More to stop paying out, more to claw back. I look forward to seeing the year-end totals for this year and next, and learning how far we have gone toward Elon Musk’s goals.
[NYPost] A US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report found more than $5 billion in taxpayer funds went to “questionable” rental assistance recipients during the final year of the Biden administration — including around 30,000 “deceased tenants” and “thousands” of potential non-citizens, The Post can reveal.
HUD officials said a “large concentration” of the suspicious payments went to New York, California and Washington, DC, with dead recipients getting at least some funds in all 50 states — in what federal officials are calling widespread abuse of taxpayers’ dollars under the Biden administration.
“A massive abuse of taxpayer dollars not only occurred under President [Joe] Biden’s watch, but was effectively incentivized by his administration’s failure to implement strong financial controls resulting in billions worth of potential improper payments,” HUD Secretary Scott Turner said in a statement.
“HUD will continue investigating the shocking results and will take appropriate action to hold bad actors accountable. Additionally, the Department is advancing efforts made under President Trump’s first administration to strengthen program integrity and ensure taxpayer-funded assistance serves the vulnerable communities it was intended for.”
HUD’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer uncovered $5.8 billion of the “questionable” payments out of nearly $50 billion in total federal rental assistance to public housing authorities, contractors, landlords and other non-federal entities in fiscal year 2024, the 183-page report disclosed.
The around 11% of taxpayer dollars from HUD went to more than 200,000 possibly ineligible tenants — of whom 29,715 (around 14%) were dead, 9,472 (4%) were non-citizens and 165,393 (82%) were receiving sums that exceeded the threshold for assistance in their geographic region, particularly in New Orleans and other large metro areas.
The HUD programs are designed to help low-income residents who wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford shelter — and the possible grift means those truly in need could have been left out in the cold.
HUD officials faulted the Biden administration for a directive “to push funding out the door with minimal oversight” as well as rent assistance programs placing “substantial trust and responsibility in these non-federal entities … to accurately assess tenant eligibility.”
Now, HUD will have to reach out to the public housing authorities and other entities to confirm the extent of the fraud — and either pause or revoke funding. Officials will also make criminal referrals when warranted.
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It will be more than half of social assistance spending in Minnesota. When they shut it all off, it will crater the economy of the entire state. Trump will be blamed for hurting small businesses.
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Ah, hell, it's only money. Right, Joe?
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is facing scrutiny over her financial disclosure forms after her assets skyrocketed from only $1,000 to almost $30 million in just one year.
Omar's most recent financial disclosure form, released in May, lists the value of Rose Lake Capital LLC between $5 million and $25 million.
The venture capital management firm is headquartered in Washington DC. Omar lists the asset as 'partnership income' on her form and claimed she doesn't receive any income from Rose Lake.
However, in her report from 2023, which was released in May 2024, Rose Lake Capital only has a value listed between $1 and $1,000.
In 2023, the Somali-born socialist claimed an income between $15,001 and $50,000 from Rose Lake, according to her financial disclosure forms.
In response to the significant increase, the National Legal and Policy Center, a conservative nonprofit that monitors ethics of liberal public officials, has confirmed they're 'certainly looking' at the progressive congresswoman.
Peter Flaherty, the chair of the organization, told the New York Post that the center is investigating Omar's assets.
Omar, whose previous marriage to her own brother was exclusively revealed by the Daily Mail also lists ESTCRU LLC as another form of partnership income on her most recent financial disclosure form.
Rose Lake and ESTCRU are owned by Omar's husband, Tim Mynett. Mynett has served as the president and co-founder of Rose Lake since 2022, according to his LinkedIn profile.
The company is a winery in Santa Rosa, California. It's value is listed between $1 million and $5 million, according to Omar's financial disclosure form.
The Daily Mail has reached out to Mynett and Omar's office for comment.
Rose Lake's website says they've worked with five diplomats in over 80 countries to structure deals, mergers, and acquisitions.
'From distressed assets to buying publicly traded companies – our team has the prowess to execute the right opportunities,' the company's description reads.
'At Rose Lake we tap into our extensive global network to create strategic partnerships to maximize the strength of the businesses we partner with.'
Rose Lake's LinkedIn page also appears to have been removed amid reports of Omar's wealth gains.
The company's website stripped team members names and bios. The webpage now only displays a brief summary of Rose Lake's work.
Previous versions of the website listed several high-profile employees, including, Adam Ereli, a former ambassador to Bahrain, former Senator Max Baucus, and former officials with the Democratic National Committee, as first reported by Fox News.
Estcru wines also has an eye-catching digital footprint. A link to purchase the wines appears to have been blocked and the company's Instagram page only has 2,000 followers. Their last post was in January, 2023.
Despite the company's lack of following, its asset value jumped from a maximum worth of $50,000 to $5 million in one year, according to Omar's financial disclosure forms.
Omar's finances are drastically different from what she reported in 2018, 2019, and 2020.
