facility in Tennessee as a part of a politically motivated prosecution campaign by the Biden Administration,&#8221; Trump wrote in his executive order creating the task force earlier this month.
Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-should-not-have-been-prosecuted-trump-pardons-23-pro-lifers-targeted-by-biden-doj" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pardoned those pro-lifers</a> his first week in office, calling it a &#8220;great honor&#8221; to sign the pardons.

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On Monday, the Justice Department made remarks before the court, urging a U.S. district judge to force Google to relinquish its ownership of the Chrome web browser.
“Google, which controls about 90% of the global search market, has used illegal agreements to sideline its rivals and harmed consumers and advertisers in the process,” The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-justice-department-search-monopoly-hearing-d527c010?mod=hp_lead_pos5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>. “A trial last year, focused just on liability, revealed that Google has paid Apple more than $20 billion a year for Google’s search engine to be the default on Apple’s Safari web browser.”
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Gail Slater, and Justice Department official David Dahlquist made their remarks to U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, who <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-loses-federal-antitrust-case-27810c43" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> last year, “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one” as he ruled that Google had illegally preserved its search engine monopoly.
“President Trump took the first big step in 2020 when his Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google to challenge its dominance over internet search,” Blanche <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/deputy-attorney-general-todd-blanche-delivers-remarks-opening-arguments-google-search" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Mehta. “Today, as the remedies phase of that case begins, President Trump’s Justice Department will finish the job.”
“As a monopolist, Google uses its market power against the American people,” Blanche continued. “It has control of an extraordinary amount of data about ordinary Americans. Google has deplatformed conservative speech and has put its thumb on the scale politically for years. All of this behavior is downstream from Google’s monopoly power over internet search. This antitrust case addresses that monopoly power. The Department has asked the court to impose remedies that will ensure Google can never again wield such dominance over internet search.”
“This case was filed during President Trump’s first term and litigated across three administrations,” Slater <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/assistant-attorney-general-gail-slater-delivers-remarks-opening-arguments-google-search" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a>. “It has unified our nation. Forty-nine states, two territories and the District of Columbia have all joined the Department of Justice in prosecuting Google here. And for good reason. Each generation has called for the DOJ to challenge a behemoth that crushed competition. In decades past, it was Standard Oil and AT&amp;T. Today’s behemoth is Google. It is a gatekeeper for our commerce and our information. It is so ubiquitous and so powerful that it interacts with millions of Americans, billions of times per day. Fortunately, DOJ’s Antitrust Division exists for cases just like this one.”
“We’re at an inflection point,” Dahlquist told Mehta. “This court has an opportunity to remedy a monopoly that has controlled the internet for today’s generation and restore competition for decades to come.”

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President Donald Trump has made it a priority to keep men out of women&#8217;s sports, bathrooms, and other sex-specific spaces. But thanks to little-known Obama-era regulations, states could be required to house boys in all-girl youth prisons.
Currently, states are barred from imprisoning juvenile inmates on the basis of sex. That means a 17-year-old boy who claims to be &#8220;transgender&#8221; could be locked up alongside an 11-year-old girl. States that don&#8217;t comply with these mandates risk losing crucial federal funding, making even deep-red states comply with the guidance.
Advocates tell The Daily Wire that Trump&#8217;s executive orders protecting women&#8217;s spaces may not automatically negate these rules. Unless amended, the <a href="https://www.ecfr.gov/on/2017-01-03/title-28/chapter-I/part-115/subpart-D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">federal code</a> will continue to force youth prisons to consider housing transgender-identifying males alongside girls, raising serious concerns about their safety.
Amie Ichikawa, a woman who spent nearly five years in a California prison and now advocates to keep males out of female prisons, told The Daily Wire it was &#8220;disturbing&#8221; that juvenile facilities are blocked from making housing decisions on the basis of sex. She believes it&#8217;s even more dangerous than mixing genders in adult prisons.
“Kids in juvenile are extremely vulnerable, and to add mixed sex housing into it, that&#8217;s creating a totally unnecessary hurdle to have to jump over,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It’s setting them up for failure, and it&#8217;s just robbing them of any kind of normalcy or ability to focus on healing.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.ecfr.gov/on/2017-01-03/title-28/chapter-I/part-115/subpart-D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">regulations</a> for juvenile facilities were first issued by then Attorney General Eric Holder in May 2012 and became law that August. The Obama administration touted the rules as a way to end rape and sexual assault in prisons. But in practice, these regulations could allow for girls, sometimes as young as 12, to be housed alongside physically and legally adult males.
