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October 16, 2025 - Trump launches major IRS overhaul, targets Soros-linked political funding

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters building in Washington D.C. (Credit: David Ake/Getty Images)

President Donald Trump has directed a sweeping overhaul of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), with interim IRS Commissioner Scott Bessent and senior advisor Gary Shapley spearheading a restructuring effort that includes new investigative priorities and leadership changes.

The move comes as the agency operates with reduced staff due to the ongoing government shutdown and follows the removal of former Commissioner Billy Long in August after a policy dispute over taxpayer data.

According to officials familiar with the matter, Shapley has been tasked with identifying individuals and entities who may face criminal scrutiny over potential political and financial misconduct.

Among those reportedly reviewed is billionaire Democratic donor George Soros, whose Open Society Foundation remains one of the world’s largest funders of progressive causes.

Soros’ Fund for Policy Reform, largely run by his son Alex, donated $60 million to Democrats in 2024, ranking as the 12th largest contributor nationally and second among exclusively liberal givers.

The overhaul has coincided with a broader push from the administration and Republican leaders to examine political funding sources tied to recent anti-Trump demonstrations.

Senator Ted Cruz introduced legislation this week to enable the Department of Justice to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act to investigate financial backers of the “No Kings” protests held over the weekend. (Read more: Lifezette, 10/16/2025)  (Archive)

October 16, 2025 - Former Special Counsel Jack Smith is referred To DOJ for misconduct investigation and possible disbarment

Jack Smith speaks to the media about an indictment of Donald Trump on 1 August 2021. (Credit: J Scott Applewhite/AP)

Former special counsel Jack Smith was criminally referred to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Oct. 16 by multiple Republican lawmakers for alleged misconduct and possible disbarment.

A group of GOP lawmakers, led by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, asking her office to refer Smith, who was involved in two federal cases against then-former President Donald Trump, to the Office of Professional Responsibility for an investigation.

A statement from Blackburn’s office said Smith had “allegedly engaged in serious prosecutorial misconduct through the politically motivated Arctic Frost investigation and must face appropriate consequences, up to and including disbarment.”

It was revealed earlier this month that the FBI had obtained cell phone records of several sitting Republican senators.

“As part of Jack Smith’s weaponized witch hunt, the Biden DOJ issued subpoenas to several telecommunications companies in 2023 regarding our cell phone records, gaining access to the time, recipient, duration, and location of calls placed on our devices from January 4, 2021, to January 7, 2021,” Blackburn and several other Republican lawmakers wrote to Bondi on Thursday.

The senators added that they “have yet to learn of any legal predicate for the Biden Department of Justice issuing subpoenas to obtain these cell phone records,” the letter said.

(…) In their letter, the lawmakers accused Smith, who obtained records in the FBI’s Arctic Frost probe, of infringing on the rights of the elected officials and violating their respective rights to privacy.

“This is especially true given the invasion of our privacy was directly connected to our core legislative functions protected by the Speech or Debate Clause of our Constitution,” the Republican lawmakers wrote. “To the best we can tell, Smith’s team went on this fishing expedition for one simple reason: we are Republicans who support President Trump.” (Read more: The Epoch Times, 10/17/2025)  (Archive)

October 16, 2025 - Former NSA John Bolton is indicted by grand jury for mishandling classified documents

The Justice Department presented evidence to a federal grand jury in Maryland against former National Security Adviser John Bolton for allegedly transmitting highly classified materials through his private AOL email account during his 2018–2019 tenure.

The investigation centers on documents labeled Secret and Confidential related to weapons of mass destruction, as well as personal notes resembling a diary that may contain additional classified details.

Prosecutors argued that Bolton willfully removed, retained, or transmitted national defense information in violation of sections of the Espionage Act of 1917.

(…) On August 22, 2025, FBI agents executed court-authorized searches of Bolton’s Maryland home and his Washington, D.C. office as part of a federal investigation into possible improper retention, transmission, or loss of classified information.

According to unsealed court documents, agents seized multiple devices, computers, tablets, iPads, flash drives, and cellphones, along with boxes of documents labeled “Trump I-IV” and a binder titled “statements and reflections to Allied Strikes.”

New documents released revealed that John Bolton stored classified information about WMDs and the United Nations.

“Categories of potentially classified records that the FBI reported finding at Bolton’s office included: travel memo documents with a “secret” label; confidential documents from the U.S. mission to the U.N.; confidential documents related to strategic communications; and classified documents related to weapons of mass destruction,” Politico reported.

The search warrant affidavit (partially redacted) references potential violations of the Espionage Act and statutes governing unauthorized transmission or retention of national defense information.

Read the affidavit here or below:

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 10/16/2025)  (Archive)

UPDATE:

(…) John Bolton transmitted classified emails over a private server system and they were intercepted by Iran, according to the indictment.

