Newsom Financial Scandals and Legal Trouble

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Good Thursday morning. Nice to have you with us on the forty seven morning update. And we've got two big stories for you . First up , Operation Rip Tide. It is ripping into fraud and now we have some of the biggest fraud catches so far , all because of President Donald Trump's leadership . Also, Gavin Newsom , he has no problem attacking the president and the White House , but now the media seems to be looking the other way on some of his serious legal problems. We explain it to you. But before we get to that, I want to take a moment and ask you to help the people in Israel with my friends at the IFCJ working right now on the ground for all those in need. From America's Revolutionary War to Israel's fight for survival in nineteen forty eight. Both nations have faced moments that tested their courage, yet freedom endured. In October of nineteen eighty five, President Ronald Reagan delivered these remarks about America's commitment to stand with Israel. In our talks, we paid special attention to two issues our commitment to Israel's security and well being , and our shared desire to move forward together toward a just and lasting peace between Israel and all its Arab neighbors . A strong, secure Israel is a shared interest . As America celebrates its two hundred fiftieth anniversary, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews reflects on the friendship between the United States and Israel , two democracies built on faith, liberty and hope. Sign up to receive a free USA Israel flag pin when you go online to flag pin F iC . org that's flag pin IFCJ . org It's the forty seven morning update and it starts right now story number one I want to take you back in time for a moment. Remember Donald Trump when he was running for president. He said, Hey, if you like me, I'm going to get rid of waste fraud and abuse. I'm going to clean house in the swamp and the deep state, and I'm going to find great Americans who actually serve the interests of the president's agenda, which you guys are voting for. Well here's another example of that campaign promise paying off big time. The FBI has busted now several fraud schemes across the country in the last few weeks. The FBI director Cash Patel said in the latest weekly update to the agency , Patel highlighted some of the results of Operation Riptide . Now that operation focused on criminal actors and the key services they rely on as well as their infrastructure, their tools and their services and their communication platforms and then their money. FBI Cleveland, for instance, disrupted a Chinese fishing platform linked to the theft of millions of credit card numbers. And nearly, and this is the part that again, this goes back to the Chinese and why you don't want to trust them with things like AI , nearly one point nine billion dollars in losses worldwide. I didn't say one point nine million. I said one point nine billion dollars in losses worldwide cash patel has now revealed. Now, as a result of these efforts of the FBI just in Charlotte, they said two individuals were convicted for operating a business email compromise scheme that stole twenty five million alone from U . S. companies . Thanks to FBI Boston, our cyber division, and international partners. We helped dismantle a VPN service used to buy ransomware groups around the world. He said this is exactly what Operation Riptide is about, targeting the cyber criminal ecosystem at every level. And we're just getting started. Now, fraudsters have also been targeted by the FBI in Los Angeles, for instance , an Orange County man was arrested for carrying out a nearly one hundred million dollars bank fraud scheme. This according to Patel. Thanks to the FBI Milaukee, a Wisconsin man pleaded guilty to defra uding nearly one hundred and ninety investors out of more than fourteen million dollars . Then out of New Orleans, a Texas man was indicted for running a four million dollars investment fraud scam . The victimized more than twenty people, he said , noting that a Texas couple had also been indicted for stealing more than two point five million dollars from vulnerable victims through a year long fraud scheme thinks they said the FBI Seattle . They also said that fraud scheme was a psychic fraud scheme. So again, preying on weak. Patel added the FBI Pittsburgh also announced charges against an Ohio woman accused of embezzling more than four hundred sixty thousand dollars from a law firm that she was working at as a paralegal. Seven other individuals, for example, in Las Vegas were arrested for exploiting coronavirus relief programs. You can also go all the way up to Alaska, where an individual there was sentenced to prison for defrauding those programs as well. Now, the FBI also targeted violent criminals taking illegal weapons off the streets in Birmingham, for example, they had a operation safer communities resulted in thirty six arrests and seizure of eleven firearms as part of summer heat two point zero , and after a separate seven week enforcement effort, FBI Birmingham announced more than one hundred and seventy arrests and confiscated an additional twenty two illegal firearms . By the way, Democrats should be excited about this because they're the ones that hate guns the most. So you would think they'd be like super pumped about this, right? No, of course not. They hate Cas Patel. They hate Donald Trump. They hate law and order. And so that's exactly why they're against this. Now Patel also revealed highlights from an FBI litter sting resulting in the arrest of thirty nine people , the seizure of thirty five firearms, large quantities of fentanyl that could kill many Americans , as well as a lot of other illegal drugs . You can go from Little Rock to Portland. The FBI saw man sent to prison for assaulting a federal officer during a violent attack at an immigration customs enforcement facility. That was of course, you know, those protests that were paid for yet again by the radical left. Patel also reminded agents that their work is saving children and multiple child predators were sentenced, convicted and charged as a result of investigations by the FBI and in Tampa , then in Boston, Kansas City, and Baltimore. Quote, as of yesterday, for example , one member of seven hundred sixty four was sent enced to thirty years in