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Corruption Thread


               
2022 Jul 6, 2:09pm   71,047 views  609 comments

by Patrick   follow (60)  

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2022/07/hawaii-senate-dem-majority-leader-gets-3-years-daniel-greenfield/


Hawaii Senate Dem Majority Leader Gets 3 Years in Prison for Bribery

Former Senate Majority Leader J. Kalani English, 55, pleaded guilty to honest services wire fraud in February, admitting he accepted bribes from a Hawaii business owner in exchange for shaping legislation that would benefit a company involved in publicly financed cesspool conversion projects...

English “peddled the power and influence of his position as a Hawaii State Senator and Majority Leader to enrich himself and betray the trust bestowed upon him by those he was elected to serve,” U.S. prosecutors said in a sentencing memo urging the judge to send him to prison for three-and-a-half years.

The sentence, a little more than three years, must send a “stern and lasting message” that corruption of elected officials will be punished, the memo said. ...

Choy is a prolific donor, as are his immediate family members and business associates. Choy, his family members, and his employees from various companies have donated more than $356,000 to political campaigns since 2014, according to campaign finance data. Of that, Choy has contributed more than $160,000 to the elections and reelections of numerous Democrats.

Choy himself has donated to 55 campaigns — including 29 sitting lawmakers — since 2014. Money has gone to former Gov. Neil Abercrombie and current Gov. David Ige. He has most recently contributed to former Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s campaign for governor, and to Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s campaign.


"Stern and lasting message" my ass. Only life in prison will do. Singapore is a much better country than the US in this way.



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559   Patrick   2025 Jul 10, 2:07pm  

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/no-country-will-stop-buying-covid


Can anyone explain why no country in the world has stopped their COVID-19 vaccine campaign? Seemingly seduced by “The Force” no world leader can field questions on the failed vaccines let alone speak out against them or protect their country from more harm.
560   RayAmerica   2025 Jul 10, 2:09pm  

Trump’s going to put a stop to it. You just watch and see. Go MAGA!
561   Patrick   2025 Jul 10, 2:24pm  

Why hasn't he done it already?
562   RayAmerica   2025 Jul 10, 2:30pm  

I guess I didn’t make sarcasm clear enough. He’s never going to admit that his warped speed experimental vaccine killed countless numbers of people.
570   Patrick   2025 Jul 17, 6:57pm  

East Palo Alto - Attorneys help illegals expunge criminal records

"While the backlog ebbs and flows, attorneys are currently working on April expungement requests – unless a person is in immediate danger of deportation, Hanania said at Wednesday East Palo Alto immigration training session."

https://www.rwcpulse.com/san-mateo-county/2025/07/17/attorneys-help-locals-expunge-criminal-records-amid-deportation-fears/
582   Misc   2025 Aug 28, 11:14pm  

Whaddya know, they're finally gonna look at cases of taxpayer funds being used for political causes.

Whatever will they find ????

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/federal-crackdown-white-house-orders-investigation-into-misuse-of-taxpayer-funds-for-political-lobbying/ar-AA1Lr9BS
583   Patrick   2025 Aug 30, 10:56am  

https://tdefender.substack.com/p/as-reuters-fact-checked-covid-vaccine


As Reuters ‘Fact-Checked’ COVID Vaccine ‘Misinformation,’ Its CEO Also Sat on Pfizer’s Board

The former CEO of Reuters — who's still on the board of its parent company, Thomson Reuters Foundation — has also been a board member of COVID-19 vaccine maker Pfizer since 2014.
586   RWSGFY   2025 Sep 18, 9:23am  

This is Burisma/Baturina covfefe on steroids:

In May, Mr. Witkoff’s son Zach announced the first of the deals at a conference in Dubai. One of Sheikh Tahnoon’s investment firms would deposit $2 billion into World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency start-up founded by the Witkoffs and Trumps.
Two weeks later, the White House agreed to allow the U.A.E. access to hundreds of thousands of the world’s most advanced and scarce computer chips, a crucial tool in the high-stakes race to dominate artificial intelligence. Many of the chips would go to G42, a sprawling technology firm controlled by Sheikh Tahnoon, despite national security concerns that the chips could be shared with China.
587   Patrick   2025 Oct 1, 5:25pm  

https://tdefender.substack.com/p/secrecy-over-trump-pfizer-deal-sparks-foia-demands-public-outcry


Secrecy Over Trump-Pfizer Deal Sparks FOIA Demands and Public Outcry

Pfizer’s stock jumped Tuesday after CEO Albert Bourla and President Donald Trump announced a deal to lower U.S. drug prices and invest $70 billion in domestic manufacturing.

