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Judicial Watch Sues for Emails of Anti-Trump FBI Executive Accused of Harassing Whistleblowers

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:23:20 -0500

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for emails of Dena Perkins, a section chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), regarding whistleblower retaliation (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No, 1:25-cv-00891)).

Perkins was identified by Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, as an official who retaliated against whistleblowers who were considered pro-Donald Trump:

So, now I’m going to spend some time sharing statements from the whistleblowers who were retaliated against by some of the FBI officials Trump has recently fired.

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A third FBI whistleblower said, “On January 6, 2021, I took leave and went to see the President speak on the Ellipse. Later, my wife and I were among a crowd southwest of the Capitol. Even though we were involved in no violence, never set foot on the steps leading to the Capitol building, and never entered it, I self-reported my presence to the FBI after seeing the violence in news reports. The FBI did nothing at first, but more than a year later suspended my security clearance. Under the supervision of Jeff Veltri and Dena Perkins, investigators questioned my co-workers about whether I ever vocalized support for President Trump or objections to the COVID-19 vaccine. I was forced to take early retirement to pay bills and have essentially been sidelined from employment opportunities due to FBI abuse of the clearance system to target me for my political beliefs.”

A fourth FBI whistleblower and a registered Democrat said, “As a Security Division employee, I witnessed abuses committed against multiple employees by FBI senior leaders, particularly by Jeff Veltri and Dena Perkins. I also saw Security Division retaliate against five of its own employees for protesting these unlawful practices. Because I spoke out against these abuses, Perkins and Timothy Dunham suspended my security clearance, costing me my job and continuing employment, totaling approximately $700,000 in lost wages and retirement benefits.”

A fifth FBI whistleblower said, “Although some FBI leaders who abused the clearance process like Dena Perkins and Jeff Veltri have already left, they weren’t alone. Timothy Dunham approved Perkins’s wrongdoing and engaged in his own. While most Security Division employees are fantastic, some FBI leaders still remain within the Security Integrity and Investigations Section who’ll continue this abuse of the process.”

From FBI whistleblower Marcus Allen, “Jeff Veltri and Dena Perkins caused the suspension of my security clearance because I questioned whether the FBI Director was truthful to Congress and whether the FBI was obeying the law and Constitution in the January 6, 2021 investigations. Their actions left me without pay for over two years while other FBI officials prevented me from having other income. Although the FBI ultimately reinstated my clearance and settled my lawsuit, my career at the FBI was over and the financial and emotional damage to me and my family will never be completely restored.”

Another FBI whistleblower said, “After I was assigned to review Marcus Allen’s security clearance case, I noticed the file was missing relevant communications of Jeff Veltri, who ordered the opening of the case, Dena Perkins and FBI attorney Tasha Gibbs. Allen was entitled to those communications, which were evidence that his clearance suspension was retaliatory. Shortly after I completed the vast majority of work on the communication recommending Allen’s reinstatement, the Allen case was reassigned to another adjudicator and I was transferred to a different unit, apparently in reprisal for reporting the wrongdoing in the Allen suspension. I soon resigned from the FBI to avoid further retaliation. I believe Veltri, Perkins and Gibbs were responsible for retaliating against Allen, and that Giulio Arseni, Perkins and Gibbs were likely responsible for the retaliation against me.” [Marcus is represented by Judicial Watch.]

From FBI whistleblower Garret O’Boyle: “I faced retaliation from junior, mid and senior level ‘leaders’ in the FBI. More than 29 months later, I’m still indefinitely suspended without pay and benefits. Other whistleblowers have since confirmed that the FBI intentionally stranded me in the middle of a move and withheld our possessions to maximize the pain of my suspension. A new era of accountability and true whistleblower protection at the FBI is long overdue. FBI officials like Sean Clark, Sean Fitzgerald, Jeff Berkebile, Dena Perkins, Jeff Veltri, Jennifer Moore, Michael Schneider, Timothy Dunham and other leadership up to Christopher Wray are responsible for what happened to me and my family. Ensuring that they no longer work at the FBI isn’t retribution, its responsible leadership.”

Judicial Watch sued after the Justice Department failed to respond to a May 10, 2024, FOIA request for:

1. All emails sent to and from Section Chief Dena Perkins regarding “whistleblower”, “whistleblowers”, “O’Boyle”, “Veritas” and/or “Trump”.

