NEW: After ProPublica and The Texas Tribune revealed Ken Paxton repeatedly voted while registered at an address where he appears to no longer live, Democrats called for an investigation into whether the Texas attorney general committed election fraud.

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-democrats-ken-paxton-voting-complaint?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #KenPaxton #Law #Election #Vote #Fraud #Investigation

So I avoided a little $5000 scam this morning...
Got an email asking for a price for a pretty big order. Well known US company.
But the email came from (company)operations@(emailprovider).ca
Strange! Plus in the email footer there is a lot of unusual info, DUNS number, EIN, CAGE code... Weird.
I respond and confirm the total, no rebate. Get an email back, now from operations@(company)LLC.com strange, I search and it should be (company).com, no LLC in the name...
#fraud #smallbusiness
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Fantastic

US judge voids Trump's settlement with IRS

A US judge on Monday voided #Trump's [totally illegal] #settlement with the #IRS ‌that gave him & his companies sweeping #tax protections & initially set up a nearly $1.8 billion government ​#SlushFund to pay victims of so-called ​government weaponization.

#law #judiciary #criminal #fraud #DOJ #JudicialProcess #theft #TaxpayersMoney #kleptocracy #MafiaState #Jan6 #militia #MAGASlushFund
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-voids-trumps-settlement-with-irs-2026-07-13/?utm_source=braze&utm_medium=notifications&utm_campaign=2025_engagement

Article in the LA Times about someone who committed fraud. Maybe I'm strange, but I have an inherent distrust of someone wearing designer clothing/etc.

"...Ma was enticed by a promise of quick returns and encouraged by what seemed like trappings of success, he said in an interview: Nguyen wore Chanel sunglasses, dressed in designer clothes and drove a Tesla...."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-07-10/nail-salon-owner-charged-scheme-bilked-vietnamese-immigrants

#fraud

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Ma was enticed by a promise of quick returns and encouraged by what seemed like trappings of success, he said in an interview: Nguyen wore Chanel sunglasses, dressed in designer clothes and drove a Tesla.

Business Today: GoDaddy warns India’s fake website crackdown could damage the internet and privacy. “India is cracking down on websites that impersonate established brands. However, GoDaddy, the US-based internet domain seller, argues that its new court-ordered rules against fake websites could create privacy, security, and operational problems for website owners, not just scammers.”

"Close #Trump advisors have been informing him🚨the likeliest cause of any “rip” in the Reflecting Pool surface came from him insisting the full motorcade drive on the fresh surface to “inspect” it before it was refilled,🚨which he immediately denies to blame liberals."
-J Bourscheid

#Waste #Fraud #ReflectingPool #Kakistocracy #Kleptocracy #Incompetence #Scapegoating #Uprising #USPol

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Pic of Trump's motorcade driving on the reflecting pool when it was empty.

Trump🚨freed a man convicted of defrauding 1000s of Americans out of $1.6B from prison after serving 2 weeks of a 7 year sent & then Trump’s appointees squashed a #DOJ investigation into how the grant of clemency was procured *pot for >$15.5M to the USG.

Criminal investigation: circumstances re his clemency *had begun🚨examining whether improper pymts were made to help facilitate the commutation awarded to Gentile *PE exec: convicted in a #fraud scheme.
#Corruption #USPol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/us/politics/trump-fraudster-priest-investigation-brooklyn.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sFA.bCcL.8u71ZE9TyX2h&smid=nytcore-android-share

#AndrewTickell's column in #TheSundayNational https://archive.is/QTUUj was overtaken by events. Tickell wrote of #Starmer's doomed last stand. By Sunday morning, reports began unanimously predicting surrender. Oops!

Still, Tickell's penultimate paras nail the core problem: Starmer is a #fraud.

For #LabourParty members, the mask fell as soon as Starmer won the leadership. Many voters didn't spot it until Starmer was in No 10.

The real villains are the journalists who enabled that fraud.

#ukpol

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Politics isn’t family therapy. It isn’t a vision quest for the individual egos of people who start hearing voices and think the public deserve them. Electoral failure isn’t a misunderstanding. Public ­disillusionment isn’t always reducible to a communications problem. Sometimes voters simply decide that a politician is not what he claimed to be. That, more than any individual controversy or policy reversal, is the story of Starmer’s premiership. His tragedy is not that he failed despite being exactly what he promised. His tragedy is that voters ­quickly concluded there was nothing there.

The $94 Million Smart Meter Surveillance Scheme Exposed

https://youtu.be/onYWQJsWFpk

Sacramento residents discovered their utility company has been secretly feeding their private energy data to police without warrants, leading to a massive surveillance operation that generated $94 million in fines. This explosive investigation reveals how SMUD transformed smart meters into government spy devices, monitoring when you shower, sleep, or use appliances.

Innocent homeowners faced armed police raids for using electricity to power medical equipment or mine cryptocurrency. One resident was forced outside in his underwear at gunpoint, while another disabled veteran was threatened with arrest for refusing warrantless entry. The surveillance threshold dropped dramatically from 7,000 to just 2,800 kilowatt hours per month, making air conditioning use suspicious in Sacramento's brutal heat.

Internal documents expose how SMUD analysts actively mined customer data for police, checking over 10,000 homes in a single month. Despite California law explicitly prohibiting utilities from sharing precise meter data without warrants, SMUD violated these protections daily for a decade.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit could reshape smart meter privacy nationwide. With the October 2025 court decision approaching, every American with a smart meter needs to understand how their utility company might be spying on them right now.

#SMUD #SmartMeters #EFF #Privacy #Utilities #Electricity #surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism #Spying #4thAmendment #WarrantlessSearch #Constitution #CivilRights #Courts #Lawsuit #SCOTUS #Cops #Police #Extortion #Fraud

@privacy@a.gup.pe @infosec@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe