A longtime sex offender known as “Cookie Monster” was found naked in a young boy’s bedroom — where he woke him up and “pinned” the screaming child him to the bed, according to police.
Lavern Scott, a 65-year-old pervert with a record stretching back almost 40 years, allegedly snuck into the Omaha, Nebraska, home through an unlocked door early Friday, according to a disturbing report from the Omaha Police Department obtained by WOWT.
He then stripped naked and got into bed with a 9-year-old boy — who woke up terrified and screaming, the report said.
Scott “pinned the child to the bed and set his legs in, using his feet as hooks to hold the child in place,” the police report states.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin slammed Rep. Rosa DeLauro for being “uninformed” Monday after the Connecticut Democrat completely lost it and suggested he drink weed killer during a heated congressional budget hearing.
DeLauro, the purple-haired ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, argued that Zeldin’s budget proposal “reads like a climate change denier’s manifesto” as she asked the EPA chief to “justify abandoning [the EPA’s] duty to protect Americans” from climate change.
Zeldin, a Republican former New York congressman, wasn’t having it.
WASHINGTON — The FBI raided 22 locations including child care centers in Minnesota Tuesday morning as part of a wide-ranging investigation of social services fraud.
Unlike this past winter’s Operation Metro Surge, the raids were not focused on immigration enforcement, but reportedly on prominent businesses tied to the Somali-American community.
“Today the FBI with federal, state and local law enforcement is involved in court-authorized law enforcement activity as part of an ongoing fraud investigation,” a Justice Department official told The Post
The targets included the Quality Learning Center — a Minneapolis day care that infamously misspelled the word “Learning” in its signage.
President Trump announced a “war on fraud” in his February State of the Union address and put Vice President JD Vance in charge of a task force leading the effort.
The focus on fraud in Minnesota has largely been pandemic-era feeding programs and autism support services that fleeced taxpayers.
The Justice Department since September has indicted seven alleged fraudsters who allegedly recruited members of the Somali community to enroll children in fake autism services, raking in $14 million. One defendant has pleaded guilty.
At least 65 people have been charged criminally with the separate Feeding Our Future scam, which allegedly ripped off taxpayers to the tune of $250 million. Many have pleaded guilty in the sprawling case, which the DOJ began prosecuting in the Biden administration.
The Trump administration estimates fraud in Minnesota alone at $19 billion, with dozens charged criminally.
Democratic Gov. Tim Walz expressed regrets during a recent congressional hearing for not more effectively guarding against fraud and noted that he had accepted responsibility by ending his bid for a third term this past January.
WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice indicted a former senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday for allegedly concealing records amid probes into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
David Morens, 78, has been charged with conspiracy against the United States; destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations; concealment, removal, or mutilation of records; and aiding and abetting.
The indictment, unsealed Monday in Maryland federal court, also lists two unnamed co-conspirators who “concealed, removed, destroyed and caused the concealment, and removal of federal records to evade FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] and FRA [Federal Records Act].”
Morens, who served as a senior advisor to Fauci from 2006 to 2022, conducted official government business from a private email account and asked the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) FOIA liaison for tips on how to evade records requests, according to communications first exposed by The Post in May 2024.
“[T]here is no worry about FOIAs. I can either send stuff to Tony on his private gmail [sic], or hand it to him at work or at his house,” Morens wrote in one April 21, 2021, email. “He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble.”
Two months prior, Morens said in a Feb. 24 email: “[I] learned from our foia [sic] lady here how to make emails disappear after I am foia’d [sic] but before the search starts.”
“Plus I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail [sic],” he noted.
On Sept. 9, 2021, Morens wrote that he would “always communicate on gmail [sic] because my NIH email is FOIA’d constantly” and “delete anything I don’t want to see in the New York Times.”
Morens oversaw a now-infamous grant from NIH to the Manhattan-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliancebeginning in 2014 that ended up funneling US taxpayer dollars to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for bat coronavirus research.
“These allegations represent a profound abuse of trust at a time when the American people needed it most — during the height of a global pandemic,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement.
“As alleged in the indictment, Dr. Morens and his co-conspirators deliberately concealed information and falsified records in an effort to suppress alternative theories regarding the origins of COVID-19. Government officials have a solemn duty to provide honest, well-grounded facts and advice in service of the public interest — not to advance their own personal or ideological agendas.”
WASHINGTON — Democrats faced tough questioning before the Virginia Supreme Court on Monday during oral arguments on a redistricting referendum that narrowly passed last week, though most of the justices were oddly quiet.
Republicans have challenged the referendum, which paved the way for the Dems to pick up as many as four local congressional seats — potentially leaving them with a 10-to-one margin over GOPers — arguing that the Democrat-led General Assembly flouted procedural rules to get it on the ballot.
A constitutional amendment was needed to put it to voters — and state lawmakers have to approve a resolution in two consecutive legislative sessions, with an election in between, to do so.
Democrats claimed they met that requirement thanks partly to a special session last year that they contend was left open from 2024 and resumed again in the normal session in 2025. Republicans are arguing that such a special session doesn’t count as two sessions.
Additionally, the state legislature’s first vote on the proposed amendment took place in October, while early voting in the off-year election was still ongoing, so there were no two separate sessions with an election in between as required, the GOPers said.
The lower courts have been skeptical about whether Democrats complied with the procedures.
But the Democrats’ lawyer, Matthew Seligman, argued to the state’s high court, “The General Assembly complied with every step that the Constitution requires.
“The circuit court attempted to interfere with the democratic process by halting it,” he said. “The challengers here now try to overturn the result of that democratic process.”
Right off the bat, a justice dismissed Seligman’s argument about the people of Virginia deciding the referendum and underscored the irregularities of the process.
The other justices who asked questions largely pushed Seligman over tougher procedural issues and generally had easier queries for the GOP’s lawyer
Notably, fewer than half of the state’s seven high court justices actually asked questions during oral arguments.
Another procedural issue raised involved the General Assembly neglecting to publish the proposed amendment 90 days in advance, then retroactively repealing that regulation.
“There are lots of voters across the Commonwealth who are not totally educated on everything going on in Richmond, and they need time,” contended Thomas McCarthy, the lawyer repping the Republicans.
“The Commonwealth needs time for the whole thing to be aired out,” he said of the situation — which Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters has called “a blatant power grab.”
Democrats argued that the will of the voters shouldn’t be tossed out on technicalities. They’ve also contended that the Virginia Supreme Court shouldn’t be weighing in on legislative rules.
The referendum needed to temporarily allow the state legislature to redraw congressional districts instead of the constitutionally mandated bipartisan commission was approved in a 51.6% to 48.4% vote.
Virginia currently has six Democrats and five Republicans in its congressional delegation. The state legislature’s new map would create favorable conditions for a 10-1 split in favor of the Dems, though that’s not guaranteed.
It is very rare for courts to throw out a referendum result.
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