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Two “No Choice” Wars At Once

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WATCH: Dr. Oren updates the audience on the Israeli view of Trump’s “last chance” for Iran to make a deal.

Israel Has No Choice but to Risk Open Conflict With Trump

History shows that when Jerusalem has folded under American pressure, it has earned contempt, while when it has insisted on its sovereign security needs, it has earned respect. If history is our guide, Israel has no choice but to act independently in the fateful campaign for its future.

Jun. 10, 2026 / Israel Hayom

In my media interviews, I am often asked: “Has Israel become the 51st state of the US?” With half a smile, I answer: “If only. American states have far more freedom and room to maneuver than Israel does.”

This situation is hardly new. Ever since U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower demanded that Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion halt the Israel Defense Forces’ campaign against Egypt in Sinai in 1956, and later withdraw from Gaza, the United States has consistently forced Israel to stop fighting and agree to a ceasefire.

That was true in the 1967 Six-Day War, which Israel wanted to continue for an eighth day; in the 1973 Yom Kippur War; in both Lebanon wars; and in all our operations in Gaza. Even pro-Israel presidents such as Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush threatened severe consequences if Israel ignored their demands to cease fire.

In May 2021, on the eighth day of “Operation Guardian of the Walls” against Hamas, I received a phone call from a senior adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden, who asked me to convey an urgent message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “Israel must end the operation tonight, or risk losing American support.” Netanyahu was furious. He wanted to keep fighting for at least three more days. But he immediately complied. The operation ended that evening.

The only difference between U.S. President Donald Trump and previous presidents is his tendency to treat us publicly as vassals who must obey his every order. This is humiliating and demoralizing for Israel and, unfortunately, it strengthens our enemies. But that raises the question: Must Israel obey the White House’s demands under all circumstances and at any price?

Historically, the answer has been “no.” U.S. presidents not only ordered Israel to stop fighting; they also opposed its decision to go to war in the first place. That was the case in every war from the establishment of the state until “Operation Rising Lion” last year. Yet Israel’s leaders, despite the risk of a rift with Washington, determined that our basic security was at stake and decided to act.

Ironically, every time Israel defied the White House and went to war—in 1948, for example, in 1967 and in the 1981 strike on Iraq’s nuclear reactor—we earned America’s respect. Every time we surrendered to pressure and showed restraint—in 1973 and in the 1991 Gulf War—we earned America’s contempt.

This record is especially relevant today, when Hezbollah will undoubtedly violate any ceasefire and continue attacking us. Israel needs to defend and save the north, but in doing so, it risks not only war with Iran but also an open confrontation with President Trump. As in the past, Israel will have no choice but to act.

With its eyes wide open to the potential cost, Israel must show that it is neither a U.S. vassal nor its 51st state, but a sovereign country with an unshakable duty to defend its territory and its citizens. In the end, if history is our guide, Trump will respect us for it.

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VP Vance Refers Tim Walz, Keith Ellison to DOJ for Criminal Fraud Investigation

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Washington Times: Vice President JD Vance has formally referred Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison to the Department of Justice Monday for criminal investigation after a new House Oversight report documented years of ignored fraud warnings. “The evidence is overwhelming that state officials knew about systemic fraud in Minnesota’s social services programs and chose to look the other way,” Vance said in a statement. Washington Times: Mr. Vance, the administration’s fraud czar, said he was making the referral after reviewing the findings from the House Oversight Committee. The committee’s report, published Monday, alleges that Walz and Ellison were “aware of widespread taxpayer fraud in federally funded social programs for years” and did not take steps to stop it. An estimated $300 million in federal child nutrition funds and potentially $9 billion in Medicaid-related funds were “lost” or placed at “serious risk,” according to the report. “As a result, potentially billions of American taxpayer dollars were allowed to flow to fraudulent actors, while vulnerable populations were harmed and whistleblowers were ignored, sidelined and retaliated against,” the report says.

Jeff Charles at Townhall: Walz and Ellison had the authority to cut off payments to fraudulent operations, but they allowed taxpayer funds to continue flowing to these entities even after the red flags emerged in the Feeding Our Future case. The report highlights how the Department of Education continued paying Feeding Our Future and other fraudsters out of fear of political repercussions.

Confirmed: Governor Tim Walz and AG Keith Ellison Knew FOR 6 YEARS of Rampant Minnesota Fraud But Said Nothing in Order to ‘Keep Somali Votes’

By: Gateway, June 10, 2026:

The scandal that has rocked Minnesota politics just got even worse.

A bombshell report released Monday by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Majority Staff concludes that Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison were repeatedly warned about widespread fraud in Minnesota’s taxpayer-funded programs for years, yet failed to take meaningful action while billions of dollars were allegedly siphoned from government programs.

The 205-page report, titled “The Cost of Doing Nothing: How Tim Walz and Keith Ellison Fueled Minnesota’s Fraud Explosion,” paints a devastating picture of political negligence, bureaucratic paralysis, and what investigators describe as a pattern of looking the other way while fraudsters looted public funds.

According to the report, senior officials in the Walz administration and Ellison’s office were aware of credible fraud concerns as early as 2019 within the Minnesota Department of Human Services and by 2020 within the Minnesota Department of Education.

Yet despite possessing the authority to suspend payments and remove fraudulent providers from government programs, state officials repeatedly failed to act.

According to the report:

  • Senior officials in Walz’s office and Ellison’s office were aware of credible, systemic fraud in DHS programs as early as 2019 and in the Department of Education’s child nutrition programs by April 2020.
  • In the Feeding Our Future case, MDE officials identified serious deficiencies yet voluntarily continued payments for another eight months until the FBI finally raided. This was NOT required by any court order.
  • State agencies had clear authority to suspend or stop payments to suspected fraudsters without waiting for courts, FBI direction, or federal orders — but they refused to use it.
  • Officials repeatedly cited litigation threats and fear of racism accusations as the real reason they kept cutting checks. Not law. Not regulations. Politics.

The report states bluntly: “Litigation threats and fear of accusations of discrimination, not legal or regulatory barriers, were repeatedly cited by state officials as the reason for continued funding of entities suspected of fraud.”

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Pamela Geller

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Billions Lost. Warnings Given. And Now, Heads May Roll.

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A new congressional report has dropped, and if even a portion of its findings prove accurate, Americans should be asking a very uncomfortable question:

How many warnings should government officials receive before someone is held criminally accountable?

This week, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a “BOMBSHELL” 205-page staff report titled:

The Cost of Doing Nothing: How Tim Walz and Keith Ellison Fueled Minnesota’s Fraud Explosion.

The report alleges that senior Minnesota officials knew for years that taxpayer-funded social programs were vulnerable to widespread fraud, yet failed to stop it.

That’s hardly a shocking secret.

For weeks, critics argued government officials had ignored warnings, whistleblowers, and available tools to stop the fraud.

The committee added something that was missing. It documented the allegations.

The report points to programs tied to the now-infamous Feeding Our Future scandal and raised broader concerns about Medicaid oversight.

Congressional investigators claim hundreds of millions—and potentially billions—in taxpayer funds were placed at risk. That’s ‘B’ as in ‘Billions,’ and ‘B’ as in ‘Busted.’

Committee Chairman James Comer called it one of the most severe oversight failures his committee has examined.

But there is another side to this story, of course. The denials.

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison rejected the report, characterizing the investigation as politically motivated.

But we’ve seen this playbook before. Whenever the left faces intense scrutiny, the defense is rarely based on evidence; instead, it’s blamed on politics, bias, racism, or phobias.

Well, Americans can decide for themselves. But in this case, it may be a judge or jury making the final call.

Vice President JD Vance, who leads the White House anti-fraud task force, announced that he has referred the allegations to the Department of Justice for potential criminal investigation.

On X, Vance wrote:

“Minnesota state officials are not above the law, and if they facilitated fraud, lied under oath about what they knew, or harassed and intimidated whistleblowers, they must face justice.”

