When I got asked to look into Letitia James’ financials last week, I really wasn’t expecting to find much. As you probably know, James is the Attorney General of New York who just secured a $454 million judgement against Donald Trump.
James was elected as the NY AG in 2018 and re-elected in 2022. Prior to that James was the NYC “public advocate” for 4 years and a NYC city council member for 8 years prior to that. Prior to elected office she was a public defender for Legal Aid.
IOW Letitia James is a lifelong public servant and other than a mishap in the 2010s where she neglected to list the Brooklyn brownstone she owns & rents out on her financial disclosure forms, she hasn’t had any public scandals.
With that being said, I’m not quite sure what I was expecting to find but I do know I wasn’t expecting what I found.
The first thing you’ll notice when you download and sort the expenditures of any politician running for reelection in a safe seat is how they use their campaign funds to supplement their lifestyles to a degree middle America could never dream of.
What do I mean? Well, in 2023 alone, James spent over $28,500 on hotels. Over $15,000 of that was spent on luxury hotels in Puerto Rico.
Then there’s the airfare. In the 5 years she’s been the New York State AG, James’ has spent over $84,000 on airfare to fly herself all over the country.
This includes private jet rentals.
She’s billed her campaign over $20,000/year for meals. And no, these aren’t large catering events.
These are receipts for everything from $18 at Dunkin Donuts to $60 at Dave & Busters to $165 at an oyster bar in Massachusetts and then $700 at a steakhouse in Brooklyn.
Then there’s thousands spent on Ubers and Lyfts.
Tens of thousands spent on “office” at everywhere from Target to BJ’s wholesale.
Over $7,000 dropped at a nightclub in NYC and billed as “office.”
I could go on… the multiple stays at the Beverly Hills Wilshire, the $65,000 in “reimbursements” to “campaign consultants” which could literally be anything.
Speaking of campaign consultants, can anyone tell me why a state Attorney General would need to spend over $300,000 in a single year on campaign consultants when they *just* won re-election the previous November? What could she possibly be consulting on?
Furthermore, why do these million dollar “campaign consultancy firms” always seem to be ran out of random 2 bedroom apartments?
TBC I’m not accusing Ms. James of breaking the law w her expenditures.
But considering the high bar she set for Trump in his civil fraud case, I find it more than a little galling that she plays so fast and loose w what she deems to be “legitimate campaign expenses.”
$4,335 at “Nathan’s Luxlifestyle” on Martha’s Vineyard last August? Mmm hmm.
$5,122 dropped at the “48 Lounge” in NYC last September under expense code “office.”
Righhhtttt….
So you might be wondering, where does all this money come from?
Well here’s where things get interesting.
Because it appears our holier than thou Attorney General, Ms. James, has gotten herself wrapped up in the ghost donor scam.
Now I knew the ghost donor bots weren’t just operating at the federal level but I had no clue how big it was at the state level.
Here’s a list of Ms. James’ total donations and their corresponding receipts by year… anything jump out at you?
Obviously 2022 is off the charts. Over 32,500 receipts and over 62% are from out of state. Who the heck donates to an Attorney General, running in a totally safe seat, in a whole other state?!
Answer: Ghost donors.
Take for instance this woman named Suzanne, from Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Ms. Suzanne has to be one of the most faithful Democrat donors on the planet. Not only did she make 3,232 individual donations to ActBlue in just one year (2022) totaling more than $46,193
But she also found the time and money to also make 25 separate donations (for $266) to Letitia James’ campaign and another 9 (for $305) to Kathy Hochul!
And she didn’t stop there! I found Suzanne’s name on the donor rolls in Nevada, Idaho and Virginia!
Or how about this lovely old lady Barbara from Silver Springs, Maryland. Ms. Barbara, a retired 71 year old widow living in a modest townhouse, not only made 1547 donations to ActBlue at the federal level totaling more than $37,000
She also gave Letitia James $610 total in 34 separate transactions and then she sprinkled some money in Nevada, Massachusetts and Wisconsin!