In 2018, Omar didn't disclose any assets or unearned income. The following year, she listed a tax-deferred target retirement fund.
ESTCRU LLC first appeared on her financial disclosure forms in 2021, while Rose Lake Capital was first disclosed the following year.
Omar married Mynett in 2020. He was working as a political consultant at the time and his firm advised her congressional campaign.
Mynett left the consultant firm in 2022. The NLPC filed a complaint with the Federal Election Committee at the time alleging that campaign funds had been used for personal benefit due to their relationship.
Omar dismissed the allegations and said her romantic relationship with Mynett began after they concluded their work together.
The new backlash over Omar's disclosure forms comes as the state she represents is engulfed in a $9 billion fraud scandal.
Minnesota's Republican led House Oversight Committee has launched a corruption investigation into social service programs.
Assistant US Attorney Joseph Thompson alleged that 14 Medicaid programs spent $18 billion in seven years.
The state's attorney's office charged 92 defendants, many of whom are of Somali descent in fraud-related crimes.
'What we see in Minnesota is not a handful of bad actors committing crimes. It’s a staggering industrial-scale fraud,' Thompson said at a news conference in mid-December.
Omar previously addressed the scandal in an interview on CNN. She said the rush to push out benefits during the pandemic resulted in a lack of guardrails for the programs.
Then Omar introduced the Act with the goal of removing oversight barriers to the expansion of federally funded state meals programs amid the school closures of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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They will give her a lame fine and expect us to be happy with them for holding her accountable.
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Cheatin' like I don't know how.
Keith Richards
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#8
“The company is a winery in Santa Rosa, California. Its value is listed between $1 million and $5 million, according to Omar's financial disclosure form.”
Why do all Democrats launder their money through wineries? Pelosi, Newscum, etc?
#10
Family wealth rose to a bracket from 6 to 30 million. Husband's business seems to have been worth about 5 million. So did she amass 1 million (within reach of normal DC 'ethics?') Or 25 million (requiring some serious fraud?)
[GeorgiaRecord] Wisconsin independent journalist and election integrity activist Peter Bernegger, who works closely with CDM contributor Peter Bernegger, today filed a massive FEC complaint against U.S. Senator for Georgia Raphael Warnock.
The following was posted on Bernegger's Telegram channel:
FEC complaint sent in today against US Senator Raphael Warnock and his Treasurer Christopher Koob. For Smurfing $62,111,521. In addition to Smurfing, they are using synthetic name clustering.
-Each paired with: different first names, different locations
This is statistically incompatible with organic donor behavior; and in comparison to the names on the US Census. It would be like getting hit by lightning 3 times in your life. Examples (non-cherry-picked):
FARIS
IVES
OUGHTERSON
ALHADEFF
COFRIN
HOSTETTER
LAMSON
HAUKEBO
FERBER
SILVERMAN
These are not common surnames, yet they repeat in the exact frequency band that synthetic generators produce.
Smurfing is structured money laundering into political campaigns. Warnock and Koob are stealing the identities of elderly senior citizens to carry out their scheme.
Warnock of Georgia is in the top five nationally for Smurfing - it may be only Biden has a higher Smurfing number.
Warnock is one of those fake Reverends....just itching to take your money. Well, he did: from the US Treasury.
With such a large amount you'll find chunks of the $62,111,521 working its way into other Democrat campaigns. With ActBlue already under FBI investigation (confirmed again by FBI Director Kash Patel this week), Warnock is one of ActBlue's biggest "customers".
Political Committee C00740597, WARNOCK VICTORY FUND has accepted 2,182 Smurfed donor transactions totaling $4,765,883 from 1,388 unique Smurfing donors. That these transactions encompass 23.8% of the 9,156 available committee transactions and also being 27.2% of the $17,549,562 full committee transaction valuation.
Political Committee C00736876, WARNOCK FOR GEORGIA has accepted 969,936 Smurfed donor transactions totaling $57,345,638 from 65,074 unique Smurfing donors. That these transactions encompass 64.9% of the 1,494,773 available committee transactions and also being 35.3% of the $162,521,122 full committee transaction valuation.
After the FEC doesn't do anything, then I'll file suit.
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Some of those that seriously and honestly looked over the GA 2020 fraudulent election. Brought in many videotapes, samples of printed fake ballots, proof of Dominion Voting machine counting errors, Internet access, forced election monitors to leave before counting was finished and videos of Vans loaded up with fake ballots arriving after the election monitors were forced to leave. Presented with ALL of this, PLUS other real evidence, to the FEC.
The FEC sat with its thumb up its butt and did nothing.
Did the DNC & DC Swamp control the FEC ???
Then the GA Governor and the GA S.O.S. seeing all this evidence REFUSED to investigate and blindly certified the election.
Some say, a political/$$$$ deal was made early on, that they would keep their political seats if they played along.
Then, Fulton County, Georgia, (D) owned district attorney Fani Willis went after Trump when he simply asked for a voter fraud investigation given the evidence.
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