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Gov. Cuomo really letting Sen. Mitch McConnell have it. He says that New York State contributes $116 Billion more to the federal budget than it takes from it whereas Kentucky takes more from the federal government than it puts in by more than that amount.
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BREAKING / NBC News: Former president Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Ivanka Trump are all alleged to have been involved in either overseeing or arranging financial misstatements to financial and insurance institutions, says the New York AG in a court filing docketed tonight.
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NEW: The Houston Police Department says they've identified one of their officers, an 18 year veteran of the department, as having penetrated the Capitol last Wednesday.
Chief Art Acevedo says there is a "high probability" the officer will face federal charges.
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BREAKING / NBC News: The FBI has arrested Conor Climo, age 23, of Las Vegas Nevada for possession of an unregistered firearm.
He allegedly had an AR-15, rifle, and bomb making materials. He discussed attacks on a synagogue, and Jews. He drew attacks of a gay bar in Vegas.
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BREAKING / NBC News: In a statement U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman says "I have not resigned, and have no intention of resigning."
He says he found out he was "stepping down" by reading it in a press release.
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NBC News: The FBI has charged Riley Williams with her role in the Capitol riot.
The FBI says she told a former partner that she intended to take a laptop / hard drive stolen from Pelosi's office, ship it to Russia, where a friend would turn it over to the SVR -- Russian intel.
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NEW: A federal judge in NY – acting quickly on his own and without being asked by either side -- has ordered attorneys for President Trump and Manhattan D.A. Cy Vance to inform the court by next Wednesday morning how they expect to proceed with the subpoena for Trump's tax docs.
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Mar-A-Lago Search: On Fox News former AG Bill Barr says, "people say this was unprecedented, well it's also unprecedented for a president to take all this classified information and put them in a country club."
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NEW: The Dept. of Justice says they’ve completed their review of 29 FISA warrants that were flagged by the IG for being out of compliance and have found only 2 material errors and found that all of the applications contained sufficient basis for probable cause, a statement says.
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BREAKING / NBC News: Former Palm Beach State Attorney Barry Krischer says in a statement that Alex Acosta is "completely wrong."
He says a 53 page federal indictment "was abandoned after secret negotiations between Mr. Epstein’s lawyers and Mr. Acosta. " (h/t @MikeDelMoro )
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BREAKING / NBC NEWS: Michael Cohen's attorneys have told a judge tonight that their client is cooperating in an ongoing federal investigation in New York and he has met with the New York AG's office about their suit against the Trump Foundation and the President.
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BREAKING / NBC News: The FBI has arrested Robert Chain, 68, from Encino, California for threats they say he made to The Boston Globe following their recent editorial about the press.
Chain allegedly referred to the Boston Globe as "the enemy of the people" in phone calls.
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BREAKING / NBC News: Former advisor to President Trump, Steve Bannon, and four others have been indicted for illegally funneling money from the "We Build The Wall" fund.
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NEW: Using bold letters, CISA (which is part of DHS), says, "there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."
A full throated response to unverifiable allegations raised by the President and his allies about votes.
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BREAKING | NBC News: Edward Kelley, 33, awaiting trial on charges tied to assaulting police at the Capitol on January 6th, has been charged by the FBI with obtaining a list of law enforcement who investigated his alleged crimes and later discussed plans to kill the investigators.
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NEW: The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Las Vegas PD announce charges against 3 alleged members of the right-wing extremist group "Boogaloo" with violating state & federal laws, "for conspiracy to cause destruction during protests in Las Vegas", prosecutors say.
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BREAKING / NBC News: DOJ announces the arrest of Russian National Mariia Butina, age 29, for "infiltrating organizations having influence in American politics, for the purpose of advancing the interests of the Russian Federation."
She was arrested yesterday.
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NEW: The Justice Department asserts in a filing that some of the documents seized from Mar-A-Lago were so sensitive and classified that in some instances the FBI agents and DOJ attorneys needed additional security clearances to review them.
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NEW: Two notorious political operatives, Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, have been charged by the Michigan Attorney General in connection with an alleged orchestration of robocalls which the AG's office says was an attempt to suppress the vote.
They each face 4 felony counts.
