Fraud

The Collapse of the Asian-American Community It’s the worst kept secret in Seattle’s Chinatown-ID. Asians are helping fuel the black market of stolen goods and they’re complicit in the destruction of their own community. While Nick Shirley was busting food stamp fraudsters down the street, I was documenting the ebb and flow of illegal commerce at the corner of 12th Ave & Jackson St. City leaders and cops know this is happening. They think cheap signs will deter this activity. But no one is being held accountable. Welcome to socialist Mayor Katie Wilson’s lawless city.

Independent journalist and Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jonathan Choe appeared on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, September 15, to testify before the Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) at the invitation of Chairman Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.). The hearing was titled, “Fixing Fraud and Failure in Federally Funded Homelessness Services.” Several clips and excerpts of Choe’s videos covering the homelessness and drug addiction crisis were also presented to the subcommittee. Choe provided testimony based on his experience reporting on the homelessness crisis in West coast cities like Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. He addressed the problems inherent in low-barrier housing facilities such as high rates of assaults, theft, sexual violence, drug use, and other criminal activity that result in Read More ›

California lawmakers blocked legislation requiring a comprehensive audit of the state’s multibillion-dollar Homekey program. Fortunately, a nonprofit news site undertook the very investigation state leaders refused to demand. The newly-released findings sharply undercut Gov. Gavin Newsom’s repeated claims that his pandemic-era Homekey program has been a “phenomenal success.” Built on roughly 250 projects and more than 100 public-records requests, the two-year investigation exposed a familiar pattern in Newsom’s governance style: massive spending, glowing political rhetoric, weak oversight, and deeply underwhelming results. In a state already plagued by oversight failures involving Medicaid, hospice care, in-home supportive services, and homelessness spending itself, the revelations were troubling, though hardly surprising. California spent $3.8 billion to rapidly convert hotels, motels, offices, and other properties Read More ›

The following article was originally published in the New York Post. Journalist and Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jonathan Choe is mentioned in this piece. He helped expose this cash-for-ballots scheme. Watch his video. On Monday, the US Department of Justice announced that Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong, 64, of Marina Del Rey had been indicted on federal charges for illegally paying homeless people to register to vote. She now faces up to five years in prison for federal election crimes. In addition to registering homeless people to vote, Brown allegedly had those same people sign California election petitions using fake names and fake addresses. She allegedly supplied them with the names and addresses of real California voters, to write in. There’s Read More ›

Citizen Justice League It’s a privilege being part of the new Citizen Justice League, an elite group of independent journalists collaborating on some of the biggest stories across the nation. This week, I spoke to my friend and colleague James O’Keefe about our latest investigation into the cash for ballots fraud scheme which is still ongoing.