Private Equity’s Next Frontier: Your Retirement Savings

'Vying for the trillions of dollars Americans hold in their 401(k) savings accounts'

House Committees, DOJ Turn Up The Heat On Dems’ ActBlue

The chairmen of the three committees investigating the troubled online fundraising platform have sent their finding to AG Pam Bondi.

Trump Admin Sanctions Iranian Shipping Magnate Offloading Illicit Oil and Gas for Tehran

The Trump administration slapped sanctions on an Iranian national and his corporate network for laundering hundreds of millions of dollars worth of illicit petroleum products "to evade U.S. sanctions and generate revenue for Iran," the Treasury Department announced on Tuesday.

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FBI responds to Tesla attacks by launching task force



The FBI has formed a dedicated task force to put a stop to the ongoing attacks against Elon Musk's Tesla.

Musk's electric vehicle company has been the target of recent attacks from the left after he began serving as a senior adviser to President Donald Trump. Musk has been working alongside the president and the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency to root out waste and fraud within the federal government.

'There are definitely people behind this, and not just the solo actors.'

The FBI has received 48 reports of attacks on Tesla vehicles, dealerships, and charging stations so far this month. The bureau is investigating at least seven of those incidents alongside local law enforcement, the New York Post reported Monday.

According to the news outlet, the onslaught of destructive strikes prompted the FBI to launch a dedicated 10-person task force consisting of special agents and intelligence analysts from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the Department of Treasury and the FBI's Counterterrorism Division.

Additionally, the ATF is placing personnel in FBI field offices, beginning with San Antonio, Texas. So far, there have been destructive protests in at least nine states.

The FBI issued a public safety announcement about the recent attacks on Saturday.

"FBI warns of nationwide incidents—arson, gunfire, and vandalism targeting Tesla EVs, dealerships, and charging stations in 9+ states, linked to political grievances," it read.

It noted that the perpetrators of the crimes against the company are attacking those they "perceive to be racists, fascists, or political opponents."

The bureau urged the public to be vigilant near Tesla-owned locations.

The Trump administration has vowed to hold the bad actors accountable for their crimes against Musk and Tesla.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has referred to the attacks as "domestic terrorism."

While the FBI claimed that the attacks were committed by "lone offenders," others, including Musk, are convinced someone is funding and organizing the destruction.

Musk has speculated that leftist organizations are behind the attacks.

Sierra One Consulting founder and former FBI agent Rob D'Amico told "Fox and Friends" on Monday, "What they [the FBI] really need to do is start looking at the conspiracy."

"Where are they getting their information? Who's inciting them, and who's encouraging them? There are definitely people behind this, and not just the solo actors," D'Amico said. "I do think there's coordination in there. I do think there's conspiracy behind it, and I think we'll be able to see the funding if we do it right. And that's what the FBI does great."

Action Network, a left-wing group, is encouraging a "TeslaTakedown" protest on March 29, dubbed the "Global Day of Action." Its website features a map of Tesla locations where activists are encouraged to protest.

"Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines," Action Network's site reads. "We're tanking Tesla's stock price to stop Musk."

The group claims that Musk is "destroying our democracy, and he's using the fortune he built at Tesla to do it."

"We are taking action at Tesla to stop Musk's illegal coup," it adds. "Tesla Takedown is a peaceful protest movement. We oppose violence, vandalism and destruction of property. This protest is a lawful exercise of our First Amendment right to peaceful assembly."

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Hunter Biden Whistleblowers Promoted to Senior Treasury Department Posts

The two IRS investigators who exposed details of the investigation into former first son Hunter Biden have been promoted to senior roles at the Department of the Treasury. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday promoted Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler to senior advisers for IRS reform at the agency. Shapley will also serve as deputy chief of IRS criminal investigations.

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Musk exposes ‘magic money computers’ that allow government to send funds ‘out of thin air’



Elon Musk revealed that the federal government has “magic money computers” that allow it to send taxpayer funds “out of thin air” without adequate oversight.

Musk exposed the shocking information during an interview with Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on the latest episode of his podcast, “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” released on Monday. The episode was part one of a two-part series recorded at the White House.

'They just send money out of nothing.'

Musk told Cruz that the waste the Department of Government Efficiency has found within the federal government is even worse than he had anticipated.

“Every government department — I say, ‘every’ because we’ve not yet found a single exception — there are far too many software licenses and media subscriptions,” Musk said.

He explained that there were often more licenses and subscriptions than the number of individuals working for the department.

“We found entire situations of software licenses or media subscriptions where there were zero logins,” Musk added. “No one had ever logged in even once.”

Musk was asked whether the waste stems from incompetence or fraud.

