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It's official: The FBI is investigating Letitia James for repeatedly falsifying her financial and real estate records on her mortgage applications.

I hope they hit her with 35 counts of fraud, one for every single signature.

The FBI has opened a formal criminal probe into New York Attorney General Letitia James for alleged mortgage fraud after a request to investigate James was sent to the Department of Justice last month by Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte.

According to a report from the New York Post citing a source familiar with the matter, the investigation into James is being led by US Attorney John Sarcone III, who has been an ally of President Donald Trump.

James allegedly "falsified records" that enabled her to get more favorable loans on a home in Virginia that she purchased in 2023, according to the letter to the DOJ from Pulte.

The referral from Pulte stated, "Based on media reports, Ms. Letitia James has, in multiple instances, falsified bank documents and property records to acquire government backed assistance and loans and more favorable loan terms. This has potentially included 1) falsifying residence status for a Norfolk, Virginia-based home in order to secure a lower mortgage rate and 2) misrepresenting property descriptions to meet stringent requirements for government backed loans and government assistance."

It is delicious that these crimes are almost exactly the same ones she falsely accused Trump of.

Hamas' "University" Columbia actually bothered to arrest the radical terrorists shutting down the school and preventing real students from using it.

Columbia did a better job handling the pro-Hamas activists on campus yesterday than it has previously. In the evening nearly 80 students who had refused to identify themselves were arrested.

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Hopefully, at some point during booking, the headscarves were removed and mugshots were taken of all of them.

But arrests of leftwing criminals mean nothing in Alvin Bragg's Manhattan. The last time police arrested violent Hamas terrorist kidnappers -- they kidnapped janitors in a Columbia building -- Alvin Bragg dropped charges for 31 of 46 offenders, claiming it would be too difficult to prosecute them.

But there is a Back-Up Plan, if the local Soros prosecutor protects terrorists:

Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio

We are reviewing the visa status of the trespassers and vandals who took over Columbia University's library.

Pro-Hamas thugs are no longer welcome in our great nation.

Trump strikes a trade deal with the UK, opening it -- supposedly -- to imports of US beef.

We'll see if they really do open their markets or if this is another stab-in-the-back from our European "allies." Really our ungrateful bratty dependent Goth teenagers.

The announcement allows the sale of U.S. beef into the U.K. for the first time in decades and ensures an increase in the purchase of Boeing commercial jetliners.

Flanked by Vice President J.D. Vance and on a conference call with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, President Donald Trump announced an agreement "worth billions of dollars" with the U.K. that reconfigures tariff prices on goods, expands the market for American farmers and ranchers, and added a phalanx of Boeing jetliners to that nation's commercial fleet.

The Trump White House called it "a breakthrough" and "a good deal."

The "unprecedented" deal not only includes U.S. tariffs but also a reduction in tariffs by the U.K. The deal introduces a reset of the baseline framework for trade, which will create a $5 billion in exports opportunities for American farmers, ranchers, and other producers can sell into the U.K. That includes beef.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said that the beef deal with "exponentially" increase the amount of beef that ranchers sell.

Guess who's funding the "grassroots uprising"?

Dozens of lefty groups behind the country's supposedly "grassroots" May Day protests have been largely bankrolled by two billionaires and a dark-money network of progressive nonprofits.

More than $500 million from Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss' organizations, hedge-fund tycoon George Soros' Open Society Foundations and the dark-money Arabella network flowed to the progressive groups between fiscal years 2016 and 2023, according to an analysis shared with The Post.

The funding wasn't intended for the May Day protests per se, but it has been propping up many of the self-styled "grassroots" progressive activist groups over time.

"The hypocrisy of the May Day protests is glaring," said Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of Americans for Public Trust, to The Post.

"These organizations project the illusion of being driven by everyday Americans, but in reality, they're being bankrolled by some of the biggest dark-money megadonors in politics."

Starting Thursday, on May Day, organizers put together more than 1,000 protests across the country to demonstrate against President Trump, activity that spilled into the weekend.

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The "50501" movement -- or "50 protests, 50 states, 1" effort, an anti-Trump organization that formed in January -- is widely credited for trying to move that international energy into the US by orchestrating the widespread stateside protests last week.

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About three dozen of the participating groups have raked in about $293.6 million from Wyss' groups, $47 million from the Arabella network and $194.2 million from Soros' Open Society Foundations, according to an assessment reviewed and checked by The Post.

Some of the most prominent left-wing activist groups in the anti-Trump demonstrations last week were the Sunrise Movement, Indivisible and Planned Parenthood.

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Because of his Swiss citizenship, Wyss, 89, is precluded from donating to US political candidates. But he has emerged as a top backer of lefty causes in America nonetheless, by pumping cash into dark-money groups.

DRUMPF!!! is pushing that dangerous racist school choice policy. The policy that is good for students and parents, but which is objected to by the teachers unions because it would force them to allow their worst-performing teachers to be fired.

Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist @DeAngelisCorey

BREAKING: The Department of Education just released guidance on school choice options for kids stuck in "persistently dangerous" public schools.

States must establish a list of "persistently dangerous" schools.

Districts MUST provide a school choice option for these kids

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act requires states to provide school choice options for kids:

* In "persistently dangerous" schools

* Victims of violent criminal offenses at school

posted by Ace at 06:08 PM

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