Eleven found killed in Mexico border town ahead of president-elect's visit

Eleven bodies were discovered on Friday in a Mexican town close to the U.S. border, days before president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is due to visit for a series of forums seeking to stem the violence in the country.

The bodies of eight men and three women were found in a home in Ciudad Juarez, the government of the northern state of Chihuahua said in a statement. It said the people were victims of homicide.

https://reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1KO2RF?

Manafort's tax preparer details efforts to falsify loan amounts

A tax preparer who worked for Paul Manafort said Friday she changed the amounts of loans to his consulting firm in an effort to lessen the amount he owed in taxes and told a bank that a loan to the company had been forgiven despite not believing that occurred.

Cindy Laporta of Kositzka, Wicks and Company described to the court how she reported $900,000 as a loan to Davis Manafort Partners International when it was really income. She also told the jury she informed a bank from which Manafort was seeking a loan that another $1.5 million loan on his consulting firm's books had been forgiven, despite having misgivings.

Laporta began working on Manafort’s account after his previous tax preparer, Philip Ayliff, retired in mid-2014.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/manaforts-tax-preparer-details-efforts-to-falsify-loan-amounts?

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As national media worry about tone of Trump rallies, three GOP lawmakers receive death threats

Police arrested two men in connection to death threats made against three Republicans members of Congress.

Law enforcement officers arrested Carlos Bayon of Grand Island, N.Y., Wednesday after they connected him to threatening voicemails made to Republican Reps. Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/as-national-media-worry-about-tone-of-trump-rallies-three-gop-lawmakers-receive-death-threats?

Trump’s controversial voting commission found no evidence of fraud, ex-member says

President Trump’s decommissioned panel on election integrity found no evidence of widespread voter fraud, a former panel member wrote in a letter Friday.

"I have reviewed the Commission documents made available to me and they do not contain evidence of widespread voter fraud," Maine's Democratic secretary of state, Matthew Dunlap, wrote to Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.

Pence and Kobach, both Republicans, led the commission before it was shut down amid numerous legal challenges.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trumps-controversial-voting-commission-found-no-evidence-of-fraud-ex-member-says?