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December 22, 2024

Part 6...the final part:

"Abuse of Power: A Comprehensive List of Alleged Federal Crimes by Key Figures in Government and Society"

Introduction

The following comprehensive list details allegations of potential federal crimes committed by key figures across government, corporate, and other influential sectors. These individuals, including high-ranking officials, corporate executives, and policymakers, are alleged to have violated laws protecting the integrity of the United States' justice system, constitutional rights, and public trust. From obstruction of justice and suppression of free speech to mishandling classified information and fabricating intelligence, the alleged actions outlined below have far-reaching implications. Together, they paint a troubling picture of systemic abuse of power, lack of transparency, and an erosion of the principles of accountability and fairness. Each entry is meticulously detailed to provide clarity on the allegations, the crimes potentially committed, and the consequences these actions may have on American society and democracy.


50. Marty Walsh

Total Potential Penalty: 5 years imprisonment and $250,000 in fines

What He Allegedly Did:

1. Misrepresentation of Labor Statistics:

  • Incident: As Secretary of Labor, Walsh allegedly presented skewed labor market data to bolster administration claims about economic recovery and job creation.
  • Specific Crime: 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (False Statements).
    • Explanation: Made false or misleading statements during official reports or Congressional testimony, misrepresenting key labor statistics.
    • Penalties: Up to 5 years imprisonment and fines up to $250,000.

Potential Victims and Impact:

  • Victims: American workers, employers, and policymakers relying on accurate labor market data.
  • Impact: Fostered mistrust in federal labor statistics, undermining faith in government economic policy decisions.

51. Brian Deese

Total Potential Penalty: 5 years imprisonment and $250,000 in fines

What He Allegedly Did:

1. Misrepresentation of Economic Data to Support Policy Goals:

  • Incident: As Director of the National Economic Council, Deese allegedly provided misleading economic data and analysis during briefings and public statements to bolster the administration’s fiscal policies. This included overstatements of job creation and economic recovery metrics.
  • Specific Crime: 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (False Statements).
    • Explanation: Provided false or misleading statements during official government communications or testimony to misrepresent economic conditions.
    • Penalties: Up to 5 years imprisonment and fines up to $250,000.

Potential Victims and Impact:

  • Victims: American citizens, investors, and policymakers relying on accurate economic data.
  • Impact: Undermined public confidence in the neutrality of economic reporting and contributed to misguided policy decisions based on flawed data.

52. Shalanda Young

Total Potential Penalty: 5 years imprisonment and $250,000 in fines

What She Allegedly Did:

1. Falsification of Federal Budget Data:

  • Incident: As Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Young allegedly manipulated budgetary information to justify controversial spending initiatives. This included overstating revenue projections and understating deficits.
  • Specific Crime: 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (False Statements).
    • Explanation: Provided false or misleading information in official budget documents presented to Congress.
    • Penalties: Up to 5 years imprisonment and fines up to $250,000.

Potential Victims and Impact:

  • Victims: Congress, taxpayers, and federal agencies reliant on accurate budgetary information.
  • Impact: Undermined fiscal transparency, leading to potential misallocation of taxpayer resources and erosion of trust in government financial oversight.

53. Michael Morell

Total Potential Penalty: 5 years imprisonment and $250,000 in fines

What He Allegedly Did:

1. Fabrication of Intelligence to Influence Political Narratives:

  • Incident: As a former CIA Deputy Director, Morell allegedly coordinated the drafting and dissemination of a letter by intelligence officials mischaracterizing the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation to influence public opinion during the 2020 election.
  • Specific Crime: 18 U.S.C. § 371 (Conspiracy to Defraud the United States).
    • Explanation: Participated in a conspiracy to mislead the public and federal institutions by falsely attributing a political narrative to intelligence assessments.
    • Penalties: Up to 5 years imprisonment and fines up to $250,000.

Potential Victims and Impact:

  • Victims: American voters misled by inaccurate intelligence claims.
  • Impact: Damaged public trust in the neutrality of the intelligence community and its role in ensuring free and fair elections.