I could go on but yall get the point. Almost every name I grabbed from James’ 2022 donor list had AT LEAST 200+ donations at the fed level for 2022 and tons of them had over 2,000.
It turns out ghost donors are just as big of a problem at the state level as they are at the federal.
So to recap: we’ve got unknown entities funding our state and federal elections and everywhere you turn there’s a sleazy politician using this tainted campaign money to fund their extravagant lifestyles.
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It can be hard to know where to start when you set out to debunk a mountain of hogwash like the one found in Michael Tracey’s latest article on Darryl Cooper.
I don’t blame Cooper for refusing to engage Tracey in his questions. It’s an exhausting task to pick through bad faith “hit pieces” like that and if I had just lost a family member, I sure as heck wouldn’t do it.
But since I wasn’t particularly busy this week, and since I was especially enraged at the smarmy, deceitful way Tracey tried to both smear Cooper and rewrite the history on the Epstein case, I said “meh, somebody’s gotta respond, might as well be me.”
So without further ado, let’s go. This is long, my apologies upfront
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(note: I do not know Darryl Cooper and I have never communicated with him in any way. I took this task on, of my own volition, and nothing I post should be viewed as me attempting to answer for Darryl Cooper.)
In Michael Tracey’s latest edition of “Shoot the Messenger” he set his sites on podcaster Darryl Cooper.
Specifically Tracey honed in on Cooper’s 3 hour July 18 interview w Tucker Carlson in which Copper laid out in meticulous detail the Epstein case & subsequent govt coverup
Tracey’s article opens quickly at the 2:35 mark where he quotes Cooper as saying:
The false, defamatory and libelous accusations against Tony Aguilar 🧵
When I first started to report on the Tony Aguilar case, I struggled with the ethics of posting a married couple’s most trying and difficult times for all the world to see and comment on. After consulting with numerous people, my friend Matthew said “Mel, it’s genocide. There’s nothing that matters more than that.” And I simply couldn’t argue.
Still, I did my best to respect their privacy and only post what I thought was absolutely necessary to refute the false claims of spousal abuse against Tony.
But since we’re dealing with Zionists, of course the bare minimum was never going to be enough. As we all know, Zionists will do ANYTHING to defend their precious genocidal apartheid state: lie, cheat, steal… doesn’t matter. They have no limits.
So of course the 3 pages signed affidavit from Tony’s wife stating unequivocally that he DID NOT ABUSE HER wasn’t enough. And in the weeks since I’ve been tagged in every single stupid kind of thread you could possibly imagine.
But yesterday I was tagged in a new thread, this one including 2 pages from the 139 page Aguilar child custody file.
And to my utter shock and horror, these Zionist scumbags had gone SOOOO much further than I ever expected.
They took 2 completely different court documents, one a separation agreement and the other a completely separate court order from 8 months later and welded them together as if they were one.
They then presented these two completely different documents as *proof* that Tony Aguilar was charged with spousal abuse and he leveraged charges against his wife to clear them.
THIS. IS. A. LIE.
Let me repeat:
THIS. IS. A. BOLD. FACED. FUCKING. LIE.
So here is my very last post on this topic, complete with all court docs and links.
TBC: I am only doing this because To y Aguilar’s testimony matters. Attacks on his character matter. I did everything I could to avoid this and I take no joy in talking about these things. Marriage is hard, people make mistakes. I pray that Tony’s (ex?)wife got the help she needed and I hate that the details of this dark time in their lives have become fodder for the social media masses.
From the beginning:
• Dec 1, 2021 Allison Aguilar falls down while drinking and breaks her nose.
• Dec 2, 2021 Aguilar goes to the Womack Medical Center on Ft. Bragg for her broken nose and the Harnett Co Sheriff is called.
The sheriff’s office opens an incident report.
• Jan 27, 2022 Tony Aguilar files for separation.
• Jan 28, 2022 the Aguilar’s sign a separation agreement which includes a caveat about Ms. Aguilar “asking the Harnett County prosecutor to drop charges against Tony”
Just took a trip down to my county courthouse to check out this supposed “arrest record” for myself.
