The FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office in Albany, New York, have reportedly begun a formal criminal investigation into the real estate and mortgage transactions of New York Democratic Attorney General Letitia James.
Last month, William J. Pulte, director of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency, sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi alleging that James might have “falsified bank documents and property records to acquire government backed assistance and loans and more favorable loan terms.” He said James had “potentially included … falsifying residence status for a Norfolk, Virginia-based home in order to secure a lower mortgage rate and … misrepresenting property descriptions to meet stringent requirements for government backed loans and government assistance.” He pointed out, “Primary residence mortgages receive more favorable loan terms, including lower interest rates, than secondary residence mortgages.”
Two weeks ago, James’ attorney, Abbe Lowell, wrote a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25913822-nyag-james-letter-to-ag-bondi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Bondi, stating, “I write to address the latest act of improper political retribution—this time directed at Ms. James—publicly instigated and endorsed by President Trump&#8230;. This so-called ‘Criminal Referral,’ which recycles long-disproven allegations and is ‘[b]ased on media reports’ lacks any credible foundation.”
“Mr. Trump has singled out Attorney General James dating back to her campaign in 2018, and ever more so during and after the trial and verdict in New York in which Mr. Trump and the Trump Organization were found liable for financial fraud and assessed a $454 million judgment,” Lowell claimed.
Lowell referred to what he called “baseless allegations,” saying:
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Director Pulte cherry-picked an August 17, 2023 power of attorney that mistakenly stated the property to be Ms. James’ principal residence and at the same time absolutely ignored her very clear and all caps statement two weeks earlier to the mortgage loan broker that “[t]his property WILL NOT be my primary residence[.] It will be Shamice’s primary residence.”  
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In 1983, James, then a recent college graduate, bought a Queens residence with her father, with some documents listing her as his “wife.’
“He asked his daughter (then a few years out of school) to help by allowing him to add her name to the mortgage application,” Lowell argued. “Mr. James filled out the mortgage material (wherein he described their relationship as being ‘spouses’) and purchased the home without his daughter’s involvement.”
“However, James, then 24 and a college graduate, signed the notarized mortgage, along with her father, on one of the document’s three pages that listed her as his ‘wife,’” the Times-Union <a href="https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/fbi-opens-formal-investigation-ny-attorney-20316868.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. “One of those references to her being her father’s ‘wife’ was just below her signature. Lending experts consulted by the Times Union said that by listing themselves as husband and wife, the pair may have qualified for a loan — or received better borrowing terms — than had they not been considered a couple due to income requirements.”
James led a prosecutorial effort to investigate Trump’s business dealings, which ended with a judge ordering him, his two sons, and a Trump company official to pay more than $360 million.

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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on Thursday morning that his office will charge Ryan Routh, who allegedly attempted to assassinate then-GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump on September 15, 2024, at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, with attempted murder and terrorism.
Uthmeier also asserted that the Biden administration had stonewalled the investigation into the matter, and that former President Joe Biden and former Attorney General Merrick Garland had “sought to frustrate our efforts and block our investigation.”
Trump was playing a round of golf on September 15 when Routh allegedly hid in a bush on the outside of the golf course with a semi-automatic rifle. The suspect was spotted by a Secret Service agent as Trump neared the would-be assassin’s hideout.
“On September 15, 2024, Ryan Routh attempted to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach,” Uthmeier declared. “Shortly after the assassination attempt, Governor DeSantis signed an executive order directing the Office of Attorney General to work with our law enforcement partners and investigate Mr. Routh.”
“After 206 days of stonewalling by the federal government that stemmed from days of the Biden administration, I’m able to now announce that my office is charging Mr. Routh for the attempted first-degree murder of President Trump as well as a charge for terrorism,” he stated. “My office, as well as our law-enforcement partners, were met with major roadblocks in prosecuting this case during Biden‘s term. Biden and his attorney general sought to frustrate our efforts and block our investigation into the man who crossed into this state and attempted to commit political violence against a Florida resident.”
“Thank God he was unsuccessful, and thank God we have Donald Trump as president again,” he stated, continuing, “The leadership of Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel was instrumental in preserving Florida’s sovereign authority to do what is right and bring justice where it is due. We now have a federal government willing to work together to pursue justice.”
“Attempting to take the life of a former president and a leading presidential candidate isn’t just an attack on one man,” he said. “This was a political attack against our republican form of government and our shared American values. We cannot allow justice to be delayed or denied, and thanks to the president, our U.S. Attorney General, and the FBI director, we are moving forward in our pursuit.”
“Our state-wide prosecutors will work to hold this evil man accountable and keep Florida safe, strong, and free,” he concluded.