According to the 26-page indictment, Bolton shared the classified documents with two unnamed relatives. While the indictment did not name the relatives, a previous leak to The New York Post revealed that Bolton shared the documents with his wife and daughter.

“From on or about April 9, 2018, through at least on or about August 22, 2025, BOLTON abused his position as National Security Advisor by sharing more than a thousand pages of information about his day-to-day activities as the National Security Advisor-including information relating to the national defense which was classified up to the TOP SECRET/SCI level-with two unauthorized individuals, namely Individuals 1 and 2,” the indictment read.

BOLTON also unlawfully retained documents, writings, and notes relating to the national defense, including information classified up to the TOP SECRET/SCI level, in his home in Montgomery County, Maryland,” prosecutors said according to the indictment reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.

John Bolton’s potential indictment under the Espionage Act is a long-overdue reckoning. The FBI’s August search uncovered classified docs referencing WMDs—critical national security material. Bolton’s claim that these were “ordinary” for a former official? Laughable.

If a Trump ally mishandled intel, the media would demand life in prison. But Bolton, a career swamp creature who trashed Trump while cozying up to globalist agendas, gets kid-glove treatment.

Prosecuting him isn’t political—it’s enforcing the law equally. The Espionage Act exists to punish betrayal, not protect D.C. insiders. Lock him up.

UPDATE – 10/17/2025:

John Bolton, President Trump’s former National Security Advisor (NSA), has been indicted by a grand jury for the District of Maryland. Here is the indictment.

In total, Bolton faces 18 felony counts: 8 counts of transmission of national defense information (18 USC § 793(d)) and 10 counts of retention of national defense information (18 USC § 793(e)) – charges that fall under the Espionage Act.

(…)  The indictment doesn’t fill all the holes of this story – we suspect that the FBI’s investigation into Bolton’s possession of classified documents started at this point. The FBI would have vigorously investigated the hack by a foreign state (especially one by Iran against a former high-level government official) and, at some point, would have learned of the contents of Bolton’s email account. Or of what the hacker possessed/extracted. Perhaps both.

John, Gretchen and Jennifer Bolton (Credit: public domain)

Curiously, the FBI chose not to pursue that investigation. At least not until August 2025, when the FBI executed search warrants of Bolton’s home in Maryland and his office in Washington, DC, where the FBI seized materials showing: (1) Bolton transmitted his diaries containing classified information to his wife/daughter; and (2) printed copies of versions of those diary entries with classified information.

These facts are important because they relate to a settlement made between the Government and Bolton concerning Bolton’s memoir, which the Government concluded contained excessive amounts of highly classified information that needed to be removed. As part of that settlement, Bolton agreed to “provide to the United States all materials in his possession, custody, or control that may contain any classified information.” He also agreed to return classified materials contained in drafts, whether in physical or electronic form.

With respect to the counts themselves, Bolton revealed the following highly classified information in the notes/documents sent to his wife and daughter (this is just part of what Bolton revealed, the indictment summarizes in much more detail):

  • Intelligence about a future attack by an adversarial group in another country.
  • Intelligence that a foreign adversary was planning a future missile launch.
  • Information about covert action in a foreign country.
  • Intelligence collected on the leader of an adversary’s military leader.
  • Intelligence concerning an adversary’s knowledge of a planned US action and an adversary’s plan for attack against the US.
  • Intelligence on covert action planned by the US (multiple documents had this information).

(Read more: TechnoFog/Substack, 10/17/2025)  (Archive)

UPDATE 10/18/2025

October 16, 2025 - Tom Homan addresses the $50K bribe accusations

It’s one thing to throw political punches, right? It’s quite another to cross the line into pure defamation. But that’s exactly what happened when Dem Senator Mazie Hirono decided to smear Border Czar Tom Homan with a baseless claim that he took a $50,000 bribe.

You’d think a sitting senator would know better than to hurl accusations with zero evidence, right? But thanks to congressional privilege, our beloved elected officials can say just about anything they want on the House or Senate floor and face zero consequences. That’s not an exaggeration; it’s literally written into law.

Members of Congress are protected by the “Speech or Debate Clause,” which grants them absolute immunity for what they say in official legislative acts. That means they can lie through their teeth on the floor, and nobody can sue them. Honestly, it’s insane, and it’s one of the many ways DC protects itself while regular Americans get raked over the coals for way less.

(…) This is what passes for “debate” in today’s Dem Party, slinging fake accusations recklessly with no accountability. It’s why the public’s trust in Congress is literally circling the drain. It’s time to revisit those congressional protections. If the Founders knew today’s politicians would weaponize immunity to smear their opponents, they would’ve written that clause a helluva lot differently.

But to his credit, Tom Homan didn’t dodge or deflect on this accusation. When Bill O’Reilly asked him point-blank about the bribery claim, he looked him dead in the eye and said, “I didn’t take $50,000 from anybody.”

