Tuesday, April 22, 2025

They tacked on an illegal $30 administrative fee

Suffolk County may have to pay back $91M in shady red-light camera fees — leading to massive budget deficit



Uber deceives

Uber deceiving customers about $9.99 Uber One service, making it hard to cancel: FTC lawsuit


The Federal Trade Commission on Monday sued Uber Technologies, accusing it of signing up some Uber One subscribers without their knowledge and making deceptive claims about the service.

The service costs $9.99 a month and offers discounts on fees associated with Uber’s ride hailing and food delivery apps.

Uber falsely claimed that users would save about $25 a month through the service and deceived users about how easy it was to cancel, the FTC said in the lawsuit filed in San Francisco.




There is either nobody at the helm or they are flat out lying...I go with the latter

Cornell claims it somehow didn’t know about Jew-bashing Kehlani’s anti-Israel stance — and says it’s too late to cancel performance


Democrats once again prove they hate girls and women

Maine Democrats Want to Amend State Constitution to Codify Allowing Trans Athletes in Girls’ Sports

Ut seems Democrat operatives ARE above the law

OUTRAGEOUS: Soros-Backed County Attorney Says Member of Tim Walz Administration Won’t Face Criminal Charges For Vandalizing at Least 6 Teslas – Police Blast Decision!


 Apr. 21, 2025 9:40 pm

Corruption and thievery runs deep in the Biden family;y

Ashley Biden's Charity Failed To Disclose $500,000 in Donations to IRS, Complaint Alleges


‘What other contributions is she hiding?’ watchdog asks

Student loan forgiveness: Who profits?

Trump’s education boss reveals greedy truth behind Biden’s student loan forgiveness: ‘They have profited massively’



Biden/Mayorkas had no interest in protecting Americans

Biden’s DHS Reportedly Declined to ‘Respond to the Scene’ of 2022 Kilmar Abrego Garcia Traffic Stop in Tennessee

Joni Ernst Reveals More Examples Of HUD Bureaucrats Bilking Taxpayers

EXCLUSIVE: Joni Ernst Reveals More Examples Of HUD Bureaucrats Bilking Taxpayers




Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa sent a letter Monday highlighting more cases of bureaucrats at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) abusing a program that allows them to do work for unions on the taxpayer’s dime.

Ernst detailed how bureaucrats claimed they were carrying out union activities while taking vacations or serving time in jail, while also revealing new details on one case involving a bureaucrat who used so-called “taxpayer-funded union time” (TFUT) to launch a small business in Florida while purportedly working in the Washington, D.C., area, in a letter to HUD Secretary Scott Turner. Ernst told the Daily Caller News Foundation that it was time for the agency to get its “house in order.” (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Republicans Take Aim At Taxpayer-Funded Union Activity

“From launching real estate careers to sitting in jail cells, HUD bureaucrats have been quite busy while claiming to be on taxpayer-funded union time,” Ernst said. “Meanwhile, they have put the important work of serving the American people on the back burner. I look forward to Secretary Turner getting the house in order at HUD and ensuring that federal employees serve the American people and not themselves.”

In the letter, Ernst highlighted additional details about the HUD employee in Florida who collected locality pay, an adjustment to the basic pay of civilian employees in the federal government intended to make sure that federal employees have comparable compensation to private-sector counterparts in a given area of the country, for Washington, D.C., while on TFUT while living in Florida.

“Corroborating the allegations that this individual lives in Florida instead of Washington, D.C. are a series of legal documents he signed in which he claims his residence to be in Port Saint Lucie, Florida,” Ernst wrote. “These documents include, but are not limited to, two housing discrimination complaints, one signed in 2019 and the other 2020 (filed with the Florida Commission on Human Relations), as well as annual Limited Liability Company (LLC) disclosures signed each year between 2017 and the present, in which the LLC’s principal place of business is listed as Florida.”

“Perhaps this purported HUD employee conducts the entirety of his real estate business outside of the hours for which he draws a federal paycheck,” Ernst added later in the letter. “Somehow, I doubt it.”

Ernst also revealed another HUD employee attended a training conference in Puerto Rico under TFUT, then added an extra week of vacation in the U.S. territory, according to a whistleblower who contacted the senator’s office. Ernst also revealed that another HUD employee who used TFUT while being jailed for drinking and driving in one of several DUI offenses was only fired after allegedly embezzling $20,000 from the American Federation of Government Employees. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: GOP Senator Reintroduces Bill To Boot One Agency’s Bureaucrats Outside The Beltway)


Corruption is the main business of Democrat politicians

Nadine Menendez, wife of former Sen. ‘Gold Bar’ Bob Menendez, convicted of sprawling bribery scheme



Birds of a feather: Career criminal representing Karmelo Anthony


An activist from Next Generation Action Network is not only representing accused teen killer Karmelo Anthony but has a lengthy rap sheet of his own.

