Corruption is Everywhere > Dolton, Illinois - The Worst Mayor in America? Chinese Influence in Canadian Elections

 

Residents demand ‘Dolton Dictator’ Tiffany Henyard

resign over sex assault, embezzlement scandals:

‘Worst mayor in America’

By 

Social Links forKatherine Donlevy, NYPost

Published April 2, 2024, 7:07 p.m. ET

A mob of furious Illinoisans demanded Monday that self-described

“Super Mayor” Tiffany Henyard resign from her post as the “Dolton Dictator”

battles simultaneous sexual assault and embezzlement scandals.

The Village of Dolton’s monthly board meeting descended into chaos as the swarm of 100 people banged on doors as dozens of others testified against Henyard, leading the four trustees to walk out.

“You know what you’re doing. You’re violating our rights, and that’s a shame,” one resident testified.

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About 100 protesters called for Tiffany Henyard to resign as mayor of the village of Dolton, Illinois.

Village of Dolton/YouTube

“This is a disgrace what you have done to this village … They say that you’re the worst mayor in America. I agree.”

Another added: “You’ve done nothing. You don’t care about nobody but yourself.”

The board had been scheduled to address Henyard’s veto of an investigation into her alleged misuse of taxpayer money for lavish trips and her own $1 million police detail — a decision it promised to override at Monday’s meeting.

Last month, she shot down a resolution passed unanimously by the four-person village board to open the probe, calling on her to submit the village’s financial records and invite the FBI to conduct its own investigation.

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Henyard is accused of using taxpayer money for personal gain and for firing a former employee who made sexual assault allegations.

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The meeting didn’t run beyond the public speaking portion of the agenda, however, after police emptied the room over what they said were credible threats.

Four trustees, who voted in favor of the investigation into Henyard, said the move was a violation of their constituents’ right to participate in the meeting and walked out in protest, a decision Henyard chastised as only adding to the “chaos.”

“Our job is to make sure we take care of business and not allow the business to handle us,” Henyard said before adjourning.

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All four trustees, who voted in favor of a probe into Henyard’s alleged corruption, walked out of the meeting.

Village of Dolton/YouTube

Henyard’s three-year tenure has been plagued by corruption accusations, which ramped up in recent weeks after she admitted to a $2 million deficit, with Dolton owing more than $427,000 for street paving and another $400,000 for tree-trimming services.

The board of trustees accused her of fudging the estimate by millions and covering up personal expenses she paid for using village money.

“Why can’t we have transparency with what’s going on with our tax dollars?” one constituent asked during the meeting.

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Multiple residents demanded Henyard resign, with one calling her the “worst mayor in America.”

Village of Dolton/YouTube

Henyard is also facing a sexual harassment and retaliation complaint by a former employee who accused the mayor of firing her after claiming she was sexually assaulted during a work trip in Las Vegas last year.

“You know what happened in Vegas. You know what happened. And you should be addressing it,” one resident said at the meeting.

The mayor has denied all accusations of wrongdoing, claiming last month that the storm of allegations is nothing more than a smear campaign to oust a female politician.

One vocal community member who initially backed Henyard told The Post in February that “it was a vote I regret deeply.

“When she got into office, she just shut everyone out, and she went into the opposite direction. She became this tyrant and dictator,” said Sherry Britton, 55.

The Village of Dolton did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

MP Dong Admits Knowing a Bus Brought International

Students to His Nomination Meeting

Han Dong, now a federal MP, celebrates at a rally during his campaign as a provincial Liberal candidate in a Toronto-area riding, in Toronto on May 22, 2014. (The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette)

By Andrew Chen

4/2/2024

Updated:

4/3/2024

MP Han Dong admitted being aware that a bus was organized by a private school to bring international students to vote in the 2019 Liberal Party nomination contest in which he was a candidate.

The admission was mentioned by commission counsel Kate McGrann at the foreign interference inquiry in Ottawa on April 2.

Referring to a statement of evidence to be presented later, Ms. McGrann said Mr. Dong knew “that international students attending a private high school and living in a residence at Seneca College voted in the 2019 Don Valley North nomination.”

Ms. McGrann said, “That statement of anticipated evidence also says that Mr. Dong recalls being told that a bus organized by the school had transported some of the students to the nomination meeting.”

Citing anonymous sources, Global News reported in February 2023 that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service observed that Chinese international students with fake addresses were allegedly bussed into the riding and “coerced to vote in Dong’s favour.”

