FBI Searches Biden’s Beach House for More Classified Docs

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FBI Searches Biden’s Beach House for More Classified Docs

(Headline USA) The FBI was conducting a planned search Wednesday of President Joe Biden’s beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, as part of its investigation into the potential mishandling of classified documents, the president’s personal lawyer said.

The search follows a 13-hour, top-to-bottom review of his home in Wilmington on Jan. 20, when agents located additional documents with classified markings and also took possession of some of his handwritten notes.

The searches follow a growing scandal made worse by Biden’s previous support for an unprecedented FBI raid on the Mar-a-Lago resort of former President Donald Trump under similar circumstances.

However, while Trump had the authority to declassify documents he took with him following the end of his presidential term, Biden clearly did not, with some documents dating back to his time as a U.S. senator.

Moreover, while Trump’s documents were kept in a secured vault, Biden’s were strewn haphazardly in various parts of the home, including the garage, while his son Hunter was renting the house.

With little choice in the matter, Biden has been “voluntarily” allowing the Justice Department into his residences as investigators seek to determine how the documents wound up in his home and office. But unlike with Trump, Biden’s own legal team has been given extraordinary latitude to oversee the process thus far.

The probe followed the Nov. 2 discovery of documents with classified markings by Biden’s lawyers as they closed up an office at the Penn Biden Center, a think tank affiliated with the Ivy League school.

Documents were also found at his Wilmington home by his personal lawyers, who initiated a search after the Penn Biden center documents were discovered. The FBI also searched the Penn Biden Center in November following the initial discovery of documents there, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

“Under DOJ’s standard procedures, in the interests of operational security and integrity, it sought to do this work without advance public notice, and we agreed to cooperate,” said the statement from Biden’s lawyer, Bob Bauer. “The search today is a further step in a thorough and timely DOJ process we will continue to fully support and facilitate. We will have further information at the conclusion of today’s search.”

An FBI spokeswoman referred comment to the Justice Department. A spokesman there did not immediately return a message seeking comment. It was not immediately clear whether any additional classified documents were found.

The Biden documents probe is being handled by a special counsel, Robert Hur, the former top federal prosecutor in Baltimore. He is starting his work this week, inheriting a months-long investigation already undertaken by FBI agents and Justice Department prosecutors.

However, there has been speculation that Hur’s main role may be to do damage control and cover-up the scandal rather than pursue any prosecutorial action against Biden.

The Bidens purchased the home, which overlooks a state park adjacent to the beach, in June 2017, months after he left the vice presidency.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Soon-to-Be-Ousted Ilhan Omar Pleads Ignorance to Anti-Semitic ‘Jews and Money’ Tropes

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Soon-to-Be-Ousted Ilhan Omar Pleads Ignorance to Anti-Semitic ‘Jews and Money’ Tropes

(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) Disgraced Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., attempted to do damage control in a CNN appearance on Sunday by pleading ignorance when confronted with hateful Jewish stereotypes that she had previously propagated.

Among other claimes, the Somali-born “Squad” member insisted she was “not aware that the word ‘hypnotized’ was a trope” and “wasn’t aware of the fact that there are tropes about Jews and money.”

Omar was expected to be removed Wednesday from the Foreign Affairs Committee after the House Rules committee advanced a motion to block her over anti-Semitic comments she made that seemed to undermine the U.S.’s longstanding alliance with Israel and to signal support for Islamic terrorism.

She told CNN, however, that the move against her was “politically motivated.”

“It’s motivated by the fact that many of these members don’t believe a Muslim, a refugee, an African should even be in Congress, let alone have the opportunity to serve on the Foreign Affairs Committee,” she said.

Republicans said they were waiting for Democrats to formally nominate Omar to the Foreign Affairs Committee, on which she served in the last Congress. Once the committee roster is approved by the whole House, the Republicans would move to strip her of the seat.

With his slim majority, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., acknowledged at the start of the week that member absences were having an impact on his ability to schedule the vote.

But GOP leaders hinted that the had the votes necessary for the ouster, even after two RINO lawmakers—Reps. Victoria Spartz of Indiana and Nancy Mace of South Carolina—last week denounced the effort. Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., also signaled his intention to protect Omar.

McCarthy made good on his vow to back the removal if Omar and two other Democrats, Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell, both of California, citing various ethical breaches and personal conduct that undermined national security interests.

Democrats have spuriously claimed the move was retribution for the removal of two Republicans—Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona—after then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., accused them of posting inflammatory rhetoric on social media.