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NBC News: Federal prosecutors say sensitive U.S. military technology has been found in Russian weapons systems recovered in Ukraine.
They've charged a group of Russians with illegally purchasing the technology through a network of shell companies and fake documentation.
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NEW: Republican Sen. Ben Sasse tonight:
"Wild press conferences erode public trust. So no, obviously Rudy and his buddies should not pressure electors to ignore their certification obligations under the statute. We are a nation of laws, not tweets.”
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NBC News: At least 5 men have been charged in a federal case in Michigan tied to a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
The men are identified in court documents as Adam Fox, Barry Croft, Ty Garbin, Kaleb Franks, Daniel Harris, and Brandon Caserta.
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Cuomo: Let’s talk about fairness, Mitch
NYS puts $116 billion more into the federal pot than we take out.
Kentucky TAKES $148 billion more from the federal pot than they put in.
But we don't deserve help now because the 15,000 people who died here were predominately democrats?
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NEW: The San Fransisco PD tells NBC News that Paul Pelosi and the accused attacker David DePape did not know each other prior to the assault at the Pelosi home on Friday, @anblanx reports.
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NBC News: Multiple FBI insiders say they believe James Comey was fired because he would not end Russia investigation, Pete Williams reports.
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BREAKING / NBC NEWS: Bank CEO Stephen Calk has been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged in connection with a plan to exchange $16 million in loans to Paul Manafort for his help in getting Caulk a Trump administration position.
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NEW: The Manhattan D.A. has asked for a dismissal of the President's lawsuit seeking to hold an accounting firm from turning over his tax records.
They say the conduct being investigated is unrelated to the office of the President and the law provides no "sweeping immunity."
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NEW: Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin says "we're looking at more significant felony charges" being brought against Capitol related suspects in the near term.
They expect to have 300+ criminal cases by the end of the day.
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NEW: The U.S. Attorney's Office and FBI in Philadelphia have announced the guilty plea of a local elections judge, Domenick J. Demuro there who took bribes in exchange for adding ballots to increase the vote totals for certain candidates.
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BREAKING: 18 former NBA players have been arrested and charged federally for defrauding the NBA’s Health and Welfare Benefit Plan out of approximately $4,000,000, law enforcement officials say.
Reported by @jonathan4ny
and me.
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NEW: A spokesperson for the NY AG’s office says they’ve received notice that former president Trump’s motion to stay the contempt order pending appeal -- basically stop the daily $10,000 payment pending appeal – has been denied.
Trump owes $10,000 per day since April 26th.
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NEW: A woman whose Instagram account is allegedly [at]AntivaxMomma has been charged by Manhattan D.A. Cy Vance with selling forged CDC COVID-19 vaccination cards.
Jasmine Clifford, from NJ, is charged in the scheme along with 13 frontline workers who allegedly bought the cards.
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NEW: Trump’s accounting firm has told the Trump Organization that the former president’s “Statements of Financial Condition” from 2011-2020 can no longer be relied on.
Mazars USA says they base this on the AG’s investigation, their own internal investigation, and additional info
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BREAKING / NBC News: Michael Cohen has been remanded back into the custody of federal authorities and will be sent back to jail.
This comes after pictures were taken of Cohen at a Manhattan restaurant outside of his residence this weekend. NBC's Adam Reiss reports.
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NEW: The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court's ruling that the President cannot stop a grand jury subpoena seeking his tax documents, as sought by the Manhattan D.A.
This now likely sets up a Supreme Court fight.
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BREAKING / NBC News: Deutsche Bank agrees to pay $150 Million fine for what the NYS DFS calls a failure to monitor the behavior of high risk clients, in particular Jeffrey Epstein.
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BREAKING / NBC News: Ret. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn told Special Counsel Mueller's Office about efforts to interfere "both before and after his guilty plea, where either he or his attorneys received communication from persons connected to the Administration or Congress...” (1/2)
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NEW: The federal judge appointed to act as a "friend of the court" in the Michael Flynn case says the Justice Department's decision to drop the case into Flynn should be denied.
He cites "highly irregular conduct" by prosecutors "to benefit a political ally of the President.”
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NBC News: A U.S. Army soldier has been charged with giving classified information about U.S. troops stationed overseas to a European-based White Supremacist group, senior law enforcement and military officials say.
