Billionaire financier George Soros and other wealthy liberal donors spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to help elect Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx in 2016, but she is just one of nearly two dozen local prosecutors backed by Soros in recent years. Foxx, the top law enforcement official in Chicago, is currently under intense […]

The former head of an international non-governmental organization that was backed by a Chinese energy conglomerate, was sentenced to three years in prison on March 25 for bribery and money laundering. Patrick Ho was the secretary-general of the China Energy Fund Committee, an NGO based in both Hong Kong and Arlington, Virginia. Ho was also […]

President Donald Trump responded to Democratic calls to abolish the Electoral College and pack the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, March 20, by telling his 2020 presidential opponents to instead “win it at the Ballot Box!” Nearly half a dozen Democratic candidates have embraced such radical positions, or have said they are open to them. […]

House Democrats passed a massive elections overhaul and campaign finance bill on Friday, March 8, that proponents said would greatly increase voting rights and crack down on the influence of money in the U.S. political system. The nearly 700-page proposal, known as the “For the People Act,” or H.R. 1, passed on a straight party […]

Vice President Mike Pence announced on March 6 that the U.S. State Department will revoke visas from 77 individuals tied to Venezuela’s socialist dictator, Nicolas Maduro. The announcement marks the latest move by U.S. officials to ramp up pressure on the illegitimate Maduro regime in the past several days. “Today, the State Department is announcing […]

A former top assistant to the U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Florida is denying any wrongdoing regarding a plea deal for billionaire and accused child-predator Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Sloman, now in private practice, was the top deputy to Alex Acosta, the U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Florida in 2007, when the […]

Two Ohio men were indicted on Jan. 22, for an alleged $2.7 million food stamp fraud scheme. The amount of fraud is itself noteworthy, but other aspects of the case are unusual. Amin M. Salem, 59, and his son Mohamed Salem, 32, were both indicted on one count of conspiracy to launder money and one […]