But, although Pelosi’s previously unprecedented actions may have set a new standard, McCarthy noted that he was not blocking the three Democrats from participation on other committees, only those where their presence would compromise the underlying efforts of the committee.

Schiff and Swalwell were both blocked from rejoining the House Intelligence Committee after Schiff, the former chair, was exposed to have leaked classified information and lied about its substance for political gain, and Swalwell was revealed to have bedded a Chinese spy.

While their presence on the select Intel committee did not require a vote, House rules dictated that Omar’s ouster would necessitate a resolution being brought to the chamber floor.

The resolution against Omar was proposed by Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, a former official in the Trump administration. It said that “Omar’s comments have brought dishonor to the House of Representatives.”

Fellow Democrats circled the wagon to deflect from Omar’s vile and dangerous rhetoric.

“This is about vengeance. This is about spite. This is about politics,” said Rep. James McGovern, D-Mass., the top Democrat on the Rules Committee, as Republicans called a hurried meeting late Tuesday to consider the resolution.

Ben Sellers is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/realbensellers. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Kamala ‘Applauds’ Horrific Minn. Bill to Legalize Infanticide

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Kamala ‘Applauds’ Horrific Minn. Bill to Legalize Infanticide

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Vice President Kamala Harris exposed the Biden regime’s far-leftist abortion extremism with a hearty endorsement of a new state law that legalized abortion up to the point of natural birth.

Minnesota Democrat Gov. Tim Walz, who swore during a tough midterm election that he was a moderate, signed into law Tuesday sweeping legislation that codified the right to abortion with no limits at any time during pregnancy, in what pro-life advocates called “legalizing infanticide”.

The so-called Protect Reproductive Options Act was approved by the state’s Democrat-majority legislature, after leftist lawmakers rejected several proposed amendments that  would have tempered the bill’s radical approach to killing unborn babies, according to Life News.

Those amendments included measures to protect unborn children in the third trimester, with exceptions, to prevent partial-birth abortions, to provide the option of anesthesia when unborn children can feel pain and to protect women’s health by requiring that third-trimester abortions take place in a hospital.

“Minnesotans don’t support elective third-trimester abortion. They just don’t. But that’s what this extreme bill entrenches in our state law: the right to abort any baby for any reason at any time up to birth,” said Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life Co-Executive Director Cathy Blaeser.

“Under this bill, even babies who are old enough to live outside the womb and to feel excruciating pain have no protection from lethal violence. The extremism of [the bill] puts Minnesota in the same category as just a handful of countries around the world, including North Korea and China.”

And it’s a baby-killing policy that Harris and the Biden administration fully endorsed.

“I applaud Gov. Walz for signing a bill codifying reproductive rights, including the right to abortion, into Minnesota state law,” Harris gushed.

XStrategies senior digital guru Greg Price laid out in brutal detail some of the “reproductive healthcare” that elicited rave reviews from the Biden administration.

The Kamala-endorsed bill “would be legalizing infanticide,” Price wrote. The aggressively radical law repealed myriad legislation to include no longer recognizing “a potentially viable fetus that is live-born following an attempted abortion as a human person” and requiring “medical care to preserve its life and health if a potentially viable fetus is born alive after an attempted abortion.”

The bill repealed “a law that requires physicians to report IF A WOMAN DIES after an abortion. It also removes a requirement that physicians give the woman information for why an abortion is necessary in a medical emergency,” Price wrote. Parents are no longer required to be notified if an abortion is performed on a minor and the bill nixed “criminal penalties for selling ‘instruments or drugs’ that cause abortions,” Price reported.

“It would by far be the most radical baby killing law our country has ever seen,” he wrote.

“This bill not only allows for abortions for any reason through all nine months of pregnancy, but what it does to strip away parental rights is abhorrent,” state Republican Sen. Julia Coleman told Fox News. “It not only allows this for minors, but it also allows for minors’ sterilization without parental consent or notification.”

Coleman called the bill “not only extreme, but now it’s dangerous.”

“We even had amendments saying that if you are going to seek a late-term abortion, it must be done in a hospital for the safety of the woman,” she said. “They shot that down, too.”

WATCH: Filmmakers Release Preview of Whitmer Kidnap Conspiracy Doc

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WATCH: Filmmakers Release Preview of Whitmer Kidnap Conspiracy Doc

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Ever since the FBI arrested 14 men for allegedly conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, information has trickled out about the U.S. government’s dubious tactics employed in its investigation—from the FBI using at least 12 informants, to an agent using the case to promote his private security business.