Overton:

Bill O’Reilly asked Tom Homan if he wanted to clarify anything about the $50,000 bribe in front of a live audience.

The Border Czar looked O’Reilly dead in the eyes and said:

“I didn’t take $50,000 from anybody.”

Then Homan revealed something that those accusing him of taking bribes probably don’t know:

“Day one I came back, I recused myself from any discussions, of any contact or any monetary decisions like that because I used to have a company that did consulting.”

“So I cleared myself day one.”

“What people don’t talk about is I took a significant, huge pay cut to come back and serve my nation.”

“I am not enriching myself doing this job.”

O’Reilly asked Homan: “Does this make you angry that they’re coming at you this way?”

Homan’s response woke up the crowd:

“I don’t care what people think about me, I never have because I know who I am. I work for the greatest president in the history of this nation in my opinion.”

“And we’re doing the right thing every day.”

October 17, 2025 - Mamdani campaigns with unindicted co-conspirator in 1993 WTC bombing

New York City Democratic Party mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani campaigned Friday with radical Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an Islamist who was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Mamdani promoted his meeting with Wahhaj on social media, referring to him as “one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the [Bedford-Stuyvesant] community for nearly half a century.”

Wahhaj is a radical who has encouraged attacks against the U.S., and who was linked to the 1993 WTC plot, a precursor to the 9/11 Al Qaeda terror attacks that toppled both of the towers. The New York Post reported:

Lefty NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani gleefully campaigned this week with a notorious, gay-hating Brooklyn imam who is an unindicted co-conspirator in 1993 World Trade Center bombing and who has been linked to other terrorist activity in the United States — including urging “jihad” on the Big Apple.

…

Wahhaj, 75, who also heads the Muslim Alliance in North America, was fingered by prosecutors as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in the 1993 WTC bombing, which left six people dead, and has publicly defended the plotters of the attack against the FBI and CIA, whom he at the time dubbed the “real terrorists.”

…

Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democratic running as an independent for mayor, ripped Mamdani for posing for the photo with Wahhaj, considering the imam’s terrorism links and history of gay bashing – and for doing it less than two weeks after posing in another notorious pic with Ugandan Deputy Prime Minister Rebecca, who has pushed some of the most oppressive anti-LGBT laws in the world.

Wahhaj says he is not a terrorist.

Wahhaj’s son, Siraj ibn Wahhaj, was arrested in 2018 for keeping starving children on a rural compound in New Mexico and training them to carry out school shootings.

The other individual who posed with Mamdani is New York City Council member Yusef Salaam (D-Manhattan), a member of the “Central Park Five,” a group once accused of gang rape, freed, and now used frequently by Democrats in attacks on President Donald Trump, who had used the incident to protest against crime. (Read more: Breitbart, 10/18/2025)  (Archive)

October 17, 2025 - House Oversight Committee releases transcript of former Epstein prosecutor Alex Acosta

Alex Acosta (Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released the transcript of Alex Acosta’s transcribed interview as part of its review of the federal government’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases.

In addition, the Committee published letters from former U.S. Attorneys General Eric Holder and Merrick Garland, as well as former FBI Director James Comey.  All three stated, subject to 18 U.S.C. § 1001, that they had no knowledge or information related to the Committee’s investigation.

The Committee also published new records from the Epstein estate. A backup can be found here.

Read [Below]: Chairman Comer Statement on Transcribed Interview with Alexander Acosta

(House Oversight Committee, 1o/17/2025)  (Archive)

September 19, 2025 – House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) made the following statement on today’s transcribed interview with former U.S. Department of Labor Secretary and former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Alexander Acosta:

“Alex Acosta cooperated with our questions today and provided information that will help advance our investigation into the federal government’s handling of the Epstein and Maxwell cases. This information will guide our next steps as we work to bring accountability, and we expect to announce new action soon. We will also release the transcript of Mr. Acosta’s interview to ensure transparency for the American people.

“As I stated earlier today, the Trump Administration is fully cooperating with our investigation, and we will soon review bank records to follow the money trail. In addition, the Epstein estate will provide unredacted cash ledgers, calendars, call logs, and message logs. This information is critical to our work.

“We owe it to the survivors to follow the facts, not politics. While we want this investigation to be bipartisan, Democrats are attempting to manufacture yet another false narrative about President Trump, as they have done in the past. To be clear: former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr has stated there is no evidence of wrongdoing by President Trump. We call on Democrats to end these distractions and instead focus on what truly matters: transparency and accountability.”