2. All SF-50s and SF-52s for SC Perkins.

SF-50s and SF-52s are documents recording personnel actions such as promotions.

Perkins was among several FBI officials reportedly fired by the Trump administration.

“Our lawsuit shows elements of the FBI are still in cover-up mode about its mistreatment of agents who indicated support of Donald Trump or opposition to FBI abuses,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “Transparency and accountability can’t come soon enough.”

Judicial Watch is perhaps the nation’s leading FOIA litigant against the FBI on its corruption issues, as well as lawfare against President Trump.

In March 2025, Judicial Watch filed suit against the Justice Department for details of any investigations, inquiries, or referrals concerning potential misconduct of any person working for Special Counsel Jack Smith.

In September 2024, Judicial Watch sued the Justice Department for messages among top leaders of the FBI referencing social media posts of Special Agent Jeffrey Veltri, head of the Miami Field Office, which is investigating the September 15 assassination attempt against Donald Trump.

In May 2024, Judicial Watch uncovered a recording of a phone message left by an FBI special agent for someone at the Secret Service in the context of the raid on President Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.

In April 2024, Justice Department records showed that the FBI opened a criminal investigation of Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt after her killing and listed four “potential violations of federal law,” including felony rioting and civil disorder.

Judicial Watch in January 2023 sued the Justice Department for records of communications between the FBI and social media sites regarding foreign influence in elections, as well as the Hunter Biden laptop story.

In November 2023, Judicial Watch, along with CatholicVote Civic Action, received FBI records showing top officials rushing to craft a public response to the leaked FBI intelligence memo that revealed its targeting of Catholics who adhere to traditional beliefs on church issues. In December 2023, heavily redacted records from the FBI showed that the agency’s Office of General Counsel reviewed the controversial targeting of the Catholics by the Richmond field office of the FBI.

In his book Rights and Freedoms in Peril Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton details a long chain of abuses officials and politicians have made against the American people and calls readers to battle for “the soul and survival of America.”

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Prosecutors: Trump Assassination Suspect Tried to Purchase Rocket Launcher

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:24:41 -0500

Federal prosecutors allege that Ryan Wesley Routh tried to purchase a rocket launcher from Ukraine to assassinate Trump. ...

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Mexican Border Crossings Lowest in History, from 155,000 a Month under Biden to 7,180

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:13:51 -0500

After years of getting hammered by the Biden administration’s catastrophic—and inconceivable—open border policies, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is delivering much-needed good news; in March the United States experienced the lowest southwest border crossings in history thanks to new measures put in place by President Trump to finally secure the famously porous Mexican border region. The new government figures show a remarkably quick turnaround for an administration that inherited an extraordinary crisis in which a ghastly 7.6 illegal aliens entered the country, nearly 2 million of them from nation’s that Biden’s own DHS determined pose a national security threat to the U.S.

In a matter of weeks, the Trump administration took control of the situation, with a dramatic drop in illegal crossings, around 7,180 a month compared to the monthly average of 155,000 from the previous four years. Daily southwest border apprehensions have also decreased an incredible 95%, to about 230 daily from an astonishing 5,100 per day under Biden. This marks a pivotal achievement in the nation’s border security efforts, according to an announcement issued recently by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). “This milestone demonstrates that operational control is becoming a reality — which seemed impossible just a few months ago under the Biden administration — as enforcement measures continue to yield significant results,” the DHS agency writes. Border Patrol agents have finally been empowered to shut down unlawful entry and protect American lives, CBP Commissioner Pete Flores confirms. He says the message is clear: “The border is closed to illegal crossings, and for those still willing to test our resolve, know this — you will be prosecuted, and you will be deported.”

It is a vastly different message than the one sent by the Biden administration, which proudly rolled out the welcome mat for a record number of illegal immigrants, including droves of violent gang members, Islamic terrorists, tens of thousands of Chinese nationals and a myriad of criminals. The former president’s own DHS determined that over 1.7 million illegal aliens from countries that pose a national security threat entered the U.S. during his tenure and dozens that appear on the terrorist watchlist were released into American communities, according to government figures reluctantly provided to Congress. The migrants from countries that pose a security threat to the U.S. are labeled Special Interest Aliens (SIA) by the government and they come from some 26 nations, including Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Syria, and Turkey, China, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritania, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela.