According to independent documentarian Christina Urso, the public information about the Whitmer kidnap case only scratches the surface of the U.S. government’s wrongdoing. Urso intends to expose this wrongdoing in her forthcoming documentary, KIDNAP and KILL: An FBI Terror Plot, a trailer for which was released Tuesday.

The roughly two-minute clip features interview footage of Brandon Caserta, who was found not guilty last year of participating in the plot, as well as Barry Croft, who was found guilty and sentenced to 235 months imprisonment in December.

“The whole goal was for the FBI to spend millions of dollars to create militia groups, record them saying offensive stuff, and then frame them in a fake conspiracy,” says Caserta.

Urso told Headline USA that the film will further show that the Whitmer plot spawned from a multistate operation to infiltrate the Midwest militia movement.

“The documentary is hoping to expose that this was much bigger [than the Whitmer sting]. It was not just this one militia group,” Urso said in an interview.

“If you go through the records, they’re talking about having targets in 15 different states, so you have 15 different [FBI] field offices involved in this, which makes me believe that there had to have been some sort of authorization coming from a higher level of the FBI to coordinate this amount of resources.”

Five defendants—Shawn Fix, Eric Molitor, Michael Null, William Null and Brian Higgins—still face state charges in the Whitmer case. Six men were charged federally with conspiring to kidnap—two were acquitted, two struck plea deals and two were found guilty—and three others were found guilty in December of state charges of providing material support for a terrorist act.

Urso, who has covered the case since its inception under the pen name Radix Verum, said she hopes the full documentary will be published by year’s end. More information about the documentary can be found here.

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Gov. Newsom’s Wife has Project that Peddles Porn to Kids to Teach ‘Gender’

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Gov. Newsom’s Wife has Project that Peddles Porn to Kids to Teach ‘Gender’

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom’s wife, Jennifer, found the organization that created a film for middle school students that shows them sexually explicit images from Pornhub to groom children and teach them about the so-called “gender” roles and stereotypes in society.

Jennifer Siebel Newsom founded The Representation Project to focus on fighting “sexism” by distributing its curriculums and films to 11,2000 classrooms, 5,000 schools and 2.6 million students, according to the Daily Caller. One of those films the organization created for public schools and kids ages 15 and up shows sexually explicit images of nude women from websites such as Pornhub, MassiveCams and BDSM.XXX to discuss the harms of such images on young boys.

The organization’s website stated that the film The Mask You Live In is designed to help raise a “healthier generation of boys and young men” by discussing how society has constructed harmful so-called “gender” stereotypes.

Ironically, the film distributes porn by showing scenes from pornographic videos including “two dirty brunettes dominated in the stables” and “girl next door manipulated and sexually dominated by kinky couple” to show how porn is distributed to boys and how it can negatively affect their relationships with girls and “sexual aggression.”

OpenTheBooks reported that other images in the film shown to students display tags on pornography websites like “orgasm,” “domination” and “face f*ck.” According to the K-5 curriculum that is paired with The Mask You Live In, kids begin to “objectify and degrade women” when they start going to elementary school.

The Mask You Live In curriculum also states that middle school students are taught about so-called “gender identity”, “gender expression,” sexual orientation and biological sex by using the “gender bread person.” The “gender bread person” says that “gender” isn’t binary and that, while biological sex comes from genitalia, “gender identity” comes from the head.

OpenTheBooks also reported that Newsom has earned nearly $1.5 million in film licenses, with the organization making $1.7 million in sales from documentaries it created since 2012. The Representation Project charges public schools between $49 to $599 to stream the film and purchase the curriculum.

Gas Prices Jump for Fifth Straight Week w/ Trend to Continue

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Gas Prices Jump for Fifth Straight Week w/ Trend to Continue

(Tom Gantert, The Center Square) Gas prices at the pump rose for the fifth consecutive week and there isn’t much hope of prices going down in the near future, according to a industry analysis.

GasBuddy said that the national average of $3.49 per gallon reported Sunday is up 33.3 cents from a month ago and 14.1 cents higher than a year ago.

Hawaii had the highest average price at $4.88 per gallon followed by California ($4.48) and Washington ($4.03). Texas had the lowest average price per gallon at $3.09 followed by Oklahoma ($3.13) and Arkansas ($3.15).

“The national average price of gasoline has risen for the fifth straight week as retailers pass along the rise in wholesale gasoline prices due to continued challenges: refinery utilization that still hasn’t fully recovered from December’s cold weather, and refinery maintenance season that’s just around the corner,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, in a news release.

