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Former Arizona Elected Official Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement of More than $38M of County Funds
Florida Telecommunications and Information Technology Worker Sentenced for Conspiring to Act as Agent of Chinese Government
Dominican National Sentenced for his Role in a Human Smuggling Event that Resulted in Child’s Death
President and CEO of Las Vegas-Based Company Pleads Guilty for Role in Investment Fraud Scheme Where He Stole Millions in Victim Investor Funds
Federal Jury Finds Human Smugglers Guilty in Deaths of Family of Four
Co-Founders of Paycheck Protection Program Lender Service Provider Charged for COVID-19 Relief Fraud Scheme
Dual U.S. and Albanian Citizen Arrested for Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS and Distributing Instructions Regarding Homemade Explosives
Indian National Charged with Conspiring to Illegally Export U.S. Aviation Components to Russia
Michigan Woman Convicted of $1.4M Health Care Kickback Scheme
Two Men Sentenced for Illegally Smuggling Juvenile Eels from Puerto Rico
Federal Jury Convicts Minnesota Man of Advertising and Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Material Over the Dark Web
Man Sentenced to Nine Years in Federal Prison for Detonating an Explosive Device Outside the Alabama Attorney General’s Office
Physician Pleads Guilty to Medicare Fraud Scheme
High-Ranking Mexican Cartel Leader Arrested on Charges of International Drug Trafficking and Money Laundering After Faking Own Death to Live in California Under Assumed Identity
Two Florida Men Sentenced in Multimillion-Dollar Tax Refund Scheme
Federal Jury Convicts Man of Conspiring to Murder FBI Employees
Dallas Anesthesiologist Convicted of Tampering with IV Bags Sentenced to 190 Years in Prison
Two Honduran Men Convicted for their Role in International Human Smuggling Conspiracy
Former Georgia Poll Worker Indicted for Mailing Bomb Threat to Polling Place
Laboratory Owner Charged for $79M Fraud Scheme
Justice Department Seizes Cybercrime Website and Charges Its Administrators
Brothers Residing in New York and Bangladesh Charged with Running Digital Streaming Piracy Scheme
California Man Sentenced for Acting as an Illegal Agent of the People’s Republic of China Government and Bribery
Dell and Iron Bow Agree to Pay $4.3M to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Relating to Submitting Non-Competitive Bids to the Army
Two Former West Virginia Corrections Officers Plead Guilty to Federal Civil Rights Charge Following Death of An Inmate
Former Senior Manager of Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Pleads Guilty to Insider Trading and Making False Statements
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More information about the department’s efforts to help American seniors is available at its Elder Justice Initiative webpage. For more information about the Consumer Protection Branch and its enforcement efforts, visit www.justice.gov/civil/consumer-protection-branch. Elder fraud complaints can be filed with the Federal Trade Commission at www.reportfraud.ftc.gov/ or at 877-FTC-HELP. The Justice Department provides a variety of resources relating to elder fraud victimization through its Office for Victims of Crime, which can be reached at www.ovc.gov.
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Demanding Accountability: My colleagues and I are demanding answers and accountability for the hurricane victims ignored by FEMA because of their support for President Trump. This blatant political vendetta against Americans during a time of crisis is disgusting and unacceptable. Americans deserve answers and accountability.
Fighting for our Nation’s Heroes: I was honored to vote in support of the Elizabeth Dole Act which passed the House last week. I am optimistic that my Senate colleagues will expedite its passage!
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Sen. Rick Scott Celebrates National Adoption Day
Dear Fellow Floridians,
Throughout November, we celebrate National Adoption Month and Day as we recognize the life-changing impact adoption can have on our future generations.
For me, adoption is personal. I was born to a single-mom, I was blessed and when my adopted-dad made the decision to adopt my brother and me, it changed my life. For others, adoption is an incredible way to grow your family and experience the joys that come with it. As your U.S. Senator, I will always fight to improve our foster care system and adoption process so that every child waiting for their permanent families can find one.
This week, I was proud to join a bipartisan group of colleagues to introduce a resolution that seeks to increase support for adoptive families and raise awareness about adoption, recognize that every child should have a permanent and loving family, and encourage the people of the United States to consider adoption during the month of November and throughout the year.
I am proud to join together with Florida families to celebrate the power of adoption and the gift of life. God bless!