In the aftermath of the news report and others about Mr. Dong’s alleged interactions with the Chinese Consulate, he resigned from the Liberal caucus and now sits as an Independent. He has denied any wrongdoing and has launched a lawsuit against Global News.

Mr. Dong, who is set to appear before the inquiry later on April 2, hasn’t responded to requests for comment by The Epoch Times.

Ms. McGrann made her statements as part of questions posed to Azam Ishmael, the national campaign director of the Liberal Party.

She asked Mr. Azam why the Liberal Party has said there were “no issues or irregularities” in the 2019 Liberal nomination contest in the Don Valley riding in Ontario.

“The Liberal Party of Canada operates I think, much like the other political parties a very rigorous process around nomination meetings, including a set of published rules, as well as the basis in our constitution that are reviewed and approved by the National Board of Directors,” Mr. Azam said.

“The chair of the meeting for that particular nomination meeting has not indicated any irregularity. Nor did any of the participants in the meeting avail themselves of the appeals process that is available to anybody who is party to the nomination meeting.”

The Liberal Party changed its candidacy nomination rules in 2016 such that those who “register” with the party at no fee can vote in candidacy elections. With this change, no donation to the party is required to become a member to vote for nomination candidates, and therefore those not holding citizenship or permanent residency status can vote in those races.

The Foreign Interference Commission was formed after pressure from opposition parties to look into reports of foreign interference in Canada’s 2019 and 2021 elections.

The reports said that the Chinese regime had funded the campaigns of 11 candidates in the 2019 race. They also said that Beijing favoured the Liberals to win due to the Conservatives’ policies that didn’t favour the Chinese Communist Party.

Corruption is Everywhere > Did the FBI and the DoJ cover up dozens of accusations of corruption by the Bidens? Money Laundering is Oz

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Dozens of FBI sources gave ‘criminal information’ on Bidens

that DOJ tried to discredit as ‘foreign disinformation’: Grassley

By Victor Nava, NYPost

Published Oct. 25, 2023, 6:38 p.m. ET

More than 40 confidential sources provided “criminal information” related to the Biden family to the FBI — which the Justice Department tried to discredit as “foreign disinformation,” according to Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley.

The confidential human sources, managed by several different FBI field offices, supplied the bureau with details of potential crimes by Hunter Biden, James Biden and Joe Biden dating back to his time as vice president, according to a letter, obtained by The Post, that was sent by the Iowa Republican to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday. 

“This letter is based on years of investigation, including the provision of information, records, and allegations from multiple Justice Department whistleblowers that indicate there is – and has been –  an effort among certain Justice Department and FBI officials to improperly delay and stop full and complete investigative activity into the Biden family,” Grassley wrote. 

“An essential question that must be answered is this: did the FBI investigate the information or shut it down? Indeed, if those sources were improperly shut down, it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for the FBI,” he added. 

“Based on the information provided to my office over a period of years by multiple credible whistleblowers, there appears to be an effort within the Justice Department and FBI to shut down investigative activity relating to the Biden family,” Grassley continued. “Such decisions point to significant political bias infecting the decision-making of not only the Attorney General and FBI Director, but also line agents and prosecutors.”

The senator notes whistleblower allegations claimed that the bureau received information about first son Hunter Biden’s “criminal financial and related activity” in 2020, but “ultimately shut it down based on false assertions that it was subject to foreign disinformation.” 

The disinformation assessment was created by FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten, according to Grassley, who explains that the report was used by ”an FBI HQ team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease.”

“The precise basis for how the FBI HQ team selected the specific information for inclusion in Auten’s assessment is unknown, but the focus of the FBI HQ team’s attention involved derogatory information about Hunter Biden and Joe Biden,” Grassley wrote. 

Grassley also citeed whistleblower claims that FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Tim Thibault – the bureau’s “point man” on Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski – ordered that another 2020 probe into the first son’s alleged “criminal financial and related activity” be closed after pressure from “an FBI HQ and FBI Baltimore element.” 

The senator further revealed that in December 2019, the FBI Washington Field Office closed a “205B” kleptocracy case into Mykola Zlochevsky, the owner of Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings – at the same time Hunter Biden’s seat on Burisma’s board of directors was under heavy scrutiny as a result of former President Donald Trump’s impeachment over his infamous phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. 

Trump had asked Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden’s role in the firing of former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.