In a letter to Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald, who oversees DOJ fraud enforcement efforts, Vance called for the matter to be reviewed with “all appropriate urgency” and said federal investigators should determine whether any laws were broken.

One fact should concern everyone regardless of party: Government programs depend on public trust.

If taxpayer dollars intended for hungry children, struggling families, healthcare recipients, or vulnerable communities are stolen, every legitimate recipient suffers.

If whistleblowers are ignored, if officials refuse to intervene, and if no one is held accountable, then the wallets of everyday Americans will be robbed while the truly vulnerable go unfed, unclothed, and unhoused.

This should not be a Republican issue. This should not be a Democrat issue. This should be an American issue.

The public deserves answers to simple questions:

Who knew? When did they know it? What action was taken?

Congress has now placed those questions squarely before the country. And the country needs to put the complicit overseers before a judge.

Read the report for yourself. The smoke is billowing, and now we wait to see if the DOJ finds the fire. Let’s hope they bring a firehose, not a guidebook on mediation.

Source material: U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Staff Report, June 2026.

AUTHOR

Martin Mawyer

Martin Mawyer is the founder of the Digital Intelligence Project and the President of Christian Action Network. He is the host of the “Shout Out Patriots” podcast, and author of When Evil Stops Hiding. For more action alerts, cultural commentary, and real-world campaigns defending faith, family, and freedom, subscribe to Patriot Majority Report.

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How California’s Election Procedures Turn Early Leads Into Late Losses

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Delayed vote tallies in California are attributable to the vote-by-mail system and weeklong deadlines for receiving ballots, which undermines confidence in results, election experts say.

Tuesday is the deadline for the last of California’s ballots to arrive, where about 80% vote by mail and about 40% of ballots arrive after Election Day in the nation’s most populous state. These are among the factors that contribute to repeatedly delayed results.

On Sunday, it appeared that Republican mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt would fall out of contention for the general election after several days of appearing in the top two vote recipients along with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, a Democrat. Another Democrat candidate, Nithya Raman, appeared to overtake Pratt for second place to face Bass in the general election. The state’s primaries allow the top two vote-getters, rather than party nominees, to advance to the general election.

California also doesn’t allow local jurisdictions to require voter ID and allows 22 days for “curing” ballots. Curing is when a voter’s ballot needs to be corrected or clarified to count, such as fixing illegible marks on the ballot or inserting a missing signature on the ballot envelope.

“There are a lot of consequential House races in the general election. We are likely going to have a similar conversation in November,” Andrew Bahl, a law team staff writer for Ballotpedia, which monitors election procedures, told the Daily Signal.

Similar apparent flips have occurred in previous elections in the state, including in races for the U.S. House of Representatives. On election night in 2024, Republican incumbent Rep. Michelle Steel was leading, but that lead turned into a loss days later as Democrat Derek Tran won the seat 22 days after the election.

In 2024, 80.8% of voters used mail-in voting in California. This figure does not include early in-person voting, according to a Ballotpedia report that contrasted California’s election procedures with Florida’s.

Both states have large voter populations. Among the biggest differences between them is that Florida has strict timelines for tabulating and reporting results, Bahl said. Florida also allows election officials to count, but not report, early in-person and mail votes before Election Day, in contrast to California, which requires tabulation to wait until after the Election Day polls close.

California became an all-mail voting state during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and the state Legislature codified all-mail elections in 2021. After this act, every registered voter in the state automatically received a ballot.

As long as ballots are postmarked by Election Day, they can arrive up to seven days after the election.

“About 23 million ballots were sent to California voters and only about 7 million came back,” Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, told the Daily Signal.

“California has created a system that is at every stage as insecure as possible,” Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, told the Daily Signal.

He added that California has no laws against ballot harvesting or against third parties delivering or picking up ballots in large quantities.

“The desire to get election results on election night cuts across every party,” Snead added. “When people repeatedly see results change, or one candidate concedes and then becomes a victor, it opens the door for speculation.”

Over the weekend, President Donald Trump did far more than speculate, effectively declaring the California elections “crooked.”

“Thousands of homeless may be fueling Nithya Raman’s impossible late surge in LA. Voter fraud was just busted on Skid Row,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “This is why nobody trusts their elections anymore.”

During an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Trump said: “Look at what’s happening in California. Do you think it’s appropriate that they have an election and five days later they’re nowhere close to picking a winner?”

California Secretary of State Shirley Weber’s office did not respond to an inquiry from the Daily Signal by publication time.

Weber posted on X Monday that elections in California are secure, asserting there is “rigorous testing of machines,” “strict chain of custody,” and “all signatures are verified.”

“Los Angeles County’s focus is not on any particular race or outcome; our focus is on the process. California law provides a canvass period to ensure every valid ballot is properly received, verified, processed, and counted, and that is exactly what we are doing,” Mike Sanchez, spokesman for Los Angeles County, told the Daily Signal. “While there is often significant public attention and commentary surrounding election results, our office remains committed to transparency, accuracy, and ensuring every eligible voter has their ballot counted. We will continue to process and count all timely and valid ballots in accordance with California law.”

There is no evidence of impropriety, but the procedures negatively impact voter confidence, said Don Palmer, a former chairman of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, now a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

“California needs to reform its system because it is not designed for voter confidence,” Palmer, a former director of Florida elections, told the Daily Signal. “After the 2024 election, the California Legislature was forced to make some slight modifications after the long counts. But the system is designed for California Democrats, not California voters.”

The problem has affected several U.S. House races in California, including Tran’s late-breaking victory in 2024.

In 2020, Republican Young Kim was declared the winner over Democrat incumbent Rep. Gil Cisneros 10 days after the election.

In 2018, it took nine days for Democrat Katie Porter to officially win the election over Republican incumbent Rep. Mimi Walters. For nearly a full week after election night, Walters led Porter in the vote count.

This story was updated to include a comment from a spokesman for Los Angeles County, California.

AUTHOR

Fred Lucas

Fred Lucas is senior investigative reporter for the Daily Signal. He is the author of “The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean Elections.” Follow on X FredLucasWH.

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Fraud and Waste in America’s School Districts

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Fraud in American public school districts is predominantly an internal issue, with 97% of cases involving trusted staff or volunteers rather than external hackers.  The most common method is cash theft (62% of cases), often skimmed from activity fees and fundraisers before records are created, while less frequent digital payment fraud accounts for the majority of total financial losses.

Common fraud schemes exploit weaknesses in procurement, payroll, and enrollment verification:

  • Asset Misappropriation: Includes “ghost employees” on payroll, time theft, and embezzlement via fraudulent expense reports or personal use of district credit cards.
  • Procurement Fraud: Involves bid rigging, shell companies invoicing for non-existent goods, and kickbacks where vendors pay officials to secure inflated contracts.
  • Enrollment Manipulation: Districts or individuals inflate student counts with “phantom enrollments” or falsify residency addresses to illegally secure higher state per-pupil funding.

Detection and consequences rely on annual independent audits and the separation of duties, yet significant gaps remain at the individual school level where oversight is often lax. Recent investigations highlight the scale of the problem, such as a 2025 NYC report identifying $2 million in fraud across 150 substantiated cases and the $400 million phantom enrollment scandal involving California charter schools. Beyond direct financial loss, fraud drains resources through costly external audits, staff replacements, and the erosion of community trust.

Education watchdog warns schools to watch for fraud as new year approaches

InvestigateTV — With the school year fast approaching, the U.S. Department of Education’s watchdog agency is issuing a warning: fraud in schools is real, costly, and often targets the nation’s most vulnerable students.

Assistant Inspector General of Investigations Jason Williams with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) said federal education funds—intended for more than 100,000 schools across the country—are at risk of being misused or outright stolen.

“If they have access to funds, if there’s no separation of duties—people get greedy,” Williams said. “And then that’s when we find fraud.”

Williams said in many cases, the losses amount to millions of taxpayer dollars, often earmarked for children.