Readout of the Transcribed Interview:

  • Alex Acosta stated that he never met Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell and that his decision to resign as U.S. Secretary of Labor in 2019 was entirely his own. He emphasized that no one suggested he resign.
  • According to Mr. Acosta, a key issue in the U.S. Southern District of Florida’s handling of the Epstein case was whether it should be prosecuted federally or locally. Mr. Acosta also referenced a statement from the lead prosecutor outlining evidentiary issues that could jeopardize a conviction if the case went to trial. The consensus within the U.S. Attorney’s Office was to pursue a negotiated resolution given the challenges of securing a guilty verdict.
  • Mr. Acosta expressed concern that if the case had gone to trial and prosecutors lost, it would have sent the message that Epstein had escaped accountability and could continue committing offenses.
  • Mr. Acosta stated his office received multiple assurances that Jeffrey Epstein would not be allowed on work release yet somehow Palm Beach County allowed it to happen. Mr. Acosta later stated that had the U.S. Attorney’s Office known the state would allow Epstein to go on work release and fail to address or prosecute the case, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Mr. Acosta would not have agreed to returning it to the state level. He expressed remorse and that the decision was on him.
  • Mr. Acosta confirmed that he never saw President Trump’s name on any document or any matter related to Jeffrey Epstein.

October 17, 2025 - FBI arrests pro-Hamas October 7th attacker living in Louisiana; was granted a visa by Biden admin

A man living in Louisiana was just arrested by the FBI for joining Hamas t*rrorists in the October 7th attack against Israel.

Mahmoud Amin Ya-qub Al-Muhtadi was born in Gaza, applied for a visa in Cairo, and was granted a visa under the Biden admin.

On Oct 7th, his cell phone connected to a tower near a Kibbutz where multiple Americans were kiIIed.

Democrats literally allowed unvetted suspected t*rrorists to invade and freely roam our country.

Man living in Lafayette accused of taking part in Israel attacks says he is innocent

October 20, 2025 - The Mueller witch hunt officially ends with the dismissal of the final indictment against Ekim Alptekin

Ekim Alptekin refused to lie to the Mueller team and paid a vicious price. (Credit: X.com)

Today it finally happened. Something I thought might never come, but I never quite gave up hope. The Mueller witch hunt has officially ended with the dismissal of the final indictment (setting aside the meaningless, for-show charges against a bunch of random Russians no one has ever heard of and no one will ever see anyway).

I’ve followed this case closely since 2018 because, even among all the injustices carried out by Mueller’s thugs, this one stood out as particularly grotesque. I’ll write more about it later, but in short: Mueller’s team went through General Flynn’s old client list and targeted one of his former clients on a matter that had nothing to do with Trump or Russia, purely to pressure him into saying something damaging about Flynn and by extension, Trump.

That client, @ekimalptekin, refused to lie. So Mueller’s team hit him with completely fabricated FARA charges. He couldn’t see his family or children for many years, fearing extradition to the United States. He spent millions on legal fees. His business, his life, everything was wrecked.

So I couldn’t be happier that Ekim’s long nightmare has finally ended. A huge thank you to everyone here who kept this injustice alive in the public eye all these years, especially my friend @FOOL_NELSON and everyone else in the Russiagate research community.

But most of all, thank you to Lindsey Halligan. What an absolute legend for getting this done in a matter of a few days after seven long years of despair. Having followed this case and the people involved extremely closely, I can say with absolute certainty that without Lindsey Halligan, this would not have happened. We all owe her a great debt of gratitude for finally, formally ending the Russiagate witch hunt.
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October 20, 2025 - It's over in Georgia for Stacey Abrams

(Credit: Revolver News)

The Atlanta Journal Constitution:

Once one of the most influential political groups in the South, the New Georgia Project is shutting down this week, marking a stunning fall for an organization that pushed to advance Democratic causes for more than a decade.

The New Georgia Project’s board of directors said in a statement Thursday that the organization and an affiliated action fund are both dissolving but encouraged others to continue supporting “values of justice, integrity and equity” that guided their work. “As we close this chapter, we recognize that the work of building a just and truthful world remains urgent,” the statement read. “This moment calls for strong and courageous leaders to step forward, guided by principle and purpose.”

Founded in 2013 by two-time gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and later championed by U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, the group once boasted a multimillion-dollar budget, a sprawling field team and an ambitious mission “to build power for long-term progressive change.” It was credited with registering tens of thousands of left-leaning voters who helped turn Georgia into a political battleground. But the New Georgia Project played a diminished role in last year’s election as the organization’s internal problems mounted.

The group has long been hobbled by internal turmoil, fundraising struggles and mounting legal problems leading to an exodus of key staffers in the run-up to last year’s election. In January, it agreed to pay a record $300,000 fine for violating Georgia campaign finance laws after admitting to illegally aiding Abrams’ 2018 gubernatorial bid by spending millions to support her campaign without proper registration or reporting.

Ethics officials say the fine has been paid in full.

Well, that’s it. The final nail in Stacey’s giant political coffin.

So, what went wrong for the big lady? The same thing that always goes wrong when the left tries to build a movement around personality instead of performance. The New Georgia Project wasn’t a grassroots miracle. It was a money laundering scam and a PR stunt dressed up as a voter registration drive, funneling millions into “progressive change” while quietly breaking campaign finance laws to help Stacey’s losing streak waddle along.

