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FBI searches Fulton County election hub more than 5 years after Georgia 2020 election probe began

Better late than never? "The warrant sought a number of records related to 2020 elections," Fulton County officials said.

The FBI searched the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center on Wednesday, more than five years after Georgia's 2020 election probe began. The raid comes amid the Department of Justice's lawsuit against Fulton County over 2020 election records, and years after the governor referred the audited November 2020 election results to the Georgia State Election Board.

"The FBI is conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity. No other information is available at this time," the FBI told Just the News. A separate, high-level official confirmed to Just the News that the FBI search was in connection to a criminal probe linked to the 2020 election.

The FBI told Fox News that FBI Atlanta was executing a "court-authorized law enforcement action at 5600 [Campbellton] Fairburn Rd."

"Our investigation into this matter is ongoing, so there are no details that we can provide at the moment," the FBI added.

Fulton County told WSBTV that the FBI was seizing records from the 2020 election. For its part, the county filed a motion to dismiss the claims earlier this month. Fulton County's Clerk of Courts, Ché Alexander, was named the defendant in the DOJ lawsuit. The motion argued that any such access to the 2020 materials should be sought from a state, not federal, court.

On Jan. 20, the DOJ filed a response, arguing that Title III of the 1960 Civil Rights Act "provides that upon a demand from the Attorney General to any person having custody, possession, or control of any record or paper relating to any application, registration, payment or poll tax, or other act requisite to voting, such record or paper shall be produced" and that, "Defendants seek to rewrite the Civil Rights Act and place restrictions and limitations on the power granted to the Attorney General that have no basis in law."

“Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation served a search warrant at the Fulton County Elections Hub and Operations Center. The warrant sought a number of records related to 2020 elections," a county spokesperson said. “This operation is still actively underway. We cannot provide further information at this time.”

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https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/fbi-searches-fulton-county-election-hub-over-5-years-after-georgia-2020

Ghislaine Maxwell claims over two dozen alleged Epstein accomplices were never prosecuted

Maxwell did not name the alleged accomplices or co-conspirators but said the other four people were mentioned in a non-prosecution agreement and the sex-trafficking indictment Epstein faced before he died and were never charged.

Former Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell claimed in recent court filings that over two dozen Epstein accomplices were never brought to trial, including 25 men who allegedly made “secret settlements” with accusers.

The revelation occurred in a habeas petition last month that asked a federal court to vacate or correct her 20-year sex-trafficking conviction, citing "substantial new evidence," that surfaced after records from her sex-trafficking trial were released.

Maxwell did not name the alleged accomplices or co-conspirators but said the other four people were mentioned in a non-prosecution agreement and the sex-trafficking indictment Epstein faced before he died and were never charged.

“New evidence reveals that there were 25 men with which the plaintiff lawyers reached secret settlements – that could equally be considered as co-conspirators,” Maxwell wrote, according to the New York Post. “If the jury had heard of the new evidence of the collusion between the plaintiff’s lawyers and the government to conceal evidence and the prosecutorial misconduct, they would not have convicted."

The habeas petition, which Maxwell filed without her attorneys' consent, comes after she exhausted all direct appeals of her sex-trafficking conviction. If successful, the petition could result in a new trial for Maxwell or a reduction in her sentence. However, she would need to prove that serious constitutional violations occurred during her trial or sentencing.

The revelation also comes as the Justice Department combs through millions of files related to Epstein, which will be released to the public with certain redactions as part of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/ghislaine-maxwell-claims-over-two-dozen-alleged-epstein-accomplices-were

'Biological incident' at federal pathogen lab shines light on continuing risks in Trump era

Feds confirm a researcher's potential exposure to "Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever through an accidental breach of personal protective equipment." NIH director under pressure from lawmakers to "stop this batty research."

Two days before the Environmental Protection Agency was scheduled to further distinguish the Trump administration from its predecessor by phasing out animal testing over criticisms of pointless cruelty, biosafety risks and obfuscation, an anti-testing watchdog exposed another possible leak from a federal research lab on U.S. soil.

This one happened on the current administration's watch, however, months after local media reported National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya toured the Rocky Mountain Laboratories "to demonstrate NIH executive level commitment to RML" amid community fears it would get hit by Department of Government Efficiency cuts.

The watchdog group White Coat Waste Project (WCW) on Tuesday published the minutes from the NIH Institutional Biosafety Committee's Nov. 20, 2025 meeting at RML in Hamilton, Mont., which has a two-year-old "vivarium" that NIH said would expand study of "exotic species (such as bats)." The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases runs it.

Funded with $125 million in COVID relief money, RML's vivarium drew concern from Sens. Joni Ernst and Eric Schmitt before its completion.

The Iowa and Missouri Republicans asked then-NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli for more information about RML's "potentially risky research," since then-NIAID Director Anthony Fauci added a BSL-4 lab that can study "deadly pathogens with pandemic potential," and how Congress and the public will learn of RML's research with "select agents."

The Nov. 20 meeting minutes show an unassuming notation at the very end of biosafety officer Rececca Anderson's report.

Under "Biological Incidents to Report," the minutes say: "Form 3 reported to Federal Select Agent Program on 11/13/2025." There was no subsequent discussion by the committee, and the meeting adjourned an hour earlier than scheduled.

The Department of Health and Human Services told Just the News Wednesday night what happened: An RML employee was "found to be potentially exposed to Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever through an accidental breach of personal protective equipment."

That person was "immediately isolated and monitored under appropriate care at a specialized medical facility before it was confirmed that no actual exposure or transmission had occurred," press secretary Emily Hilliard wrote in an email. "At no time was there any risk to the public or to other staff."

WCW Senior Vice President Justin Goodman responded with four exclamation points when Just the News showed him HHS's explanation.

"CCHF is a foreign virus that causes massive bleeding, multi-organ failure and has a kill rate as high as 40 percent," he wrote in an email, attaching a disturbing photo of a monkey subjected to the virus at RML.

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WCW has spent years campaigning to expose and defund the research at RML, Goodman said. "Recklessly importing CCHF to the US for dangerous animal experiments is [a] recipe for disaster right [out] of Dr Fauci’s cookbook" yet is continuing "under the current NIH leadership."

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https://justthenews.com/accountability/watchdogs/biological-incident-federal-pathogen-lab-shines-light-trump-admin