The previous administration also released over half a million criminal aliens inside the U.S. by putting them on a “non-detained docket” that allowed them to live in communities throughout the nation. Over 435,000 had criminal convictions and another 226,847 pending charges, according to DHS figures made public by a congressional committee. Nearly 15,000 of the freed illegal aliens were convicted of or charged with murder, more than 20,000 with sexual assault, 60,268 with burglary, larceny, or robbery, 105,146 with assault, 16,820 with weapon offenses, 3,971 with commercialized sex crimes and 3,372 with kidnapping. Over 126,000 committed traffic offenses, more than 70,000 are in the system for drug crimes, 21,106 for fraudulent activities and 12,000 for obstruction of justice. As a parting gift in early January the Biden administration shielded nearly a million foreign nationals from deportation with Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a humanitarian measure designed to help undocumented aliens avoid removal during emergencies.

Fortunately, the Trump administration revoked Biden’s eleventh-hour TPS, though a series of lawsuits were quickly filed by leftist groups in the name of the illegal aliens, who are mostly from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua. The new administration’s message is clear and has been spread in Spanish-language media throughout Latin America. It warns illegal aliens not to come to America and break its laws. “If you are a criminal alien considering entering America illegally: Don’t even think about it,” said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. “If you come here and break our laws, we will hunt you down.” Criminals are not welcome in the United States.”

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“No Question” CIA Helped Kill Kennedy, New Documents Show: Frank De Varona

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 18:00:00 -0500

The Trump administration’s newly released John F. Kennedy assassination files may not point directly to who shot the president, but they do expose the CIA and indicate a massive coverup. Among the players most likely behind Kennedy’s demise are a combination of Lyndon Baines Johnson, Allen Dulles, Fidel Castro, and elements of organized crime, explains ...

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5 Million Names Cleaned from Voter Rolls!

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 17:34:30 -0500

JUDICIAL WATCH VICTORY: Five Million Names Removed from Voter Rolls Nationwide
Judicial Watch Sues for Info on Biden Grants to Leftists
‘The Gravy Train is Over’—HUD, DHS End Subsidized Housing for Illegals
D.C. Anti-Crime: Ex-Con Hired as Violence Interrupter Charged with Murder

JUDICIAL WATCH VICTORY: Five Million Names Removed from Voter Rolls Nationwide

A major milestone in our work to clean up voter rolls!

Over the last several years, our analysis and use of voter registration lists have led to lawsuits and legal actions under theNational Voter Registration Act (NVRA) that have resulted in the removal of five million names from voter rolls in nearly a dozen states and localities.

Recently, the Commonwealth of Kentucky reported that 735,000 ineligible voter registrations have been removed from its voter rolls since 2019 by the State Board of Elections as part of its 2018 consent decree settling a lawsuit with us.

As part of its 2022 settlement, New York City alone has removed 918,139 ineligible names from its rolls: recent data show 477,056 removals between March 2023 and February 2025, which is in addition to the 441,083 previously reported removals.

These latest developments come as a result of our 2017 lawsuit against Kentucky under the NVRA (Judicial Watch, Inc. and the United States of America v. Alison Lundergan Grimes, et al. (No. 3:17-cv-00094)) and our 2022 lawsuit against New York City that pointed out that it had removed only 22 names under the federal law over six years (Judicial Watch v Valentine et al. (No.1:22-cv-03952)).

In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed that such removals are mandatory.

In May 2022, Los Angeles County confirmed the removal of 1.2 million ineligible names from its rolls as part of asettlement in a federal lawsuit we filed in 2017. (Legal pressure from Judicial Watch ultimately has led to the removal of ineligible names from voter rolls in New York, California, Pennsylvania, Colorado, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Ohio.)

Other voter roll clean-up lawsuits by Judicial Watch continue in Illinois, Oregon, and California.

Our clean-up of over five million dirty names from voter rolls is a historic achievement for clean elections. I have no doubt that our election integrity heavy lifting helped stop the steal in 2024. But there are millions of more names to be removed from voting rolls, which is why we are in federal court in three states.

We are a national leader in voting integrity and voting rights.

Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit declined to rehear its previous ruling in which it agreed with us that it was unlawful for Mississippi to count ballots that arrived after Election Day.

In March 2025 we filed a federal lawsuit against California on behalf of U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa to prevent state election officials from extending Election Day for seven days beyond the date established by federal law. California counts ballots received up to seven days after Election Day.

Also in March, we sent a notice letter to Lt. Governor Deidre M. Henderson, notifying her that Utah is currently in violation of the NVRA’s public disclosure requirements. The notice letter warns of a lawsuit after 90 days if the issues are not resolved.

Judicial Watch Sues for Info on Biden Grants to Leftists

There’s no end to the malicious use of your tax dollars by the far-left bureaucrats working at the direction of Joe Biden.

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of State for records on grants made by the Biden State Department to various Hungarian media outlets and educational organizations opposing conservative Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:25-cv-00836)).

Judicial Watch sued after the State Department failed to respond to a January 29, 2025, FOIA request for:

All records regarding any grants provided under the Independent Media Support Fund/Free Media Grant Program to any organization or individual in Hungary. This request includes, but is not limited to, all records depicting the recipients and purposes of the grants, the timing of the awards, and all related records of communication between former Ambassador David Pressman or Chargé d’Affaires David Holmes and any other individual or entity.

The complaint explains:

According to media reports, on the final day of the Biden Administration, the U.S. Embassy in Budapest, Hungary, awarded grants worth millions of Hungarian Forints to various Hungarian media outlets and educational organizations aligned with opponents of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, an ally of incoming U.S. President Donald Trump. See, e.g., “U.S. Embassy Awards Millions in Grants to Opposition Media on Trump Inauguration Day,” Hungarian Conservative, Jan. 21, 2025 (available athttps://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/current/us-embassy-hungary-opposition-media-funding-interference-pressman/ )

According to the Hungarian Conservative:

Recipients of the grant include several well-known anti-government media outlets, aligned with the Hungarian opposition but posing as independent press. Among the grantees, 444 received more than 8 million HUF (over 20,000 USD), Átlátszó 10 million HUF approximately 25,000 USD), Jelen 7 million HUF (around 18,000 USD), and both Magyar Hang and Klubrádió were awarded 10 million HUF each in Category A. In Category B, which supports media education and journalism training, Transparency International’s Hungarian foundation—one of the most prominent organizations within the Soros network—received more than 7 million HUF.

The Biden State Department, on Joe’s last day in office, apparently sent a cash infusion to Hungary’s left-wing, anti-Orban opposition organizations. Let’s hope the new State Department stops the cover-up and produces records on this meddling.

In February 2025, we also sued USAID for records regarding waste, fraud and abuse tied to aid money sent to Ukraine.

In November 2024, we sued the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for records about to the $27 million in U.S. grants awarded to “Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees” that have been designated for use in Gaza.

In October 2023, we sued the State Department for communications and records regarding the eligibility of citizens of Hungary to participate in a visa waiver program.

In 2018, we obtained State Department documents showing top Soros representatives in Romania collaborating with the State Department in a program jointly funded by, among others, Soros’s Open Society Foundations – Romania and USAID, called the “Open Government Partnership.”

Additional State Department records uncovered in 2018 showed USAID funding for George Soros’s left-wing nonprofit organizations in Albania. The documents dealt primarily with the activities of Soros’ top operative in Albania, Andri Dobrushi, the director of Open Society Foundation-Albania, who was actively engaged in channeling funding to what Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban calls Soros’ “mercenary army.” The documents showed U.S. grant money flowing through non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that profess to promote “civil society,” while in fact attacking traditional, pro-American groups, governments and policies.

Other records related to the USAID’s activities in Albania showed that the Obama administration sent U.S. taxpayers’ funds to a group backed by Soros, which used the money to fund left-wing political activities in Albania, including working with the country’s socialist government to push for highly controversial judicial “reform.” The records also detailed how the Soros operation helped the State Department review grant applications from other groups for taxpayer funding.

‘The Gravy Train is Over’—HUD, DHS End Subsidized Housing for Illegals

The Trump administration is creating a process to save taxpayers billions of dollars given to illegal aliens by the Biden administration. Our Corruption Chronicles blog reports.

