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.
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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;:
&quot;They provide the checks and they provide the balances!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/1vGZpsorYb">pic.twitter.com/1vGZpsorYb</a>
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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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The target letter that former President Donald Trump says that he received over the weekend in special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s federal criminal investigation into his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election mentions three statutes that the former president may have violated.
ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/special-counsel-informs-trump-target-probe-efforts-overturn/story?id=101404037&amp;cid=social_twitter_abcn">reported</a> that multiple sources confirmed to the publication that the three federal statutes include: conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud the United States, deprivation of rights under color of law, and tampering with a witness, victim or an informant.
The letter does not give any details of how prosecutors believe that Trump may have violated the laws, the report said.
The report added that Trump&#8217;s allies and lawyers have been contacting everyone they know in Trump&#8217;s orbit who also could have received a target letter and it appears only Trump has received one.
“Deranged Jack Smith, the prosecutor with Joe Biden’s DOJ, sent a letter (again, it was Sunday night!) stating that I am a TARGET of the January 6th Grand Jury investigation, and giving me a very short 4 days to report to the Grand Jury, which almost always means an Arrest and Indictment,” Trump wrote on social media on Tuesday.
Smith was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in November to investigate both Trump’s handling of sensitive documents and his alleged efforts to overturn the election. The Washington grand jury is believed to be looking into Trump’s conduct in the time between the 2020 election and Jan. 6, 2021.
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The grand jury meeting in in Washington’s E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse is believed to have heard from Trump’s vice president, Mike Pence, as well as Pence’s former chief of staff. Marc Short; former Director of the Office of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe; White House lawyers Patrick Philbin and Pat Cipollone and several others.
Greg Wilson contributed to this report.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vanderbilt-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vanderbilt University Medical Center</a> (VUMC) has turned over gender clinic patients’ medical records to the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office, which confirmed on Tuesday it is investigating the hospital for potential medical billing fraud.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti’s office confirmed on Tuesday that it was investigating the embattled medical center that recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vanderbilt-pediatric-transgender-clinic-terminates-gender-affirming-care-before-tennessee-law-takes-effect-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ceased</a> providing cross sex hormones to and performing sex-change surgeries on minors in compliance with a new Tennessee law set to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-isnt-backing-down-from-trans-surgery-ban-even-if-a-federal-judge-imposes-an-injunction" target="_blank" rel="noopener">take effect</a> on July 1.
&#8220;VUMC received requests from the Office of the Tennessee Attorney General as part of its investigation seeking information about transgender care at VUMC,” John Howser, a spokesman for VUMC, told <a href="https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2023/06/20/vanderbilt-university-m-turns-over-transgender-patient-medical-records-to-tennessee-attorney-general/70338356007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Tennessean</a> in a statement. “The Tennessee Attorney General has legal authority in an investigation to require that VUMC provide complete copies of patient medical records that are relevant to its investigation. VUMC was obligated to comply and did so.&#8221;
Generally, Tennessee law mandates that medical records be kept confidential, but because Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is conducting an investigation into the medical center’s practices, he has the legal authority to pursue the records, according to Paul Hales, an attorney who specializes in health privacy.
VUMC informed families of their turning over medical records to the state, prompting concern among families over their children’s privacy. Chris Sanders, executive director of the <a href="https://www.tnep.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tennessee Equality Project</a>, a far-Left LGBTQ interest group whose Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/tnequality?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slogan</a> is “Taking on Tennessee’s Slate of Hate,” said several parents of trans-identifying children called him in a panic since they received the notification from VUMC on Monday.
“They’re terrified,” he said. “They don’t know what’s next, they don’t know how this will be used or whether they will be targeted in some way. They feel like their privacy has been violated.” Sanders went on to say that many are upset at VUMC for “not fight[ing] harder” against the state.
Despite the fear Sanders reports, VUMC clearly informs patients that the center may share their information with law enforcement and “other officials … as authorized or required by law” or for “lawsuits and disputes.”
Tennessee AG Chief of Staff Brandon Smith told The Tennessean that the investigation is purely about Vanderbilt’s billing practices and not about the patients themselves, saying the AG’s office was “surprised that VUMC has deliberately chosen to frighten its patients like this.”
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&#8220;The Office does not publicize fraud investigations to preserve the integrity of the investigative process. The Office maintains patient records in the strictest confidence, as required by law,” Smith added. “The investigation is focused solely on VUMC and certain related providers, not patients, as VUMC is well aware.”
The investigation into VUMC comes after a heated legislative session earlier this year when Tennessee Republicans <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-tennessee-introduces-legislation-to-ban-trans-treatments-for-minors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">moved</a> to prevent sex change procedures and hormones from being prescribed to minors, legislation prompted by The Daily Wire’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/huge-money-maker-video-reveals-vanderbilts-shocking-gender-care-threats-against-dissenting-doctors" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation</a> into VUMC’s gender clinic.

