https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/01/24/east-bay-developer-convicted-of-illegal-congressional-campaign-donations-sent-to-prison/

OAKLAND — Well-known East Bay real estate developer James Tong was sentenced Friday in federal court to 15 months in prison for making illegal donations to U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell’s campaigns.

Tong, 74, of Fremont, was convicted by a jury in October for making tens of thousands of dollars of illegal contributions to two of Swalwell’s congressional campaigns. He was sentenced Friday to 15 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar of the Northern District of California.

Tong was convicted of funneling $38,000 to Swalwell’s first campaign in 2012 and his re-election campaign in 2014 through a series of straw donors — a scheme designed to evade the federal donation limits, which were then $2,500 and $2,600, respectively.

Tong provided envelopes of cash to his bank manager and other business associates and then directed them to give the cash individually to people in the community, according to the Department of Justice. People then used Tong’s cash to write their own checks to Swalwell’s campaign.

Swalwell, D-Dublin, who ran for president last year, was not accused of wrongdoing in the case. He said he donated the money to charity and only learned about the straw donor set-up when he was told by the FBI in 2017. He also testified in the trial.

https://www.justice.gov/criminal/file/1029066/download

https://www.justice.gov/criminal/sectionsoffices/chart

https://www.justice.gov/criminal-pin/file/1346061/download

Guy is still in charge, nothing to see here

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2014/12/11/smidgen-mail-justice-department-was-involved-in-irs-targeting-lerner-emails-reveal/

December 11, 2014

Sadly, the 18 month investigation into the IRS targeting of conservative groups isn’t over, and it may be worse than anyone thought. A federal judge has broken loose more emails that the DOJ had surely hoped would never surface. The picture it reveals isn’t pretty. The documents prove that Lois Lerner met with DOJ’s Election Crimes Division a month before the 2010 elections.

DOJ’s Mr. Pilger admitted that DOJ officials met Ms. Lerner in October 2010. Moreover, according to congressional investigators, a Lerner email from October 5, 2010 shows the IRS sent the FBI and DOJ a “1.1 million page database of information from 501(c)(4) tax exempt organizations” that contained confidential taxpayer information. (read more)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2014/12/10/obama-justice-department-was-involved-in-irs-targeting-lerner-emails-reveal/?sh=750f1dd46931

Sadly, the 18 month investigation into the IRS targeting of conservative groups isn’t over, and it may be worse than anyone thought. A federal judge has broken loose more emails that the DOJ had surely hoped would never surface. The picture it reveals isn’t pretty. The documents prove that Lois Lerner met with DOJ’s Election Crimes Division a month before the 2010 elections.

http://saharareporters.com/2021/07/25/breaking-nigerias-secret-police-operatives-take-over-federal-high-court-abuja-ahead

Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have taken over the premises of the Federal High Court, Maitama in Abuja ahead of the trial of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, on Monday.

Kanu is standing trial before Justice Binta Nyako for charges bordering on terrorism, treasonable felony, illegal possession of arms, among others levelled against him by the Nigerian government.

A detachment of hooded armed officers was seen stationed at the entrance of the court with motorbikes and vehicles preventing human and vehicular movements into the area.

The operatives took over the surroundings of the court and the Ministry of Justice building, down to Abia State Government's liaison office, preventing people from accessing the area.

Guy is a weasel

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fauci-says-its-negligent-not-to-fund-research-at-wuhan-lab-suggests-collaboration-with-china-continue

Dr. Anthony Fauci suggested that it would’ve been “negligent” for the National Institutes of Health not to fund bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and declined to commit not to collaborate with Chinese government scientists in the future, insisting that “we have always been careful.”

“If you go back to when this research really started and look at the scientific rationale for it, it was a peer-reviewed proposal that was peer-reviewed and given a very high rating for the importance of why it should be done to be able to go and do a survey of what was going on among the bat population because everyone in the world was trying to figure out what the original source of the original SARS CoV-1 was — and in that context, the research was done,” Fauci insisted. “It was very regulated. It was reviewed. It was given progress reports. It was published in the open literature. So, I think if you — if you look at the ultimate back rationale, why that was started, it was almost as if you didn’t pursue that research, you would be negligent because we were trying to find out how to prevent this from happening again.”