Federal prosecutors say a Massachusetts woman spent more than a decade arranging sham marriages for immigrants seeking legal status, collecting as much as $40,000 per couple and investing the proceeds in businesses and property in the Dominican Republic. Jennifer Gonzalez, 43, and five others were charged Wednesday with conspiracy to harbor immigrants, harboring immigrants, conspiracy […]
Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of Washington Secrets, which is dominated by fraud of one kind or another. First up, we look at the scandal rocking the polling world today, and why it might be even more common than you realize. Then, we recap the life of a prominent fraudster whose pardon appeal has failed… It […]
Vice President JD Vance went after the Republicans criticizing an ad supporting Ohio Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy that features the mother of his opponent. Vance made the comments to reporters en route to a rally with Ramaswamy in Ohio on Wednesday. The vice president said that “whether the ad was appropriate or not is […]
The life partner of Maine Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson spoke out on the campaign attacks against her and her family on Wednesday in the wake of ads questioning her relationship with Jackson, who is challenging five-term incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). Lana Pelletier is Jackson’s life partner, and the couple shares two children. They […]
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr warned broadcasters against airing fabricated election polls, saying stations could face regulatory scrutiny if they knowingly mislead viewers through false polling data. The warning follows an admission from Wedgewood Polls that it deliberately fabricated polling numbers in races across the country, raising questions about how news organizations vet political […]
The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a loss on its emergency docket on Wednesday, declining to lift a lower court’s block on a new regulation for federal prisons that would stop providing inmates with transgender surgeries and procedures. The high court ruled 7-2 against granting the Department of Justice’s emergency petition to allow the […]
Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York warned that Democrats plan to target Elon Musk and other political figures for possible corruption if they gain control of Congress. “We know that they, and because they’ve been very public about it, they plan a lot of investigations,” York said Tuesday on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle. […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would accept a peace deal in the Russia-Ukraine War that would freeze fighting along its current front lines. In an interview with Fox & Friends on Fox News on Wednesday, Zelensky spoke on current efforts to end the war, subtly looking to warm relations with President Donald Trump after […]
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) spoke out about the federal raid on her Washington, D.C., home, asking her supporters to keep donating to her reelection campaign as she stands three weeks out from the midterm elections. Omar released a TikTok video on Tuesday evening, addressing the Department of Homeland Security’s overnight raid on her home on […]
French President Emmanuel Macron accused President Donald Trump of making “stupid” and “unacceptable” comments about the riots that have ravaged Paris, accusing him of twisting the chaos for his own political gain. Speaking to the press while visiting Doha, Qatar, on Wednesday, Macron said there was no evidence of foreign actors instigating the protests but […]
