(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Biden family has decided on President Joe Biden’s potential withdrawal from the 2024 race following concerns over his health and fitness to govern as exposed during his Thursday CNN debate.
On Sunday, the president’s family—including First Lady Jill Biden, their children and grandchildren—urged him to remain in the race, despite growing calls from within his party for him to step down.
Their decision, first reported by the New York Times, came after an apparent emergency meeting at Camp David following what has been described as a “bloodbath” during the debate against Trump.
According to the Times, the family is aware of the scandal but still holds on to the hope that Biden can fool Americans into believing he can govern for another four years. By 2028, Biden would be 86 years old.
One of the individuals urging Biden to remain in the race is Hunter Biden, the embattled and convicted first son, who is also facing an imminent trial over his tax affairs.
Also, one of Biden’s grandchildren suggested they could persuade social media influencers to back the president’s shaky re-election campaign.
The decision to stay in the race coincides with the emergence of several disturbing reports about the lengths the White House goes to shield Biden from public view.
Biden is reportedly dependably aware only from 10 am to 4 pm, a strikingly small window of time for the job of commander-in-chief. Anything scheduled outside that window is likely to be marred with gaffes, reported Axios.
The same outlet reported on Sunday that the White House has barred the residence’s staffers from assisting Biden. At one point, butlers were blocked from aiding Biden after he allegedly became overheated.
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) In an odd intersection of left-wing causes, pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted on Sunday the New York City Pride Parade by blocking the event and throwing fake blood on some attendees.
Brandishing Palestinian flags and signs, a group of hecklers sat in the middle of the street, temporarily halting the parade on Christopher Street, several videos shared on Twitter showed.
Their street blockade followed an attack on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) float and its employees with fake blood.
Video footage showed the hecklers awaiting the arrival of the HRC float. “Free Palestine!” a woman shouted, as they unleashed their attack.
#Breakingnews Pro Palestinians protesters block the NYC Pride Parade and throw fake blood at attendees
“From the sea to the river, Palestine will live forever,” the group chanted, botching the anti-Semitic phrase that calls for the elimination of Israel and its citizens.
“Free, free Palestine. Free, free, free Palestine,” they chanted in unison.
NOW: 10 people ARRESTED after a group of protesters BLOCK Pride Parade in NYC. A parade float car was SPLASHED with red paint.
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) June 30, 2024
“No queer liberation without Palestinian liberation,” read one sign, as shared in a video by NYC-based photographers “ViralNewsNYC” and Oliya Scootercaster. Another sign read, “Palestine will be free.”
Video showed at least two women pleading with the protesters, but their efforts were unsuccessful. “Shut it down!” the hecklers chanted.
According to the New York Post, 20 officers from the NYPD Special Operations squad arrested the pro-Palestinian individuals using zip-ties. It isn’t immediately clear whether they will face charges.
At least one HRC employee stood in shock as the blood-like liquid dripped from his face and neck. The street and the Chevrolet truck driving the float were also stained during the altercation.
Pride parade NYC is being disrupted the annual LGBTQ celebration.
One of the protesters puts fake blood all over her face.
The confrontation comes as the left protests Israel’s military operations in the Gaza Strip, where Hamas currently holds several innocent individuals hostage.
At the center of the protest is the claim that Israel is committing human rights violations in Gaza. However, many protesters conveniently ignore the reasons for Israel’s presence in the Gaza Strip in the first place: Hamas’s terrorist attack on Oct. 7, 2023.
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Released text messages between New York Attorney General Letitia James and FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh, both Democrats, reveal their true feelings about the pro-Donald Trump firefighters who booed James during a graduation ceremony earlier this year.
“I can’t fix them,” wrote Kavanagh, a controversial figure appointed in 2022 to head the fire department, in a text message to James about the recent graduates who protested James’s appearance.
In March 2024, James faced the ire of fed-up firefighters who chanted “Trump! Trump! Trump!” during her speech. This incident took place just days after James had secured a $454 million civil judgment against the former president.
The messages, first reported by the New York Post after a public records request, depict an apologetic Kavanagh attempting to stay on James’s good side after the humiliating event.
