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95-Year-Old Wall Street Law Firm Weil Gotshal Suddenly Lurches Towards Shutdown

Authored by Bill Pan via The Epoch Times,Weil, Gotshal & Manges is poised to close after a wave of senior partner departures and failed merger talks, bringing a potential end to a Wall Street law firm known for handling some of America’s highest-profile bankruptcies.”Following a careful review of strategic alternatives, the firm’s management committee has recommended to the partnership that the firm pursue an orderly wind-down,” a Weil spokesperson said in a statement to the Epoch Times on Thursday.”During the wind-down process over the coming months, the firm will continue serving clients with the dedication and excellence that have defined it since its founding and will remain committed to supporting its colleagues.”Partners are expected to vote on the recommendation in the coming days, the spokesperson said.A shutdown would represent a striking reversal for the 95-year-old firm.Weil represented Enron in its 2001 bankruptcy, the largest in U.S. history at the time.It served as chief debtors’ counsel in Lehman’s 2008 bankruptcy, which remains the largest Chapter 11 filing in U.S. history, involving approximately $630 billion in assets.The following year, Weil helped steer General Motors through a government-backed restructuring and sale of the automaker’s viable assets.As of 2025, Weil ranked 29th in The American Lawyer’s revenue rankings with approximately $2.1 billion in revenue. Its website lists approximately 1,200 lawyers in offices across the world.Those figures, however, did not protect it from the departure of prominent partners and their business relationships.Among the biggest losses Weil suffered over recent months was corporate department chair Michael Aiello, who left for Cravath, Swaine & Moore with five partners.Private equity partner Christopher Machera joined Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. David Avery-Gee, formerly a London co-managing partner at Weil, moved to Sullivan & Cromwell, where he now co-heads its European mergers and acquisitions practice.The failed merger talks with rival Willkie Farr & Gallagher dealt another blow. The combination would have created a firm generating more than $4 billion in annual revenue.The upheaval comes amid fierce competition for experienced lawyers in the market. BCG Attorney Search’s 2026 Legal Talent Movement Report recorded 3,009 lateral partner hires in 2025, the highest total in five years. Overall lateral hiring – recruiting lawyers from other employers – rose 15 percent, according to the report.Yet Weil’s troubles are unfolding against a broadly healthy market for legal services. Thomson Reuters Institute’s second-quarter report said demand remained strong enough to put 2026 on course for the strongest annual growth since 2021.Billing rates continued rising sharply, while productivity improved among the country’s 200 largest firms and contracted among midsize firms, according to Reuters.Consolidation in the legal market remains active. Consultancy Fairfax Associates tracked 58 completed law firm mergers through September, slightly down from 61 during the same period in 2025.The deals nevertheless include major combinations. Hogan Lovells and Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft joined forces on July 1, bringing together firms with approximately 2,700 and 430 lawyers, respectively.Fairfax expects continued merger activity as firms seek greater scale, broader geographic reach, and stronger practices in an increasingly competitive market.
Tyler Durden
Fri, 10/30/2026 – 09:05

