DOJ Round Up.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/cengage-and-mcgraw-hill-terminate-merger-agreement-response-antitrust-concerns

Cengage Learning Holdings II Inc. and McGraw-Hill Education Inc. mutually agreed to abandon their plans to merge after the Department of Justice informed the companies it had serious concerns that the proposed transaction, as structured, would harm competition.

The merger would have combined the second and third largest publishers of textbooks in the United States in a market long dominated by three major textbook publishers.

NOTE: it is my hope this is a start in stopping the indoctrination

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/government-official-and-contracting-executive-plead-guilty-bribery-conspiracy

The former Director of Procurement for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and the president and chief executive officer of a government contracting firm pleaded guilty today to conspiring to bribe a public official.

From at least 2015 through August 2017, Donahue solicited and received cash payments and other things of value, including the promise of a job valued at $1 million, from Ansari and Ansari’s company. In exchange, Donahue agreed to steer PBGC contracts to Ansari’s company.

In 2015, Donahue approached Ansari and offered to help Ansari’s new company win a PBGC contract, worth approximately $55 million, in exchange for a future job with the company. (Occurred during Obama administration… it's 2020 now and this crime was 2015-17)

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-files-statement-interest-support-church-ministers-underserved-communities

The Department of Justice today filed a Statement of Interest in a Virginia federal court concerning the First Amendment’s freedom of religion in support of Lighthouse Fellowship Church (Lighthouse), a congregation in Chincoteague Island, Virginia

In its Statement of Interest, the United States explains that governments may take necessary and temporary measures to meet genuine emergencies, and that states and localities should be afforded substantial deference in their response to emergency situations such as the current pandemic. “But,” the Statement explains, “there is no pandemic exception to the Constitution and its Bill of Rights.”

>>9035598

technically it's illegal ti give illegals welfare, but (its been awhile) I had run across media reports exposing fraud in the welfare office where the govt workers took bribes. Also there was better "customer service" for Spanish speakers than those speaking English.

>>9035645

I fucking hope so and like starting tomorrow.

more poor bastards losing their jobs.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/ge-is-cutting-up-to-13000-aviation-jobs/ar-BB13zLU2

GE Aviation on Monday announced plans to accelerate its cost-cutting by permanently reducing its global workforce by as much as 25% this year through a mix of layoffs and voluntary actions. This includes the previously announced plan to cut 10% of GE Aviation's US workforce.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/grading-governors-committee-unleash-prosperity-215700080.html

Grading Our Governors: Committee to Unleash Prosperity and FreedomWorks Release Report Card On Reopening States' Economies

WASHINGTON, May 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ – The Committee to Unleash Prosperity along with FreedomWorks today released a response scorecard on how the nation's governors are handling the reopening of their state's economies to business and recreational activities.

The report grades the nation's governors on how they have and are continuing to respond to the coronavirus. Taking into account the severity of the virus in each state and the need to keep their citizens safe and healthy, the report assesses how measured or damaging their actions have been with respect to safeguarding the economic well-being of their citizens. It examines lockdown orders, business closures, hospital and outdoor activity orders, and the degree of punitive actions on enforcing these measures. Most importantly, the report measures the start dates for reopening in each state as the evidence is very strong that states with late start dates will have much more severe recessions than states that open earlier.

"With a few exceptions in some metropolitan areas, and in accordance with guidelines from health professionals, the time is long past for every state to reopen safely, smartly, and judiciously so as to end the economic destruction and despair from lockdowns. Millions more Americans will be pushed into unemployment lines, plunged into poverty, and lose their businesses, forever," said Steve Moore, President of Committee to Unleash Prosperity.

