[Headline USA] Rep. Eugene Vindman, D-Va., and his twin brother Alexander are reportedly under investigation for illegally acting as "paid brokers" for U.S. defense firms seeking business in Ukraine.
"Pentagon General Counsel Earl Matthews alleges that Vindman and his twin brother Alex did not have approval from the U.S. government before seeking to act as ’paid brokers’ for American defense firms pursuing contracts with Ukraine after Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion," the Washington Post revealed over the weekend, citing a Nov. 19 letter for War Secretary Pete Hegseth.
"The letter does not explicitly allege the Vindmans received money from the Ukrainian government, arguing only that they "did not insulate themselves from the requirements of federal law," the Post added.
Eugene Vindman confirmed the investigation Friday on Twitter/X. He claimed it’s politically motivated in response to his calls for the White house to release the transcript of a recent call between President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
[Fox] Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced on Tuesday she will not seek re-election for a fourth term, ending her decade-long reign in the nation's capital.
The Democrat, who previously represented the 4th ward as a member of the D.C. Council, shared the news in a video posted to social media.
"My fellow Washingtonians, for 10 years, you and I have worked together on an ambitious agenda to restore faith in our government and ensure that every D.C. resident gets the fair shot they deserve," Bowser said. "To keep that promise, we took big swings, keeping D.C. teams in D.C., raising enrollment and graduation rates in our schools, and investing more money in housing than any other city or state, creating 36,000 homes."
She added her administration drove unemployment to its lowest levels, achieved strong reserves and completed the largest infrastructure project in city history with the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge.
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.
