[JTN ht Insty] California congressman’s behavior — filing contradictory statements about his "principal residence" — looks like "serious, documented allegations which carry significant criminal penalties," ex-FBI supervisor says.
In the two decades before he became the Democrats' U.S. Senate nominee in California, former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff repeatedly declared in mortgage and election filings that both of his homes — one in California and the other in Maryland — were his "principal residence." The claims have now prompted an ethics complaint and could be prosecutable as fraud, experts said.
Americans are allowed to claim just one home as their primary residence: the one they live in the majority of the year, according to the federally backed lender Freddie Mac. But Schiff alternately declared both of his properties in the two different states as "principal" on multiple mortgage and election forms dating to 2003 and reviewed by Just the News.
Those declarations over the years won him financial and political benefits like lower mortgage interest rates, tax advantages and the ability to run for election in a California House district.
Schiff and his office did not respond to multiple requests seeking comment by phone or email.
"Principal" residences in two states
In at least three instances, documents show that in 2009 and again in 2011 and 2013, Schiff refinanced his Maryland home and declared it was his "principal residence" at the same time he had declared his principal residence was in the California, according to 2009 and 2011 financing docs for his Burbank condo.
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The pattern was first detected by Sacramento-based real estate investigator Christine Bish, who also is running for Congress as a Republican this year. She filed an ethics complaint against Schiff in Congress. The accompanying documents were then confirmed independently by Just the News.
The conflicting declarations were not resolved until 2020 when Schiff suddenly changed the notations on his Maryland mortgage to be a secondary residence. Bish alleges this change constitutes an admission by Schiff that the prior conflicting declarations may amount to a pattern and practice of mortgage fraud.
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Law enforcement experts said the documents could form the basis for prosecution. "These are serious, documented allegations which carry significant criminal penalties if substantiated," retired FBI supervisory special agent Jeff Danik said after reviewing the documents at Just the News’ request.
The FBI veteran noted the Justice Department "maintains a robust fraud enforcement section that routinely investigates similar allegations" and "the 10-year statute of limitations available in bank fraud investigations would allow for an expansive inquiry."
Pushed debunked Russian conspiracy theories
Schiff has long been a target of Republican critics, who seethed over his efforts to portray Donald Trump and his supporters as compromised by Vladimir Putin in the now widely debunked Russia collusion case and to pursue two impeachments against the former president.
Schiff’s insistent claims of a Trump-Russia conspiracy — fueled by debunked Hillary Clinton campaign research during the 2016 election — were rebuked by DOJ Special Counsel John Durham, who concluded there was no evidence to support such allegations or the FBI probe that ensued.
Schiff's record of credibility on such big issues could be a factor if the FBI began examining his mortgage claims, a former federal prosecutor told Just the News.
Schiff "has lied to the American people more times than I can count, so it would come as no surprise to learn he misled his bank," retired Little Rock, Ark., U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins said. Cummins, who prosecuted many financial fraud cases during his tenure, said Schiff's mortgage claims merit "a fair and neutral investigation by both Congress and DOJ, but fair and neutral investigations seem nearly extinct."
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Fraud is his brand.
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[Breitbart] The federal government is offering FEMA disaster aid to illegal migrants in North Carolina, according to a report in the Washington Post.
The federal government aids illegal migrants because it wants to demolish the once-clear legal borders and dictionary distinctions between Americans and foreigners. For example, the government is granting aid to foreign migrants if they form a business in the United States, the Post wrote on October 18. “These are people [migrants] who are not in the country legally, but their businesses are legal and they’re paying taxes,” Silvia Martín del Campo, the director for programs for Latino students at McDowell Technical Community College in Marion, North Carolina.
The aid to migrants would otherwise go to Americans who have lost their homes, land, jobs, and wealth to Hurricane Helene.
The vast majority of Americans are personally sympathetic to migrants, most of whom work hard in low-wage jobs where they also need taxpayer aid to keep them out of poverty. Moreover, many of the migrants — like Americans — have lost their jobs, hard-earned possessions, and even homes to the disaster.
However, the migrants are in North Carolina only because the federal government has spent many billions of dollars to help smuggle illegal migrants across the border and settle in the states. Roughly $1 billion of that funding has come from FEMA accounts since 2021.
The government aid for migrants is part of a post-1990 economic strategy, dubbed “Extraction Migration.” The strategy seeks to inflate the consumer economy by quietly extracting low-wage workers, apartment-sharing renters, and taxpayer-funded consumers from poor countries.
The resulting government inflow of poor migrants blurs the border between Americans and migrants, and it also shrinks Americans’ wages and personal wealth. The policy is very unpopular, so the government hides its role by obscuring the language, loopholes, and funds that help migrants.
For example, the Post’s article about aid for migrants uses words that blur the distinction between ordinary Americans and the illegal migrants who sneaked across the border as it describes how the migrants are offered aid:
Two of the people [emphasis added] who applied with Martín del Campo’s help are [migrant] sisters who own a cleaning service that specializes in mountain cabin rentals. All those reservations have been canceled, she said, leaving them with no business. They applied for a $30,000 loan, which is about as much as they usually make in six months.
“I don’t want to take advantage of the system and I don’t like borrowing money,” one sister said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of her immigration status [emphasis added]. “But my bills are due whether I can work or not. … This kind of loan would help a lot.”
Another low-wage migrant, restaurant worker José Elguera-Camacho, told the Post that he was allowed to apply for the fast-track $750 disaster grant offered by FEMA. “I usually work more than 40 hours a week this month,” he said. “Now I’m at zero,” he said.
FEMA offers the $750 “Serious Needs Assistance” grant to migrants by hiding the loophole in the fine print. The fine print allows paroled illegals to be treated as “qualified non-citizen[s].”