prison. He said as always, we're going to keep getting after it and I'll see you next week. Now, you look at that weekly update and that's the reason why I wanted you to understand kind of how this works . This is not like a six month update. This isn't a year into the year like update . This is the weekly update. Next week's update will be completely different with completely different information . I really, really, really, really, really want you to think about that, okay? You have a FBI that is working right now , by the way, exactly how it's supposed to. They're allowing the great men and women in uniform to do their jobs . It is something that I think should make all of us proud . And it's no longer using the FBI for political purposes. You may remember we found out the FBI was actually briefing and you go back to politics here. They were briefing and sending letters to big tech for example, Twitter , under the prior administration , on what they wanted to be censored. And what do you think about that? They were out there spending their time, sending emails and finding things that were posted online by people like Mark and myself and saying, hey, we need you to censor this information. There was questions, there were things, for example, put online like about Ivormectin, for example . And then what was the government doing? They were then connecting to Facebook or Meta to X and others and saying an Instagram and saying, Yeah, you guys need to take this down. Like, think about that. That was what law enforcement looked like under Biden Har,ris and under Obama , and then now look at it like we're actually going after and taking people down that have committed real serious heinous crimes. That is something that should make all of us excited . And it's again goes back to the promise that was made by the president of the United States of America, we're going to go after those that we're going to go after the bad guys, like we're going to go after waste, we're going to go after fraud. We're going to have to go after abuse. We are going to go after these things . And that is exactly why we should be so excited and proud of this. Next, story number two. Gavin Newsom investigation is something that is insanely under reported on. So let me go to the Sacramento B , all right, and I'm just going to read for you something that they had earlier today. The DOJ is investigating Gavin Newsom and his wife. Here's what's to know . Federal investigators are digging into the finances of California Governor Newsom and his wife , the first partner, Jennifer Newsom, the governor call s it a quote political attack tied to his expected twenty twenty eight presidential run. The Trump administration's justice department is probing the Newsom ties to non profits. Okay, this is what we're talking about a moment ago. Taxes and business dealings going back years. His wife has occupied a higher profile position compared to the spouse of other state leaders . The filmmaker and gender equity advocate has helped shape her husband's policies on issues like reproductive health, the male loneliness and mental health crisis, school nutrition, and regulating children's access to social media. Here are the key takeaways. Now, again, this is coming from the Sacramento Beach and again , this is one of the most underreported stories that if it was a Republican that was in this much trouble as a governor, it would be Waldo Wall Coverage twenty four seven . The U. S. Department of Justice is investigating the first lady of C alifornia's taxes and nonprofits connected to her and the governor with several probes ongoing for about a year that originated from whistleblower complaints. So that would be internal, okay? This isn't some whistle . This isn't some witch hunt. This isn't some political , you know, okay, we're coming after you because you came after us or we want to retaliate against you type of scenario, which is what Gavin Newsom of course said. No, no, this is people in and around you internally whistleblowers that complained to the US attorney's office in Sacramento. All right, that's why I'm giving you this from the Sacramento B. Then number two on their list says the IRS and FBI agents have approached staff, friends and associates of the Newsoms in recent weeks and obtained their bank records. That's significant. The governor's office said the probe intensified after Todd Blanche became acting head of the DOJ . One of the investigations is connected to Dana Williamson. Now this is the screaming like this is the fireworks going off moment. So you understand. This is the you know what moment if you are Gavin Newsom internally, okay? One of the investigations is connected to Dana Williamson. That is Newsom's former very close friend and former chief of staff. Now why is that significant? Well, Dana has pled guilty to federal charges. Okay. She's pled guilty to fraud and lying to the FBI last month and faces up to thirty six years in prison with the plea agreement . Now I go back to what I said earlier. This isn't a witch hunt. This is whistleblowers within the government whistleblowing and then seeing major problems and then a News' forommers Chief of staff pleading guilty to federal charges on fraud and lying to the FBI and is facing up to thirty eight years in prison. That is what you refer to as someone rolling. So this is someone who's trying to get like trying to spend the rest of their life in jail. They know a lot obviously about Gavin Newsom his wife. This former chief of staff and clearly is singing like a canary, I think, is a fair way of putting it. Now the first lady of California Newsom, earned about two point three million dollars from the representation project nonprofit between twenty eleven and twenty eighteen. That's a hell of money from a nonprofit. two point three million dollars. A twenty twenty one Sacramento B investigation found more than eight hundred thousand donations to the nonprofit from companies that directly lobbied the governor, meaning her husband . You understand where we're going with this. All right. So you got companies that are directly lobbying the governor , and all of a sudden, at the same time, you got more than eight hundred thousand dollars in donations to the non profit from companies that needed to do business with and were lobbying the governor who happened to be her husband , all right? That includ ed