“These are elementary school kids. These are children with disabilities. These are our vocational rehab programs,” he said. “You’re taking that money away from them and they can’t use it for their education.”

He explained that oversight of federal funds varies among school districts.

“When you look at the controls that are in place, sometimes they’re lax,” he explained. “In some districts, you know, you have one person that’s also doing the purchasing but they’re also paying the credit card bill—and that’s what we call separation of duties. When these things aren’t in play, these things happen.”

Williams said warning signs can include duplicate invoices, missing equipment, lack of receipts or other documentation, and unusual vendor or purchasing activity.

Of the many fraud cases his office has investigated, Williams often recalls one particular case out of California.

“This particular district, 61 percent of their student population was eligible for Title 1, so it’s a very low-income district,” he shared. “He stole 16 million dollars over a number of years. He just pled guilty and he’s on his way to prison.”

Anyone that suspects fraud or theft in their school district should contact the OIG.

People can report fraud, waste or abuse to their hotline.

Largest Annual Spike in Public School Spending in Over 20 Years

Average U.S. public school spending per pupil in elementary and secondary schools rose 8.9% to $15,633 in fiscal year (FY) 2022 from the previous year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent Annual Survey of School System Finances data.

All nine states in the Northeast region ranked in the top 14 for current per pupil spending and seven were in the top 10.

While statistics are not adjusted for inflation or cost-of-living differences, this change marks the largest year-to-year percentage increase in over two decades.

States with the highest per pupil spending:

    • New York ($29,873).
    • District of Columbia ($27,425).
    • New Jersey ($25,099).
    • Vermont ($24,608).
    • Connecticut ($24,453).

States with the lowest per pupil spending:

    • Utah ($9,552)
    • Idaho ($9,670).
    • Arizona ($10,315).
    • Oklahoma ($10,890).
    • Mississippi ($10,984).

All nine states in the Northeast region ranked in the top 14 for current per pupil spending and seven were in the top 10.

Sixteen of the 20 states with the lowest per pupil spending were in the South or West. Iowa, Missouri, Indiana and South Dakota were the remaining four states.

Among the nation’s 100 largest school systems by enrollment, the New York City School District in New York ($35,914) spent the most per pupil in FY 2022, followed by Washington Schools in the District of Columbia ($27,425); San Francisco Unified in California ($23,654); Atlanta School District in Georgia ($22,882); Los Angeles Unified in California ($21,940); and Detroit School District in Michigan ($21,771).

Federal Revenue Increased Significantly From FY 2021 to FY 2022

The New York City School District ($38.5 billion) and Los Angeles Unified ($12.5 billion) — both among the highest-spending districts — received the most combined federal, state and local revenue of the 100 largest school systems by enrollment.

New York City School District received 6.6% of its FY 2022 revenue­ from federal sources; 29.8% from state sources; and 63.6% from local sources. In contrast, Los Angeles Unified received 19.2% of its FY 2022 revenue from federal sources; 54.5% from state sources; and 26.3% from local sources.

The national average of revenue received from federal sources was 13.6%; 43.7% from state sources, and 42.7% from local sources. (Figure 1)

(This screenshot is part of a larger dashboard to be published April 25th at: How Did COVID-19 Affect School Finances? (census.gov))

Federal revenue increased 39.6% from FY 2021 to FY 2022 and 47.6% from FY 2020 to FY 2021. These increases were largely the result of the legislative response to COVID-19, such as the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act; Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act 2021 (CRRSA); and the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act.

Food Services and Transportation Expenses Rebound

While Instructional Salaries ($266.4 billion) continued to account for the largest category in current spending nationwide, there was a significant increase from FY 2021 to FY 2022 in both Food Services and Transportation expenditures as schools returned to in-person learning.

The decrease in FY 2020 and FY 2021 from prior years was a direct cause of distance learning prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic (Figure 2).

This screenshot is part of a larger dashboard to be published April 25th at: How Did COVID-19 Affect School Finances? (census.gov))

AUTHOR

Kaylee Anesta

Kaylee Anesta is a survey statistician in the Census Bureau’s Education Finance Branch in the Economic Reimbursable Surveys Division.

The Bottom Line

The average cost of public education in the United States varies by metric and year, with recent data indicating significant spending per student.

National Averages

Per Pupil Spending: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, public school spending per student averaged $15,633 in fiscal year 2022, an 8.9% increase from the previous year.

Total Expenditures: The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reported that total expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools were $927 billion in 2020–21, amounting to an average of $18,614 per pupil.

Current Expenditures: Of the total per-pupil cost, $16,280 (87%) is allocated to current expenditures such as salaries, benefits, and supplies, while the remainder covers capital outlay and debt interest.

Variation by District Spending varies drastically between districts, with the highest-spending districts costing significantly more than the national average.

Rank District Spending Per Pupil
1 New York City Public Schools $28,828
2 Boston School District $27,793
3 Rochester City School District $24,832
4 New Rochelle City School District $24,542
5 Newburgh City School District $24,257

In contrast, some of the largest districts by enrollment, such as Miami-Dade County and Clark County, spend approximately $8,000 to $9,000 per student, though total budget figures often include non-instructional costs not directly attributable to per-pupil calculations.

Is it time to call for a state or federal audit of your school district?

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The H-1B Visa Fraud Network

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The H-1B visa program, originally designed by the United States to attract the world’s brightest minds and bridge critical high-skilled labor gaps, has morphed into a playground for systemic manipulation. At the epicenter of this distortion is a highly sophisticated network of IT consulting firms, staff augmentation agencies, and body shops operating primarily out of India or managed by Indian-origin syndicates in the U.S. What was conceived as a pipeline for specialized talent — the software architects, researchers, and engineers capable of driving global innovation — has instead been choked by a deluge of coordinated deception, designed to monopolize a finite public resource at the expense of legitimate professionals worldwide.

The mechanics of this exploitation were laid bare during recent lottery cycles, exposing a staggering disparity between honest applicant volume and coordinated fraud. Because the annual allocation of H-1B visas is strictly capped by Congress at 65,000 caps, alongside a 20,000 master’s degree exemption, the selection process relies on a random computer lottery. For fiscal year 2024, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recorded an unprecedented, mathematical anomaly of 781,000 total registrations. Shockingly, more than 408,000 of those entries were multiple registrations submitted on behalf of the exact same individuals. A shadowy conglomerate of shell companies and interlocking IT consultancies colluded to file dozens of duplicate applications for single candidates. By artificially inflating their numbers, these bad actors drastically reduced the selection odds for independent applicants to a dismal percentage, effectively hijacking the lottery through sheer volume.

The architecture of this fraud relies on a multi-tiered system of smoke and mirrors. Rather than offering real, specialized positions at established enterprises, these fraudulent operators utilize ghost offices — empty storefronts and mail-forwarding addresses scattered across states like Texas and California — to create the illusion of local demand. These entities submit legally binding attestations to the U.S. government affirming that a specific, specialized job awaits the foreign national. In reality, these positions are entirely fabricated. A prominent case recently prosecuted by the Department of Justice involved Indian-origin executives who went so far as to falsely promise placement at prestigious institutions, like the University of California, (allegedly) utilizing fraudulent employment contracts to siphon visas for non-existent projects. Once these visas are successfully obtained through deceit, the beneficiaries are benched — held in employment limbo without legal pay — until the firm can contract them out to actual American businesses as cut-rate contractors, undercutting the domestic labor market and violating federal wage protections.