54. Elvis Chan

Total Potential Penalty: 5 years imprisonment and $250,000 in fines

What He Allegedly Did:

1. Suppression of Lawful Political Speech:

  • Incident: As an FBI official, Chan allegedly played a key role in pressuring social media platforms to suppress content related to the Hunter Biden laptop story and election integrity debates.
  • Specific Crime: 18 U.S.C. § 241 (Conspiracy Against Rights).
    • Explanation: Coordinated with private entities to deprive citizens of their First Amendment rights.
    • Penalties: Up to 5 years imprisonment and fines up to $250,000.

Potential Victims and Impact:

  • Victims: Social media users and the broader public denied access to information critical for informed decision-making.
  • Impact: Undermined confidence in social media platforms and raised concerns about government overreach into private entities.

55. Janet Yellen

Total Potential Penalty: 5 years imprisonment and $250,000 in fines

What She Allegedly Did:

1. Misrepresentation of Economic Projections:

  • Incident: As Secretary of the Treasury, Yellen allegedly overstated the benefits of certain tax and spending proposals, misleading Congress and the public about their economic impacts.
  • Specific Crime: 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (False Statements).
    • Explanation: Provided inaccurate or incomplete statements regarding financial policies and their projected effects.
    • Penalties: Up to 5 years imprisonment and fines up to $250,000.

Potential Victims and Impact:

  • Victims: American taxpayers and policymakers relying on accurate economic forecasts.
  • Impact: Fostered mistrust in the Treasury Department’s role as a neutral economic adviser and contributed to potential fiscal mismanagement.

56. Catherine Russell

Total Potential Penalty: 5 years imprisonment and $250,000 in fines

What She Allegedly Did:

1. Misrepresentation of International Aid Program Data:

  • Incident: As a former ambassador and senior official, Russell allegedly inflated success metrics for international aid programs to justify continued funding for initiatives that were underperforming.
  • Specific Crime: 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (False Statements).
    • Explanation: Provided false or misleading statements about the effectiveness of U.S.-funded international programs.
    • Penalties: Up to 5 years imprisonment and fines up to $250,000.

Potential Victims and Impact:

  • Victims: Congress, taxpayers, and foreign aid beneficiaries relying on transparent evaluations of aid programs.
  • Impact: Reduced trust in U.S. international aid efforts and misallocated taxpayer funds to programs that failed to achieve their stated objectives.

Conclusion

This exhaustive list serves as a stark reminder of the importance of holding individuals in positions of power accountable for their actions. Allegations of corruption, censorship, and the misuse of authority strike at the heart of public trust and the foundations of democracy. While these cases highlight potential failings within both the government and private sectors, they also underscore the urgent need for transparency, impartial enforcement of the law, and a renewed commitment to justice. Addressing these issues is not only a matter of legality but also of restoring confidence in the institutions that are meant to serve the American people. The gravity of these allegations demands thorough investigation and, if proven, appropriate legal consequences to uphold the integrity of the nation.

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I.   INTRODUCTION

A. Art of the Day

Working away in the hidden office, devouring intel and discovering information, to share with the world. My office looks like this, but replaced with digital feeds over the physical ones of yesteryear, processing the running feeds into recognizable patterns that can both explicate and forecast alike. To all the hidden offices uncovering what his hidden for the world.

B. Wisdom of the Day

“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that, for bureaucrats, procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.” Thomas Sowell.

C. Cultural Recommendation

The Dark Side of H1B Visa exposed by a recipient, Raj Kuppa. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25843858-the-dark-side-of-h1b-visa

D. Appearances

II.    THE EVIDENCE

 *Note: A reminder — links are NOT endorsements of the ideas contained therein. The Library is big, and it mostly consists of ideas I do not personally share.  

 

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I.   INTRODUCTION

 A. Art of the Day

Icarus, who sought to escape through wings that could him fly like a bird, but came to believe he alone was the source of his greatness, and flew too close to the sun, to fall and collapse from the sky. The great warning of Hubris.

B. Wisdom of the Day

“As soon as you believe you are God is precisely when God will remind you that you are not.” Robert Barnes.  

C. Cultural Recommendation

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by my old Yale freshman mentor, Paul Kennedy. A sign of great danger is when the leaders get infected with Hubris. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/840043.The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_Great_Powers

D. Appearances

  • LIVE w/ Baris: Debriefing elections 2025.
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  • LIVE w/ Duran: Hubris infects the west.
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II.    THE EVIDENCE

 *Note: A reminder — links are NOT endorsements of the ideas contained therein. The Library is big, and it mostly consists of ideas I do not personally share.  