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Today, my office is officially charging Ryan Routh for attempting to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump.
Thanks to the leadership of <a href="https://twitter.com/AGPamBondi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AGPamBondi</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/FBIDirectorKash?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FBIDirectorKash</a>, we now have a federal government willing to work with the states to pursue justice. <a href="https://t.co/HFuI2W4tdx">pic.twitter.com/HFuI2W4tdx</a>
&mdash; Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGJamesUthmeier/status/1910305585658024207?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Zach Jewell contributed to this article.

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Although Pam Bondi, President Donald Trump’s choice for U.S. Attorney General, has not yet been confirmed, the Trump Justice Department is wasting no time in weeding out members of the Department of Justice whom they think cannot be trusted to implement Trump’s agenda.
Acting Attorney General James McHenry <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-fires-more-than-a-dozen-doj-employees-you-played-a-significant-role-in-prosecuting-president-trump/">sent a letter</a> to more than a dozen officials connected to the Biden administration’s DOJ investigations into Trump informing them that they had been fired.
McHenry wrote:
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As President Trump declared on his first day in office, “The American people have witnessed the previous administration engage in a systematic campaign against its perceived political opponents, weaponizing the legal force of numerous Federal law enforcement agencies &#8230; against those perceived political opponents in the form of investigations, prosecutions, civil enforcement actions, and other related actions.” Nowhere was that effort more salient than in the unprecedented prosecutions the Department of Justice vigorously pursued against President Trump himself.
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“You played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump,” he continued. “The proper functioning of government critically depends on the trust superior officials place in their subordinates. Given your significant role in prosecuting the President, I do not believe that the leadership of the Department can trust you to assist in implementing the President’s agenda faithfully.”
The Biden DOJ investigated Trump repeatedly. In June 2022, federal agents went to Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago to search for more documents they thought Trump had taken from the White House after the National Archives had claimed it had obtained 15 boxes of presidential records Trump had taken there. In August 2022, FBI agents raided Mar-a-Lago to search for more documents.
In mid-November 2022, after Trump announced he would run for president in 2024, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith as special counsel to supervise the Justice Department&#8217;s criminal investigation into Trump’s alleged retention of national defense information and also an investigation into the attempts by some people to reverse the 2020 election.
In June 2023, Smith’s office issued a 37-count indictment against Trump regarding his alleged mishandling of classified documents. On July 1, 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump was entitled to presumptive immunity from prosecution for official acts he took while in office. In mid-July, Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the classified documents case on the grounds that Jack Smith&#8217;s appointment was unconstitutional because he was not appointed by the president or confirmed by Congress. Smith then appealed the decision, but after Trump was elected president in November 2024, Smith asked the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to pause his appeal, later asking them to dismiss it entirely.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city">New York</a> Police Department Commissioner Edward Caban resigned from his position on Thursday as the head of the world&#8217;s largest police department after his phone was seized by federal agents in a criminal investigation eight days ago.
&#8220;My complete focus has always been on the NYPD &#8211; the department and people I love and have dedicated over 30 years of service to,&#8221; Caban said in a statement. &#8220;However, the news around recent developments has created a distraction for our department, and I am unwilling to let my attention be on anything other than our important work, or the safety of the men and women of the NYPD.&#8221;
The investigation, at least in part, centers around a nightclub security business that is owned by Caban’s twin brother, James Caban, and whether he used his brother to &#8220;fix potential problems for clubs and bars,&#8221; The Washington Post reported. The probe is reportedly focusing on other police officials as well.
The criminal investigation is being conducted by the Southern District of New York, which focuses on government corruption cases, and the IRS.
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NYC Democratic Mayor Eric Adams, who is under criminal investigation over potential corruption stemming from actions involving the Turkish government, has seen numerous people in his orbit come under criminal investigation recently.
The FBI executed search warrants last week at the home of Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Philip Banks and a home shared by First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright and Schools Chancellor David Banks. Investigators seized phones belonging to Caban and Timothy Pearson, a senior adviser to the mayor. A consultant, Terence Banks, brother of Philip Banks and David Banks, was also searched.
The feds raided the home of Adams&#8217; director of Asian Affairs, Winnie Greco, earlier this year as part of a criminal probe run by the Eastern District of New York, the Times said. His former buildings commissioner, Eric Ulrich, faces bribery charges, and several donors to Adams’ campaign have been charged in a straw-donor scheme.
Adams <a href="https://abc7ny.com/post/nypd-commissioner-edward-caban-resigns-fbi-probe-nyc-eric-adams/15295366/">named</a> former FBI agent and former New York Homeland Security Director Tom Donlon as interim commissioner.
