Sy Sperlingevsky

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Sy Sperlingevsky

Sy Sperlingevsky

@mythirdterm

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Cry Mea เข้าร่วม Ekim 2016
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MatrixMysteries
MatrixMysteries@MatrixMysteries·
“They shut off MY water right before harvest — they’re killing my farm on purpose.” A 4th-generation California pear grower says state-ordered shutoffs hit right before harvest — killing everything Control the water — control the farmer. Control the farmer — control the food.
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Cernovich
Cernovich@Cernovich·
If you become prominent enough, every day you might be killed by a leftist. Douglas Mackey and many others were framed for crimes. Mainline Republicans have no idea, and see it all as "paranoid." Even though their neighbors celebrated Charlie's murderer and want them dead, too.
Auron MacIntyre@AuronMacintyre

I would agree but we're in a broken windows policing scenario here A lack of serious national response emboldens political violence again all of us Spanish communists started by assassinating politicians, but they moved to nuns and priests and then the average man on the street

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Sy Sperlingevsky@mythirdterm·
Very interesting...
Margaret Roberts@BlowbackBook

22 YEARS LATER: THE HEAVILY REDACTED TRUTH ABOUT THE SPLC The federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center has created shockwaves. Jesse Trentadue was not surprised. “The SPLC’s urine is all over the Oklahoma City bombing,” he told me after the April 21 indictment. Back in 2004 — twenty-two years before this indictment — Trentadue’s landmark Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit alleged that the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was not lone-wolf terror by Timothy McVeigh. It was a failed joint FBI/SPLC sting operation that went horribly wrong. The evidence included a leaked secret January 4, 1996 teletype from FBI Director Louis Freeh. It revealed that McVeigh called Elohim City — the white-separatist compound that was the reputed headquarters for the bomb plot — two days before the blast. The FBI only obtained that information through an SPLC informant inside the compound. Even more damning: the same teletype showed the FBI knew the precise location of Andreas Strassmeir, a German militia trainer identified by another informant as a key figure in the plot. Yet the FBI made no move to apprehend or question him. Strassmeir — who denies any role in the plot — was allowed to slip out of the country via Mexico and return to Germany. [Link full teletype: bit.ly/3OI5eTG] Oklahoma reporter JD Cash, featured in my book, "Blowback," confirmed that the SPLC had deep access inside Elohim City. When confronted, SPLC founder Morris Dees told him: “If I told you that, I’d have to kill you.” President Bill Clinton had vowed that justice for the 168 victims killed by the blast — including 19 toddlers in the federal building’s daycare — would be “swift, certain, and severe.” “These people are killers, and they must be treated like killers,” the president said. Instead, McVeigh's real accomplices were never pursued, and the bombing victims were denied justice. If the FBI and the SPLC ran an illegal surveillance operation on the Oklahoma City bomb plot and concealed it until now, is the SPLC indictment believable as a simple case of “cops and robbers”? What was the FBI’s knowledge or role, if any, in the illegal flow of money to right-wing extremist groups alleged in the indictment from 2014-2023? The Justice Department cannot investigate itself. Congress must now demand the unredacted documents from Jesse Trentadue’s 2004 FOIA lawsuit detailing the joint FBI/SPLC surveillance operation in the Oklahoma City bombing case. Under heavy blackouts upheld by the court, only one federal judge has ever seen the originals. The same rogue FBI playbook of manufactured terror that allegedly produced the deadliest domestic terror attack in American history has seemingly been used again and again — from the Governor Whitmer kidnap plot to January 6 and beyond. The truth can no longer stay buried. 911 Congress — @RepJamesComer @ChuckGrassley @RepHageman @SenRonJohnson @Jim_Jordan @repkevinhern @SenatorLankford @SenatorMikeLee @RepThomasMassie @SenatorRandPaul

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Dustin Grage
Dustin Grage@GrageDustin·
🚨 Minnesota Democrats just voted against requiring the Secretary of State to verify that every voter is a U.S. citizen and legally eligible to vote in our elections. If you thought the daycare and Medicaid fraud was bad… just imagine how bad the election fraud is.