Over half of illegal immigrant households in the United States use at least one taxpayer-funded welfare program, according to congressional testimony provided recently by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and it costs the government tens of billions of dollars. Clamping down on the unprecedented flow of migrants is only the first step to mitigate the damage of the Biden administration’s disastrous open border policies. One major area of concern is government-subsidized public housing, which became available to illegal aliens under policies established by the previous administration’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

To reverse the damage amid a nationwide affordable housing crisis, two key government agencies have teamed up to crack down on illegal immigrants benefiting from taxpayer-funded public housing. Trump HUD Secretary Scott Turner and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to end the wasteful misappropriation of taxpayer dollars to benefit illegal aliens instead of American citizens, especially veterans in need. Under the agreement HUD will provide a full-time staff member to assist in operations at the Incident Command Center (ICC), creating an interagency partnership to facilitate data sharing and ensure taxpayer-funded housing programs are not used to harbor or benefit illegal aliens. “We will safeguard precious taxpayer resources, and we will stop the harmful practices of the former Biden Administration, which favored and prioritized illegal aliens over American citizens in the expenditure of housing funds and subsidies,” the HUD-DHS MOU states.

The agencies will collaborate to facilitate and coordinate efforts to place Americans first by establishing lines of communications and developing joint measures to accomplish President Trump’s directive to protect Americans and their resources. “Further, we will work together to identify criminal aliens who prey upon and victimize the American people,” the MOU reads. “By working more closely together and with greater collaboration, we will identify illegal aliens who are ineligible for Federal housing assistance and take remedial measures to end this waste and abuse, including referral for immigration enforcement actions.” A few days later HUD also announced that illegal immigrants would no longer qualify for government-backed mortgages through a Federal Housing Administration (FHA) program that lends to “non-permanent residents.” The new policy ensures that illegal aliens cannot access FHA-insured financing and refocuses the use of taxpayer-funded federal housing programs to benefit U.S. citizens.

DHS Secretary Noem points out that the Biden administration prioritized illegal aliens over American citizens, including by giving them taxpayer-funded housing. “Not anymore,” she says in the press release announcing the new HUD partnership. “The entire government will work together to identify abuse and exploitation of public benefits and make sure those in this country illegally are not receiving federal benefits or other financial incentives to stay illegally.” The DHS Secretary further warns that the gravy train is over for those in the country illegally. “If you are an illegal immigrant, you should leave now,” Noem said. HUD Secretary Turner assures his agency’s new agreement with DHS will leverage resources to ensure American people are the only priority when it comes to public housing.

Uncle Sam spends a whopping $42 billion to provide illegal immigrants with an array of welfare services, according to CIS figures presented to Congress less than a year ago. This includes housing, food, healthcare, public education, and other social services. As an example of the toll this is taking on local communities, CIS revealed that the city of New York has spent or expects to spend $12 billion over the next three years on housing, food, health care, and other services for recently arrived illegal immigrants. Chicago spent around $361 million to accommodate recently arrived migrants, the District of Columbia about $36.4 million and Denver approximately $180 million, more than triple what it spends on the homeless. A few years ago, Judicial Watch reported on a congressional probe that determined the cost of illegal immigration is greater than the annual gross domestic product of 15 states.

D.C. Anti-Crime: Ex-Con Hired as Violence Interrupter Charged with Murder

The local DC government can be a dangerous mess. Consider its attempts to fight crime. From our Corruption Chronicles blog:

The scandals keep piling up in the District of Columbia’s ill-fated program to curb violence with an ex-con charged with two felonies since D.C. officials hired him to be a violence interrupter, a disgraced councilman—Trayon Whites—busted for taking tens of thousands of dollars in cash bribes to help extend violence prevention and youth services contracts and another high-ranking official pleading guilty to bribery for using her official government position to help a friend get contracts and grants. As millions of taxpayer dollars pour into D.C.’s questionable anti-violence initiative, fraud and corruption continue to rock the program, and crime remains high in the neighborhoods it is supposed to help.