Sincerely,
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The Ultimate Deep State Solution
(Real Change)
By Author CS Bennett
(November 2024)
Giving homage to the original thirteen colonies, and most of its leaders, I continue to fight to keep their freedom experiment alive and well. It was the States that gave birth to our powerful federal government, a government that has become overly restrictive and oppressive. In order to reign in the corruption and intrusive agenda of the Deep State, or better yet eliminate it, we must have a leader who has the courage, and who is willing to risk his/her own life, to go after this secretive and shadowy cabal knowing that it could come at great risk to himself/herself and family. In addition to this, there are other social ills we must address. Without a doubt, some of the items on the list below could cost this leader his/her life should the decision be made to tackle the items on this list. Fortunately, there is one such leader who has returned to prominence. Sure, there have been numerous attempts to take him down, and even kill him, and before he even had a chance to return triumphantly to the SWAMP. They failed, and we won. Could this be the imperfect man anointed to bring about YAHWEH’s perfect will? Most believe he is. For a second time, he has returned to the Lion’s Den, and thankfully under the protection of the Almighty, I'm talking about the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob… Still, he cannot do this alone. He needs help. The question remains, does the US Congress, controlled by the Republicans, have the stomach, courage, and backbone to right this ship? I know our elected conservative women do. What about the men, especially the male egos that serve in the Senate? I say the American people have spoken. Unite or move out of the way…
THE DRAIN THE SWAMP/US RESTORATION OBJECTIVES
We need to audit the Federal Reserve Bank. There's nothing federal or American about this unchecked organization.
We must go after the authors of the WOKE Agenda, and rid our government-run schools and universities, major corporations, the military, Silicon Valley, the biased media, and Hollywood of this mental illness. And we must close the Woke-inspired invasion at the border.
We must go after the massive US intelligence apparatus whose leaders have gone Woke and, in some cases, rogue.
We must gut the unjust Justice Department from top to bottom and return the Blind part of the slogan Justice is Blind...
We must take down financier George Soros, who has dual citizenship in Hungary and the United States. This malcontent has never been up to any good. He is a Jew who has no allegiance to his faith or countrymen and countrywomen. Acquiring great wealth and destroying world economies in the process is the God he serves. Put him and his son in jail or boot them both out of the country.
We must break up our over-bloated bureaucracy, and in some cases, abolish government agencies such as the highly intrusive EPA and the destructive propaganda machine known as the Department of Education whose role has been more a left-wing propaganda factory.
We must provide full disclosure of what our government knows about UAPs and what our compartmentalized government may secretly have in its possession. In June of 2021, the U.S. government could not explain 143 of 144 UFO cases reported by military aircraft in a highly anticipated intelligence report released that year thanks to legislation signed off by then President Donald Trump. Need it be said again, our massive, high-tech, covert military and intelligence agencies could only explain 1 out of 144 unexplained cases of unidentified aerial phenomena. Let that sink in. So, what else are they hiding?
We must come to terms with AI. If this technology becomes self-aware and self-replicating, who is going to stop it? Safeguards should be put into place now by Congress! Otherwise, we will become unwilling and oppressed subjects of artificial intelligence machines of our own making… Assign Elon Musk to this task.
We must eliminate or, at least, streamline the Patriot Act to ensure that we maintain our privacy, freedom, and the spirit of due process. Our US Constitution must reign Supreme!
We must take down violent street gangs, narco-terrorists, the Mob, and 1% Bikers with all we have got legally, technology-wise, and manpower-wise. Yes, let’s make our battle-torn neighborhoods safe again. Where is General George S. Patton when you need him?
We must create an employment climate where we can feel free, and it is acceptable, to say Merry Christmas, as much as we are free to say Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, and for some, Happy Earth Day and Happy Pride Month. Christianity has been vilified by the leaders of the left and purposely.
We need to ensure that all Americans of faith can kneel or bow their heads in prayer at public schools and sporting events and throughout the public arena without being harassed, ridiculed, and ostracized.
Repeal the 17th Amendment. The founders meant for the House of Representatives to be a two-year term of service to the country representing and serving the interest of the people of the State they were elected in. Members of the Senate were tasked with representing the interests of the State they served. Senators’ longer six-year terms were meant to provide some protection against the federal government having too much power over the States. The Senate’s longer terms and avoidance of popular election turned the Senate into a body that could counter the populism of the House, as well. The Senate’s allegiance to their State and their switch to that of their chosen political party as a result of the 17th Amendment made this an elected office via popular vote. Repeal it! Doing so will help silence a lot of this toxic and hostile partisan environment.
Do these thirteen things and we have a good chance of saving this republic while giving us all a chance at living the American Dream… I believe our Founding Fathers, and most of the thirteen colonies, would be proud of us as we approach the United States' 250th birthday in 2026… What better way to honor their memory than to restore this country to greatness!
Happy Thanksgiving / Merry Christmas / Happy Hanukkah / Happy New Year
ETERNITY IS BOTH PAST AND FUTURE
John 10: 28 “And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.”
When we were children, some of us asked our parents, “How old is God?” The typical answer was, “He’s always been.”
In such a case, eternity is both past and future. We earthlings cannot comprehend this concept of time. We are conditioned to adhere to everything having a beginning and an end. Our lives are an example. So is the life of a tree, a sermon, the baseball season or the baking of a cake.
To be asked to relate to a time concept without a beginning or an end is not within our limits of understanding, and may be asking too much. At times however, there are concepts we must accept by faith and without a thorough comprehending.