“If you say, ‘What’s the waste-to-fraud ratio,’ in my opinion, it’s like 80% waste and 20% fraud,” he replied. “But you do have these sort of gray areas.”

He highlighted how the federal government can send money to nonprofit organizations with little oversight and accountability. Musk explained that the so-called charities give their leadership “extremely lavish, insane salaries, expense everything to the nonprofit, buy jets and homes and all sorts of things.”

Cruz responded, “Live like kings and queens on the taxpayer dime.”

“Correct,” Musk added. “And this is happening at scale. It’s not just one or two. We’re seeing this everywhere.”

Cruz then asked Musk to explain “magic money computers.”

“I never heard of that until you brought that up,” Cruz told Musk.

“You may think that the government computers all talk to each other, they synchronize, they add up what funds are going somewhere and it’s coherent,” Musk explained. “And that the numbers, for example, that you’re presented as a senator are actually the real numbers.”

“One would think,” Cruz replied.

“They’re not. They’re not totally wrong, but they’re probably off by 5% or 10% in some cases,” Musk continued. “I call a magic money computer any computer, which can just make money out of thin air. That’s magic money.”

Cruz asked Musk how the computers work.

“It just issues payments,” Musk stated.

He said that most of the computers he is referring to are at the Treasury Department. There are also reportedly similar computers at the Department of Health and Human Services, the State Department, and the Department of Defense.

“I think we found now 14 magic money computers,” Musk remarked. “They just send money out of nothing.”

He declared that the only way to root out the waste and fraud within the federal government was to “look at the computers and see what’s going on.”

“You have to reconcile the computer databases in order to recognize waste and fraud,” Musk said.

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Clinton-appointed judge orders Trump to 'immediately' rehire fired workers



On Thursday, a judge ordered the Trump administration to "immediately" rehire tens of thousands of probationary employees terminated from six federal agencies.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, called the Office of Personnel Management's decision to lay off the federal workers "unlawful," a "sham," and a "gimmick," Politico reported. He insisted that President Donald Trump's administration had circumvented legal requirements by arguing the terminations were performance-based, which he claimed was not the case.

'The Government has engaged in an illegal scheme spanning broad swaths of the federal workforce.'

"It is a sad, sad day when our government would fire some good employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well that's a lie," Alsup stated.

He demanded that the Departments of Defense, Treasury, Energy, Interior, Agriculture, and Veterans Affairs rehire the probationary employees. Yet, Alsup also noted that the agencies have the authority to implement "reductions in force."

"The words that I give you today should not be taken that some wild-and-crazy judge in San Francisco said that an administration cannot engage in a reduction in force," Alsup said. "It can be done, if it's done in accordance with the law."

During a Thursday hearing, Alsup accused the DOJ's legal team of being "afraid" to have individuals cross-examined because it "would reveal the truth."

"I tend to doubt that you're telling me the truth," the judge said. "I'm tired of seeing you stonewall on trying to get at the truth."

Assistant U.S. Attorney Kelsey Helland insisted that the directive to terminate the employees "was not an order by OPM."

"Everybody knew the new administration was prioritizing this and the political appointments wanted to comply with that administration priority," Helland explained.

The Government Executive reported that the judge's rehire order impacts roughly 24,000 probationary workers who were fired last month.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused Alsup of "attempting to unconstitutionally seize the power of hiring and firing from the Executive Branch."

"The President has the authority to exercise the power of the entire executive branch — singular district court judges cannot abuse the power of the entire judiciary to thwart the President's agenda," Leavitt remarked. "If a federal district court judge would like executive powers, they can try and run for president themselves."

The DOJ filed a notice to appeal.

On Thursday evening, a second federal judge, U.S. District Judge James Bredar, issued a temporary restraining order, calling for more than a dozen federal agencies to temporarily reinstate terminated workers.

The judge wrote, "In this case, the government conducted massive layoffs, but it gave no advance notice. It claims it wasn't required to because, it says, it dismissed each one of these thousands of probationary employees for 'performance' or other individualized reasons."

"On the record before the Court, this isn't true. There were no individualized assessments of employees. They were all just fired. Collectively," he added.

The Trump administration has terminated approximately 200,000 probationary employees across the federal government.

"When, as is likely the case here, the Government has engaged in an illegal scheme spanning broad swaths of the federal workforce, it is inevitable that the remediation of that scheme will itself be a significant task," Bredar stated.

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Trump Admin Slaps Fresh Sanctions on Iran's Oil Minister and 'Shadow Fleet' Ferrying Illicit Iranian Crude

The Trump administration slapped fresh sanctions on Iran’s oil minister and a host of maritime service providers that have helped Tehran ferry its illicit crude across the globe, the latest in a bevy of measures meant to cripple the hardline regime’s financial networks.

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