WASHINGTON — The congressional panel investigating the 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol heard testimony Thursday that former President Donald Trump pushed Justice Department officials to investigate voter fraud allegations even though he had been assured there were no widespread irregularities that would upend his reelection defeat. The panel focused its questions on the efforts of […]
Former U.S. President Donald Trump raised $250 million in donations in the weeks after the November 2020 presidential election for an organization ostensibly intended to fund court challenges in support of his false claims that the election was fraudulent. Instead, he directed that money to an unrelated political action committee, or PAC, according to congressional […]
“Donald Trump was at the center of this conspiracy,” said Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chair of the House panel investigating the Capitol attack. “January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup.” The previously unseen video footage, testimony, and documentary evidence presented during a primetime U.S. House hearing Thursday night made the case that the January […]
WASHINGTON – In an indictment unsealed Thursday, a federal grand jury in Anchorage, charged an Alaska dentist and his wife with tax evasion, conspiring to defraud the United States, bankruptcy fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and other federal crimes. According to the indictment, from approximately 2013 to present, Glenn and Saray Lockwood, of Kenai, evaded […]