The race for artificial intelligence (AI), or superintelligence, will be won not just by technology companies, but by the nation that can deliver reliable, affordable and secure electricity. America is in a high-stakes sprint to lead the world in AI. This technology will reshape our economy, strengthen national defense, transform manufacturing and determine which nations lead the next generation of innovation.But Washington and Silicon Valley cannot afford to ignore a glaring bottleneck: AI runs on electricity. America must dramatically expand its power generation and delivery infrastructure if it hopes to remain the global technology leader.Data centers are the backbone of this revolution. They require enormous amounts of electricity, reliable grid connections and specialized infrastructure. Without sufficient power, advanced AI systems are little more than expensive hardware waiting for a connection. This creates an immense opportunity for America’s electric utilities. For too long, utilities have been viewed simply as service providers. Today, they are strategic partners in America’s economic competitiveness and national security.THE AI REVOLUTION WILL GO WHEREVER THERE’S ELECTRICITY — AND CHINA KNOWS ITTo win the AI race, America must unleash domestic energy production, accelerate infrastructure development, defend against cyber threats and ensure that the private sector — not residential ratepayers — finances this expansion. This is a crucial opportunity for the administration, Congress, state governments and the private sector to coordinate an energy strategy that prioritizes American competitiveness.Electric utilities possess the engineering expertise and operational experience necessary to support data center expansion. They understand regional demand, transmission constraints and the complex mechanics of grid reliability. However, building the necessary infrastructure takes time; new generation facilities, transmission lines and substations often require years of planning, permitting and construction.FIRST DATA CENTER BILL CLEARS HOUSE AS BOTH PARTIES SCRAMBLE FOR ANSWERS ON AFFORDABILITYData center developers, meanwhile, want to move quickly to capitalize on the AI boom. To bridge this gap, utilities and developers must collaborate much earlier in the process, aligning construction schedules, forecasting demand and identifying necessary upfront investments. Washington can support this by streamlining permitting and reducing regulatory delays to provide long-term investment certainty.Crucially, data center developers must bear their fair share of the infrastructure costs driven by their massive electricity demands. Residential customers and small businesses should not subsidize infrastructure built primarily to serve trillion-dollar technology companies. Long-term power purchase agreements, dedicated infrastructure investments and minimum billing commitments can ensure large customers contribute appropriately. This is an argument for responsible, pro-business growth where financial risks are not shifted onto ordinary Americans.The White House’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge reinforces the principle that America can accelerate AI innovation without forcing ordinary Americans to subsidize Big Tech’s infrastructure demands. Electric utilities can benefit from increased electricity sales, long-term power contracts and investments in generation and grid infrastructure, provided data center developers pay their fair share of the costs.DATA CENTERS COULD BE THE SLEEPER ISSUE OF THE 2026 MIDTERM ELECTIONSTo protect consumers, we must require transparent cost allocation, enforceable commitments from large data center customers and safeguards preventing residential ratepayers from being left with stranded infrastructure costs if projects are delayed, scaled back or abandoned.America cannot achieve energy dominance if it cannot generate enough electricity to power its expanding economy. Meeting this challenge requires an “all-of-the-above” strategy that evaluates energy resources strictly based on reliability, affordability and availability.TRUMP ENERGY DEPARTMENT ISSUES EMERGENCY ORDER TO PREVENT BLACKOUTS ACROSS 13 STATES AMID UNUSUAL OCTOBER HEATNatural gas provides essential dispatchable generation, while nuclear energy offers dependable baseline power with low operational emissions. Hydroelectric power, wind, solar and battery storage all contribute where they make economic sense. Existing coal facilities also remain part of the equation where continued operation is economic and legally compliant.No single technology can solve every regional power challenge. Utilities need the flexibility to select the optimal resource mix for their customers. The objective is straightforward: build enough reliable generation and transmission capacity to meet rising demand without spiking energy prices. This is vital as data centers increasingly compete for power with manufacturers, hospitals, military bases and households. Energy abundance is a national security imperative.There is another critical threat that deserves far more attention: cybersecurity. The electric grid and digital infrastructure are deeply interconnected. Power disruptions halt essential computing services, while software incidents at technology providers can ripple back to affect critical infrastructure. Foreign adversaries and sophisticated cybercriminals understand these critical dependencies.Electric utilities operate vital infrastructure that must withstand attacks against corporate networks, industrial control systems and substations. Concurrently, data centers face distinct risks involving cloud platforms, software supply chains and third-party vendor access. These are interconnected risks that could have significant national security consequences.AN AI CYBERATTACK COULD TURN OFF AMERICA’S LIGHTS BEFORE WASHINGTON EVEN UNDERSTANDS WHYUtilities and data center operators must establish joint incident response plans, conduct realistic multisector exercises and develop secure mechanisms for sharing threat intelligence. Organizations should strengthen network segmentation, multi-factor authentication and vulnerability management. In particular, utilities must ensure that a compromise of ordinary corporate IT does not provide a path into operational technology controlling the grid. A stolen password should never become a gateway to disabling the power supply.Supply-chain security deserves equal focus. Hardware, software and remote maintenance arrangements can introduce vulnerabilities into both utility operations and data center environments. Companies must rigorously assess critical vendors and establish clear protocols for addressing compromised components.CLICK HERE FOR MORE FOX NEWS OPINIONWhile the federal government has an important role in providing actionable threat intelligence, cybersecurity must not become an excuse for expensive, rigid mandates. Security frameworks should remain risk-based, practical and focused on resilience.The relationship between utilities and data centers should not be one-way. With the right investments, large computing facilities can help improve grid flexibility. Some AI training workloads can be shifted to off-peak hours, allowing operators to reduce consumption during periods of high demand.Furthermore, battery storage and appropriately designed on-site generation can provide grid stability during emergencies, turning data centers into strategic assets that strengthen, rather than strain, America’s energy future.

