>>20643302, >>20643336 South Carolina discovers untouched secret bank account with $1.8 BILLION in itPN

Anons, this whole thing stinks like Nikki Haley. Almost guaranteed she’s connected somehow. After reading 5 articles, (none about her positive), I’m fairly convinced she was involved in the setting this bank account up.

• Look at the amount of debt she had/has.

• She is an accountant, who would come up with the idea of setting up a state account that no one knew about.

• These are the type of things Cartels do, or very devious politicians

• Was it used as a slush fund for personal or other uses?

Call to Dig, too many narrative stories she’s told the media, they are different every time. I’ve found a ton of really negative articles about her as Governor in SC, in the Union, her parents and her financial problems, contradictions of who was broke from one article to the others. A lot of lies, and extreme incompetence.

Quote from the article I’m just reviewing:

The Long, Disastrous Career of Nikki Haley

Branko Marcetic 1/14/2024

“Haley appears as the Republican Party’s road not traveled in living, breathing form, a throwback to an older style of GOP politics that the 2016 election seemed to smash apart. “If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman,” Haley memorably said four months ago, in a line typical of her political brand.

She’s gotten away with this, because her actual record as an elected official has largely escaped close scrutiny.

The reality of Haley’s twelve years in South Carolina as a state legislator, then governor, contains much to give the US public pause.

• Far from a competent executive, Haley was accused of shocking mismanagement and scandals as governor, sometimes costing public money, sometimes costing lives.

• She waged a relentless, six-year-long war on workers, the poor, and the unemployed that left the poverty-stricken and broke state and its people in numerous difficulties, all while doling out endless favors to corporations and the rich.

• And all of it was underwritten by a shameless practice of pay-to-play that made a mockery of her pretensions as a champion of ethics.

• Haley touted her accounting work for her family’s business, which had failed three separate times to pay its taxes.

If Haley really is the future of the Republican Party, it’s a bleak future indeed.”

(Basically this very long article is Nikki Lies, Cheats, Steals and worse as much as Joe Bidan and his family, seriously. Link below)

15 page article link

https://jacobin.com/2024/01/nikki-haley-south-carolina-scandal-mismanagement

>>20643778

State Data Theft Update: Gov. Nikki Haley Says Investigation Nearly Complete

Meanwhile, computer hack of SC taxpayers' Social Security numbers and financial data affected more people than originally thought, report says.

Shawn Drury, Patch Staff

Updated Fri,Nov 9, 2012at 6:07 am ET

While appearing in the Lowcountry on Thursday, Gov. Nikki Haley said the investigation into the hacking of millions of Department of Revenue records is nearly complete.

The number of residents originally affected by the massive breach was thought to be 3.6 million. But WLTX reported that number has been revised upward to 3.8 million.

The Charleston Post & Courier reported that the hacker used two vulnerabilities to access the data. But experts disagreed about what the state could have done to protect the data.

The state also is expected to pay public relations firm Chernoff Newman $150,000 to prepare press packets and buy newspaper advertisements related to the data theft.

https://patch.com/south-carolina/mauldin/state-data-theft-update-gov-nikki-haley-says-investigb7b2b158d1

(Hmm, odd India is rife with hackers stealing SS# and money!!!)

>>20643910

(Left: FILE PHOTO: Ukrainian refugees attend a job fair in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., Feb. 1, 2023. Andrew Kelly/Reuters)

Biden administration extends temporary legal status for Ukrainians living in U.S.

PoliticsAug 18, 2023

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration on Friday announced a major expansion of temporary legal status for Ukrainians already living in the United States, granting a reprieve for those who fled Russia’s invasion.

The move is expected to make166,700 Ukrainians eligible for Temporary Protected Status, up from about 26,000 currently, the Homeland Security Department said. To qualify, Ukrainians must have been in the United States by Aug. 16, two days before the announcement. They are eligible for work authorization.

