(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The Black Lives Matter organization is reportedly under federal investigation over allegations its leaders defrauded donors out of $90 million, most of which came after George Floyd died in 2020.
The group, formally known as the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Inc., or BLMGNF, has faced mounting scrutiny for years, particularly after it spent $6 million to buy a mansion in Los Angeles
In a statement, the group claimed it is “not a target of any federal criminal investigation,” adding it is “committed to full transparency, accountability, and the responsible stewardship of resources dedicated to building a future for Black communities.”
Despite this claim, the Associated Press reported that the DOJ “issued subpoenas and at least one search warrant as part of an investigation into the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. and other Black-led organizations.”
The criminal investigation, which began during the Biden administration, comes after several individuals tied to the BLM network and movement have landed themselves under federal scrutiny.
Tyree Conyers-Page, the founder of the Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta—also known as Sir Maejor Page—was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison after he defrauded donors of more than $450,000 for personal expenses.
In 2022, BLM Grassroots founder Melina Abdullah sued BLMGNF and co-founder Shalomyah Bowers for allegedly enriching themselves by billing Bowers’s consulting company for millions of dollars.
The scathing $10 million lawsuit accused the national group of rampant fraud, but a Los Angeles judge tossed it after Abdullah failed to prove the claims.
Monica Cannon-Grant, the founder of the BLM-aligned Violence in Boston, pleaded guilty to federal charges of filing false tax returns and failing to file others.
She was accused of defrauding the City of Boston out of COVID-19 relief funds and rental assistance money for her own benefit.
(Spencer Pauley, The Center Square) Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has pledged up to $8 million in city funds – $4 million per month through 2025 – to offset the looming halt in federal Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits triggered by a congressional funding impasse.
A Senate vote to extend SNAP funding failed Wednesday amid a federal government shutdown entering its second month, meaning SNAP benefits won’t go out on Saturday. The cutoff could affect approximately 930,000 Washington residents, including more than 50,000 Seattleites, according to a civil emergency proclamation issued on Thursday by Harrell
SNAP eligibility for a family of four in 2025 caps net monthly income at about $32,150 per year, the federal poverty level for that family size.
Washington receives approximately $174 million in federal SNAP benefits monthly, with Seattle residents accounting for roughly $16 million, or about 9% of that total.
The $8 million in total funding will go toward city contracted food banks. The aid will cease when federal SNAP funding resumes.
“While the Trump administration is cruelly abandoning its duty to keep families fed, Seattle will step up to support our community,” Harrell said in a statement. “Our city has a strong network of local food banks, and we’re prepared to fill the gap left by the other Washington’s dysfunction with immediate action.”
On Tuesday, Gov. Bob Ferguson announced that Washington would send nearly $2.2 million per week in state aid to food banks throughout the state to cushion the impact of the SNAP cutoff.
At a Friday press conference, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said that “your government is failing you right now.” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., interjected that “When she says ‘we have failed you,’ she means ‘We, the Democrats,’ OK?”
A podium sign branded the impasse “The Democrat Shutdown.”
On Friday, U.S. District Judge John McConnell ordered the Department of Agriculture to release accrued SNAP benefits “as soon as possible.” Separately, Judge Indira Talwani ruled the government is required by law to use emergency money for at least partial payments. The Trump administration has until Nov. 3 to tell the court if it plans to do so.
(José Niño, Headline USA) According to a report by Drop Site News, leaked emails reveal that deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein served as a crucial diplomatic intermediary between Israel and the Kremlin, facilitating a backchannel aimed at ending the Syrian civil war on terms favorable to Israeli security interests.
The correspondence, exchanged between 2013 and 2016, reveals Epstein’s successful efforts to secure a private meeting between then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a Russian-brokered end to the conflict and the potential removal of then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Epstein proved invaluable to Barak, who had served as head of intelligence and defense minister throughout his career. He shared intelligence from Russian elite circles, provided insights on Putin’s interlocutors in Europe and the U.S., and even advised Barak on engaging with the Mossad. Barak, fresh from his role as Israeli defense minister, built a portfolio of global investments and business relationships with Epstein’s help.