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Hunter Biden&#8217;s plea deal to federal tax and gun charges will have no impact on a House probe into the alleged international bribery schemes of him and his father, President Joe Biden, a key lawmaker cowed Tuesday.
Shortly after news of the no-jail plea deal with the U.S. Attorney for Delaware, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-KY) made it clear his investigation of the Biden family will continue apace.
“Let&#8217;s be clear: the Department of Justice&#8217;s charges against President Biden&#8217;s son Hunter reveals a two-tiered system of justice,” Comer said. “Hunter Biden is getting away with a slap on the wrist when growing evidence uncovered by the House Oversight Committee reveals the Bidens engaged in a pattern of corruption, influence peddling, and possibly bribery. These charges against Hunter Biden and sweetheart plea deal have no impact on the Oversight Committee&#8217;s investigation. We will not rest until the full extent of President Biden&#8217;s involvement in the family&#8217;s schemes are revealed.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/20/hunter-biden-plea-deal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>, Hunter Biden will plead guilty to failing to pay about $100,000 in taxes for 2017 and for failing to pay a similar amount for 2018. He will also admit the facts of a gun charge in a deal negotiated with Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss.
“The defendant has agreed to enter a Pretrial Diversion Agreement with respect to the firearm Information,” federal prosecutors wrote, which would permit Biden to avoid pleading guilty.
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Hunter Biden is getting away with a slap on the wrist when growing evidence uncovered by the House Oversight Committee reveals the Bidens engaged in a pattern of corruption, influence peddling, and possibly bribery.
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“I know Hunter believes it is important to take responsibility for these mistakes he made during a period of turmoil and addiction in his life,” one of Biden’s attorneys, Chris Clark, stated, adding, “He looks forward to continuing his recovery and moving forward” and calling the investigation into his client “resolved.”
Comer over the weekend described the next steps he plans to take in the House Oversight Committee’s investigation. That committee has uncovered numerous banking records allegedly showing the Biden family set up more than 20 shell companies to move millions of dollars from foreign sources. Comer and Sen. Charles Grassley, (R-IA), have also pressed a reluctant FBI to admit that it has a form detailing a confidential informant&#8217;s highly detailed description of how as much as $10 million was paid to the Biden by a Ukraine oligarch while Joe Biden was vice president.
“We&#8217;re going to start bringing in key figures in the Biden family influence-peddling schemes for depositions and I think we&#8217;re on the right track, even though we&#8217;re having to fight the FBI, fight the DOJ [Department of Justice], fight the Democrats in Congress and fight the mainstream media.”
“I think we&#8217;ve done as much as we could do with the obstacles we&#8217;ve had to overcome. No one thought I would get bank records,” Comer, who has issued <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/13/politics/hunter-biden-associates-bank-records-subpoena/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">subpoenas for bank records</a>, said. “No one thought we would get access to the Treasury, Cabinet&#8217;s suspicious activity reports, but we would not take &#8216;no&#8217; for an answer. &#8230; We kept fighting and we prevailed. When we got access to the suspicious activity reports, the mainstream media said there was nothing there.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-biden-reaches-plea-deal-over-tax-crimes-report">Hunter Biden Reaches Plea Deal Over Tax Crimes: Report</a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/comer-plans-to-bring-in-key-witnesses-in-biden-family-probe">Comer Plans To Bring In &#8216;Key Witnesses&#8217; In Biden Family Probe</a>

James Comer

‘We Will Not Rest’: Comer Vows Hunter’s Plea Deal Won’t Stop Biden Corruption Probe