Reported by @PeteWilliamsNBC @jonathan4ny @ckubeNBC
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The Capitol Police have a 2,300 member department.
They have a $460,000,000 budget.
They have issued no public statements.
They are exempted from public records requests.
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NEW: Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have unsealed an indictment against a U.S. TV producer for allegedly violating sanctions by assisting a Russian Oligarch with developing a TV network in that country, prosecutors say.
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BREAKING / NBC News: Federal prosecutors no longer say Ret. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn should get little or no jail time. They are asking for the guideline sentence of 0-6 months in prison.
They cite Flynn's failure to accept responsibility and his efforts to undermine prosecutors.
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NBC News: There appears, although the redacted documents do not make it completely clear, that there is a separate criminal investigation going on outside of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's purview for which Flynn has been providing significant assistance.
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NBC News: The FBI is conducting “law enforcement activity” at the Washington D.C. home of Oleg Deripaska, a FBI spokesperson confirms.
NBC News is outside the home where a number of federal agents have gathered and are restricting access to the property.
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NEW: The officer who shot Ashli Babbitt at the Capitol on 1/6 was not a part of a specific security detail to a member of Congress, a senior law enforcement official tells NBC News.
This refutes the assertions made by former President Trump in a televised interview yesterday.
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NEW: Handwritten notes taken at the time by Acting Deputy AG Richard Donoghue on 12/27/20 and released today show former president Trump pressuring the Justice Department to help overturn the election.
The notes say....
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NEW: A federal jury has found Stephen Calk, former CEO of The Federal Savings Bank, guilty of financial institution bribery and conspiracy for approving $16 million in high-risk loans to Paul Manafort in exchange for Manafort's help in getting Calk a job in the Trump admin.
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BREAKING / NBC News: Berman says he will step down when a presidentially appointed nominee is confirmed by the Senate.
"Until then, our investigations will move forward without delay or interruption."
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NEW: Lev Parnas' attorney has written to Attorney General William Barr requesting that the AG recuse himself from the Parnas investigation and prosecution and asks for the appointment of a special prosecutor, according to a court filing.
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NEW: The Special Counsel's Office notifies the court that they will seek immunity for up to 5 people to testify under conditions of immunity in the upcoming trial against Paul Manafort in Virginia.
They say these people have not been publicly named before in the case.
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White House says they've talked to "countless" FBI agents that had lost faith in Comey. I haven't talked to anyone in the FBI who says that.
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NBC News: Federal prosecutors say that video taken from outside of Jeffrey Epstein's cell the night of his FIRST suicide attempt in July has been permanently deleted because MCC saved video from the wrong tier of the jail and not the tier Epstein was on, a filing says.
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Yesterday, NBC News lost one of our own, cameraman Mike Herron.
You don't know him, but you've seen his work countless times.
He had a terrific sense of humor, he was a very hard worker, he was a very kind co-worker.
We lost him to COVID-19 and we lost him too soon.
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NEW: Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have charged a Russian Oligarch, previously identified in court papers as "Foreign National-1", with illegal campaign donations.
Andrey Muraviev allegedly gave funds to Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman to ultimately donate to politicians.
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NEW: Rep. Matt Gaetz's associate, Joel Greenberg, has asked the judge to delay his sentencing for 90 days while Greenberg continues his cooperation with federal prosecutors, according to court papers.
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BREAKING / NBC NEWS: A Russian woman, Elena Alekaseevna Khusyaynova, has been indicted for trying to meddle in the 2018 Midterm elections, according to court papers.
She allegedly works for Yevgeny Prigozhin, also known as "Putin's chef."
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NBC News: Deutsche Bank says that they will refrain from any future business with President Trump and his company and Signature Bank says it is closing his two personal accounts and calls for his resignation, @HallieJackson reports.
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UPDATE: For the second time, it appears the information initially provided by Texas law enforcement officials was wrong.
The shooter was not stopped by the first officer that encountered him. And he wasn't pinned down but rather appears to have locked himself in a classroom.
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Rep. Jim Jordan used a video clip of me in his exhibit that is wildly out of context.
I was speaking about violence and anarchists in New York City juxtaposed to peaceful protests.