“I should have called you last night, but I’ve been trying to find a way to say I’m sorry that doesn’t involve me apologizing for men who don’t deserve such grace,” Kavanagh wrote to James, according to screenshots.
In the same text, the fire department chief lamented not being able to halt the heckling, writing: “I haven’t succeeded. I am sorry that we didn’t stop them and that I can’t fix them.”
As reported by the Post, Kavanagh began her career working for the political campaigns of former President Barack Obama. She told James, a radical Democrat, that she “wouldn’t be here with you.”
In response, James—seemingly upset by the heckling—thanked Kavanagh for the text and conceded that she needed to regain the firefighters’ trust.
“Thank you, the guys who were there are new to the dept and don’t know my history as it relates to fdny. We have work to do and I am willing to put in the time. BTW – this is my first time that I have been booed,” James wrote.
In another text to an unnamed official, the attorney general regretted attending the ceremony.
“I am so sorry [the] episode took away from people being promoted and their families …” she wrote. “I should have taken temperature, checked with [the] department and stayed away. I have to repair relationships with members.”
After the heckling incident, Kavanagh initiated an investigation into the firefighters involved in the protest, leading to widespread condemnation from both New Yorkers and the fire department union.
James, who was first elected attorney general in 2019, had campaigned on a promise to use the justice system against Trump, who was then the U.S. president.
(Greg Bishop, The Center Square) – More than 87,000 people moved out of Illinois taking with them nearly $10 billion in income, according to the latest Internal Revenue Service data. For the last six years, the total lost adjusted gross income is more than $47.5 billion.
For nearly a decade, annual population estimates from the U.S. Census show Illinois losing population. For well over a year, Gov. J.B. Pritzker has denied the state’s population decline, saying the Census is getting it wrong. In May, he doubled down.
“You should take what I’m saying as truth that actually when we count people, it turns out we’re gaining,” Pritzker said.
The U.S. Census did recently revise Illinois’ population upward from previous estimates, but the state still continues to lose population.
It’s not just Census data showing Illinois’ loss. Moving companies routinely show Illinois among the states with the most people moving out year after year. IRS data also shows the continued population decline, and with that the federal agency provides receipts.
IRS data released this week shows between calendar years 2021 and 2022, the number of people flowing into Illinois was nearly 177,000 and the number flowing out was over 264,000, a net loss of 87,286.
State Sen. Andrew Chesney, R-Freeport, said by Democrats continuing to deny population decline, they continue bad policies.
“We’re not bringing in the best and the brightest in many cases to the state of Illinois, we’re actually pushing them out of the state with horrible policies and we’re back filling it with folks that want services,” Chesney told The Center Square.
He said the state’s sanctuary status policies welcome non-citizen migrants that cost taxpayers money and taxpayers are fed up and there doesn’t seem to be any policy changes to reverse course.
“It’s certainly not happening right now and the people are no longer voting, they’re leaving,” Chesney said.
While 14,486 people moved to Illinois from California in 2022, bringing with them $1.5 billion in income, the latest IRS data shows 31,600 of those who left Illinois went to Florida, taking with them $4.1 billion dollars.
Total lost income out of Illinois because of outmigration was $9.8 billion in 2022. Last year’s IRS migration report found 105,000 fewer individuals, taking with them $10.6 billion. The year before that, nearly 101,000 people left Illinois, taking with them $8.5 billion.
For the calendar year 2018 to 2019, IRS data shows 82,107 fewer individuals in Illinois, taking with them nearly $6 billion. From 2017 to 2018, data shows 87,673 fewer exemptions and $5.6 billion in lost adjusted gross income. In calendar year 2016 to 2017, IRS data shows 133,769 fewer exemptions, taking with them $6.8 billion.
Chesney said what needs to happen is a focus on public safety, lower taxes and reformed regulations.
“And it can be fixed, and it can be fixed in seconds if somebody would just put their foot down and demand better,” he said.
The latest tally of IRS data indicates the total number of lost adjusted gross income from people moving out of the state is $47.5 billion in the past six years.
(Headline USA) Competitive eater Joey “Jaws” Chestnut will take his hot dog-downing talents to an army base in Texas for America’s Independence Day this year after a falling out with organizers of the event that made him famous, the annual 4th of July eating contest in Brooklyn‘s Coney Island.