“There appears to be little good news on the gas price front, with prices unlikely to turn around any time soon. Because of the surge in prices last spring, many refineries that had planned maintenance deferred maintenance until 2023. With the can kicked to this year, we may have similar challenges producing enough refined products to meet demand, especially with the European Union cutting off refined products from Russia starting February 5.”

AAA reported that the national average price was $3.50 per gallon as of Jan. 31.

“January’s weather was relatively mild in much of the nation, which led to more drivers hitting the road. However, a return of wintery conditions in February may see a revival of seasonal driving patterns,” said Andrew Gross, AAA spokesperson, in a news release. “… but with the cost of oil stubbornly hovering around $80 per barrel, drivers probably won’t catch a big break at the pump over the next week or two.”

25 GOP Govs Ask Biden to Pause Overreaching Clean Water Rule

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25 GOP Govs Ask Biden to Pause Overreaching Clean Water Rule

(Derek Draplin, The Center Square) Twenty-five Republican governors oppose a revised federal rule regulating U.S. waterways, citing uncertainty from an undecided U.S. Supreme Court case related to the rule.

The governors sent a letter to the Biden administration on Monday asking it to delay the implementation of the revised Waters of the United States rule since the U.S. Supreme Court is currently considering Sackett v. EPA. The revised WOTUS rule, released on Dec. 30, reinstates pre-2015 water protections under the federal Clean Water Act. The rule was scaled back under the Trump administration, which triggered lawsuits from environmental groups.

“The substance of the rule hinders State governments as we seek to give clarity and consistency to businesses, farms, and individuals regarding the regulatory framework for water,” the 25 GOP governors wrote. “The broad definitions used in the 514- page document only add to the confusing and complicated history of WOTUS. In fact, it appears that the EPA is seeking to regulate private ponds, ditches, and other small water features.”

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in December the revised rule applies to “traditional navigable waters, the territorial seas, interstate waters, as well as upstream water resources that significantly affect those waters.”

“When Congress passed the Clean Water Act 50 years ago, it recognized that protecting our waters is essential to ensuring healthy communities and a thriving economy,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement. “Following extensive stakeholder engagement, and building on what we’ve learned from previous rules, EPA is working to deliver a durable definition of WOTUS that safeguards our nation’s waters, strengthens economic opportunity, and protects people’s health while providing greater certainty for farmers, ranchers, and landowners.”

The governors also questioned the timing of the new rule, given ongoing inflation.

“Another burdensome and overbroad regulation from the federal government could not come at a worse time for America,” they wrote. “Having already squandered much of America’s energy independence, you should not increase costs for consumers by tying up energy production with even more red tape.”

Environmental groups praised the Biden administration’s revised WOTUS rule.

“This comes at a time when we’re seeing unprecedented attacks on federal clean water protections by polluters and their allies,” Jon Devine, director of federal water policy for the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement last month. “While the nation still has significant work to do to fully protect important waters, it’s encouraging to see the country taking a step in the right direction to protect the waters we need for everyone’s health and the environment.”

The letter was signed by Idaho Gov. Brad Little, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte, Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen, Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo, New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, and Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon.

N.D. Halts Project after Air Force Deems Chinese Company’s Land Purchase ‘A Threat’

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N.D. Halts Project after Air Force Deems Chinese Company’s Land Purchase ‘A Threat’

(Kim Jarrett, The Center Square) Grand Forks, North Dakota, will deny building permits to a Chinese-based food manufacturer that purchased land near an Air Force base, the mayor said Tuesday.

Chinese food manufacturer Fufeng Group announced the purchase of 370 acres of land for a wet corn milling plant in 2021. The site is 12 miles from the Grand Forks Air Force Base.

In a letter to U.S. Sens. Kevin Cramer and John Hoeven, the USAF called the purchase of North Dakota land by a Chinese company “a significant threat to national security.”

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States said in December it did not have the jurisdiction to weigh in on the plant.

“While CIFUS concluded that it did not have the jurisdiction, the Department’s view is unambiguous: the proposed project presents a significant threat to national security with both near-and long-term risks of significant impacts to our operations in the area,” said Andrew Hunter, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics in a letter to Cramer and Hoven.

Grand Forks Mayor Brandon Bochenski said the city would also refuse to connect industrial infrastructure to the site.

“These actions do not affect the land ownership as the company will still legally own the land they have purchased,” Bochenski said in a statement posted on the city’s website. “The response from the Federal Government during this process can only be viewed as slow and contradictory. This directive leaves open the question of other entities with Chinese connections across the nation, to include Grand Forks’ Cirrus Aircraft site location and Chinese students and professors at the University of North Dakota.”

