Bernie Moreno: ‘Embarrassing’ Congress Can’t Pass SAVE America Act

Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) expressed that it was “embarrassing” that Congress has been unable to pass the SAVE America Act, while countries like Colombia have “incredibly accurate” ways to hold safe and fair elections.

While speaking with host Matthew Boyle on Breitbart News Saturday, Moreno, who had been in Colombia to observe the election there, spoke about how Colombia does not allow mail-in ballots, and requires not only voter ID, but proof of national citizenship.

“It’s kind of embarrassing from the perspective of Congress, that we can’t even pass a SAVE America Act. Let me lay out how Colombian elections are run. First of all, no mail-in balloting. Single day election, you have to have your proof of national citizenship with you to vote. So, it’s not only voter ID, but 100 percent strict proof of citizenship. If you don’t have it with you, they don’t even let you into the hall where you vote,” Moreno shared.

“All paper ballots, the ballots are counted by hand, and the results are delivered after an hour and a half, after polls close. They have election watchers there that are vigilant, they have judges there that are disputing any claims that are made.”

Moreno continued to explain that there had been around 750,000 election observers, volunteers, with roughly 13,000 from “outside the country.”

“It’s an incredibly accurate way to run an election. My takeaway, I felt embarrassed for the United States of America, and as a senator, I felt even more humiliation thinking that Congress can’t even pass proof of citizenship and proof of ID to vote in American elections.”

“And, what we saw in California, where they’re still counting ballots, is completely insane,” Moreno continued.

Moreno’s comments come as President Donald Trump has endorsed Abelardo de la Espriella, the conservative candidate running for president in Colombia.

“Because of his tremendous accomplishments in life, and his political support for me, personally, it is my Honor to give Abelardo my Complete and Total Endorsement,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on June 2. “‘EL TIGRE’ ABELARDO DE LA ESPRIELLA WILL NOT LET THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE OF COLOMBIA DOWN!”

Espriella and Sen. Iván Cepeda, a far-left candidate for president in Colombia, will compete against each other in a runoff election on June 21.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/06/06/exclusive-bernie-moreno-embarrassing-congress-cant-pass-save-america-act/

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INSANE: Roads were reportedly split down the middle following strong earthquakes in Venezuela.

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BREAKING: Multiple structures have reportedly collapsed in Caracas, Venezuela, following a powerful earthquake that struck the region.

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Parents sentenced to prison in Brazil after excluding gender content in homeschool curriculum

A Brazilian couple was sentenced to 50 days in prison related to the homeschooling of their two daughters in an unprecedented case that has raised concerns regarding educational freedom and parental rights in Brazil.

Audato and Ieda Denardi were found guilty of the crime of “intellectual neglect” by a court in the state of São Paulo, even though the prosecution itself had requested their acquittal after concluding that the minors were not suffering from any neglect and were demonstrating appropriate academic and social development.

The Christian legal organization ADF International, which is representing the family in the appeal, denounced the case as “a grotesque abuse of criminal law” and stated that it would continue defending the couple.

The conviction, initially handed down in April 2026 and currently under appeal before the Seventh Criminal Court Chamber of the São Paulo State Court of Justice, will remain suspended while the appeal is being resolved.

Ieda Denardi expressed her distress and defended the right of parents to choose their childrenʼs education.

“As a mother, I cannot conceive of a more dictatorial state than the one that wants me in jail because I chose to exercise my right to direct the education and upbringing of my daughters,” she told ADF International.

“My husband and I are hopeful the court will recognize our right to choose the best education for our children and overturn this unjust conviction,” she added.

The couple began homeschooling their daughters in 2020 after realizing the limitations of the remote public education imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since then, they report a significant improvement in their daughters' academic performance and have been able to incorporate family values ​​and faith into their education.

One of the most striking aspects of the case is the reasoning the judge used to reach the verdict. According to the ruling, the educational program provided by the parents did not include content regarding “gender and sex education” or “tolerance and diversity.”