For example, a <a href="https://ocfs.ny.gov/programs/rehab/assets/docs/prea/2022-Brentwood-PREA-Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2022 audit</a> of the Brentwood Residential Center for Girls in New York noted that there were two transgender offenders housed at the facility. One was identified as a &#8220;transgender male&#8221; and another as a &#8220;transgender female.&#8221; Since the facility houses females between the ages of 12-18, this means there could be an adult male lodging in the same location with middle school-aged girls.
Under the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) — which <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-108publ79/pdf/PLAW-108publ79.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doesn&#8217;t mention</a> transgender inmates — the Justice Department is authorized to come up with standards for prisons to end sexual assault at detention facilities.
Under the code&#8217;s section on juvenile facilities, prison staff are blocked from placing inmates based on biology.
“In deciding whether to assign a transgender or intersex resident to a facility for male or female residents, and in making other housing and programming assignments, the agency shall consider on a case-by-case basis whether a placement would ensure the resident’s health and safety, and whether the placement would present management or security problems,” the regulation reads.
The prohibition is made explicit in a form used to audit detention facilities across the country for compliance with PREA. The form states that &#8220;if an agency by policy or practice assigns residents to a male or female facility on the basis of anatomy alone, that agency is not in compliance with this standard.&#8221;
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While the Biden administration facilitated the movement of males into female prisons, Trump has taken a dramatically different approach.
Trump signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> in January directing his administration &#8220;to ensure that males are not detained in women’s prisons or housed in women’s detention centers.&#8221; The order says that amending federal code 115.41, a portion of the law related to &#8220;standards for adult prisons and jails,&#8221; may be necessary to comply with this directive.
However, it is unclear if this potential amendment of the federal code would include the juvenile standards that have been imposed on states, since the &#8220;standards for juvenile detention facilities&#8221; are found in section 115.342, a different part of the code.
The Justice Department referred The Daily Wire to the White House when asked for more details on any proposed changes to the code.
Lauren Adams, a lawyer with the Women&#8217;s Liberation Front, a feminist organization that fights to keep men out of women&#8217;s prisons, told The Daily Wire that just because the section on juvenile facilities wasn&#8217;t mentioned doesn&#8217;t mean it couldn&#8217;t be encompassed by the order.
“That specific direction to consider amending that particular provision, it doesn’t mean that they also shouldn’t also amend the other relevant provisions,” she said. “We can’t let juvenile offenders be dropped out of the conversation.”
Adams added that it was especially important for the federal code to be updated because of the ongoing lawsuits that have been filed by male prisoners across the country to stay housed at female facilities in defiance of Trump&#8217;s executive order.
&#8220;As we see these challenges and the litigation, the more we see that going through the courts, the more important it’s going to be to do regulation. We need to be able to have something that has the force of law. Executive orders are very, very weak in terms of law,&#8221; she said. 
The prohibitions on juvenile facilities assigning housing by sex were still in effect throughout the first Trump administration, a review of PREA audits reveals. That was at the same time that Trump revoked Obama-era guidelines in the Bureau of Prisons Transgender manual and mandated that sex be used for the initial determination of placement.
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Now, a few months into Trump&#8217;s second term, one juvenile detention facility confirmed to The Daily Wire that it has not received updated guidance on the transgender housing standard. A spokeswoman for Echo Glen Children&#8217;s Center in Washington, where transgender identifying inmates have been housed, said the facility has not received any new directive on the standard.
According to the most recent data available from the Justice Department, 26 states and the District of Columbia have fully certified compliance with PREA regulations, while 23 states have submitted an assurance that they will ensure compliance. Only four states, including Alaska, Arkansas, Indiana, and Utah, have declined to comply with PREA standards.
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States that don&#8217;t comply with PREA guidance are penalized with federal funding cuts. If a state is non-compliant with PREA, including the transgender housing guidelines, the Justice Department yanks 5% of funding for grants given to the states from the department for &#8220;prison purposes.&#8221;
This includes programs like the <a href="https://www.prearesourcecenter.org/sites/default/files/library/JAG-PREA-FAQ-2018_0.pdf">Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant</a>, the top source of federal <a href="https://bja.ojp.gov/program/jag/overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">funding</a> for state and local jurisdictions for a wide variety of areas, including law enforcement, prosecution, indigent defense, courts, crime prevention and education, corrections and community corrections, and technology improvement. The cuts could also apply to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Title II Part B Formula grant <a href="https://www.prearesourcecenter.org/sites/default/files/content/ojjdp_prea_faqs_fy2015_5_7_2015_changes_accepted_final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">program,</a> which funds juvenile justice system improvements.
State and local juvenile facilities are audited every few years to ensure compliance with PREA, and a review of audit reports reveals a focus on special conditions for transgender-identifying offenders. Even in conservative states like Tennessee or Georgia, facilities have to affirm that they will not house offenders based on their sex.