For years, Democrats — especially “mainstream” (left-wing) reporters — have pretended President Trump persecutes the press. Their current silence is deafening after Democratic Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty just brought bogus and stunning felony charges against two conservative journalists, Cam Higby and James O’Keefe, for having the audacity to expose Minnesota’s woefully lax voter security protocols. In other words, Moriarty illegally charged two reporters for doing their jobs.Moriarty’s illegal felony charges against disfavored reporters for non-crimes crossed a glaring red line, and the Trump Justice Department must immediately and publicly open a civil rights criminal case against Moriarty and others for conspiring to violate and violating Higby and O’Keefe’s First Amendment constitutional rights, under 18 U.S.C. §§ 241 and 242. If the evidence is there, which it seems obvious, Moriarty must face federal charges immediately. Anything short of this turns a blind eye to an extraordinarily dangerous open season on America’s free press.Every illegal vote, as a matter of basic arithmetic, disenfranchises a legal voter. Election integrity requires public confidence in the system’s security. Tina Peters faced nearly a decade in prison for revealing serious election flaws in Colorado until Democratic Gov. Jared Polis courageously commuted her sentence. Following Peters’ lead, Higby and O’Keefe set out to test Minnesota’s voting system for weaknesses. Higby wore a burqa and posed as a registered voter. He also vouched for a companion he said was registered as well. He filmed the exchange with poll workers to show his online audience just how vulnerable the system really is.COLORADO GOVERNOR COMMUTES TINA PETERS’ SENTENCE AS TRUMP POSTS ‘FREE TINA!’The video shows that Higby never had to present photo identification. His word alone cleared his companion, who also produced no ID. To be clear, neither cast a ballot. The exercise simply aimed to demonstrate, as Higby certainly did, how easily someone can manipulate Minnesota’s elections.The state’s U.S. Senate race between Republican Michele Tafoya and far-left Democrat Peggy Flanagan is tightening. The stakes are high: The race could decide control of the Senate chamber. Only lawful voters should cast ballots, and the law limits federal elections to American citizens.SLEEPER GOP CANDIDATE PUTS BLUE-LEANING STATE IN PLAY AS FRAUD SCANDAL SHADOWS DEMSWhat Higby and O’Keefe did was vintage investigative journalism, not voter fraud. The First Amendment guarantees a free press to protect this precise kind of work. If prosecutors can punish undercover journalism with felony charges, oversight by the Fourth Estate will dramatically diminish. Fear of prosecution and prison will chill would-be investigators whenever the powers-that-be dislike a story, such as one revealing insecure ballot safeguards.But Moriarty, a Democrat lawfare crusader, does not care about any of this. She only cares about getting plaudits from top Democrat brass — and power — at any and all costs, including imprisoning reporters.JONATHAN TURLEY: SUPREME COURT MUST TAKE HERRIDGE CASE AND PROTECT REPORTERS’ SOURCESMoriarty applies the law selectively. The case of Turning Point USA activist Savannah Hernandez proves it. Three agitators assaulted Hernandez in front of numerous witnesses and cameras captured the attack. Moriarty pursued only misdemeanor charges — a slap on the hand. Fortunately, federal prosecutors stepped in and filed felony charges against the three alleged attackers. Yet Moriarty now seeks to convict Higby and O’Keefe of serious crimes, though they attacked no one and neither voted illegally nor actually attempted to vote in the first place.Moriarty’s lawfare demands a federal response. Federal law, specifically 18 U.S.C. § 242, makes it a crime to willfully deprive anyone of constitutional rights under color of law. And 18 U.S.C. § 241 makes it a crime to conspire with others to do the same. Moriarty should go after fraudsters at the ballot box and those behind billions in bogus claims against Medicaid. Instead, she is hounding two journalists for doing their jobs: showing the public how dismal Minnesota’s election protections are.SOROS NETWORK REBUILDS PROGRESSIVE PROSECUTOR PUSH AFTER STRING OF ELECTION LOSSESHigby and O’Keefe should not face criminal charges. But Moriarty and her co-conspirators must. Indicting them would send a resounding message to Soros-backed and other leftist district attorneys across the nation: Lawfare will carry dire legal consequences. Prosecutors must meet the highest standards. After all, as the left intoned during the anti-Trump lawfare years, no one is above the law.CLICK FOR MORE FROM MIKE DAVIS