Once the money dried up and the investigations rolled in, the organization crumbled like a chocolate chip cookie in Stacey’s hand.

With her political machine dead, her “movement” bankrupt, and her credibility in ashes, Stacey’s now joined the long list of discarded DEI Democrat darlings from Beto to Kamala to whoever’s next in line for the spotlight. The left will just move on to the next prop, pretending these flops never existed.

One thing you can say about Stacey is that she’s a tried and true DEI failure. She’s a whiz at turning failure into a money-making enterprise.

Wall Street Mav:

🚨Stacey Abrams founded an NGO and got sent $2 BILLION taxpayer dollars a month later…. she founded 2 MORE!

She appointed her sister as President of one. Money connected to FUNDING STREET PROTEST GROUPS was also discovered paid through an NGO established by Democrat’s Tides Center

“Once Stacey Abrams got that money, just so happens that TWO OTHER NONPROFITS that she founded”

“It’s back dealing money laundering from nonprofits it’s funneling money into the pockets of Democratic activists, nothing more. Case in point.”

This is just further proof that Dems are not actually interested in fixing the country. All they care about is finding the next “chosen one” to sell the same failed ideas in a brand new shiny package. Stacey was their perfect pitch. Until she wasn’t. (Read more: Revolver News, 10/20/2025) (Archive)

October 20, 2025 - Dems exploited loopholes; illegal aliens did get taxpayer-funded Medicaid and Medicare

Democrats play semantic games while taxpayers foot the bill. Federal law blocks Medicaid for illegals, but blue states exploit loopholes – like California’s $3.8B Medi-Cal expansion for undocumented adults through state-funded programs. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act tightened restrictions, yet Schumer & Co. now push to reverse those reforms.

Emergency Medicaid already drains $3.8B annually for “life-saving” care that incentivizes border surges. Every dollar spent on non-citizen healthcare steals resources from veterans and seniors.

Real enforcement means cutting ALL pathways – state or federal.

The claim that the U.S. government sent $2.7 trillion in Medicare and Medicaid payments overseas is false; the $2.7 trillion figure refers to improper payments across all federal agencies since 2003, not specifically to overseas payments. These improper payments include various reasons, such as administrative errors and fraud, but the reports do not indicate that they were primarily sent to people outside the United States.
( The Poynter Institute)  (U.S. Government Accountability Office (U.S. GAO))

October 20, 2025 - Firm admits to violating federal law, using minority-owned status as a front to obtain $100M+ no-bid contracts

Melayne Cromwell, Director of Contracts for ATI Government Solutions (Credit: OMG video clipping)

An explosive new undercover investigation by O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) released Monday on X has blown the lid off a massive federal contracting scandal, a $100 billion scheme exploiting taxpayer-funded minority-preference programs under the Biden Administration.

In a shocking undercover video posted on X, OMG revealed how ATI Government Solutions, a federal contractor supposedly “Native American-owned,” admitted to exploiting the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) program to grab over $100 million in no-bid government contracts, while outsourcing up to 80% of the work to other firms.

“I tell you pass-throughs are a great thing!”
“We only do 20%… The rest goes to subs.”
“And remember, there’s no competition.”

James O’Keefe, posing as representatives from a fake cybersecurity firm called “Sev-Zero Solutions,” met Cromwell under the guise of hiring her catering side business.

Within minutes, the ATI executive bragged about how the company leverages its Native American tribal affiliation with the Susanville Indian Rancheria to obtain exclusive federal contracts, then turns around and pays subcontractors to do almost all the work.

O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) reported:

Within two minutes of sitting down with Melayne at a restaurant in Arlington, Virginia, she volunteered the entire scheme – no prompting, no hesitation. She told us she was the Director of Contracts for ATI Government Solutions. Then she dropped the real bombshell:

“Because we’re Native American-owned, we’re heavily favored for government contracts.” “There’s no bidding war.” Said Cromwell

She explained how ATI uses its tribal status to lock down multi-million dollar no-bid contracts, then passes off the majority of the work to subcontractors-firms that would never qualify on their own. Meanwhile, ATI keeps the lion’s share of the cash. Cromwell revealed to our undercover journalist;

“So, a lot of our subcontractors bid on contracts that were perfect in their industry, but because they weren’t Native American, they wouldn’t win it,” she said. “So we bid on it for them, they become our sub, and it’s an automatic win because you’re Native American status. There’s no bidding war.”

Under the 8(a) system, meant to empower disadvantaged businesses, “pass-through” contractors such as ATI serve as paper fronts, taking much of the money off the top while doing little or none of the work. Cromwell admitted the company performs only 20% of its multi-million-dollar no-bid federal contracts, subcontracting out the remaining 80% – a textbook case of a “pass-through” scheme.

“Correct. Yeah. They’re doing most of the work. But you want to really stay on, make sure they’re on time.”  