Chestnut, of Indiana, will compete against soldiers in Fort Bliss, in El Paso, in a 5-minute hot dog eating contest. That’s instead of the 10-minute Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July hot dog eating contest, where he competed against the world’s top competitive eaters since 2005 and hadn’t lost since 2015. In 2021 he set the current record of 76 hot dogs, in 10 minutes.
Organizers of that event initially said he couldn’t attend due to a sponsorship conflict, which Chestnut said involved a deal with Impossible Foods, which makes plant-based hot dogs.
Chestnut said he was “ gutted ” he couldn’t compete in the event in Coney Island, where he said he loved the atmosphere and the sometimes-sweltering crowds.
“Those people have been sitting in the sun, waiting. They know what to expect. And they’re not shocked. They’re cheering and yelling and pushing me,” Chestnut said Thursday in a phone interview.
But Chestnut says he’s not going to sit home and do nothing. And he’s hopeful the soldiers will push him to perform. Fearful of being “lazy” in competition with amateurs, the perennial world champion will try to out-eat four soldiers, pitting his frank-swallowing total against theirs combined. If they work together, they might even beat him.
“If they (each) break ten, that’d be pretty good,” Chestnut said Thursday as he fasted on water, lemon juice and liquified calories as part of his pre-competition routine.
Around 15,000 people, mostly soldiers and their families, are expected to attend the annual “Pop Goes the Fort” celebration at Fort Bliss. It also is to include fireworks and performances by the El Paso Symphony Orchestra and the 1st Armored Division Band, according to Fort Bliss Morale Welfare and Recreation organization spokesperson Marlo Brestar.
Chestnut said he’ll do a practice routine Friday, then ingest oils to “make sure there’s a clean highway, there won’t be any traffic jams” in his digestive system before heading to Fort Bliss, the sprawling desert army base that’s home to the 1st Armored Division. It will be his first visit to El Paso.
“Maybe I’ll get to get on a tank,” he said.
Fans can watch Chestnut compete on Netflix against rival Takeru Kobayashi in September.
He’s hopeful that he can get back to competing on July 4th next year, either with Netflix or at the Nathan’s Famous contest. To head back to his cherished Coney Island event though, he’d need to make up with the event organizers, Major League Eating.
“I feel bullied,” he said. “If I’m ever going to work with them again, they’re going to have to apologize,” Chestnut said.
Major League Eating says it eventually conceded the sponsorship issue, according to a statement from spokesman George Shea.
“Unfortunately, this was not enough to get us to an agreement,” the statement said. “We think this is a powerful tribute to our armed forces and we wish Joey the best of luck at his event.”
The city of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria Johnson was called “the most significant case about homelessness in 40+ years” by The National Homeless Law Center.
Grants Pass has public-camping laws that restrict homeless encampments on public property. Cities across the country, especially in California, have enacted similar laws to restrict homeless encampments on public property.
The nation’s highest court addressed the question: “Does the enforcement of generally applicable laws regulating camping on public property constitute ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ prohibited by the Eighth Amendment?”
The Ninth Circuit Court ruled that the Eighth Amendment’s Cruel and Unusual Punishments Clause prohibited cities from enforcing public-camping ordinances against homeless people if there were no “practically available” shelter beds. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed that decision.
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote, “The Court cannot say that the punishments Grants Pass imposes here qualify as cruel and unusual. The city imposes only limited fines for first-time offenders, an order temporarily barring an individual from camping in a public park for repeat offenders, and a maximum sentence of 30 days in jail for those who later violate an order.”
Gorsuch continued: “Such punishments do not qualify as cruel because they are not designed to cause ” “terror, pain, or disgrace. … Nor are they unusual, because similarly limited fines and jail terms have been and remain among “the usual mode[s]” for punishing criminal offenses throughout the country.”
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the dissenting opinion: “Sleep is a biological necessity, not a crime. For some people, sleeping outside is their only option. The City of Grants Pass jails and fines those people for sleeping anywhere in public at any time, including in their cars, if they use as little as a blanket to keep warm or a rolled-up shirt as a pillow. For people with no access to shelter, that punishes them for being homeless. That is unconscionable and unconstitutional. Punishing people for their status is ‘cruel and unusual’ under the Eighth Amendment.”