Kim Kardashian’s life is explored in a new book chronicling her meteoric rise to fame.In the new book, “Citizen Kim: The Woman Who Created the Future,” writer Jonathan Van Meter dove deep into the lives of the Kardashians, particularly Kim, and how she built her empire outside of reality TV.Through a series of interviews with members of the Kardashian family, including Kim, Khloe and Kourtney, as well as those close to the famous family, Van Meter discusses the biggest moments in her life, including her relationship with Kanye, the terrifying Paris robbery, her mother’s affair and her prison reform and advocacy work.Here are some of the biggest headlines from the book.In October 2017, Kim saw a video of Alice Marie Johnson in prison, in which she was pleading for clemency.She opened up in the book about how the video “changed my life,” saying she immediately reached out to Shawn Holley, who was a lawyer on O.J. Simpson’s defense team, asking “What can we do?”After learning the only way to get Johnson out of prison was a presidential pardon, Kim reached out to Ivanka Trump, who put her in touch with Jared Kushner. Kushner helped set up a meeting between Kardashian and President Trump, a move that raised concerns on both sides about the “optics,” according to the book.”Everyone was telling me, ‘Don’t go, your career will be over; you can’t step foot in there.’ And I was like, ‘It’s my reputation over someone’s life?’ Weigh that out,” Kim said in the book. “People talk s–t about me all day long. It will just be another story about me versus someone getting their life back.”A week after the meeting with President Trump, Kim was able to call Johnson and personally deliver the news that she had been granted clemency.”She started screaming on the phone. I was on the set of a Steven Klein shoot, practically nude, so I had to cover with a robe and make this call and tell her,” Kim said. “She packed her stuff—whatever she checked in with twenty two years prior—and was released immediately.”Kim’s experience advocating on behalf of Johnson was her first step on the path towards becoming a lawyer and furthering her advocacy work.She met with President Trump again, this time on behalf of a man who received a life sentence for a nonviolent crime. This time, she was accompanied by attorney Van Jones, who said he will “never forget walking into the West Wing with her.”While Jones felt as if “Every sentence I said made it worse,” he recalled Kim and the president discussing the case, including Kardashian’s response after Trump said, “This guy . . . let’s just be honest now. This is a tough guy.””Kim had memorized the case,” Jones said in the book. “She knew everything about the person. She told the president, ‘You can be the big guy; you can help a sick man.’ It was like watching a ballerina hypnotize a grizzly bear . . . her syllable-to-impact ratio is off the charts. What she can get done in a simple sentence!”Jones argued in the book that while some may resent Kim because “she represents somebody who already has it all” and is now trying to also “be successful in my field,” he says, “if you’re in jail, and you’re trying to get out, you’re not mad at Kim Kardashian.”KIM KARDASHIAN WOWS IN STRING BIKINI DURING PDA-FILLED BEACH TRIP WITH LEWIS HAMILTON”You have literally hundreds of thousands of people for whom the system is so broken that only when a Kim Kardashian steps in does she change the odds in their favor, even a little bit,” he said. “So you can be mad at Kim or you can be mad at the system that is so broken that it needs Kim.”Kim married rapper Kanye West in May 2014 and welcomed four children together, before filing for divorce in February 2021.Towards the end of their marriage, West began acting increasingly erratic as he dealt with ongoing mental health issues, and began speaking negatively about Kim and her family members. Kim expressed in the past that this led her to not feel safe around him, emotionally and physically.GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HEREDespite this, Kim told Van Meter she continues to “worry about him all day.””All the time. That’s the father of my kids, I’ll never not worry about him. And that’s a big burden of having kids with someone who you don’t necessarily get along with. My kids would never know that. I do everything in my power to forget about all the negative things that happened,” she said. “I have to be realistic, and my therapist definitely tells me, ‘Your boundaries have to go up,’ but we manage to coparent without too much conflict. It’s been pretty smooth for while. I guess because we don’t talk that much. But when we see each other, we give each other a hug.”She added that she not only encourages her children to have a relationship with their father, but also with his family, noting that whenever his family members are in town, she will invite them over for dinner and to spend time with her kids.Although he was acting erratic in public, Kim noted their children never saw him that way, adding, “that was such a blessing.””He would have a full episode, and the kids would never know because they would be almost a calming presence for him. So it was a fine balance of, like, how do we keep them around? Or: Is it go-time?” she said. “My whole household knows what a ‘lockdown’ means if I text it. Like, ‘We’re on lockdown.’ No TVs, just movies. No just plug in a phone for music in the car. Not even, like, XM, because they talk about current events in real time. like, they don’t have to be a party to this.”LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSKris Jenner’s marriage to Robert Kardashian ended in 1990 when she was caught having an affair with 23-year-old soccer player, Todd Waterman.In her own memoir, Jenner opened up about the affair, calling it “out of control, crazy, dangerous.” Van Meter writes that as time went on she got “reckless” and would openly host friends at her home along with Waterman, and even took six-year-old Khloe with her when she went on dates with him.PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE”We knew my mom was dating, because we would see it,” Kim said. “She introduced us to her boyfriend. He was ten years younger. He was kind of like a playboy.”Robert eventually confronted Jenner, and they came together to tell their children they were getting a divorce in January 1990.When reflecting on that day, Kim shared that “Kourtney had a hard time with it” and that “I didn’t really care.” Kourtney confirmed this saying, “I don’t think it affected her,” when asked about Kim’s reaction.”It was traumatic for me,” Kourtney told Van Meter. “I feel like the oldest child takes things the hardest. I see that with my own kids and my nieces and nephews.”When “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” aired its first episode in October 2007, audiences gained access to the Kardashian/Jenner clan in a way they previously never had.Prior to the release of the show, Kim appeared on “The Tyra Banks Show” in September, and after seeing her on the show, O.J. Simpson wasn’t too hopeful the show would be a success.While in Las Vegas getting ready to commit armed robbery to allegedly steal sports memorabilia he believed to be his, memorabilia dealer, Tom Riccio, who was in the room with him, recalled the former football star saying, “That’s my goddaughter! Her name is Kim!” and then added, “That show ain’t gonna last two weeks!”Of course the show ultimately went on to air on E! for over fourteen years and spawned eight spin-off shows. Their reality TV prowess continues on Hulu, as their new show, “The Kardashians” recently started its eighth season on the streamer.