Furthermore, the court concluded that the fact that the girls, aged 15 and 11, do not enjoy popular musical genres such as “trap” or “sertanejo” demonstrated an alleged deficiency in their cultural education.

The judge cited this despite the fact that both girls are pianists with advanced training and are fluent in several languages.

In his ruling, the judge further accused the parents of “using their daughters as pawns in an ideological struggle, subjecting them to a form of unregulated education, the effectiveness and quality of which lack adequate metrics within the Brazilian legal system, while completely excluding the state’s involvement.”

“The prosecutor examined the witnesses and recommended acquittal. An independent educational psychologist found no sign of neglect. The girls themselves described rigorous daily education,” explained Julio Pohl, legal counsel for Latin America at ADF International.

However, “the judge convicted anyway,” he said, “because a fifteen-year-old said she finds some music lyrics morally questionable, and because the curriculum didn’t include state-approved content on gender.”

“A parent has been sentenced to prison not for failing to educate her children, but for educating them according to her own values. This is a grotesque abuse of the criminal law, and we will not let it stand.” Pohl pledged.

According to ADF International, more than 70,000 children are currently being homeschooled in Brazil. However, a lack of regulation has left thousands of families in a state of uncertainty.

The Denardi case sets a precedent as the first criminal conviction of parents for homeschooling their children.

The situation has even reached the country’s legislature, where hearings were recently held on the matter, and the Denardis asked lawmakers to pass a law guaranteeing families the right to choose this educational model.

Although a homeschooling bill was passed by the Chamber of Deputies (lower house) in 2022, the initiative remains stalled in the Senate.

https://www.ewtnnews.com/world/americas/parents-sentenced-to-prison-in-brazil-for-homeschooling-and-excluding-gender-related-content

Texas Moves to Recover Billions Spent on Biden-Era Border Crisis

After spending more than $10 billion on Operation Lone Star during the Biden administration, Texas is now seeking federal reimbursement.

Texas has formally submitted its request to the federal government for reimbursement of billions spent on Operation Lone Star, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday.

According to Abbott, the state has provided the Department of Homeland Security with the documentation required to seek repayment for border-security costs Texas incurred during the Biden administration.

“In March 2021, I launched Operation Lone Star to fill in the dangerous gaps created by the Biden Administration’s refusal to secure the border,” Abbott said in a statement. “For four years under Biden, Texas spent more than $10 billion of taxpayer money to secure the border. I have formally submitted Texas’ application to the Department of Homeland Security for reimbursement of costs Texas had to incur because President Biden refused to do his job.”

Last year, Congress included $13.5 billion in funding in President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” to reimburse states for border-security costs incurred during the Biden years.

Abbott had previously asked the federal government to repay Texas for roughly $11 billion spent on Operation Lone Star, the state’s border-security mission that deployed Texas National Guard soldiers and Department of Public Safety troopers to the southern border while also funding barriers, surveillance, and other enforcement measures.

Abbott’s office said Texas has borne the largest share of those costs and that the DHS submission puts the state in position to recover taxpayer funds.

The governor’s office also said Texas plans to submit a separate reimbursement request to the U.S. Department of Justice in the “near future.”

https://texasscorecard.com/federal/texas-moves-to-recover-billions-spent-on-biden-era-border-crisis/

Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, a key figure of the Cuban Revolution and ally of Fidel Castro, has died

HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, a former vice president and a key figure of the Cuban Revolution who fought alongside Fidel Castro, died Sunday, the Communist Party and Cuba’s government said. He was 94.

Valdés was one of the closest allies of Fidel and his brother Raúl Castro since the 1953 attack on the Moncada barracks that marked the beginning of the Cuban Revolution. He remained an influential figure in the following decades.

The joint statement did not provide details on the cause of death.

“Ramiro Valdés Menéndez deserves the respect and admiration of the Cuban people for his dedication and proven loyalty to the revolutionary cause,” said the statement published by the official news portal Cubadebate.