The corruption is not limited to small-scale fraudulent rings; it extends historic roots into some of the largest tech conglomerates originating from the Indian subcontinent. To bypass the stringent oversight and numerical limits of the H-1B program, massive outsourcing giants have historically weaponized alternative visa pipelines, establishing a blueprint for systematic evasion. This institutional misconduct was punctuated when Infosys paid a record-shattering $34 million civil settlement to immigration authorities following allegations of systemic visa fraud. Federal investigators discovered that the company was systematically using B-1 visitor visas — intended for short-term business meetings — to deploy foreign nationals for full-time, hands-on software development work in the United States. To pull this off, the corporation explicitly distributed internal “Dos and Don’ts” memos, coaching foreign employees to deliberately lie to U.S. consular officers, and scrub their correspondence of revealing technical words like implementation, design, or testing that would indicate they were arriving to perform actual local employment.

The damage inflicted by this institutionalized gaming of the system is vast and multifaceted. It breeds a culture of exploitation where the foreign workers themselves are trapped by predatory employers who hold absolute power over their legal status, often taking kickbacks or withholding wages. Simultaneously, it locks out genuine global talent — brilliant scientists, medical professionals, and innovators, who possess genuine job offers from premier institutions but are shut out by a lottery system stacked against them by automated fraud rings. This rampant gaming of federal regulations finally forced USCIS to dismantle its old framework, moving to a strict beneficiary-centric selection model for the fiscal year 2025 and 2026 cycles, an intervention that saw fraudulent multiple registrations plummet from over 400,000 down to fewer than 8,000.

While these tighter guardrails have begun to stem the flow of duplicate registry scams, the legacy of this deception casts a long shadow. Decades of unpunished exploitation have permanently distorted the public perception of skilled immigration, fueling valid domestic skepticism and provoking aggressive regulatory crackdowns, including sweeping executive restrictions on entry. The widespread fraud originating from India’s predatory IT shell sector has not just broken American immigration laws; it has actively betrayed the global community of honest professionals, turning a merit-based ideal into a game of corporate numbers where the only true winners are the cartels pulling the strings.

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Washington School Board Director and Sex Shop Owner Hosts Sex Event for Children as Young as 9

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Who hires these degenerates?

Washington school board director, sex shop owner host sex ed event for kids as young as 9

Jenn Mason’s WinkWink Boutique in Bellingham is offering the ‘Uncringe Academy’ covering gender, puberty, and sexuality

By Rachel del Guidice, Fox News, June 6, 2026:

A Washington school board director who owns a sex shop is helping host a sex education event for children as young as 9 years old, drawing scrutiny over the program’s content and the role of an elected education official in promoting it.

Jenn Mason, the owner of WinkWink Boutique, which describes itself as a “woman-owned, inclusive, ‘not creepy’” sex shop in Bellingham, Washington, about half an hour from Seattle, is hosting an “Uncringe Academy” for 9- to 12-year-old children June 24.

The event will cover gender and sexual identities, puberty, periods, the “paths to parenthood: the many ways to have a baby” and “defining sex and sexuality,” among other topics.

“There’s a lot to learn when it comes to bodies, puberty, sex, gender, and relationships,” the description for the event says. “That’s why WinkWink created ‘Uncringe Academy’: honest, supportive, and inclusive sex education classes to help young people and their families understand this important part of their life.”

The event, which parents can attend, features a 4½-hour class for kids “that’s based in empowerment and information, rather than shame, fear, and judgment.”

“We use an accepting, informing, and affirming framework,” the event description says. “Our focus is helping young people to feel comfortable around these topics so that they can advocate for their own bodies, health, and well-being.”

Mason, the owner of WinkWink Boutique, which sells sex toys, candy for oral sex and “books for love and lust,” is also a school board director for Bellingham Public Schools.

She was elected to the school board in November 2017 and subsequently re-elected in 2021, according to her bio on the Bellingham Public Schools website, and also has a daughter who attends Bellingham Public Schools.

In 2022, Mason’s WinkWink Boutique held a “Queer Youth Open Mic Night” for “all queer youth (0 to 18 years old)” who were “invited to share poetry, music, or a story at our open mic night. Sign up for a performer spot ahead of time, 5-minute time limit.”

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Mason said, “Uncringe Academy is a voluntary sex education program created in response to requests from parents. The program covers standard sex education topics, including puberty, relationships, consent and safer sex with lessons adjusted to be developmentally appropriate for each age group. Parents are always welcome to attend alongside their kids.”

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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SUDDEN LEAD BY UNKNOWN WHO CONCEDED: California’s Big Cheat Run By Fraudster with Shocking Election Recount Past

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The fraud is so blatant and brazen that the real scandal isn’t the theft itself—it’s the coordinated effort to silence, smear, and destroy anyone who dares expose it.

Angelino Aaron Torres: “I try not to get political. But LA is where I live, and I am here to tell you: There is 0.0 percent chance these results are legit.

Nithya Raman has no base. No one knew who she was until Spencer Pratt torched her on debate stage. She gave a concession speech on Tuesday.

I really hope the federal government and United States Attorney Bill Essayli are investigating.

Again, apologize for getting political. Feel free to unfollow if this bothers you but a light needs to be shined on what’s happening.”

LA’s painfully slow vote count run by man with shocking election recount past

By Jamie Paige, NY Post, June 5, 2026:

The man holding the keys to Los Angeles County’s vote count has spent much of his career navigating election controversy.

Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan, whose compensation totals nearly $450,000 a year, is once again facing scrutiny as hundreds of thousands of ballots remain uncounted and several major races hang in the balance

Throughout his career in election administration, Logan has faced scrutiny and criticism stemming from several high-profile election disputes in multiple states.

Before arriving in California, Logan served as elections director for King County, Washington, overseeing elections for roughly one-third of the state’s voters.

Although courts ultimately upheld the election results, the recount battle prompted years of criticism from some Republicans and repeated calls for Logan’s resignation.

In a 2008 profile, the Los Angeles Times reported that many Washington Republicans remained sharply critical of Logan’s handling of the election, while Democratic leaders defended his performance and praised his leadership.

Logan left Washington in 2006 and joined the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s Office as deputy to then-Registrar Conny McCormack.

He later succeeded McCormack as the county’s top elections official, taking charge of the nation’s largest local election jurisdiction.

Logan later faced criticism in Los Angeles over several election-administration disputes.

One of the most prominent occurred in 2008 when nearly 50,000 decline-to-state voters cast ballots that initially were not counted because they failed to mark an additional party-preference bubble required to participate in certain presidential primaries.

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At Normandy, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Warns of New Islamic Invasion

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“Today, different European beaches are ​stormed by different, dangerous ideologies”

The D-Day commemorations have long since become stellar exercises in which sterile phrases about the courage and honor of those young men who fought to liberate Europe from fascism are mouthed by politicians and leaders enabling the contemporary mass invasion of Europe by Islamofascism.

Even as Pope Leo was visiting Spain to promote mass Muslim migration being enabled by its corrupt, mostly under indictment, leftist regime, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told some troubling truths at Normandy.

Speaking on the 82nd anniversary of the June 6, 1944, Allied beach landings in Normandy, Hegseth said: “Sadly, today, different European beaches are ​stormed by different, dangerous ideologies — beaches in Spain, in Italy, in Greece and Bulgaria; boats and men arrive.”

“When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is ​it too late? I pray not, and I believe not,” Hegseth said in his speech at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer in northwestern France.

“Or is it too late? I pray not, and I believe not.”

“The men who fought and died here restored freedom to Europe. That freedom must be maintained by this generation of leaders and war fighters, or what they fought for, was merely temporary!”

There’s no point in empty recollections of past defenses of civilization only to abandon it to a new barbarism.

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Why Britain’s ‘DEI Police’ Watched a 19-Year-Old Boy Die in Front of Their Eyes

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Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to Victor Davis Hanson’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes.

Victor Davis Hanson: That’s the first video I couldn’t finish. It was just sick.

To remind everybody what happened, we had a 19-year-old who had a confrontation with a 23-year-old immigrant, [a] Sikh from India. We don’t really know the particulars except the Sikh person was carrying a “ceremonial sword,” which is apparently allowed under DEI auspices because he has a religious exemption, but it was a pretty big blade.

