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The former chief of the FBI’s Chicago field office said he was forced out of his job after he says he was wrongly blamed for the failed prosecution of six people who protested against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the Windy City, according to a lawsuit he filed on Monday.Douglas DePodesta sued top Justice Department officials, alleging that federal prosecutors pushed “politically motivated prosecutions” against Chicago demonstrators before gathering evidence, according to the lawsuit. He said his superiors notified him that FBI Director Kash Patel pushed for his ouster before he was forced to resign over the summer.”I saw the writing on the wall,” DePodesta told The Associated Press.DePodesta accused the top federal prosecutor in Illinois, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Andrew Boutros, of launching a “campaign” within the DOJ to blame him after the so-called “Broadview Six” case fell apart earlier this year.TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS LOST OR ABANDONED HUNDREDS OF LAWSUITS AGAINST ANTI-ICE PROTESTERS, MIGRANTS: REPORTHours after the lawsuit was filed, U.S. District Judge April Perry ordered Boutros and three of his assistant attorneys to testify under oath on Nov. 16 in the failed “Broadview Six” case.”There is more than an adequate factual basis for the Court to pursue an inquiry as to whether willful false statements were made to the court,” Perry wrote in the order.Federal prosecutors brought charges against roughly 30 protesters during the federal immigration enforcement operation in Chicago, dubbed Operation Midway Blitz, but many of those charges have since been dropped or dismissed.DePodesta’s lawsuit alleges that Boutros faced pressure from the DOJ throughout the immigration crackdown to slap protesters with felony charges.”Boutros sent DePodesta emails demanding that DePodesta open FBI investigations into individuals with political views or affiliations in opposition to the Trump administration,” DePodesta’s attorneys wrote in the complaint.Boutros often pressured assistant U.S. attorneys to press charges “before investigating the objective evidence,” according to the lawsuit, which says he wanted felony charges when assistant U.S. attorneys “favored misdemeanors or no charges at all.”Last October, Boutros charged six people with conspiring to obstruct a federal officer, a felony, in connection with their actions during a protest at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the Chicago suburb of Broadview.Grand jury transcripts later turned over to the court showed that grand jurors twice declined to indict the six people as prosecutors sought charges, according to The Associated Press. Boutros dropped all charges against the six people in May as the court moved to investigate possible prosecutorial misconduct.Boutros “repeatedly complained to his superiors in Washington” that the failure was DePodesta’s fault “to deflect attention from his own malfeasance,” DePodesta’s attorneys wrote in the lawsuit.DePodesta denied Boutros’ claims to his superiors at the FBI, and they conceded that he was only being forced out of his job due to the “political pressure Boutros created,” according to the suit.The complaint alleges Boutros told DOJ leadership that DePodesta and his sister-in-law, Nancy DePodesta, who is an attorney representing one of the six former defendants, “conspired to destroy” the case.PRITZKER CALLS FOR CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS INTO ICE AGENTS OVER ‘MIDWAY BLITZ’ CONDUCT”There is no one at the FBI who took their oath of office and their ethical and moral responsibilities more seriously than Doug,” Nancy DePodesta said in a statement to The Associated Press, adding that it is “both heartbreaking and shameful that he was forced out of his position based on what appear to be utterly false rumors spread by” Boutros.In September, one of the prosecutors on the “Broadview Six” case abruptly resigned, writing in a resignation letter that Boutros had “scapegoated and publicly vilified” her. She filed a motion asking the court to treat her as an independent party moving forward.The former defendants have asked the judge to appoint a special counsel to probe possible misconduct by prosecutors. At an Oct. 1 hearing, Perry ordered further “fact-finding” about communications between Boutros’ office and DOJ leadership.Boutros has previously denied that politics played a role in charging decisions.Fox News Digital reached out to the DOJ for comment.The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Watch: King Charles Shows Rare Flash Of Anger After Being Left Soaking Wet In Antigua

King Charles was royally ticked off after being left soaking wet in a tropical downpour during a visit to Antigua.

