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UPDATE: Greenberg strikes a deal: Joel Greenberg has agreed to plead guilty to six federal crimes, including sex trafficking of a child, in a deal that calls for him to cooperate with federal investigators - likely in the investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz, reports the Orlando Sentinel. ----- The drumbeats of federal officers are getting stronger by the day. Matt Gaetz appears to be in even more peril after news broke that his wingman and long time friend, Joel Greenberg, appears to have struck a deal with prosecutors to potentially lower his sentence. What does that mean? We don't know yet...

Details Written by IVN Calexico, California - Former Calexico City Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem David Romero, along with Bruno Suarez-Soto, a former commissioner on the city’s Economic Development and Financial Advisory Commission, were each sentenced to two years in prison today for taking bribes in exchange for “guaranteeing” a City permit for a cannabis business. In pronouncing sentence, U.S. District Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo observed that public officials should not “take positions of power to line their own pockets” and that the pair’s conduct “ta...

Judge Amy Berman Jackson's Barr rebuke opens the door to DOJ accountability There are four possibilities for holding an attorney general accountable if evidence suggests he did abuse his office to protect a president. Bill Barr needs to learn that good government requires transparency. Leah Millis / Reuters; MSNBC May 7, 2021, 7:49 PM UTC Good government requires transparency. It’s why we have a free press, enshrined in the First Amendment. It’s why Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once wrote, “Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient polic...

April 23, 2021 5:32 p.m. Federal prosecutors are examining whether Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL)’s 2018 Bahamas trip was part of a pay-for-play scheme involving the marijuana industry, CNN reported Friday. Gaetz went to the Bahamas with a Florida marijuana lobbyist and a longtime friend of his named Jason Pirozzolo, who helped found the American Medical Marijuana Physicians’ Association. Separate reporting has suggested that Pirozzolo paid for the company of women on the trip. CNN reports that prosecutors from the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section — based in D.C. — are lo...

Mccaul. >> congratulations on the new format. >> bill: let us know in two hours and 50 minutes if you like it. we're only 16 minutes in. what giuliani is saying is that comey could be the one winding up facing prosecution. what do you think about that? >> i worked in the public integra integrate -- integrity section and i'm concerned politics may have been at play here. we won't know for sure until the report comes out but i was critical of hilary taking her devices overseas into countries that could download special access programs putting our national security at risk. and i think the fact t...