#11
Where's Jessica Nesbitt? Alack,
She must have a pretty good flack...
Just pictures of gavels.
The mystery unravels:
Averting the "If she were Black!"
#13
Terminal Stupid, yet another example of the wheels coming off things in the criminal justice system. Criminal behavior, especially violent criminal behavior, overwhelming comes from the poorer sections of our society. This appeasement of those people under the guise of "fairness" inevitably endangers far more people, and is quickly impactful on the level of criminal behavior in the very neighborhoods they come from. So you create more high-crime zones, and less enforcement, and exodus of law-abiding citizens. Simply moronic political pandering.
[WashngtonFreeBeacon] Deployed Resources executive gave thousands to Dems as ex-wife worked for Kamala Harris
The Biden administration has awarded private companies hundreds of millions of dollars in no-bid contracts to house illegal aliens amid an unprecedented surge at the southern border. One of the major recipients is a Democrat-linked logistics company that owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes.
Federal law prohibits agencies from awarding grants to companies with unpaid federal taxes. But Deployed Resources, a New York-based contractor that owes $585,075 in unpaid taxes, received $964 million in federal contracts this year to house illegal immigrants in North Carolina and Texas. That windfall comes as Deployed Resources cultivated ties to the Democratic Party.
Tom Ziemba, an executive at Deployed Resources and president of its sister company, Deployed Services, has contributed more than $34,000 to Democrats, and has consulted for various Democratic groups. His ex-wife, Julie Mason, served as chief of staff for Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband until June 2022. Mason joined Deployed Services earlier this year as executive vice president for communications.
"The federal government has numerous controls to ensure award recipients are lawful and ethical actors, but these appear to be disregarded amid the Biden administration’s humanitarian crisis at the border," said Pete McGinnis, the communications director for the Functional Government Initiative, a government watchdog group.
Contracts to Deployed Resources, awarded largely by the Department of Homeland Security and Department of Health and Human Services, ballooned from $147 million in 2020 to $944 million in 2022. The IRS filed tax liens against the New York-based company in October 2022 for unpaid taxes from 2020 and 2021, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Deployed Resources is not the first Democrat-linked firm to score lucrative contracts from the Office of Refugee Resettlement. The San Antonio-based Family Endeavors, which hired Biden transition adviser Andrew Lorenzen-Strait in early 2021, received a $579 million no-bid contract from the office in March 2021, the Free Beacon reported. The Office of Refugee Resettlement’s budget has quadrupled even as it lost track of more than 100,000 unaccompanied children. Nearly all of the new spending has gone to Deployed Resources, Family Endeavors, and one other contractor.
Deployed Services has received $335 million in contracts since 2021 to provide "direct care" services at the North Carolina facility operated by Deployed Resources. That includes $261 million in no-bid contracts since last year, a practice that Vice President Harris and other Democrats have decried.
McGinnis said the contracts have been awarded "without proper oversight, even after contract recipients were tagged with clear misconduct, including unpaid taxes."
"Sadly, these cartel-friendly policies appear dysfunctional at every turn," he told the Free Beacon.
In 2019, the Government Accountability Office found that Health and Human Services and four other agencies rarely complied with the regulations regarding contracts for companies with IRS debts. Federal contractors are required to disclose whether they have any unpaid debt. Agencies must either deny contracts for tax scofflaws or consider whether they should be suspected.
The Government Accountability Office criticized Customs and Border Protection in 2019 over a $12 million contract with Deployed Resources for a migrant housing facility in Tornillo, Tex. According to the report, the government paid Deployed Resources for 650,000 meals that were never ordered. The facility was designed to hold 2,500 migrants at a time, but only 68 stayed there on average per day.
Deployed Resources did not respond to numerous requests for comment. DHS and HHS did not respond to requests for comment.
#1
I didn't look, but be assured that the "Admin Fees" probably top 80% of the funding's usage.
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The homeless programs have become yet another way for the left to finance itself.
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It is easy to be lowest bidder if you ignore all legal requirements.
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The IRS filed tax liens against the New York-based company in October 2022 for unpaid taxes from 2020 and 2021, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Looks like quarterly payroll taxes weren't paid over to the IRS; that's a tried & true way to run up Sharpton levels of tax debt.