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On Feb. 21, 2014, Epstein wrote to Barak, “with civil unrest exploding in ukraine syria, somolia [sic], libya, and the desperation of those in power, isn’t this perfect for you.” Barak replied: “You’re right [in] a way. But not simple to transform it into a cash flow.”
The efforts provided cover for covert diplomacy on behalf of the Israeli government. Together, Barak and Epstein sought to pressure the Obama administration to either intervene directly in the Syrian war or make concessions to the Kremlin in exchange for Assad’s exit. In their exchanges, Epstein expressed frustration at the Obama administration’s failures to contain Iran.
Despite securing a Putin meeting in summer 2013, they failed to convince Russia to support Assad’s ouster, though their negotiations helped set the stage for U.S.-Russia cooperation on disarming Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal months later.
The key to Barak’s backchannel was his relationship with Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian-Israeli oligarch who owned the Renova Group. Barak became a strategic consultant to Renova, earning a $1 million advance and $1 million quarterly retainer while enhancing his access to Russian power brokers.
Epstein kept close tabs on negotiations, advising on May 9, 2013: “I think you should let Putin know you will be in Moscow. See if he wants private time.”
Before meeting Putin, Barak and Epstein attempted to shape media narratives. Barak drafted an op-ed titled “The Kremlin Holds the Keys,” arguing Assad’s regime had lost legitimacy and Russia should lead negotiations for a swift end to the war. Dropsite News noted that the piece was rejected by The New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal before being published in The Telegraph.
On May 22, 2013, Epstein informed Barak he’d rejected an invitation to meet Putin at an economic forum: “Putin asked that i meet him in st petersburg…i told him no. If he wants to meet he will need to set aside real time and privacy.”
Barak’s meeting with Putin at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in June 2013 was not logged on official calendars. On June 24, Barak confirmed to Putin’s aide Yury Ushakov that “the two messages were conveyed yesterday night fully and accurately to the top players.”
After the August 2013 chemical weapons attack in Ghouta, Syria, Epstein pushed Barak to leverage the crisis for strikes against Iran. “Hopefully someone suggests getting authorization now for Iran. the congress would do it,” Epstein wrote.
In 2015, as the Iran nuclear deal approached, Barak again used Epstein’s connections to access Russian officials at SPIEF. Epstein wrote: “I suggest you send him [Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov] a note that states that you think Putin and his advisors would benefit from spending some time with Jeffrey to discuss markets currency and the financial system…and that I am not political.”
After the 2015 forum, Barak messaged Epstein: “Thx for setting the whole thing together.”
The leaked emails come from materials released by hackers known as Handala. Barak did not respond to requests for comment. Epstein was found dead in his jail cell during the first Trump administration.
José Niño is the deputy editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/JoseAlNino
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) A Michigan defense lawyer is disputing FBI allegations that his 20-year-old client and four other young suspects were planning to carry out a terror attack on Halloween weekend.
Authorities with the FBI and in Michigan have offered few details about the case, however as he announced the arrests on Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel said more information would be released. Spokespersons for the state and national FBI and the U.S. Attorney in Detroit did not immediately respond to messages Saturday.
The group allegedly discussed carrying out an attack around Halloween, referring to “pumpkin day,” according to one of the people. The other person briefed on the investigation confirmed that there had been a “pumpkin” reference.
However, lawyer Amir Makled, who represents a man from the suburb of Dearborn who was being detained Saturday, told The Detroit News that he doesn’t believe his client or the four other people who were questioned by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force should be charged. The all-male group of U.S. citizens ranges in age from 16-20, Makled said.
“This is not a terrorist cell,” Makled told The News. “There was never any planned mass-casualty event or terrorism plot of any kind that I’m aware of. They might have been on some websites or online chat groups that they shouldn’t have been, but nothing that is illegal.”
Makled’s comments come as anonymous sources are reportedly saying that the FBI’s operation entailed an undercover agent communicating with the young men online.
The FBI has a long history of using undercover agents to provoke or bait young men into criminal acts—one of the most prominent examples occurring in Michigan with the 2020 purported militia plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. In that case, there were at least 12 informants and several undercover agents, some of whom organized militia training exercises, drove some the defendants to various locations, and supplied them with copious amounts of alcohol and cannabis.