Britain’s King Charles and Queen Camilla, who is holding an umbrella, stand together on the day of the country’s annual Independence Parade at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in St John’s, Antigua and Barbuda, November 1, 2026. REUTERS/Isabel Infantes/Pool

The 77-year-old monarch showed a rare flash of anger as rain came pouring down during a ceremony marking the 45th anniversary of Antigua and Barbuda’s independence.The soggy spectacle unfolded at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, where Charles and Camilla had arrived for a military parade.As the skies opened up, the King found himself standing in the pouring rain without an umbrella, and he wasn’t exactly amused.Footage captured an increasingly irritated Charles throwing his arms into the air, turning toward his aides and repeatedly demanding, “Where’s the umbrella?”King Charles is not amused as torrential rain leaves him soaked through during a ceremony in Antigua on his Caribbean tour.The King is drenched by rain after waiting over a minute longer than the Queen for an umbrella.🔗 https://t.co/UEvXKSRozc pic.twitter.com/HCyMhVBZ24— Sky News (@SkyNews) November 2, 2026At one point, the frustrated monarch even appeared to mime holding an umbrella, seemingly trying to make his request impossible to misunderstand.Charles eventually got his umbrella and carried on with the ceremony, inspecting military personnel despite the soaking.Fortunately for the royal entourage, the downpour lasted only about five minutes before the skies cleared.The King apparently wasn’t one to hold a grudge, later cracking a joke to Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne about his drenched pants.”I’ve started growing watercress on my trousers,” he quipped.Charles is in the Caribbean to shore up ties with former British colonies, several of which have demanded reparations for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade.
Tyler Durden
Tue, 11/03/2026 – 02:40

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Korybko: Germany’s Attempted Takeover Of Poland By Proxy Is To Prepare Europe For War With Russia

Authored by Andrew Korybko via Andrew Korybko’s Newsletter,Just like Nazi Germany seized Czechoslovakia’s gold and its robust military-industrial complex in the run-up to World War II, so too is today’s Germany plotting to seize Poland’s gold and subordinate European NATO’s largest army to Berlin ahead of a possibly upcoming war with Russia by 2030.Polish conservative firebrand Dominik Tarczyński recently explained liberal Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s attempted judicial coup as being driven by him then wanting to seize control of the Central Bank, introduce the euro, and then finally transfer Poland’s gold to the European Central Bank (ECB) in Germany. As it turns out, Poland has the world’s 10th-largest gold reserves, and its 550 tonnes as of 2026 are more than the ECB’s 506.5. The ECB would therefore more than double its reserves in that scenario.That’s a significant motivation for what was assessed here to be Germany’s attempted takeover of Poland by proxy through Tusk’s armed seizure of the Constitutional Tribunal with all that could follow. It could also at least temporarily rejuvenate the euro amidst the rapid militarization that most of its members, the vast majority of whom use the euro, are engaging in to prepare for war with Russia by 2030. The bloc’s de facto German leader is far ahead of everyone with a planned €800 billion program.Poland commands European NATO’s (E-NATO) largest military, and conservative President Karol Nawrocki is opposed to the EU’s “Security Action For Europe” (SAFE) loans that would also obligate that most of the equipment be purchased from the bloc’s members, not Poland’s American and Korean partners. He accordingly proposed the “Polish SAFE 0%” program for 185 billion zloty (~$46 billion), the equivalent of the loan that the EU is extending, which Tusk’s government agreed to despite Nawrocki’s disapproval.If the ongoing attempted German takeover of Poland by proxy succeeds, and Poland joins the euro prior to more than doubling the ECB’s reserves by transferring all of its gold there, then Germany could much more easily advance its plot of federalizing the EU with itself as the most dominant force therein. Coupled with the rapid militarization of the EU as a whole, with the largest army in E-NATO then subordinated to Germany, the 1941-like threat that Dmitry Medvedev warned about would materialize.The seizure of the Poland’s gold reserves is central to this scenario, ergo why Tusk is expected to support that through the introduction of the euro if his judicial coup succeeds, and there’s an historical precedent for his suspected German patron to pursue this policy that’s actually against Russia. Hitler seized Czechoslovakia’s gold reserves and its robust military-industrial complex in the immediate run-up to World War II, both of which were considered by historians to be indispensable to his war effort.Likewise, in the run-up to the EU’s possible clash with Russia by 2030, today’s Germany is attempting to seize Poland’s gold reserves and subordinate the largest army in E-NATO to Berlin in dual moves that would be indispensable in the aforesaid scenario. Unlike back then when Germany led the invasion of the USSR from the front, it might instead task its Polish subordinate with sending Poles to die in Ukraine for perpetuating the NATO-Russian proxy war there or starting another one after the latest conflict ends.Considering what’s at stake, namely the materialization of another 1941-like threat to Russia brought about by the German-dominated European Federation that could follow Berlin’s attempted takeover of Poland by proxy through Tusk’s judicial coup, Poland’s political crisis is of global significance. Its outcome could mean the difference between war and peace, without any exaggeration, since it’ll shape the post-war European order for years to come.We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of ZeroHedge.
Tyler Durden
Tue, 11/03/2026 – 02:00