The government is also offering benefits to illegal migrants if they have a son or daughter born in the United States: “Most of the people [aid worker Neyda] Juarez sees are parents applying for FEMA aid on behalf of their children, who are U.S. citizens.”
Juárez is employed by Centro Unido Latino Americano, which is one of the very many non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are being used by the government to fund migrants so they settle in American communities.
The NGO is supported by various grants delivered via U.S. charities and the Mexican government. The group has also received taxpayer funding from some of the vast federal spending for migrants and migration.
Most of the government funding for migration is hidden by routing it through myriad NGOs for later distribution to smaller NGOs that commingle funds for Americans and migrants.
Some of the disaster aid that flows through the NGOs is used to pay their operating costs — and their subsequent lobbying for more migration said Krikorian.
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After 40 years in healthcare, Many N's, I'd say you need to provide emergency healthcare, just to get a jump on any nasty bugs they might be spreading.
Emergency only - then hasta la no vista.
Registered voters without photo ID, who cannot reasonably obtain one, may sign a form and present the original or a copy of one of the following documents with the voter’s name and address to vote a regular ballot:
Voter registration card
Certified birth certificate
Current utility bill
Bank statement
Government check
Paycheck
Any other government document, such as an out-of-state driver’s license or expired Texas driver’s license
[X] Utter nonsense. Rampaging Trump mobs on January 6, 2025?? The man is a total idiot, getting off on hysterical dystopian fantasies.
I’m honestly thinking of posting this clip of @RepRaskin telling the American public that he could care less if they vote and overwhelmingly elect Donald J Trump, because the party that protects democracy is going to actually commit an insurrection and once again try to override… pic.twitter.com/E7LS4ZYpxm
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First, the dems have no issue with the way they treated the current president. The have shown they have zero respect for the democratic process in our constitution. Second, their outright hate for Trump blinds them. They are more than willing to toss our nation into a crisis just to stop one man. So if you ask me if the dem party is willing to risk or enter a civil war to keep trump from office, my comment is you bet your ass they are. This guy is projecting the dems plan. If they do jail Trump or disqualify him, when he wins, it wont be mobs they have to worry about.
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The Civil War between a Smartphone raised and educated generation, which is little more than a collection of Political protest groups and Anti-Gunner socialists, vs. a well armed, US Constitution following Real World Educated America populous.
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There might be a civil war if Trump wins. There almost certainly will be a civil war if he loses. Remember which side has most of the 300 million "civilian" firearms in the United States.
If there IS a civil war, it needs to end with the total destruction of the Democrat party. That should have happened after the 1861-65 Civil War. If it doesn't happen with a second civil war, we deserve to go down as a nation.
I'm not happy with EITHER political party. I'm beginning to look very closely at the American Constitution Party.
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10/19/2024 12:46 Comments ||
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OP, Agreed...
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[FoxNews] Sen. Roger Wicker said the outgoing president risked leaving his successor with a 'weak hand'.
The outgoing president —and his heir presumptive — are leaving their successor with all the weak hands, Ukraine being only one of them. It’s a 100% sure bet, unfortunately.
Major drama within the Kamala Harris campaign this morning. A source reveals that Harris screamed at and angrily berated her campaign manager Julie Chavez for over 30 minutes on the phone this morning.
The source shares that Chavez advised Kamala not to attend the Al Smith…
[ConservativeTreehouse] There is a lot going on behind the scenes in the final weeks. Most political observers are now keenly aware of the difference between “ballots” and “votes” as they pertain to key counties: Fulton County, Georgia; Wayne County, Michigan; Philadelphia and Allegany counties, Pennsylvania; Clark County, Nevada; Milwaukee and Marquette counties, Wisconsin, and Maricopa County, Arizona.
These are the specific counties and cities (Philadelphia, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Detroit) where the process of mass-mail/distribution of ballots, in combination with the assembly/harvesting therein, meets the process of “ballot scanning” at county level tabulation centers. However, there’s another facet, “ballot making.”
Many people, including Robert F Kennedy Jr himself and his legal team in court filings, have presented the 2024 situation and asked a question. Essentially:
Why did the DNC apparatus sue to keep RFK JR’s name off certain state ballots and simultaneously sue to keep him on certain state ballots?
It just didn’t make sense….
… Until now.
County-level ballots were contracted for localized printing by those who intended to use blank ballots for fraudulent purposes; essentially “ballot making.”
RFK Jr’s name ON or OFF ballots, changes the dynamic of the paper format and the physical alignment in the scanner.
The county tabulation scanners need one ballot format per county to scan for vote tally.
In states where they preprinted/made the fraudulent county level ballots *without* RFK Jr’s name, the DNC sued to keep him off.
In states where they preprinted/made the fraudulent county level ballots *with* RFK Jr’s name, the DNC sued to keep him on.
That’s the answer.
That also helps put context on how long this localized mass ballot printing and tabulation plan has been in place. WATCH:
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Think of the Carbon Footprint impact the LSD's have rigging election and ballot stuffing .
I wonder what the carbon footprint numbers would be for say 2000 mules, BTU's used, inks and 12.2 millions illegal ballots?
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The only significant cheat path is through the absentee ballot process targeted towards corrupt municipal districts in swing states. They have to control all the apparatus including the DA and everyone has to be dirty. A few illegals or nursing homes won’t do it. They also have to control the SOS and Governor, or the industrially prepared fake ballots and mule process will get exposed.
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[JTN ht Insty] California congressman’s behavior — filing contradictory statements about his "principal residence" — looks like "serious, documented allegations which carry significant criminal penalties," ex-FBI supervisor says.