On X, President Miguel Díaz-Canel said Valdés’ death hurt like the loss of a father.

“Every act in Commander Ramiro’s life was marked by his absolute loyalty to the leadership of Fidel and Raúl,” President Miguel Díaz-Canel said.

Valdés was born April 28, 1932, in the western city of Artemisa.

He was 21 when he joined Fidel Castro’s 1953 attack on the Moncada military barracks, the opening act of the revolution that would eventually overthrow dictator Fulgencio Batista.

Valdés later fought under the command of legendary guerrilla leader Ernesto “Che” Guevara and became one of the few rebels to hold the honorary title of Commander of the Revolution. He was also awarded the title “Hero of the Republic of Cuba.”

Valdés fell out with Fidel Castro while serving as interior minister in 1986 and was considered out of the main circle of power until 2003, when he rejoined the Council of State.

In 2006, Raul Castro chose Valdés to lead the telecommunications ministry in his first major decision after taking over presidential powers from his convalescing brother, Fidel. Three years later, Valdés was elevated to vice president.

Just before turning 79 in 2011, he was elected the Communist Party’s number three leader, behind only Raúl Castro and José Ramón Machado Ventura, another veteran revolutionary figure.

Valdés rarely appeared in public and never spoke to the press.

After his clash with Castro, he disappeared from public life until 1997, when he led a mission to Bolivia to locate and repatriate the remains of Guevara, who had been killed in the South American country three decades earlier while attempting to spark a revolution there.

https://apnews.com/article/cuban-revolution-death-menendez-ef5629cc82a1bdce9d4c21ad1b01ee49

US to move forward with Turkey jet engine sales ahead of NATO summit

President Donald Trump is planning to move ahead with the sale of dozens of jet engines to Turkey worth hundreds of millions of dollars, despite objections from some members of the US Congress, according to four sources familiar with the matter. The deal is seen as an important signal to Ankara ahead of a NATO summit in Turkey next month.

The engines, produced by General Electric, will power Turkey’s first indigenous combat aircraft, the KAAN, a flagship defence project launched in 2016 as part of Ankara’s push to reduce reliance on foreign military suppliers. One source said the package could exceed $700 million in value.

Relations between Turkey and the US have been broadly positive under Trump, who has frequently spoken favourably of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. However, tensions remain over Washington’s decision to remove Turkey from the F-35 fighter programme and impose sanctions after Ankara purchased Russian S-400 air defence systems, which Washington says pose a security risk.

While the engine sale is likely to be welcomed in Ankara, analysts say it falls short of Turkey’s broader aim of rejoining the F-35 programme.

“Acquiring the engines is certainly important for Turkey, but it is also the lowest-hanging fruit for a US administration that has made far more ambitious promises,” said Gonul Tol of the Middle East Institute. She added that the key test in relations remains whether Turkey is readmitted to the programme.

US law does not allow Turkey to operate the S-400 system if it is to rejoin the F-35 project. The US ambassador to Turkey has previously said that talks between Trump and Erdogan had produced some of the most productive discussions in years.

Turkey will host NATO leaders on July 7 to 8, amid wider alliance tensions over defence spending and regional security concerns linked to recent Middle East conflicts.

Some members of Congress remain opposed. Representative Gregory Meeks, a senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has raised objections during review discussions, according to sources. However, the administration is expected to proceed, as congressional objections are not binding.

The State Department declined to comment on pending arms transfers, saying official communications with Congress are handled through established channels.

Turkey has been seeking approval for the engine deal for months, with officials previously expressing frustration over delays. The KAAN programme remains dependent on foreign engines in its early stages, with Turkish-developed alternatives expected in later phases of production.

https://cyprus-mail.com/2026/06/24/us-to-move-forward-with-turkey-jet-engine-sales-ahead-of-nato-summit

Court rules for Exxon Mobil in Cuban confiscation case

The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled in Exxon Mobil v. Corporación Cimex that a lawsuit by Exxon Mobil against Cuban state-owned companies for the confiscation of assets owned by subsidiaries of the oil giant’s predecessor can go forward.