Of the 12 men arrested in the Whitmer case, four took plea deals, five were eventually acquitted, and five were found guilty—two of them in federal court and three in state court. Two separate courts have upheld the convictions, despite the fact that judges admitted the FBI had provoked the accused.
More recently in that state, the feds arrested a 19-year-old former Michigan Army National Guardsman for allegedly attempting to carry out a mass shooting at a U.S. military base in Warren, Michigan. The DOJ’s charging papers against Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said show that at least two undercover FBI agents and an informant were used against him. Records also show that Said suspected the undercover agents of entrapment in December, before he eventually changed his mind and decided to proceed with the purported plan.
While I'm less sympathetic to entrapment claims when the target is enlisted in the military, this case is pretty egregious. On Dec. 13, the 2 undercover agents convinced Said to record an ISIS propaganda video. Said actually suspected them of being feds, so he put AirTags in… https://t.co/tqrEFtPdQwpic.twitter.com/IBhQP1v5xZ
Authorities said Friday that they don’t believe there is any threat to the public after the arrests were made. Patel said Friday in a post on X that “the FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple subjects in Michigan who were allegedly plotting a violent attack over Halloween weekend.”
Patel credited the vigilance of the FBI, along with help from local authorities, with thwarting the plot.
Makled said he believes those comments may have been premature.
“Having a curiosity about global events is not illegal,” he said. “Being in those chat rooms is not illegal. If there is a threat, if they became radicalized, or if an (FBI) agent is trying to antagonize or get them to agree to do something that is inappropriate or illegal, then you cross a threshold. None of that happened in this situation.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.
(Money Metals News Service) On a recent episode of the Money Metals podcast, host Mike Maharrey interviews David Morgan, publisher of The Morgan Report and co-author of The Silver Manifesto, after a volatile stretch in precious metals. Morgan is calm about the turbulence and quick to stress discipline as much as data.
The conversation ranges from portfolio construction and the gold–silver ratio to physical market squeezes, refinery flows, and what the Federal Reserve’s latest moves mean for the dollar and bonds. Morgan offers numbers, thresholds, and a framework for thinking about value versus price.
(Interview Starts Around 5:13 Mark)
Healthy Correction or End of the Bull?
Morgan calls the recent slide a healthy correction within a strong secular bull market. He notes silver had been up roughly 60%, then suffered an 8% down day; net, that still implies about a 52% gain.
He watches the 50-day moving average as a tell. In silver, he had it at about $45 a week earlier. The market got close, did not hit it, and bounced. He allows it could tap or dip below and recover, but the tone suggests strength and a likely multi-month consolidation before the next up-leg.
How to Think About Overvaluation
Morgan downplays nominal targets like “ten thousand dollar gold” and instead measures gold as money against real goods. He tracks how many barrels of oil, how much wheat, or how much house an ounce of gold buys, then compares it to historical means.
When those real-world ratios stretch beyond past averages, he calls the metal overvalued; when they lag, it is undervalued. The focus is purchasing power, not just price, especially in an era where the money supply can sprint faster than charts.
Discipline, Core Positions, and Trading Around the Edges
Volatility cuts both ways, so Morgan recommends building mental discipline. He uses the show-up-at-the-gym model: consistency beats mood swings. For investors, that means buy dips, hold core positions, and avoid emotional whipsaws.
He suggests never trading more than 25 percent of your metals exposure around a core 75 percent long-term position. The goal of precious metals, he says, is not to make you money, but to keep you from losing it across cycles.
From 60/40 to 60/20/20, and Where Silver Fits
Maharrey raises the Morgan Stanley CIO’s 60/20/20, with 20 percent in gold, as a potential new orthodoxy. Morgan doubts it is a one-off. He sees it as a signal to the brokerage community that strategic gold allocations are now mainstream.
For balancing gold and silver, Morgan uses age-tilted guardrails. At age 60, he would lean 70 percent gold and 30 percent silver; by age 70, 80 to 90 percent gold and 10 to 20 percent silver. He still expects silver to outperform, but he weights gold more as investors age to prioritize stability.