But Justice Gorsuch disagreed.
“Grants Pass’s public-camping ordinances do not criminalize status,” Gorsuch wrote. “The public-camping laws prohibit actions undertaken by any person, regardless of status. It makes no difference whether the charged defendant is currently a person experiencing homelessness, a backpacker on vacation, or a student who abandons his dorm room to camp out in protest on the lawn of a municipal building.”
Advocates to end homelessness criticized the decision.
“This decision sets a dangerous precedent that will cause undue harm to people experiencing homelessness and give free reign to local officials who prefer pointless and expensive arrests and imprisonment, rather than real solutions,” said Ann Oliva, CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness, in a statement. “At a time when elected officials need to be focused on long-term, sustainable solutions that are grounded in evidence – including funding the affordable housing and supportive services that their constituents need — this ruling allows leaders to shift the burden to law enforcement. This tactic has consistently failed to reduce homelessness in the past, and it will assuredly fail to reduce homelessness in the future.”
California Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones, a Republican from San Diego, applauded the ruling.
“Today’s decision rightly empowers state and local officials to compassionately clear encampments. Californians should not have to tolerate the encampments that have taken over our communities,” Jones said in a statement. “This is not about criminalizing homelessness — it’s about ensuring the safety of both the community and homeless individuals. With this decision, Democrat politicians can no longer justify allowing this severe public health and safety crisis to persist on our streets. It’s time to clean up California.”
(Headline USA) The most severely wounded survivor of the 2018 massacre at Parkland‘s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School now owns shooter Nikolas Cruz’s name, and Cruz cannot give any interviews without his permission, under a settlement reached in a lawsuit.
Under his recent settlement with Anthony Borges, Cruz must also turn over any money he might receive as a beneficiary of a relative’s life insurance policy, participate in any scientific studies of mass shooters and donate his body to science after his death.
The agreement means that Cruz, 25, cannot benefit from or cooperate with any movies, TV shows, books or other media productions without Borges’ permission. Cruz is serving consecutive life sentences at an undisclosed prison for each of the 17 murders and 17 attempted murders he committed inside a three-story classroom building on Feb. 14, 2018.
“We just wanted to shut him down so we never have to hear about him again,” Borges’ attorney, Alex Arreaza, said Thursday.
Borges, now 21, was shot five times in the back and legs and collapsed in the middle of the third-floor hallway. Video shows that Cruz pointed his rifle at Borges as he lay on the floor, but unlike most of the other victims he walked past, did not shoot him a second time. Arreaza said he asked Cruz why he didn’t shoot Borges again, but he didn’t remember.
A promising soccer player before the shooting, Borges has undergone more than a dozen surgeries and still lives in pain. He received donations, a $1.25 million settlement from the Broward County school district and an undisclosed settlement from the FBI for their failures in preventing the shooting. Arreaza said it is difficult to say whether Borges has received enough money to cover his future medical expenses.
Several other families also sued Cruz, and a mini-trial had been scheduled for next month to assess damages against him. That trial has been canceled, Arreaza said. David Brill, the attorney representing the other families, did not return a phone call and two email messages seeking comment.
Florida already has laws that prohibit inmates from keeping any proceeds related to their crimes, including any writings or artwork they might produce in prison. In addition, Judge Elizabeth Scherer, when she sentenced Cruz, ordered that any money placed in his prison commissary account be seized to pay restitution to the victims and their families and all court and investigation costs. In total, that would be millions of dollars.
Arreaza said he feared that without the settlement, Cruz could find a way around the law and the judge’s order or assign any money he might receive to a relative or other person.
Borges, the families of those Cruz murdered and other survivors are also suing former Broward County sheriff’s deputy Scot Peterson, the sheriff’s office and two former school security guards, alleging they failed to protect the students and staff. No trial date has been set. Peterson was acquitted of criminal charges last year.
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Sunday could mark the formal beginning of President Joe Biden’s end as the presumed presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.
Biden has summoned his family for an apparent emergency meeting to discuss whether he should exit the 2024 race.