Writing for the majority, Justice Brett Kavanaugh explained that the Helms-Burton Act, a federal law passed in 1996, cancels the immunity that the Cuban government and its companies would normally have, so that plaintiffs seeking to rely on that statute to sue them are not required to satisfy an exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, a federal law that generally prohibits lawsuits in U.S. courts against foreign governments and their “agencies and instrumentalities.” “Stacking an FSIA requirement on top of the Helms-Burton Act would thwart Congress’s design and directly contravene the President’s foreign policy judgments,” Kavanaugh wrote.

Justice Elena Kagan, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented. She argued that “[n]othing in the text or ‘architecture’ of the Helms-Burton Act suggests that Congress abrogated the sovereign immunity of these defendants—much less that it did so with the requisite unmistakable clarity.”

The law at the center of the case was the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act, also known as the LIBERTAD Act or the Helms-Burton Act. It allows U.S. nationals to bring lawsuits in federal court against anyone who “traffics in property which was confiscated by the Cuban Government on or after January 1, 1959.” It also gives the president the power to suspend the right to bring a lawsuit when he believes that doing so is “necessary to the national interests of the United States and will expedite a transition to democracy in Cuba.” From 1996 until 2019, when President Donald Trump declined to renew the suspension, U.S. presidents repeatedly suspended the right to bring a lawsuit.

On the same day that the Trump administration ended the suspension, Exxon filed the case in federal court in Washington, D.C., seeking more than $1 billion. It contended that three Cuban-owned companies violated the Helms-Burton Act by trafficking in confiscated property that Exxon owned – specifically, by (among other things), extracting, importing, and refining crude oil and operating service stations using property that Exxon’s subsidiaries had possessed but the Cuban government had confiscated in 1960.

The Cuban companies urged U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta to dismiss the case, arguing that it was barred by the FSIA. Mehta ruled that the Helms-Burton Act does not itself overcome the immunity normally conferred by the FSIA. But, he concluded, one of the exceptions to that immunity – for lawsuits involving “commercial activity” in the United States – did apply to one of the Cuban companies because of its operation of gas stations in Cuba that process money transfers from U.S. residents to Cuba and sell products imported from the United States.

A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit agreed that the FSIA generally bars lawsuits against Cuban state-owned companies in U.S. courts. In an opinion by Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan, the court sent the case back to the lower court for it to take another look at whether the commercial-activity exception applies – namely, whether the Cuban company’s money transfers and sales of U.S. goods at its gas stations have effects in the United States “and whether the effects are sufficiently ‘direct.’”

Exxon appealed to the Supreme Court, which granted review last year. On Tuesday, the justices reversed.

In his 22-page opinion, Kavanaugh emphasized that “one Congress cannot bind another—meaning that a later Congress always may repeal or modify an old law, or enact a new law that is exempt from the old law. In 1996, when Congress passed the Helms-Burton Act, Congress was free to directly abrogate the foreign sovereign immunity of Cuban agencies and instrumentalities, thereby overriding the FSIA.”

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https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/06/court-rules-for-exxon-mobil-in-cuban-confiscation-case/

Injuries reported in magnitude 5.6 NorCal quake

LATEST June 24, 12:55 p.m. Authorities reported that there is no major damage after a powerful earthquake rattled Northern California on Wednesday morning.

According to a news release from Mendocino County, some injuries were reported but no deaths as a result of the 5.6 magnitude quake. The office did not respond to SFGATE’s request for more information about the number of injuries.

Though officials didn’t report any damage to major public infrastructure, such as hospitals or water systems, some nearby residents reported damage in their homes. A photo from a Willits resident sent to KGO-TV show plates, cans and other kitchen items scattered across the floor, many of them shattered.