Silver’s Monetary Case and the Gold–Silver Ratio
Despite more than three years near roughly 80 to 1 on the gold–silver ratio, Morgan does not think the relationship is broken. He recalls the spike to about 125 to 1 in March 2020 when silver briefly hit $12.
On a nearer-term, industrially weighted view, he sees about 50 to 1 as a center of gravity over the last 50 years. He flags 70 to 1 as a signal: once the ratio breaks below, silver is reclaiming its monetary role in earnest rather than being treated mainly as an industrial input.
Institutions, Sovereigns, and the Priced-Out Gold Phase
Morgan points to sovereign and institutional telltales. He cites Saudi Arabia buying almost a million shares of SLV, India launching silver ETFs, and Russia stocking physical silver. He also sees cultural pivots, like Indian buyers shifting to silver during festival season, as gold prices stretch budgets.
He expects a phase where 4,000 to 5,000 dollar gold prices out parts of the middle class, redirecting flows into silver for more shiny disks per fiat dollar. In his framing, gold is the S&P 500 of monetary assets; silver is the Nasdaq with higher beta when the monetary bid arrives.
Silver Is Money: History, Language, and Legal Tender
Morgan leans into history and linguistics. He cites Milton Friedman in New Orleans, calling silver the monetary metal of history. In Romance languages, words for silver and money often converge, and in Chinese script, the character for bank traditionally incorporates silver.
He underscores legal-tender status. When Maharrey mentions a 1964 quarter at 90 percent silver, Morgan notes you could still spend silver coinage at face value today, which makes it money at law, even if market value far exceeds face value in daily commerce.
Physical Squeeze: LBMA, COMEX, and the Logistics of Clearing
The show digs into the silver squeeze and price dislocations across Shanghai, the LBMA, and New York. When different hubs post different prices and 1,000-ounce bars must be rerouted to clear shortages, Morgan says the physical market is asserting itself over the paper paradigm.
He cites official tallies of about 29 million ounces shipped to London, which knocked paper prices from roughly $54 to the high 40s before bouncing back. Talk that it might take 150 million ounces to fully clear the LBMA may be high, he says, but the squeeze has not resolved. Lease rates normalized briefly, then tightened again.
Registered Stocks and a Gas-Tank Analogy
Morgan runs the math. If 120 million ounces moved from COMEX to meet 150 million in London, registered could fall from around 170 million to near 50 million. He has seen the registered category dip to 30 to 35 million ounces before, tight but survivable, like limping to a gas station on one-sixteenth of a tank.
He also notes Money Metals shipping 1,000-ounce bars to India amid acute needs. And he reports China paying above spot for doré in Peru, confirming directly with a major producer. For Morgan, these are flashing lights that physical availability, not paper, is setting the tempo.
The Fed Cuts and Ends QT, and What That Choice Implies
The Federal Reserve cut 25 basis points and announced an end to quantitative tightening on October 30, 2025. Maharrey frames the choice starkly: you can keep air in the bubble with easy money, or you can fight inflation; you cannot do both.
Morgan sees political pressure and an institutional bias against letting markets clear. In a clearing scenario, weaker dollars would demand higher rates, and he sketches 10 percent as a thought experiment that would crush bond prices long before maturity. Instead, he expects more liquidity, more currency, and eventually a confidence problem that history shows is hard to reverse.
Outlook and Where to Find Morgan
Morgan expects the precious-metals bull to resume after consolidation, with silver poised to run once the ratio decisively breaks below 70. He closes with a wink toward $50 silver, asking how soon the market gets back above that mark.
Listeners can find him at TheMorganReport.com and his new documentary Silver Sunrise at SilverSunrise.tv, which explores how money, power, energy, and geopolitics intersect. He argues that learning to parse value versus price is the investor’s most durable edge. David Morgan is also on X (formerly Twitter).
(Bethany Blankley, The Center Square) Death threats against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are up by 8,000% compared to the same timeframe last year, the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday. Assaults against ICE officers remain at a 1,000% increase, The Center Square first reported.
Targeted removal efforts prioritizing arresting violent offenders are ongoing as ICE officers continue to work without pay paid during the federal government shutdown.