He stabbed this 19-year-old white male repeatedly. Then his brother called the police and said the perpetrator was a victim of racism. The police came to the scene. The perpetrator said he had a little mark, which I couldn’t even see, and that this racist on the ground had attacked him and he had only defended himself.

That was all they needed.

So, then, the DEI police, and that’s what I’m going to use because that’s the thematic narrative, went to the anti-DEI person who was dying with a deep wound to the chest. His lungs were filling up with blood. I can relate to that because I had the same experience with three pulmonary arteries that were cut or broke apart, and I had two to three liters immediately in my lung cavity.

That’s not a good feeling when you can’t breathe and you’ll die with that blood in your cavity. They have to suck it all out.

So, he was there alive, and the police saw that. He was lying down, and they pulled on him to prop him up. He said, “I’m dying. I can’t breathe.” They completely ignored him, kept the cuffs on, and he literally bled to death in front of them.

They were just clueless and more worried about the perpetrator. Then they went home and hid the murder weapon. His mother did.

They found out the particulars of the assault and came back. The brother, I don’t think, has been arrested, even though he was the one who called in with the fake narrative that it was a matter of white racism, which really killed the kid.

That was what prepped the police.

In their defense, they knew that if they had arrested the Sikh perpetrator, they probably would have lost their jobs.

Then the family hid it, and the Sikh leader in the community said, “Oh, this is terrible. People are blaming us. We’re victims of hate now.”

My answer to him is: Don’t identify an individual as a collective unless you want to be a collective.

There was a member of your Sikh community who killed a person and murdered him. He is a murderer. He was convicted. Then there was another member of that Sikh community, a member of that family, who lied to a police officer.

That’s a felony. Then they hid the weapon. They were accessories after the fact. That’s a felony.

All you have to do as a self-proclaimed Sikh leader is say the following: “This does not represent the Sikh community. We are a group of individuals, and any time we find one of the members of our community has acted antithetical to our values, we condemn it most heartedly.”

That’s all he had to say.

Instead, he turned around and said, “Well, the poor Sikh community is now getting … ” If you’re going to be a collective, then people are going to say, “Well, this is what you do.” If you want to be individuals, then act like individuals.

The same thing is true here in the United States. No one has been more supportive of the Sikh community than I have, both on this broadcast and in person.

Sometimes I kid my Sikh friends at one of the largest temples that’s 2 miles from my house. I’ve talked about them many times.

Yes, they’re all good friends. They’re wonderful people. They’re wonderful citizens. I don’t even think I should use the term “wonderful people.” They’re wonderful individuals that I know.

One of the most admirable is Simon Siyodi. He’s a good friend of mine. I like him enormously.

But my point is this. I teased him. I said, “If you’re going to have this huge Sikh temple with these flags of the Sikh nation, why don’t you at least put an American flag on your temple?” Sometimes I’ve seen it, sometimes I haven’t.

When these accidents were overwhelmingly perpetrated by illegal aliens, and here in California, overwhelmingly the Sikh drivers did not know English, did not take the regular test, and were given exemptions.

There was an attempt by federal authorities to say those licenses, which were fraudulently issued and led to some deaths of innocent people, would not be valid in other states.

The Sikh community then said, “We want a letter in support.”

That was the same idea. Why would you do that? Why wouldn’t you say, “These members of the Sikh community who entered the United States illegally, resided illegally, got driver’s licenses under fraudulent circumstances, acted recklessly, and killed people through their recklessness, we condemn these people. They’re not representative of our community.”

They didn’t do that.

I think that’s another sign that it’s going to hurt the community and hurt the community terribly.

Yes, I’m on a working farm, and there’s a big machine that is very important to finish.

The other thing, very quickly, Jack, is that this is the anti-George Floyd scenario.

Here we have parallel tracks. Here is a 19-year-old without a record who was minding his own business.

Here is George Floyd, a career felon who broke into a home, put a knife at a pregnant woman’s belly, and was convicted. In the process of encountering the police, he was:

A) Committing a felony by passing counterfeit currency.

B) Committing a felony by resisting arrest.

C) Committing a misdemeanor by being under the influence of fentanyl.

The police intervened in both cases.

In the case of George Floyd, they used an approved police maneuver to subdue him. Due to his ongoing COVID-19 condition, his fentanyl intoxication, a jury found Officer [Derek] Chauvin’s use of his knee—he passed out and said he couldn’t breathe.

At that point, they called an ambulance. The ambulance came, took him to the hospital, and he died.

Officer Chauvin was given a murder charge, convicted, and has since been attacked in prison, as I understand it.

The country’s reaction to that was four months of looting, arson, violence, 35 people killed, 1,500 officers injured, $2 billion in damage, courthouses burned, precincts burned, churches burned, and 14,000 people arrested.

That day almost ruined the universities because afterward they dropped the SAT and standards for admissions.

Now, of course, you see left-wing faculty saying, “Please bring back the SAT. The students are too poor to do the work. We don’t know what we’re going to do.”

Stanford said the same thing.

“We can’t water down the curriculum anymore because the graduates cannot get the type of jobs the Stanford brand would ensure them because employers caught on to us.”

It changed everything. It changed the military with DEI. It changed popular culture with critical race theory. It started the defund-the-police movement.

All from that incident.

In Britain, there will be no mass arson, riots, nothing.

The murderer was convicted.

I hope the members of the family who either hid the weapon or gave fraudulent information to the police will be charged and held accountable.

I hope the Sikh community will say, “These people do not represent our values and are not really members in good standing of our community. We want to integrate and assimilate into British culture.”

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The Iranians and the Boar

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Now that I have arrived in our summer quarters in the South of France, I am discovering the secret animal nature of Iran’s current leaders.

More than any other animal, they resemble the boar.

I know them well — both the Iranians, and the boar.

This winter, my boar were particularly aggressive — boorish, if you will. They crashed through my electric fence like it was an Arleigh Burke destroyer in dry-dock, with devastating results.

I tell them every year not to do this, because they will get shot. And without fail, every year they do it.

They can’t help it. It is their boar nature. And neither I nor the local guns managed to catch them in the act and shoot them.

So they tore up acres of cultivated ground, ripping out flowers and shrubs, leaving behind hillsides looking like a swarm of mosquito boats had just swept past at 50mph.

This week, Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezai (there is no “ret.” after that, despite the fact he was fired as Rev. Guards commander in 2007), announced that Iran had no intention of making a deal with the United States unless Donald Trump authorized the release of $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets.

I write about Rezai extensively in my new book, The Iran House: Tales of Revolution, Persecution, War, and Intrigue. One reason is that his son Ahmad defected to the United States in 1997 and not long thereafter called upon me to parole him into the country, where he learned English in our Kensington, Maryland basement for six months.

Rezai was sidelined for power for years because of his son’s actions. And when his son was murdered in Dubai in November 2011, I went there to investigate on behalf of his widow and young daughter. And what I found troubled me.

You can read the full story in the book. But in short, I believed Dad showed the regime he was capable of Abrahamic loyalty.

Mohsen Rezai reappeared in 2021 as a vice-president under the Raisi government. And now, he has reinvented himself once again, this time as the military advisor of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei.

It’s a convenient job, if true. Because Mojtaba is 1) shy, or 2) disabled, or 3) paranoid that the CIA will track him if he ever appears on a video, so he issues written statements that get read by a succubus.

Mohsen Rezai is that succubus.

His latest gambit — or invention, and we don’t really know which — is that El Supremo wants Trump to return $24 billion in frozen Iranian assets as a “sign of good will.” Otherwise, the negotiations are over.

Now that’s an interesting gambit. Eventually, if Iran gives up its enriched uranium — all of it, not just the HEU — and opens the Strait and pledges to never seek a nuclear weapons capability in the future, ever — well, then sanctions relief becomes possible.

But not upfront. Trump made that clear.

But SOMEONE talked the US Navy into easing the blockade of the Strait to allow four Iranian-flagged supertankers to slip the noose this week, carrying 7 million barrels of Iranian crude they loaded at Kharg more than 6 weeks ago.