Power outages were reported in Laytonville, Willits, Leggett and Round Valley/Covelo, which are all near the quake’s epicenter. According to PG&E, there are 7,427 customers in Mendocino County without power, according to the utility’s outage map as of 12:02 p.m. Most of the outages, 4,868 customers, are in the unincorporated part of the county, and the remaining 2,559 outages are in Willits. A video shared with KGO also shows a grocery store in Lake County with dozens of items spilled on the floors. A similar scene was also documented at a gas station in Willits, KRON-TV reported, with shattered liquor bottles on the floor.

County officials are urging the public to avoid major roadways as Caltrans, PG&E and county workers continue to assess the damage and repairs.

Lucy Jones, a former seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, told KCRA-TV that Wednesday’s shake was the largest earthquake in almost nine decades for the region.

June 24, 8:43 a.m. A strong quake measuring a preliminary 5.6 magnitude struck just north of Ukiah in Mendocino County shortly after 8 a.m. on Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The temblor was reported at 8:10 a.m. with the epicenter located 11 kilometers north of Redwood Valley near the Mendocino National Forest and at a depth of about 8.1 kilometers. It was followed by a small magnitude 2.5 aftershock about seven minutes later.

The strong temblor set off the MyShake alert system, with people more than a hundred miles away in San Jose getting the blaring notification. Two more aftershocks measuring a magnitude 2.7 and 2.6 were reported about two hours after the initial rupture.

According to the USGS, thousands of people reported feeling the tremor. Reports came from hundreds of miles from the epicenter in areas like Sacramento, San Jose, and even Carson City, Nevada. The USGS estimates about 7,000 people may have felt “very strong” shaking and another 10,000 people may have felt “strong” shaking.

USGS seismologist Sarah Minson said the quake likely erupted along the Maacama fault in Mendocino County, which is linked to the Hayward and Calaveras faults found in the Bay Area.

“It’s kind of the northward extension of them,” she explained.

Despite the strength of the quake, the USGS reports that there is currently “little to no risk” of landslides or ground liquefaction in the area. Minson explained the quake likely ruptured about a mile of the fault line.

“It’s about the smallest earthquake that you would expect to be impactful,” Minson said.

The risk of a forthcoming larger quake remains small, with the USGS predicting a less than 1% chance for a greater than magnitude 6.0 or 7.0 in the area for the next week. There is a higher risk for moderate quakes, with the USGS forecasting a 7% risk of a magnitude 5.0 quake, a 40% risk of a magnitude 4.0 quake, and an 89% chance of a magnitude 3.0 tremor for the area through the next week.

Minson said the risk of another large quake dissipates exponentially.

“Every second that we’re talking and nothing happens, it’s great,” she said. “But then if something does happen, it’s going to take the probabilities up again.”

This breaking news story has been updated.

https://www.sfgate.com/northcoast/article/northern-california-earthquake-22318798.php

Ebola response worker who traveled from DRC to France is first in outbreak to test positive outside of Africa

A patient in France has tested positive for Ebola after returning from a humanitarian mission in an area where the virus is circulating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the French Health Ministry said on Wednesday.

It marks the first reported case in France and the first to test positive outside of Africa amid the second large Ebola outbreak on record in DRC. The outbreak is driven by the rare Bundibugyo strain of the virus, which has no vaccine or specific treatment. At least 277 people in DRC and two in Uganda have died in the outbreak, according to the latest World Health Organization data. More than 1,000 cases have been confirmed in DRC.

The patient in France, who has not been publicly identified, is in stable condition after being “immediately admitted to a specialized facility” upon their return, the French Health Ministry said in a statement.

“All precautionary measures – specifically patient isolation – were implemented immediately upon arrival in the country, including a secure hospital transfer to prevent any risk of transmission,” the ministry said. “A thorough epidemiological investigation is underway to identify individuals who may have been in contact with the patient.”