To suggest I didn't talk about violence is a lie, his use of my image out of context is wrong.
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NEW: Federal prosecutors ask judge to keep Trump search warrant affidavit sealed "to protect the integrity of an ongoing law enforcement investigation that implicates national security."
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NEW: NBC News has obtained a full copy of the U.S. Capitol Police's Inspector General report which includes the USCP's own intelligence assessment on January 3rd which says:
"Congress itself is the target on the 6th" and that the protests surrounding Stop the Steal... (1/2)
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BREAKING | NBC News: Sen. Robert Menendez (D) is accused of acting as foreign agent according to a superseding indictment filed by a federal grand jury in Manhattan.
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NBC News: FDNY Deputy Chief Inspector Syed Rahman has died as a result of COVID-19, the department says.
The news comes as approximately 1 out of every 4 FDNY EMS member is out on medical leave tonight, that's 24% of the more than 4,000 total EMTs and paramedics, the FDNY says.
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NEW: Ken Kurson, former editor-in-chief of the New York Observer and associate of Jared Kushner has been hit was cyberstalking related charges by Manhattan D.A. Cy Vance.
Vance says in part, “we will not accept presidential pardons as get-out-of-jail-free cards."
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BREAKING / NBC News: AG Letitia James’ office says, “Evidence indicates that the Trump Organization also submitted fraudulent or misleading valuations to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), specifically related to the Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles and Seven Springs.”
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NBC News: The federal judge overseeing the case of Ret. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn says he'll set a schedule to receive 'amicus curiae briefs' which will allow interested 3rd parties -- outside of Flynn's attorneys and the Justice Department -- to file briefings with the court.
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NEW: The U.S. Attorney says that Anthony Quinn Warner is the Nashville bomber, he died at the bomb site.
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NBC News | BREAKING: New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued former president Trump, Don Jr, Ivanka, and Eric Trump for years of allege fraud.
She seems to permanently bar Trump from ever conducting business in New York again and seeks $250 Million in penalties.
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NEW: New York Attorney General Letitia James has, through court filings, made her civil investigation into the Trump Organization public.
James' filings allege that Eric Trump has refused to comply with a subpoena for his testimony.
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NBC News: According to California state records, President Trump -- while a private citizen -- twice donated to Kamala Harris while she was a candidate for state AG.
A total of $6,000 in 2011 and 2013 combined.
Image:
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So far there is no evidence Antifa is involved in any of the arrests and several regular QAnon / extreme right protesters have been recognized by colleagues as having been in the Capitol.
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NEW: FBI Director Christopher Wray says there are about 2,000 domestic extremist investigations currently.
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We compete against CNN and we want to win by having the best reporting.
But not like this. It is dead wrong what the White House did to CNN by excluding them from an event because they didn't like questions on topics the President HIMSELF is tweeting about:
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NEW: Federal prosecutors have filed the original notes of the FBI interview with Ret. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn which appear to confirm the 302 which shows that Flynn lied about his contacts with former RU Amb. Kislyak.
The filing disputes a Flynn argument that the 302 was edited.
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BREAKING | NBC News: Hunter Biden has sued Rudy Giuliani and his attorney Robert Costello over allegations that they wrongfully accessed Biden’s personal information after receiving a hard drive from a Delaware computer repair shop.
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NEW: Thomas Barrack, former chairman of the Trump Inaugural and Trump confidant, was arrested on federal charges in Los Angeles this morning, multiple law enforcement officials tell @anblanx and @PeteWilliamsNBC
It's not clear what he's been charged with yet...
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NEW: Every single person who has been shot in New York City this July, nearly 100 in total, has been a member of the minority community and 97% of shooting victims in June were members of the city’s minority communities, the NYPD says.
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NBC News: One of Jeffrey Epstein’s long-time pilots, Larry Visoski, has been called to the witness stand by federal prosecutors as the first witness in the case against Ghislaine Maxwell.
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NBC News: Federal prosecutors say that an attorney for indicted Ukranian Oligarch Dmytro Firtash (and Paul Manafort associate) is behind the $1 Million loan to Lev Parnas.
Further, they raise questions as to whether this really was a loan or a loan disguised as a payment.