The move came after Americans witnessed his senility and declining health during his CNN debate with Donald Trump, the Republican nominee.
The meeting, planned before the debate, includes First Lady Jill Biden, along with the president’s children and grandchildren.
The news of the meeting was first reported by NBC News, which cited five sources familiar with Biden’s plan.
On Friday, Biden’s mood was described as “humiliated” and “devoid of confidence.”
Calls for Biden to step down emerged after Trump dominated the debate, criticizing Biden’s disastrous border policies inflation and rising crime.
In contrast, Biden appeared incoherent, lost and confused, igniting chaos within the leftist legacy media, the White House, Congress and the Democratic Party.
Top Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Jim Clyburn, are panicking that if Biden continues as the Democratic nominee, Trump would cruise directly to the White House.
The New York Times’s editorial board similarly called for Biden to step down as the Democratic nominee. The Times’s call came after the its scheme to shield the president from so-called cheap fake videos that revealed Biden’s senility.
Despite their concerns, one source said that only Biden and the first lady will determine whether to step down or not.
“The only person who has ultimate influence with him is the first lady,” the source said. “If she decides there should be a change of course, there will be a change of course.”
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Alexis Nungaray, the mother of a 12-year-old girl reportedly killed by two illegal aliens, shared her initial reaction to former President Donald Trump’s call before his CNN debate on Thursday.
“Shocked,” was how the mother responded to Trump’s Thursday call, as reported by the New York Post, citing family friend Victoria Galvan.
According to Galvan, Trump spoke with the grieving mother for 10 minutes, offering his condolences and assuring her he would keep in contact.
Trump said he was thinking of Jocelyn Nungaray, who authorities say met her tragic end after being lured onto a bridge by two Venezuelan men in Houston, Texas.222
“He wanted to … say that he was praying for Alexis and that he’s been thinking about her and he wanted to reach out. He said that he was going to reach out in a couple days to her … I mean, she was really … we were all shocked,” Galvan told the Post.
Jocelyn Nungaray’s mother and grandfather are exactly right. We have to stop burying our kids. It is not right that Joe Biden’s open border is killing Americans. pic.twitter.com/CzBz9ER3K0
Prosecutors allege that Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel and Franklin Jose Peña Ramos murdered Jocelyn Nungaray before disposing of her body in a bayou.
Authorities suspect that the two men raped the young girl but are waiting for medical examinations.
The murder of Jocelyn Nungaray has deeply shaken the nation, highlighting the dangers associated with President Joe Biden’s border policies.
“He was like, ‘I’m actually about to come on for a debate’ … He gave his condolences, and he said that he would be reaching back out to her,” Galvan said.
According to Galvan, she and Alexis Nungaray reflected on how Jocelyn would have been amazed that a former president remembered her.
During the CNN debate with President Joe Biden, Trump highlighted the victims brutally murdered by illegal immigrants who have entered the U.S. under the Biden administration.
“There have been many young women murdered by the same people [Biden] allows to come across our border,” Trump said.
“We have a border that’s the most dangerous place anywhere in the world, considered the most dangerous place, anywhere in the world. He opened it up and these killers are coming into our country and they are raping and killing women,” he added.
NEW: The mother of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray was “shocked” when she got a phone call from President Trump just moments before he took the debate stage.
Trump reportedly told Alexis Nungaray that he was praying for her.
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The first article of this series chronicled the FBI’s mid-2000s program to stage neo-Nazi rallies around the country as a means to conduct surveillance and recruit potential informants.
Those rallies were just the beginning of a sweeping multi-state investigation, Headline USA can reveal.
Indeed, after an FBI informant was exposed in 2007 for organizing a Nazi rally in Orlando the year before, the bureau launched another operation in the same area. Dubbed “Primitive Affliction,” the FBI set up a neo-Nazi motorcycle front group to infiltrate Florida’s right-wing underground.
Federal agencies are known to have used motorcycle front groups cases against targets such as the Hells Angels for drug- and gun-trafficking investigations. However, Headline USA is unaware of such a tactic being employed in a politically charged domestic terrorism case until Primitive Affliction.