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@amuse
@amuse@amuse·
ISLAMIFICATION: Islamists are building online degree mills in North Texas like TexAM to help Pakistani men increase their H-1B odds from 11% to 22%. We don’t need Pakistani men with fake master’s degrees in Ai to fill American jobs. Shut down the Sharia degree mills.
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The SCIF
The SCIF@TheSCIF·
John Brennan's private security company, The Analysis Corp (TAC), got caught tampering with Obama's passport files while they had a contract with the State Dept, and while Brennan was secretly serving as an intelligence advisor in Obama's 2008 campaign. This happened right as people were questioning Obama's true place of birth and his ties to Pakistan. Key cooperating witness Lt. Quarles Harris Jr. got tangled in the connected ID theft ring, agreed to flip for the feds, and then one month later, found with a single gunshot to the head, execution-style in his car outside a DC church. The murder is still unsolved to this day. Obama then cruises to victory, becomes president, and sure enough, appoints John Brennan as CIA Director. Brennan was Obama's clean-up guy. There are no coincidences.
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Shipwreckedcrew
Shipwreckedcrew@shipwreckedcrew·
The GOP incumbents who lost in Indiana refused to recognize the one single imperative. The race in the House is to 218 seats. Democrats long ago gerrymandered states they control to near extinction of GOP districts. None in New England north of New York. Three in Illinois. Even before the most recent gerrymander, Calif had been redistricted to the following numbers: 2002 -- 30-23 2012 -- 38-15 2022 -- 40-12 The efforts by the Dems threaten to put the GOP House delegation -- including Indiana's -- back into the Minority, with a loss of Committee control. Indiana refused to help. The Dems don't stop -- now Virginia is 10-1, and NY is threatening to redistrict yet again, and it is 19-7 already. This wasn't a "Trump" thing -- it was about keeping Hakeem Jeffries out of the Speaker's Chair, and Dems out of all the Committee Chairs. How about Maxine Waters as Chair of the Financial Services Committee? Jamie Raskin as Chair of the Judiciary Committee? There are many others just like that. Indiana's Republicans were ok with that happening.
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Sean Davis
Sean Davis@seanmdav·
If America were a creedal nation, then America would regularly be denaturalizing and deporting anyone who rejects the creed, either in word or deed. But that never happens, so you know this is just empty rhetoric. The Founders clearly stated that America exists to secure the blessings of liberty for us and our posterity. There’s nothing in any founding documents about America being created to support anyone who mouths a creed at naturalization while crossing their fingers behind their backs.
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Justice Neil Gorsuch: “We’re a creedal nation. What unites us is not a religion, not a race, it’s a belief in those ideas in the Declaration of Independence.”

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Wall Street Mav
Wall Street Mav@WallStreetMav·
2% of illegal aliens are picking crops. 59% of families with illegal aliens are on public assistance. Deport them all. It isn't worth the expense.
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Matt Van Swol
Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol·
🚨 OH. MY. GOSH!!!!!!! It has been revealed that the city of Asheville NC will only rebuild 8 HOUSES with the $225 MILLION grant they received from the Trump administration after Hurricane Helene. Yes, you read that right... EIGHT!!!!!!!!!!! ...OUT OF 11,488 DAMAGED HOMES The city allocated ONLY $3 MILLION for home repairs. And $14.9 MILLION for "administration" FIVE TIMES MORE for PAPERWORK than for the people whose homes got COMPLETELY DESTROYED!!!!!! Over 100+ approved families are CURRENTLY ON A WAITLIST that will never be funded. THIS IS CRIMINAL!!!!!!!!!!! PEOPLE NEED TO GO TO JAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸
Some crazy psycho in LA started harassing a peaceful Christian street preacher. She aggressively grabbed his arm, tried to unplug his mic, and tried to kick his speaker. Make her famous and let’s send a message, if anyone messes with one of us, they mess with all of us. Does anyone know who she is? Help me identify her!