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NEW: Police in Nashville, TN say they arrived at a 'shots fired' call this morning to find an RV with a recording playing saying that the vehicle would explode. Police sought to immediately clear the area and call on bomb squad and then the RV exploded near an AT&T facility.
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NEW: Rudy Giuliani, the President's personal attorney and former Mayor of New York, has tested positive for COVID-19 according to President Trump.
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NEW: Federal investigators have sought records of communications between Rudy Giuliani and 12 other individuals as well as any communications about former ousted U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, and other topics as part of their search warrants, court filings show.
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BREAKING: A federal judge in Miami says that politically connected fund manager Jeffrey Epstein abused girls in Florida, elsewhere in the U.S,, and overseas in violation of U.S. Law.
He says he abused at least 30 girls between 1999 and 2007.
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NEW: Hacked e-mails from Wikileaks appear to show Clinton campaign spokesman in touch with DOJ officials regarding e-mail litigation:
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NBC News: According to police records, Parscale had 10 guns confiscated from his residence, including several rifles. Police described Parscale as being under the influence of alcohol.
Police say they observed bruising on Parscale's wife, Candace, and she stated he has hit her.
NBC News : Trump senior campaign advisor Brad Parscale was detained by police in Fort Lauderdale, FL today after officers were called to his house and his wife told them he had access to firearms and was threatening to harm himself, a police spokesperson says.
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NEW: Konstantin Kilimnik, Paul Manafort's former employee, has been sanctioned by the U.S. for his interference in the 2020 election namely that Kilimnik "sought to promote the narrative that Ukraine, not Russia, had interfered in the 2016" election.
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BREAKING | NBC News: Danske Bank has pleaded guilty and will forfeit $2 Billion dollars after DOJ says it failed to have the anti-money laundering systems and transaction monitoring facilities to stop tainted foreign money — including Russian money — to enter the U.S. system.
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None of the four prosecutors who left the case have any record of a campaign donation in the last 10 years:
Who are the four prosecutors (Mueller people?) who cut and ran after being exposed for recommending a ridiculous 9 year prison sentence to a man that got caught up in an investigation that was illegal, the Mueller Scam, and shouldn’t ever even have started? 13 Angry Democrats?
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NBC's Pete Williams reports (as we have all along) that investigators have found no collusion between Trump campaign and contacts in Russia.
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NBC News: All four prosecutors have now asked the judge to leave the Roger Stone case.
Michael Marando joins Aaron Zelinsky, Jonathan Kravis, and Adam Jed in leaving the case after the Justice Department publicly rebuked the their recommended sentence of 7-9 years.
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MORE: Judge Victor Marrero who has already ruled that the tax documents from Mazars USA should be handed over through the Grand Jury, a ruling that prompted the Supreme Court fight, is asking the parties to detail “potential areas for further argument.”
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The ease with which people throw around Nazi, Hitler, and Holocaust comparisons and analogies to current events on this platform is unnerving.
That’s a rare opinion tweet from me.
But the systemic murder of 6 million Jews should not be a comparison point to score retweets.
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The FBI says they spoke with Williams’ mother on Saturday and she allegedly said, “she recognized her daughter inside the U.S. Capitol Building and that her daughter had taken a sudden interest in President Trump’s politics and “far right message boards.”
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MORE: In a statement Krischer says, "no matter how my office resolved the state charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office always had the ability to file its own federal charges. "
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Since people are asking...
Epstein death does NOT preclude federal invesitgators and prosecutors from continuing to investigate any Epstein co-conspirators or anyone who covered up crimes he committed.
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NEW: FBI Assistant Director Steven D'Antuono was just asked if the FBI has uncovered any efforts by people associated with Antifa to "frame" Trump supporters for the violence at the Capitol.
He said, "We have no indication of that, at this time."
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The charging document says, “according to W1, the transfer of the computer device to Russia fell through for unknown reasons and WILLIAMS still has the computer device or destroyed it.”
The FBI agent on the case says the matter remains under investigation.
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NEW: Texas law enforcement officials at a press conference say they believe that all the children that were shot and killed in Uvalde, TX were shot by Salvador Ramos and not anyone else [i.e. law enforcement].
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