Political Ethics
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Taxpayer Philanthropy: Wealth building nonprofit is building founder's family wealth
Build Wealth MN, founded by David McGee more than 20 years ago, provides financial advice and low-interest loans predominantly to Black residents.
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Federal probes dig deeper into Rep. Ilhan Omar's citizenship and financial disclosures
Federal investigators from different agencies are ramping up scrutiny on Rep. Ilhan Omar, examining her conflicting birthdate records, citizenship paperwork and timeline, as well as fluctuating financial disclosures.
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Jack Smith team secretly met ex-CIA chief John Brennan in 2023, but FBI agents left notes blank
Doesn't democracy die in darkness anymore? Nothing about the substance of the meeting was recorded in the notes even though the U.S. Attorney's Manual requires agents in important cases to confer about notetaking ahead of time, memorialize that discussion and then take substantive notes of contacts with witnesses. Smith's team did neither.
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Senator who sued Jack Smith says she thinks he should be criminally prosecuted too
"I think that it would be a good thing for him to face prosecution," Blackburn told the John Solomon Reports podcast this week just hours before she filed her lawsuit. That suit alleges Smith was never lawfully a special counsel and therefore violated her rights as a member of Congress by secretly collecting her phone records.
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Agent in Jack Smith case says he was kept in dark that subpoenaed phone data belonged to Congress
Agent Burnett's testimony is one of six transcripts released by the House Judiciary Committee in its review of the Arctic Frost probe of President Trump.
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Judge named special counsel in probe of Arizona Gov. Hobbs, AG Mayes
Democrat governor accused of approving rate increases for Sunshine Residential Homes after they donated more than $500,000 benefitting Hobbs' political operations.
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Postal workers entrusted with ballots, paychecks faked their own customer satisfaction surveys
The USPS Inspector General found "widespread manipulation" of customer service surveys creating a phony 5 percent spike in consumer satisfaction with mail service between 2023 and 2025. Data doctoring persisted even after one cheating scheme was uncovered.
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Legislative investigation intensifies into Arizona Gov. Hobbs over group home
Sunshine Residential Homes are group homes for children and youth in the foster care system.
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Arizona Republicans question closing of probe into Gov. Hobbs pay-to-play allegations
In August, Attorney General Kris Mayes said Hobbs would not face criminal charges after
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Michael Flynn says he would never have taken 2018 plea deal if he had full FBI evidence in his case
Prosecutors alleged the former three-star general lied about his contacts with a Russian diplomat.
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Jim Jordan demands FBI Round River docs after memos reveal targeting of Trump officials, allies
The Judiciary chairman seeks documents after declassified files reveal bureau labeled GOP figures as Russian disinformation 'conduits' while ignoring reports alleging Biden family corruption.
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Fauci memos expose instructions to delete emails, steer spy agencies during COVID-19 pandemic
The Federal Records Act requires government agencies to preserve in nearly all cases the records of their federal work, including emails.
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Swalwell's legal counsel responds to declassified docs, says files show 'nothing new'
Former Congressman Eric Swalwell has long maintained that he did not know about Fang Fang's alleged illegal endeavors and that he fully cooperated with the FBI.