Langley Air Force Base Employee Cheated the Department for 17 Years Until Trump's Audit
VIRGINIA - December 13, 2018 A former employee at Langley Air Force Base admitted Wednesday that she bilked the federal government out of $1.46 million — mainly by faking the amount of overtime she worked over 17 years — 42,847 hours between December 2001 and July 2018. She came up with a way to bypass any checks that would refute her words. Michelle M. Holt, 52, was a civilian secretary at the base, where she worked in the communications support squadron of Air Combat Command. According to court records, in 2001 the woman used a co-worker's login information without th...
Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen Gets 3-year Prison Sentence
WASHINGTON, DC – December 13, 2018 Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer, pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations involving hush payments to two women and for lying to Congress. He said Donald Trump "led me to take a path of darkness instead of light." US District Judge William Pauley in Manhattan sentenced Cohen to three years for the payments, which violated campaign finance law, and to two months for the false statements to Congress. The two terms will run concurrently. The judge set March 6 for Cohen’s voluntary surrender. Cohen pleaded guil...
Trump Says He Could Weigh in on Huawei CFO Case
VANCOUVER, CANADA – December 12, 2018 President Trump said on Tuesday he would intervene with the Justice Department in the case against a Chinese telecommunications executive if it would help secure a trade deal with Beijing. “If I think it’s good for the country, if I think it’s good for what will be certainly the largest trade deal ever made – which is a very important thing – what’s good for national security – I would certainly intervene if I thought it was necessary,” Trump said in a wide-ranging interview with Reuters in the Oval Office. At the request of US auth...
U.S. Border Patrol Arrests 32 at Demonstration Supporting Asylum Seekers
Kneeling in front of riot police, 32 religious leaders and activists, some wearing T-shirts reading, “Love Knows No Borders”, were arrested during a protest to support the Central American migrant caravan that was organized by a Quaker group on the border with Mexico on Monday. Many leaders of churches, mosques, synagogues and indigenous communities – over 400 demonstrators in total – sought a halt to the detention and deportation of migrants and for the U.S. to welcome the caravan that arrived in Tijuana, Mexico in November to seek asylum. “As a Quaker who believes in o...
Minnesota Write-In Votes Disappeared Along With Their Candidates
MINNESOTA - December 12, 2018 Most states require write-in candidates for higher offices to register before or after an election to have their votes counted, including Minnesota. St. Louis County Clerk Phil Chapman said no write-in candidates filed to have their votes counted for county attorney, county sheriff, and county commission board seats or for the 8th District Congressional race. Any write-in candidate for federal, state, judicial or county office in Minnesota must submit a simple form to the Minnesota Secretary of State at least a week before the general elect...
Voting Problems, Fraud, Scandals Plague Polling Places Across America: Minnesota
MINNESOTA - December 11, 2018 Jeff Johnson's campaign team in Minnesota has undergone scrutiny after several reports of telephone ads about the November 6 election that happened a little less than a week before the elections. A Kasson resident received a voicemail November 3 that said: "Hi, this is Nathan and I am calling to remind you to turn in your mail-in ballot and to ask for your vote for Jeff Johnson to be our next Governor. Since you live in a vote by mail only precinct, you should have received a ballot already. Mailing it in as soon as possible will make a huge...
Pentagon Delays Beginning of Critical Combat Testing Phase for F-35 by 16 Months
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – December 11, 2018 Last Thursday, Dec. 6, the F-35 program office put our a press-release on the official start of the formal F-35 Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) Starting this week and continuing through late summer 2019, the Air Force, Navy, and Marines will begin testing all three F-35 Air System variants (A/B/C) under realistic combat conditions to determine their suitability for combat, followed by a decision to begin full rate production at the end of 2019. The F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Office’s Facebook post reads: “...
New data shows asylum claims spiking at U.S. ports of entry
SAN DIEGO – December 11, 2018 The number of migrants requesting asylum at ports of entry at the Mexican border doubled in financial year 2018 from the previous year, according to Customs and Border Protection data released on Monday. U.S. Customs and Border Protection released the figures Monday reflecting the first step in the asylum process. The agency fielded nearly 93,000 claims of so-called "credible fear" in the 2018 fiscal year ending Sept. 30, up 67% from the previous year. The claims accounted for 18% of all people arrested or stopped at the border, up from 13%...
Voting Problems, Fraud, Scandals Plague Polling Places Across America: Michigan
MICHIGAN – December 10, 2018 Metro Detroit couldn’t shake its reputation for problematic elections. Problems at the polls in Detroit popped up sporadically, leaving some voters waiting in line for more than an hour while others left altogether, Detroit Free Press reported. Several would-be voters in Redford Township did not stay Tuesday morning while the lone voting machine at Pierce Middle School was being fixed. Rex Nagy, a retired voter in Redford Township, said that his polling place at Pierce Middle School was relying on just one broken voting machine that he was t...