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Trump aide SUSPENDED from counterterrorism job hours after Daily Mail revealed her shocking 'sugar daddy' sex scandal
2026-04-23
Not a crime, but definitely very poor judgement for someone in a security position. The problem with being surrounded by people who have a lot more money is that it’s easy to lose track of the life that people in your actual income bracket live, which in this case led to unfortunate contortions.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A glamorous Trump aide has been suspended from her job after the Daily Mail exposed her dates with older 'sugar daddies' for cash.

Julia Varvaro, 29, was put on leave from her job as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism on Wednesday afternoon, hours after we revealed her shameless money-grabbing antics with a much older boyfriend who gave his name as Robert B.
"On leave" with her TS-SCI security clearance hopefully suspended. It really is a condition of employment....just saying.
A Department of Homeland Security source told the Daily Mail: 'Julia Varvaro is on administrative leave as a result of the investigation and she is no longer serving in her capacity as a Deputy Assistant Secretary at DHS.'

Varvaro's hunger for money and gifts from older men sparked national security fears.
Who could have known ?
One of the 'sugar daddies,' Robert B, a divorced father told his story to the Daily Mail after meeting Varvaro on a notorious website.
A website they mistakenly thought was not being monitored.
Varvaro earned her PhD in Homeland Security in 2024, and has served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counterterrorism since May 2025.
Obviously illicit websites were not her or Bob's specialties.
Prior to her suspension, she told the Daily Mail she did nothing wrong.

'I didn't know it was bad to go on vacation with your boyfriend,' she said.
She got her degrees from St. John’s University, which gives partial scholarships to the children of police and firefighters. The school did a write-up on her as one of their success stories after she got her PhD — it sounds like she is attractive, bright, and hard working, but drew some wrong lessons from her experiences. Some facts pertinent to the current story:
Julia Varvaro ’18TCB, ’20MPS, ’24DProf and the other members of her close-knit cohort in St. John’s University’s doctoral program in Homeland Security swore by a simple but deeply binding motto: "Stayin’ 11."

"Our motto meant that there were 11 of us left from the initial start of cohort three in 2020, and we said it often to encourage one another to keep going with the doctoral program," explained Julia, became a triple alumna of the University when she graduated this year with a Doctor of Professional Studies degree from The Lesley H. and William L. Collins College of Professional Studies.

Compared to her classmates, Julia was, at 24 years old, the youngest student and without any professional experience in the homeland security area when she joined the cohort. "All of the other students worked in the criminal justice or homeland security fields. Some of them were decorated veterans or experts in their respective specialties," said Julia, who went straight into the doctoral program after earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, with a minor in Arabic, and a Master of Professional Studies degree in Homeland Security and Criminal Justice Leadership.

Julia, who currently works as a Program Analyst for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, traces her passion for homeland security to her father’s work as an officer with the New York City Police Department during the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. "I remember that day very vividly. Thank God my father, Anthony Varvaro, was fine and was able to assist with the clean-up for years after the attack," she said. "But it really impacted my dedication to counterterrorism and devotion to ensuring a brutal event like that never happens again."
She "vividly remembers that day." Interesting indeed, considering her age.
"Education and communication will help us solve the root causes of terrorism. This is why I was motivated to learn Arabic, aside from my interest in that culture and that part of the world," said Julia.

"I was motivated to apply for a student internship with the United States Secret Service because my language skills from St. John’s gave me an advantage over those applicants who did not know an additional language, especially when it comes to studying counterterrorism," Julia said.
And her plumbing provided an additional advantage.
Her internship with the Secret Service, which took place in the agency’s Melville, NY, field office from August 2015 to September 2016, is a memorable highlight of her time at St. John’s. Noting one of the chief responsibilities of the Secret Service deals with financial crimes that include counterfeiting, Julia said most of her daily responsibilities involved categorizing counterfeit dollars and uploading the data into a secure database. "I basically became a counterfeit detection expert—which was very cool in and of itself," she said.
All is not lost. She'll still be able to handle a lot of money as a cashier at Target.
While earning her master’s and doctoral degrees, Julia has worked for CCPS as a graduate assistant and doctoral fellow, and has been grateful for the opportunity to work with professors on academic research. These days, she is teaching an undergraduate course in Homeland Security, Introduction to Intelligence, at CCPS.
Did Julia have any foreign connections? Just asking.
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