&#8220;My goals are clear: continue the historic progress decreasing crime and removing illegal guns from our communities, uphold the highest standards of integrity and transparency, and support our dedicated officers who put their lives on the line every day to keep us safe,&#8221; Donlon said in a statement.

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The man who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump used an alias to make &#8220;firearms-related purchases&#8221; and started taking firearms classes almost a year before he opened fire at Trump&#8217;s Pennsylvania rally, law enforcement sources told <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/07/29/us-news/thomas-crooks-used-alias-to-buy-gun-parts-a-year-before-trump-shooting-sources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a>.
The Post reported that beginning last spring, the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, made over 25 purchases from online gun stores using a fake name, according to the sources. Along with the firearms-related purchases, the would-be assassin bought six &#8220;chemical precursors&#8221; that authorities said he used to make explosive devices which were found in his car and at his home. It remains unknown if the shooter purchased any firearms through a fake name or if he only purchased ammunition or accessories.
The ongoing investigation into the assassination attempt has also revealed that Crooks was &#8220;highly intelligent,&#8221; and around September of 2023, he started taking firearms classes. The shooter practiced at a local shooting range with his father&#8217;s DPMS DR-15 a day before firing shots at the former president with the same weapon, the Post reported.
Trump was hit by one of the shooter&#8217;s bullets after the would-be assassin climbed onto the roof of the American Glass Research building and fired off eight shots from a position less than 150 yards away from the rally stage before he was killed by a Secret Service sniper. Three rally-goers were also struck by the spray bullets, and firefighter Corey Comperatore was killed in the shooting.
Text messages between members of the Beaver County SWAT team revealed that a sniper spotted the shooter more than 90 minutes before he fired at Trump, ABC News <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/07/29/trump-assassination-attempt-shooting-new-details/74586581007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Monday. The sniper texted the other SWAT members that he saw the shooter &#8220;sitting to the direct right on a picnic table about 50 yards from the exit.&#8221; Then, an hour before the shooting, sniper team member Gregory Nicol said he saw the shooter take a rangefinder out of his pocket. Nicol took a picture of the shooter and warned his team members of a suspicious man at the rally.
“He was looking up and down the building. It just seemed out of place,&#8221; Nicol told &#8220;<a href="https://x.com/GMA/status/1817888433978667364" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Good Morning America</a>.&#8221;
The local SWAT team was supposed to meet with the Secret Service before Trump&#8217;s rally, but that meeting never happened, according to sniper team leader Jason Woods.
&#8220;That was probably a pivotal point, where I started thinking things were wrong because (the meeting) never happened,&#8221; Woods said. &#8220;We had no communication &#8230; not until after the shooting.&#8221;

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On April 24th, a team of FDA-supported scientists published a new study in <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2818033" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JAMA Pediatrics</a> investigating serious adverse events associated with mRNA vaccines in children.
This comprehensive and well-constructed cohort study focused on post-market surveillance of the COVID vaccines in over 4 million children, confirming the well-documented risk of myocarditis — inflammation of the heart muscle — in adolescents 12-17 who take the mRNA COVID vaccines.
However, the most shocking finding was the discovery of a new safety signal which hadn&#8217;t been reported before:
<blockquote>&#8220;In the primary analysis, seizure met the statistical threshold for a signal in children aged 2 to 4 years after BNT162b2 vaccination in all 3 databases and in children aged 2 to 5 years after mRNA-1273 vaccination in 2 of the 3 databases.&#8221;</blockquote>
In other words, the study authors found a statistically significant signal of seizures in children aged 2 to 4 years after the Pfizer vaccine and children 2 to 5 years after the Moderna vaccine.
&#8220;The statistical signal for seizure in children aged 2 to 4 or 5 years has not been previously reported for this age group in active surveillance studies of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines,&#8221; the study states.
More specifically, the study finds a significantly elevated risk of seizures after doses one and two of the Pfizer vaccine in kids ages 2 to 4 and dose two of the Moderna vaccine for kids ages 2 to 5. It&#8217;s worth noting, if this finding was merely incidental and unrelated, it wouldn&#8217;t have been found for both mRNA vaccines. Moreover, the scientists note they couldn&#8217;t identify any &#8220;data quality concerns&#8221; that would compromise or bias the results.
The true scale of seizures caused by mRNA vaccines in kids across the United States (and other countries) is unclear, but it is likely quite concerning.
<h3>1 In 5,000 Risk Of Seizures In Kids Following Vaccination</h3>
To be clear, the absolute number of seizures caused is not alarmingly high. According to the limited data, the rate of vaccine-related seizures in young kids is approximately 1 in 5,000. Put differently, .02% of mRNA-injected kids developed seizures in the first couple of weeks following vaccination.
