Bad stuff

Headline USA   FBI Director Kashyap Patel’s girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, is being protected by agents on the bureau’s Nashville SWAT team. According to the New York Times, such measures are costing the taxpayers an estimated $1 million per year.

“A former senior official who has hired such agents said Ms. Wilkins’s Nashville detail — two SUVs and four agents — costs about $1 million a year, with additional overtime, vehicle and other expenses,” the Times reported Friday.

The Times added that FBI officials recommended a threat assessment to see if Wilkins, who doesn’t even live with Patel, really needs that kind of protection. But Patel “berated” them, saying his authority was all that was needed.

The Congressional Insider -   A New York jury just confirmed what many Americans feared: Beijing was running a secret police station on U.S. soil to keep Chinese dissidents in line.

A Bronx resident, Lu Jianwang, was convicted of acting as an illegal agent for China and running a covert police station in Manhattan’s Chinatown.

Prosecutors say the outpost helped the Chinese Communist regime track and pressure pro-democracy advocates who fled to America.  The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) found a banner marking the site as a “Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station” and uncovered deleted messages with a Chinese security handler.  The case highlights how foreign authoritarian regimes exploit our freedoms and why strong enforcement is essential to protecting U.S. sovereignty.

Democratic Assn of Secretaries of State - Ohio's outgoing Secretary of State has drawn serious backlash for handing over the private voter information of roughly 8 million Ohioans to the Trump administration — including driver's license numbers and partial Social Security data. He did it without a subpoena or any legal requirement to do so.  This is what happens when a Secretary of State prioritizes partisan loyalty over the voters they were elected to protect.

MS NOW - Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy is one of the last Republicans in Congress who supported Trump’s impeachment over the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. On Saturday, Trump got his revenge, as Cassidy lost the Republican primary, ending a two-decade career in politics... Rep. Julia Letlow, whom Trump endorsed, will face Louisiana state Treasurer John Fleming in a run-off on June 27. Cassidy is the latest Republican to face Trump’s wrath after the president successfully ousted five Indiana state senators who opposed his call to redistrict the state