WASHINGTON, DC - Earlier in June, the FBI announced the arrest of a 60-year-old fugitive found residing in the Philippines who fled the United States after failing to appear for his sentencing in connection with pleading guilty to numerous federal charges involving healthcare fraud back in 2019.
FBI Director Kash Patel announced the arrest of 60-year-old Herbert Leon Kimble via social media on June 19th, highlighting how the apprehended fugitive was among those listed on the agency’s “Most Wanted Fraudsters” list.
According to authorities, Kimble had run a Medicare fraud scheme between 2014 and 2019, reportedly amassing $1.2 billion in ill-gotten gains from the scheme which largely targeted elderly beneficiaries. The aforementioned operation reportedly consisted of call centers attempting to convince patients to acquire medically unnecessary orthopedic braces.
In April of 2019, Kimble reportedly pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and mail fraud among other similar charges, reportedly entering into an agreement with the federal government to help build cases “against other co-conspirators” which lasted for years. However, when Kimble was scheduled to appear in court on October 7th, 2024, for sentencing, he reportedly went on the run.
An international manhunt ensued, with authorities suspecting he was residing in Manila, Philippines. After nearly two years on the lam, authorities located the fugitive in the Philippines and he has since been returned to the United States, according to Director Patel.
In Director Patel’s statement regarding Kimble’s arrest, he emphasized, “President Trump set a mandate to end the abuse of hardworking taxpayer money and each and every day this team will be committed to delivering.”
Kimble’s arrest serves as the second high-profile apprehension carried out with respect to the FBI’s Most Wanted Fraudsters in recent weeks, with 47-year-old Said Abdullahi Ereghaving been arrested earlier in June after self-surrendering to authorities in Minneapolis. Officials claim Ereg engaged in fraud totaling $4.2 million during the pandemic via submitting false claims of hot meals served to those in need under the Federal Child Nutrition Program.
One look at Kyle "I'm Antifa" Wagner using every conceivable grammatical use of the F word, and one can find how getting death threats, stalking, and conspiring to harm or kill federal officers appears to be a real threat. The feds sure think so, which is why the feds rolled up tough guy Kyle "aka Kaos," in Minneapolis this week and netted him a hat trick of charges.
He's one scary and unhinged-looking dude.
Wagner was charged with solicitation to commit an act of violence, interstate threats, and conspiracy stemming from last winter's Minneapolis riots, "direct actions," and violence against federal agents from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other Department of Homeland Security (DHS) offices.
And here's Wagner, wearing body armor, imploring Antifa followers to grab their guns and come shoot federal officers for openly following federal law and arresting criminal illegal aliens during Operation Metro Surge.
Reporter Andy Ngo reports that Wagner's array of tattoos shows that "Wagner has branded himself on the neck with the gang tattoo of the Antifa “Iron Front” logo, similar to how neo-Nazis brand themselves with fascist symbols."
But, to no one's surprise, Kyle has a softer, more feminine side.
He likes to flounce around in dresses to make him feel like a pretty little girl.
That's right. He's a Trantifa, Pantifa activist.
"I'm out and about like this because I do it for me all year," the confused man says while posing in a dress on his video.
Not that there's anything wrong with it — except they seem to be a violent lot of thugs, lacy bras or no.
Here's one of his messages calling for the material support of Antifa terrorists.
In this exchange provided in the indictment, Kyle Wagner told his Kaos.follows Instagram followers that he was raising money for alleged "mutual aid networks." That's part of Antifa's web of lawyers, free food, weapons, and vehicles network meant to make their escape, impending legal problems, and nourishment while trying to build road blocks or run their cars into the feds, as one of the indicted characters did in this case. Read about that Renee Good wannabe in my story Feds Reveal Violent Antifa Conspirators Coordinated With a Major Labor Union to Fight ICE in Minneapolis.
Here's Kyle speaking with other accused conspirators, Direct Action Minneapolis (DAMN) group members Brian Apland and Issac Sant, in what is tantamount to a confession message that they will meet at the Jan. 23, 2026, attack on ICE officers at the Whipple federal building in Minneapolis.
Multiple Antifa activists are trans and dangerous.
I had Perplexity AI make a table of a small portion of the people who have been arrested. This list doesn't count all the mentally ill Trantifa that made up a significant number of Portland arrestees in 2020.