This publication has also found that then-FBI Director Robert Mueller had a personal interest in Primitive Affliction, which ran from about 2007 to 2012. Indeed, Mueller was briefed daily on the operation during its final stages, according to a newly unearthed performance review of one undercover cop on the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.
OK I've been promising docs that ties then-FBI Director Robert Mueller to these post-9/11 PATCON-like ops.
Here's a performance review of an undercover FBI officer in Primitive Affliction, which was centered around a neo-Nazi motorcycle front group.
Because Primitive Affliction collapsed with no terrorism convictions, the case never grabbed the national spotlight. However, a deeper look at the case reveals infiltration and entrapment techniques used by the FBI in 1990s investigations against the Aryan Nations, as well as more recent cases such as the 2020 militia conspiracy to kidnap Michigan’s governor.
Mueller did not respond to an email about Primitive Affliction. The FBI declined to comment.
Reviving the Aryan Nations
In the 1980s and 90s, the Aryan Nations rivaled the Ku Klux Klan as the face of “white hate” in America—and for good reason, having been linked to numerous bank robberies, the assassination of a Jewish radio host and the Oklahoma City bombing, along with other crimes.
But by the mid-2000s, the Aryan Nations was largely decimated by numerous arrests and civil litigation. The group had splintered into various factions around the country. One of its remaining leaders, August Kreis, was desperate to consolidate power.
Working out of a South Carolina mobile home with a man named Joshua Caleb Sutter—who was a known FBI informant since 2003—Kreis attempted several publicity stunts to put his name on the map.
For example, at one point Kreis pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden and claimed to seek an alliance with Muslim jihadists. Sutter, who was Kreis’s “minister for Islamic liaison,” also reportedly posted a “message of solidarity and support” to Saddam Hussein on the Aryan Nations Web site. (If Sutter’s name sounds familiar, it’s because he made headlines in 2021, when it was revealed that he earned more than $100,000 from the FBI while running a Satanic publishing house.)
When that didn’t work in attracting new members or donations, Kreis began plotting with another Aryan Nations member, Robert Killian. Like Sutter, Killian turned out to be undercover law enforcement—Killian an undercover cop on the FBI’s JTTF.
An avid motorcyclist living in Orlando, Killian had been hanging out at a local Outlaw biker bar while posing online as a member of the Aryan Nations. Using the name “Doc,” by 2007 he had risen to become the Aryan Nations Florida state administrator—which, ironically, gave him power to vet applicants. The Orlando Sentinel later described Killian as the Aryan Nations’ “top recruiter.”
Apparently, someone in the FBI had the idea of merging a domestic terrorism case with a biker case. Killian planted the idea in Kreis’s head to start a neo-Nazi motorcycle club, the 1st SS Kavallerie Brigade Motorcycle Division—named after a horse-mounted unit of Nazi Germany’s Waffen-SS.
For Kreis, a biker gang posed the opportunity to attract publicity, gain members and increase revenue for the Aryan Nations.
But first, they needed bikers. To that end, Killian convinced an Outlaw biker named Brian Klose to become the leader of the 1st SS Kavallerie. According to people familiar with the matter, Killian was able to convince Klose to leave the Outlaws by playing to his ego. Keeping with the neo-Nazi theme, Klose was named “Fuhrer” of the new group.
Klose would come to regret his decision to leave the Outlaws for what turned out to be an FBI front group.
With Klose surrounded by a gaggle of informants and undercover cops, the 1st SS Kavallerie clubhouse was open for business. According to internal law enforcement records, there were at least four undercover employees and an untold number of informants who infiltrated the group, along with numerous wiretaps and other “sophisticated techniques.”
Kelly Boaz a.k.a. ‘Kevin Post’
One of the key undercover agents from Primitive Affliction was Kelly Boaz, a local Orange County cop who, like Killian, had earned a spot on the FBI’s JTTF—receiving specialized training from the ADL and SPLC, according to their personnel records.
Boaz earned a JTTF assignment despite a scandal-plagued career with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, where he was the subject of more than a dozen internal investigations since joining in 1989, several involving allegations of excessive force.