A.  Daily News of Interest

  1. Lauren Southern discloses governmental effort to entrap her.
  2. Ed Dowd: economic troubles & market bubbles.
  3. Californication collapse. https://chroniclesmagazine.org/reviews/the-nightmare-of-californication/
  4. Trans fad fades. https://www.skeptic.com/article/transgenderism-is-in-rapid-decline-among-young-americans/
  5. Big Tech manipulation of elections. https://dailycaller.com/2025/11/07/2026-midterms-robert-epstein-google-big-tech-trump-admin/

*Bonus:  YouTube revenue falling for content creators.

B. Daily Deep Dive: AI –More Artificial, than Intelligence?

  1. The bubble to end all bubbles. https://www.wired.com/story/ai-bubble-will-burst/
  2. Circular self-dealing. https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/this-is-how-the-ai-bubble-bursts
  3. The infrastructure problem. https://www.derekthompson.org/p/this-is-how-the-ai-bubble-will-pop
  4. Could blow up credit & equity markets. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-10/podcast-yes-it-s-an-artificial-intelligence-bubble-here-s-why
  5. The hallucination problem. https://drainpipe.io/the-reality-of-ai-hallucinations-in-2025/

*Bonus: AI not creating a productivity boom. https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/developers_genai_little_productivity_gains/

C. Cases of Consequence

  1. Bear lawsuit. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/boardofgame-alaska-bear-killings-complaint.pdf
  2. Discovery petition over Texas flood deaths. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/naylor-v-camp-mystic-lawsuit.pdf
  3. State control over interest rates. https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/national-association-bankers-phil-weiser-opinion.pdf
  4. Election Day to SCOTUS. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-1260/364840/20250710101559188_Amicus%20Brief.pdf
  5. As forecast, no gay marriage to Scotus. https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-case-on-constitutionality-of-same-sex-marriage/

*Bonus: Courts usurp power. https://tonyseruga.substack.com/p/when-the-courts-become-congress-the

III.                       Best of the Board

From the commentary on policies to improve affordable housing.

 

From @Ryanpd911

  • 1 - no corporation or entity can own more than 3 single family residence and no corporation can own more that 2 other corporations who own more then 2 single family homes.
    2 - cut regulations on the timber industry
    3 - give tax breaks on concrete construction (less need to rebuild after fires or natural disasters
    4 - deport all illegals make it unlawful for them to own any property in the US
    5 - mandate that all public schools offer shop and each shop class must build one stick and frame house and one concrete house per year and offer trades apprenticeships senior year.
    6 - ban all foreign countries and corporations and citizens from owning land or critical infrastructure or food production in the US
    7 - make a law that 1st time homebuyers first loan is 1/2 the going mortgage rate.
    8 - End corporate farming and put limits on how big farms can be and limits on the number of animals, get back to family farms. All family farms get mortgages at 1/2 the going rate.

From @ashman454

  • evoke/cancel all the stupid green energy rules that applied to everything from appliances, hvacs, vehicles and housing.
    also limitation on corps buying up huge housing section to rent...rent apartments fine, but limitations on condos and single family homes being bought up and owned. y big corporations

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  • 1/ Make it easier to buy a "contact for deed" or "rent to own"
    2. Property taxes and home insurance is a big part of the problem (not to mention HOA fees)>
    3. Lower interest rates for first time home buyers or make mortgage assumptions easier again like they used to be.
    4. Starter Homes!!
    5. It would also help if young people didn't have to pay an arm and a leg for health insurance and high interest student loans. This eats up a big part of the income they could use for a home.
    6. The builder who said that the supply problems need fixed it absolutely right. My brother-in-law is a builder as was my father. This is a big part of the problem.

