Quadruple Axe Murderer To Be Freed From Prison Under Tim Walz Law

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A man who axed his parents, brother and sister to death in Minnesota when he was 16 is set for supervised release under a juvenile sentencing law signed by Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

David Brom, now 53, is scheduled to move to a halfway house for a work release program on July 29 after receiving four murder convictions and three life sentences for the 1988 killings in Rochester, according to multiple reports and prison records. Walz abolished life sentences without the possibility of early release for juvenile offenders in 2023, prompting criticism from more tough-on-crime Republicans now that Brom is set to reenter the community.

“We must prioritize public safety over leniency for violent criminals,” Republican Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth said in a statement posted on X Thursday by Minnesota House Republicans. “The legislature must act to ensure that our laws reflect the seriousness of such unimaginable crimes.”

Walz’s office did not respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation. The governor and failed vice presidential candidate passed the sentencing law authored by Democrats in May 2023, allowing possible early release for convicts who committed crimes while they were minors after serving 15 years of their sentences. The juvenile policy initially had some support across party lines, but it became part of an omnibus legislative package that no Republicans voted for. (Read more from “Quadruple Axe Murderer To Be Freed From Prison Under Tim Walz Law” HERE)

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Filed as ‘Disadvantaged Business’ before Being Valued at $9 Billion

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Elon Musk’s health tech company Neuralink labeled itself a “small disadvantaged business” in a federal filing with the U.S. Small Business Administration, shortly before a financing round valued the company at $9 billion.

Neuralink is developing a brain-computer interface (BCI) system, with an initial aim to help people with severe paralysis regain some independence. BCI technology broadly can translate a person’s brain signals into commands that allow them to manipulate external technologies just by thinking.

Neuralink’s filing, dated April 24, would have reached the SBA at a time when Musk was leading the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency. At DOGE, Musk worked to slash the size of federal agencies.

MuskWatch first reported on the details of Neuralink’s April filing.

According to the SBA’s website, a designation of SDB means a company is at least 51% owned and controlled by one or more “disadvantaged” persons who must be “socially disadvantaged and economically disadvantaged.” An SDB designation can also help a business “gain preferential access to federal procurement opportunities,” the SBA website says. (Read more from “Elon Musk’s Neuralink Filed as ‘Disadvantaged Business’ before Being Valued at $9 Billion” HERE)

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DOJ Formally Asks Manhattan Court To Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Testimony

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) formally petitioned a Manhattan federal judge on Friday to unseal grand jury testimony from the Jeffrey Epstein prosecution.

Federal prosecutors filed the request in the Manhattan Federal District Court, where Epstein awaited trial on sex-trafficking charges before his death by suicide in a jail cell six years ago, according to The New York Times. The New York City medical examiner officially ruled Epstein’s death a suicide.

The DOJ also asked the court to unseal testimony from the grand jury proceedings involving Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime associate. Maxwell received a 20-year prison sentence following her 2021 conviction on charges of aiding Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme. Her case remains on appeal.

The request to unseal Epstein’s grand jury testimony now rests with Judge Richard M. Berman, appointed to the federal bench by former President Bill Clinton in 1998. Berman presided over Epstein’s case prior to his death.

Friday’s court filings followed President Donald Trump’s announcement on social media Thursday evening, authorizing Attorney General Pam Bondi to release all relevant grand jury testimony, pending court approval. (Read more from “DOJ Formally Asks Manhattan Court To Unseal Epstein Grand Jury Testimony” HERE)

Trump Sues Rupert Murdoch, Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones over Hit Piece

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President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch, Dow Jones & Company Inc., and several reporters after the Wall Street Journal published a hit piece alleging that Trump had sent a lewd letter to convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday.

Per CNBC, Trump filed the “lawsuit alleging libel” against Murdoch, Dow Jones & Company Inc., and the reporters behind the article:

Court records show that Trump filed a lawsuit alleging libel against Murdoch, the Journal’s publisher, Dow Jones, and the reporters who wrote the article in federal court for the Southern District of Florida. The complaint was not immediately available.

The alleged letter in question includes a third-person dialogue between Trump and Epstein inside the drawing of a naked woman, which includes Trump’s signature, the Journal claims, though White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the outlet admitted to the administration it did not have possession of the letter it bases the story on.

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Astronomer CEO Placed on Leave after Unexpected Coldplay Kiss Cam Incident

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A Coldplay concert Kiss Cam is causing major heat at a rising tech firm.

Astronomer CEO Andy Byron is now under “formal investigation” by his board after allegedly being caught on the jumbotron with the company’s HR chief, Kristin Cabot, at a recent Coldplay show—an eyebrow-raising moment that quickly exploded online.

An Astronomer PR representative shared an official leadership update with Fox News Digital on Friday night.

“Cofounder and Chief Product Officer Pete DeJoy is currently serving as interim CEO given Andy Byron has been placed on leave. We will share more details as appropriate in the coming days,” the statement said.

The tech firm Astronomer posted a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, about the controversial matter. (Read more from “Astronomer CEO Placed on Leave after Unexpected Coldplay Kiss Cam Incident” HERE)

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Declassified: Obama Admin Manufactured Intelligence to Push Fake Trump-Russia Collusion Narrative

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The Obama administration’s top officials committed a “treasonous conspiracy” by manufacturing and politicizing intelligence to create the false narrative that led to the years-long Trump-Russia collusion probe, according to newly-declassified documents released by Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard.

Announcing that “Americans will finally learn the truth” about shady actions taken by senior officials in former President Barack Obama’s National Security Council (NSC), Gabbard dropped damning documents that showed how they laid the groundwork for “what was essentially a years-long coup” against President Donald Trump:

Despite the intelligence community’s consensus that Russia “lacked the intent and capability to hack U.S. elections” prior to Trump’s 2016 win over Hillary Clinton, Gabbard said Obama’s officials changed their tune soon after the president won, ignoring the evidence.

