Thanks to Martha Jenkins for sharing this important and sobering video with us. Martha is the President of the National Federation of Republican Women. Martha is also one of our conservative women and a long time friend of mine. Nancy
‘DEAD TO RIGHTS”: Internal ActBlue Records Show Foreign-Flagged Donations Waved Through, Whistleblower Messages DeletedBy Tyler Durden September 17, 2026For years, the left has lectured Americans about the dangers of “foreign interference” and dark money in our elections. But a sweeping congressional investigation has laid bare a vast Democratic fundraising apparatus that paved the way for just that: ActBlue, the billion-dollar financial engine of the Democratic Party, created a mechanism that encouraged illicit foreign cash – and then, investigators say, covered it upOn Wednesday, House investigators released “Part III” of their bombshell investigation into ActBlue’s fundraising practices. The findings outline a staggering pattern of willful blindness, internal censorship, and a frantic race by executives to plead the Fifth.
Here is how the Democrats’ top fundraising platform built a system that welcomed very questionable cash, and how their own staff tried to bury the evidence.
Step 1: The “Smurfing” Machine
The scandal was officially brought to light in April 2025, when the House GOP released Part I of its staff report. Lawmakers detailed a structural nightmare: ActBlue had intentionally bypassed standard banking security measures, such as requiring CVV verification codes for credit card donations.
That gap is what made “smurfing” plausible – a money-laundering technique in which a large, illegal contribution is chopped into thousands of small donations, each attributed to a real person who, allegedly, never made it. The prepaid cards obscure where the money came from; the borrowed names make it look like a stream of legal small-dollar gifts from ordinary Americans. The donations themselves aren’t hidden – as a conduit, ActBlue itemizes every one in its FEC filings regardless of size, which is how the donor lists cited below were compiled. The question is whether anyone at ActBlue was checking whose names were being used.
The allegation itself predates the House probe. It surfaced in March 2023, when James O’Keefe’s O’Keefe Media Group – working from FEC-record analysis compiled by Peter Bernegger’s Election Watch – published videos of elderly donors listed in federal filings for thousands of small ActBlue contributions far beyond anything they said they’d given. Sen. Ron Johnson wrote the FEC in April 2023; Chairman Steil’s committee ran its own analysis of FEC records and in September 2024 referred its findings to five state attorneys general, citing anomalous donor profiles consistent with unwitting “straw donors”; President Trump’s April 2025 memorandum directed DOJ to investigate “straw” and “dummy” donations. ActBlue calls the inquiry politically motivated. The House reports don’t settle it. What they document is that ActBlue’s own records show at least 22 significant fraud campaigns, account takeovers used to make straw donations that appeared to come from regular donors, and 237 prepaid-card donations from foreign IP addresses in a single month before the 2024 election – and that when investigators asked former Associate General Counsel Aaron Ting under oath whether smurfing is prevalent on ActBlue, he took the Fifth.
Step 2: The Cover-Up and the Fifth Amendment
When ActBlue’s own legal and compliance teams realized the potential scale of illicit foreign donations flowing through the platform, panic set in. But instead of correcting the record with Congress, as its own lawyers advised, the execs allegedly moved to suppress the findings, as outlined in the committee’s Part II report.
Internal records show what happened to the last lawyer who escalated the foreign-donation problem. After the 2024 election, ActBlue’s outside counsel had warned the company in two memoranda that its screening of overseas contributions lacked the rigor it had described to Congress, and that its November 2023 letter to Chairman Steil may have been false or misleading. On February 25, 2025 – his first full day running the legal department – legal counsel Zain Ahmad put those memoranda in front of ActBlue’s board of directors and executive team.
The silencing began the next day. He was locked out of his email and Google Drive, against ActBlue’s own leave policy. When he objected in a 277-person IT channel – calling it retaliation and citing the company’s whistleblower and anti-retaliation policies – IT director Hanna Bonin deleted the messages as fast as he posted them: his request to restore access, his policy citations, the policies themselves, and finally his plea to “stop deleting my requests,” which vanished five seconds after it went up. Six deletions in one night. An HR staffer told the chief people officer it “look[ed] like blatant retaliation.” When his email came back the next day, HR was discussing how to “key in on him” using the company’s security tools.