I suspect Trump’s Svengali, Steve Witkoff. I can picture him whispering in the president’s ear: Mr. President, it’s such a small gesture, but for the Iranians, it will show our good faith and unblock the negotiations. That’s all they are asking. Just a little gesture or good will.

Here’s a lesson in Iranology for Mr. Witkoff. Offer the mullahs carrots and they will consume them, burp, and not even say thank-you. Instead, they will ask for more.

And that’s exactly what Mohsen Rezai is doing.

The president today made his deadline clear. He wants a deal over the weekend, and a signing ceremony next week in Geneva.  Mohsen Rezai and the Gayatollah can pound sand in their bunker as it collapses on top of them. Or so we can hope.

I discuss the Iran talks, as well as Zelinskyy’s asking Putin for lunch, Turkey’s ambitions to strike Israel, and Trump’s plan to restructure our NATO assets so the Germans can’t suck us into another senseless war, in this week’s Prophecy Today Weekend.

As always, you can listen live at 1 PM on Saturday on 550 AM in the Jacksonville, Florida, area or by using the Jacksonville Way Radio app.

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DOJ FRAUD CHIEF: Fraudsters Should Fear a 6 A.M. Knock on the Door

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WATCH: DOJ FRAUD CHIEF: Fraudsters Should Fear a 6 A.M. Knock on the Door

In an exclusive interview, Daily Signal legal analyst Mehek Cooke discussed with Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald why the Justice Department launched its inaugural state partnership roundtable in Ohio, how data sharing could help investigators identify fraudsters who target multiple government programs, and why other states should join the effort.

This transcript has been slightly edited for clarity.

Mehek Cooke: Assistant Attorney General McDonald, thank you so much for being here in Ohio today.

Colin McDonald: Thank you so much for having me. It’s great to be here.

Cooke: So, I was able to witness a closed-door roundtable where you’re leading a charge to detect fraud in Ohio with multiple partners and Ohio officials. Can you tell me why you started in Ohio with this?

McDonald: Well, thanks for chatting with me here. It’s so important to get the word out about the fraud efforts that we’re engaged in. We started here on the strength of some great U.S. attorneys who are here in the state of Ohio and some willing state partners who, when we came to them and said, “Hey, we have these ideas for how we can do better together, to come together as one team,” they were willing down the line to say, “Yes, we’re willing to do that and to become one team to fight for the American taxpayer and to make sure that we can stop the bleeding when it comes to the fraud.”

So, this morning’s event was a kickoff event, an inaugural event, with state and federal partners to get together in a room and say, “Hey, if we don’t solve it, no one else will.”

And so, we’ve had great reception here in Ohio. Partnerships including the sharing of data and also including the provision of prosecutors to join the Department of Justice’s Fraud Division and other agreements down the line to make sure that we can remove information silos so that we can have and sing off the same sheet of music when it comes to the data that exists out there, so that we can more quickly illuminate the fraudsters in Ohio and then bring them to justice.

Cooke: Well, thank you. It’s exciting that Ohio’s the first and shining example, but I have to share with you that people in Ohio are deeply frustrated because fraud has been rampant for decades. Why do you think it’s taken so long, and what can we do to make sure we expedite these processes?

McDonald: Yeah, fighting fraud requires resolve and focus and leadership. And I’m grateful on the federal side, under President [Donald] Trump, Vice President [JD] Vance, Acting Attorney General [Todd] Blanche. Those three men are laser-focused on solving this problem for the American people.

And so, I would say that is the biggest sea change, leadership, and the leaders in the room saying, “We’re not going to tolerate this anymore. We’re going to actually do something about it, and we’re going to put our money where our mouth is, which is we’re going to put resources behind this work so that we actually have a broad enough fraud-fighting apparatus to engage with the fraudsters so that we’re not outnumbered.”

So, we’re in that process right now of building out our squad, both in D.C. but more so nationally, to make sure that we have prosecutors out there in the districts, in the states where the fraud is happening so that we can bring bad actors to justice.

So, that would be my answer, leadership. And we have that leadership, steer, and desire and purpose. There’s a purpose behind what we’re doing, and that comes from the top.

Cooke: Well, I have to say there’s no doubt that the political will and desire to protect taxpayers is there by this administration.

I think the deeper concern is Ohio and then Columbus, Ohio. We have the second-largest Somali population, and out of that we have seen a robust operation of home health care fraud. We’re seeing other avenues of fraud in other programs as well.

And the silo approach in our states, and I’m seeing this across the country, where there’s no data sharing even amongst state agencies.

Like a Republican state in Ohio, we have the governor’s office here who’s refusing to give public records. So, we’ve asked for, at the Daily Signal, public records of just how much we’re spending for home health care services, not patient data, nothing confidential. And after five months, the Ohio Governor’s Office Department of Medicaid responded that they subcontracted this to a private operator and that I had to go to them to ask for those records.

What can you do at the DOJ so a taxpayer like me and millions of others across the state just have visibility into how the states are managing our money?

McDonald: Yeah. Well, it’s a very big problem on the federal side where we give over billions of dollars to states across the country, and then in many instances, we never see what happens with that money afterwards. And some states do good, some states do not do well at all with providing proper accounting for that money. So, it is a big problem.

And those information silos that you talk about, where the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing, and the federal government is denied visibility into certain documents, we’re dealing with that in the state of Minnesota right now, and other states who are even going so far as to sue us to prevent us from having access to records that would probably very likely demonstrate fraud.

And you kind of have to ask, why would someone be trying to keep records from us to help us illuminate the fraudulent actors? It is a question I think everyone should pose.

So, what we plan to do, we mentioned this morning at the roundtable, is we are building out a prosecutor-led national fraud detection center, which breaks down those information silos and brings together data from federal agencies and also state partners so that we can bring that data together to see and identify the fraudsters who are defrauding multiple programs at the same time in many instances.

And this has never been done before, to have that cross-program visibility.

We’re going to build that. We’re in the process right now of doing that so that we can identify the very small percentage of people who rip off the United States time and time again. This will give us the ability to put a microscope on those people, and they won’t be able to hide because the data talks and it talks loudly.

And when we get everybody to give it to us and we can look at it, we are going to be able to unmask those fraudulent actors.

Cooke: Will taxpayers have access to this data once you’re able to create it nationwide?

McDonald: So, the fraud detection center will be prosecution-focused.

Cooke: So …

McDonald: It will fall in line with the standard protocols for the treatment and collection of criminal evidence. And so in that regard, no. But in the other sense, what we are trying to do is build out a robust platform for messaging to the American people.

What are we finding and who are we prosecuting?

And also, being able to use what we’re learning to go to the policymakers and share that with the policymakers to say, “Hey, these are the flaws in the system. This is how you need to do better with your security protocols to make sure that the money doesn’t go out the door in the first place.”

Because that’s better for everybody if there are systems in place that can prevent the money and capture the fraudster before they have consummated the fraud.

So, we will be as transparent as possible within the confines of what the federal rules of criminal procedure allow for us to be.

But also, we do plan to tell the American people how they are being ripped off, because the more they know, the more the public will support all the work that we’re doing and will ensure that no one can remain on the sidelines, that everyone will join the team because they’ll see that they need to get in the game.

Cooke: Well, that’s incredible because one of the big things you highlighted is not only transparency but deterrence, so that the bad guys out there know that you’re watching and that you’re exposing it, so they are less likely to commit fraud.

One of the best parts about the conference that you just led, the roundtable, was your drive to say there should be fewer prosecutions in years to come because deterrence is working. Can you comment a little bit more on that?

McDonald: Yes. The best case for a country, for a state, for a society, is in the end you have demonstrated the power of the prosecutor to be able to reach those who are committing crime.

