Good morning. It's Tuesday, April. 30, and we're covering $7 billion in taxpayer funds, massive scandal brewing in Los Angeles, 2024 NBA playoff picks, and much more. First time reading? Sign up here. | | American Fact of the Day! | "The Sunshine State" Is Florida's Official Nickname: Florida got its name in 1970 because it has more than 2,900 hours of sunshine a year, a warm climate, and the best beaches in the country. Even though Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada get more sunshine than this state, millions of people visit it every year because it feels like summer all year long. |
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| | Breaking Updates | | $7 Billion in Taxpayer Funds Went to Ivy League Universities with Anti-Israel Protests | The nation is approaching $35 trillion in debt, and the number is rising fast. We are, as a nation, headed off a fiscal cliff, and Congress seems determined to keep pushing to Thelma-and-Louise us right off the edge. Now, to add to everything else the federal government spends our money on, we learn that some of the very Ivy League schools currently dealing with virulent pro-Hamas, antisemitic protests are also the benefits of $7 billion in government largesse - and that's only for the fiscal year 2023.
More than $5 billion worth of taxpayer dollars were given to Ivy League schools through sponsorship, grants and contracts during fiscal year 2023 alone. Another $2.1 billion also made its way to other prominent schools that have had anti-Israel rallies of late. The Ivy League schools – Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, Dartmouth College, and Cornell University – have been the scenes of some of the most high-profile anti-Israel unrest.
In other words, these schools are sitting on huge piles of cash yet are still receiving billions in taxpayer funding. That's not to mention grants and government-guaranteed loans given to students, and bear in mind that the Biden administration has been leaping through flaming hoops trying to find ways to abrogate centuries of contract law and "forgive" those student loans. | Read more updates here |
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| | A Massive Scandal Is Brewing in Los Angeles After DA George Gascon's Number 3 Is Charged With 11 Felonies | LA County Assistant DA Diana Teran, who oversaw George Gascón's efforts to prosecute law enforcement officers instead of criminals and to release thousands of felons from prison early, was arrested Saturday on 11 felony charges related to the "unauthorized use of data from confidential, statutorily-protected peace officer files." Like many alleged felons in Los Angeles County, Teran was out on bail less than an hour after her arrest.
According to a press release from California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Teran "accessed computer data including numerous confidential peace officer files in 2018, while working as a Constitutional Policing Advisor at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, and, after joining the LADA in January 2021, impermissibly used that data at the LADA."
First, there's some background that's important to know. Teran worked for (now former) LA County Sheriff Jim McDonnell from 2014 through 2018. McDonnell ran on being a "reformer" after Sheriff Lee Baca resigned amid a massive prisoner abuse scandal and investigation. Baca was later convicted of conspiracy and obstruction of justice for his role in attempting to cover up the abuse, and a total of 21 members of the LA County Sheriff's Department were eventually convicted of charges related to either obstruction of justice or jail abuse.
There was, justifiably, a push to root out deputies who were bad apples, and McDonnell wanted to show the public, the Board of Supervisors, and the Civilian Oversight Commission results. With hindsight, it seems that push also created an environment where people who were either lifelong cop haters (Teran) or who wanted to retaliate against professional rivals (McDonnell) could push out good deputies without much pushback.
The Los Angeles Association of Deputy District Attorneys, the union representing line prosecutors, published a memo after Teran's arrest outlining seven instances of retaliation in Gascón's office, some of which Teran was directly involved in: In early October 2022, a Public Integrity Division ("PID") deputy filed a case with the express and explicit approval of Gascón's Chief Deputy. When the case caused political problems for the District Attorney, the administration dismissed it.
Then Gascón pulled the deputy out of PID and put him on administrative leave… for more than a year. The charged defendant sued the County; that lawsuit recently concluded with a $5 million settlement. The affected line deputy has also taken legal action; his claim is pending.
The memo mentions two retaliation cases filed by Deputy DA's that have been settled for a total of $2.5 million, and notes that "additional lawsuits are pending," so additional taxpayer dollars will go to compensate line deputies retaliated against for attempting to put criminals behind bars.
Teran was scheduled to be arraigned Monday morning in downtown Los Angeles. | Read more updates here |
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