Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton agreed to a last-minute deal with prosecutors that allowed the dismissal of almost 9-year-old criminal charges on Tuesday. The 18-month intervention agreement was announced in a pretrial hearing that had been delayed from last week. The agreement includes 100 hours of community service and 15 hours of legal education classes […]
Perhaps you were already familiar with WPATH, or the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Formerly known as the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, it touts itself as the premiere “interdisciplinary professional and educational organization devoted to transgender health.” They issue guidelines for medical professionals to follow when treating transgender patients. That certainly sounds […]
How many reminders do we need about the massive influence-peddling operation of the Biden family? Politico’s Ben Schreckinger must wonder about that question, too. He has spent the last few years outlining the Biden family business, operated by Joe Biden’s brothers and his son Hunter, and even wrote a book (The Bidens: Inside the First […]
Does Arthur Engoron take checks? The judge in the civil lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James handed down a $355 million judgment for damages and penalties for “fraudulent business practices” earlier this afternoon. Engoron also fined both of Trump’s sons an additional $4 million each after finding them liable as well. He […]
Long-time readers likely know that we’ve been covering the checkered history of former Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby and her now ex-husband and City Council President Nick Mosby for the better part of a decade. Marilyn Mosby first rose to the wrong sort of fame in the wake of the Freddie Gray riots when […]
This time, a medical school neuroscientist is on the hot seat for research misconduct at Harvard. Claudine Gay could at least argue that her academic misconduct wasn’t exactly brain surgery, but now that two of the academic scandals are at Harvard Medical School and one includes a neuroscientist, you get the idea. This is not […]
A woman named Janet Yamanaka Mello worked as a civilian financial program manager for the U.S. Army in Texas for several years. Now she’s heading into retirement with full federal benefits. This would be an unremarkable story were it not for the side hustle that Mello had been allegedly running. She had been using her […]
If you’ve been following this at all the big story this week was that Judge Arthur Engoron had given former President Donald Trump permission to make the closing arguments in his fraud trial and then changed his mind. Actually, what happened was that Engoron set limits on what Trump would be allowed to say and […]
How much would you pay for a piece of “art” created by a political figure who had no history or experience in the creative arts but seemingly just picked up some paint and canvases and began splashing things around? Well, if you really liked it and had a lot of money to burn, it might […]
The Democratic former assistant city attorney for Atlanta has been found guilty by a federal jury after she defrauded a COVID pandemic-era stimulus program of millions of dollars. Shelitha Robertson, 62, faces potentially spending the rest of her life in prison after jurors last week found she defrauded the federal government out of over $7 […]
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