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Apr 17

The Biden administration did not fire a DHS immigration screener who openly pledged her support for Hamas's October 7 attack, instead putting her on paid leave for well over a year.

The handling raises serious questions about whether it's too difficult to fire federal employees.

Nejwa Ali worked as a spokesperson for the Palestinian Liberation Organization and, after that group was banned from DC for supporting terrorism, got a job for DHS vetting asylum seekers (!) So we were told that asylum seekers were vetted, but even the vetters weren't vetted!

Her social media was almost entirely anti-Jew screeds and Palestine loyalty oaths; after Oct 7 she openly supported Hamas' attacks. I talked to her on the phone & she profanely+indignantly affirmed her beliefs. I sent the info to DHS in October 2023 and they placed her on leave.

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Apr 9

The Association of Administrative Law Judges is suing to block @DOGE from accessing Social Security records, and now we may know why: Its president, Dem donor Sommattie Ramrup, overruled SS experts' judgments that people were NOT entitled to disability benefits 94% of the time.

@DOGE Other people elected by Social Security disability "administrative law judges" to lead this "union for judges" had similarly improbably ruling rates.

10 years ago, a judge with high ruling rates turned out to have been taking bribes, steering more than half a billion in payments

By the time an appellant reaches a Social Security "judge," two levels of staff have deemed the person ineligible for payments. So you'd think overruling them would be the exception, not the rule. But look at some of these stats:

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Apr 8

ACTIVIST JUDGES AND WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE IN SOCIAL SECURITY: When Social Security rules that a person isn't eligible for disability payments, they can appeal to an "administrative law judge"--some of whom overturn literally every single case they hear. Each judge steers billions.

SS Disability is used as a substitute welfare program, including by hoodlums who have never worked. Some judges appear to grant disability as a form of reparations.

Jan Leventer, a judge hearing cases in Detroit, approved payments in 94% of 2,159 cases, overruling SSA's experts.

Judge David Black Daugherty single-handedly doled out more than half a billion dollars in disability payments by giving favorable rulings in 3,149 cases in exchange for $609,000 in bribes. He was sentenced to prison and the disability lawyer behind the scheme fled the country.

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Luke Rosiak

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Mar 27

The National Diversity Council filed for bankruptcy this month after its board said its top execs stole millions of dollars, @realdailywire has learned.

Dennis Kennedy, who the board accused of felony theft, is hosting Bill Clinton & Oprah next month at a for-profit conference.

As the corporate DEI craze peaked, founder Kennedy, the CEO, and the CFO decided to pay themselves $3M in undocumented "back pay."

When the board tried to stop it, Kennedy quit, took its domain names & created a fake group w/ the same name (in pic) to siphon money, it said.

The crew was also double-dipping using a second nonprofit and a for-profit. NDC footed the bills while the for-profit reaped the rewards, a lawsuit said.

On tax disclosures, Kennedy said he was paid $450,000 for 10 hours/week by NDC in 2020, and $1.1 million in 2021.

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Luke Rosiak

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Mar 24

If major soda corporations, with reams of lawyers, were willing to deceive to keep their SNAP profits going, what if I told you the entire integrity of the program rests on the honesty of inner-city bodega clerks telling the government people bought X, and claiming reimbursement?

USDA doesn't track what bar codes are actually scanned; it just takes stores' word for it. (It liked this arrangement because it prevented there from being data showing how much went to candy & soda.) Even if they did track bar codes, cashiers could just scan fake purchases.

Many inner-city bodegas (& weed shops!) launder food stamps by charging SNAP cards for some amount, and giving half the amount to the "customer" in cash.

On top of that, they're selling snack-sized food at massive markups, so it's the least efficient way to spent $100 billion.

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Luke Rosiak

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Mar 19

One of the 7 federal agencies shuttered by DOGE on Friday is the most DOGE-able agency of all time. FMCS (before the pandemic!) had a 9-story K Street tower for 60 employees. Its halls were lined with oil paintings of those employees, and other art purchased from the boss's wife

It used its office tower as a luxury lounge for employees, with an in-house gym, smoking lounge, and in-office showers. It listed its top employee as being on a six-year-long business trip to DC, so he'd have his rent & all meals paid for, just for showing up to work.

It steered $1,500-a-day contracts to friends, and jobs to relatives. Its employees "unblocked" abuse protections on their purchase cards, and used them to spend $18,000 at a jewelry store, their wife's cell phone, and cable at their vacation home.

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