We are living in troubled times.
A radical Obama-linked group that targeted The Gateway Pundit and many conservative leaders following the 2020 stolen election has come out with a playbook on how to defeat any prosecutions and shut down investigations following the 2026 midterm election.
This is quite interesting and of course you have to ask yourself, “Does that mean they believe Democrats are going for the steal again?”
Protect Democracy was founded by former Obama counsels Ian Bassin and Justin Florence.
They are as radical as their master.
Natalie Winters recently reported on this “confidential” midterm playbook that Democrats will use following the election for grand juries, ballot battles, censorship of the opposition, and election confrontations.
Democrats are ramping up for chaos following the midterms. Why is that?
Again, what do they know about the midterms that they are not revealing?
We know about the persecution that is coming if Democrats ‘win’ in November. They are calling for the complete destruction of President Donald Trump, MAGA and conservative leaders. They want to go after Trump, his family, his supporters, Elon Musk, his companies, and anyone who stands in their way for complete power.
The radical left has even included Big Balls as a target for investigations if they win the midterms.
These people are really no different than radical communists!
They hate patriotic Americans more than America’s worst enemies.
Winters was able to get her hands on their post-election playbook.
Damn, these people are organized – and they are RAGING!
They must destroy patriotic Americans, God-fearing Americans, conservatives at all costs.
They only offer pain!
We must make sure these people never come to power! Please, reach out to your friends and family and make sure they vote. The one thing we have is the majority. And that’s why they hate us!
We are living in very dangerous times.
Here is a copy of Protect Democracy’s playbook that includes information on legal battles, coordinated censorship, and mass mobilization.
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Glenn Beck has more.