For example, a recent <a href="https://www.williamsoncounty-tn.gov/DocumentCenter/View/25617/2024-PREA-Audit-Report?bidId=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PREA audit</a> of the Williamson County Juvenile Detention Center in deep-red Tennessee affirmed that the facility did not have a policy of placing inmates in alignment with their sex.
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According to the report, the detention center&#8217;s PREA coordinator stated that &#8220;housing and programming assignments for transgender or intersex residents are made on a case-by-case basis whether a placement would ensure the resident’s health and safety, and whether the placement would present management or security problems.&#8221;
Special considerations were also made in the audit to inquire whether transgender identifying inmates can shower separately and the person&#8217;s sense of their safety. Auditors also have to ensure that faculty staff are trained “to communicate effectively and professionally with residents, including, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, or gender nonconforming residents&#8221; and &#8220;respect&#8221; their identity. 
Ichikawa told The Daily Wire that these kinds of standard auditing practices show special attention is given to transgender-identifying offenders while considerations of female safety are bypassed.
Ichikawa, who was incarcerated after being convicted of kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon, said that female inmates were never asked about their own perception of safety and well-being, in contrast to transgender-identifying inmates.
“Nobody in prison had that, so it&#8217;s not like they were reinstating some precious right that was stolen from them. They’re just providing exclusive human rights to this small group of people, and it’s created a huge power imbalance,” she said. “Everybody’s sense of well-being and safety should be taken into consideration, not just trans-identified. This is gender politics, it’s not even about safety anymore.”
When she was in prison in California, she said that she and her fellow female inmates feared for their safety when a male double rapist was transferred into their prison. They were never asked how their safety could be impacted by the transfer of a male rapist into a women&#8217;s detention center.
A review of PREA audits conducted over the last few years finds multiple examples of juvenile detention centers housing transgender-identifying inmates.
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For example, a <a href="https://dcyf.wa.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/prea-EchoGlen-cycle4.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2024 audit</a> of the Echo Glen Children&#8217;s Center in Washington showed it was housing two residents who identified as transgender, though no further details were given. That <a href="https://www.dcyf.wa.gov/sites/default/files/pubs/JR_0008.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">facility</a> has both male and female units, and admits boys between the ages of 11-17 and females between the ages of 12-15.
An <a href="https://www.oregon.gov/oya/PREA/2023-CampTillamookYTF-PREAAuditFinalReport.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">audit</a> of Camp Tillamook Youth Transitional Facility in Oregon also showed that one transgender-identifying resident was in custody.
In the previously mentioned audit of the Brentwood Residential Center for Girls, the auditor interviewed one transgender-identifying male resident who claimed to be a girl. This resident told the auditor that he had never been searched or physically examined to &#8220;determine her genital status.&#8221; Under PREA, faculty can only determine &#8220;genital status&#8221; through routine physical check-ups or medical records. That resident told an auditor that staff were &#8220;respectful toward her identification.&#8221;
Women&#8217;s safety advocates, like Adams, say that federal code should be amended to allow prisons to implement categorical placement by sex. She also said that it makes no sense for transgender-identifying inmates to be given all kinds of special privileges that are not afforded to women inmates.
For example, she noted that in most cases, male guards are not allowed to search female inmates, while transgender identifying inmates can request either a male or female guard to search them. This means that a male inmate could force a female guard to conduct a search of him, raising safety concerns.
“I don’t know how we can say men are a danger to women when they are guards but not when they’re inmates, 
she said. “But they can be forced to shower with sex offenders.&#8221;
The battle on this issue is already ongoing at the adult level with multiple federal lawsuits in litigation over the placement of males in female prisons. It remains to be seen whether a similar battle will take place at the juvenile level.
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The Justice Department announced Friday that a 19-year-old male college student had been arrested for allegedly setting on fire two Cybertrucks using two homemade Molotov cocktails at a Tesla Center in Kansas City.
The suspect, Owen McIntire, is charged with one count of unlawful possession of an unregistered destructive device and one count of malicious damage by fire of any property used in interstate commerce. Using surveillance footage and cell phone data, the FBI identified McIntire, who attends college in Boston, as the man who committed the arson.
“Let me be extremely clear to anyone who still wants to firebomb a Tesla property: you will not evade us,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “You will be arrested. You will be prosecuted. You will spend decades behind bars. It is not worth it.”
On March 17, a police officer <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1397151/dl?inline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">observed</a> smoke near the KC Tesla Showroom and found smoke coming from a Cybertruck. The officer put out the fire outside of the vehicle, but was unable to stop the burning of the Cybertruck, which also spread to another vehicle. Both vehicles were worth over $100,000.