While it is true this is an extremely small absolute figure, critics are wrong to view such risks as &#8220;rare&#8221; and trivial because the vaccine does not confer any significant benefit in young kids to outweigh such risks. In other words, compared to the extremely low risk of COVID in young children, even a very small number of seizures would sway the risk-benefit analysis towards not getting vaccinated.
The study identifies 72 seizures in kids following vaccination. What benefit did those kids seek to attain? They had a survival rate of more than <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.11.22280963v1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">99.9997%</a> (this statistic is for ages 0 to 19, not 2 to 5 which the seizure signal has appeared in. The survival rate in younger groups would be far higher.)
As my colleague Jay Bhattacharya elaborated, &#8220;the benefits are likely to be small in these groups since nearly 100% of individuals in these groups have already had covid and recovered.&#8221; &#8220;Such recovered immunity provides stronger protection against severe disease on reinfection than the vaccine,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;Even for the first infection, the risk of death from covid infection for adolescents and toddlers is incredibly low,&#8221; he explained.
Yet, the study bizarrely states that &#8220;The US Food and Drug Administration concludes that the known and potential benefits of COVID-19 vaccination outweigh the known and potential risks of COVID-19 infection.&#8221;
How does that make sense when the study itself does not conduct any assessment of the health benefits and harms of the COVID vaccine for toddlers or adolescents?
<h3>My Correspondence With The FDA</h3>
Stunned by the incongruous conclusion of the study, I decided to contact the FDA to ask them how they continue to support COVID vaccination in children absent any supportive risk-reward analyses. I ended up getting in touch with an FDA spokesperson.
To their credit, they decided to engage with me on this contentious topic. I did not expect that. Here was their response to my question on unproven COVID vaccine safety in children: 
<blockquote>&#8220;The focus of this manuscript was the safety of the Ancestral Monovalent BNT162b2, mRNA-1273, and NVX-CoV2373 COVID-19 vaccines in U.S. children aged 6 Months to 17 years, so we focused on the fact that the vaccine was safe.&#8221;</blockquote>
Wait, what?
I had to read this over a couple of times because I was so perplexed by this sentence.
The explicitly stated objective of the study was &#8220;To conduct near-real-time monitoring of health outcomes after COVID-19 vaccination in the US pediatric population.&#8221;
As a result, they decided to focus on the opinion, not &#8220;fact,&#8221; that &#8220;the vaccine was safe&#8221;?
This is essentially like saying, &#8220;The focus of our work was to clean the house so we focused on the fact that the house was clean.&#8221; Unless I&#8217;m tripping, my BS meter was already ringing. Only to make matters worse, they went on to say:
<blockquote>&#8220;The benefits of the vaccine have been reported elsewhere, which include, but are not limited to the reduced incidence of medically diagnosed and hospital and emergency department diagnosed COVID-19, as reported here: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11047006/">Effectiveness of BNT162b2 COVID-19 primary series vaccination in children aged 5–17 years in the United States: a cohort study &#8211; PMC (nih.gov)</a>.&#8221;</blockquote>
This cited study has numerous issues. For one, the study population is 5 to 17-year-olds, not 2 to 5-year-olds which is the cohort for whom the risk of seizures was found. So how can the FDA use this as their primary evidentiary source to support vaccination in young kids?
Moreover, the cited study on vaccine effectiveness in children aged 5 &#8211; 17 may be severely compromised by incidental COVID cases. A number of estimates <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11027788/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have shown</a> that 40 &#8211; 60% of COVID hospitalizations are incidental (the cause of the hospitalization was unrelated to the positive COVID test result).
Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg, epidemiologist and vaccine myocarditis researcher, stated, &#8220;Even for that tiny numerical difference in rates most of those are probably incidental hospitalizations and so the chance to benefit is so small and could easily all be explained by transient healthy vaccine effect mostly attributable to hospitalization with and not for covid.&#8221;
&#8220;We would have needed a very large randomized study among children to know what the real effect, if any, of the vaccine was. I would not rely on the results of this study,&#8221; she added.
I emailed back the FDA, highlighting these concerns, and they took a few days because the spokesperson was working on the response (I followed up a couple of times). I thought they were going to address my concerns point by point with honest transparency.
Well, they fooled me.
I got an email back from the FDA with the most frustratingly cookie-cutter, generic response possible:
<blockquote>“The FDA is confident in the safety and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines approved or authorized for use in the U.S. The vaccines’ benefit-risk profiles are well understood and demonstrate that the known and potential benefits for individuals 6 months of age and older outweigh their risks.
With over a billion doses administered, we have data from real-world use of these vaccines demonstrating that the benefits of getting vaccinated, which include a clear reduction in hospitalization and death, outweigh potential risks.
