California Republican Pleads Guilty to Misusing Campaign Funds
Gregory Bull/AP After claiming for a year that he was the victim of a political “witch hunt” by federal prosecutors as part of a “deep state” conspiracy, disgraced Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of misusing campaign funds for extramarital affairs with lobbyists and congressional aides, family vacations, his children’s private school tuition,…
Impeachment Day 3: Republicans Continue Their Attack on Reason and Reality
Mother Jones illustration; J. Scott Applewhite/AP (2); Getty “Are you aware that Democrats were accused in 1968 of voting irregularities? Do you know that Democratic officials were involved in private opposition research efforts targeting the president? Do you know that Bob Woodward was part of a secret society at Yale University?” Those are the sort…
The Democrats’ Impeachment Strategy Is Simple—and Risky
Susan Walsh/AP Less is more. That’s the mantra for the House Democrats, as they take their impeachment inquiry into a new phase: public hearings. For weeks, the House committees leading this effort—the intelligence, foreign affairs, and oversight committees—have narrowly focused on one matter: the Trump-Ukraine scandal and the tale of Donald Trump apparently abusing the…
A Major Trump Inaugural Donor Was Just Charged for an Illegal Foreign Influence Campaign
Pat Benic/CNP via ZUMA Wire A California businessman who gave $900,000 to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee has agreed to plead guilty to a veritable foreign lobbying crime spree. Over the better part of a decade, Imaad Zuberi solicited money from foreign people and firms to donate to US political campaigns and he promised to…
How an Indicted Oligarch Became a Key Player in Trump’s Ukraine Scandal
Dmytro Firtash at a public hearing at the supreme court in Vienna on June 25, 2019Herbert Neubauer/Getty On September 29, Rudy Giuliani appeared on ABC News, waving a fistful of papers. The document in his hand was an affidavit from Viktor Shokin, a former top Ukrainian prosecutor who was fired in 2016 under international pressure…
Who’s the Secret Russian in the Indictment of Giuliani’s Pals? We Found Some Clues.
Booking photos of Lev Parnas, left, and Igor Fruman./AP When the US attorney for the Southern District of New York charged two associates of Rudy Giuliani and two other men on Wednesday with campaign finance violations, the indictment contained a big mystery. Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman—who had been helping Giuliani search for dirt on…