ICE officers are “facing an 8,000% increase in death threats against them while they risk their lives every single day to remove the worst of the worst,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said.
“From bounties placed on their heads for their murders, threats to their families, stalking, and doxxing online, our officers are experiencing an unprecedented level of violence and threats against them and their families. Make no mistake, sanctuary politicians are contributing to the surge in violent threats and assaults of our officers through their repeated vilification and demonization tactics, including gross comparisons to the Nazi Gestapo. This violence against law enforcement must end.”
DHS highlighted recent death threats, including a Mexican national illegally living in Dallas who posted an ad on TikTok in Spanish for “10 dudes in Dallas with determination (guts) who aren’t afraid to [two skull emojis]. 10K for each ICE agent,” The Center Square reported.
In Florida, a man was arrested for posting death threats on the social media platform Bluesky using the pseudonym “Cain Delon.” Threats include, “Shoot the ICE Nazis down like the rabid dogs they are;” “Just get a gun and shoot the ICE Nazis down;” “Start by shooting ice thugs dead;” “They come near me, and I shoot to kill. Be warned;” “Get out your guns and shoot them down,” among others, DHS said.
In Whatcom County, Washington, ICE identified Facebook posts claiming ICE officers are using “chemical agents (who’s [sic] deployment is a war crime); referring to ICE officers as the “[expletive] Gestapo,” and encourages others to “make life hard for ICE” in Ferndale. The posts refer to detention facilities in Ferndale where illegal border crossers are held before they are transported to the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma.
DHS also posted an audio recording of a voicemail left by a man saying he hopes ICE officers are doxed “one by one.” DHS called the voicemail “disgusting” and blamed Democrats. “The vile rhetoric of sanctuary politicians comparing ICE day-in and day-out to the Nazi Gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences. The violence and dehumanization of these men and women who are simply enforcing the law MUST END,” it said.
Doxxing is directly tied to coordinated efforts by rioters to harm ICE agents and by cartel affiliates that have placed bounties on them. DHS earlier this month exposed a cartel bounty system operating in Chicago that is similar to those that have been used in Texas for years, The Center Square reported. This month, a Latin Kings member was arrested after he allegedly put a hit out on Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino.
In California, those doxxing and threatening ICE agents and their families are being arrested, The Center Square reported. “Doxxing is not just an invasion of privacy; it is a deliberate act of intimidation that undermines the safety and security of ICE employees who are dedicated to upholding the law and protecting our nation,” ICE Special Agent in Charge Jimmy Valenzuela said.
On Wednesday, HSI and ICE made more arrests in response to a July attack against federal agents in Camarillo, California. Two siblings, Isai Carrillo and Virginia Reyes, were arrested and accused of throwing and encouraging others to throw rocks at ICE officers as they made arrests at a marijuana facility. The officers were attacked as they rescued “migrant children from potential human trafficking, exploitation, and forced labor at the marijuana facility,” DHS said.
Also on Wednesday, as their arrest warrants were being issued, Reyes posted ICE’s whereabouts on social media and a violent mob attacked them, DHS said. Reyes initially fled but turned herself in Thursday, DHS said. Another individual was arrested for throwing rocks at ICE and four Mexican nationals, all in the country illegally, were found at the siblings’ residence and arrested, DHS said.
DHS also highlighted another example of an individual in Texas threatening an ICE officer’s spouse and children, saying, “I hope your kids get deported by accident. How do you sleep? F*** you. Did you hear what happened to the Nazis after World War II? Because it’s what’s going to happen to your family.”
DHS posted screenshots of a threat allegedly made by a Lakeville, Mass., resident to an ICE officer’s wife, saying, “Your husband, the ICE man is a f*** and retribution will come your way eventually.”
Federal authorities are encouraging Americans to report suspicious criminal activity, threats against ICE officers and their family members, as well as doxxing, by calling 866-DHS-2-ICE or submitting a tip online.
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) Vice President JD Vance said on Wednesday that the US applied “leverage” to Israel to get it to agree to a Gaza ceasefire deal, marking the first public suggestion from a US official that it was necessary to put pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reach an agreement.