The temporary status was originally scheduled to expire on Oct. 19, 2023 but is being extended 18 months to April 19, 2025.

“Russia’s ongoing military invasion of Ukraine and the resulting humanitarian crisis requires that the United States continue to offer safety and protection to Ukrainians who may not be able to return to their country,” said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

The expansion comes as the administration extends Temporary Protected Status to people from a growing number of countries, including Cameroon, Haiti and Venezuela, as part of a carrot-and-stick approach to immigration that combines more legal entries on humanitarian grounds with more punitive measures against anyone who enters the country illegally.

A 1990 law allows the Homeland Security secretary to grant status in increments of up to 18 months to people already in the United States whose countries are struck by civil strife or natural disaster and are considered unsafe for return.

Ukrainians first got Temporary Protected Status immediately after Russia’s invasion.

The administration added humanitarian parole for those not in the United States, a move that it considered so successful that it later did the same for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

Friday’s announcement gives additional time to Ukrainians whose two-year parole was due to expire early next year.

Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans face more uncertainty.

Texas and other Republican-led states are challenging parole for up to 30,000 people a month from those four countries but is not contesting status for Ukrainians. A trial is scheduled next week in Victoria, Texas.

Ukrainian immigrants are dispersed widely across the United States, with the largest concentrations in the New York, Chicago, Seattle and Sacramento, California, metropolitan areas.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-administration-extends-temporary-legal-status-for-ukrainians-living-in-u-s

Citizenship fast track: US military entices immigrants to sign up

I guess Durbin was telling us it’s already happening, started in Oct. 2022

To counter recruiting shortfalls, theUnited States military is enlisting immigrants by offering them a fast track to American citizenship. An important part of the effort is using recruiters with similar backgrounds to those of potential recruits. By Lolita C. Baldor Associated PressJune 12, 2023Washington1/2

When Esmita Spudes Bidari was a young girl in Nepal, she dreamed of being in the military, but that wasn’t a real option in her country. Last week, she raised her right hand and took the oath to join the United States Army Reserves, thanks in part to a recruiter in Dallas who is also Nepalese and reached out to her through an online group.

Ms. Bidari, who heads to basic training in August, is just the latest in a growing number of legal migrants enlisting in the U.S. military as it more aggressively seeks out immigrants, offering a fast track to citizenship to those who sign up.

Struggling to overcome recruiting shortfalls, the Army and the Air Force have bolstered their marketing to entice legal residents to enlist, putting out pamphlets, working social media, and broadening their outreach, particularly in inner cities. One key element is the use of recruiters with similar backgrounds to these potential recruits.

“It is one thing to hear about the military from locals here, but it is something else when it’s from your fellow brother, from the country you’re from,” said Ms. Bidari, who was contacted by Army Staff Sgt. Kalden Lama, the Dallas recruiter, on a Facebook group that helps Nepalese people in America connect with one another. “That brother was in the group and he was recruiting and he told me about the military.”

The military has had success in recruiting legal immigrants, particularly among those seeking a job, education benefits, and training as well as a quick route to becoming an American citizen. But they also require additional security screening and more help filling out forms, particularly those who are less proficient in English.

Both the Army and the Air Force say they will not meet their recruiting goals this year, and the Navy also expects to fall short. Pulling more from the legal immigrant population may not provide large numbers, but any small boosts will help. The Marine Corps is the only service on pace to meet its goal.

The shortfalls have led to a wide range of new recruiting programs, ad campaigns, and other incentives to help the services compete with often higher-paying, less risky jobs in the private sector. Defense leaders say young people are less familiar with the military, are drawn more to corporate jobs that provide similar education and other benefits, and want to avoid the risk of injury and death that service in defense of the United States could bring. In addition, they say that little more than 20% meet the physical, mental, and character requirements to join.

“We have large populations of legal U.S. residents who are exceptionally patriotic, they’re exceptionally grateful for the opportunities that this country has provided,” said Air Force Maj. Gen. Ed Thomas, head of the service’s recruiting command. The biggest challenges have been identifying geographic pockets of immigrant populations, finding ways to reach them, and helping any of those interested navigate the complex military recruiting applications and procedures.

