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Newsom Dumps Another $145 Million in Homelessness Funding as Fraud, Waste, and Empty Shelters Plague His Record

April 8, 2026 3:13 pmApril 9, 2026 8:21 am

Governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that his administration is handing local governments an additional $145.4 million in taxpayer dollars to “drive forward our progress reducing homelessness,” touting “real results in real time” and wildly claiming the state has already transitioned...

California Supreme Court Orders Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco to Pause Election Probe, Preserve Seized Ballots

April 8, 2026 12:48 pmApril 8, 2026 3:14 pm

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday directed Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco to immediately pause his ongoing investigation into alleged discrepancies and potential irregularities in the November 2025 special election ballots and to preserve all seized materials while legal challenges...

O’Keefe Undercover Exposé: California Controller Official Admits Audits ‘Not Getting Done,’ Confirms Fraud Is Rampant

April 7, 2026 5:46 pmApril 8, 2026 12:49 pm

Independent journalist James O’Keefe and his O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) have released explosive undercover footage exposing deep dysfunction in California’s top fiscal watchdog. Bismarck Obando, Acting Deputy Controller of Public Affairs and Press Secretary for State Controller Malia Cohen, admitted...

60 Minutes Catches Up to Years of Warnings on the High-Speed Rail Boondoggle

April 7, 2026 1:03 pmApril 7, 2026 5:47 pm

While 60 Minutes this week shocked some national viewers by revealing that California’s high-speed rail project could now cost $126 billion to link Los Angeles and San Francisco — more than triple the $33 billion voters approved in 2008 —...

Another California Fraud Slush Fund: New Solar Fee Will Raise Electric Bills

April 6, 2026 3:00 amApril 7, 2026 1:08 pm

With so much fraud uncovered in California, it’s hard to imagine there could be more. But we know there is more to uncover – more hospice Medi-Cal fraud, more homeless spending fraud, more Palisades fire victims fraud, more LAUSD fraud,...

California’s Bloated Bureaucracy: 518 Agencies, 25% More Employees & 48% Spending Surge as Population Growth Remains Flat

April 4, 2026 2:36 pmApril 4, 2026 2:36 pm

While California’s population has barely budged — growing a measly 0.4% over the last decade — the state’s government machine has exploded. The number of state employees has surged 24.5%, adding roughly 47,000 to 49,000 new workers and bringing the total...

Gavin Newsom Blows $20 Million on Insider Consultants to ‘Cut Waste’

April 3, 2026 12:09 pmApril 4, 2026 2:37 pm

In yet another masterclass in Sacramento-style “reform,” Governor Gavin Newsom has handed up to $20 million to the Boston Consulting Group — the same elite firm that now employs his former Cabinet Secretary and Department of Finance Director Ana J....