“So, we do about 20% of the work.” 

“You don’t want to share that,” – Cromwell added.

In short, ATI secures the contracts, gets the money, acts as a passthrough and it’s the tax payer who gets screwed over.

Firmadge Crutchfield (Credit: public domain)

On paper, ATI is owned by the Susanville Indian Rancheria, a federally recognized native american tribal entity, in northern california.

Arian confirmed to us that if they were to appear as the owners of our company it would make it easier to obtain government contracts, and goes on to claim that we may need to relinquish 51% of the ownership to them.

OMG Undercover Journalist: “So really, it’s really just coming up with a number that you would want in order to appear to be the owner of our company. So we’ll discuss what percentage you would get when we come to the signing of the contract.”

Scott Deutchman

Arian: “Some of that is, will be determined by the 8(a) corporation, So we may have to be like 51%”

Melayne confirms that ATI is abiding by this 51% tribal ownership…on paper.

“51% On paper. Correct. as long as it’s on paper. That you’re 51%, you’re good to go.” Said Cromwell.

ATI may be 51% tribally owned by the Susanville Indian Rancheria ON PAPER, But Melayne revealed to us that ATI was founded in collaboration with the Rancheria by two caucasian DC executives; Firmadge Crutchfeld and Scott Deutschman. And that they manage all of ATI’s operations.

In 2024, the Biden-Harris Administration awarded a record-breaking $183 billion in federal contracts to “small businesses,” including those under “socially disadvantaged” categories like 8(a).

But as the OMG exposé shows, many of these firms are front companies exploiting racial-preference loopholes to funnel billions to private consultants and politically connected insiders.

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 10/20/2025)  (Archive)

UPDATE:

SBA has launched an investigation into ATI Government Solutions and Susanville Indian Rancheria.

This is why we have been conducting a full review of the 8(a) Program, ostensibly designed to help “socially and economically disadvantaged” small businesses compete in the federal marketplace. Yet, what we’ve discovered so far has been institutionalized abuse, which potentially amounts to billions of dollars in federal contracts that are run through shell companies, fraudulent pass-throughs, and other schemes.

That’s why in February, the SBA took immediate action to slash 8(a) contracting goals across the federal government. In June, we launched an audit of the program to review every 8(a) contract for the last 15 years. And in July, we rescinded the contracting authority of USAID, which was involved in a massive bribery scandal.

@JamesOKeefeIII has exposed an important truth. Like every other government program rooted in DEI, the 8(a) Program is rife with grift and fraud.

Under my leadership, the SBA is committed to restoring integrity and implementing strong reforms to protect U.S. taxpayers from further abuse. The full audit is ongoing and whistleblowers may contact https://sbax.sba.gov/oigcss/

October 21, 2025 - John Brennan hit with criminal referral over Steele Dossier lies

Former CIA director John Brennan (Credit: public domain)

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Tuesday referred former CIA director John Brennan to the Justice Department for prosecution, alleging that Brennan made false statements to Congress about how the 2017 intelligence assessment on Russian election interference handled material from the so-called Steele dossier.

In a five-page referral letter dated today, Jordan argues that Brennan’s sworn May 11, 2023 testimony conflicted with declassified records the committee says now show the dossier was not only reviewed by the CIA but also included – via an annex – in the intelligence community’s assessment. The letter invokes 18 U.S.C. § 1001, which makes it a crime to “knowingly and willfully” make materially false statements to Congress.

To wit – Brennan told lawmakers that “the CIA was not involved at all with the dossier” and that the agency was “very much opposed to having any reference or inclusion of the Steele dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment.” But Jordan’s letter points to what it calls “Annex A” of the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), which it describes as a “two-page annex summarizing the Steele reporting” and drafted “in coordination with the [FBI]” under a joint decision by the CIA and FBI.

The broader context brings into focus the 2017 ICA, released Jan. 6 under the auspices of the Director of National Intelligence, concluding that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and developed a preference for Donald Trump. Earlier reviews by the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Justice Department’s inspector general found that the dossier was included in a classified annex to the ICA – not in its main body – and that while the FBI and CIA debated how to handle it.

Jordan claims that the dossier’s language is contained in the main body of the ICA and that Brennan personally overruled CIA analysts who raised concerns about the dossier’s reliability – quoting an internal exchange attributed to Brennan in which he allegedly asked, “Yes, but doesn’t it ring true?”

According to Brennan: “my bottom line is that I believe that the information warrants inclusion in the report.”

The referral calls Brennan’s lies “material” and part of a “pattern of Brennan’s willingness to lie to Congress” – pointing to Brennan’s earlier 2017 House Intelligence Committee appearance in which he said, “the dossier was not in any way used in the Intelligence Community Assessment” (a statement the letter says lies outside the statute of limitations but is relevant context).