.@nataliegwinters just uncovered a confidential 14-page document written by the Obama-linked group Protect Democracy. It’s all about controlling what happens AFTER the midterms – specifically, hijacking the entire post-election process so nobody can audit the results.
It gives progressive lawmakers exact instructions for how to pre-bunk investigations, recruit grand jurors to toss cases, and mobilize mass street protests the second anyone looks too closely at the numbers.
They aren’t waiting to see what the audits find. They don’t care about the results. They’ve already planned that no matter what happens in these midterms, they’ll try everything they can to destroy our Republic.
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) October 29, 2026

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Until now, the public had to rely on lies told by the mainstream media to understand why the windows were covered at the TCF Center in Detroit on the day after the November 2020 election.
After more than 100 volunteers carefully reviewed nearly one million documents from Detroit’s November 2020 election—documents obtained through a FOIA lawsuit filed by New Jersey citizen Yehuda Miller—we are now prepared to announce one of our investigation’s most significant findings.
Democrat poll challenger David Burcar covered the windows at the TCF Center to keep GOP poll challengers from watching the process. Jocelyn Benson appears to know David.
FIVE YEARS AGO, WHAT APPEARS TO BE A WELL-ORGANIZED PLOT UNFOLDED IN DETROIT
Daniel Baxter, Detroit’s top election official, made a general announcement to the room, suggesting it was a good time to take a break as election workers sorted through “military” ballots.
Daniel Baxter with Detroit Clerk Janice Winfrey
Republicans had a room on another floor where food, snacks, and tables and chairs were available. Democrat poll challengers and outside agitators somehow knew to stay in the room. They had already commandeered the only available tables and chairs in the counting room. Their pizza boxes were later used to block the view of Republican poll challengers.
Republican poll challengers were locked out of the room where an almost exclusively Democratic paid election workforce counted 170K+ absentee ballots from the November 2020 election. COVID, they said.
Democrat poll challengers and election workers began covering the windows with a stack of large sheets of white cardboard. Much like the stacks of strategically placed bricks appeared in cities around America during Obama’s race riots, the cardboard and tape just happened to be at the front of the room, ready to cover the only windows into the counting room.
WHO COVERED THE WINDOWS?—AND WHY DID JOCELYN BENSON LIE ABOUT IT?
Michigan’s top election official, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, appeared on Michigan’s top-rated radio show two days after the election and blatantly lied about who covered the windows and why, telling the popular, now-deceased WJR radio host Frank Beckmann. “We welcome transparency,” the nation’s most non-transparent secretary of state exclaimed. And then, she dropped a lie so easy to fact-check that if Detroit had a single honest news outlet, it would have been all over the news the next day: “The windows were being covered by the [Detroit] Police” because “they were being broken.” Benson said. Smiling at the camera, while acting like a common thug, Benson mocked GOP poll challengers for not fully understanding what they’re up against when they attempt to observe the vote in Detroit: “I’ll just say that if they thought they were going to stop anyone or intimidate anyone inside, then they don’t know Detroit,” Benson told a local TV news station.

JOCELYN BENSON IS A HABITUAL LIAR RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR IN MICHIGAN…
Remember when @JocelynBenson LIED and said “Detroit Police had to cover the windows” at the TCF Center in 2020 after election officials locked GOP poll challengers out of the room where absentee ballots were being counted?
Remember when the former Southern Poverty Law Center board member, @JocelynBenson, questioned if poll workers who were LOCKED OUT were “STAGING” the protest? Did she ask the question because she was used to paying for “STAGED” protests to raise money?
Detroit Police NEVER covered the windows.
No windows were broken.
Detroit Election workers and outside leftist agitators taunted, bullied, and threatened poll challengers. The violence and threats were ONLY coming from Democrats that day. I was there. I witnessed it.
WATCH the video for proof that she is a habitual liar. @gatewaypundit @HarmeetKDhillon @DonaldTrump
— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) May 14, 2026