The probe into Zlochevsky had been ongoing since January 2016, according to Grassley, and was being investigated by a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act squad based out of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.

An FBI informant alleged in June 2020 that Zlochevsky described a $10 million bribery allegation against Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, which was memorialized in an FBI FD-1023 form. 

The informant recalled Zlochevsky claiming during a 2016 meeting that “it cost 5 [million] to pay one Biden, and 5 [million] to another Biden,” according to the redacted FD-1023 form.

After the kleptocracy case into Zlochevsky was closed, Grassley says, a “guardian” assessment was opened by the FBI’s Pittsburgh Field Office to analyze information about the Biden family provided by Rudy Giuliani, during which DOJ and FBI officials located an FD-1023 from March 2017 related to the closed Zlochevsky probe. 

The 2017 document contained a reference to Hunter Biden being on the board of Burisma, which “the handling agent deemed at the time non-relevant information to the ongoing criminal financial case,” according to Grassley. 

“When that FD-1023 was discovered, Justice Department and FBI officials asked the handler for the Confidential Human Source to re-interview that CHS,” Grassley writes, noting that the re-interview led to the creation of the June 2020 FD-1023 containing the bribery allegations against the Bidens. 

During the guardian assessment, run out of the FBI Pittsburgh Field Office, investigators were “limited in their investigative abilities,” according to Grassley, because it was only an “assessment.” 

The Iowan claims that Auten and the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force worked to “falsely discredit” the bribery allegations in August 2020 as “foreign disinformation” and  “attempted to shut down” further investigative steps. 

“It should be emphasized that the basis for trying to shut down the Biden family 1023 has been described to my office as highly suspect and is contradicted by other documents my office has been told exist within the Foreign Influence Task Force, FBI Seattle Field Office, FBI Baltimore Field Office, and FBI HQ holdings,” Grassley notes.

The Pittsburgh assessment was closed in September 2020 with its findings sent to the Justice Department by Scott Brady, then the US Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Brady’s report recommended that “additional investigative activity be done” on Biden bribery allegations.

“Notably, my office has been informed that, with respect to the CHS in the Biden family 1023, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania coordinated with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York in 2020 and found no hits to known sources of Russian disinformation,” Grassley wrote, adding that the information was transmitted to Delaware US Attorney David Weiss – the prosecutor overseeing the DOJ’s five-year-long criminal probe into Hunter Biden, which is ongoing. 

Grassley demanded a response to his letter from the FBI and DOJ by Nov. 17.

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This kind of gives you a new take on an old theme - Chinese Laundry

Australian Police charge 7 in money laundering scheme

for Chinese crime syndicate

By Clyde Hughes

 

Australian Federal Police officer watches a vehicle being towed way in Kew, Australia on Thursday

after arrests were made in a money laundering case. Photo by Australian Federal Police

Oct. 26 (UPI) -- Australian Federal Police on Thursday charged seven people for their involvement in a secret illegal billion-dollar money laundering enterprise.

Four Chinese nationals and three Australians were charged for their alleged involvement in the scheme to launder more than $145 million over the past three years and are set to appear in Melbourne Magistrates' Court on Thursday.

The AFP claimed the Changjiang Currency Exchange was run by the Long River money laundering crime syndicate, which laundered money acquired through cyber-enabled scams, trafficking of illicit goods and violent crimes.

AFP Eastern Command Assistant Commissioner Stephen Dametto said the syndicate allegedly purchased false passports for $126,000 each, which could have enabled members to flee the country in the event law enforcement agencies became suspicious.

"The AFP will allege the Changjiang Currency Exchange was able to hide its illegal behavior because it looked like a legitimate and lawful money remitter," Dametto said.

"The reason why this investigation was so unique and complex was that this alleged syndicate was operating in plain sight with shiny shopfronts across the country -- it was not operating in the shadows like other money laundering organizations."

The exchange has 12 shop fronts throughout Australia's mainland and is now subject to regulatory action.

Dametto said one of the tipoffs about the operation came during the COVID-19 pandemic when the Changjiang Currency Exchange appeared to be doing robust business despite global travel bans and lockdowns of many businesses.

Greed can make you really stupid!

"[The AFP] noticed Changjiang Currency Exchange opened and updated new and existing shopfronts in the heart of Sydney," Dametto said. "It was just a gut feeling. It didn't feel right. Many international students and tourists had returned home, and there was no apparent business case for Changjiang Currency Exchange to expand."

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