Vance made the comments at the University of Mississippi during a Turning Point USA event when asked by a student why the US provides Israel with billions of dollars in military aid to support “ethnic cleansing” in Gaza.
Vance replied by saying that an “America First” foreign policy doesn’t mean you’re “not going to have alliances, that you’re not going to work with other countries from time to time,” and that President Trump believes that “Israel sometimes they have similar interests to the United States, and we’re going to work with them in that case. Sometimes they don’t have similar interests to the United States.”
Wow!
JD Vance is asked by a student why the US gives Israel billions.
JD's answer must infuriate Israel and its supporters in Washington:
– America First recognizes that the US and Israel's interests diverge at times (to say this was heresy just a few years ago)
“The most recent Gaza peace plan that all of us have been working on very hard for the past few weeks — the president of the United States could only get that peace deal done by actually being willing to apply leverage to the State of Israel,” the vice president added. “When people say that Israel is somehow manipulating or controlling the President of the United States, they’re not controlling this President of the United States.”
While Vance suggested the US has put pressure on Israel, since the ceasefire deal was signed, the US has backed Israel’s violations and attacks, which have killed over 200 Palestinians since the truce went into effect on October 10. After Israel began launching massive airstrikes on Tuesday, Vance downplayed the attacks as a “little skirmish.”
The Israeli strikes killed at least 104 people, including 46 children and 20 women, and the attack on Israel started after one of its soldiers involved in demolition operations in Rafah, southern Gaza, was killed. Israel claimed Hamas was responsible for the attack, but according to Israeli media, Israel didn’t know if Hamas leadership was responsible or if it was just the act of an isolated cell of Palestinian militants.
Despite the uncertainty, which Vance appeared to acknowledge in his statement by saying Hamas or “somebody else” attacked an IDF soldier, the US strongly backed Israel’s major escalation. “They killed an Israeli soldier. So the Israelis hit back. And they should hit back,” President Trump said.
(Headline USA) The man who opened fire in a Michigan church and set it ablaze was motivated by “anti-religious beliefs” against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the FBI confirmed Friday.
While friends close to the gunman in the deadly shooting have said he long harbored hatred against the church, the FBI had previously declined to specify the motivation behind the attack that left four people dead and the church burned to the ground, except to say it was “targeted” act of violence.
The gunman, Thomas Jacob Sanford, 40, was killed by responding law enforcement.
“I am confirming this is a targeted act of violence believed to be motivated by the assailant’s anti-religious beliefs against the Mormon religious community,” special agent in charge of the FBI Detroit field office Jennifer Runyan said in a prerecorded video message.
Sanford drove his pickup truck into the side of the Church of Jesus Christ of of Latter-day Saints chapel in Grand Blanc Township, 60 miles northwest of Detroit, on Sunday, September 28, while congregants gathered for services. Authorities previously said he used gasoline as an accelerator to light the church on fire in the course of the shooting. The building was destroyed.
The four people who were killed have been identified through family and friends as Craig Hayden, William “Pat” Howard, John Bond and Thelma Armstrong.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is commonly known as the Mormon church. The church, based in Utah, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Earlier this month, leaders of the church preached a message of love and forgiveness while gathered to mourn its late president, who died a day before the Michigan attack.
A spokesperson for the FBI did not immediately respond to a request seeking further information on what led the agency to its conclusion of anti-religious beliefs.
Authorities have released little information about Sanford and the attack. People who knew him have said he began vocalizing anti-Mormon sentiments years ago after living in Utah for a period of time, where he dated and broke up with a girlfriend who was a member of the Mormon faith. Sanford had moved to Utah after leaving the Marines and told his friends he had become addicted to methamphetamines.
An attorney acting as a spokesperson for Sanford’s family did not immediately return a request for comment.
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Millions of tax-exempt dollars from liberal billionaire George Soros have quietly flowed into the New York City mayoral campaign of Zohran Mamdani, the front-runner and self-described democratic socialist, a new bombshell report alleges.
The report — authored by forensic accountant Sam Antar and published Tuesday — uncovered an alleged “systematic coordination” among Soros-funded organizations to endorse and ultimately help elect Mamdani.