The report demonstrates the economic and cultural devastation that will set in if governors don't take action: "State revenue losses will be severe and continued shutdowns will require dramatic cutbacks in state and local services for lack of money. Even from a public health standpoint, the very negative effects from job loss, poverty, business failure, and so on are causing social pathologies to soar – suicides, depression, stress, heart attack, spousal and child abuse cases, drug overdoses, alcohol abuse, financial ruin, and deprivation." Among the governors who received high marks for protecting their economies from devastation include Jared Polis of Colorado (A), a Democrat, joined by Republicans Ron DeSantis of Florida (A), Brian Kemp of Georgia (A), Pete Ricketts of Nebraska (A), Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma (A), Kristi Noem of South Dakota (A), Bill Lee of Tennessee (A), Greg Abbott of Texas (B), and Mark Gordon of Wyoming (A).

The governors who received lower grades for putting their states in the most economic peril are Phil Murphy of New Jersey (F), Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania (F), Ralph Northam of Virginia (F), and Tony Evers of Wisconsin (F). California Governor Gavin Newsom of California (D), and Andrew Cuomo of New York (C). The worst performing Republican governor was Larry Hogan of Maryland (D).

A full copy of the report, including an analysis of each governor's plans to reopen their state, can be found here.

About Committee to Unleash Prosperity

Art Laffer is the founder and chairman of Laffer Associates and former member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board.

Stephen Moore is the president of Committee to Unleash Prosperity and served as a senior economic advisor to Donald Trump in 2016.

Steve Forbes is the chairman & Editor-In-Chief of Forbes Media.

View original content:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/grading-our-governors-committee-to-unleash-prosperity-and-freedomworks-release-report-card-on-reopening-states-economies-301052344.html

>>9035781

failure of the public education system..can't speak proper English. You take the gal out of the ghetto but all her money can't buy her class.

Good write up on Flynn. Leftys will hold their nose because it's the federalist.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/04/your-guide-to-the-obama-administrations-hit-on-michael-flynn/

The unsealing last week of a series of documents in the Michael Flynn criminal case cemented the reality that a small cadre of high-level FBI agents set a perjury trap for President Trump’s then-national security advisor. Beyond exposing the depth of this despicable personal and political hit job on a 30-year military veteran, the newly discovered documents hold great legal significance. Here’s your legal primer.

The Russiagate special counsel’s office charged Flynn with violating 18 U. S. C. § 1001, which makes it a federal crime to “knowingly and willfully” make a false statement of “a material fact” to a federal official. Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team claimed Flynn violated Section 1001 by lying to FBI agents Joe Pientka and Peter Strzok—the latter of whom has since been fired—when the duo questioned Flynn on January 24, 2017, about Flynn’s December 2016 telephone conversations with the Russian ambassador.

Flynn pleaded guilty to the Section 1001 charge in December 2017, but after the special counsel’s office disbanded, Flynn fired his prior attorneys and hired Sidney Powell. He later moved to withdraw his guilty plea, arguing his prior Covington and Burling lawyers had provided ineffective counsel. More significantly, Flynn maintained that he is innocent of the charge and had only pleaded guilty because Mueller’s prosecutors threatened to go after his son if he refused.

New Lawyer Discovers a Rat’s Nest

Since Powell took the reins of Flynn’s legal defense nearly a year ago, she has been busy reviewing the voluminous file Flynn’s former lawyers kept. In a court filing a little more than a week ago, Powell revealed she had discovered strong evidence supporting Flynn’s claim that federal prosecutors had threatened to target his son.

(read more at site getting body too long)

The Texas Sessions not the Alabama one.

https://www.statesman.com/news/20200504/sessions-spends-campaign-money-for-legal-fees

Former U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, who has been embroiled in a criminal investigation related to President Donald Trump‘s Ukraine pressure campaign, has spent more than $82,000 in campaign money to cover legal fees.

Trying to make a political comeback in the 17th Congressional District, which includes portions of North Austin and Pflugerville, Sessions received the most votes in the March Republican primary but didn’t get a majority needed to avoid a runoff. He will face Waco businesswoman Renee Swann in the July 14 runoff.

Sessions told the American-Statesman the legal fees were related to his cooperation with a government probe in the ongoing Ukraine investigation.

"The bottom line on this whole issue is that I was asked and I complied with a request for information that was a legal matter," Sessions said.