Politics

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said he&#8217;s lost track of the informant who was the source for the investigation into alleged corruption centered around President Joe Biden and his family.
The informant is the source for a whistleblower who informed Comer about an alleged <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whistleblower-alleges-fbi-has-evidence-of-biden-engaging-in-bribery-scheme-with-foreign-national" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bribery scheme</a>.
Appearing on &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; on Fox News, Comer said at least nine of the ten whistleblowers with knowledge of the situation are &#8220;either currently in court, they’re currently in jail, or they’re currently missing.&#8221;
&#8220;Well unfortunately, we can&#8217;t track down the informant,&#8221; Comer told host Maria Bartiromo. &#8220;We&#8217;re hopeful that the informant is still there. The whistleblower knows the informant, the whistleblower is very credible.&#8221;
&#8220;Hold on a second, Congressman,&#8221; Bartiromo interjected. &#8220;Did you just say that the informant is now missing?&#8221;
&#8220;Well we&#8217;re hopeful that we can find the informant,&#8221; Comer repeated. &#8220;Now remember, these informants are kind of in the spy business, so they don&#8217;t make a habit of being seen a lot or being high-profile or anything like that. We have basic information with respect to what the informant has alleged, and it&#8217;s very serious.&#8221;
&#8220;Are there whistleblowers or informants missing right now?&#8221; asked Bartiromo.
“Well, with what we&#8217;ve investigated, and the people that we&#8217;ve tracked down, going back to the (CEFC China Energy), the two main players in that business, as well as all the Americans that were involved in the different Biden influence peddling schemes, as well as the Serbian national, nine of the ten people that we’ve identified that have knowledge with respect to the Biden&#8217;s, they’re one of three things, Maria. They’re either currently in court, they’re currently in jail, or they’re currently missing.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/JamesComer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JamesComer</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/MariaBartiromo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MariaBartiromo</a> 9 out of 10 people that knows about Biden’s corrupt business deals is either in court, in jail, or missing. <a href="https://t.co/xaqIqMYgqd">pic.twitter.com/xaqIqMYgqd</a>
— The Dirty Truth (Josh) (@AKA_RealDirty) <a href="https://twitter.com/AKA_RealDirty/status/1657756100458950656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
&#8220;So it&#8217;s of the utmost importance that the FBI work with us to be able to try to identify what investigations they&#8217;ve done, because we have people that want to come forward, but honestly Maria, they fear for their lives. Not only are the Biden lawyers and the Biden White House intimidating them, the media is trying to intimidate and discredit them.&#8221;
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&#8220;Who in the White House is intimidating them, do you know?&#8221; asked Bartiromo.
&#8220;I do know. We&#8217;re saving that for a later time,&#8221; said Comer.

Comer Says He ‘Can’t Track Down The Informant’ In Biden Family Investigation

Comer Says He 'Can't Track Down The Informant' In Biden Family Investigation 

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Whistleblowers

Former Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-pence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Pence</a> called the Manhattan District Attorney&#8217;s investigation into former President Donald Trump a &#8220;politically charged prosecution.&#8221;
In an interview with ABC News&#8217;s Jonathan Karl broadcast on &#8220;This Week&#8221; Sunday, Pence blasted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for prioritizing prosecuting Trump over the crime epidemic in New York City. Pence&#8217;s comments come after Trump said he expected to be indicted and arrested on Tuesday in connection with alleged hush money payments made to two women, including former porn star Stormy Daniels.
“I’m taken aback at the idea of indicting a former president of the United States, at a time when there’s a crime wave in New York City,” Pence said. “The fact that the Manhattan DA thinks that indicting President Trump is his top priority, I think just tells you everything you need to know about the radical left in this country&#8230; It just feels like a politically charged prosecution here. And I, for my part, I just feel like it’s just not what the American people want to see.”
Pence also responded to Trump&#8217;s calls for his supporters to protest, saying that the American people have the right, but they must do so peacefully.
&#8220;The frustration the American people feel about what they sense is a two-tiered justice system in this country, I think, is well-founded,&#8221; Pence said. &#8220;But&#8211; I believe that people understand that if they give voice to this, if this occurs on Tuesday, that they need to do so peacefully and in a lawful manner, that the violence that occurred on January 6, the violence that occurred in cities throughout this country in the summer of 2020 was a disgrace.&#8221;
&#8220;The American people won’t tolerate it and those that engage in that kind of violence should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” he continued.
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EXCLUSIVE: Former Vice Pres. Mike Pence tells <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonKarl</a> that a possible arrest of former Pres. Donald Trump would be &#8220;a politically charged prosecution.&#8221;
“And I, for my part, I just feel like it&#8217;s just not what the American people want to see.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/jXLkYTiWjz">https://t.co/jXLkYTiWjz</a> <a href="https://t.co/aapbdXt9vF">pic.twitter.com/aapbdXt9vF</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1637217062715109376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
According to a recent report from <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/law-enforcement-agencies-are-prepping-possible-trump-indictment-early-rcna75493" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC News</a>, law enforcement officials are preparing for Trump to be criminally indicted. Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen admitted he made the payments, but the investigation stems from how Cohen was reimbursed. The money was listed as legal fees, but it was not related to any legal expenses from Cohen.
The payment can be prosecuted as a misdemeanor criminal charge of falsifying business records. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/nyregion/trump-potential-criminal-charges-bragg.html">According</a> to the New York Times, prosecutors can elevate the misdemeanor to a felony if they can prove that Trump’s “‘intent to defraud’ included an intent to commit or conceal a second crime.” Cohen said the payments were for the “principal purpose of influencing” the 2016 election.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-illegal-leaks-indicate-hell-be-arrested-on-tuesday-of-next-week-calls-for-protests" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump</a> blasted the NBC News report and called for his supporters to protest his potential arrest.
“ILLEGAL LEAKS FROM A CORRUPT &amp; HIGHLY POLITICAL MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE, WHICH HAS ALLOWED NEW RECORDS TO BE SET IN VIOLENT CRIME &amp; WHOSE LEADER IS FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS, INDICATE THAT, WITH NO CRIME BEING ABLE TO BE PROVEN, &amp; BASED ON AN OLD &amp; FULLY DEBUNKED (BY NUMEROUS OTHER PROSECUTORS!) FAIRYTALE, THE FAR &amp; AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE &amp; FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!”

