Beetlejuice report issued, Pelosi
Lori Lightfoot’s report on Tiffany Henyard has been released. Refresher: Miss Tiff is the so-called “super-mayor” of Dolton, IL – in her time in office she has spent money like water, ignores the aldermen, and in general acts like she is auditioning for a bad blaxploitation movie, up to and including a large personal bodyguard staff. Where is Shaft when you need him? The report ain’t pretty.
Dolton, Illinois, Mayor Tiffany Henyard’s administration was engaged in a “systematic effort” to cover up the Illinois town’s financial situation as Henyard and other officials failed to track the spending of hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to an investigation by former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Lightfoot said the Village of Dolton received some $3 million in payments from the American Rescue Plan, hundreds of thousands of which went missing without receipts. Henyard failed to appoint an official to track how the funds were spent, as required by the Treasury Department, according to Lightfoot’s report.
Hope someone at the Federal level is paying attention…this is an easy bust on a platter.
The city’s credit card spending also spiked to $779,638 in 2023, also with little to no tracking.
“Many of the credit card expenditures have no accompanying receipt, and the statements alone provide limited information about the purchases,” the report says, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
City credit cards were also used to pay for large trips to Las Vegas in both 2022 and 2023, and the report claims, “There is no evidence that any business development opportunities came to the village as a result of either of these two trips.” Fox News
A fairly typical example of how she does things – a local business with three locations was due to have its licenses renewed in November. Henyard wouldn’t sign (it’s supposed to be a rubberstamp, btw) until dragged into court. She swore she would sign them, then signed only two, and had to be taken back to court to sign the third – at which hearing she didn’t even show up until a half-hour late. (That got her an ‘indirect criminal contempt of court’ ruling, too.)
She should have seen the writing on the wall when Lori Lightfoot was hired. Henyard thought she could hide malfeasance and misconduct from a former mayor of Chicago? Chicago? That’s comparable to a one-legged kid trying to steal a base on a major league catcher.
And anyone paying attention to the market is hearing of Deep Seek, a Chinese AI blamed for creating havoc in the financial world.
US stocks dropped sharply Monday — and chipmaker Nvidia lost nearly $600 billion in market value — after a surprise advancement from a Chinese artificial intelligence company, DeepSeek, threatened the aura of invincibility surrounding America’s technology industry.
US companies are spending billions on AI – Deep Seek supposedly cost only a few million.
It presented a ChatGPT-like AI model called R1, which has all the familiar abilities, operating at a fraction of the cost of OpenAI’s, Google’s or Meta’s popular AI models. The company said it had spent just $5.6 million on computing power for its base model, compared with the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars US companies spend on their AI technologies. CNN
Now, where I come from $600,000,000,000 is a big hickey for ANY company, and I sure wouldn’t want to be the fella owning their stock. But, on the bright side:
US Representative Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi has cashed in to the tune of $38 million thanks to some very smart investments, with some alleging that the centi-millionaire couple might be making their own luck.
This comes on the back of the much-discussed Nvidia blowout, which saw over $1 trillion in overhyped stock value disintegrate into thin air yesterday.
“Speaker Pelosi does not own any stocks,” her spokesperson told Fox of the trades, “and she has no prior knowledge or subsequent involvement in any transactions.”
That’s an almost comical excuse, of course — she might not have personally made the trades, but her husband, with whom she lives and has nine grandchildren, did. Though the Pelosis can’t technically make trades based on insider data, there’s nothing prohibiting the couple from buying or selling stocks, and the dubious timing is drawing scrutiny from all sides of the political spectrum. Futurism
Even AOC is crying foul over this… as well anyone should. Almost $40,000,000 to the good i a few days?