The warnings, and leadership’s response to them, sparked a mass exodus. Outside counsel, led by former Biden White House Counsel Dana Remus, warned that ActBlue’s violations could be alleged to be “knowing and willful” and advised the CEO to hire her own lawyer. Instead, the CEO fired the law firm, and every member of ActBlue’s legal and compliance team was gone within four months. When congressional investigators subpoenaed the people who knew, five current and former employees – including Ahmad, former General Counsel Darrin Hurwitz, and Ting – invoked their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination a staggering 146 times, declining to say even when they had worked at the company. CEO Regina Wallace-Jones did the same on camera in June; co-founder Matt DeBergalis and board chair Kimberly Peeler-Allen followed in August and September
Step 3: The Smoking Gun
Released just weeks ahead of the 2026 midterms, Part III of the report brings it home. ActBlue wasn’t just a victim of a cyber vulnerability – they were actively instructing their employees to ignore it.
According to internal policy records, ActBlue’s supposed “passport verification” process to stop foreign donors was a complete sham. The platform admitted behind closed doors that it never checked government databases and “merely store[d] the information,” validating nothing more than whether a user typed in the correct character count.
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The narrative being pushed now that advances in AI must be slowed down is dangerous, given that our enemies are not slowing down their advances in AI ! NancyU.S. must be ready to win battles in space, around moon, Joint Chiefs chairman says
– The Washington Times –What to know
- Gen. Dan Caine emphasized space superiority as a military priority.
- China and Russia are investing heavily in space weapons.
- The Space Force aims to protect military satellites and operations.
The U.S. must be ready to fight and win 21st-century battles on or around the moon, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a major speech Wednesday, as the once-futuristic idea of warfare in space edges closer to reality.
Gen. Dan Caine made the comments at a major defense industry conference just two days after U.S. officials confirmed for the first time that the military had weapons in orbit. Maintaining unmatched space superiority is a top military priority, Gen. Caine said, as adversaries such as China and Russia make massive investments in space weapons and other capabilities that can threaten American satellites.
“Our task, my friends, is to adapt right now, so the joint force is prepared to fight, endure and win in global contested environments, from the seabed to cislunar space,” said Gen. Caine, referring to the area of space stretching from Earth to the orbit of the moon.
“Our United States Space Force must provide unrivaled space superiority and sustain the associated networks, domain awareness, data advantage that the joint force needs to win in space both now and in the future,” he told an audience at the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference at National Harbor in Maryland.
Gen. Caine warned that in future combat, U.S. forces will be “hunted” by AI-powered drones, a nod to how rapidly technology is changing the fundamentals of warfare.
Dominating the space domain — home to satellites crucial to the military’s ability to communicate and operate around the globe — has been a central priority for the Space Force since its establishment as an independent military service in 2019.
In recent weeks, however, key officials have begun to speak about actual kinetic warfare in space in unprecedented terms, suggesting that attacks on satellites or the exchange of fire in orbit may be closer than thought.
“The United States now has on-orbit space-control weapons capable of defending the joint force against hostile adversary action,” Mr. Meink said during his keynote address at the conference.
Mr. Meink’s announcement appeared designed to signal to China and Russia that the United States is now openly engaged, at a potentially kinetic level, in the growing great-power military competition in space. Both adversaries have made major strides in their own space capabilities in recent years, including Moscow’s pursuit of anti-satellite weapons and Beijing’s investment in space weapons that U.S. defense analysts say are designed to destroy or disrupt American satellites.
“For over a decade, we’ve been talking about the fact, and we’ve expressed concern that the Chinese and the Russians, and especially others [are] developing weapons for space,” Mr. Meink said. “We are focused on making sure we can protect ourselves and operate in that environment, as we’ve done for decades.”
The U.S. Space Force plays a central role in fielding America’s space-based weapons and protecting satellites that facilitate military communications, logistics, GPS and targeting on Earth.
The Trump administration has requested a budget of more than $71 billion for the Space Force in fiscal 2027, more than doubling fiscal year 2026 spending.
Gen. Caine sketched out a future in which America’s adversaries are working together.
“Our adversaries may be geographically distributed and dispersed, but they’re increasingly connected. They share technology, intelligence, weapons and economic support,” he said. “They’re studying our battlefields in the past and our battlefields currently. They’re adapting quickly and seeking new ways to challenge our advantages.”
He cited AI and advanced cyber capabilities as changing the pace of modern warfare.
“AI is here now, and it’s already changing the way militaries see, sense, decide and act,” he said. “Across the joint force, we’re putting AI to work every single day to move faster and to make better decisions.”
