Since late January, leaders at liberal foundations and donor networks have been preparing for a legal assault by federal agencies. That moment finally arrived in September, when, in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche directed federal prosecutors to investigate the Open Society Foundations on a range of possible criminal charges, reportedly on orders from the White House.
Williamson was charged with bank and tax fraud for allegedly siphoning campaign and COVID-19 recovery funds into her and an associate's pockets and claiming personal luxuries as business expenses on tax forms. According to the indictment, the campaign funds were drawn from a dormant state account of another top California Democrat: gubernatorial candidate and former U.S. Health and Human Services secretary Xavier Becerra.
OAKLAND - A high-ranking Oakland city official who said he provided federal investigators key evidence that led to criminal indictments against ex-Mayor Sheng Thao and others is leaving his role to take a leadership job in another East Bay city.
The DOJ says investigators linked Rinderknecht to the crime with video surveillance, witness statements, and cellphone records that placed him near the start of the fire. During a press briefing, Essayli said other evidence includes a ChatGPT prompt for what Essayli describes as a "dystopian painting showing in part a burning forest and a crowd fleeing from it." Essayli claims Rinderknecht used ChatGPT to create the image "a few months before" the fire started.
A prominent Orange County philanthropist and well-connected jeweler is now accused of bilking wealthy investors out of millions of dollars and then fleeing the country, according to a series of civil lawsuits filed over the past few months in both state and federal court. Moti Ferder, the co-founder and until recently CEO of Newport Beach-based Lugano Diamonds, is alleged to have defrauded more than 40 creditors out of hundreds of millions of dollars, according to more than a half-dozen lawsuits filed by multiple investors.
The university said Monday nearly 40,000 students enrolled at San Jose State for the fall semester - an 8% increase from last year and the highest enrollment total for a single academic term in the university's 168-year history. San Jose State also said it welcomed its largest-ever classes of first-year students, transfers and undergraduate students, with more than 5,100 first-year students, 3,600 transfer students and a total of 8,700 new undergraduate students.
ESPN's dutiful stenographer and avant garde language artist was one of the first people to break news of the Beasley investigation two months ago, and last Friday, he offered what looked like a promising final update to the story: Beasley was no longer the target of the federal investigation. That made it sound like Beasley had been cleared; Charania's ESPN story on the matter included a handful
Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into allegations that Washington DC police systematically manipulated crime statistics to make the city appear safer than it actually is.
Reports indicate that millions of dollars' worth of Miami Heat memorabilia, including game-worn NBA Finals jerseys, were stolen over an 18-month period. The stolen items were sold in both the legitimate and black markets.
Several articles have since suggested that Bondi's focus on grand jury testimony is both unlikely to produce useful new information about Epstein and his associates, and serves primarily to deflect blame for nondisclosure onto judges.
"The Department of Justice is investigating the University of California's diversity hiring practices, targeting potential violations of federal discrimination laws amidst ongoing federal scrutiny since 2017."
Federal police in Brazil have formally accused former president Jair Bolsonaro of overseeing an illegal spying operation targeting opponents, journalists, and environmental advocates during his administration.
This is a mess created by me. Federal authorities, including the Department of Justice (DOJ), are now investigating, according to an April call between the lead prosecutor and potential victims.
