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Trafficked by Visa: How a Foreign Cartel, Corrupt Universities, and Corporate Greed Destroyed the American Dream
The American Dream is not being taken by force. It’s being stolen by fraud.
America isn’t just under attack.
It’s being gutted from the inside. And the weapon isn’t guns or bombs, it’s America’s immigration system, hijacked by foreign operatives, greedy universities, and corporations willing to sell out American workers for cheap labor. A devastating new whistleblower investigation exposes how an Indian-run cartel used America’s F-1 student visa and OPT work programs to traffic foreign labor directly into white-collar U.S. jobs, while American graduates were pushed aside and abandoned. At the center of it all stands Miles Education, a company that didn’t just exploit loopholes, it built an industrial labor trafficking operation disguised as college education and career opportunity.
Human Trafficking Disguised as Education: How Miles Built a Visa-Free Workforce
Miles Education, operating out of India, targeted young Indians willing to cheat, lie, or pay their way into America’s workforce.
“Unfortunately, studying abroad has evolved into a societal privilege, inaccessible to Indians due to exorbitant tuition fees, complex systems, and high entry barriers. The numbers were distressing and something had to be done to make the US masters and its market available to all deserving candidates in India. This is why we created India’s very own Pathway program,” Raghav clarified in his recent interview.
For a price of around $48,000, Miles offered them a shortcut:
No real education.
No real competition.
No respect for American laws.
Just money exchanged for visas, jobs, and stolen futures.
These weren’t immigrants chasing the American Dream the right way. They were buying a backdoor, taking jobs, careers, and dreams that Americans had worked and sacrificed for. With the help of greedy U.S. universities hungry for foreign tuition, Miles funneled these students into America under the F-1 student visa program, a visa intended only for full-time legitimate study, not employment.
By law, F-1 students must be bona fide academic candidates, attending classes full-time, progressing toward a degree, and demonstrating intent to return home after graduation. None of this was true. Miles, and the universities that cashed the checks, knew these weren’t real students. They were imported workers, lined up for jobs before they even unpacked their bags. Universities pocketed the tuition, asked no questions, and turned sacred institutions into visa mills. Meanwhile, government bureaucrats rubber-stamped visas without a second thought.
No one cared that Americans were being lined up for economic slaughter.
The Legal Scam: OPT and STEM OPT: America’s Greatest Betrayal
Once inside the country, the fraud accelerated. The so-called “students” immediately exploited a second loophole, the Optional Practical Training (OPT) and STEM OPT extensions. OPT allows foreign students to work for 12 months after graduation. STEM OPT allows 24 additional months for science, technology, engineering, or math fields.
Key Facts the American People Aren’t Told:
- No labor market test required.
- No requirement to advertise jobs to Americans.
- No limits on how many foreign workers a company can hire.
- Foreign OPT workers often pay no Social Security or Medicare taxes, saving companies thousands.
Using OPT and STEM OPT, these “students” became America’s hidden replacement workforce able to stay three years without needing real work visas like H-1B.
Big Tech and Big Accounting firms got exactly what they wanted
- Cheap labor.
- Workers who couldn’t demand raises.
- Visa-dependent labor slaves who would do anything to stay.
And every foreign worker hired was a job stolen from an American. Every paycheck that went overseas was a dream ripped from the hands of American students, veterans, and workers.
The Miles Criminal Ecosystem: An Organized Cartel Disguised as Education
At the center of it all, One Indian CEO who orchestrating a full-blown labor cartel, even self proclaiming one of their subsidiaries as being “The Godfather of Talent”
“As of now, the Furturense US Pathway Program is exclusively open to Indian Nationals.”
The Miles Companies:
Miles Education (India) The Student Recruitment Pipeline
- Sold young Indians the promise of a U.S. career for $48,000+
- Faked STEM education pathways to trigger student visas
- Weaponized America’s education system for mass labor trafficking
Miles Talent Hub (United States) The Employment Pipeline
- Staffed foreign students directly into U.S. companies
- Bypassed American workers
- Charged placement fees off workers’ salaries
- Exploited OPT and STEM loopholes to lock foreign workers into American job
Futurense (Vendor) The Offshore Continuity Engine
- After visas expired, moved displaced jobs permanently offshore to India
- Completed the cycle of American job theft and wealth extraction
Miles Alumni Network (US/India) The Endless Labor Replacement Engine
- Maintained a revolving pipeline of foreign workers ready to replace Americans
- Built an internal labor cartel. Americans excluded entirely.