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 triggered an evolution in combat operations. First-person-view drones with AI-enabled computer vision can strike targets on a heavily contested battlefield even when GPS is not available.
U.S. troops operating on those future battlefields will face rapidly evolving threats, Gen. Caine said.
“We have to assume from now on that our forces will be hunted by autonomous systems, jammed across the spectrum and tracked in real time,” he said.
The American voter needs to be aware of what is happening in our country. NancyStealth Jihad in the West: A Conversation with Robert Spencer
We are entering an age of AI and space warfare.
The makings of Star Wars #13 ? Nancy
U.S. military rolls out ‘on orbit’ space weapons, other advances amid war with Iran
– The Washington Times –What to know
- The U.S. Space Force is expanding its capabilities amid rising threats from China and Russia.
- The Air Force plans to test the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile next year.
- The U.S. military now has an ‘on-orbit’ space weapon, a first public acknowledgment.
The U.S. is developing advanced space weapons and rapidly building the Golden Dome missile shield, key Pentagon officials said Monday, even as military leaders announced new steps to protect American airpower assets from low-cost drone and missile attacks by Iran or other adversaries.
Those issues, along with the expanding portfolio of the U.S. Space Force and the nation’s historic shortfall in key munitions stockpiles, took center stage at the annual Air, Space and Cyber Conference just outside Washington. The gathering comes at a consequential moment for the U.S. military, which is simultaneously waging a traditional air campaign in the Middle East and preparing for potential conflict in space with near-peer adversaries such as China.
There were major developments on both fronts Monday. Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink announced that the Air Force expects to conduct the first launchpad test of the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile next year, adding to the day’s announcements on the Pentagon’s strategic offensive capabilities.
The Sentinel, whose development is led by Northrop Grumman, is intended to replace the now more than 50-year-old Minuteman III program as part of the nuclear triad.
The most significant disclosure was made when Mr. Meink revealed in his keynote address that the U.S. military now has an on-orbit space weapon. It was the first public acknowledgment by a top Pentagon official that American forces have put weapons into orbit.
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If you click on the link, you will be able to listen to the article. NancyDeclassified Presidential Briefings Reveal Warnings of Al-Qaeda Terrorist Plots Just Weeks Before 9/11 Attacks
By John Binder September 11, 2026The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) declassified 71 presidential briefings related to the 9/11 attacks on the United States, marking the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.Some of the briefings seemingly stressed to then-President George W. Bush that Osama bin Laden — then-leader of the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda, which orchestrated 9/11 — wanted to carry out well-planned attacks on the United States using expert terrorists and years of planning.On August 6, 2001, just five weeks before the September 11 attacks that murdered nearly 3,000 Americans in New York City, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC, Bush’s presidential briefing was titled “Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in U.S.” and stated that “Bin Ladin since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the U.S.”
Another presidential briefing given to Bush on August 28, 2001, just 14 days before the September 11 attacks, was titled “Bin Ladin Operations Are Expert and Flexible.”The briefing stated that al-Qaeda “stresses careful planning, tight security practices, and flexibility throughout all stages of terrorist strikes” and “cells prepare for an attack well beforehand by conducting thorough surveillance of potential targets.”
“Group members are experts in conducting different types of attacks and know how to protect their plans from discovery,” the briefing to Bush stated.
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This was a TV show that was made after 9/11. I sent it out nearly 10 years ago and again 3 years ago and thought our readers would benefit from seeing it again. There was an outcry against this film at the time but now that years have passed and more information about Islamic extremism is now known, you be the judge. Extremely well done and terrifying ! NancyVIDEO MOVIE – PATH TO 9/113,883 views Jul 30, 2023A television miniseries (both parts put together here for one main feature) on the events leading up to the U.S. terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. ABC received a range of criticism from terrorism experts and people portrayed in the film that The Path to 9/11 contained false scenes, distorted events and misrepresented actions of people. That is why this has been permanently shelved, never to be officially seen again.