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Sayreville, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-jersey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Jersey</a>, Republican Councilwoman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-jersey-gop-councilwoman-gunned-down-in-her-car-police-looking-for-suspect-motive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eunice Dwumfour</a> was murdered 34 days ago, and her family says that authorities have left them in the dark. 
Attorney John Wisniewski, a former Democratic state legislator and gubernatorial candidate, is advising Dwumfour’s parents, Ghanaian immigrants Prince Kofi and Mary Dwumfour, and said the family is concerned with the lack of updates from authorities investigating their daughter’s murder. The Dwumfours will reportedly meet with investigators this week after Wisniewski helped set up a meeting. 
&#8220;The silence about this and the absence of outreach prompted them through their pastor to reach out to me to help facilitate, and there will be an opportunity this week for them to sit down and learn that everything is being done and no stone is being left unturned,&#8221; Wisniewski said Monday, <a href="https://www.northjersey.com/restricted/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.northjersey.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fcrime%2F2023%2F03%2F07%2Feunice-k-dwumfour-killing-murder-investigation-nj-sayreville%2F69977754007%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to NorthJersey.com. 
The attorney said the lack of info from authorities on the case is “mystifying and troubling” when compared to smaller cases, such as vandalism, that police immediately posted rewards for information. Authorities still have not come up with a suspect or motive and have not held a press conference on Dwumfour’s murder. 
&#8220;Here there&#8217;s a homicide and their daughter&#8217;s taken from them and in comparison, it’s crickets,&#8221; Wisniewski charged.
Dwumfour’s loved ones gathered for her funeral in Newark on Sunday, which was delayed so her husband Ezechukwu Peter Akwue could arrange to travel to the U.S. from Nigeria. The couple married just two months before Dwumfour was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-jersey-gop-councilwoman-gunned-down-in-her-car-police-looking-for-suspect-motive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found dead</a> in the driver’s seat of her white Nissan SUV after being shot as many as 14 times as she pulled up to her Sayreville home.
Surveillance <a href="https://newjersey.news12.com/video-shows-person-running-behind-complex-where-councilwoman-dwumfour-murdered" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a> obtained by News 12 New Jersey appeared to show a man dressed in black running behind Dwumfour’s complex around the same time Dwumfour was killed. Eyewitnesses say they saw the gunman run toward Garden State Parkway after firing multiple times into Dwumfour’s vehicle. Police later received a tip and searched for the murder weapon in the woods behind the complex where Dwumfour lived, but did not report any findings, according to ABC 7.
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Last month, the New Jersey prosecutor’s office investigating Dwumfour’s murder <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prosecutors-office-seeks-to-block-records-on-gop-councilwomans-murder-from-going-public" target="_blank" rel="noopener">requested</a> an injunction to block news outlets from obtaining important information about the case.
The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office argued that releasing any information to the public about the councilwoman’s death would hinder law enforcement’s investigation, NJ.com <a href="https://www.nj.com/middlesex/2023/02/prosecutors-seek-to-block-records-requests-in-sayreville-councilwomans-killing.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The move came after several local and national media outlets requested that 911 calls, arrest reports, and police body cam and dash cam footage be made public. 
Dwumfour was elected to the Borough of Sayreville City Council in an upset victory over her Democratic opponent in 2021. She was also a business analyst and part-time EMT and was an assistant pastor in the Champions Royal Assembly, a Nigerian-based prosperity gospel church.

