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Prosecutors Claim SPLC Paid Operatives Within Targeted Groups
Uncategorized, Approved, National, Washington Examiner

Prosecutors Claim SPLC Paid Operatives Within Targeted Groups

By Mia Cathell | Washington Examiner The Southern Poverty Law Center allegedly paid operatives embedded within the Aryan Nations, after effectively suing the extremist organization out of existence two decades ago, as part of what prosecutors say was a self-enrichment scheme to justify the law center’s purported bigot-fighting work. Federal investigators are alleging that the SPLC has been operating a covert network of “field sources,” known as “Fs,” who either were associated with various violent extremist groups or had infiltrated them at the law center’s direction. To pay for the on-the-ground operations, the SPLC is suspected of secretly spending donor money, meant to go toward dismantling such “hate groups,” instead on infiltration efforts that actually ...
Polis Orders Review After State Agency Misses Red Flags In Hiring Process
The Colorado Sun, Approved, State

Polis Orders Review After State Agency Misses Red Flags In Hiring Process

By Jennifer Brown | The Colorado Sun The former regional executive director of CASA of Adams and Broomfield counties was hired by the state Behavioral Health Administration in November. The state Behavioral Health Administration, which lost its first two commissioners amid allegations of mismanagement, hired a deputy commissioner without checking with the nonprofit where she had worked for 12 years or learning she was under investigation for stealing $99,000 in a tuition-reimbursement scheme, The Colorado Sun has learned. Lindsay Salas, who was hired in November as a deputy behavioral health commissioner at the 4-year-old state agency, worked there until Attorney General Phil Weiser’s office revealed this week that Salas doctored tuition reimbursement records to take...
Colorado Hockey Mom Says Whistleblowing Sparked Retaliation and Legal Threats
USA Today, Approved, Local

Colorado Hockey Mom Says Whistleblowing Sparked Retaliation and Legal Threats

By Kenny Jacoby | USA TODAY For months, Brooke Wilfley raised concerns that the president of her local youth hockey governing board was using his position for profit.  The Denver-area hockey mom discovered that the president, Randy Kanai, was secretly routing the Colorado Amateur Hockey Association’s money through his private company.  She reported his conflicts of interest and mismanagement to everyone she could: board members, club directors, coaches and four USA Hockey leaders who oversee the nonprofit. Little was done.  Then in January 2023, Wilfley received a letter from the Colorado Amateur Hockey Association’s attorney. The board, it said,&nb...
President Trump team outlines crackdown on left-wing NGOs with ties to violence after Kirk assassination
The Daily Signal, Approved, National

President Trump team outlines crackdown on left-wing NGOs with ties to violence after Kirk assassination

By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell | The Daily Signal The Trump administration will only investigate left-wing groups with a provable tie to violence following the assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk, an administration official told The Daily Signal. The focus of investigations will be Antifa-like groups involved in the online conspiracy to assassinate Turning Point USA founder Kirk on Sept. 10, the source said. This comes after Vice President JD Vance and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller on Monday discussed plans to “go after” leftist nongovernmental organizations due to Kirk’s killing. “We’re going to go after the NGO network that foments, facilitates, and engages in violence,” Vance said. “We are going to channel all of the anger that we hav...
Gaines: Bureaucrats are making the rules—and you’re paying for it
Colorado Accountability Project, Approved, Commentary, State

Gaines: Bureaucrats are making the rules—and you’re paying for it

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project Rulemaking in Colorado.** Rulemaking is the process by which our legislature delegates the task of regulating specific actions and behaviors. In a rough sense it works like this. Say the legislature wants to make a law so that building owners don't scrimp on elevator expenses to the detriment of public safety. The legislature, rather than directly telling landlords what to do, will task an executive agency with a general set of constraints, telling the agency to come up with rules and regulations that "protect the public safety" or other such phrases. The executive agency then sets the actual policy: what does safety look like for elevators, how is it checked? If this strikes you as not being too far from having u...

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