(Read more: Zero Hedge, 10/21/2025)  (Archive)

October 22, 2025 - CA House Democrat announces plan for House Oversight Committee to launch “Master ICE Tracker” to dox ICE agents

House Democrat Robert Garcia and LA mayor Karen Bass reveal plans for a doxxing operation tracking the location of ICE agents. (Credit: KTTV/Fox News)

House Democrats are ramping up their war against immigration enforcement by taking a page from their far-left supporters and ratting out the location of ICE agents.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) announced on Tuesday that Democrats on the House Oversight Committee will be launching what he called a “master ICE tracker” to monitor the movements of ICE agents. In other words, a hit list.

“I shared this with the mayor,” Garcia began. “Over the course of the next couple of weeks, the Oversight Committee will be launching on their website a “master ICE tracker.”

“We will be essentially tracking every single instance that we can verify (location of ICE agents),” he added.

WATCH:

Make no mistake: this new doxxing operation will put the lives of thousands of brave federal agents in danger from Antifa terrorists and open borders extremists. (Read more: Gateway Pundit, 10/22/2023) (Archive)

October 22, 2025 - House Minority Whip Katherine Clark admits to Democrats using the government shutdown as "leverage"

Democrats weaponize shutdowns to push their open-borders agenda—holding Americans hostage while sneaking benefits for illegals into spending bills. Clark admits they’re using families as pawns, proving their twisted priorities: leverage over citizens, handouts over lawfulness.

Taxpayer dollars should fund veterans and border security, not subsidize illegal immigration. Every shutdown threat exposes their refusal to cut waste and protect American interests first.

October 22, 2025 - The hypocritical MSM and Dems in a tizzy over Trump's WH Grand Ballroom project; Senator Hawley questions their sudden concern for history

Several men pose amid partially demolished walls, rubble and steel girders in the lower corridor of the White House, photographed during President Truman’s White House reconstruction on Feb. 14, 1950. (Credit: Smith Collection/Gado, Getty Images)

Senator Josh Hawley dismantles CNN’s narrative about President Trump’s White House renovation during a live interview.

When reporter Manu Raju asked: “What about just uprooting the—you know—this is an iconic building?”

@HawleyMO exposed their faux outrage instantly:

“Manu, I will just say this. I made this point yesterday, that I hear all of a sudden from my liberal friends that they’re very concerned about our history.”

“Really?”

“These are the same people who tore down every statue they could get their hands on in the last four years.”

“Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt.”

“They didn’t have any concern for history then. Now all of a sudden, they’re like, oh, the facade of the East Wing is iconic.”

“Oh give me a break!”

“I mean, give me a break.”

October 22, 2025 - There’s a taxpayer program helping foreigners on temporary work visas buy US homes

Many Americans already believe the H-1B visa program was built to replace them at work. Now we’re finding out it is helping foreign workers buy homes too, with our tax dollars.

In Oregon, there’s a taxpayer-funded initiative called the Down Payment Assistance Program, which hands out as much as $60,000 or 20 percent of a home’s sale price to qualifying buyers. It was pitched as “equity in housing,” but the fine print reveals that even foreign nationals on temporary work visas can tap into it. Yes, you read that right. People just passing through on a work visa can get a US taxpayer handout to buy up one of our homes and then turn it into a money-making Airbnb.

How is this real?

So, that means Americans who can’t afford a starter home are footing the bill so imported tech labor can snag one. Reports suggest that at least some of these taxpayer-subsidized properties that are used as short-term rentals could be violating federal visa restrictions.

Not only are Oregon’s taxpayers forced to pay $1.5B for the healthcare of non-citizens, we also pay for the down payments for non-citizens to purchase property in Oregon.

The Down Payment Assistance Program offers up to $60K or 20% of the sale price of property to help non-citizens own real estate in Oregon.

For some context on how crazy stupid this is, try this in Europe. Europe is essentially socialist across the board but if you want to buy property in Europe and you are not a citizen of that country, good luck.

Governments that actually give a fuck about their citizens don’t allow foreigners to purchase property. Much less, make their citizens pay for it.

(…) This program should never exist for non-citizens. Period. Taxpayer-funded home loans were meant to help Americans build stability and put down roots, not to bankroll foreign nationals looking for investment properties.

Oregon’s lawmakers have managed to create the perfect symbol of America’s decline… citizens funding their own displacement. (Read more: Revolver News, 10/22/2025) (Archive)

October 23, 2025 - Deputy AG writes preservation letter; threatens to arrest CA politicians fueling violence and threatening prosecution against ICE agents

Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche (Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche fired off a letter to leftwing officials in California on Thursday, threatening to prosecute California politicians for harboring illegal aliens and obstructing law enforcement.

The letter demands preservation of “all written and electronic communications and records related to any attempts or efforts to impede or obstruct federal law enforcement officials.”

It further points to 8 US Code 1324, which lawless Democrat city and state leaders have repeatedly violated by harboring illegal aliens and impeding federal law enforcement.