They've been arrested in Oregon, Texas, Alabama, Los Angeles, and Louisiana. Most of these Pantifa propagandists haven't been arrested, of course, because many cities don't enforce the law against violence committed by men wearing dresses.
The 22-year-old son of Democratic New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand raised $30 million in investments to launch a derivatives exchange startup already valued at $300 million, according to a report.
Gillibrand is one of the top pro-crypto U.S. Senators in Washington, D.C., influencing cryptocurrency and digital asset policy. She previously partnered with Republican Wyoming Sen. Cynthia Lummis on “landmark legislation” to create a rules framework for stablecoins.
Now her son, Theodore, is starting the American Perpetuals Exchange Corporation, or APEC, which will offer perpetual futures contracts that allow traders to wager on the future price of assets without owning them, Fortune reported. The contracts also lack the expiration dates typical of traditional futures contracts, the outlet noted. (RELATED: They Said They Would Drain The Swamp. They’re Laughing, Playing In The Muck)
Gillibrand’s son graduated from undergrad on Sunday. Today it’s reported that he’s received $30 million in venture capital funding to launch a derivatives exchange. His mom sat on the Senate Agriculture committee—which has jurisdiction over derivates—until this past year https://t.co/Q0K8YzrV7D
Theodore graduated from Stanford University on Sunday. He had previous stints at crypto-focused venture firm Paradigm and Andreessen Horowitz, a powerful Silicon Valley firm with major investments in cryptocurrency, The New York Post reported.
“The American Perpetuals Exchange Corporation will be offering perpetual futures on US equities,” an APEC spokesperson told The New York Post. “There will be no cryptocurrencies on the platform, and the platform is not built on blockchain technology.”
Theodore said in a statement, “It is clear that the future of these markets is not in offshore and unregulated foreign entities but rather in a regulated and institutional American company.”
Gillibrand has denied being involved with the startup in any capacity.
“My son is a grown adult starting his own independent business,” the senator said. “I have no involvement in it whatsoever. That said, I’m enormously proud of him and wish him nothing but the best.”
Gavin Newsom and his “press office” aides-gone-wild have been trying to mock President Donald Trump on social media for more than a year — regardless of the consequences for state-federal relations.
That’s why he and his inner circle are reportedly starting to worry.
Newsom knows the investigations go back to the Biden administration.
His former chief of staff, Dana Williamson, pleaded guilty last month in federal court in Sacramento to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and wire fraud.
Among other misdeeds, she and her co-conspirators stole money from the dormant state campaign account of Xavier Becerra, a left-wing Democrat who is now the favorite to succeed Newsom as governor.
Becerra has denied any knowledge of the crime; indeed, he claims he is a victim.
But part of the alleged scheme involved using Becerra’s campaign money to supplement the salary of his own chief of staff when he was Biden’s secretary of Health and Human Services.
How could these shenanigans go on under Newsom’s nose?
Part of the answer is that Sacramento has a long history of tolerating corruption, thanks to one-party rule, the passive media, and a culture of mutual back-scratching.
For example, Democrat Darrell Steinberg presided over the state Senate at a time when several members were indicted and convicted for various crimes.
After failing to clean up that legislative body, he became a lobbyist, then ran for mayor of Sacramento — and won, serving until 2024.
Newsom likewise escaped political consequences when he won a recall election in 2021 that was held after he hobnobbed, maskless, with lobbyists in the elite French Laundry restaurant in Napa during the coronavirus pandemic — after telling restaurants in the rest of the state to close down.
His now-infamous dinner speaks to poor ethical and political judgment, but also to the fact that Democrats in Sacramento fear no consequences for their actions.
Newsom also raised hundreds of millions of dollars for “charity” through “behested payments” in which he asked donors to contribute to nonprofit organizations of his choice.
Though legal in California, these payments often suggest glaring conflicts of interest.
Some of the recipients have business before the state. One recipient organization was founded by his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom.
It looks bad — yet it continues because Newsom and his party don’t believe anyone will hold them accountable.
And they were right. Until now.
Newsom has coasted for most of his career, aside from personal scandals as mayor of San Francisco. His path to lieutenant governor was an easy one. And for eight years, he was Jerry Brown’s heir apparent.
That is a long time to be in office, and it is a lot of power.
Newsom was happy to see federal prosecutors chase Trump and his associates for “Russia collusion” that never happened.
Now that he faces real questions, he’s lawyering up. As he should.