The repeat criminal works for Cure the Streets, a public safety program launched by former D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine to reduce gun violence by treating it as a disease that can be interrupted and stopped from spreading. Cure the Streets typically hires people with criminal histories as violence interrupters because they know first-hand about the challenges that residents of crime-infested communities live with. Racine, a two-term D.C. Attorney General who is currently a partner in a major corporate law firm, claimed the “transformed criminals” hired by his program perform community-driven public safety work that can avoid using police by interrupting potentially violent conflicts because they have relationships and influence within targeted neighborhoods. The program operates in notoriously high-crime sections throughout D.C., which are broken down by wards, including Eckington/Truxton and Trinidad in Ward 5, Marshall Heights/Benning Heights in Ward 7 and Bellevue, Washington Highlands, and Congress Heights in Ward 8.

A Cure the Streets employee, Cotey Wynn, was recently arrested and faces a first-degree murder charge related to a nightclub shooting in which a 31-year-old former college basketball player was killed. Wynn has an extensive rap sheet and had served ten years in prison when Racine, D.C.’s then chief legal officer, hired him as a violence interrupter. His record includes felony murder, first degree murder, possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, and distribution of a controlled substance, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. The most recent criminal charge is not the first since becoming a D.C. violence interrupter. In 2020 Judicial Watch reported that Wynn got arrested and charged for fatally shooting a 53-year-old man in 2017 near the Trinidad neighborhood in Northeast Washington. At the time of that arrest Wynn was under the supervision of the Pretrial Services Agency for the District of Columbia, a federal agency that believes preventative detention should only be a last resort for defendants, who should live in the least r

Legal watchdog scores with elimination of 5 million ineligible voters

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 10:48:22 -0500

From Washington Examiner:

A long-term campaign by a conservative legal watchdog to clean up the nation’s voter rolls has led to the erasure of over five million ineligible names since 2017.

In less than 10 years of legal action targeting sloppy voter lists, Washington-based Judicial Watch has used the National Voter Registration Act Of 1993 and its requirement that states regularly clean their lists to press for the elimination of bad names in nearly a dozen states and localities.

Judicial Watch Sues for Records on Biden State Department Grants to Support Leftist Opposition to Conservative Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban

Fri, 04 Apr 2025 10:37:40 -0500

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of State for records on grants made by the Biden State Department to various Hungarian media outlets and educational organizations opposing conservative Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:25-cv-00836)).

Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit after the State Department failed to respond to a January 29, 2025, FOIA request for:

The complaint explains:

According to media reports, on the final day of the Biden Administration, the U.S. Embassy in Budapest, Hungary, awarded grants worth millions of Hungarian Forints to various Hungarian media outlets and educational organizations aligned with opponents of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, an ally of incoming U.S. President Donald Trump. See, e.g., “U.S. Embassy Awards Millions in Grants to Opposition Media on Trump Inauguration Day,” Hungarian Conservative, Jan. 21, 2025 (available at https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/current/us-embassy-hungary-opposition-media-funding-interference-pressman/ )

According to the Hungarian Conservative:

“The Biden State Department, on Joe’s last day in office, apparently sent a cash infusion to Hungary’s left-wing, anti-Orban opposition organizations,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Let’s hope the new State Department stops the cover-up and produces records on this meddling.”

Judicial Watch in February 2025 also sued USAID for records regarding waste, fraud and abuse tied to aid money sent to Ukraine.

In November 2024, Judicial Watch sued the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for records about to the $27 million in U.S. grants awarded to “Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees” that have been designated for use in Gaza.

In October 2023, Judicial Watch sued the State Department for communications and records regarding the eligibility of citizens of Hungary to participate in a visa waiver program.

In 2018, Judicial Watch obtained State Department documents showing top Soros representatives in Romania collaborating with the State Department in a program jointly funded by, among others, Soros’s Open Society Foundations – Romania and USAID, called the “Open Government Partnership.”

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Judicial Watch Update: New Numbers Show Over Five Million Names Cleaned from Voter Rolls Nationwide

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 12:14:58 -0500

Kentucky Removes 735,000 from Voter Rolls since 2019, NYC Removals Now Total 918,139

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that its analysis and use of voter registration lists has led to lawsuits and legal actions under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) that have resulted in the removal of five million names from voter rolls in nearly a dozen states and localities over the last several years.