What Mohamed Atta Was Trying to Tell Us
After 25 years, it is time for the West to face the true cause of 9/11
September 8, 2026 by Ayaan Hirsi AliIn April 1996, more than five years before he steered American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower, Mohamed Atta sat in a small Hamburg apartment and wrote his last will and testament. He was 27, an architecture student at the Technical University, the son of a Cairo lawyer, fluent in German, and living comfortably in one of the most affluent societies on earth.Nothing in his circumstances compelled him to dwell on death. Yet he gave detailed instructions for the handling of his corpse. “I don’t want any women to go to my grave at all during my funeral or on any occasion thereafter,” he wrote. He did not want a pregnant woman, or “a person who is not clean,” to come and say goodbye. The man who washed his body should wear gloves so as not to touch his genitals. He was to be wrapped in three white pieces of unadorned cloth, laid on his right side facing Mecca, and buried “next to good Muslims.” His money was to be divided “according to the Muslim religion as almighty God has asked us to do.”The document is among the most neglected pieces of evidence from Sept. 11 because it contradicts the explanations of the attack that most Western commentators preferred. Atta was not poor. He was not radicalized by drone strikes that had not yet happened, nor by American support for Israel. He was not in any formal or organizational sense an “Islamist.” Rather, he had an uncompromising and militant commitment to Islam that he was ready to die for.Yet for 25 years Western elites repeatedly insisted that men like Atta must have been driven by something other than the culture and the faith that provided him with a lens through which his actions seemed both sensible and necessary. After 9/11, intellectuals and policymakers asked “what went wrong?” as though the source of Atta’s animus toward the West was shrouded in some deep mystery. In the Western experience, men had not killed other men over religious questions en masse since the end of the great religious wars of the 17th century. Culture, a term that was once understood to encompass a great many facets of human identity, experience, and belonging—religion included—had also been ruled out. Saying that cultural differences exist and should be respected was a foundation of the multicultural order; the idea that some cultures might lead people to murder each other, for reasons that do not appear in the Western rationalist list of sane causes, struck many Western liberals as too close to racism to bother arguing the point.Since then, each time the West collided with Islam, much of the Western intellectual class reached for explanations that made sense within its own secular humanist categories: grievance, humiliation, underdevelopment, alienation, foreign policy frustration, or the failure of Western states to properly integrate men like Atta, who were, or must be, inherently no different than immigrants of similar age, class, and educational attainments from Vietnam or Poland, or anyplace else. Since all conflicts are material in origin, it was assumed that they could be settled though material means. And given the obvious superiority of Western values, as measured through the superior material attainments of the West, conflicts over land, jobs, dignity, sovereignty, or redistribution should be negotiated with the generosity appropriate to those who occupy positions of immense privilege and power, thanks to the inequities of European colonialism. If Muslim populations suffered from a democracy deficit, elections would reveal and moderate those demands. In every case, theology and culture were translated into psychology, economics, development policy, or diplomacy.American leaders then added a second layer of denial. President George W. Bush stood at the Islamic Center of Washington to insist that “the face of terror is not the true faith of Islam.” Following Bush’s lead, after later atrocities in Paris, Brussels, Manchester, and elsewhere, Western leaders repeatedly said that the killers had “nothing to do with Islam.” At the same time, the notion of “Abrahamic faiths” was revived or normalized, as though Judaism, Christianity, and Islam were merely variations within one spiritual family, separated by temperament more than by theology or civilizational ambition.
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New York Post by Ronny Reyes September 7, 2026The US Navy secretly carried out a dangerous, four-month mission to clear the Straight of Hormuz of Iranian mines using SEAL divers, drones and sonar technology, according to a new report.
The covert demining operations were carried out mostly at night, with the divers, armed with robot boats and special underwater crafts, taking the perilous journey to rid the critical oil pathway of explosives, The Financial Times reported.
That is usually followed up by a navy diver who’s got to get in the water and approach the mine, and then put a charge on it and destroy it,” Bill Hamblet, a retired US Navy captain who often operated in the Gulf, told the FT.
The Navy also likely used robot drones to approach the mines and destroy them with explosives, which can be safer, but extremely time-consuming.
Among the tools at the troops’ disposal was the Navy’s Common Uncrewed Surface Vessel (CUSV), a drone boat that tows along advanced, unmanned submersibles like the MK 18 Mod 2 Kingfish, which is equipped with sonar that can scan the ocean floor.
Despite the dangers, no US casualties have been reported in connection to the minesweeping operation.
The United Nations’ International Maritime Organization estimated in June that roughly 80 mines had been deployed along the Strait of Hormuz, a critical waterway that oversees 20% of the world’s oil transports.
By August, President Trump declared that all mines had been removed from the Strait, with the US carrying out repeated attacks on Iran last week sparked by an alleged operation to refill the waterway with explosives.
The ease of re-mining the Strait of Hormuz, however, has stirred uncertainty among the ships undergoing the trips through the waterway.