SAN DIEGO - As the flood of illegal immigrants at the southern border slowed to a trickle, agents shifted gears. Now, they're focused on seizing drugs - in record amounts - as the border is more secure than ever, officials told The Epoch Times.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) took The Epoch Times behind the scenes at the border between San Diego and Mexico - home to the San Ysidro Port of Entry, the busiest land border crossing in the Western Hemisphere.
The San Diego sector, patrolled by thousands of federal officers, encompasses more than 56,000 square miles. That includes 60 linear miles of international boundary between the United States and Mexico, and an additional 931 miles of coastal border stretching from the California-Mexico line north to Oregon.
Officers said the success they're experiencing - not just in drug seizures, but also in fewer illegal immigrants entering the country - stems from the Trump administration's tough border policies.
"Without having four or five hundred people in detention making an asylum claim, I'm going to take those officers and say, 'I don't need you to process asylum claims, I need you out there looking for dope, looking for people smuggling, looking for those agriculture violations,'" Mariza Marin, port director at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, told The Epoch Times.
Marin said she was able to move about 180 officers from handling administrative work processing illegal immigrants to enforcement and inspection.
"That's huge; 180 individuals is huge," said Sidney Aki, San Diego director of field operations.
The Evidence
Under the Biden administration, total drug seizure amounts for fiscal years 2024 and 2023 were 573,000 and 549,000, respectively.
In 2025, the first year of the Trump administration, drug seizures were slightly more, at 583,000.
But border agents seized 516,000 pounds of drugs from October 2025 through April 2026 alone. That's the first seven months of the current fiscal year for CBP, meaning five months remain for the agency to extend those numbers. And historically, summer months tend to yield higher seizure amounts, according to Department of Homeland Security data.
In April, agents seized 185,000 pounds of illegal narcotics, the biggest monthly seizure since officials began to track totals.
Last month, CBP announced its office of field operations had seized a historic amount of fentanyl: about 100 million lethal doses from October 2025 through May this year. According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, a lethal dose of fentanyl is about two milligrams.
"When you look at the point of where we are now compared to the course we were on previously, we are increasing our numbers and seizures," Aki said.
Methamphetamine and cocaine seizures are also surpassing previous numbers.
This fiscal year, CBP officers have seized more than 152,000 pounds of methamphetamine, eclipsing seizures for all of fiscal year 2025. They've seized more than 28,000 pounds of cocaine, surpassing fiscal year 2025 to date by about 6,000 pounds.
Federal Backing
While policy changes on immigration and the border have led to the refocusing of personnel, a top-to-bottom support system from the Trump administration has also created high morale and motivation for federal officers, they said.
Border enforcement and security, which is "emphasized significantly with this administration," continues to increase, Aki said.
Since Trump returned to the White House, he has signed executive actions designating cartels as terrorist organizations and fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed nearly a year ago, allocated $170 billion for border security and immigration enforcement initiatives.
On June 10, Trump signed a roughly $70 billion bill to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol. The Secure America Act ended a 116-day dispute over immigration funding.
The measure will fund ICE and Border Patrol through Sept. 30, 2029, going beyond the end of Trump's term.
Enforcement At An Entry Point
The Epoch Times witnessed how agents at a port of entry carry out their tasks.
The massive San Ysidro Port of Entry has a total of 34 lanes, which are funneled into seven upon entry, and two separate pedestrian walkways that allow travelers to cross the international boundary by foot.
About 42,000 to 47,000 vehicles cross per day, Marin said.
Taking into account the number of passengers in each vehicle, commercial trucks, and pedestrians, the total number of individuals entering the United States through the crossing each day likely eclipses 100,000.
The vetting process to ensure each of these travelers is abiding by U.S. law starts with what federal agents call the "primary" or "technology zone," immediately adjacent to the international boundary.
But, with the help of Mexican authorities, intelligence gathering and enforcement can extend beyond that.
Coordination with Mexico is the best it's ever been, the officials said. Sometimes, their Mexican law enforcement counterparts intercept bad actors before they even reach the U.S. border, said Justin De La Torre, chief patrol agent for the San Diego Sector.
However, with so many thousands of vehicles and individuals seeking to enter the United States each day, things can slip by Mexican authorities.
That's when the primary or technology zone comes into play. The zone is where an intelligence package begins to be built on travelers.