Screen Shot: Facebook/Eunice Dwumfour

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Attorney Advising Family Of Slain GOP Councilwoman Blasts Authorities For Lack Of Info On Case

Murder

New Jersey

In a shocking development, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-okeefe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James O’Keefe</a> announced last week that he was out at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/project-veritas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Project Veritas</a>, the investigative journalism group he founded over 10 years ago, after a conflict with the group’s board of directors. 
Under O’Keefe’s leadership, the group has taken on the biggest names in politics, journalism, tech, and healthcare, with a unique style of undercover videos and work with whistleblowers, all while earning the ire of the legacy media.
Project Veritas was officially launched by O’Keefe in 2011 as a non-profit organization with the goal of exposing corruption in public and private institutions. Since that time it has broken many major stories and shifted the narrative, from <a href="https://patch.com/new-hampshire/concord-nh/new-hampshire-attorney-general-we-will-do-better-voter-fraud" target="_blank" rel="noopener">influencing</a> election <a href="https://archive.ph/BJM18" target="_blank" rel="noopener">integrity</a> in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-hampshire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Hampshire</a> to embarrassing CNN over its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-director-network-trying-to-help-blm-shootings-lose-a-little-steam-if-suspect-is-not-white" target="_blank" rel="noopener">coverage</a> of race. 
While some critics have labeled the style of Project Veritas’ work deceptive, much of the content revealed through the sting operations would not be known by following the traditional question-and-answer mode of journalism.
Here are five of the biggest stories put out by Project Veritas during O’Keefe’s tenure.
<h2>ACORN</h2>
The first major break for O’Keefe came with undercover videos filmed of activist group ACORN during the Obama administration. While the <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/investigation/acorn/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ACORN story</a> was released before Project Veritas was officially created, it shot O’Keefe to prominence and offered a preview of the kind of journalism O’Keefe and his team would follow.
In 2009, O’Keefe and Hannah Giles <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/story/acorn-officials-videotaped-telling-pimp-prostitute-how-to-lie-to-irs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went</a> into ACORN [Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now] offices and posed as a pimp and a prostitute. According to the videos put out by O’Keefe, ACORN staffers appeared to offer O’Keefe advice on how to avoid scrutiny of the IRS while running a brothel and discuss sex trafficking. 
The story exploded with a spokesman for the group calling the portrayal “false and defamatory.” Even President Obama <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/20/AR2009092002313.html">weighed</a> in, calling the actions in the video “inappropriate” and worthy of investigation. 
While an outside probe later <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2009/12/acorn_workers_cleared_of_illeg.html/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cleared</a> ACORN of illegal activity, the videos did lead to concrete action with Congress cutting funding for the group, and the IRS and the Census Bureau <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/12/us/politics/12acorn.html?_r=2&amp;scp=14&amp;sq=acorn&amp;st=cse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dropping</a> their relationship with the activist organization. 
In the end, the group <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/us/23acorn.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">closed down</a> in 2010, just months after O’Keefe’s investigation.
<h2>Hillary Clinton Campaign Story</h2>
During the vicious 2016 presidential campaign, Project Veritas put out several major videos, taken from groups associated with the Clinton campaign, that appeared to show Democrat operatives discussing their strategies to provoke violence at Trump rallies and other ethically dubious campaign tactics. 
For example, Democrat operative Scott Foval said in the videos that there was a “script” put out at Trump events to attempt to get the “crazies” to “bite.”
&#8220;It is not hard to get some of these assholes to pop off,&#8221; Foval <a href="https://www.npr.org/2016/10/19/498587397/sting-video-purports-to-show-democrats-describing-how-to-commit-voter-fraud" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s a matter of showing up to want to get into the rally in a Planned Parenthood T-shirt, or &#8216;Trump is a Nazi,&#8217; you know. You can message to draw them out, and draw them to punch you.&#8221;
Both Foval and Democrat activist Robert Cramer ended up <a href="https://archive.ph/SJjS0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">losing their</a> jobs as a result of the videos, though both claimed that their comments were taken out of context.
<h2>Google And Political Bias</h2>
In July 2019, Project Veritas released <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/google-takes-action-against-whistleblower-who-james-barrett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a video</a> of Greg Coppola, a senior Google engineer, saying that the tech giant designed its algorithms in a way that was biased against conservatives. 
“I’ve been coding since I was ten [years old],” Coppola told Project Veritas in the interview. “I have a PhD, I have five years’ experience at Google and I just know how algorithms are. They don’t write themselves. We write them to do what want them to do.”