INVESTIGATION: How the George Soros Tax-Exempt Syndicate Laundered Charitable Donations into Political Support and Ground Operations for Zohran Mamdani
Antar wrote that the total funding network amounted to a staggering $40 million, traceable to Soros’s sprawling web of non-profits and groups.
Antar said the arrangement poses a major violation of federal tax law, as IRS rules prohibit tax-exempt groups from participating in political campaigns or funding partisan candidates.
His analysis details the complex funneling structure: Soros’s Open Society Foundations leads the effort, directing money to large disbursement non-profits such as the New Venture Fund.
In turn, those organizations distribute funds to a series of 501(c)(3) groups that then transfer money to 501(c)(4) political arms and affiliated PACs, entities allowed by law to engage in political activity.
Mamdani, a state legislator and outspoken socialist, has positioned himself as one of the most radical candidates in the country, vowing to raise taxes and unleash government handouts.
According to Antar’s lengthy report, several Soros-linked organizations have played a central role in propping up Mamdani’s campaign.
For instance, the Working Families Organization Inc., has acted as a major hub for Mamdani’s candidacy, has reportedly received $10.2 million in total funding from Soros-tied groups. The WFO has managed canvassing and volunteer operations for Mamdani.
Between $3-4 million came directly from the Open Society Foundations and related intermediaries, while the remainder flowed through networks regularly funded by Soros.
Not to be outdone by WFO, Make the Road Action, another leading advocacy group behind Mamdani, took in $13 million, with roughly $10 million traceable to Soros-tied entities such as the OSF, Open Society Policy Center and New Venture Fund.
Notably, Make the Road has hosted community events and rallies, some of which have coincided with Mamdani’s push.
Bend the Arc Jewish Action received $13 million in support, with about $5-6 million coming from overlapping Soros-funded channels, including the Tides Foundation and OSF. This group has run voter outreach targeting leftist Jewish communities in Queens and Brooklyn.
As alleged by Antar, other groups tied to Mamdani’s imminent rise received smaller yet equally impactful Soros funding.
NY Communities for Change: $475,000, with $150,000 and $200,000 explicitly traceable to Soros-aligned intermediaries.
Jewish Voice for Peace Action: $176,000 total, about $100,000 from the Open Society Policy Center.
MoveOn.org Civic Action: $204,000 total, roughly half from Soros-backed sources.
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) The disgraced prince, now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, allegedly once hosted 40 prostitutes at a hotel in over four days during a taxpayer-funded government trip to Thailand in 2001.
Headline USA has reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment on the allegations against Prince Andrew. This piece will be updated as soon as a response is received
Andrew had “no moral boundaries” and used his government position to “line his pockets” and pursue sex with women, according to Lownie. Tellingly, now-King Charles predicted that Andrew would exploit the position to “chase women and play golf.”
Lownie said this is exactly what happened more than two decades ago, when Andrew was in his early 40s and facing a midlife crisis. The author alleged that Andrew used taxpayer-funded trips to tack on two weeks of so-called private time to his official travels.
“There was a famous trip to Thailand—for the birthday celebrations of the King. Andrew is representing his country and insists on staying in a five-star hotel rather than the embassy, which he always did,” Lownie said.
“Andrew had 40 prostitutes brought in the space of four days. This was all enabled by diplomats and others,” he added.
When asked about evidence, Lownie said his reporting was verified by a Reuters correspondent and a member of the Thai royal family.
Lownie’s allegations came a day after Buckingham Palace announced the formal process to strip Andrew of his royal title and perks.
“Prince Andrew will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor,” the palace wrote, adding that he would be evicted from Royal Lodge, the royal residence where he currently lives.
“Formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease and he will move to alternative private accommodation. These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the allegations against him,” the palace said.
King Charles said in the statement that his thoughts and sympathies “have been, and will remain with, the victims and survivors of any and all forms of abuse.”
This punishment came after renewed scrutiny over Andrew’s close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the late convicted sex offender who trafficked minors.
Andrew has been accused of having a sexual relationship with an Epstein-trafficked teen, Virginia Giuffre, who later sued him and reached a settlement.
Andrew reportedly paid Giuffre nearly $14 million in the settlement, which allowed him to admit no wrongdoing. She died in April 2025.