Every stage extracted money,
- Tuition fees
- Placement fees
- Employer kickbacks
- Offshore outsourcing deals
- Universities, Corporations, Bureaucrats: Complicit in the Betrayal
In 2023 they reportedly made $22.8M from one of their subsidiaries, making their business model very profitable.
Miles didn’t act alone.
Universities:
Sold out American education for foreign cash.
Turned sacred halls of learning into visa trafficking centers.
Corporations:
Harvested cheap foreign labor while pretending to “support American workers.”
Government Bureaucrats (DHS, DOL):
Ignored every warning. Rubber-stamped visas. Let Americans be displaced, knowingly and willingly. This wasn’t an accident. It was designed betrayal for profit, for power, for greed.
The Real Cost: Dreams Destroyed, Futures Stolen
This wasn’t just a loophole.
This was white-collar human trafficking and the American worker was the target.
Every foreign worker inserted through this scam meant:
- An American graduate without a job.
- A family crushed under student debt.
- A veteran denied the chance to rebuild a future.
- More jobs sent to India.
- Another American forced into poverty or despair.
Miles didn’t just traffic workers. They trafficked away America’s future.
Every American who believes in jobs, sovereignty, and the American Dream must come together.
Share this article.
Contact your elected officials.
Demand investigations.
Demand shutdown of foreign labor pipelines.
Demand immigration reforms that put Americans first, not India, not globalist corporations, not corrupt universities.
America belongs to Americans.
Not to foreign labor cartels.
Not to bought-off bureaucrats.
Not to corporations that sold our future.
The American Dream is not for sale.
Amanda Bartolotta is a Sr. Editor, investigative journalist, and an America First patriot at WND.com. Her work focuses on exposing immigration fraud, visa abuse, and government policies that displace American workers and undermine national sovereignty.
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‘It is a felony’: Pam Bondi talks tough to doctors who illegally mutilate children
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has warned “doctors” who have been doing various body mutilations on children to stop.
“I am putting medical practitioners, hospitals, and clinics on notice: In the United States, it is a felony to perform, attempt to perform, or conspire to perform female genital mutilation (‘FGM’) on any person under the age of 18. That crime carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years per count,” Bondi said.
A report from NBC explained she directed U.S. attorneys to use those laws to investigate doctors who “mutilate” children under the guise of “care.”
Transgender activists across the country repeatedly have claimed that body mutilations on children, as long as it’s called “gender-affirming care” under that ideology, actually is a good thing.
Mat Staver, the chief of Liberty Counsel which has fought some of the battles on the issue of transgenderism, explained, “These common sense directives will help protect children from the harmful and often irreversible gender interventions caused by the false gender ideology.
“They will also help hold accountable those who hurt children in this way. The insanity of this ideology and greed in the medical community has monetized the act of mutilating children and adults into a billion-dollar industry. Through President Trump’s executive order and this memorandum, the federal government can now return to sound science and promote treating these mental health issues with proven psychiatric therapies to heal rather than harm. Now, it is up to the federal and state legislatures to pass laws that protect children from medical mutilation.”
Bondi also directed the Consumer Protection Branch of the DOJ’s Civil Division “to investigate potential violations of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act by drug manufacturers and distributors who engage ‘in misbranding by making false claims about the on- or off-label use of puberty blockers, sex hormones, or any other drug used to facilitate’ a minor’s gender transition,” the report said.
Physicians will be investigated under the False Claims Act if they submit for reimbursement for services related to “gender experimentation” that is not covered by federal programs.
Robin Maril, an assistant professor of constitutional law in Oregon, told the network it still is legal for doctors to perform those body modifying surgeries in states where such “care” remains legal, and charged that the announcement is meant “to have a chilling effect” on what she called “necessary care.”
Leftist medical organizations, prominently the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Association, all have claimed to support “transition-related care” for minors.
The industry, of course, is lucrative for physicians and suppliers involved.
Liberty Counsel reported the directives “align under President Donald Trump’s January executive order that withdraws all federal funding for puberty blockers, hormones, or irreversible mutilating surgeries for minors, and directs rigorous enforcement of all laws to protect children from these destructive and life-altering procedures.”
Bondi said the ideology has been pushed on Americans by those who “deny biological reality.”