Iran has repeatedly claimed that its mines are active in the Strait, with its military claiming two attacks on oil tankers last week.
While shipping companies and maritime analysts agree that the areas near the Omani coast, where the US has been escorting ships, are likely cleared, there is less consensus on the status of the rest of the waterway.
“It’s hard to know what to believe,” Ethan Connell, assistant director of Taiwan Security Monitor and an expert on mines, told the FT. “Iran is certainly trying to re-mine.”
The threat of the mines and repeated missile and drone attacks in the Strait has kept visible traffic along the waterway down to its lowest level since May, according to the Kpler maritime intelligence firm.
“It’s hard to know what to believe,” Ethan Connell, assistant director of Taiwan Security Monitor and an expert on mines, told the FT. “Iran is certainly trying to re-mine.”
The threat of the mines and repeated missile and drone attacks in the Strait has kept visible traffic along the waterway down to its lowest level since May, according to the Kpler maritime intelligence firm.
Only two ships crossed the Strait on Saturday, with six making the trip on Sunday, most of which were done through Iran’s approved route.
It remains difficult to calculate the total traffic as ships have been sneaking through by turning off their responders and sailing in the dark of night under US military escorts.
The SEALS first located the bombs and cleared the area before undertaking the hardest challenge of the fraught and time-consuming mission.
Mamdani’s campaign ‘influencer army’ followed him straight into City Hall
By Vivek Saxena September 3, 2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is using online influencers, some of whom don’t even live in NYC, to push talking points and more.
According to an extensive but friendly investigation from Columbia Journalism Review (CJR), Mamdani has an “army” of paid and nonpaid influencers connected through a Signal group called NYC Creators Announcements. Featuring over 200 members, the group is run by the mayor’s top officials.
Signal is an encrypted chat-messaging app.
“Influencers who are selected to join the group fill out an intake form that describes where they live and what topics they are interested in,” CJR notes. “They will then receive invitations targeted to their interests, such as being invited to join a neighborhood canvass or film the preparation of a canvass.”
For just being a member of the group, participants receive nothing. Some influencers admitted they take part because they support the mayor. Others said they sometimes critique the mayor’s plans but remain in the group.
Other influencers, meanwhile, earn money through messaging campaigns commissioned by city agents. The pay ranges from just $5,000 to a whopping $20,000 per campaign. However, they don’t work directly for the city.
The way it works is that the city contracts marketing and advertising firms that then hire the influencers as independent contractors. Unfortunately, procurement notices usually don’t name the influencers involved, so the public is forced to remain in the dark about who’s being paid to say what.
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Another fabulous article by Victor Davis Hanson. Nancy
Today’s leftists are possessed by the spirit of France’s 18th-century
guillotine-loving revolutionaries
By Victor Davis Hanson September 6, 2026Trump and MAGA did not operate in a vacuum in the decade between 2015 and his re-election in 2024. His formal opposition was no longer the liberal Democrats of old but rather a new, far more radical manifestation. In their mission to fundamentally change the nation, they were more suited to 18th-century revolutionary France than 21st-century America.
The nature of the two-party system, of course, is to find ways to counter and even discredit the opposite party. Yet since the end of the Civil War, these disagreements had played out within accepted boundaries. But the decade of Trump, from 2015 to 2025, unleashed a hysteria unseen in over 160 years, one in which Democrats sought to destroy — not merely defeat — the candidate, then president, then ex-president, then candidate again, and finally re-elected President Trump.
What were the ideologies and motives that inspired their uniquely fanatical opposition?
One characteristic of the new radical Democratic Party was its pivot from solidarity with the middle classes to a movement of the wealthy and professional cadres as self-appointed protectors of the subsidized poor — a movement that reflected the 21st-century sources of influence and wealth within the Democratic Party.
Yet like the Jacobin movement of old, the new elites of the radicalized Democratic Party rarely felt that they should themselves be subject to the consequences of their own radical ideologies — whether climate-change taboos on personal energy use, open borders, defunding the police, etc.
ake, for example, the most radical firebrands of the new Democrats — Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Mayor Mamdani. They were all either children of the upper-middle classes or had claimed to be multimillionaires while in Congress or had arrived as immigrants from the ruling elite of their prior, usually illiberal, homelands — all in ways impossible for ordinary citizens.
Leftist elites proved ecstatic supporters of fringe issues — reparations to African Americans, transgendered athletes competing in women’s sports, and banning natural gas appliances. Such boutique obsessions either were of little relevance to or actively alienated the middle class and minorities.