Further information related to the FDA’s conclusions regarding benefit-risk assessment can be found within the respective decision and review memoranda available on FDA’s website here.”</blockquote>
And that&#8217;s that.
This is an illustrative, real-time example of what I told Russell Brand once &#8220;when the narrative trumps the facts.&#8221; They initially engaged with me, seemingly in earnest, but we came to a point where I was questioning the unquestionable. I collided with the sacred orthodoxy of &#8220;vaccines are safe and effective for kids&#8221; driven by a toxic cocktail of political, financial, pharmaceutical, and quasi-scientific institutional interests.
The plain reality is COVID vaccines were never necessary or proven to be safe and effective to administer in children on a mass scale.
Even the most zealous mRNA advocates admitted, when faced with pediatric vaccine hesitancy, that the primary purpose of vaccinating young kids was to protect adults and the elderly.
This was a fundamental error from the start because dosing kids with the mRNAs was nothing as safe as dosing them with apple sauce or vitamin D. There were serious safety concerns from the start, some substantiated by the data and others unclear, but the FDA and the CDC should have never mass-recommended the COVID vaccines as an urgent, essential intervention for children who had a near-zero infection fatality rate.
The true scale of harm from seizures and other serious adverse events is unknown. As Johns Hopkins researcher Dr. Marty Makary once said, &#8220;A baby can&#8217;t tell you they have myocarditis&#8221; (let alone subclinical myocarditis which does not produce any symptoms).
<h3>“Child Sacrifice”</h3>
Coincidentally,  Joe Rogan recently <a href="https://youtu.be/0r23Hzu6VPw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brought up</a> the travesty of mass mRNA child vaccination in a conversation with comedian Deric Poston, and referred to it as a “child sacrifice.”
Provocative but far from hyperbolic, that is exactly how public health treated children. In the name of &#8220;protecting the elderly&#8221; or &#8220;herd immunity,&#8221; they neglected and sacrificed the health of young children, who had the least to gain and most to suffer, with the experimental mRNA shots.
As we are finding out now, the potentiality of harm that was feared by the unhinged &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221; (which is what I thought), is coming to bear as more and more serious side effects emerge and indict the corrupt regulatory agencies and public health authorities who pushed the shots with unwavering religious zeal.
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Rav Arora is a 22-year-old journalist based in Vancouver covering free speech, Big Pharma, Covid mandates, and totalitarianism. His work has appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience, The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, and The Ben Shapiro Show, among other major platforms. Follow his Substack newsletter with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: <a href="https://www.illusionconsensus.com/">The Illusion Of Consensus.</a>
This article originally appeared on Substack on &#8220;<a href="https://www.illusionconsensus.com/p/new-fda-study-reports-elevated-post">Illusion of Consensus</a>.&#8221;
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A report says that the New York City Fire Department will try to discover exactly which firefighters booed New York Attorney General Letitia James at a graduation ceremony last Thursday.
James, who had targeted former President Donald Trump with a civil business fraud suit, spoke at a swearing-in ceremony of first responders.
“Oh, c’mon, we’re in a house of God,” James said to the firefighters booing her. “Simmer down.”
Shortly after the boos stopped, James’ speech was interrupted by chants of “Trump! Trump! Trump!”
“Nobody is hunting anyone down,” the FDNY said in a statement, <a href="https://abc7ny.com/nyc-letitia-james-booed-fdny-boo-firefighters/14512073/">according</a> to ABC7. “We&#8217;re looking into those who clearly broke department regulations. It has nothing to do with politics, it&#8217;s about professionalism at an official event held in a house of worship.”
FDNY Chief of Department John Hodges sent an email to other chiefs at the FDNY saying the department’s Bureau of Investigation and Trials was looking into which people had booed James and chanted “Trump” at the event, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/09/us-news/fdny-boss-laura-kavanagh-hunts-down-staffers-who-booed-ny-ag-letitia-james-cheered-for-trump-at-promotion-ceremony/">reported.</a>  “BITS is investigating this, so they will figure out who the members are. I recommend they come forward. I have been told by the commissioner it will be better for them if they come forward and we don’t have to hunt them down. The [deputy chiefs] shall direct the captain of the company to make a list of those who come forward and send it directly to [FDNY operations]. I realize members might not come forward but they should know that there is clear video of the entire incident and they will be contacted by BITS if they don’t.”
Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz harshly criticized the FDNY’s effort to identify the booers, saying, “Firefighters have an absolute constitutional right to boo the attorney general, and the government has no power to punish them for it. So efforts to get the names of the booers is an effort by the government to chill free speech and is unconstitutional.”