Blanche threatened the politicians inciting violence against law enforcement during a round table press conference about Trump’s Homeland Security Task Forces (HSTF) to combat foreign drug cartels and human trafficking. The initiatives in Trump’s January 20 “Protecting the American People Against Foreign Invasion” executive order led to the seizure of over 150,000 lbs of narcotics and the arrest of over 3,000 terrorist cartel members in recent months.

“If any one of our federal agents, our state or local agents working under the HSTF banner are even touched by any of these terrorists or rioters, they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Blanche said.

“When politicians aid these terrorists by trying to give them comfort, or protection, or suggesting that somehow our men and women are doing the wrong thing, same problem.”

(…) After the press conference, Blanche announced that he formally put politicians in California on notice with a preservation demand letter. His letter to California Governor Gavin Newsom, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, US Representative Nancy Pelosi, and District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, slams them for refusing to work with federal law enforcement and engaging in a “criminal conspiracy,”

(Read more: Gateway Pundit, 10/23/2025) (Archive)

October 23, 2025 - Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, and Chris Wray all personally approved opening Arctic Frost

Christopher Wray, Merrick Garland and Lisa Monaco speak at an Election Threats Task Force meeting in May 2024. (Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The Arctic Frost memo proves exactly what we’ve warned about for years—Biden’s DOJ weaponized federal power to target political opponents under the guise of “election integrity.” Garland, Monaco, and Wray greenlit a fishing expedition against Trump’s team, spying on senators and funneling taxpayer cash into a partisan hit job.

Grassley’s oversight exposed the rot: 92 conservative groups targeted, 8 GOP senators’ phones monitored, and Jack Smith’s entire case built on this abuse. When bureaucrats treat the FBI as their personal opposition research arm, it’s not justice—it’s tyranny.

Bondi and Patel must dismantle every thread of this corruption.

October 23, 2025 - ICE issues an arrest detainer for Jashanpreet Singh, a criminal illegal alien from India, who killed 3 in a DUI crash

@ICEgov lodged an arrest detainer for Jashanpreet Singh, a criminal illegal alien from India, who took the lives of 3 individuals in a horrific DUI accident in San Bernadino County, California.

Singh first entered the U.S. in 2022 through the southern border and was RELEASED into the country under the Biden administration.

This tragedy follows a disturbing pattern of criminal illegal aliens driving commercial vehicles on American roads, directly threatening public safety.

Under President Trump and @Sec_Noem, ICE is working day-in and day-out to make America’s roads safe again.

The White House confirms California granted a commercial license to an illegal immigrant charged with killing three people in a DUI crash:

“These tragedies are following a disturbing pattern of these criminal illegal aliens being issued commercial vehicle licenses.”

“The Department of Transportation is [cracking down] on these licenses wrongfully being issued to people who clearly do not deserve to uphold these positions.”

This tragedy is exactly why the Department of Transportation withheld $40M from California last week for ignoring federal safety standards. States rubber-stamping CDLs for illegal immigrants who can’t read road signs or pass basic tests are gambling with American lives. The Biden administration’s 2022 “alternatives to detention” policy released this driver into our communities despite his illegal entry—now three families pay the price.

Trump’s DOT is finally enforcing English proficiency rules, but Newsom’s California keeps prioritizing lawlessness over public safety. Every license issued to an illegal alien is a ticking time bomb.

Secure the border, deport violators, and stop letting bureaucrats put political correctness above common sense.

The facts behind California’s licensing practices and federal enforcement failures demand a closer look—see the full breakdown: https://dogeai.chat/t/1981425962316075386

h/t: Gateway Pundit, 10/23/2025

October 23, 2025 - FBI: Minnesota man arrested after offering to pay $45K bounty for murder of Pam Bondi

A man in St. Paul, Minnesota, is accused of posting a TikTok video offering to pay a bounty for the murder of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.

The suspect, identified as Tyler Maxon Avalos, allegedly posted an image of Bondi with a caption that read “WANTED: Pam Bondi — REWARD: $45,000 — DEAD OR ALIVE (Preferably Dead),” Fox News reported Monday.

An image of the alleged post appears to have a sniper scope dot on the photo of Bondi:

Tyler Maxon Avalos (Credit: Crime Watch)

The Fox article said the suspect is also accused of writing, “Cough cough. When they don’t serve us, then what?” on the post.

A federal investigation was launched once another TikTok user flagged the post. Officials arrested the suspect at an apartment building on Thursday, and he now faces federal charges in the case.

The Fox report said Avalos has a long criminal history that includes convictions for stalking and domestic violence.

“His TikTok account, investigators noted, also featured anarchist symbols and links to anti-government literature. His profile also brandished a link to ‘An Anarchist FAQ book,’ according to court filings,” the outlet noted. (Read more: Breitbart, 10/27/2025) (Archive)