#5
So this company puts money into Democrat election coffers while the IRS and Democrat pols wink at the unpaid taxes. Win-win for the bad guys. And you can bet that whatever housing is ever actually developed will be substandard squalor. How bad will it have to be to convince the illegals to go back home?
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[Breitbart] Former President Barack Obama wrote a letter defending LGBTQ+ books in children’s schools and public libraries as Republican-led states move to restrict them amid growing concern from parents.
"Today, some of the books that shaped my life—and the lives of so many others—are being challenged by people who disagree with certain ideas or perspectives," Obama tweeted along with a letter. "And librarians are on the front lines, fighting every day to make the widest possible range of viewpoints, opinions, and ideas available to everyone."
Possibly why he became a regular in the Chicago North Halsted bar scene as a young man.
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#3
We are being quite kind. As Dizney and the rest of the cable entertainment universe collapses, there just aren't going to be that many high paying jobs for gheys. Better if kids try some other track.
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I would move school libraries away from books to tablets. The electronic stack would be easier for the school board to manage. It would also make the book deal scams harder to use for money laundering.
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[Breitbart] The Biden family opened more than 20 shell companies to hide payments and launder money, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) said Sunday.
After reviewing Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) at the Treasury and subpoenaing banks and individuals, Comer posted on Twitter that the Biden family created more than 20 entities to accept, forward, and collect payment from a wide range of business associates.
“We found all these shell companies that make absolutely no sense,” Comer told Fox News. “I don’t believe they have paid a penny of revenue, a penny of taxes on most of the millions of dollars they received from our adversaries around the world.”
In March, the committee revealed the Biden family business over the course of several years received over $10 million from business schemes in Romania and China in return for what appears to be influence peddling.
For instance, SARs obtained by the committee revealed a Biden associate, Rob Walker, received a $3 million wire transfer from CEFC China Energy Co. In turn, four Biden family members — Hunter, James, Hallie, and an unidentified “Biden” — received a collective $1.3 million cut from the $3 million wire transfer.
Breitbart News reported the Biden family business received a total of $5.1 million within days of Hunter Biden’s messages to CEFC through multiple accounts, including Owasco and Hudson West III LLC.
“How did they list this on their taxes?” Comer questioned. “Is it a service they provided?”
Moving forward, Comer’s committee is set to begin deposing Biden family business associates in the coming weeks and months. Comer said in early July that Devon Archer, one of Hunter Biden’s top associates, will be the first member deposed to unravel the family’s international business schemes.
Archer was Hunter Biden’s “best friend in business” and got in legal trouble in 2022 for defrauding a Native American tribal entity. The court ordered him to pay a $43,954,416.75 judgment to the victims. Prior to his arrest, Archer served in 2014 with Hunter Biden on the board of Burisma, a Ukraine-based energy company, whose executive, Mykola Zlochevsky, allegedly bribed Hunter and Joe Biden with $5 million each.
Comer said the future depositions will be bolstered by Wednesday’s public testimony of IRS whistleblowers, who revealed at least 13 serious allegations against Hunter Biden, the Justice Department, and President Joe Biden.
“We’re now at the phase of the investigation where we’ve accumulated enough bank records to where we can ask these IRS employees specific substantive questions,” Comer said.
Among the allegations, the IRS whistleblowers alleged Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf refused to allow investigators to ask about Joe Biden being “the big guy.” Wolf also allegedly blocked questions about “the big guy” to limit where the investigation could go despite evidence of Joe Biden’s involvement. They also claimed Rob Walker said Joe Biden showed up at a meeting with CEFC and family associates.
“This should be a good substantive committee hearing that will allow us to move forward in the deposition process when we bring these individuals that were helping the Bidens funnel and launder this money,” Comer explained. “We will be able to ask them specific questions about specific transactions.”
#4
I am not too hopeful about the prospect of justice but based on Hunter’s choice of laptop passwords, I would like to hear Comer rattle off the list of the 20 companies. There must be at least one named Blow & Ho.
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[Blaze] National Security Council spokesman John Kirby suggested during a White House press briefing Monday that new laws protecting the unborn around the nation along with possible changes to the Department of Defense's abortion policy, such as those sought by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), might hurt recruitment and morale for the U.S. military.
Kirby also insinuated that the Pentagon's facilitation of abortion procurement amounts to a "sacred obligation."
WHAT'S THE BACKGROUND?