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Francesco 🇮🇹
His name was Filipp S., a 16-year-old German boy who loved skateboarding. On January 30, 2024, at the skate park in Meinerzhagen, he stepped in to break up a fight between two youth groups. Without warning, one attacker punched him hard in the temple. He collapsed unconscious, and then several others from the opposing group brutally punched and kicked his head while he lay on the ground. According to his brother and witnesses, the group consisted of around 15 youths of Arab origin. Filipp fought for his life in hospital but died after 9 days of agony, despite every effort to save him. The main perpetrator was convicted of bodily harm resulting in death, and received just 1 year probation + 80 hours of community service. How much more has to happen before we start mass deportations?
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Rand Paul
Rand Paul@RandPaul·
The DOJ's deadline to charge Fauci for lying under oath about funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan is in 6 days. We can’t allow the statute of limitations to run out. He MUST be charged! Agree? RT.
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Pino Americano
Pino Americano@PinoAmericano·
Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle lost his Senate seat in the 2004 election. It was the first time in 52 years that a Senate leader lost their seat. Daschle lost his seat to John Thune. I say this with all due respect to South Dakotans… do it again.
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Kevin Bass
Kevin Bass@kevinnbass·
I have conducted the most comprehensive public records audit of any Congressman in the history of the United States. That audit was conducted on Congressman @RoKhanna. This audit has exposed shocking ethical lapses and potentially criminal behavior by Congressman Khanna. I am filing a 239-page ethics complaint, including 30 evidentiary exhibits, with the Office of Congressional Conduct (OCC), to be followed by complaints to the House Ethics Committee and the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the coming days. Besides being based on an extremely comprehensive public records audit, the complaint is the first of its kind in another way: the factual basis of every single specific claim in the complaint is fully verifiable and reproducible by anyone with a computer. Attached to this post is a link to the GitHub Release containing the complete reproducibility kit. Anyone with Python 3 and the GitHub CLI installed can download it and run a single command — `python welcome.py` — which walks them through the analysis at whatever verification depth they pick: 1. A 30-second offline check that every body figure derives from the bundled snapshots; 2. A primary-source spot-check that re-fetches the underlying records from the House Clerk and IRS and confirms the bytes match; 3. An OpenTimestamps proof that the package existed at publication time and wasn't backfilled; and 4. An opt-in path that lets the reviewer re-run the OCR pipeline themselves against the primary-source PDFs. This means that any person in the world can confirm for themselves that all statements made in this complaint are fully reproducible and true. --- The complaint asserts the following: Representative Ro Khanna is a Democratic congressman from California's 17th District (basically Silicon Valley). He has been in Congress since January 2017. He is currently in his fifth term. Khanna has done six different things wrong. Each one is bad enough to investigate on its own. Together, they are very bad. His family's stock trades line up suspiciously with the committees he sits on, the donors who fund him, and the votes he takes. That's bad. Khanna's household made between $15 million and $108 million from these trades, with a middle estimate of about $61 million. The estimate cannot be made any better than this. The disclosure forms provide only disclosure "bands". Precise amounts can only be determined with subpoena power. But we do have one hard number: Compared to just buying a basic stock-market index fund, his family beat the market by about $28 million. $28 million. The complaint says that Congressman Khanna should pay this money back. Now, how the trading actually works in this household is important because it helps us to understanding everything else, so I will explain that now. Khanna himself has filed 114 reports with the House Clerk listing every trade his household has made. Those reports cover 37,238 individual trades. That's a huge amount. Most members of Congress don't trade nearly that much. But here's the kicker. Almost none of those trades are in Khanna's