Gov. Doug Burgum said the letter from the Air Force finally gives the state clarity.

“Given these concerns, we support the decision by the City of Grand Forks to initiate steps to stop the project with Fufeng Group and will support the city in finding another partner for a corn milling operation,” Burgum said in a news release. “As our farmers who compete in global markets know, agriculture is a global business, and North Dakota welcomes investment from domestic companies and our friends and allies.”

The Fufeng purchase concerned North Dakota’s southern neighbor.

South Dakota lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday that creates a Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States – South Dakota to investigate agricultural land purchases by foreign countries.

“With this new process, we will be able to prevent nations who hate us – like Communist China – from buying up our state’s agriculture land,” Gov. Kristi Noem said in a previous statement. “We cannot allow the Chinese Communist Party to continue to buy up our nation’s food supply, so South Dakota will lead the charge on this vital national security issue.”

Airline Received $73M in Federal Funds, But Can’t Secure Its Data

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Airline Received $73M in Federal Funds, But Can’t Secure Its Data

(Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) Regional airline company Champlain Enterprises, specifically its subsidiary CommuteAir, recently suffered a data breach, where a Swiss hacker gained access to the federal Terrorist Screening Database and “no-fly” list. This is after Champlain Enterprises received more than $73 million in financial assistance from the U.S. Treasury.

The sensitive data was held on an unsecured server in an unencrypted Excel sheet, making it easy for the hacker to gain access to the 1.5 million names — including aliases — that the U.S. government has put on a “no-fly list” due to suspicion or concern over terrorism, according to Fox Business. The breach also revealed company data, including private information on almost 1,000 CommuteAir employees.

CommuteAir contracts with major airlines like United to help them cover shorter regional routes. Over the course of the pandemic, its parent company received more than $73 million in assistance from the federal government as part of its Payroll Support Program, which was meant to help airlines keep its workers on the payroll, and was distributed over three rounds in 2020 and 2021.

Despite $73 million in federal assistance, the airline company was unable to keep its sensitive data secure or encrypted. Companies that take federal money and are trusted with sensitive public data like no-fly lists should at least be able to ensure that data is secure.

Hunter Biden Threatened Assistant’s Pay if She Didn’t ‘FaceTime’ Him Naked

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Hunter Biden Threatened Assistant’s Pay if She Didn’t ‘FaceTime’ Him Naked

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) Hunter Biden coerced one of his young female employees who struggled with money, by withholding her pay if she didn’t “FaceTime” him for sex.

Shocking texts between Biden, 52, and the assistant, 29 at the time, show Hunter asking for video sex sessions and sending her cash via Apple Pay after she said she couldn’t pay for her rent, according to the Daily Mail.

The unidentified woman worked as an assistant at Owasco, Hunter’s law firm, in 2018 and 2019.

Messages and emails involving the now 33-year-old woman first appeared on Hunter’s laptop in June 2018, when he flew her from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. He filmed and photographed her having sex with him around that time and saved the footage on his laptop. Among that footage are the photos of her holding his penis and lying naked in bed.

In Jan. 2019, the woman emailed Hunter’s secretary asking why she hadn’t received her December paycheck — $837.06 — and why her company health insurance was not active.

Two months later, he sent her $500 through Apple Pay and said that he doesn’t have any money because of “alimony tuitions and other s**t like girls insurance, etc.”

“[You’re] as beautiful to me inside as you so obviously are on the outside. Miss you very much and feel horrible for having treated you so poorly,” he wrote to her.

Hunter then invited her to New Hampshire, but she said that she not only couldn’t afford a plane ticket but also pay her rent for that month.

Days later, Hunter replied, revealing that he actually had enough money in his bank account to pay her. He promised to pay her by stating his ultimatum.

“I will [m]ake up for back pay. You have to make up for back work. By FTiming me and/or going to our next-club party,” he wrote. “When can you face time? If we FT the rule has to be no talk of anything but sex and we must be naked and we have to do whatever the other person asks within reason.”

She eventually agreed.

In between the messages, Hunter sent her a total of $2,750.

He asked her to set her phone up so that he would be able to spy on her while she showered and show him how she “plays” with herself.

According to the confidential reports that were obtained by the Right-leaning transparency nonprofit Marco Polo, Hunter paid the woman $44,500.08 in 2018.

“[She]… received large round dollar wires from Owasco PC which referenced ‘new hire,’ ‘8k wage,’ ’10k golf member’ and ‘Pay,'” the report stated.

“[The woman] received five (5) wires totaling $44,500.08 in a 4 month period between 06/12/2018 and 10/02/2018.”

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