Jocelyn Benson not only lied about “Detroit Police” covering the windows, but we believe she also knew exactly who covered the windows. I received several tips from individuals who know David Burcar, the union guy in the grey T-shirt who initiated the window covering. Burcar was far from an “election official.” In fact, while Republican poll challengers wore oversized identification badges on lanyards, Democrats only had to wear a small lime-green sticker somewhere on their clothing. Thanks to a video I shared on “X,” I also identified Burcar as a Democratic poll challenger by zooming in on him covering the windows and making vile gestures at the Republican poll challengers with his mouth.

Curiously, David Burcar’s Facebook page shows photos of him with Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s top election official, who lied about who covered the windows. Are the guy who covered the windows and Jocelyn Benson friends? It sure looks like it in this photo posted to Burcar’s Facebook page.
David Burcar and Jocelyn Benson
This video, posted by a Michigan Senator on X, shows election workers standing up and cheering every time a Republican poll challenger was kicked out of the room.

My wife just sent this video of Detroit election workers cheering every time a @migop attorney is removed from the TCF Center, where absentee ballot counting is happening. She says they do this every time they eject a GOP poll watcher & that Dem watchers outnumber GOP 3:1. https://t.co/Sx1aHCoChY
— Aric Nesbitt (@aricnesbitt) November 4, 2020

And then came the count of the “military ballots.”
134 Counting Boards Were Filled With Thousands of “Military” Ballots Daniel Baxter Said Election Workers Had To Sort Through
One election official looked up the voter to see if they were in the QVF or Qualified Voter Files. If the voter wasn’t found in the QVF, the election worker looked them up in the Supplemental poll book (used to record same-day registrants). If the voter wasn’t found in either poll book, the election worker entered a registration date of 1-1-1900 to override the system and automatically register them to vote. Previously, poll challengers were told election workers entered a birth date to override the system and allow them to process ballots for “military voters” who couldn’t be found in the qualified voter files, but we have since discovered it was, instead, a registration date. Several GOP poll challengers testified that they saw this happen at counting boards across the room.
Once the voter was “entered” into the system, one of the workers would hold up the ballot (which, in my case, looked like a ballot on a piece of fax paper) and read off the name of each candidate the “voter” chose, and the other election worker would fill out a new ballot that could be put through the tabulator, since the “military” ballots were not on official paper.
Most GOP poll challengers reported on affidavits that the “military” voters they watched being processed voted either straight-ticket Democratic Party or for Joe Biden. Typically, military voters vote Republican. According to Pew Research, in the 2024 election, about 61% of veteran registered voters supported Trump (vs. 37% for Harris). Similar margins appeared in 2020 (~60% Trump) and 2016 (~61% Trump).
Here is my testimony in front of the Michigan Senate Oversight Committee:
(During my testimony, I misspoke and said the birthdate entered was 1-1-2020. I meant to say 1-1-1900, which we now know was entered as a registration date.) 

I testified before the MI Sen Oversight Cmt in 2020 about UOCAVA votes I watched being processed @ the TCF Center
Election workers couldn’t find any of the voters in the voter rolls, so they assigned them birthdates of 1/1/1900 to override the system & allow their votes to be counted.
— PattyMI (@PattyLovesTruth) September 19, 2024

Based on the Detroit 2020 Election Inspection team’s stunning findings, there was fewer than one “military” ballot counted at each table (according to documents we received from the City of Detroit and the QVF supplied by the Michigan Secretary of State’s office)
Here is the BOMBSHELL evidence we uncovered:
Only 746 UOCAVA ballots were cast in the November 2020 election.
Of that number, only 132 “MILITARY” UOCAVA Overseas ballots were cast.
616 CIVILIAN UOCAVA Overseas ballots were cast.
Only 125 have accompanying envelopes
24 of the 125 absentee envelopes were sent to Detroit addresses, not overseas.
So, if there were only 132 “military” ballots, where did the thousands of ballots in the postal trays election officials called “military” ballots come from?
Here is an example of one of the 125 UOCAVA ballots (red print vs. black print) from the City of Detroit FOIA lawsuit. There appear to be 3 different ballot #’s attached to the voter (outlined in blue). The address, which is an iconic office building in Detroit and NOT a residential building, is also outlined in blue. In any serious election, excluding Michigan, whose elections under Jocelyn Benson are anything but serious, an address for an “overseas” voter that reads APT# 111-259 would be disqualified.