"These charges directly related to me providing information related to that request to cooperate," he said.

Sessions has denied any wrongdoing and has not been charged with any crime.

According to campaign finance reports, Sessions has spent $82,590 on legal fees, with nearly $68,000 going to Dallas criminal defense attorney Barry Sorrels, and the rest to Washington, D.C., law firm Berke Farah, which specializes in representing members of Congress facing ethics investigations.

The Sessions campaign ended March with $93,000 in cash on hand, and owing $90,000 in loans to the candidate. Swann ended the month with $131,000 in cash on hand, as well as $454,000 in loans owed by the committee to the candidate.

The primary fight in the deeply Republican district has gotten chippy, with Swann, who has never before held public office and has not made herself available to the Statesman for interviews, drawing attention to Sessions’ campaign expenditures in press releases or through statements from her campaign spokesman.

"The vast majority of people don’t know that Pete Sessions has such massive legal problems," her spokesman, Michael Blair, told the Statesman. "What people intuitively know, if you spent $80,000 in a few months on teams of criminal defense attorneys, you have real issues and real baggage."

Swann has the endorsement of U.S. Rep. Bill Flores, R-Bryan, who is retiring after 10 years representing the district.

The criticism from the Swann campaign "is proof positive that when you stand with Donald Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, not every single Republican is supportive of that effort," Sessions told the Statesman.

Sessions, who served 11 terms in the House, lost his Dallas-based seat in 2018 to Democrat Colin Allred.

The 17th Congressional District stretches from Waco to Bryan-College Station and includes parts of Travis, Bastrop and Lee counties. Sessions has moved to Waco, his childhood home.

Two donors to Sessions’ 2018 campaign were arrested in October on campaign finance violations, including the funneling of Russian money into Trump‘s campaign. The businessmen had ties to Giuliani.

Prosecutors have said the men lobbied a lawmaker — identified only as "Congressman 1" in an indictment unsealed in October — to advocate for the removal of then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch.

In May 2018, Sessions wrote Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging him to remove Yovanovitch from her post.

Last month, a Manhattan federal judge rescheduled for 2021 the campaign-finance trial of Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, as well as two others, after hearing of challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic.

Using campaign money for legal fees in this context is lawful, campaign finance experts said.

The FEC has "long taken a liberal view of the use of campaign funds to pay for legal expenses," said Brett Kappel, a campaign finance lawyer based in Washington. "You can use campaign funds to pay for legal representation in any investigation that arises out of your status as a federal officeholder or candidate."

Democrats Rick Kennedy of Pflugerville and David Anthony Jaramillo of Waco are facing off in the runoff for their party’s nomination.

National political handicappers rate the district "solid Republican." Flores won the district by 15.5 points in 2018.

>>9035891

can someone explain this in english?

>>9036040

You pretty much summed it all up accurately.

>> But that's how it always has been, the GOP candidate is not as bad as the Dem candidate. Never has the GOP candidate actually made anything better, not in my lifetime, only that 1) he'll give us lip service and 2) he won't actively do as many bad things as the Dem.

Every year, things get shittier and shittier. What do you think about the quality of the average Fed Gov worker in DC or the DC suburbs? Has the quality of the average Fed Gov worker gotten better or worse in the last 50 years? Mediocre trash who believe that they should be telling everyone what to do, and a majority thing that men can become women by filling out a form and people who disagree with that should be poked with little needles until they comply with this new and insane way of thinking or are dead.

Things are shit now, and tariffs are a fine way to bring USA jobs back, but I personally don't really give a fuck about Macomb country, in any particular sense, beyond the fact that it's a part of USA, yes, it's a key swing county, sure, and other rust belt states have voters who share those values, and Trump should do good there, but we have real problems, dystopian nightmare problems, that need to be solved, beyond the loss of industry.

>>9036184

He's just got a story, anon.

I find it so so fascinating that all tehse folsk on twitter have so much inside info, yet they don't report teh crimes.

It would be better to expose it all using PROOF.

But they all dance around ways to keep it so so sekret….