Any individuals who may have had contact with the patient will undergo a 21-day period of home isolation, during which they will be closely monitored by health authorities.

The ministry reiterated that European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has assessed the risk of Ebola infection as “very low for the general European population” and that France has established a monitoring system for French humanitarian workers returning to the country.

Earlier this year, European authorities handled another case of Ebola, as American doctor Peter Stafford contracted the disease while working in DRC, was evacuated and underwent treatment in Germany. Stafford was released from the hospital and returned to the United States earlier in June.

Meanwhile, WHO officials warned on Wednesday that the “outbreak is continuing to outpace the response” inside DRC.

Trials for two antivirals are expected to start next week, officials said. The therapies will be offered to people with confirmed cases to test if they are safe and effective at treating the Bundibugyo virus, either alone or in combination.

Other response efforts have scaled up significantly since the start of the outbreak, officials said, but contact tracing continues to lag.

“The challenge with Ebola is that even 99.9% is not good enough. We have to keep pushing to the very end to get all new cases emerging from known contact lists, which is the most important criteria for success of an Ebola response,” Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, head of the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence, said on Wednesday.

Still, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus emphasized that the international risk remains low.

“Whenever a case happens in Europe or other parts of the world outside Africa, I see overreaction, but I don’t think overreaction is needed,” he said at a news conference Wednesday. Less than 30 Ebola cases have been reported outside of Africa since the first outbreak about a half century ago, he said.

“No need for panic,” Tedros said.

https://lite.cnn.com/2026/06/24/world/france-ebola-patient

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JUST IN: President Trump reveals his administration is working on NATIONAL RIGHT TO CARRY

This would be an absolutely HUGE step towards bringing back the true meaning of the Second Amendment

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Massive $27M LA hospice fraud revealed as medical scammer used dead patients to fund lavish lifestyle: feds

Federal agents pounced on a slew of alleged medical fraudsters accused of massive schemes in Los Angeles — including a $27 million plot to steal the identities of dead people — as part of a national takedown by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in Washington, DC.

Authorities arrested five people accused of stealing millions in taxpayer dollars and charged five others, including a Van Nuys hospice owner accused of swiping the identities of dead people to fund a flashy car collection including a $530,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom.

In a Tuesday press conference, Blanche announced multiple takedowns that charged hundreds defendants nationwide.

The feds this year busted medical fraudsters accused of stealing more than $6.5 billion nationwide, including a record-breaking arrest of 455 alleged healthcare crooks in 45 states, the nation's top prosecutors said.

"Fraudsters can no longer rip off American taxpayers," Blanche said at the press conference from Department of Justice Headquarters on Pennsylvania Ave.

"If you seek to harm or cheat Americans, we will find you, seize any assets, and prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law."

Federal authorities suspended Medicare payments to 1,000 people in the first half of the year, and much of the fraud occurs in California, said FBI Director Kash Patel.

"That's a lot of people," said Patel, with "nearly 800 by the way, from one state, California."

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called out Los Angeles as a hive of hospice fraud, pointing out that federal authorities have closed down 800 hospices in LA alone.

"One of the ways that we've been able to detect that fraud is, that in many of them, the patients never die, they live forever," said Kennedy. "That's not supposed to happen in hospices."

The California Post was there last week as federal agents swooped on Oren David Shachar, taking the owner of at least four hospices in the Los Angeles area into custody for an elaborate series of alleged schemes that involved stealing the identities of people to bill for hospice services.

Shachar allegedly funneled the money from his businesses to pay for luxury goods, including $15,000 taken directly from one of his hospices for the down payment on a lease-to-own Rolls-Royce Phantom, a car that carries a sticker price of nearly $530,000.

Shachar paid funeral home workers Abraham Shin and Jeannie Choi for the personal information of dead people that he used to bill the government for hospice services that were never provided, paying between $1,000 and $3,000 for each deceased person's identity, prosecutors charge.

