“MTA overtime king” Thomas Caputo and four other current and former employees of the transit agency were busted Thursday for allegedly reaping thousands of dollars in pay for time they didn’t actually work — and instead spent bowling, vacationing out of state and, in one case, running a 5K. The defendants — four Long Island Rail Road workers and one subway maintenance worker — were among the MTA’s top earners in the period of alleged fraud, the Manhattan US Attorney’s Office said, thanks to annual OT payments of $240,000 or more.
“These employees allegedly worked very hard — to steal MTA time and money, ignoring their duty to keep the tracks and rails safe for their fellow workers and riders,”...
Violent crimes end in arrests less often than other crimes.
Fewer than 1-in-5 violent CTA crimes led to an arrest compared to a little over 1-in-4 for all transit crimes.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in mid-September threatened to cut funding systemwide unless Chicago transit administrators showed how public safety was being improved...
“Our biggest issue is that both the American political class and U.S. government officials are completely clueless on this threat,” he said. “Our population is being literally divided and radicalized to destroy our nation. This is provable, but I think it would require so much more investigation to be able to show people, even on our side, how bad the problem is.”
1777 - American troops defeated British forces in Saratoga, NY. It was the turning point in the American Revolutionary War.
1931 - Al Capone was convicted on income tax evasion and was sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was released in 1939.
1933 - Dr. Albert Einstein moved to Princeton, NJ, after leaving Germany.
1978 - U.S. President Carter signed a bill that restored full U.S. citizenship rights to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
2001 - Israel's tourism minister was killed. A radical Palestinian faction claimed that it had carried out the assassination to avenge the killing of its leader by Israel 2 months earlier.
On Tuesday, DHS put out a blistering release that chronicled a sickening plot from south of the border that was targeting Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agents — all the way in Chicago.
Here’s the blistering headline: “Bounties Originating From Mexico Offered to Shoot ICE and CBP Officers in Chicago.”
Outlets have been told to sign the pledge by Tuesday at 5 pm or surrender their press credentials within 24 hours, after weeks ago the new policy was introduced.
Establishment media outlets have also been frustrated after long-accredited media outlets were forced to vacate their assigned Pentagon workspaces under what officials described as an "annual media rotation program" - which happened similarly at the White House where independent media, podcasters, and nontraditional media figures have been given access and sometimes even priority...
"I'm not gonna give up on this," he said, pointing out that many school districts have a double standard about what is an appropriate message to display in the classroom.
Noted Loggans, "In our school, there are several teachers that have Pride flags in their rooms or stickers on their doors … they did not consider them to be divisive or political."
Footage was released in June 2024 from the House Oversight Committee of Nancy Pelosi taking responsibility for the January 6, 2021, protests and rioting at the US Capitol. Nancy Pelosi: “I take responsibility.”
And in June 2024, John Solomon at Just the News reported that Nancy Pelosi’s top security aides received warnings about a potential Capitol breach the night before the January 6 protests. Pelosi could have called in the National Guard. She decided not to...
Chief Sund then posted this list of the times he called Pelosi’s Sergeant of Arms to request the National Guard. Chief Sund was turned down each time.
Timeline of Chief Sund’s requests for National Guard support detailing dates, times, and responses from various officials, highlighting approvals and denials.
President Donald Trump posthumously awarded Charlie Kirk the highest civilian honor following his horrific assassination on a college campus in September.
Trump honored Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday, the day that would have been the conservative activist's 32nd birthday. Erika Kirk, Charlie's widow, accepted the award at the White House Tuesday afternoon on his behalf.
“These criminal networks have issued explicit instructions to U.S.-based sympathetics, including street gangs in Chicago, to monitor, harass, and assassinate federal agents,” DHS describes... According to this tiered system, participants are promised:$2,000 for gathering intel or doxxing federal agents, which includes sensitive family information.
$5,000 to $10,000 for “kidnapping or non-lethal assaults” on ICE and CBP agents
Up to $50,000 for the assassination of high-ranking officials
“These criminal networks are not just resisting the rule of law, they are waging an organized campaign of terror against the brave men and women who protect our borders and communities,” said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem...
“These criminal networks have issued explicit instructions to U.S.-based sympathetics, including street gangs in Chicago, to monitor, harass, and assassinate federal agents,” DHS describes...