 

From @EdBiagini

 

  • Robert I have many ideas on this because I am a small home builder in Orange County NY, I’d be willing to send you something via email if you would prefer. First, my biggest obstacle is zoning regulations. NY is a home rule state, so I have to deal with a zoning board, planning board, and town board in each individual town. The average lot size around here is 1-2 acres, some towns it is as high as 5 acres. My father was a builder and in the 70s lot sizes were significantly smaller. So if I subdivide a property I am getting much less bang for my buck because I get less lots per subdivision. Second, the building materials market is highly consolidated. There are a small number of manufacturers for drywall, shingles, lumber, insulation, siding, etc. Even the building supply houses have consolidated with Builders First Source being the dominant player. There is almost no competition and, in my opinion, there is price collusion. The administration needs to investigate this (they just did this for meat packers) and bust up these huge players. If home prices decline much further I won’t be able to build because my margins are already tight, I need input costs to come down. Third, mass migration, both legal and illegal has increased housing demand. H1-B visa holders are allowed to get FHA loans, which is insane to me. The administration has to get serious about mass deportations. Fourth, large investment firms own a significant share of single family homes. A young family can’t compete with Black Rock when they buy up entire subdivisions. Fifth, homeowners insurance has gone through the roof. I don’t have a solution for this aside from getting input costs down to lower repair costs. 50 year mortgages would for me because it will keep prices elevated, so long as it increases demand. But I’m skeptical, gen z already feels screwed and telling them they need 50 year mortgages is just kicking them while they’re down. I would prefer prices and inputs come down so gen z and millenials can own homes and start families.

IV.    Closing Argument: The Hades of Hubris

  • The Greeks warned of it. History repeats with lessons of its own. Scholars and literary authors list it like the heel of Achilles and the wings of Icarus – how the great and mighty fall. The Bible identifies it as the great calamitous sin – from Lucifer’s fall to the Tower of Babel’s collapse, from Goliath’s loss to Nebuchadnezzar’s judgment. Hubris, the “haughty spirit” that beckons a deep fall, now infects the leaders of the west, even the President himself, and now its consequences threaten us all.
  • The clinical definition of hubris typically develops in individuals who hold significant power. Its characteristics encompass:  a magnified, embellished view of one's own capabilities;  obsession with personal image; contempt for criticism; loss of contact with reality; a reckless, uncalculated disregard of risk; a denial of dissent. An infection of the soul, an illness of the mind, rather than a permanent trait of a stable personality.
  • The tell-tale signs of Hubris include – recent overwhelming success or power; dis-sociality disregarding others from one’s own traditional community; disinhibition into impulsiveness without calculated regard for risk; condescension, and even contempt, for others and any form of criticism; a belief in oneself above others beyond reason or wisdom.
  • The decaying, declining empires frequently feature hubris, as Professor Paul Kennedy first penned in his Rise and Fall of Great Powers. The empire’s hubris -- overconfidence in their “specialness” tends to overextend themselves in risky expressions – manifest in multiple manners, such as imperial overreach; mismatch between resources & risks; overestimation of their own capabilities; military operations globally as a nation’s global military deployment exceeds its resource capacity; persistent debt and deficits, in public and private sectors, including in balance-of-trade and budgets, as dependency on foreign adversaries rise; diverting resources to overseas adventurism diminishes the public infrastructure, human and physical; a declining industrial sector, replaced with financialization and services, often shifting its dependence on real goods and labor, it’s true capital, to foreign nations; deepening internal divisiveness, as competing interests vie for diminishing resources; bureaucratic infighting as the parasitic state replaces the functioning private economy for material wealth and moral purpose; a moral decay in the institutions of society, religious, social and communal, as the material foundation for that moral prosperity fades and fractures.
  • What happens when you survive two impeachments, four indictments, and near assassination? Could the seductress of Hubris distract your soul and deceive your mind? Does this not well capture much of the modern west, and even Trump’s six-month flirtation with Hubris as his north star?
  • The cure remains the same as the Scripture teaches and the Greek myths proclaim – a needed nemesis to teach us humility as the answer to hubris. Avoid the fall; abandon the arrogance, and listen again, to the people who truly were his wall against wrongdoers.

 

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The Barnes Brief: Friday, November 7, 2025

I.   INTRODUCTION

A. Art of the Day

America in black-and-white, from another time and place, with the wooden shacks, old-time automobiles, along a stretch of highway looking like Route 66, hugged by small gas stations, old diners, and convenient motels, where Americans go about their day, underneath the open skies, along the open road, inviting and welcoming to a time past we spiritually seek to return.

B. Wisdom of the Day

"The Russians are slow to saddle up but ride fast once they do." Otto Von Bismark.

C. Cultural Recommendation

Kevin Phillips reminder that past can be prologue. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/565270.Arrogant_Capital

D. Appearances

II. THE EVIDENCE

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