own name. 99.997% of them are listed as belonging to either his wife (Ritu Ahuja Khanna) or his dependent child. That's basically all Khanna trades. A massive volume. Yet virtually none in his own name. Curious. Khanna has publicly said this is fine because the trading is done through what's called a "separately managed account" or "blind trust", meaning a broker or trustee makes the decisions without telling him. If that were true, he'd be off the hook because he wouldn't know what was being bought or sold. The complaint says that's not true. When you read his official financial disclosure form (the one he signs every year), it shows: > No separately managed account > No blind trust > No third-party broker handling the actively-traded stocks Instead, the trades come from about a dozen family trusts (the Ritu Ahuja 1994 Trust, the Ritu Ahuja 1995 Trust, the Ahuja Children's Trust, etc.). These are family-controlled entities. Whoever's making the trade decisions is a family member. His wife or his child. (Put another way: his "wife" or his "child".) Not an outside professional. Uh oh. The "I didn't know what my spouse was trading" defense doesn't work. Nothing on the official paperwork supports it. Think about it. Do you think Khanna and his wife sit around and his wife is just buying Palantir stocks, while, by coincidence, Khanna sits on the defense tech committee? And they don't talk? That's the framework. But it gets a whole lot worse. Because the complaint isn't undergirded merely by this speculation. But by hard evidence. The complaint makes six specific allegations, or "counts". --- COUNT 1: Filing trade reports late This sounds like a technical detail, but it is not. It is the pattern of misbehavior that enabled everything else. When a member of Congress, their spouse, or their kid makes a stock trade worth more than $1,000, they have to report it within 45 days. That's the STOCK Act, passed in 2012. Each late report costs at least $200 in fines. Out of about 36,000 auditable trades made by Khanna, 624 were filed late. The worst one was 358 days late -- almost a full year. A trade in HUMANA stock made in October 2023 wasn't reported until November 2024. The complaint provides a calculation of how Khanna fares compared to other Congressmen in terms of how often he is late in filing. Khanna's rate of late filing (1.74%) is better than most members of Congress. The average House member is late on 10% of trades. So if you measured just the percentage, he'd look fine. But here's where things get crazy. The complaint uses a special "composite score" that combines (1) how much money is involved, (2) how late, and (3) how many trades. By that score, Khanna ranks in the top 7% of the entire House. This means that Khanna's late filings expose more dollars to delayed disclosure than 93% of members. A late report means the public can't see what a member of Congress is buying or selling at the time it happens. By the time it's disclosed, the value of the inside information is gone. The late filings are not hitting Khanna on a technicality. They imply that the entire system designed to prevent insider trading in Congress is broken inside Khanna's office. The 45-day disclosure rule is not a paperwork deadline. It is the security camera. It is the only mechanism that lets the public see what a Congressman is buying while the trade still matters -- while the bill is still being debated, while the FDA decision is still pending, while the news is still fresh. When Khanna files 358 days late, the camera is off. By the time anyone sees the trade, the moment has passed. The witnesses have moved on. The dots cannot be connected. A few late filings is a paperwork mistake. 624 of them, on a household making 37,000 trades, in the exact industries Khanna's committees regulate, is a system. It is Khanna's system. It is how he does his dirty work. And it is the system that lets every other count in this complaint happen in the dark. Until now. The complaint asks for: 1. Civil penalties for the late filings. 2. A requirement that Khanna set up an actual qualified blind trust going forward. 