The radical transformations started as early as the 2016 campaign. In their rhetoric, Democrats under once-moderate Hillary Clinton had become veritable Jacobins — the modern counterparts of French Revolutionary fanatics, as they substituted lawfare, radically transformed balloting laws and procedures, and weaponized federal agencies as their guillotine.
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This site has personal information that the public has access to. No wonder there is so much fraud in stolen identities ! Nancy
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The fraud that has been going on for years is being exposed and it is truly outrageous – it is our taxpayer money that is just disappearing !!! Nancy
A dead teen’s Social Security number stayed active for 24 years and $284,000 in fraud
– The Washington Times –More than 450,000 people are buried in Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, California, which, by sheer size of its property, is the largest cemetery on the continent.
One of those is Carlos Ramon Obregon, who died just a month after his 13th birthday in 1977. Authorities say he was gunned down in a drive-by shooting.
His gravestone bears an image of him alongside depictions of a praying angel and Our Lady of Guadalupe.
His mother is quite sure he’s dead.
She even testified to that fact in court.
Yet there was Obregon, applying for a replacement Social Security card in 2000, some 23 years after he was slain.
Over the next 24 years, the man known to the world as Carlos Obregon would scam Social Security, Health and Human Services, the State Department, the Treasury Department and Idaho’s Transportation Department, walking away with nearly $284,000 in taxpayers’ money.
The man who claimed to be Obregon has been insistent to the last.
Even as a judge slapped him with a five-year sentence earlier this month, his lawyer was still calling him Obregon and delivering an outlandish tale about how he came to be alive, despite evidence to the contrary.
He said he was shot in the head during a drive-by, but it was when he was 12, not 13, and he lost all memory of his life before that. He said his parents sent him to Mexico to recover, but the woman they asked to take him abandoned him once across the border, leaving him to live on the streets for the next two decades until, somehow, he made contact with his father, who urged him to return to the U.S. — and still had his birth certificate.
All told he got $177,516.19 in Social Security disability payments, $91,145.21 in Medicaid, $12,166 in food stamps and $3,200 in pandemic stimulus checks. He got IDs from Idaho in 2002, 2010, 2014 and, in 2022, got a Real ID-compliant Star Card from the state. And he got a U.S. passport in Obregon’s name, using it to travel to and from Mexico multiple times.
The documents in his court case seem to suggest he was finally spotted when he applied for a passport renewal in 2024.
“Identity thieves who exploit the identities of deceased Americans cause real harm,” said Jonathan P. Kazmar, special agent in charge of the State Department Diplomatic Security Service in San Francisco. “In this case, the defendant assumed the identity of a deceased American teenager and used it for years to commit serious fraud.”
The government’s habit of paying dead people is surfacing as the Trump administration focuses on fraud and just how much money the federal government seems to leak to scammers.
Social Security is particularly susceptible to death fraud, but it’s not the only program.
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Amazing, we have been hearing about the threat from EMP’s for years and congress is just now getting concerned about them ???? Nancy
‘Blackout warfare’: China, Russia weapons could instantly darken 80% of U.S.
– The Washington Times –What to know
- Congress is concerned about the threat of EMP weapons from China and Russia.
- The Senate Armed Services Committee warns of EMP threats to Taiwan from China.
- China has been developing EMP weapons since the early 2000s.
Legislation before the House and Senate reveals growing worries among defense lawmakers about Chinese and other adversaries’ electromagnetic pulse weapons and the vulnerability of U.S. and allied defenses and critical infrastructure to EMP attacks, directed energy waves that could disrupt the power grid, cause massive blackouts, and damage or destroy cell phones, internet service and satellites.
Both houses of Congress focused on the potentially catastrophic effects of EMP in fiscal 2027 defense authorization bills now awaiting passage.
The Senate Armed Services Committee report on the authorization bill warns that Chinese military advances in technology-destroying electromagnetic pulse weapons now threaten Taiwan. Senators added language that would require briefings by senior Trump administration security officials on the dangers, according to the report.
In the House, the Armed Services Committee signaled its concern for future EMP attacks, warning that the Pentagon and military services have set standards for improving electronic warfare defenses but failed to comply with the rules.
Also, the Pentagon has not properly gauged the danger of an EMP or cyberattacks that could cripple large transformers used to power military bases, according to the House bill.
Both Senate and House panels added language to the bills mandating briefings on the EMP dangers by the spring of 2027.