While Republicans in Congress seek to disentangle the U.S. military from pro-abortion initiatives by way of amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act, such as Rep. Ronny Jackson's (R-Texas) NDAA amendment passed last Thursday, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) has endeavored to do so by way of senatorial privileges.
NPR reported that since February, Tuberville has blocked every personnel move in the U.S. military requiring a confirmation, which amounts to at least 270.
Tuberville noted in a July 14 op-ed that "over the last two years the Left has been relentless in turning the military from the world’s greatest killing machine to just another outfit for liberal social engineering."
#1
Laws protecting the unborn aren't what's hurting military morale and retention. The LSD Immorality, Oddity agenda Coup and Biden's handlers running the DOD pretty much like BUD-LITE are.
Plus, I am sure many also see, that as this Political Coup falls apart, they would be called on to take arms against fellow
Pro-America citizens. A VAST MAJORITY of fellow citizens who would be just peacefully voicing a return to common sense logic, basic moral standards, adherence to the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
#2
The military recruitment and retention catastrophe has a long list of contributing factors. Retention stats in business and the military generally stink because people tend not to provide accurate info on why they have decided to leave. I suspect that graphing time series stats of when issues began you would see large degradations related to the 2020 election and Biden’s Covid policy. Military retention graphs can be misleading because there is generally a delay between when someone decides to leave the service and when they can act on their decision.
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One of the interesting and upsetting things about abortion in the military has to do with the physical fitness tests.
I've heard that in some cases, women will get pregnant to avoid the annual test then get an abortion after the testing window closes.
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Back before the 70s, the females were members of the Women's Auxiliary Corps. If one got pregnant, they were honorably discharged and could receive VA coverage for care and delivery.
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I've heard that in some cases, women will get pregnant to avoid the annual test then get an abortion after the testing window closes.
Posted by: lord garth 2023-07-19 07:22
...I never ran across that one, but USAF - except for a brief, deranged period in the 90s - just expected you to run a mile and a half once a year. Given the standards Army and USMC have though, I can't rule it out.
And was thinking - I'm wondering how much of this assistance in providing abortion to military members comes from a Government attitude that they may not be able to force the states to provide them but by Marx, they're able to force the military to allow it and they're going to.
#8
Russia, Europe, Japan, the US....you got to give people reason to look to a better future for their efforts to kickstart that. Sowing hate, envy, and demoralizing the population isn't going to be the key.
[Breitbart] America First Legal (AFL) announced a lawsuit against the Justice Department and Attorney General Merrick Garland over their failure to require Hunter Biden to register as a foreign agent.
As Breitbart News reported, CEFC China Energy Co., a company linked to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), paid Hunter Biden a $1 million legal retainer and $3.8 million in consulting fees. Two months later, Hunter Biden told whistleblower Tony Bobulinski that he did not want to register as a foreign agent on behalf of CEFC.
In addition, Hunter Biden sat on the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company, in which he earned $83,000 a month. During that relationship, Hunter Biden was possibly involved in a phone call between then-Vice President Joe Biden and then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, a National Archives email shows. Poroshenko was the Ukrainian politician that fired a prosecutor probing Burisma, and Joe Biden later bragged about the firing.
“Attorney General Garland failed to require proper registration or otherwise follow legal procedures concerning a FARA waiver for Hunter,” AFL said.
“Federal law makes clear that no person shall act as an agent of a foreign principal unless he has filed with the Attorney General a true and complete registration statement and files applicable supplements – none of which occurred during the Obama administration,” AFL argued.
Last week, the Justice Department indicted the “missing” Biden family whistleblower, Dr. Gal Luft, for failing to register as a foreign agent of CEFC China Energy Co, the same company for which Hunter Biden worked. Hunter Biden was not indicted for the same, AFL noted.
“Hunter Biden appears to have used his unique access and position to the benefit of multiple foreign principals,” Gene Hamilton, America First Legal Vice President and General Counsel said in a statement.
“The Attorney General has a non-discretionary duty to ensure that Hunter Biden registers as a foreign agent under FARA and provides the American people with transparency into his activities on behalf of foreign principals,“ Hamilton added.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology has long been a source of intense interest, with questions whether COVID-19 begun as a 'lab leak' from the site
The National Institutes of Health suspended funding for the facility in June 2020: and the Biden administration began a review of federal funding in September
On Monday, the Department of Health and Human Services told the lab they were suspending funding because the lab did not meet federal standards
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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