3. An Ethics Committee finding under House Rule XXIII that the absolute-count and composite-score chamber rankings reflect conduct that does not reflect creditably on the House. --- COUNT 2: Buying defense stocks right before defense bills pass Members of Congress can't trade based on inside information they got from doing their congressional job (the STOCK Act, sections 3 and 4). Khanna sits on the House Armed Services Committee, which writes the giant yearly defense bill (the NDAA). And across four different years, his household bought stock in big defense contractors (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, etc.) right before the NDAA passed: > 7 defense stock buys 12 days before the 2018 NDAA > 4 defense stock buys 4 days before the 2021 NDAA override > 1 Palantir buy 13 days before the 2022 NDAA > 2 Raytheon buys 2 days before the 2024 NDAA Khanna publicly voted NO on 12 of 13 of these NDAA passage votes. So he's saying "I oppose this bill" with his vote. But his family is buying stock in the companies that would benefit from it passing. That, of course, is insane. The complaint argues this is the worst version of the conflict: Khanna gets the political credit for opposing the bill. Meanwhile, he makes money from insider knowledge from sitting on the Committee, knowing it would pass anyway. In addition. Khanna sits on a committee that oversees defense contracts. The data analytics company Palantir got $4.88 billion in federal contracts during his time in Congress. On at least nine separate days, Palantir got a federal contract AND Khanna's household bought Palantir stock the same day. One of these was a $19 million Air Force contract on May 10, 2022: the same day his dependent child's account made six separate Palantir trades. Khanna's defense trades made about $5.4 million in profits beyond what the broader market did, suggesting that Khanna was using his insider knowledge -- through the intermediary of his dependent child -- to beat the market. What the complaint asks for: 1. Send to House Ethics. 2. Send to DOJ for possible criminal charges. 3. Force Khanna to give back the $5.4 million. --- COUNT 3: Buying drug company stocks right before government drug actions COUNT 3 is the same as COUNT 2, except healthcare stocks instead of defense stocks. Yes, Khanna is doing the same thing across stock classes. Of course. Khanna sits on a committee that oversees the agencies regulating drug companies (HHS, CMS, FDA). The complaint identifies 14 different government drug-pricing actions between 2017 and 2024 where Khanna's household made pharmaceutical-company trades within 14 days of the action. 1,244 pharmaceutical-sector trades clustered within ±14 days of these events. That's chamber rank 1 of 66 House members, 14 times the chamber 95th-percentile. The biggest example: On August 2, 2024, Khanna's family made 286 trades in a single-day rebalance. Hidden inside was simultaneous trading in four of the nine drug companies (AbbVie, Amgen, Johnson & Johnson, Merck) whose drugs were going to be on the government's negotiated-price list. That list was published 13 days later, on August 15, 2024. It was confidential and not yet public on the day of the trades. But Khanna had insider access to the list. And made the flurry of trades that aligned with it at precisely the right time. Two other "conflict triangles" the complaint highlights: 1. Palantir (already mentioned in Count 2): Khanna chairs the China select committee and is a top member on the cyber subcommittee. Palantir is a defense tech company affected by both. His family has done 29 Palantir trades and gotten $22,700 in donations from Palantir's chief operating officer. 2. Nvidia: In 2024, Khanna's family donated 10,076 shares of Nvidia stock (worth about $1.67 million when given, much more later as the stock soared) to a family foundation. In the same year, he voted NO on a chips bill, voted YES on four China-policy bills, and continued chairing the China committee. This is the committee that has the most influence over Nvidia's massive AI chip business. 3. The Goldman Sachs margin loan setup: Across 2017-2019, Khanna's spouse had two simultaneous Goldman Sachs margin loans (basically borrowing money against stocks to buy more stocks). Each loan was labeled as belonging to a family trust ("Ritu Ahuja 1994 Trust" and "Ritu Ahuja 1995 Trust"). This same Goldman Sachs is also the broker for a sophisticated short-volatility options trading program in the spouse's account, and Goldman employees have donated about $48,000 to Khanna over the years. You can't run an options trading program on a margin account passively; somebody (the spouse) has to authorize each trade. What COUNT 3 asks for: Same as COUNT 2: 1. Send to Ethics. 