Surveillance footage from nearby residences showed a suspect near the scene of the crime &#8220;wearing dark flowy clothing and a large, white-colored hat&#8221; believed by investigators to be McIntire, according to an affidavit provided to show probable cause. The FBI eventually matched the car seen near the scene, surveillance footage, and witness testimony to McIntire.
McIntrire is alleged to have carried out the attack while home on spring break from the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Tesla facilities and vehicles across the country have been targeted with vandalism and arson as part of backlash to Elon Musk&#8217;s involvement with the Department of Government Efficiency. The Justice Department is treating the attacks as instances of domestic terrorism.
“This is the second arrest this week of a suspect charged with targeting Tesla, more proof that the FBI will not stand for these destructive acts,” said FBI Director Kash Patel. “These actions are dangerous, they are illegal, and we are going to arrest those responsible.&#8221;
On Monday, the DOJ <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/domestic-terrorism-fbi-arrests-man-for-firebombing-new-mexico-tesla-showroom-gop-headquarters?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=8&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=‘Domestic+Terrorism’%3A+FBI+Arrests+Man+For+Firebombing+New+Mexico+Tesla+Showroom%2C+GOP+Headquarters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> the arrest of 40-year-old Jamison Wagner over arson attacks that targeted the headquarters of the Republican Party and a Tesla showroom in New Mexico. Wagner could face 40 years in prison if convicted.
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A federal housing agency referred leftist New York Attorney General Letitia James to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution over alleged actions to obtain more favorable loans on multiple properties she owned.
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte said in a letter to the DOJ on Monday that there was evidence that James falsified records over properties she owned in Virginia and Brooklyn, New York, to secure a lower mortgage rate for government-backed loans. Pulte said that James, who aggressively prosecuted Donald Trump during his last presidential campaign, should be investigated for wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud, and making false statements to a financial institution.
&#8220;Based on media reports, Ms. Letitia James has, in multiple instances, falsified bank documents and property records to acquire government backed assistance and loans and more favorable loan terms,&#8221; Pulte wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi. &#8220;This has potentially included 1) falsifying residence status for a Norfolk, Virginia-based home in order to secure a lower mortgage rate and 2) misrepresenting property descriptions to meet stringent requirements for government backed loans and government assistance.&#8221;
In August 2023, James reportedly listed her primary residence as the Norfolk property on federal mortgage documents even though she was &#8220;primarily residing in the state of New York&#8221; at the time and &#8220;required by law to have her primary residence in the state of New York&#8221; because of her statewide position, according to Pulte. 
&#8220;Primary residence mortgages receive more favorable loan terms, including lower interest rates, than secondary residence mortgages. Lenders view secondary residence mortgages as significantly riskier, as a borrower is more likely to continue paying off a primary residence mortgage during any financial hardship,&#8221; Pulte wrote. 
In the second example, Pulte said that James has listed a Brooklyn property she has owned since 2001 as having only four units, even though it has five.
&#8220;A building that exceeds four units must be treated as a multifamily property, and typically has larger down payment requirements and higher interest rates terms—with interest rates being between 0.75-1 percent higher—due to lenders viewing multifamily loans as significantly riskier,&#8221; he wrote. 
Pulte noted that he attached other documentation from 1983 that he said showed James and her father had signed a mortgage document as husband and wife, which he said &#8220;raised concerns about the validity&#8221; of her mortgage applications.
In response to the allegations, James accused the Trump administration of weaponizing the government.
“Attorney General James is focused every single day on protecting New Yorkers, especially as this Administration weaponizes the federal government against the rule of law and the Constitution. She will not be intimidated by bullies — no matter who they are,” she <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/04/15/us-news/trump-administration-refers-ny-ag-tish-james-for-prosecution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
James <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/04/16/us-news/letitia-james-dodges-questions-about-mortgage-fraud-scandal-outside-nyc-home-pretends-to-be-on-the-phone/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dodged</a> reporters on Wednesday morning as she left her house and held a phone up to her ear, the New York Post reported. She didn&#8217;t take any questions.
Last year, James <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-appeals-454-million-civil-fraud-judgment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">secured</a> a $454 million civil fraud judgment against Trump and got him banned from doing business in New York for three years for claims that he made misleading financial statements on property evaluations to banks to secure better terms on loans. During the trial, Trump&#8217;s defense stood by the evaluations and said that all the loans were repaid.
Republicans praised the Trump administration&#8217;s criminal prosecution referral, pointing to James&#8217; statements during her prosecution of Trump that &#8220;no one is above the law.&#8221;
&#8220;Letitia James engaged in some of the most shameful, partisan lawfare against President Trump—based on far less evidence than this,&#8221; Senator Tom Cotton posted on X. &#8220;No one is above the law.&#8221;

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