These latest developments come as a result of Judicial Watch’s 2017 lawsuit against Kentucky under the NVRA (Judicial Watch, Inc. and the United States of America v. Alison Lundergan Grimes, et al. (No. 3:17-cv-00094)) and its 2022 lawsuit against New York City that pointed out that it had removed only 22 names under the federal law over six years (Judicial Watch v Valentine et al. (No.1:22-cv-03952)).

In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed that such removals are mandatory.

In May 2022, Los Angeles County confirmed the removal of 1.2 million ineligible names from its rolls as part of a settlement in a federal lawsuit Judicial Watch filed in 2017. (Legal pressure from Judicial Watch ultimately has led to the removal of ineligible names from voter rolls in New York, California, Pennsylvania, Colorado, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Ohio.)

Other voter roll clean-up lawsuits by Judicial Watch continue in Illinois, Oregon, and California.

“Judicial Watch’s clean-up of over five million dirty names from voter rolls is a historic achievement for clean elections. I have no doubt that Judicial Watch’s election integrity heavy lifting helped stop the steal in 2024,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “But there are millions of more names to be removed from voting rolls, which is why we are in federal court in three states.”

Judicial Watch is a national leader in voting integrity and voting rights.

Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit declined to rehear its previous ruling in which it agreed with Judicial Watch that it was unlawful for Mississippi to count ballots that arrived after Election Day.

Judicial Watch in March 2025 filed a federal lawsuit against California on behalf of U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa to prevent state election officials from extending Election Day for seven days beyond the date established by federal law. California counts ballots received up to seven days after Election Day.

Also in March, Judicial Watch sent a notice letter to Lt. Governor Deidre M. Henderson, notifying her that Utah is currently in violation of the NVRA’s public disclosure requirements. The notice letter warns of a lawsuit after 90 days if the issues are not resolved.

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“The Gravy Train is Over”—HUD, DHS Team up to End Subsidized Public Housing for Illegal Immigrants

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:49:07 -0500

Over half of illegal immigrant households in the United States use at least one taxpayer-funded welfare program, according to congressional testimony provided recently by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and it costs the government tens of billions of dollars establishing that clamping down on the unprecedented flow of migrants is only the first step to mitigate the damage of the Biden administration’s disastrous open border polices. One major area of concern is government-subsidized public housing, which became available to illegal aliens under policies established by the previous administration’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

To reverse the damage amid a nationwide affordable housing crisis, two key government agencies have teamed up to crackdown on illegal immigrants benefitting from taxpayer-funded public housing. Trump HUD Secretary Scott Turner and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to end the wasteful misappropriation of taxpayer dollars to benefit illegal aliens instead of American citizens, especially veterans in need. Under the agreement HUD will provide a full-time staff member to assist in operations at the Incident Command Center (ICC), creating an interagency partnership to facilitate data sharing and ensure taxpayer-funded housing programs are not used to harbor or benefit illegal aliens. “We will safeguard precious taxpayer resources, and we will stop the harmful practices of the former Biden Administration, which favored and prioritized illegal aliens over American citizens in the expenditure of housing funds and subsidies,” the HUD-DHS MOU states.

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Deadly mass shootings are way down in 2025 so far

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:31:40 -0500

There have only been six mass killings, with three or more fatalities, in 2025 so far. Five of these were mass shootings.

This amount is tiny compared to 2021-2024. Between 2021 and 2024, we documented 271 mass shootings with 3 or more fatalities.

In 2021, 2022, and 2024, the number of mass shootings with 3 or more fatalities was extremely consistent. 63, 60, and 58. This averages to 5.03 per month.

In 2023, there was a huge spike. That year saw 90 such incidents or an average of 7.5 per month. For the entire four-year period, the average is 5.65 per month.

For the first three months of 2025, there were fewer than a month’s worth of deadly mass shootings compared to 2021-2024.

Report: Child Rapist Is Tranny Spokesman. Tranny Group Supported Child Rapist Who Murdered Victim

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 09:40:02 -0500

Yet again, despite its protestations to the contrary, the Lavender Lobby has proven to be a warm, welcoming community for child molesters. A top spokesman for the “trans” movement, Reduxx has reported, is a toddler rapist with a 30-year-old conviction. He rose to the top of his demented profession with a simple trick in prison: ...