2. Send to DOJ. 3. Force Khanna to step away from CMS, FDA, and defense matters pending investigation. --- COUNT 4: Khanna's family trades line up with insider events at the issuer level — same-day SEC filings and same-day insider trades The single sharpest count in the complaint. The legal hook is the STOCK Act §§ 3-4, codified at 15 U.S.C. § 78u-1(g) — the federal statute that extends Rule 10b-5 insider-trading prohibitions directly to Members of Congress who trade on material non-public information acquired through their legislative or oversight duties. Khanna's household trades are not just suspicious because of how many they are. They are suspicious because they happen at very specific moments. Two examples: > 186 of his household's trades happened on the same calendar day that the company in question filed important news with the SEC (Form 8-K — the disclosure form companies file for material acquisitions, executive changes, regulatory actions, and the other news events the SEC requires public companies to disclose immediately). > 86 of his household's trades happened on the same calendar day that a named officer at the same company (CEO, CFO, board member) was buying or selling their own stock in the same direction. On each of these patterns, Khanna ranks at the top of the entire House: > Same-day-8-K count: rank 1 of 96 House Members. 4.3 times more than the second-place Member. > Same-day-aligned-insider count: rank 3 of 156 House Members. The complaint does NOT allege that Khanna's RATE of same-day-8-K trading is exceptionally high. As a percentage of his trades, his same-day-8-K rate is 5.4% — which is above the chamber median (4.5%) but inside the normal band. The complaint discloses this candidly, up front, to pre-empt the inevitable "his rate is in-band" defense. The argument is about ABSOLUTE count combined with ticker-specificity: the same-day intersections concentrate on companies in sectors his committees regulate. These two findings join two more from Count 3: > 4,595 pharmaceutical trades within 14 days of FDA Advisory Committee meetings. Rank 1 of 66 House Members. 6.1 times the second-place Member. > 1,244 pharmaceutical trades within 14 days of CMS rulemaking events. Rank 1 of 66 House Members. 14 times chamber P95. Across four independent issuer-event and regulator-event substrates — SEC 8-K filings, named-officer Form 3/4/5 filings, FDA Advisory Committee calendar, CMS rulemaking calendar — Khanna's household ranks first or third by absolute count. The four substrates are independent: different agencies, different filer classes, different denominators. The convergence is structurally inconsistent with portfolio management that doesn't draw on contemporaneous information advantage. The complaint asks for: 1. Ethics Committee referral for full investigation. 2. DOJ referral for criminal review under 15 U.S.C. § 78ff (Exchange Act criminal penalty) if any single windowed trade reflects willful use of material non-public information. 3. Disgorgement under STOCK Act § 9 of any profit attributable to same-day-issuer-event or same-day-officer-aligned trading. 4. A House Rule XXIII finding that the four-substrate convergence reflects conduct that does not reflect creditably on the House. --- COUNT 5: Ex-government officials who became lobbyists are donating to him The law says that federal officials who leave government can't immediately go lobby their old agencies. Various waiting periods apply, and the lifetime ban (18 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1)) prevents them from ever working on the same specific matters they personally worked on in government. Yet, five former federal officials, who all later became registered lobbyists, donated to Khanna's campaign. Each one's old job lines up with what they're now lobbying about: 1. Chris Israel. Former Deputy Assistant Commerce Secretary. Now lobbies for tech and pharma companies (Qualcomm, AbbVie, PhRMA). Donated $1,000 (one $500 check was refunded within 24 hours). 2. Arshi Siddiqui. Former senior staffer to Speaker Pelosi. Now a partner at Akin Gump, lobbying on Armed Services issues for RTX (Raytheon) and Honeywell. Donated $2,000. 3. Francisco Sanchez. Former Obama Commerce Department Under Secretary for International Trade. Now lobbies on international trade issues. Donated $1,250. 4. Kevin Batteh. Former CFTC counsel. Now lobbies on CFTC and DoD issues for Citadel and D.E. Shaw. Donated $1,000. 5. Robert Taylor. The most damning case. Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Senate Affairs. Now lobbies for Boeing, BAE Systems, Aerojet Rocketdyne, Textron — the exact defense contractors his old job covered. Donated $1,000 (NOT refunded). Khanna sits on Armed Services. Their employees too: The companies these lobbyists work for collectively gave $365,140 across 264 individual contributions to Khanna. Khanna says he doesn't take corporate PAC money. But the corporations' executives give to him personally. Lobbyists are required to disclose their political contributions. Two of the five lobbyists hid the Khanna donations from their required reports. Robert Taylor's case is the worst: he affirmatively certified "I made no contributions" while a Khanna donation was sitting in the period. The complaint asks for: 1. DOJ referral for the lifetime-ban review (especially Robert Taylor). 