Following the science, no one can change from male to female or vice versa because being male or female is embedded in the body down to the DNA level.
Bondi said the ideology has been pushed by “the Biden administration, the medical community, Hollywood, legacy mass media, children’s books, and public schools,” the report said.
“This gender ideology is just ‘junk science’ that steers children to ‘process adolescent stress and confusion’ as ‘mistaken identity,’ and that the only solution is permanent and life-altering chemical and surgical interventions,” AG Bondi wrote.
She noted how Biden ‘personally advanced” the beliefs by going to court against state-level protections for children.
He also appointed “Rachel” Levine, a man who portrayed himself as a woman, as assistant secretary of Health.
The attorney general, in fact, noted how “politically captured profiteers” were taking advantage of families and children.
“These ‘professionals’ have deployed junk science and false claims about the effects of so-called ‘gender-affirming care’ to justify the barbaric practice of surgically and chemically maiming and sterilizing children. Between 2019 and 2023, an estimated 14,000 children received ‘treatment’ for gender dysphoria, with more than 5,700 subjected to life-altering surgeries. The practitioners who provided this so-called ‘care’ profited while their patients were left permanently disfigured, scarred, and sterilized.”
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Can Maine lawmakers dictate opinions and thoughts? U.S. Supreme Court to be asked
Can the state legislature’s Democrat majority in Maine simply remove the representation rights of thousands of residents by voting to banish their representative from voting and speaking?
Further, can they punish that lawmaker personally over her opinions and thoughts?
The Supreme Court will be asked to decide.
It is Maine Rep. Laurel Libby who was suspended from participating in the legislature, to which she was elected, because, Democrats say, she posted the name and image of a juvenile online.
However, Democrats earlier refused to punish one of their own party for doing essentially the same thing, so that argument holds little water.
So the fight is reduced to the fact that Libby objects to the transgender ideology of having boys say they are girls, and then compete in girls sports event, and that belief is what the Democrats won’t tolerate.
A report at Fox revealed Libby has confirmed she’ll appeal her case to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking for emergency intervention after Democrats censured her.
A federal appeals court earlier sided with the censorship of her opinions and thoughts.
“For over 100 days my constituents have had no say in any actions taken by their government, actions that directly impact their lives,” Libby said. “Every vote taken on the floor of the legislature is a vote my constituents cannot get back, the good people of our district have been silenced and disenfranchised.
“We are hopeful the court will act swiftly to halt the Democrats’ ongoing violation of the Constitution and suppression of dissenting voices, even as the broader case continues through the appeals process.”
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House Speaker Ryan Fecteau orchestrated the censorship of Libby, and Judge Melissa DeBose, and the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals declined to move the case forward.
“Our appeal asks the court to correct this abuse of power and reaffirm that legislative leadership cannot use procedural maneuvers and sweeping assertions of immunity to sideline dissenting voices and disenfranchise entire communities,” Libby told Fox News Digital.
“I remain optimistic that the court will recognize what is plainly at stake: the integrity of representative government and the foundational principle that no elected official, no legislative leader, and no partisan majority is above the Constitution. The people of House District 90 deserve full representation, and we intend to see that right restored.”
WND reported only days ago that, in the case, Democrats claimed they can decide which lawmakers can vote in the legislature.
They say an elected lawmaker has no right to vote there because of her conservative views on transgenderism.
That’s even though a majority of the state’s residents support Libby’s perspective.
That claim was submitted by Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey, a far leftist who has been trying to kill Libby’s lawsuit.
The state of Maine, meanwhile, is under investigation and has had federal grants withheld because it refuses to accept the biological reality that men do not become women, or vice versa.
The state now is in noncompliance with Title IX.
Democrats in Maine claim THEY can decide which lawmakers have a right to vote on legislation
‘Republicans cannot know a moment of peace’: Governor joins ranks of Democrats calling for political violence
Democrats long have let their rhetoric move at full speed into dangerous territory, where they actually are seen as advocating for violence, even criminal violence.
Now Illinois Gov. JB Pritzer, a Democrat billionaire, has joined the ranks of those making suspicious comments.
The Federalist reports at a special Democrat assembly, he said, “Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption. But I am now. These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace. They have to understand that we will fight their cruelty with every megaphone and microphone that we have. We must castigate them on a soapbox and then punish them at the ballot box.”
