U.S. Magistrate Judge Becky R. Thorson ordered that Lazzaro remain jailed until a court hearing next week, after prosecutors claimed six victims had asked for additional protection from Lazzaro.
The indictment accuses Lazzaro of having “recruited” at least five underage victims
for paid sex between May and December last year, and trying to entice a sixth. It also says he “knowingly and intentionally interfered” with the investigation as it closed in on him.
The feds have yet to arrest a second person under investigation, who is mentioned as a co-consp
The 30-year-old entrepreneur served as the campaign manager for GOP candidate @LacyJohnsonMN , who ran an unsuccessful bid in 2020 to unseat Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar.
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Tina Peters, the top election official in Mesa County, CO took the stage and claimed that her office had been “invade[d]” and “raided” by investigators with CO SOS Griswold’s office as part of an investigation into a breach in election security.
A watchdog group on Monday sued the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for dismissing a complaint alleging that Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) unlawfully used a super PAC to support his 2018 Senate run.
Scott has collected close to $1.4 million from 127 appointees, their spouses and children, who have given either to his Senate campaign or the New Republican PAC supporting his bid
#RickScott and his wife, Ann, own as much as $2.5 million worth of stock in five fossil fuel companies that have contributed to his Senate election bid
Last month, WAPO political reporter @feliciasonmez didn’t just sue her employer for discriminating against her as a woman and a sexual-assault survivor. She alleged that while she was prohibited from covering sexual misconduct stories, thedailybeast.com/behind-the-bom…
the paper’s top editors had allowed a prominent male journalist to cover similar stories, despite an allegation of misconduct.
Somnez alleged that a male colleague at the Post had been accused of, and investigated for, sending “an unsolicited photo of his underwear-covered crotch to a young woman.” (The Post’s investigation concluded no wrongdoing, but the reporter was given a warning.)
Carlson is in Hungary for MCC Feszt, a conference convened by the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, a government-funded association dedicated to creating a right-wing future. rawstory.com/amp/the-distur…
Tucker has shown his true colors over the last few years. White racist, misogynistic, xenophobic POS
Carlson is one of a handful of right-wing elites who are in thrall to what Orbán calls his philosophy of "illiberal democracy," which includes government support for churches,
(he calls Hungary a Christian democracy) a program to coerce women to have more "true Hungarian" children so as to reduce any need for immigrant labor and a ban on legal rights for transgender people. He even built a wall on his country's southern border to keep immigrants
Twitter on Tuesday suspended a string of accounts that had been promoting the ballot review, including one that had been billed as the audit’s official handle, saying that they violated company policies on “platform manipulation and spam.” washingtonpost.com/politics/arizo…
GOP state Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita announced on Twitter that she believed Senate President Karen Fann (R) had shown a “total lack of competence” in managing the project.
She also said that Fann had “failed to manage public expectations,” allowing former president Donald Trump and others to claim the audit could be used to reverse Arizona’s results.
This is just a ginormous web. Barrack's arrest started with an interview with Bob Mueller's team, and circles back to the Trump Tower meetings (2018) Three months before the 2016 election, a small group gathered at Trump Tower to meet with Donald Trump Jr nytimes.com/2018/05/19/us/…
One was an Israeli specialist in social media manipulation. Another was an emissary for two wealthy Arab princes. The third was a Republican donor with a controversial past in the Middle East as a private security contractor.
The meeting was convened primarily to offer help to the Trump team manipulate social media to swing the election to Trump, this is on top of what Russia was already doing
Erik Prince arranged the meeting which took place on Aug. 3, 2016. The emissary, George Nader