Rep. Henry Cuellar (D,. Texas) and his wife Imelda have been charged with accepting and laundering more than half a million dollars in foreign bribes, according to an indictment released by the Department of Justice on Friday. Cuellar and his wife allegedly pocketed “at least $598,000 in bribes from two foreign entities”: an oil and
At one point, Ms. Hicks broke down in tears on the witness stand on Friday. Hope Hicks, a one-time Trump administration official, told a Manhattan court on Friday that former President Donald Trump’s ex-attorney Michael Cohen attempted to “insert himself” into the campaign and confirmed a defense lawyer’s comment that he “went rogue” at certain
‘None of the seven government employees and contractors were in Washington, D.C., on January 6 or attacked the Capitol,’ the complaint states. Federal prosecutors have charged a former government employee with submitting fake tips accusing several of his former co-workers of being involved in the unrest at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Court
A consultant hired to help run independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ballot access campaign was arrested after allegedly choking and punching a woman at a Manhattan hotel, according to the New York Police Department. Police were called to the Soho Grand Hotel on April 27 at 5:19 a.m. after a report that Trent
Biden judicial nominee Amir H. Ali in November received a “Justice Tribute” award from an Arab-American civil rights group that supports the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, and whose board member has praised Hamas and other terrorist groups. The Arab American Civil Rights League, based in Dearborn, Michigan, has called for boycotts of the
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) lamented on May 3 that a vacancy were he to be stripped of the gavel, would be a “dangerous gambit” ahead of an expected vote next week on a motion to oust him from his leadership role. He issued the warning when appearing on “The Laura Coates Show” on SiriusXM,
A viral clip of an interview with President Joe Biden’s economic adviser Jared Bernstein shows the official struggling to explain why the U.S. government chooses to borrow money when it can just print more. “The government definitely prints money, and it definitely lends that money … by selling bonds. Is that what they do? They