And when you demonstrate that, if there is a crime, there is a consequence, that you will reap what you sow, and you demonstrate that the prosecutor apparatus is large enough to reach you, then people don’t commit crimes. They think twice. They realize, “I shouldn’t lie. I shouldn’t cheat. I shouldn’t steal.” Very basic things.

But where you do not have that apparatus built out, people think they can get away with it.

So, you have a lot of fraudsters who have, for many years, been enjoying the darkness and being able to steal from the American people in the dark, no visibility, and funding their very lavish lifestyles. So, they do not feel the concern that a prosecutor might be knocking on their door, or a federal agent might be knocking on their door at 6 a.m. the next morning. That’s what I want to change.

I want to change that whole dynamic such that if you’re a fraudster and you go to bed tonight, you are worried that you are going to get a knock on your door at six o’clock tomorrow morning. And if you make it to 6:30 tomorrow morning, you should say a prayer because you’ve got another day. But guess what? You’ve got to go to bed that night worried about six o’clock the next morning. That’s what I want. I want fraudsters worried about six o’clock in the morning.

Cooke: Well, I congratulate the drive and the implementation. Ohio’s the first state. What’s your message to other states about getting on board so we have a 50-state solution to fraud? And the most important part of this is, if there’s reluctance, what do you say to those states?

McDonald: I would say leave the reluctance behind. Get on board the fraud-fighting team. We have room for everyone. Our division that we’ve created is the National Fraud Enforcement Division, and we chose that word purposefully, which is that the fraud is national.

And we’ve announced in the last 64 days or so over 550 major fraud takedowns, arrests, convictions, and sentences across the entirety of the United States of America. So, we are moving quickly to build out our fraud-fighting apparatus.

We invite everyone to join us, as you’ve seen today with different members of the Ohio coalition agreeing to join us and come alongside us. That’s what we want. If we come together, we can solve this problem. If we stay in our own corners and not cooperate, it won’t work.

Cooke: Thank you so much for your leadership on this. It’s a pleasure to have you in Ohio, and I continue to see your great work across the country.

McDonald: Thank you so much.

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Over 870,000 Inactive Voters on the Rolls in California

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New York Post: The layers and layers of corruption in the Golden State make it difficult to see how things could get better. This lawsuit starts in Orange County: Orange County Supervisor Don Wagner, the Republican candidate for secretary of state, joined the American Independent Party of California in suing incumbent Secretary of State Shirley Weber, alleging that 873,092 inactive voter registrations are still on the rolls. The complaint, filed through conservative voting watchdog organization Judicial Watch, claimed the Democrat Weber is in violation of federal law that requires most inactive voter registrations to be removed after two general federal elections. Instead, more than 800,000 registrations have remained inactive and on the rolls for at least three elections — with 151,202 on the rolls after at least four consecutive elections, the suit claims. The lawsuit also alleges that the state takes no effective action to require counties to fix the issue, citing admissions by California officials.

Judicial Watch: “Judicial Watch’s federal lawsuit confirms California has a dirty voting rolls crisis – with thousands of old names on the rolls going back at least 10 years,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections. And California and its counties must take immediate steps to clean the over 870,000 dirty names on the voting lists”.

California is slowly counting the votes in its closely watched June 2 gubernatorial contest, with results showing Republican Steve Hilton and Democrat Xavier Becerra at the top of the heap. But we know how these things roll.

With roughly half of the votes counted by 2 am ET on June 3, Hilton, a former Fox News host endorsed by Trump, stood in first with about 27%, followed by Becerra, a former Biden administration official, holding roughly 26%.

Bombshell lawsuit exposes 873,000 ‘ghost’ voters in California

By Titus Wu, NY Post,June 2, 2026:

As voters hit the polls Tuesday to make their picks in this year’s primary races, a fresh lawsuit against California’s secretary of state is calling into question whether hundreds of thousands of unqualified voters are still eligible to head to the ballot box.

Orange County Supervisor Don Wagner, the Republican candidate for secretary of state, joined the American Independent Party of California in suing incumbent Secretary of State Shirley Weber, alleging that 873,092 inactive voter registrations are still on the rolls.

The complaint, filed through conservative voting watchdog organization Judicial Watch, claimed the Democrat Weber is in violation of federal law that requires most inactive voter registrations to be removed after two general federal elections.

Instead, more than 800,000 registrations have remained inactive and on the rolls for at least three elections — with 151,202 on the rolls after at least four consecutive elections, the suit claims.

The lawsuit also alleges that the state takes no effective action to require counties to fix the issue, citing admissions by California officials.

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Pamela Geller

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GOP Congressmen React To Dems Publicly Plotting A Supreme Court Power Grab

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Democrats are promising major changes to the Supreme Court, and Republican lawmakers say those proposals could fundamentally alter the nation’s highest court.

A recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ) opinion piece examined what Democrats might do if they retake the House and potentially the Senate in November. One emerging answer, the piece argued, is a renewed focus on restructuring the Supreme Court.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, considered a leading contender to become Speaker if Democrats gain control of the House, has signaled support for significant changes to the Supreme Court. In April, Jeffries called the Court “a disgrace” and said that under a Democratic majority, “everything is on the table” to address what he described as a “corrupt MAGA majority.”

The WSJ piece also highlighted Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin, who has argued for adding four new justices to the Supreme Court. Raskin has pointed to the fact that there are now 13 federal appellate circuits but only nine justices, saying that means “four entire federal regions” are effectively left without representation on the Court and that the bench should be expanded accordingly.

Supporters of expansion have argued that the Court should grow from nine to 13 justices to match the number of federal appellate circuits. Critics, however, note that the Supreme Court has had nine justices since 1869, even as additional appellate circuits were created over time. They also point out that the historical practice of Supreme Court justices hearing cases on regional circuits ended more than a century ago.

Raskin has also proposed legislation that would transfer initial review of Supreme Court petitions to a rotating panel of 13 federal appellate judges. Supporters say the change would increase transparency, while opponents argue it would reduce the Court’s control over its docket and could reshape how major legal questions reach the justices.

The Daily Caller reached out to several members of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees for their reaction to Democratic proposals to expand or otherwise reform the Supreme Court if Democrats regain power in November.

Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee, who authored the book “Saving Nine” about preserving the Court’s current size, criticized proposals to add seats or impose term limits.

When asked about Democratic lawmakers’ comments and proposals, Lee told the Caller, “Democrat proposals to pack the Supreme Court or impose term limits would be a naked abuse of power, a violation of an independent judiciary, and a far greater threat to constitutional government than any so-called ‘norms’ breaking they’ve whined about for the past decade.”

Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn similarly argued that Democratic frustrations with recent court decisions are driving calls for reform.

“Our Democrat colleagues don’t want to keep losing cases in the courtroom, so they’ve adopted a new strategy: If you can’t win the game, change the rules, from packing the court with liberal justices to dictating recusal requirements,” Cornyn told the Caller.

Cornyn continued, “Republicans will continue to fight to protect the integrity of America’s judicial system, and we will not allow Democrats to hijack the federal judiciary for their own partisan benefit.”

The Wall Street Journal piece further argued that while Democrats may disagree with recent Supreme Court rulings, they still have legislative avenues available to pursue their policy goals through Congress. The piece contended that some critics are frustrated not only by specific decisions, but by the fact that the Court is no longer reliably advancing policies that lack sufficient support to pass through the legislative process.

A similar argument was raised by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan during a May 21 hearing titled “Court Packing: A Threat to the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy.” Addressing Democratic proposals to expand the Supreme Court by four seats, Jordan dismissed the rationale that the number of justices should correspond to the number of federal appellate circuits.

“That’s one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard,” Jordan said. “But that’s the argument Democrats are making, and it’s the argument their witnesses articulated.”

The debate comes as some Democrats continue to push judicial reforms, including court expansion and term limits for Supreme Court justices. With control of Congress potentially at stake in November, proposals surrounding the future structure of the Supreme Court are likely to remain a key point of partisan debate.

