And just the switch things up a bit:
BREAKING: DOJ announces it has arrested a US Special Forces soldier who took part in the raid that captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro after the soldier allegedly pocketed $400,000 by betting more than $30,000 on Maduro’s removal on Polymarket.
Now do congressional stock trading!
He must’ve had good wifi on ‘copter ride over
Pretty confident, but there was a chance he’d get dead — the YOLO defense?
Regarding SLPC, this is all to bilk donors? Maybe I’m a simpleton, but it doesn’t look like traditional money laundering or wire fraud. And couldn’t the shell companies be used to protect the informants?
The rules for soliciting donations as a non-profit are pretty strict. You can’t solicit money for one purpose and then use it for another, questionable purpose on the assumption that your donors wouldn’t mind if they knew.
Seems quite the burden to prove use of illegal proceeds by way of fraud. The vague description used by SPLC of dismantling hate groups could fall under those activities. In the presser Todd Blanche claims they then used the info for “work product”. I mean, no duh? Doesn’t that strengthen the defense.
Not registering the shell companies looks like the only crime.
Not a bad 24.
The last 24 hours at this FBI:
• FBI Scam Center Takedown: 503 fraud websites dismantled, over $700 million in stolen crypto restrained, and thousands of trafficking victims freed from forced-labor compounds in Burma and Cambodia. Chinese nationals charged with running the operations.
• Operation Gangsta’s Paradise: 37 Mexican Mafia members and associates arrested in pre-dawn raids across Orange County. Drug trafficking, racketeering, and murder charges. 10 more indictments handed down to La Eme members already in state prison.
• Houston synagogue plot disrupted: 18-year-old arrested in North Carolina and a 16-year-old in Texas charged with conspiracy to commit mass murder at Congregation Beth Israel, Texas’s oldest Jewish congregation. Tip came in Tuesday. Plot stopped.
• Maduro raid insider-trading case: Active-duty Green Beret Gannon Ken Van Dyke charged with using classified information to bet $33,000 on the Maduro capture operation, netting over $409,000 on Polymarket. Charges include commodities fraud, wire fraud, and theft of nonpublic government information.
• Denton County hostage rescue: FBI Hostage Rescue Team breached a home in Aubrey, Texas at 1 a.m. after a multi-day standoff. A young girl released safely the night before. The adult female victim rescued with only minor injuries. Suspect Michael Miller, 57, in custody on kidnapping, aggravated assault, and unlawful restraint.
Kash Patel’s latest nickname: J Edgar Boozer.
I believe everything coming out of organisations who can’t seem to obey the law and release all the Epstein files.
And a North Carolina Sheriff’s Deputy arrested in Florida for planning a mass shooting in Louisiana. what the hell?