“We assess that Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election results by conducting malicious cyber activities against election infrastructure,” a declassified December 8, 2016 Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) that was set to be published the next day stated.

While finding that “Russian Government–affiliated actors most likely compromised an Illinois voter registration database and unsuccessfully attempted the same in other states,” intelligence officials said election monitoring combined with the fact that neither vote-counting nor -casting infrastructures were harmed made it “highly unlikely” that any results were altered. (Read more from “Declassified: Obama Admin Manufactured Intelligence to Push Fake Trump-Russia Collusion Narrative” HERE)

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3 Biden Aides And Counting Plead The Fifth To Avoid Truth About Puppet Presidency

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Former President Joe Biden was “sharp as a tack,” “as sharp as ever,” and the “best” version of himself “ever” while in office — until he wasn’t.

After months of claiming Biden was perfectly competent to not only remain in office but run for reelection, Democrats ousted Biden via a coup last July and replaced him with Vice President Kamala Harris. But just because Biden may have stepped out of the spotlight doesn’t mean the American people have forgotten that there was a mentally incapacitated president ‘running’ the show.

That’s why Republicans have called in several Biden White House aides to get to the bottom of what really went down. Except, none of them are willing to talk.

3. Annie Tomasini

On July 18, the former deputy chief of staff to then-President Joe Biden became the third aide to plead the Fifth as Republicans investigate the alleged cover-up of Biden’s cognitive decline.

Annie Tomasini took her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination on Friday during a deposition with the House Oversight Committee, Chairman James Comer said in a post on X. (Read more from “3 Biden Aides And Counting Plead The Fifth To Avoid Truth About Puppet Presidency” HERE)

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Unreleased Epstein Files Include Logbooks for Private Island, Records Show

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Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in February released what was then described as the “first phase of the declassified Epstein files.”

That initial release — which was delivered to a group of prominent right-leaning influencers and journalists — included 341 pages of documents related to the disgraced financier. But 118 pages of those files were duplicative of one another.

The vast majority of those documents were previously made public through the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein’s former associate Ghislaine Maxwell or civil lawsuits, including flight logs from Epstein’s plane, a redacted version of Epstein’s so-called “black book” of contacts and a heavily redacted seven-page list of masseuses.

The only newly-released document in “phase one,” which received little public attention, was a three-page catalog of evidence that appears to be an accounting of evidence seized during the searches of Epstein’s properties in New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands after his arrest in 2019, and a search of his Palm Beach mansion a dozen years earlier.

That little-noticed index offers a roadmap to the remaining trove of records that President Donald Trump’s administration has declined to release, including logs of who potentially visited Epstein’s private island and the records of a wiretap of Maxwell’s phone. (Read more from “Unreleased Epstein Files Include Logbooks for Private Island, Records Show” HERE)

Illegal Alien’s ‘Kidnapping’ by ICE Exposed as Elaborate Money-Making Fraud Scheme

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A Mexican illegal alien living in Los Angeles was charged with orchestrating her own fake ICE “kidnapping” to generate sympathy and solicit donations, the Justice Department announced Thursday.

Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, 41, a resident of South Los Angeles, was charged with conspiracy and making false statements to federal officers, the DOJ said.

Calderon had been living in the U.S. based on a federal law enforcement parole that expired in 2023. She is in federal custody after she allegedly faked her kidnapping.

This comes after local outlet KTLA reported on a news conference held by Calderon’s “loved ones and attorneys,” who claimed she had been “kidnapped” by uniformed men in unmarked cars June 25.

The outlet reported that a woman identified as an attorney named Stephano Medina claimed Calderon was cornered in a Jack in the Box parking lot in Los Angeles by men who did not identify themselves but were possibly bounty hunters. Medina claimed Calderon was taken to the border and presented to an “ICE staffer,” who demanded she sign self-deportation paperwork. (Read more from “Illegal Alien’s ‘Kidnapping’ by ICE Exposed as Elaborate Money-Making Fraud Scheme” HERE)

Messy New Jersey Voter Rolls Have More Than 32,000 ‘Questionable’ Voter Records, Report Says

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Registered New Jersey voters pick a new governor in the Nov. 4 general election, but before that the state really needs to clean up its voter list.

After reviewing New Jersey’s statewide voter roll, a report from the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) shows an “urgent need for improved list maintenance practices,” after identifying more than 32,000 registration issues, many of which could allow people to vote more than once.

PILF found 14,059 duplicate registrations, with voters registered in New Jersey and at least one other state at the same time. But PILF did not look at all 50 states, meaning there are certainly more to be found. PILF identified duplicate registrations in New Jersey and Florida (6,972 cases), New York (5,725), and Pennsylvania (925).

PILF also found 15,655 registrations using fictitious birth dates, which are sometimes used as placeholders — such as New Jersey’s most common placeholder date, 1800-01-01, that is, 225 years ago. The PILF report found 5,166 such birthdates in Essex County, 2,108 in Passaic County, and 1,928 in Middlesex County.

Of the 15,655 registrations with bad birth dates, 85 percent are marked as active voters, the report shows. But PILF says it is an easy fix. The organization took a random sample of 10 such registrations and compared the “New Jersey voter roll, Social Security records, and Experian reports,” and within minutes found the correct birthdates for all 10. PILF found that seven voter registrations were accurate after the proper birth date was added; Social Security records indicated that two registered voters had died more than 20 years ago; and one individual had seemingly relocated to St. Lucie County, Florida, and registered to vote there in 2017. (Read more from “Messy New Jersey Voter Rolls Have More Than 32,000 ‘Questionable’ Voter Records, Report Says” HERE)