Raskin has also proposed legislation that would transfer initial review of Supreme Court petitions to a rotating panel of 13 federal appellate judges. Supporters say the change would increase transparency, while opponents argue it would reduce the Court’s control over its docket and could reshape how major legal questions reach the justices.

Republican Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt addressed the idea of the Democrats rewriting the rules, writing to the Caller, “Democrats know they cannot always win under the Constitution, so they want to rewrite the rules of the Court. Packing the Supreme Court would destroy the independence of the judiciary, weaken the rule of law, and betray the American legal tradition. If Democrats get their way, the highest Court in the land would become another political weapon.”

The Caller reached out to Republican Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, Katie Britt of Alabama, John Kennedy of Louisiana, and Republican Rep. Brad Knott of North Carolina, for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.

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Is Fighting Fraud Now Partisan?

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More than a dozen state attorneys general (AGs) met with Vice President J.D. Vance at a Tuesday meeting of the Trump administration’s anti-fraud roundtable, but not one of them was a Democrat. “Democratic AGs were invited to that same meeting, and it won’t surprise you that none of them attended,” declared Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R), who plans to participate in the initiative, on “Washington Watch”. The Democratic AGs not only avoided the event, but 23 of them even signed a public letter declaring that they would not.

“This absolutely should be an issue of concern to everyone,” warned FRC’s Jody Hice. Has fighting fraud now become a partisan issue?

The excuse offered in the letter was that Democrats did not believe the meeting was a “serious” discussion, and they were not given enough advance notice. “While we would appreciate the opportunity to engage in serious discussions, the invitation was provided with less than one business day’s notice with no agenda,” the letter complained. “With appropriate notice and a genuine opportunity for engagement, we would welcome the chance to participate in a future meeting and contribute to a productive dialogue.”

This complaint is not entirely without merit. According to an unnamed official cited by CNBC, invites were originally sent out only to Republican AGs. Apparently, whoever was responsible for organizing the meeting believed that fighting fraud was a partisan issue Democrats would not care about.

However, on Friday before the holiday weekend, Vice President Vance personally insisted that invitations be sent to Democrats too.

“This should not be a partisan effort,” Vance declared before the meeting. “Everybody should care about fraud. Everybody should care about rooting out fraud. Everybody should care about saving the American taxpayers money, and importantly, everybody should care about actually protecting the programs that only work and are only properly funded.”

But Democratic AGs chose to take offense at not originally receiving an invitation, rather than reciprocating Vance’s magnanimity to intervene on their behalf.

A last-minute (or last-business-day) invitation could provide a justification for some state AGs to skip the meeting. Some, like Marshall, likely had scheduling conflicts (although very few scheduling conflicts outweigh an invitation from the White House). Some, like AGs on the West Coast, could plead that the travel burden made the trip not worth the effort — not without time to schedule other East Coast meetings.

But many of the letter’s signatories are located much closer to Washington, D.C. than the West Coast. The letter was signed by the Democratic AGs of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and even the AG of D.C. itself. Instead of spending time adjusting their schedules to fit in a quick trip to the White House, these officials instead chose to spend their time drafting a letter to declare that they would not participate and circulating it for signatures. Several Democratic AGs even organized a press conference that afternoon to counter-program the event.

These factors suggest that the short notice was not the only reason — perhaps not even the main reason — why Democratic AGs organized a collective boycott of the anti-fraud roundtable.

What other possible reasons present themselves? These elected officials could be executing the common Democratic strategy of instinctively opposing any action the Trump administration tries to take — even to the point of being uncooperative on fraud prevention. Or they could be trying to avoid the embarrassment of showing up unprepared to a meeting where their own state’s fraud failure was on the agenda. There might be other reasons, but both of these are highly plausible.

The reason is the Trump administration’s narrative and focus on combatting fraud. This began with the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) highly publicized audits of government books. Those investigations found some substantial savings, although their results did not quite live up to the hype.

Since then, however, the Trump administration has continued to root out waste, fraud, and abuse through individual government departments, which are looking carefully at their expenses.

With the help of intrepid independent journalists, this focus on fraud blew open the Minnesota welfare fraud scandal late last year, which uncovered systematic fraud by Somali immigrants running fake daycares. In just one fraud scheme, Somali immigrants stole approximately $250 million in federal welfare dollars. But nearly 100 individuals were charged across multiple schemes.

The investigation spread beyond Minnesota and beyond the Somali community. By the end of 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice had charged 265 individuals with fraud, worth an alleged $15 billion in health care alone, and they had secured 235 convictions, either through guilty pleas or trials.

Early this year, President Trump tapped Vice President Vance to head up an anti-fraud task force. That group is now looking at fraud in at least 14 state welfare programs totaling a potential $9 billion. Additionally, Vance said the task force had referred $22 billion in potentially fraudulent small business loans to the Treasury Department and deferred $1.3 billion in Medicaid reimbursements from states (like California) that had failed to sufficiently cooperate with fighting fraud.

Of course, some fraud is neither systematic nor narrative-building. Sometimes, fraud is simply a result of sinful human beings deciding it is easy to steal from the public — until they get caught. Earlier this month, a former CIA analyst with top-secret clearance was arrested for defrauding the U.S. government in a number of ways. He falsified the details of his Navy service record, claimed 744 hours of paid time off for active military service for a decade after his discharge, and scammed his agency for millions in “work-related expenses.” Federal investigators found $40 million in gold bars, $2 million in cash, and 35 luxury watches in his home.

Examples like this one show fraud for what it is: someone who seeks to enrich himself by stealing from the government. It is little different from insider trading and almost the same thing as an elected official embezzling public funds.

“This should not be a political issue,” Marshall maintained. “When someone is stealing taxpayer dollars, that should be one [thing] that both Democrats and Republicans can unite around.”

Unfortunately, some public officials seem reluctant to unite around this principle. After citizen journalists like Nick Shirley began to uncover welfare fraud in California of the scope and nature of the fraud he had uncovered in Minnesota, the U.S. DOJ in April formed a West Coast strike force in its fraud division to focus on the Westernmost states.

But California didn’t want to play along. It’s unclear whether state officials meant to save themselves the embarrassment of being shown for dupes, or whether they believe the fraud should continue because the beneficiaries are illegal immigrants (and, in some twisted version of Marxism, their theft is therefore justified).

On Wednesday, the California Assembly passed a bill to ban photographing or video-recording employees of nonprofit organizations without their consent. This seems similar to the law Kamala Harris used 10 years ago to prosecute David Daleiden for exposing Planned Parenthood’s sale of baby body parts. The difference is that it expands penalties.

The bill also seems suspiciously timed and targeted to suppress the type of journalism Nick Shirley and others have used to expose, for instance, daycare and at-home care nonprofits that don’t actually provide any services, but bill the government anyway. Critics of the legislation have dubbed it the “Stop Nick Shirley Act.”

The good news is, Democratic state AGs do recognize they have a duty to combat fraud, and their letter to Vance at least acknowledges the nobility of the objective. Marshall expressed “hope” that his Democratic counterparts would come around to cooperate with the administration.

“It’s their legal responsibility, as the chief law enforcement officers of their state, to not only ensure that taxpayer money is spent appropriately, but also hold those accountable who violate the laws,” he said. “My hope is that they will see the wisdom of that. But yet we haven’t obviously seen a whole lot of action in Minnesota or in California yet.”

“We have a responsibility [to] the taxpayers of this country to root out waste, fraud, and abuse,” Marshall added. “We know what’s going on in the system. This administration has made it a priority, and we stand with them looking forward to best practices delivering results to the people across the country.”

The question is whether, in the age of Trump, even fighting fraud has become an issue divided along partisan battle lines. It should not matter whether the fraud is perpetrated by foreign nationals. What should matter is whether U.S. taxpayers are getting bilked out of billions by people leeching off the public coffers. In the eyes of the Left, though, the former question seems to get more attention than the latter.

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Joshua Arnold

Joshua Arnold is a senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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