Meet undercover FBI officer Kelly Boaz, who features in Part 2 of The Hidden History of Robert Mueller’s Right-Wing Terror Factory Boaz posed as renegade Black Pistons bomb-maker "Kevin Post" in Primitive Affliction
In December 1999, for example, Boaz was involved in a predawn raid where another officer shot a suspect. Months later in August 2000, Boaz was at the center of another controversy when he shot and killed an unarmed thief at a shopping center.
He was cleared of wrongdoing in both incidents, but his supervisor was reportedly demoted and his racketeering squad was disbanded. A civil lawsuit was filed against him and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office over the December 1999 incident, but the case was eventually dismissed.
Despite Boaz’s controversial past, the FBI relied on him to build a complex case against a supposed network of white supremacist terrorists.
Boaz, who declined an interview request, entered Florida’s neo-Nazi scene sometime after the Orlando neo-Nazi rally organizer, FBI undercover operative David Gletty, had his cover blown in the media—as detailed in Part 1 of this series.
According to court records, Boaz was introduced to the Outlaw bikers and the 1st SS Kavallerie in 2009 by his colleague, Killian. By then, Boaz had already infiltrated the Black Pistons biker gang and was posing as one of its members, a renegade bomb maker named “Kevin Post.”
For nearly the next three years, Boaz and the FBI built their case.
During his investigation, one of his informants purportedly learned about another right-wing group in the area called the American Front. Operation Primitive Affliction eventually expanded to the Russia-linked American Front, which will be the subject of Part 3 of this series.
In both cases, Boaz made extravagant claims of the drug deals and terroristic plots he witnessed in his roughly three years as an undercover biker/bomber. He also claimed that his life was threatened when an Outlaw biker put a firearm to his head and accused him of being law enforcement.
Mueller likely heard similar reports. A glowing performance review for Boaz said the case “was briefed to the FBI Director daily during the executions of the disruptions.”
But a deeper look at the evidence produced in court casts doubt on Boaz’s claims, as well as the FBI’s entire case.
Kavallerie Collapse
“Biker Gangsters Busted after Three-Year Probe,” the Orlando Sentinel reported on March 31, 2012.
Two nights earlier, Boaz and the FBI had rounded up the targets of Primitive Affliction. One of those arrested was a woman named Deborah Plowman, who was at her home near Chicago when more than a dozen armed agents swarmed her on March 29, 2012. According to Boaz, he saw Plowman take pills at an Outlaw bikers party several years earlier.
After spending the night in jail, Plowman was told she needed to travel to Florida to face drug-trafficking charges—or else, she’d face extradition. Baffled, Plowman professed her innocence.
She was telling the truth.
On April 19, 2012, Plowman turned herself into law enforcement in Florida to be interviewed by Boaz. It didn’t take long before Boaz realized that he had the wrong person arrested.
“Boaz asked [Plowman] if she has ever used the nickname or has ever been called ‘Sin,’ to which she replied with a ‘no,’” Plowman said in a lawsuit she filed later over the wrongful arrest.
“Defendant Boaz immediately began to break out into a sweat upon viewing and questioning [Plowman], realizing he caused the wrong person, [Plowman], to be arrested in his undercover operation, instead of ‘Sin’ [Kristy Pryzbylla].”
It turned out, Plowman was married to someone Boaz had been investigating, and the undercover agent somehow confused her with Pryzbylla. Plowman quickly hired a lawyer, who blasted Boaz in the Orlando Sentinel for his carelessness.
“Had Boaz pulled her drivers license, he would have known it wasn’t her, and he’d made a huge mistake,” Plowman’s then-attorney, Jerry Theophilopoulos, said at the time. “In all my 20 years of practice, I’ve never seen anything like what they did to Deborah Plowman.”
Plowman had her charges dropped in May 2012, and she eventually won $30,000 from Boaz in a civil lawsuit.
Boaz’s sloppy police work would continue to rear its ugly head as the fruits of Primitive Affliction moved through the courts.
The other defendants—including the “Fuehrer” Klose, Ronald Cusack, Carlos Eugene Dubose and Harold Johnson Kinlaw—were initially charged with violent crimes, such as bomb-making and soliciting murder. However, prosecutors later dropped most of the charges related to violence, instead reaching deals with the defendants to plead guilty to drug charges.
