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FBI: Gardiner may have given developer who’d been ‘good to me’ ticket to Lightfoot reform inaugural during bribery scheme

Ald. Jim Gardiner has not been charged with any criminal wrongdoing as a result of the feds’ investigation, which dates back more than three years. FBI affidavits show the feds spent a year struggling to view thousands of text messages.

Chicago Sun-Times · May 25, 2023

Art gallery owner in Ansel Adams fraud scandal strikes deal with feds

DETROIT — A prominent Metro Detroit art gallery owner reached agreement Thursday to plead guilty to wire fraud after being accused of cheating wealthy clients out of a $1.6 million collection of more than 100 rare fine-art prints — including black-and-white photographs by landscape photographer Ansel Adams.

Tribune News Service · May 25, 2023

Gabby Petito family gets copy of Brian Laundrie’s mother’s ‘burn after reading’ letter

A copy of the letter Brian Laundrie’s mother allegedly instructed him to “burn after reading” has been given to the parents of his late fiancée, Gabby Petito, whom the FBI says Laundrie admitted to killing before his own death in 2021.

Tribune News Service · May 25, 2023

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes gets 18 years for seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack

In remarks before the judge handed down his sentence, Stewart Rhodes called himself a “political prisoner.”

Chicago Sun-Times · May 25, 2023

House probe could force GOP leaders to discuss Texas AG Paxton’s problems head on

AUSTIN, Texas – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s political career has been marked by a longstanding securities fraud indictment, an FBI probe and feeble attempts to oust him at the ballot box.

Tribune News Service · May 25, 2023

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused of years of misconduct

The allegations have already triggered a federal investigation of the attorney general

The Independent UK · May 25, 2023

Alan Wake 2 isn't what I was expecting, and it's all the better because of it

Opinion | Remedy Entertainment appears to be going above and beyond with its long-awaited Alan Wake sequel

GamesRadar · May 25, 2023

Trump posts fake DeSantis Twitter Spaces video featuring Hitler, George Soros and the devil

‘Hold your horses Elon, the real president is going to say a few words,’ a fake Mr Trump interjects in the fake video

The Independent UK · May 25, 2023

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes faces sentencing for seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes will be sentenced Thursday after a landmark verdict convicting him of spearheading a weekslong plot to keep former President Donald Trump in power, culminating in far-right extremists attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021

The Independent UK · May 25, 2023

Microsoft: State-sponsored Chinese hackers could be laying groundwork for disruption

Microsoft says state-backed Chinese hackers have been targeting U.S. critical infrastructure and could be laying the technical groundwork for the potential disruption of communications between the U.S. and Asia in future crises

The Independent UK · May 24, 2023