Last October, the Army reestablished a program for legal permanent residents to apply for accelerated naturalization once they get to basic training. Recruiters began to reach out on social media, using short videos in various languages to target the top 10 countries that recruits had come from during the previous year.

The Air Force effort began this year, and the first group of 14 graduated from basic training and were sworn in as new citizens in April.

They included recruits from Cameroon, Jamaica, Kenya, the Philippines, Russia, and South Africa. As of mid-May, there were about 100 in basic training who had begun the citizenship process and about 40 who had completed it.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2023/0612/Citizenship-fast-track-US-military-entices-immigrants-to-sign-up

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Mr. Thomas said the program required changes to Air Force policy, coordination with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and a careful screening process to ensure there are no security risks.

“We have to take exceptional measures to be able to thoroughly vet and go through the security clearance investigation,” he said, adding that in many cases the immigrants are not immediately put in jobs that require top secret clearance.

Under the new program, recruits are quickly enrolled in the citizenship system and when they start basic training, an expedited process kicks off, including all required paperwork and testing. By the time Air Force recruits finish their seven weeks of training, the process is complete and they are sworn in as American citizens.

The first group of 14 included several who are seeking various medical jobs, while another wants to be an air transportation specialist. Mr. Thomas said Airman 1st Class Natalia Laziuk, who emigrated from Russia nine years ago, has dreamed of being a U.S. citizen since she was 11, and learned about the military by watching American movies and television.

“Talking to this young airman, she essentially said, ‘I just wanted to be useful to my country,’” he said. “And that’s a story that we see played over and over and over again. I’ve talked to a number of these folks around the country. They’re hungry to serve.”

For Ms. Bidari, who arrived in the U.S. in 2016 to attend college, the fast track to citizenship was important because it will make it easier for her to travel and bring her parents to the U.S. to visit. Speaking in a call from Chicago just a day after she was sworn in, she said she enlisted for six years and hopes that her future citizenship will help her become an officer.

In Chicago earlier this year, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth heard from several recruiters about the increased outreach to immigrant communities and how it helped them meet their numbers. In the 2022 budget year, they said, the Chicago recruiting battalion enlisted 70 legal permanent residents and already this year they have enlisted 62.

More broadly across the Army, close to 2,900 enlisted during the first half of this budget year, compared with about 2,200 during the same period the previous year. The largest numbers are from Jamaica, with 384, followed by Mexico, the Philippines, and Haiti, but many are from Nepal, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic.

“As a little girl, looking at the soldiers, I always had admiration for them,” said Ms. Bidari, recalling British troops in Nepal. “Yesterday, when I was able to take that oath … I don’t think I have words to really explain how I was feeling. When they said, ‘Welcome future soldier,’ I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, this is happening.’”

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2023/0612/Citizenship-fast-track-US-military-entices-immigrants-to-sign-up

Donald Trump Says He 'Loves' That RFK Jr. Is Running for President: 'Biden's Opponent, Not Mine!'

Donald Trump said he considers RFK Jr. to be Joe Biden's "political opponent."

By:Samantha Benitz Mar. 27 2024, Published 7:15 p.m. ET

Embattled GOP frontrunner Donald Trump anticipates that third-party candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his running mate, Nicole Shanahan, will be "indicted any day now," he declared in a new post about the 2024 hopefuls, RadarOnline.com has learned.

Trump took to social media after Kennedy recently announced that he selected lawyer and philanthropist Shanahan during a campaign event held in her hometown of Oakland.

Some voters were perplexed that she was chosen considering Shanahan is a registered Democrat who has no political or executive experience and most of her philanthropic support has gone toward mainstream science, while others said she was a fitting choice especially considering she donated more than $4 million to his campaign.