Border patrol agents take pictures of each car, its driver, and any passengers. Radiation portal monitors scan vehicles to ensure there are no radiological threats. This technology, Marin said, has a very low alarm threshold - for good reason.
By the time a traveler reaches a primary officer for what the agents call an "interview" before entering the country, they already know who the traveler is, their crossing history, potential criminal history, vehicles they've driven across the border, people they've crossed with, and more.
"It could be a driver that nine times we saw him in a Versa, and then we see him in a Fiat," Marin said. "'Where'd you get this car?' So the officers are trying to build that picture, and that's part of the interview."
An officer's instinct plays a major role during the interview process in catching violators.
What might appear to be innocent questions or small talk, Aki said, is actually agents trying "to poke holes" into your story. "Why did you go to Mexico? Why are you coming to the United States? Whose car is this? Why are you bringing that?'"
Meanwhile, officers are looking for physical signs that could point to nefarious activity: indicators of nervousness such as fidgeting, white knuckling, and avoiding eye contact.
Intelligence packages are also used for commercial trucks entering the United States.
Intelligence plays a massive role in intercepting large drug smuggling attempts and preventing further ones, Aki said. It can point to previous loads a truck has carried, where it came from, who loaded it, who has operated it, and whether it has ever had any compliance violations.
Marin and Aki credited intelligence with a massive methamphetamine seizure from three separate trucks over the span of a week.
"It was basically in flower pots, cement, as well as flat-screen televisions," Aki said. The seizure was based on intelligence gathering that suggested a nefarious connection and prompted further inspection. Ultimately, officers intercepted nearly 9,000 pounds of methamphetamine, Aki said.
In an example at the Texas border, officers discovered 307 hidden packages in a tractor-trailer hauling lettuce from Mexico.
It's difficult to find a single redeeming quality of liberal movements these days. Maybe it's the abject pettiness, like children throwing a tantrum, that makes them hard to respect. Or, maybe it's their violent emotional tendencies and complete lack of moral integrity. They are willing to do anything to gain power, including lie, cheat, steal and even murder.
At bottom, the unstable psychological drivers of leftists lead them to hate certain things that most normal people love, including the basic maintenance of respected national monuments.
One might think that the Trump Administration's repairs to the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool would be minor news, but the establishment media and progressive activists have turned the site repairs into a political battleground. CNN has spent more time "investigating" the growth of green algae in the pool than they did on the massive Somalian fraud networks in Minneapolis. Apparently, CNN isn't aware that algae grows naturally in standing water in a matter of 48 hours.
Activists tired to make hay out of the green pool, claiming that Trump wasted $14 million on his renovations, even though the same thing happened after Barack Obama's $35 million renovation from 2010 to 2012, and those repairs didn't even solve the leakage problems.
When Trump responded to the algae issue with new "nano bubbler" treatments, leftists actually protested online and at the site against the removal of the green sludge.
In other words, they got mad that the treatments were working and they could no longer use the algae as an example of Trump failure. They then turned to direct sabotage of the site. Pieces of the floor of the reflecting pool have been torn out and the new sealant has been damaged.
The numbers "8647" have been found scratched into the floor of the pool (a code for "murder Trump").
Multiple activists have reportedly been arrested, some caught in the process of trying to sabotage the monument. Others have tried to interfere with maintenance workers cleaning the algae. The National Guard and DC police are now stationed at the pool around the clock to prevent further damage.
Yes, the trifling behavior is off the charts, but this has become the standard of discourse for the woke mob in 2026. The worst part, though, is that the media has been running interference for the vandals, claiming that the repairs were "substandard" and that the water treatments are causing the sealant to peel. In reality, the damages are being caused by a coordinated monkey wrenching campaign, and the liberal media is silent about it.
The political left views monuments as symbolic targets; a way to attack western culture and demoralize the population without risking substantial jail time. We have seen similar tactics used by climate change protesters across Europe and the US. It's no coincidence that these activists choose iconic western treasures, such as classic artworks or an original copy of the Magna Carta, to vandalize.
Climate change is just the excuse, but the real goal is to incrementally deface anything symbolic of western civilization or national pride. The same mentality applies to the sabotage of the Lincoln reflecting pool. On top of that, the media takes the opportunity to paint Trump as incompetent or ineffective, turning something positive like monument restoration into an ugly propaganda affair.
Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.
The Goals of Communism
(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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