Pfizer’s stock “surged” late Tuesday after CEO Albert Bourla announced an agreement with President Donald Trump to lower its U.S. drug prices and invest $70 billion in U.S. manufacturing.

The agreement gives Pfizer “certainty and stability” on tariffs and pricing, Bourla said in a press release.


Wow, this just reeks of corruption.

Pretty sure Trump is fucking us all for the benefit of Pfizer, once again. He did with the dangerous and defective mRNA jabs too.
588   Misc   2025 Oct 1, 7:09pm  

$70 billion in US manufacturing is a huge amount for Pfizer. Its total market cap is only $154 billion. With lowered drug prices on top of that, it sounds like Trump was extorting Pfizer not the other way around.
592   Patrick   2025 Oct 15, 6:52pm  

https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/why-are-vaccine-and-war-cartels-so


If a foreign visitor—one with good powers of observation and reasoning—were assigned the mission of ascertaining the two most powerful interests being brought to bear on the Trump administration, he would almost certainly conclude “those in the business of making and administering vaccines, and those in the business of waging war.”

In the last few weeks, President Trump has:

1). Hosted Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla at the White House and thanked him.

2). Declared that he received a COVID-19 booster shot.

3). Encouraged Ukraine to keep fighting the Russians, and offered to sell NATO all the weapons it wants for the fight. Given that the U.S. is by far the largest member of NATO, with by far the most command and control of the organization, this can only be viewed by Russia as further U.S. escalation.

4). Declared that he is contemplating giving Tomahawk long range missiles to Ukraine. Given that Russia cannot ascertain if an incoming Tomahawk is armed with a conventional or nuclear warhead, it can only perceive such a decision is going a major step up the escalation ladder towards tactical and strategic nukes.

One president passeth away, and another president cometh: but the COVID-19 vaccine abideth for ever.

And so, when the chips are down, it seems that the Vaccine & War Cartels have the final say in the affairs of state. All of the U.S. government’s “Forever Wars” Fiascos since 2001—and the twin fiascos of the childhood autism epidemic and the COVID-19 gene shot debacle—have not diminished the power of these cartels by one iota.

Why are the Vaccine and War Cartels so strong?
593   Patrick   2025 Oct 22, 9:42pm  

https://tdefender.substack.com/p/california-medicaid-provider-iehp-pay-parents-incentives-vaccinate-kids


California Medicaid Provider Pays Parents Hundreds of Dollars to Vaccinate Their Kids

An investigation by The Defender revealed that one of the largest Medicaid plans in the U.S. offers parents hundreds of dollars in gift cards when their children get certain vaccines.

One of the largest Medicaid health plans in the U.S. is paying low-income parents hundreds of dollars in gift cards to vaccinate their children, an investigation by The Defender found.

Inland Empire Health Plan (IEHP) — which serves about 1.6 million people in Southern California — gives parents a $200 gift card when their baby receives a flu shot and the rotavirus series of shots by age 1, according to its 2025 Medi-Cal Member Incentive FAQs sent to all of IEHP’s general practitioners, family practitioners and pediatricians.

IEHP also gives a $50 gift card when a 12- or 13-year-old receives the first dose of the HPV vaccine, and an additional $150 gift card if the pre-teen completes the two- or three-dose series by age 13.

Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., Children’s Health Defense’s (CHD) senior research scientist, said IEHP is undermining true informed consent.

“An incentivized parent choosing vaccination is not medical decision-making — it’s economic decision-making,” he said. “In the case of low-income Medicaid families, that incentive may look more like an undue influence.”
594   Patrick   2025 Oct 23, 8:49am  

https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2025-10-23/nba-portland-coach-chauncey-billups-miami-player-terry-rozier-arrested-gambling-probe


Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier are among more than 30 people charged in connection with schemes involving illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by Mafia, authorities said on Thursday.

Rozier is accused in participating in an illegal sports betting scheme using private insider NBA information, officials said. Billups is charged in a separate indictment alleging a wide-ranging scheme to rig underground poker games that were backed by Mafia families, authorities said. ...

In the sports betting scheme, players sometimes altered their performance or took themselves out of games early, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. In one instance, Rozier, while playing for the Hornets, told other he was planning to leave the game early with a “supposed injury,” allowing others to place wagers that raked in thousands of dollars, Tisch said.
597   stereotomy   2025 Oct 24, 4:46pm  

It was a five-year looting spree, plain and simple. The Us is now bankrupt - why else would gold be over $4k an ounce?
598   gabbar   2025 Oct 25, 7:02am  

stereotomy says

It was a five-year looting spree, plain and simple. The Us is now bankrupt - why else would gold be over $4k an ounce?

Maybe a combo of democracy + authoritarianism is necessary for a limited time run by a pro-nation leader.

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