In total, federal prosecutors in the Central District of California have brought criminal charges against 10 defendants who've allegedly engaged in fraud against government-funded health programs or abused their positions as doctors to illegally prescribe controlled substances.

"Public health programs are intended to support the elderly, the ill, the needy, and other vulnerable members of our communities," said First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli. "It is not there to enrich fraudsters."

Shachar, 59, of Van Nuys, and Shin, 66, of Corona, were arrested on June 18 and arraigned in US District Court in Los Angeles.

Both accused crooks, along with Choi, 57, of Torrance, are charged in a 16-count indictment alleging that they ripped off Medicare for approximately $27 million.

Choi was arrested Monday and is expected to appear Tuesday in US District Court in Los Angeles.

Shachar allegedly conspired with marketers Choi and Shin to submit false claims for hospice services for people who were not terminally ill or were already dead, authorities said, paying kickbacks to a local funeral home for the names of the dead.

Payments on the false claims went to at least four hospices controlled by Shachar, including Gentle Touch Hospice in Valley Glen, Oxford Hospice Care in Montclair, Art of Hospice in Encino, and Holly Trinity Hospice in Glendale, the feds said.

The Post was also on hand when federal agents on June 17 swarmed on Christina Mareik, 61, of Whittier, arresting her on a federal criminal complaint charging her with health-care fraud.

Federal authorities say Mareik submitted nearly $270 million in bogus Medi-Cal claims for expensive prescription drugs that were not medically necessary and, in many instances, not provided to the purported recipients.

Medi-Cal paid more than $178 million on fake drug claims, prosecutors charge.

Mareik allegedly worked for Paul Richard Randall, 67, of Orange, a patient marketer for Monte Vista Pharmacy, collaborating with Randall to bill the government for fake drug claims.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/massive-27m-la-hospice-fraud-160448921.html

Trump effort to expand speedy deportations of migrants can proceed, appeals court rules

A federal appeals court handed President Donald Trump a significant win in his mass deportation efforts with a ruling Tuesday reviving his administration’s move to speed up deportations of undocumented immigrants in the United States.

The ruling from the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals allows the Trump administration to cast a wider net over who’s subject to the fast-track deportation procedure known as “expedited removal,” which allows immigration authorities to remove an individual from the country without a hearing before an immigration judge.

The decision allows the administration to move forward with its plan to quickly deport undocumented immigrants who are residing in the United States and can’t prove they’ve lived in the country continuously for two years or more.

A trial court had previously blocked the administration’s January 21, 2025, maneuver to expand the policy beyond just migrants who were apprehended within 100 miles of a land border and within 14 days of arrival.

Judges Justin Walker and Neomi Rao – both Trump appointees – sided with the administration. Judge Robert Wilkins – who was put on the bench by President Barack Obama - dissented.

The majority opinion by Walker rejected the challengers’ arguments that the expanded policy violated the Constitution’s right to due process.

The Department of Homeland Security’s General Counsel James Percival celebrated the ruling on X, saying the DC circuit “vindicated” the administration.

“For years, DHS has arbitrarily limited expedited removal to 14 days even though it applies to illegal aliens who entered the country illegally within the last two years. Today, the DC Circuit vindicated our decision to apply the law as written,” Percival said, adding that “it’s not too late” to self deport and received a $2,600 stipend the administration has offered.

“The Trump administration’s push for fast-track deportations will subject people to an unfair and error-prone system. This ruling undermines the fundamental principle that people receive due process when the government seeks to deport them,” said Anand Balakrishnan, senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project and lead counsel. “We are exploring next steps.”

https://lite.cnn.com/2026/06/23/politics/expand-speedy-deportations-of-migrants-court-rules

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Sec. Bessent: "Dollar dominance is essential, and everything President Trump is doing here — if you look, the new Venezuela… the dollar is going to be the centerpiece of their trade… We're seeing in the Iranian negotiations, the Iranians will be invoicing in dollars. Everything we are doing is pushing the dollar back… we're reinforcing it."

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