"RFK Jr. is the most Radical Left Candidate in the race, by far. He's a big fan of the Green New Scam, and other economy killing disasters," the former president wrote via Truth Social after Kennedy added Shanahan to his ticket.

Trump explained that he did find a silver lining about the situation while insisting he has no qualms about RFK Jr.'s bid for the White House, claiming "I guess this would mean he is going to be taking votes from Crooked Joe Biden, which would be a great service to America."

Trump tried to cast doubt on the claims that some people close to him are concerned that RFK Jr. "could siphon support away from the former president."

The former commander-in-chief went on to say that RFK Jr.'s VP pick is even more "liberal" than him, "if that's possible." He claimed,"Kennedy is a Radical Left Democrat, and always will be!!!"

"It's great for MAGA, but the Communists will make it very hard for him to get on the Ballot," Trump stated. "Expect him, and her, to be indicted any day now, probably for Environmental Fraud! He is Crooked Joe Biden's Political Opponent, not mine. I love that he is running!"

Trump took to social media after Kennedy recently announced that he selected lawyer and philanthropist Shanahan during a campaign event held in her hometown of Oakland.

Trump tried to cast doubt on the claims that some people close to him are concerned that RFK Jr. "could siphon support away from the former president," according to CNN's Alayna Treene who reasoned that RFK Jr.'s platform may be just as "attractive to many anti-establishment Trump voters" that it may sway them to try a new route.

"I guess this would mean he is going to be taking votes from Crooked Joe Biden, which would be a great service to America," Trump posted via Truth Social.

Many others share the same concern that RFK Jr. throwing his hat into the ring will only boost Trump's chances."All he can do is take away votes from President Biden and make it easier for Donald Trump to win. And we simply can't afford to let that happen," Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Austin Davis posted on X, formerly Twitter.

https://radaronline.com/p/donald-trump-slams-robert-f-kennedy-jr/

>>20643812

(picture entitled “Trust Me”)

Guess what guys, this DATA breach went on for close to two months before it was noticed.

S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley takes blame for state’s data breach

By James Rosen November 28, 2012

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Wednesdayfor the first time accepted personal blame for a massive cyber-attackthat stole the Social Security and bank account numbers of millions of South Carolinians, sayingshe should have done more to ensure the data’s security.

Haley briefed the state’s congressional delegation on thealmost two-months-long hacking into South Carolina Department of Revenuecomputer servers by digital thieves, who pilfered the tax returns of 3.8 million state residents and 700,000 businesses going back to 1998, gaining access to the Social Security numbers and bank accounts of the taxpayers and 1.9 million of their dependents.

Haley faulted the Internal Revenue Service for failing to make clear that compliance with the giant tax agency’s rules doesn’t include encryption – a method of storing data that protects it from long-distance ID theft – but she acknowledged that as the state’s top executive officer, it was her responsibility to know that. “I ultimately am saying that South Carolina is at fault for not doing this,” Haley said. “I should have asked the extra question. I should have said, ‘Does this include encryption?’ ”

Before updating the state’s federal lawmakers, Haley addressed a closed meeting of the Republican Governors Association, where she warned some governors and business leaders of hacking threats. “What I’m going to do is go and educate all my governors and say, ‘Don’t settle for the IRS saying you’re compliant, because what they aren’t telling you is their rules are archaic,’ ” she said at a news conference.

“They’re not saying that being compliant doesn’t include actually encrypting those numbers, and no governor knows that right now. And so we’re working hard to get that out there.”

In a recent letter to the IRS, Haley called its cyber-security standards outdated and asked the agency and all states to encrypt taxpayer data in servers. The IRS said in a statement last week that it used “a variety of safeguards – including encryption.”