Assistant State Attorney Steven Foster reportedly said at the time that prosecutors were willing to strike plea deals with alleged white supremacist extremists because they were following the “Al Capone theory of prosecution”—referencing how federal authorities jailed the notorious mobster for tax evasion instead of his countless violent crimes.
“We decided to strike against the Kavallerie Brigade by bringing these heavy-duty drug charges to shut the active members down,” Foster reportedly said, bragging about shutting down an FBI front group.
However, one of the Outlaw biker defendants, Dubose, fought his charges.
It was a good thing he did.
A retired U.S. Marine, Dubose’s crime stemmed from when he cracked his skull in a motorcycle accident. Down and out on his luck and looking for cash, Dubose took another blow in life when an FBI informant arranged for him to sell his prescription painkillers to an undercover officer.
Outlaw biker Carlos Dubose was originally charged with trafficking enough pills to land him in prison for the rest of his life, but an FBI 302 shows he only sold a misdemeanor amount. Had Dubose not noticed this, he might still be in prison.
Initially charged with selling more than 28 grams of Oxycodone pills, Dubose could have spent the rest of his life in prison. But when he started receiving pre-trial discovery, he noticed something: An FBI report showed he only gave the undercover officer 9 grams of pills—a crime that carried the far lesser max sentence of seven years imprisonment.
After successfully diminishing the severity of his drug charge, Dubose decided to plead guilty to that lone count. But he continued to vociferously deny any involvement in a bomb plot—a charge that stemmed from a conversation he had with Boaz, aka renegade bomb maker “Kevin Post,” nearly three years earlier in 2009.
To Dubose’s point, the Feb. 27, 2009, conversation he had with Boaz/Post never developed any further over the next three years. And a transcript of the conversation shows Dubose choosing his words carefully when talking about “hypothetically” building a pipe bomb: “We’re not lookin’ to do anything. It’s just a matter if we start to go to war with somebody,” Dubose told Post/Boaz at the end of the discussion.
Florida prosecutors admitted that Boaz’s one recorded conversation didn’t contain smoking-gun evidence of bomb plots, but they claimed there were other discussions where Dubose made such plans.
Even though there were no recordings of those other purported conversations—and even though Dubose never possessed or attempt to build a bomb—the judge accepted the narrative of Boaz and the government. He tossed the motion to dismiss, and Dubose took a plea deal soon thereafter.
Gun to the Head?
Boaz’s credibility would be challenged once more at Dubose’s April 21, 2014, sentencing hearing, where the undercover agent claimed to have had a weapon pointed at his head.
During the hearing, defense attorney Harold Uhrig asked Boaz the obvious question: If Dubose pointed a gun at him, why didn’t the government mention that before?
“I’ve gone through about 600 pages of transcripts, reports, supplemental reports, I don’t find it anywhere mentioned in there. Are you telling me that there’s some information that y’all did not disclose to us?” Uhrig asked Boaz.
Boaz insisted that he did report the gun-pointing incident to the FBI for “intelligence gathering,” but he didn’t tell the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. Boaz also admitted that he didn’t have any documentation proving that he reported the alleged incident to the FBI.
After Boaz’s dubious testimony, the judge still sentenced Dubose to five years imprisonment for both the drug trafficking and bomb solicitation charges.
The judge did admit that the available evidence “somewhat” supported Dubose’s version of events.
However, the judge noted that Dubose did talk about having a bomb “in the event of a war.” Therefore, “the Court finds, viewing the evidence in its totality, that [Dubose intended] to obtain a destructive device for the purpose of injuring or causing damage to persons or property,” the judge said, allowing the government to somewhat save face after a disastrous case.
The judge sentenced Dubose to five-year concurrent sentences for the drug and bomb charges.
While prosecutors were able to secure some convictions from the 1st SS Kavallerie investigation—Klose is still in prison on felony drug trafficking charges—they fared even worse in the American Front case, thanks in part to more Boaz blunders.
Bizarre developments would continue to occur outside the courtroom, too. As they prepped for trial around 2013, Boaz and several other government officials would begin receiving strange threats, purportedly from a neo-Nazi fugitive on the run in Mexico—the subject of Part 3 of this series.