“I think for a while we had tech that was politically neutral,” Coppola <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/google-takes-action-against-whistleblower-who-james-barrett" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in the video. “Now we have tech that really, first of all is taking sides in a political contest, which I think, you know, anytime you have big corporate power merging with political parties can be dangerous.”
Google has consistently maintained that it is politically neutral, but many conservatives remain unconvinced. 
According to Coppola, the crackdown by tech companies on conservative viewpoints began with the rise of Trump. Since Coppola’s comments, the battle between tech and conservatives has only grown fiercer. 
<h2>ABC Drops Interview With Jeffrey Epstein Accuser</h2>
One of the most explosive Project Veritas stories came in 2019, with the publication of a video obtained from an ABC insider showing host Amy Robach discussing her frustration that the network killed a story she wanted to do with an accuser of pedophile billionaire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jeffrey-epstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jeffrey Epstein</a>.
“I had this interview with Virginia Roberts. We would not put it on the air. First of all, I was told, ‘Who’s Jeffrey Epstein? No one knows who that is. This is a stupid story. Then the palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways. We were so afraid we wouldn’t be able to interview Kate and Will that we, that also quashed the story,” Robach said in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lfwkTsJGYA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a>.
She said that they had photos to back up the claims. “It was unbelievable what we had. Clinton. We had everything. I tried for three years to get it on to no avail and now it is all coming out and it is like these new revelations and I freaking had all of it,” Robach added.
The network later <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/breaking-abc-news-and-amy-robach-respond-to-project-veritas-bombshell-epsteincoverup-story/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that the material they had did not meet its editorial standards, but the video raised questions about media coverage of Epstein, who was often seen with the rich and famous before his arrest and subsequent death in jail.
<h2>Pfizer And The COVID &#8216;Cash Cow&#8217;</h2>
In January, Project Veritas put out a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pfizer-denies-conducting-covid-gain-of-function-research-in-delayed-response-to-veritas-video" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bombshell video</a> of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pfizer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pfizer</a> official appearing to describe either proposed or ongoing experiments by the pharmaceutical firm. The video, which quickly racked up millions of views, shows Pfizer’s director of research and development, Jordan Walker, divulging that the company has considered mutating COVID through “directed evolution” in monkeys to develop new vaccines.
The video quickly raised questions about what kind of research Pfizer was conducting, and its view of the pandemic with Walker referring to COVID as a potential “cash cow” for years to come. 
Days after the video, Pfizer denied that it was conducting gain-of-function style research on COVID, but many remained skeptical. Project Veritas <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pfizer-exec-appears-to-admit-there-are-concerning-impacts-on-female-reproductive-health-from-vaccine-in-round-two-of-project-veritas-sting">later released</a> a video where Walker appeared to admit that Pfizer was aware of potential side effects of the vaccine on women’s fertility. 
The Pfizer videos were representative of the work of Project Veritas during O’Keefe’s era: an undercover sting of one of the most powerful companies in America that few would dare attempt. 
The group&#8217;s tactics and targeting of powerful entities found it in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/journalism-is-on-trial-project-veritas-ordered-to-pay-democratic-consulting-firm-over-2016-sting-operation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">crosshairs</a> of corporations, nonprofits, Democrat operatives, the legacy media, and even the federal government. In November 2021, O’Keefe’s home was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/us/politics/james-okeefe-project-veritas-ashley-biden.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">raided</a> by the FBI in connection with a stolen diary reportedly belonging to Ashley Biden.
O’Keefe’s ability to continue putting out narrative-shifting videos is part of what made it so shocking when he announced he was out at the company last week. The board accused him of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/project-veritas-releases-statement-on-why-james-okeefe-was-removed-from-company" target="_blank" rel="noopener">financial mismanagement</a> and some of the group&#8217;s employees had accused him of poor behavior. Many of the group&#8217;s former whistleblowers, however, have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-project-veritas-whistleblowers-speak-out-in-support-of-james-okeefe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">come out in support</a> of O’Keefe, through both videos and letters. 
While O’Keefe may be done with Project Veritas, he is not done with investigative journalism, already hinting at forming a new organization. 
“Our mission continues on. I’m not done,” he said in a recent video. “The mission will perhaps take on a new name.”
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