Also, the age of the universe is an unanswerable question. If God is eternal, might the universe be eternal? Are we to think God existed in an environment of nothingness for all of previous eternity? And then all of a sudden He decided to create billions of galaxies, stars/suns, and planets. Might God have said “What a great idea! Why hadn’t I thought of that before?”
Many have tried to place the earth and universe in a limited time factor. Even NASA, America’s space agency, puts a time limit of 13.7 billion years on the age of the universe.
We know that stars/suns are born and they die. Our sun for example, we are told, is five billion years old and contains enough hydrogen to burn for another five billion years. Is this possible?
For the terminal human, the question of time has long been of great importance. Had it not been, why would have the clock and calendar been invented? Our lives are geared to time factors. The length of our lives, the length of the work week or the running of a mile by the Olympic runner have been in our minds.
I asked the question in a sermon, “Do any of you comprehend the meaning of eternity?” Not a single hand was raised. Even though we accept eternity as a Biblical truth, the understanding of it is limited.
We are still left with the question, is eternity both past and future? In the true sense of the definition of the word, of course it is or it wouldn’t be called eternity! Past and future eternity meet in our now; we are living in eternity.
Two chapters in the Bible start with the words, “In the beginning;” Genesis chapter one and John (in the New Testament) chapter one. While these words dictate a starting point to all things, would there not have to be, by definition, an ending point?
Perhaps Genesis one and John one are so stated because God knows our human minds cannot comprehend the reality of eternal in past tense. Or those verses may be referring only to the earth or our solar system. Could that have been a question?
While the existence of the universe doesn’t appear to have a beginning and an end, creation of the earth and mankind certainly does. Can we agree on the belief/theory that the universe is eternal but not the earth and mankind? Maybe, maybe not!
The Bible teaches eternal life for the believer but does it teach eternity for the earth and universe? Perhaps the following verses will help to answer these questions.
Romans 6: 23 “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” In this verse eternal seems to be referring to people but does it also apply to other things?
Ecclesiastes 1: 4 “One generation goes and another generation comes, but the earth remains forever.”
Revelation 21: 1 “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea,” confirms the validity of Ecclesiastes 1: 4 written by Solomon nearly 3000 years ago but indicates the creation of (or transforming into) a new earth.
Psalm 102: 25-26a “Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish.”
So which is it? Will the “Earth endureth forever” as written by Solomon or will it perish as said by his father, David? Still the question remains unanswered unless one considers Revelation 21: 1.
Romans 10: 9-10 “If thou shalt confess (say it, believe it) with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” This is a promise from God and says nothing about us understanding eternity or knowing when it begins.
The only critical belief is what we believe about Jesus. Romans 10: 9-10 emphasizes confession and other verses indicate repentance and belief.
1 John 1: 9 “If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us of all unrighteousness.” Confession is essential for the cleansing process. If man cannot realize he is a sinner (Romans 3: 23), how could he confess something that does not (in his mind) exist?
Repentance is essential for a changed life and a new life (John 3 and 1 Thessalonians 5: 17).
We must always teach that eternal salvation is attained by a faith based belief (Ephesians 2: 8) in Christ Jesus crucified (Matthew 27: 35) for the remission of sin (1 John 1: 9) and resurrected (Matthew 28: 6).
Van Yandell is a retired Industrial Arts teacher, an ordained gospel evangelist and commissioned missionary. His email is vmy2121@outlook.com
Not over yet!
For a year I was talking about that Historic vote which is now a reality. However, it’s not over yet. We may have the tools (Representatives/Senators) but our job is to ensure those tools are working effectively to enforce the “Will of the People.” We must now concentrate on contacting them & ask they pledge to support the American First agenda, making them aware there are eyes on them from those who vote them into office.
Some of us don’t feel the need to contact our Representatives expressing our America First positions for they already know, that’s why we elected them. However, we shouldn’t neglect our responsibilities, one would be to let them know they are appreciated. There is stress in Congress, they have a lot of serious work to do & they realize they cannot fail, it’s a mandate from We the People who spoke with the strength of ‘Diversity.’ Yes, the word the Left loves to pursue has come back to bite them. This was an election of Diversity in the American voter. Well, why not drop your Representative a text, etc. & thank them, & let them know they are not alone in this fight.
Politicians should be asking about Capital security during the election certification. I want to hear from the government about what they will do to provide sufficient security at the Capital to assure an uninterrupted election process. We need to be inquiring about that now!! Mention it to your Representatives in Congress, just want to make sure we have all our bases covered in this transition of power.
Keep in mind we don’t know these people Trump is appointing to govt, we know basics which is good. Trump knows them personally, he knows their sincerity, compassion, character & ability. With all that he decides what position is best for them & America. I hope our Representatives understand this & vote accordingly, give Trump what he needs, thereby giving We the People what we need.
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