2. DOJ referral for Taylor's allegedly false lobbying disclosure. 3. FEC audit. COUNT 6: The Ahuja family foundation and a missing rental property Three problems. PROBLEM 1: Khanna's family foundation isn't disclosed as a spouse asset Remember how 99.997% of the trades made by Khanna are made either through his spouse or his child? His wife's Ahuja Charitable Foundation is a $45 million private family foundation. His wife Ritu Ahuja Khanna, is: > A named trustee every year from 2018 through 2024 (according to the foundation's own IRS filings) > A substantial contributor for tax years 2022, 2023, and 2024 (also per IRS filings) The foundation owns massive amounts of stock in defense companies (Honeywell, L3Harris, TransDigm, Boeing, GE Vernova) and healthcare companies, again exactly the sectors Khanna's committees oversee. Khanna's annual financial disclosures don't mention the foundation as a spouse-held asset at all. And they don't mention his wife's trustee role. Federal ethics law (5 U.S.C. § 13104(d)(1)(A)) requires members to disclose their spouse's income from nonprofit positions where the spouse has decision-making power. The complaint says the Ethics Committee should decide whether this should have been disclosed. Now, in 2024, Khanna's wife "donated" 2,821 shares of Nvidia to the Foundation, and the related Ahuja family trust donated 7,255 more shares This was a combined 10,076 shares of Nvidia worth $1.67 million at donation time (much more later). This happened the same year Khanna voted on multiple chip and China bills and continued chairing the China committee. PROBLEM 2: A rental property in Dover, Delaware is missing In tax year 2021, Khanna disclosed a $100,000-$250,000 mortgage from "First Bank of Wilmington, Delaware" tied to a Dover, Delaware rental property. But across ten years of disclosures (2014-2023), the Dover, Delaware property itself never appears as an asset. Federal law says any rental property worth more than $1,000 has to be disclosed. And here's the killer: Every other rental property the household owns (Cincinnati OH, Denham LA, Walton Hills OH, Harahan LA, an NY condo, Walton OH) is correctly disclosed both as an asset AND with the rental income. Only Dover, Delaware is missing on both sides. So the household clearly knows how to fill out the form. They just didn't for this one property. Why? What's special about that property? The public deserves to know if Khanna is hiding something. PROBLEM 3: Margin loans and options trading prove there's no blind trust Across 2017-2020, Khanna's spouse had Goldman Sachs margin loans (borrowing against stocks). At the same time, the household was running a sophisticated options trading program. They were writing PUT options on the spouse-owned account. Under brokerage rules, writing options on a margin account requires personal customer authorization. You can't run an options program with a passive blind trust. The "I have no idea what my spouse is trading" defense is impossible. Khanna knew. And he was breaking the rules. The complaint asks for: 1. Ethics Committee review of the foundation question. 2. Per-year corrective filings on the Dover property. 3. Civil penalties. 4. A possible "honest services" fraud referral if the Ethics Committee finds intentional concealment. --- How much money Khanna made > $61 million in profits the family made from these trades (middle estimate) > $28 million of that is "alpha" — money beyond what just buying an index fund would have earned > 41% of those profits ($25.2 million) came from trades made within two weeks of an event Khanna could have known about because of his job > The complaint asks for that money to be paid back (called "disgorgement") under STOCK Act penalty rules What the complaint asks 1. The Office of Congressional Conduct should investigate and refer the case to the House Ethics Committee for a real investigation 2. Parts of it should go to the FEC for the LD-203 lobbyist-contribution-disclosure compliance audit 3. Parts of it should go to the DOJ for possible criminal review (insider trading under 15 U.S.C. § 78u-1(g) and § 78ff; lifetime lobbying ban violations under 18 U.S.C. § 207; false statements on lobbyist disclosure filings under 18 U.S.C. § 1001 and 2 U.S.C. § 1606) 4. Khanna should set up an actual blind trust to prevent this in the future 5. He should recuse himself from CMS, FDA, and defense matters while it's being investigated 6. The roughly $28 million in market-beating profits should be returned
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