The “overseas” voter has no forwarding address on his envelope. If this is truly an “overseas voter,” why is his ballot going to a Detroit address? This is one of 24 UOCAVA envelopes being sent to Detroit.
Is the FVAP (Federal Voting Assistance Program) allowing “overseas” voters to vote at a domestic address with no forwarding overseas address?
Did you know that when a “voter” registers on the FVAP website, they can skip the section that asks them to prove their identity if they don’t have a license or Social Security number?
It almost seems too good to be true. If someone wanted to vote in Detroit without proof of identity, wouldn’t registering to vote UOCAVA and then voting from an office building be a great way to avoid getting caught?

There is a UPS inside the Buhl Building at 535 Griswold St. in Detroit, but Michigan election law doesn’t allow voters to vote from a UPS location. So, if this isn’t a residence, how are voters getting ballots sent there, and who filled out and returned the ballot for this “overseas” voter?
And what about these voters who are all registered to vote at the same address?

And here’s another UOCAVA voter who, according to her voting record, is a regular voter. She also has no overseas address, yet is registered to vote as an “Overseas Civilian” at this 535 Griswold St address:

Here’s another example of a “UOCAVA” ballot envelope. This “voter’s”history shows he has only voted in one election, November 2020, and disappears after that.

As a longtime poll challenger who has worked multiple elections and trained other challengers to identify issues and properly raise objections, and as someone who actually went through the training to become an election worker in Detroit, coupled with the fact that I’m an investigative reporter who pays close attention to detail, I am confident in claiming we have opened the door to a major scheme to inject last-minute votes into the vote total on the day after the election. I have uncovered some of the most important voter fraud stories in Michigan, including the statewide GBI Strategies fraudulent voter registration scheme funded by Senator Gary Peters and Joe Biden in the 2020 election and hidden from the public, including clerks, and from Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Attorney General Dana Nessel.
Our team of investigators is formally calling on the FBI and DOJ to investigate what we believe was an organized scheme to affect the outcome of the election by removing as many Republican poll challengers from the room as possible while the “military” ballots were being processed.
WHERE DID THESE BALLOTS COME FROM AND WHY WERE THEY BEING CALLED “MILITARY BALLOTS?”
Yehuda Miller, a New Jersey citizen, won a FOIA lawsuit last year that compelled the City of Detroit to turn over nearly one million documents from the 2020 election. With access to those records through Phani Mantravadi’s Check My Vote site, more than 100 volunteers reviewed the November and December 2020 voter rolls and entered data from over 155,000 absentee ballot envelopes, allowing them to identify how many “military ballots” were processed in the November election.
Where did the rest of the ballots come from? Why were outside agitators constantly berating us for  “challenging military ballots” that were not found in the QVF or the updated Supplemental poll books?
Will Detroit Election Workers Intimidate and Threaten GOP Poll Challengers Again on Tuesday When Absentee Ballots Are Being Counted 
Republican poll challenger Hima Kolingareddy exposed the intimidation and harassment she faced at the hands of Democrat poll challengers and outside agitators working with the Democrats to threaten Republicans.

Poll challenger at TCF Center mistaken for a Democrat, told to get Republican challengers (“the MFs”) out.
“When I pulled off my tag she said, ‘You’re on the wrong side.’
“How can you say I’m on the ‘wrong side’? I pick whoever I want because this is a free country.”
https://t.co/jO142ZSDNE
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) December 1, 2020

For years, I have been documenting how UOCAVA (Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act) loopholes have been exploited in Detroit to facilitate mass absentee ballot fraud. Overseas civilians, not active-duty military, cast the majority of these ballots. After I alerted Michigan Republican Party officials to these specific vulnerabilities, the Michigan GOP and the Republican National Committee filed a joint lawsuit against Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson over the state’s UOCAVA practices and her allowing overseas voters to vote in Michigan elections with no ties to the state.
 

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