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Feds Search Gracie Mansion Seizing Adams’ Phone After Becoming First Indicted NYC Mayor

Officials gather at Gracie Mansion, the mayor's residence, in New York City on September 26, 2024. Mayor Eric Adams was indicted after a months-long federal investigation into his ties to Turkish government officials, businessmen and campaign donors. Mayor Adams denies any wrongdoing. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) By James Myers, OAN StaffThursday, September 26, […]

Legal or not, Harris is seizing Biden’s campaign cash

President Biden’s sudden and unprecedented withdrawal with just months to go until the 2024 presidential election raises many questions. One key question is how this unusual scenario will affect Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party from a campaign finance perspective. First, the Democrats have already renamed the “Biden Campaign for President” to the “Harris Campaign […]

Feds keep on seizing fentanyl, weapons at US-Canada border as crisis continues

(The Center Square) Federal agents working at immigration checkpoints in northern U.S. cities and small towns along the U.S.-Canada border continue to disrupt illegal activity. Federal agents operating in Detroit, Chicago, Cincinnati and small border towns in North Dakota continue to crack down on fentanyl, weapons, counterfeit e-cigarettes and illegal prescription drugs stemming from the […]

Seizing Assets and Sunsetting Deals: Long-Term Implications

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Two stories that we have chronicled before have come together in the past week in spooky juxtaposition. We readily admit the stories are somewhat “wonkish”, and have not gotten much press coverage or analysis. The two stories are related to the seizure of Russian assets, as part of the sanctions […]

Janet Yellen rebukes Putin’s equating of seizing Russian assets with theft

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s characterization that seizing frozen Russian assets was equivalent to theft. In an appearance on ABC’s This Week, Yellen outlined the Biden administration‘s position on the issue and argued that using Russian assets to send further aid to Ukraine was appropriate. “There is no sense at all in […]

FBI Was Authorized to Use ‘Deadly Force’ at Mar-a-Lago When Seizing Documents

According to court filings recently unsealed by Judge Eileen Cannon in the Florida Trump Papers case, FBI agents were authorized to use “lethal force” if necessary to seize suspected classified documents during the Mar-a-Lago raid. The filing revealed that there was an “operational order” that included a “statement of policy” regarding the “use of deadly […]