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Meanwhile, the Uniformed Fire Officers Association warned its members that the FDNY had “possession of video footage of the event. &#8230; As part of this discussion, questions may be asked to specific UFOA members over their actions or their recollections.’’
“The union advised members to follow FDNY regulations but to contact the UFOA for legal representation if they feel they are the subject of an investigation,” the Post noted.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/letitia-james-booed-during-speech-at-firefighters-ceremony-met-with-chants-of-trump">Letitia James Booed During Speech At Firefighters Ceremony, Met With Chants Of &#8216;Trump&#8217;</a>

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As he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-shows-up-to-capitol-defies-subpoena-for-house-deposition" target="_blank" rel="noopener">skipped a closed-door deposition</a> House Republicans had scheduled for Wednesday to ask him questions, Hunter Biden — whose illegitimate daughter was repeatedly ignored by the White House and Biden’s family despite a test proving Hunter Biden to be the child’s father — spoke to the press, complaining that the Republicans who are investigating him “have no shame.”
“We’re disappointed that he didn’t show up,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan <a href="https://twitter.com/NEWSMAX/status/1734959111064748360">said.</a> “He was just across the way at the Capitol. You’d think he could have come here and sat for questions. You do it in an open format now, you’re gonna get filibusters; you’re gonna get speeches; you’re gonna get all kinds of things. What we want is the facts, and the way you get the facts in every single investigation I’ve been involved in, is you bring people in for an interview behind closed doors where you can get those facts.”
Biden addressed reporters outside the Capitol Building Wednesday morning, criticizing Republicans for their investigations into his foreign business dealings and President Joe Biden&#8217;s alleged involvement.
“Good morning. I’m here today to answer at a public hearing any legitimate questions Chairman Comer and the House Oversight Committee may have for me. I’m here today to make sure that the House committee’s illegitimate investigations of my family do not proceed on distortions, manipulated evidence, and lies,” he began. “And I’m here today to acknowledge I’ve made mistakes in my life, in wasted opportunities and privileges I was afforded. For that, I’m responsible. For that, I’m accountable, and for that, I’m making amends.”
Then Biden attacked the “MAGA-Right”: “But I’m also here today to correct how the MAGA-right has portrayed me for their political purposes. I am first and foremost a son, a father, a brother, and a husband from a loving and supportive family. I’m proud to have earned degrees from Georgetown University and Yale Law School; I’m proud of my legal career and business career. I’m proud of my time serving on a dozen different boards of directors and I’m proud of my efforts to forge global business relationships.”
Biden played the victim card: “For six years, MAGA Republicans, including members of the House committees who are in a closed-door session right now, have impugned my character, invaded my privacy, attacked my wife, my children, my family, and my friends. They have ridiculed my struggle with addiction, they have belittled my recovery, and they have tried to dehumanize me, all to embarrass the image of my father, who has devoted his entire life to public service. For six years I have been the target of the unrelenting Trump attack machine, shouting, ‘Where’s Hunter?’”
“Well, here’s my answer,&#8221; he boasted. “I am here. Let me state as clearly as I can: My father was not financially involved in my business, not as a practicing lawyer, not as a board member of Burisma, not in my partnership with a Chinese private businessman, not in my investments at home nor abroad and certainly not as an artist.”
Biden turned to his addiction again: “During my battle with addiction, my parents were there for me. They literally saved my life. They helped me in ways I will never be able to repay. And of course they would never expect me to. And in the depths of my addiction, I was extremely irresponsible with my finances, but to suggest that is grounds for an impeachment inquiry is beyond the absurd. It’s shameless.”
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“There is no evidence to support the allegations that my father was financially involved in my business because it did not happen,” he reiterated. “James Comer, Jim Jordan, Jason Smith, and their colleagues have distorted the facts by cherry-picking lines from a bank statement, manipulating texts I sent, editing the testimony of my friends and business partners, and misstating personal information that was stolen from me. There is no fairness or decency in what these Republicans are doing. They have lied, over and over, about every aspect of my personal and professional life; so much so that their lies have become the false facts believed by too many people.&#8221;
“No matter how many times it is debunked, they continue to insist that my father’s support of Ukraine against Russia is a result of a non-existent bribe. They displayed naked photos of me during an oversight hearing. And they have taken the light of my dad’s love, the light of my dad’s love for me and presented it as darkness. They have no shame!” he declared.
“These same committee chairmen have engaged in unprecedented political interference in what would have already been a five-year investigation of me. Yet here I am Mr. Chairman, taking up your offer, when you said, ‘We can bring these people in for depositions or committee hearings; whichever they choose,” Biden said. “Well, I’ve chosen. I am here to testify at a public hearing today to answer any of the committee’s legitimate questions. Republicans do not want an open process where Americans can see their tactics, expose their baseless inquiry, or hear what I have to say. What are they afraid of?”