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Voter ID Constitutional Amendment Passes by Eye-Popping Margin in Major Defeat to Democrats

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:30:35 -0500

Wisconsin voters decisively approved a measure to enshrine voter identification requirements in the state constitution on Tuesday. Wisconsin Question 1 asked voters whether a new section should be added to […]

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D.C. Anti-Crime Program: Bribed Officials, Ex-Con Hired as Violence Interrupter Charged with Murder

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:05:21 -0500

The scandals keep piling up in the District of Columbia’s ill-fated program to curb violence with an ex-con charged with two felonies since D.C. officials hired him to be a violence interrupter, a disgraced councilman—Trayon White—busted for taking tens of thousands of dollars in cash bribes to help extend violence prevention and youth services contracts and another high-ranking official pleading guilty to bribery for using her official government position to help a friend get contracts and grants. As millions of taxpayer dollars pour into D.C.’s questionable anti-violence initiative fraud and corruption continue to rock the program, and crime remains high in the neighborhoods it is supposed to help.

The public officials embroiled in bribery scandals are part of the D.C. Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (ONSE), the umbrella agency that more broadly focuses on reducing violence in the nation’s crime-infested capitol area. White, recently expelled by the D.C. Council and scheduled to be tried in 2026, took $156,000 in cash payments in exchange for using his position as a D.C. councilman to pressure government employees at ONSE and the Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services (DYRS) to extend several contracts. “The contracts at issue were valued at $5.2 million and were for two companies to provide Violence Intervention services in D.C.,” according to the Department of Justice (DOJ), which reveals that the disgraced lawmaker took payments of $35,000 in cash on four separate occasions. Just a few days ago, the agency disclosed the most recent ONSE official nabbed in a bribery scheme, a former deputy director named Dana McDaniel who has pleaded guilty to accepting at least $10,000 in exchange for using her position to award contracts and grants to businesses owned by a Maryland-based associate. As ONSE deputy director, McDaniel managed agency programming and community-based services focused on providing resources and interventions for at-risk individuals in at-risk communities impacted by violence in D.C. She faces 15 years in prison.

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DOGE Finds 2.1 Million Illegal Aliens on Social Security. Many Voted.

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:42:37 -0500

The Biden administration permitted millions of illegal aliens to register for Social Security and other government programs. ...

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Before Commander and Major, Biden’s dog Champ also attacked Secret Service agents

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:31:44 -0500

From Washington Times:

Commander and Major weren’t the first Biden family pets with a penchant for gnawing on U.S. Secret Service agents.

“No wonder the Secret Service is a mess,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “Biden’s dogs terrorized agents and White House personnel for a decade, and nothing was done about it until Judicial Watch exposed the dangerous scandal.”

Peanut the Squirrel’s killers admit, ‘We can do better’

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:39:58 -0500

From Washington Examiner:

New York’s controversial killings of Peanut the Squirrel and his pal Fred the Racoon have drawn a near apology for the incident that drew online anger at Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and criticism from Elon Musk.

“The heartless killing of ‘Peanut the Squirrel’ by New York state bureaucrats shocked America,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “And now these same bureaucrats don’t want to turn over one document about Peanut’s death and their abusive raid on Peanut’s home. Judicial Watch’s lawsuit aims to get to the bottom of this abuse of government power,” he said.

Feds Bag Top MS-13 Gang Leader in Virginia. Noem Warns Criminal Illegals: Get Out

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 16:07:37 -0500

Federal agents collared a top leader of the Salvadoran MS-13 gang today, and he will be sent to Venezuela's CECOT prison. ...

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New Trump Order Begins Vastly Improving Election Integrity, Leaves Dem Governors Wanting Prozac, Too

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:30:00 -0500

If President Donald Trump keeps applying pressure like this, then not even activist judges will stop him. On Tuesday, Trump signed a crucial executive order called “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity […]

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AG Bondi Warned After Overturned Election Ballot Fraud Scandal

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 19:05:09 -0500

Republican lawmakers in Connecticut called on Attorney General Pam Bondi to examine possible systematic voter fraud across the state. Republican lawmakers told Fox News on Monday that Bondi should examine […]

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ICE Raids Net 370 Illegal-alien Criminals in Boston

Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:48:04 -0500

Federal immigration and other law enforcement agents arrested almost 400 illegal-alien criminals in Boston in raids that ended yesterday. ...

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