I knew something wasn’t right for a multitude of reasons:
1. The zip code on that address is a Ft Bragg zip code not a Sanford one.
2. Duke Lane doesn’t exist.
3. Arrest notices use the full docket number. The one in that picture is missing the last 3 numbers.
And just as I suspected, every last one of these pieces of shit is lying through their teeth.
And yes, I can prove it. 🧵
First off I searched for the case number. And I found it. On a felony firearm possession case in Alamance County.
Then I start chatting with the super sweet clerk and show her what I’m looking for and she immediately “Nah, that looks fake. They don’t put DOB out there like that. They only put age.”
So I pull up the Harnett County sheriff’s dept website and sure as sit, no DOB, just age.
I went through and screenshot all the messages GHF is using to smear Anthony Aguilar.
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1. GHF started operating in Gaza on May 28, 2025. All the messages of praise for GHF are from the first couple days.
That red box quote is literally from Day 1.
Pretty sure Aguilar was some kind of team leader and all of these messages seem worded to keep morale boosted.
According to GHF Aguilar was fired on June 13th. His messages on the 14th show there were clearly problems on the ground that he took issue with but he thought he could help.
Interesting that GHF chose not to show the whole message on this pic. Before the message cuts off Aguilar says “….the issues we have require leadership to fix. That’s what’s missing. This isn’t an operator job.”
Just found out that the head of in-house litigation for the McDonald v. FEC case, Alan Gura, is literally an Israeli born dual-citizen.
Because OFC he is!!!
For those who don’t know, this case has NOTHING to do with privacy and EVERYTHING to do with stopping us from being able to monitor smurfing donations to political campaigns.
If you don’t know what smurfing is, it’s a money laundering scheme where unknown persons make hundreds, sometimes thousands, of small-dollar donations (less than $200) to political campaigns in the names of real Americans without their knowledge.
The people most often busted for running these scams are foreign nationals who are barred from donating directly to political campaigns or rich Americans who either can’t donate more money because they have reached their legal limit or who want to donate to a certain candidate without other people knowing.
The scam itself isn’t particularly new or innovative. Rich people have been giving money to their secretaries and gardeners to make political contributions for them for decades.
But the way it’s being done now, using AI powered bot programs to run millions of tiny transactions under the radar, through ActBlue and WinRed, that’s only been going on at an industrial scale, since 2017 for ActBlue and 2019 for WinRed.
I’ve written about a dozen threads on it, I’ll link them in the comments.
But it’s fascinating to me to know now that it’s literally an Israeli citizen who heads the team of litigators trying to shutdown the public’s ability to track this stuff. They don’t want WinRed and ActBlue to have to disclose the names of any donors who donate less than $200 to a political campaign. If they can block that, they’ll be able to shutdown all public inquiry into the scam.
And now you know why Republicans have been dragging their feet on their ActBlue “investigations.”
This thread tracks the donor numbers and amounts across several cycles
After Saturday’s story from the WP that claimed Mike Waltz was fired from his role as National Security Advisor for engaging in “intense coordination” with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu behind Trump’s back, I decided to take a glance at Waltz’s campaign finance filings to see if they could shed any light on who pulls his strings.
I don’t know what I was expecting to find but I definitely wasn’t expecting what I found.
Specifically, I was surprised to learn that days before resigning from the House, Mike Waltz used his principal campaign fund to pay exorbitant “consulting” fees to companies owned by two of his congressional staffers, Micah Ketchel and James Hewitt, and one member of the Trump transition team, Brian Hughes, all of whom were then hired to work directly for him at the National Security Council.
And then days after resigning from the House, Waltz continued to use his Mike Waltz for Congress account to pay for over $45,000 worth of travel, office, catering and event expenses in and around DC during the inauguration. Despite the fact that he’s not running any kind of campaign.
(Article version at bottom of thread)
Mike Waltz closed out the 2024 election cycle with a little more than $1.5 million in the bank in his principal campaign fund.
Leftover funds are typically just rolled into the next cycle but since Waltz was going to be leaving Congress to become the NSA I was expecting to see his principal campaign converted or dissolved… similar to what I’ve seen from others.