Ignoring his refusal to attend the closed-door deposition, he boasted, “I’m here. I’m ready.”
“Mr. Biden’s counsel and the White House have both argued that the reason he couldn’t come for a deposition was because there wasn’t a formal vote for an impeachment inquiry,” Jordan said. “Well, that’s gonna happen in a few hours; we think it’s gonna pass. We think the House of Representatives will go on record with the power that solely resides in the House to say we are in an official impeachment inquiry phase of our oversight. And when that happens, we’ll see what their excuse is then.”
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Hunter Biden Addresses Being Called To Testify To House Oversight Committee On Capitol Hill

Hunter Biden Says GOP Leaders Investigating Him ‘Have No Shame.’ Then He Skips Closed-Door Deposition.

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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH), who also serves on the House Oversight Committee, harshly criticized the Department of Justice naming U.S. Attorney David Weiss Special Counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation.
CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan asked Turner if he had “confidence in him and his ability to conclude this in a fair way.”
“Obviously, there are concerns,&#8221; Turner responded. “I also looked at the appointment and the appointment seems more narrow than what Bill Barr had given him. &#8230; It is limited to the case that was brought before him initially, that that’s the scope, instead of all of the matters related to unpaid taxes.”
Then Turner targeted his central criticism, saying, “The concern here, obviously, with Weiss being Special Counsel is that he was the one that allowed the statute limitations to expire on some very critical felony charges that could have been brought against Hunter Biden.”
“Why would he have done that?” Brennan queried.
“The IRS whistleblower said that it was interference from the Department of Justice,” Turner answered. “There&#8217;s some question as to whether or not it&#8217;s a prosecutorial misconduct, but it certainly could be a prosecutorial malpractice. In any event, when you&#8217;ve been given the charge to handle claims of such explosive nature and allow the statute of limitations to expire, resulting in &#8211; you know, Hunter Biden has in his pocket $125,000 worth of taxes that were owed to the United States that, as a result of these being expired, remain in his pocket.”
Brennan then argued that Republicans seemed to be alleging that a conspiracy allowed the statute of limitations to expire, saying, “Why would a U.S. attorney appointed by President Trump working under a Republican Attorney General with career prosecutors have that level of conspiracy?”
“That’s not conspiracy. That actually occurred,” Turner noted of the expiration.
“Deliberately allow for the statute of limitations to pass?” Brennan pressed.
“I think those are questions he has to answer and why did this occur.” Turner said of Weiss.  Then he sharpened his attack: “The IRS whistleblowers said that it was interference from the Department of Justice that allowed them to expire. The prosecutor, Weiss, had been working with Hunter Biden and his attorney and actually been getting waivers for types of limitations period and he stopped getting the waivers. So he certainly was knowledgeable, aware that it was going to be expiring and then something occurred where he allowed those to expire.”
“But, you know, also his appointment is coming right on the heels of James Comer’s release of bank records that indicate that we’re now up to $20 million worth of funds that came from foreign sources &#8230; the bank records are right on the website of the House Oversight Committee over $20 million, released August 9, that went to Hunter Biden and his family and business associates that come from China, Russia,” Turner asserted. “You know, as Chairman of the Intelligence Committee, serving on the Armed Services Committee, this is of great concern, because you have foreign individuals that are making payments to the son of the vice president, now son of the president, and obviously they’re buying something. They weren’t buying his business advice; they were buying influence.”
When Brennan argued that Hunter Biden’s attorney had claimed to her that no crime had been substantiated on that front, then smiled, “He has a different standard than members of Congress because what you do is political and he has to meet a legal benchmark in court as with those Justice Department prosecutors,” Turner fired back, “I think what he just did was actually very political. He’s not in court when he’s on your show.”
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‘Those Are Questions He Has To Answer’: Top GOP Rep Targets DOJ Special Counsel Investigating Hunter Biden

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A Democrat Congressman from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/maryland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maryland</a> excoriated Republicans for their investigation into how the Department of Justice and FBI handled the Hunter Biden investigation, declaring that those agencies, as well as the IRS, “keep this democracy in check.”
Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) spoke during the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the Biden family.
“We’re spending our time talking about Hunter Biden, someone who has already pleaded guilty to not filing his taxes, having a gun charge, and now I hear also paying for prostitution,” Mfume noted.
“Now, here’s what galls me,” he fumed. “I don’t like these attacks on the Department of Justice, the FBI, the IRS, as if they are somehow anti-U.S. agencies. Those agencies keep this democracy in check. They provide the checks and they provide the balance.”