Thehacking began in late August after an unidentified South Carolina Department of Revenue employee clicked on a link in an email, which installed dangerous software – called “phishing malware” – on the employee’s computer. The data thieves used the malware to obtain the employee’s login and password for accessing electronic tax returns,and then downloaded the returns over the next seven weeks, until a Secret Service probe stopped the operation.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said the episode demonstrated that protecting the computers at federal agencies and private businesses was a national security imperative. “One of the things that keeps me up at night – besides the Iranians getting a nuclear weapon – is a major cyber-attack against our national-security infrastructure: our power plants, our chemical plants, our aviation systems, our financial systems,” Graham said. “The threat is real. Terrorists are trying to hit us every day (as well as) China, Russia, hostile nations.”

Haley repeated assurances that all South Carolinians whose data was compromised will get letters from the state informing them of the security breach and outlining steps they can take to protect themselves from further harm. Social Security numbers, which sell from $10 to $20 apiece on the black market, can be used to obtain driver’s licenses and other key forms of identification.

The state is paying for consumers to get free one-year credit monitoring and up to $2 million in identity theft insurance, plus lifetime credit-fraud resolution. The protection, for which almost 850,000 people have signed up, is supplied by the Experian credit agency at a cost of $12.5 million to the state.

The South Carolina Bankers Association has asked banks to be on guard against large checking or savings account withdrawals, especially those that empty the accounts. The South Carolina Department of Revenue is now encrypting digital data, and Haley has asked the state inspector general to recommend how to improve technology policies at state agencies.

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article24740893.html

(Lesson here: "Don't Fuck Around and Find out" in America!)

Bud Light Backlash Will Cost Brands Up to 15% of Shelf Space

Story by Tiffany Kary 3/28/2024

(Bloomberg) – Bud Light’s comeback hopes are about to get dashed in the beer aisle.

Major grocery chains are just starting an annual spring rite: reshuffling the alcohol aisle to give more space to top sellers. That reset means fewer feet of shelf space for Bud Light, which hasn’t fully recovered from a conservative-led backlash over its collaboration last year with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

In the first big shelf reset since Bud Light’s sales nosedived, Anheuser-Busch InBev NV is likely to lose valuable real estate where it can catch consumers’ attention in stores — as much as 15%, according to one estimate.

“Anheuser-Busch’s beers will lose a range of about 10% to 15% of their space nationally as resets start,” said Jesse Ferber, chief strategy officer at Columbia Distributing, which serves Washington and Oregon and works with major retailers including Walmart and Target. Ferber estimates that most of that will come out of Bud Light and Budweiser, based on conversations with national retailers and competing brewers.

The estimate, while early and informal, suggests the slide the brand has experienced for years could continue. Data from Circana, which tracks retail sales, shows the Mulvaney incident only helped accelerate the ascendancy of a competitor, Constellation Brands Inc.’s Modelo, to surpass Bud Light as the top-selling beer in the US by dollar volume.

Ferber said Anheuser-Busch’s strong portfolio and deep pockets mean it isn’t likely to lose too much brand share. Given regional preferences for beers, some regions might see its brands lose only 5% to 6% of shelf space, while others could see numbers as high as 17% to 18%, he said. Final numbers won’t be known until May or June, he said

The steep forecast losses align with what a major competitor said it expects to gain.

“We expect our core brands — Coors Light, Miller Lite and Coors Banquet — to grow shelf space by more than 10% in the largest US grocery and convenience retailersthis spring over last year,” said Molson Coors Brewing Co.’s president of US sales, Brian Feiro. He called shelf space one of the main “leading indicators of retail success” for beer.

But grocery shelves aren’t the be-all, end-all. Bud Light is also sold widely at bars, restaurants and stadiums. And Anheuser-Busch has just had some major marketing wins, including Olympics and Ultimate Fighting Championship sponsorships, which may help convince retailers to hold space for it. The company also recently averted a strike threat.

“With respect to shelf space, there are typically small shifts across brands during resets,” the spokesperson said, adding that Bud Light and Michelob Ultra are “the top two share-of-space brands in the beer industry.”

