$600K Bribes, Fake Judges, and Missing
Ballots: The Henry Cuellar Scandal Exposed
Posted By: Mercedes44, 9/2/2025 1:45:49 PM
The Cuellar case is a demonstration of how entrenched political dynasties in South Texas use power, money, and institutions to insulate themselves from accountability. Congressman Henry Cuellar, indicted in 2024 for taking more than $600,000 in bribes from a Mexican bank and Azerbaijan’s state-owned oil company, is at the center of it. But the pattern stretches across his family, his campaign, and the very elections that kept him in office. Federal prosecutors have made clear that Cuellar and his wife profited directly from years of backroom arrangements that advanced foreign interests. Imelda Cuellar pocketed over $100,000 in consulting fees tied to the same entities listed in the indictment.
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Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro on Monday threatened Venezuela will “enter a period of armed struggle” if the United States “invades,” which he has repeatedly claimed to be an imminent danger.
Maduro issued the threat during an international press conference hosted in the capital city of Caracas, in which he accused the United States of allegedly creating “a narrative that is absurd, to say the least” through its ongoing efforts to combat drug cartels in Caribbean international waters. They [the United States] have wanted to move toward what they call maximum pressure, in this case military pressure,
The Cuellar case is a demonstration of how entrenched political dynasties in South Texas use power, money, and institutions to insulate themselves from accountability.
Congressman Henry Cuellar, indicted in 2024 for taking more than $600,000 in bribes from a Mexican bank and Azerbaijan’s state-owned oil company, is at the center of it.
But the pattern stretches across his family, his campaign, and the very elections that kept him in office. Federal prosecutors have made clear that Cuellar and his wife profited directly from years of backroom arrangements that advanced foreign interests.
Imelda Cuellar pocketed over $100,000 in consulting fees tied to the same entities listed in the indictment.
In one of his endless attempts to grab a headline, California Gov. Gavin Newsom last week taunted President Donald Trump, saying that if he’s serious about fighting crime, he should be sending the National Guard to red states such as Louisiana, which has a murder rate far higher than California.
Newsom’s attempt to troll the president failed on Sunday, when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem took the attention-starved governor up on his offer.
“Absolutely,” she said on “Face the Nation,” when asked if the Trump administration would send National Guard troops into cities or states run by Republicans.
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears is running for governor to build on the policies she helped Gov. Glenn Youngkin craft and implement over the past four years, and the Youngkin administration drew attention to six key success areas, in particular.
When asked if she was running to continue the administration’s legacy, Earle-Sears said, “Well, of course, and they’re working.”
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This week, the dominoes began to fall at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Back in September 2023, the floundering Biden administration tapped Daskalakis—a self-proclaimed “trusted voice for the LGBTQ community”—to lead the White House’s national monkeypox response as Deputy Coordinator.
Fast-forward to Wednesday, and Daskalakis bolted from his role as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC.
His exit came mere hours after CDC Director Susan Monarez was unceremoniously ousted, and on the very day RFK Jr. announced sweeping reforms to dismantle the vaccine mandates that crippled our economy and freedoms.
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The winds of change could soon blow on Iran, according to a new report.
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Florida police have discovered how migrants who cannot speak English have been getting licenses to drive 18-wheelers on the nation’s highways.
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You won’t hear it from the corporate media, but former Vice President Kamala Harris has already had a longer Secret Service detail than other former vice presidents. President Donald Trump ended that on Friday before she could leech more American taxpayer dollars on a multi-city book tour to talk about her failed presidential campaign.
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Grand juries in Washington, D.C. refused to indict two people accused of threatening the life of President Donald Trump, prosecutors confirmed to Fox News Digital Tuesday. Officials from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington said both cases involved threats against the president while jurors rejected charges, preventing the cases from moving forward to trial. One case involved Nathalie Rose Jones, who is accused of posting online threats to assassinate Trump and later repeating those threats directly to Secret Service agents during an interview.
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A Tunisian Muslim immigrant living in France went on a stabbing spree after learning he was being evicted from his hotel for not paying.
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Folks, if there’s one thing Donald Trump has mastered, it’s the art of memetic provocation. He’s basically the Troll Master General at this point.
This week, he revealed in an interview he’d be adding a portrait of Joe Biden’s autopen — yes, the autopen, not Biden himself — to his “Presidential Wall of Fame” in the newly renovated White House Rose Garden.
That was fantastic, but the encore may have been better.
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Backup access can be found here.
Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY),
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