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Ethics Group Asks New York to Divest From Ben & Jerry’s Parent Unilever
NLPC is asking New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli to divest the state’s retirement funds from Unilever, parent company of Ben & Jerry’s, which has ended ice cream sales in Israel’s “occupied territories.” The request comes in the wake of New Jersey’s...
If Allegations True, Indicted Clinton Lawyer Michael Sussman Should Also Be Disbarred
Yesterday afternoon, Special Counsel John Durham, appointed by former Attorney General William Barr last year, indicted lawyer Michael Sussman of Perkins Coie for lying to the FBI in September 2016 about then-candidate Donald Trump’s connection to a Russia bank, as...
AOC’s ‘Tax the Rich’ Dress Draws Ethics Complaint
NLPC filed a Complaint today with the Office of Congressional Ethics against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for accepting impermissible gifts by attending the exclusive “Met Gala” on Monday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. AOC made a media...
TBT: Hunter Biden Linked Firm Received Over $150 Million in Federal Loans
In 2019 we raised red flags concerning Hunter Biden and $150 million of federal loans a financial firm he was affiliated with received. Rosemont Capital received the loans through an obscure Federal Reserve program called TALF. It essentially allowed middlemen, like...
TBT: NLPC Busts Scam Katrina Charity Connected to New York Pol
The devastation in NYC today caused by Hurricane Ida reminded us of New Directions Development Corporation- a charity founded and overseen by the current Chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee Gregory Meeks (D) NY-5. What we found was a group of pols, led...
NLPC Files Ethics Complaint Against Rep. Ilhan Omar On Book Deal
The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), filed a seven-page complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics against U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar for failing to disclose a lucrative book deal she signed in January 2019 in her Annual Financial Disclosure Reports...
NLPC Triggers Probe of Veterans Affairs Official Charmain Bogue
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General (VAOIG) has launched an investigation into whether Charmain Bogue, Executive Director of the Veterans Benefits Administration’s Education Service, “violated applicable conflict of interest laws or...
Top House Republicans Rip Blinken for ‘Dereliction of Duty’
Following last week's call by NLPC Chairman Peter Flaherty for Antony Blinken to resign as Secretary of State, 23 Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Friday condemned the State Department's entire leadership team for the Biden administration's...
Blinken’s ‘Blind Spot’ on China Means He Should Resign
NLPC Chairman Peter Flaherty is interviewed on America's Voice on Friday, August 20, 2021. Flaherty called for Secretary of State Antony Blinken to resign in the wake of the Afghanistan fiasco.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken Must Resign
Today the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) called for the resignation of Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “While President Biden is ultimately responsible for the Afghan debacle, he has been poorly served by advisors who have a blind spot about terrorism...
Joe Biden Benefited from Fixers Who Helped Harvey Weinstein
It has been widely known that disgraced (and now incarcerated) Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was a generous donor to Democrats, with Hillary Clinton heading the list of his favorite beneficiaries. Weinstein, convicted of rape following multiple charges by women...
Cuomo Smear Merchants Got Rich PR Contracts w/ State of New York
The New York Post's Theo Wayt reported last week that two top former staffers of beleaguered Gov. Andrew Cuomo are now part of a public relations firm with tens of millions of dollars in contracts with the state's executive branch. The governor is under fire as the...
Hunter Biden snaps at critics of art dealings: ‘F— em’
Hunter Biden's surreal art adventure has just taken a confrontational twist. From Fox News: -The younger Biden appeared Thursday on art podcast Nota Bene, where he responded to critics of his art dealings by saying "f--- 'em." -"I never said what my art was going to...
NLPC Leads Charge to Unearth the Facts Related to Fauci’s Wuhan Testimony
Did Dr. Anthony Fauci lie when he testified to Congress about "gain of function" research, funded by the agency he leads --- the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases --- that allegedly occurred in the notorious Wuhan laboratory that many believe...
Big Labor’s Big Bucks Gets Va. Gov. Candidate McAuliffe to Flip on Right-to-Work
Big Labor sees a big opportunity to flip Virginia, a longtime right-to-work state, to one that prioritizes union negotiating rights over the individual worker. Fox News reported last week that Terry McAuliffe, the former Clinton crony and previous governor who wants...
The White House’s Anonymity Deal for Hunter Biden’s Art Buyers is DOA
Remember just a couple of weeks ago when the spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the White House put in place a plan that would keep buyers of Hunter Biden's artwork anonymous, so as not to raise suspicions of buying influence with President Joe Biden and his administration?...
Former FBI Informant: Hunter Biden Art Sales a Great Way to Launder Money
A former Reagan administration official who also once was an FBI informant, paid to infiltrate neo-Nazi and KKK groups to track their illegal activities, sees something familiar in the fledgling-but-lucrative art career that Hunter Biden has embarked upon. Todd...
Oversight Republicans Dig Into Biden Family’s Profits Off White House, Including Hunter’s Artwork
While some "experts" have said Hunter Biden's paintings are "actually good," NLPC and other government transparency advocates see his new "career" as a means to generate more suspect income for the Biden family. Kentucky Rep. James Comer, the Ranking Member of the...
Biden’s German Ambassador Nominee Gave Him $900K for Little Work
As the National Legal and Policy Center has focused on millions of dollars in anonymous donations to the University of Pennsylvania from Chinese sources after forming a partnership with former Vice President Joe Biden in early 2018, other news sites wonder if there is...
Biden Nominates UPenn President for German Ambassadorship; Gutmann Still Hasn’t Identified Chinese Donors
From FoxNews.com by Michael Ruiz, Jon Street President Joe Biden has nominated the China-linked president of the University of Pennsylvania to be the next U.S. ambassador to Germany. Amy Gutmann is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science...
Senators Will Get Another Chance to Ask About China Donations to Penn Biden Center
The secretive, China-funded foreign policy center set up by Joe Biden at the University of Pennsylvania has become a source for personnel and advisors in his presidential administration. Before his confirmation by the Senate as Secretary of State, National Legal and...