Bud Light, a value-priced beer, is still America’s top-selling brand by overall volume sold, Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Kenneth Shea pointed out, citing data from Circana. Overall for beer, while dollar sales have grown slightly from 2022 to 2023, sales by volume have slipped, Circana’s data shows.

Shelf-space losses this spring will build on an unusually volatile year for the beer aisle.

“We let our customers dictate which products get the best placement in our stores,” said Blake Leonard, president of Stew Leonard’s Wines & Spirits, which sells alcohol in the Northeast.Leonard estimates sales of Bud Light have fallen by about 50% since the marketing incident.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/bud-light-backlash-will-cost-brand-up-to-15-of-shelf-space/ar-BB1kGT0d

DC US Attorney Matthew Graves Fights to Keep J6ers Charged with ‘Obstruction’ Statute Jailed Pending SCOTUS Decision – Trump Judge Responds with FireCan the DOJ get any more evil?

by Cristina Laila Mar. 27, 2024 8:20 pm

Last week US Attorney from DC Matthew Graves fired a warning shot to the US Supreme Court – and J6ers serving time for 18 USC §1512(c)(2), the ‘obstruction’ statute pending before SCOTUS.

Graves threatened to seek more prison time for the J6ers if the Supreme Court reverses the obstruction statute this summer.The high court announced it will hear oral arguments in Fischer v. United States and at issue is statute 18 USC §1512(c)(2):

Whoever corruptly—

(1) alters, destroys, mutilates, or conceals a record, document, or other object, or attempts to do so, with the intent to impair the object’s integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding; or

(2) otherwise obstructs, influences, or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.

The Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision on Fischer v United States this summer which means hundreds of J6 cases could be upended.Biden’s corrupt DOJ has charged more than 300 J6ers with 18 USC §1512(c)(2).

Additionally, two of the four charges against Trump in Jack Smith’s DC case are conspiracy to obstruct so the Supreme Court’s ruling could torpedo the special counsel’s case against Trump as well.

If the Supreme Court reverses the statuteand jailed J6ers ask for release,the DOJ will respond with a request for consecutive sentences and enhancements.

Now this…

Matthew Graves is fighting to keep J6ers charged with the ‘obstruction’ statute jailed pending the SCOTUS decision because it’s an election year.

“The Court would be releasing defendant into the same political maelstrom that led him to commit his crime in the first place,” Graves said about J6 defendant Kevin Seefried after a judge ordered him released in May.

Add this to the "political hostage/prisoner" files.

DC US Attorney Matthew Graves now argues that defendants in prison on 1512c2 should not be released pending outcome at SCOTUS in Fischer matter because they might "insurrect" again bc it's an election yearpic.twitter.com/rTrBYGwDfR — Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) March 26, 2024

Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, ordered Kevin Seefried released in May after serving 12 months of his 36 month sentence.

McFadden called out the Biden DOJ’s political approachto keeping the J6ers in jail because it’s an election year.

“Ultimately, none of the Government’s arguments involve any facts specific to Seefried. Instead, they are purely class-based. People who have already gone to prison, as a class, cannot be released. January 6th defendants, as a class, cannot be released during an election year,” McFadden wrote.

McFadden continued, “In the end, if specific facts about Seefried lead the Government to believe that he is imminently likely to engage in criminal conduct, options remain open to the Government.But without those facts, the Court cannot deprive a citizen of his liberty based on guesswork alone.”

Judge Trevor McFadden (Trump) convicted Kevin Seefried (Confederate Flag guy) of 1512c2 and 4 misdemeanors. He sentenced him to 36 months in prison. McFadden just ordered his release in May after 12 months. He also calls out DOJ's political approach to keeping J6ers in jail pic.twitter.com/z6J45uPy4p

— Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) March 26, 2024

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/dc-us-attorney-matthew-graves-fights-keep-j6ers/

>>20644303

YES, YES, YES, this thread isnotableTrump suing ABC and Stephanopoulos. If he wins there, there are a 100 episodes of Joe and Mika, MSDNC and CNN, etc repeating the same lie

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