Minister Dominique Alexander, the appointed spokesperson for the alleged teen murderer, has been convicted on child abuse charges and allegations of domestic violence, but served almost zero prison time.

While on probation, Alexander was indicted on felony forgery charges, then in 2017 on felony theft charges of property between $2,500 and $30,000.

“The guy’s been convicted of several crimes,” Jason Whitlock of “Fearless” comments. “He’s reinvented himself as some sort of black activist. That’s the first sign that hey, there’s a problem here. A career criminal is the face of, ‘Hey, I’m fighting for justice for Karmelo Anthony and his family.’”

A Democrat of course


Daughter of judge's wife allegedly permitted suspect 'to hold and sometimes shoot various firearms' she owns.

A Democrat judge in New Mexico resigned last month just days after a suspected member of the violent Tren de Aragua gang was arrested at his residence.

On March 3, Judge Jose "Joel" Cano, magistrate of Doña Ana County, sent a letter to various court staff, including 3rd Judicial District Chief Judge Conrad Perea, announcing that he would step down from his seat effective March 21.

"Working with each of you has been a very rewarding experience for which I will remain eternally grateful," he wrote, according to the Albuquerque Journal.

Just three days before Cano sent the resignation letter, on February 28, ICE agents conducted a search warrant on his home in connection with Cristhian Ortega-Lopez, a 23-year-old illegal immigrant from Venezuela and suspected TDA gangster who was living there.

Ortega-Lopez broke into the U.S. by scaling a barbed-wire fence near Eagle Pass, Texas, at the height of the Biden border crisis in December 2023, Breitbart reported, citing court documents. He spent three days at a detention facility in South Laredo before he was released because of overcrowding.

He then moved in with five other people in El Paso and began working in construction and doing other odd jobs. At some point, he crossed paths with Nancy Cano, wife of ex-Judge Cano, who offered Ortega-Lopez the chance to live in a casita behind the home the couple shares in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Ortega-Lopez apparently accepted the offer because last April, he filed a request for immigration relief and listed the judge's address as his current residence. Breitbart indicated that the judge "allowed" him to do so.

Judge Damian Martinez initially opted to release him, reportedly stating that he did not believe Judge Cano 'would just let anybody live in his property.'

Far from mere casual acquaintances, Ortega-Lopez and Cano apparently spent considerable time together. Prosecutors introduced photos and videos posted to social media that showed the two posing together.

What's more, the photos and videos revealed that on at least one occasion, Ortega-Lopez and several other illegal aliens went to the local gun range, where they fired various firearms. One photo reportedly showed Ortega-Lopez double-fisting an AR-15-style rifle and a handgun, while in another photo, he allegedly handled another AR-style rifle outfitted with a suppressor.

Video footage also showed Ortega-Lopez firing the rifle until it ran out of bullets, according to Breitbart. He then reloaded the gun with a fresh magazine and proceeded to fire it again.

During their investigation, agents discovered a cache of weapons at the nearby home of April Cano, identified as Nancy Cano's daughter. Prosecutors alleged that after meeting Ortega-Lopez, April Cano "allowed him to hold and sometimes shoot various firearms" she owns.

In some of the social media photos, Ortega-Lopez can be seen holding some of April Cano's firearms, the Journal said. His TDA tattoos are reportedly visible in both the photos and videos.

Ortega-Lopez's cell phone also contains images of decapitated and mutilated bodies, reported Breitbart, which claimed to have viewed the gruesome images.

Ortega-Lopez was arrested on February 28 and currently faces a federal charge of unlawful alien in possession of a firearm and ammunition. At a detention hearing on March 14, U.S. Magistrate Judge Damian Martinez initially opted to release him, reportedly stating that he did not believe Judge Cano "would just let anybody live in his property."

Prosecutors immediately filed an appeal of his release and included the quotation from Judge Martinez in their motion. 

Martinez also reportedly wanted to consider whether Mrs. Cano might be considered a third-party custodian of Ortega-Lopez.

For now, Ortega-Lopez remains in custody without bond at the Doña Ana County Detention Center for "violation [of] federal immigration laws," jail records show.

Joel and Nancy Cano declined a request for comment from the Journal, claiming they did not want to jeopardize any of Ortega-Lopez's pending legal cases. Whether any of the Canos will face charges on account of their association with Ortega-Lopez remains unclear.

Joel Cano is a former police officer who first ran for the county magistrate position as a Democrat in 2010. He then kept his seat by running unopposed in subsequent elections, including his most recent re-election in 2022.

Earlier this year, the U.S. government declared Tren de Aragua to be a foreign terrorist organization.