[BorderReport] Drug trafficker Edgar Valdez Villarreal, known as ‘La Barbie,’ is no longer listed as being held by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Valdez was extradited to Georgia from Mexico seven years ago and had received a 49-year prison term after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine and launder money. He was also ordered to pay $192 million in restitution to the U.S. Government.
According to his sentencing documents, Valdez’s release date was set for July 27, 2057. But inexplicably, he is no longer being held and is listed as “Not in BOP custody” in the Bureau of Prisons database.
Valdez was serving time at a maximum security federal prison in Florida. His whereabouts are now unknown.
Initially, Valdez is said to have been part of the Sinaloa Cartel working with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman-Loera. According to prosecutors, Valdez was shipping up to 180 kilos of cocaine per month to cities such as New Orleans, Atlanta and Memphis with the drugs coming from Colombia through Mexico on speedboats and airplanes.
In 2008, according to prosecutors, Valdez broke off from the Sinaloa Cartel and aligned himself with the Arturo Beltran-Leyva drug trafficking organization where he also led a group of assassins responsible for a majority of the killings committed by the group.
He was born in Laredo, Texas in 1973. Valdez was said to be a popular high school football player in his hometown where his coach nicknamed him “La Barbie” because of his pale skin, blue eyes and facial features that compared to the Ken doll.
According to the Reforma, Valdez agreed to become a cooperating witness for U.S. prosecutors six years ago.
If he cooperated well, might they have released him as a reward?
[NYPOST] Florida said Thursday it has begun to divest $2 billion in funds overseen by BlackRock — a sharp rebuke of the giant asset manager’s investing policies under CEO Larry Fink that right-leaning critics have blasted as "woke capitalism."
And if BlackRock happens to collapse as a result, actions have consequences, even for the woke left.
The divestment under Gov. Ron DeSantis — the largest of its kind by an individual state — is the latest sign of mounting unrest among Republican policymakers over so-called "ESG," or environmental, social and corporate governance practices.
Florida’s chief financial officer, Jimmy Patronis, accused BlackRock of attempting to "use their power to influence societal outcomes."
"Using our cash, however, to fund BlackRock’s social-engineering project isn’t something Florida ever signed up for," Patronis said. "It’s got nothing to do with maximizing returns and is the opposite of what an asset manager is paid to do. "
"Florida’s Treasury Division is divesting from BlackRock because they have openly stated they’ve got other goals than producing returns," he added.
Florida’s state treasury has removed BlackRock as manager of roughly $600 million in short-term investments and have its custody bank freeze about $1.43 billion in long-term securities. The decision was first reported by Rooters.
Florida joined other Republican-led states, including Louisiana and Missouri, who have pulled state funds from BlackRock’s control in response to concerns about ESG.
[GatewayPundit] Georgia Man Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison For Voter Fraud
A Georgia man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after being convicted of voter fraud.
District Attorney Chris Arnt announced William Chase, 62, was convicted of unlawful acts regarding electors’ vote, voting twice in the same election, first-degree forgery, and performing illegal acts with election documents.
Chief Judge Kristina Graham sentenced Chase to 25 years in prison without the possibility of parole until after 15 years.
NBC 9 News reported Chase filled out another Walker County resident’s ballot during a 2021 Georgia runoff.
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For one ballot???? Really? Its like catching a minnow. Georgia DOJ is lame. Go after the game changing fraud, if you dare...
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Would be nice if it was 25 years for each ballot and they started making arrests on those folks dumping sacks of ballots. Won't happen, but it would be nice.
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Chase was given a hefty sentence for two reasons according to DA Christ Arnt.
One was to send a message to anyone else attempting to commit voter fraud in the state of Georgia.
The second reason was due to Chase’s prior record which consisted of “bankruptcy fraud, theft by shoplifting, forgery in the first degree, stealing public documents, and financial identity fraud.”
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[NYPOST] Prominent elected Republicans, influential donors and conservative grassroots activists are pushing for Lee Zeldin to become the next Republican National Committee chairman — including the leader of the Texas GOP, who credited Zeldin’s strong campaign for New York governor with securing Republican control of the House of Representatives.
"We underperformed nationally. There were strategic missteps," Republican Party of Texas Chairman Matt Rinaldi told The Post Thursday.
"But in New York, Lee Zeldin went into communities that Republicans don’t traditionally go into and talked about crime and inflation. He overperformed in blue areas. He exceeded expectations."
Zeldin lost to Democrat Kathy Hochul by just over 327,000 votes out of more than 5.7 million cast — and his strong performance at the top of the ticket in the battleground suburbs helped Republicans win four more House seats in New York to push the GOP past the 218-seat benchmark.
"Lee Zeldin won us the House majority and he wasn’t even the RNC chair," said Rinaldi. "Imagine what he can do if he is the RNC chair."
According to Rinaldi, it’s time for incumbent RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel to move on, given the failure to deliver an anticipated red wave in the Nov. 8 midterm elections.
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Might be worthwhile to give someone else a try. Sorry, Ronna.
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When you totally failed to take advantage of the greatest mid-term reversal opportunity in modern history and produce a pittance, clearly you are out of your depth. Zeldin might be better, clearly he cannot be worse! And for God's Sake, stop the My-Pillow Mike effort. He ruined the perception of the voter-fraud issue by his bumbling, and has become a severe annoyance schlepping his tired advertising effort every commercial break on Fox cable news!
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