As he concluded his time before the committee, he snapped, “This is ludicrous. Beam me up, Scotty. There’s no intelligent life down here. None.”
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Democrat Rep. Kweisi Mfume claims the DOJ, FBI, and IRS exist to &quot;keep this democracy in check&quot;:
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The hearing featured two IRS whistleblowers, special agent Joseph Ziegler and his supervisor Gary Shapley, testifying on the ongoing investigation into the Biden family, alleging there had been obstruction.
Shapley told Rep. Kelly Armstrong (R-ND) of his attempt to interview Hunter Biden in December 2020: “The FBI, SSA and I were assigned with interviewing Hunter Biden that day. The day previous we went to the FBI LA field office and asked the special agent in charge to contact the Secret Service special agent in charge for the LA field office at 8 a.m. on the morning of December 8 and tell them that two agents were going to approach Hunter Biden as part of an official investigation. The night before, all of that changed.”
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“And all of that changed because FBI headquarters and Secret Service headquarters coordinated and that information had gotten out to everybody the night before,” Armstrong added. “There was another group of people that was made aware of that the night before, wasn’t there.”
“That’s correct,” Shapley answered.
“And that would be the transition team,” Armstrong finished.
“That’s correct,” Shapley agreed.
“They have any special investigative powers I don’t know about?” Armstrong asked.
“Not that I would know of,” Shapley replied.
“Last question: did you ever get to interview Hunter Biden?” Armstrong asked.
“We did not,” Shapley replied.

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DOJ, FBI, IRS ‘Keep This Democracy In Check’: Democrat Snaps During Biden Family Investigation

DOJ, FBI, IRS 'Keep This Democracy In Check': Democrat Snaps During Biden Family Investigation

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An FBI attorney warned an agent-turned-whistleblower who investigated Hunter Biden not to respond to certain questions from the GOP-run House Oversight Committee, which is looking into claims the bureau and the Department of Justice deliberately undermined their own case against the president&#8217;s son.
FBI general counsel Jason Jones sent the letter Sunday to the unnamed agent, just hours before the agent was expected to testify. The committee is looking into claims that the investigation that led to what some say was a lenient plea deal being offered to Hunter Biden on tax and gun charges was fixed.
“Specifically, the Committee has stated an interest in what the Committee has described to you as certain events that took place in December 2020 as part of this investigation,” Jones wrote, per the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/18/fbi-told-hunter-biden-agent-to-duck-house-committee-questions/">New York Post</a>. “Department officials, including those who have left the Department, are obligated to protect non-public information they learned in the course of their work. Such information could be subject to various privileges, including law enforcement, deliberative process, attorney work product, and attorney-client privileges, and privacy interests.”
After noting that “obligations under the law and Department policy” barred the agent from disclosing “classified information, sources and methods,” protected grand jury information, protected taxpayer information, and deliberative processes underlying investigative and prosecutorial decisions, Jones added a warning.
&#8220;The Department expects that you will decline to respond to questions seeking non-public information likely covered by one or more components of executive privilege or other significant confidentiality interests, in particular information about deliberations or ongoing investigative activity in law enforcement matters,&#8221; he wrote.
The agent should defer to the FBI’s Office of Congressional Affairs, the letter instructed. That would give the DOJ a chance to balance the Committee’s legitimate need for information &#8220;while protecting Executive Branch confidentiality interests,” he wrote.
TheHouse Oversight Committee revealed on Monday that an FBI special agent had confirmed allegations by two IRS whistleblowers that the Secret Service headquarters and the Biden transition team were tipped off in December 2020 in advance of the IRS and FBI criminal investigators’ interview with Hunter Biden.
“As a result of the change in plans, IRS and FBI criminal investigators never got to interview Hunter Biden as part of the investigation,&#8221; the committee said in a statement. &#8220;The former FBI supervisory special agent told committee investigators he had never been told to wait outside to be contacted by the subject of an investigation. The agent&#8217;s testimony is sickening and reveals the lengths to which the DOJ is willing to go to cover up for the Bidens.”
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Today, our committee staff conducted a transcribed interview with a former FBI supervisory special agent assigned to the FBI’s Wilmington office and the Biden criminal investigation.
The agent CONFIRMED key portions of the IRS whistleblowers’ testimony, including…
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The letter from Jones was routine, an FBI spokesperson told The New York Post.
“These are called authorization letters and are standard practice,” the spokesperson said.
But a different source called the letter “more uncommon,” citing the fact that it was sent at the last minute.

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FBI Lawyer Warns Agent: Don’t Respond To GOP Questions About Hunter Biden Investigation

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