He then called out his party, the “do-nothing Democrats” who “want to blame our losses on our defense of black people, of trans kids, of immigrants…”
“We will never join so many Republicans in the special place in hell reserved for quislings and cowards,” Pritzker said, the report revealed. “We will relegate their portraits to the museum halls reserved for tyrants and traitors.”
The Federalist explained, “The language is all too familiar and can only be described as assassination prep – carefully cloaked in moral outrage – designed to incite the most egregious acts of political violence. His words follow the same formula of other leftists: frame the political opposition as not merely wrong, but evil and tyrannical, then justify any means to defeat them. Such language is meant to dehumanize their opponents and provide moral permission for violence.”
WOW! Governor JB Pritzker just called for mass protests against Trump and Republicans “Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption. But I am now. These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace.” Powerful. pic.twitter.com/ZPYFuA3kr8
— Harry Sisson (@harryjsisson) April 28, 2025
In fact, there have been two assassination attempts on President Donald Trump in the last year.
The report also noted that the Democrats long have been laying the foundation for such advocacy for violence, such as the call by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., in 2021 for protesters to be “confrontational,” a follow to her demand that people harass Trump administration members.
“Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. . ..And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, at one point stood at the Supreme Court and threatened Justice Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh: “You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you.”
Just last year, Joe Biden complained to donors on a private call it was “time to put Trump in the bull’s-eye,” the report said.
And, it confirmed, Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., said Trump “has to be eliminated.”
The Federalist documented such rhetoric is “part of a broader pattern of political conditioning. This language primes support for confrontation and, in the minds of the most unstable, legitimizes violence. When Democrats talk about ‘fighting back’ they increasingly mean it literally — and the results have been both tragic and undeniable.”
WND reported last year that Kamala Harris had joined the rhetoric.
She had claimed in multiple ways that Trump would be a dictator if elected.
And other Democrats long have been parcel of the campaign.
For instance, Del. Stacey Plaskett, the Democrat non-voting delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands, said, “He needs to be shot … stopped.”
WHOA! Listen to top Harris surrogate Rep. Plaskett say on MSNBC “[Trump] having the nuclear codes…should be terrifying to all Americans, and he needs to be shot…stopped.” pic.twitter.com/ryLpG30uJB
— WorldNetDaily (@worldnetdaily) September 16, 2024
And a video has assembled more than two minutes of direct threats, often from politicians, entertainers and other public figures:
2.5 minutes of Democrats explicitly calling for using political vioIence.
They own this. https://t.co/TroI6oO4R8
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 16, 2024
Among the comments:
“I’d like to punch him in the face.”
“If we were in high school I’d take him behind the gym…
— ng2amarinefunk (@ng2amarinefunk) September 17, 2024
Among the comments:
“I’d like to punch him in the face.”
“If we were in high school I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him,” from Joe Biden
“When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?”
“They’re still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump. That’s a fact.”
“Where is John Wilkes Booth when you need him?”
“I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.”
The Trump campaign itself released a compilation of some of the threats, and identified those making the threats. They mostly are political or media figures or political operatives:
Kamala Harris: “Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms.”
Harris: “It’s on us to recognize the threat (Trump) poses.”
Harris: “Does one of us have to come out alive? Ha ha ha ha!”
Joe Biden: “It’s time to put Trump in a bull’s-eye.”
Biden: “I mean this from the bottom of my heart: Trump is a threat to this nation!”
Biden: “There is one existential threat: It’s Donald Trump.”
Biden: “Trump is a genuine threat to his nation … He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for.”
Biden : “Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country.”
Biden: “Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic. … and that is a threat to this country.”
Tim Walz: “Are (Republicans) a threat to democracy? Yes … Are they going to put peoples’ lives in danger? Yes.”
Gwen Walz: “Buh-bye, Donald Trump.”
Nancy Pelosi: “(Trump) is a threat to our democracy of the kind that we have not seen.”
Jasmine Crockett: “MAGA in general – they are threats to us domestically.”
Dan Goldeman: “He is destructive to our democracy and … he has to be eliminated.”
Disgraced Harris staffer TJ Ducklo: “Trump is an existential, urgent threat to our democracy.”
Liz Cheney: “Trump presents a fundamental threat to the republic and we are seeing it on a daily basis.”
Steve Cohen: “Trump is an enemy of the United States.”
Maxine Waters: “Are (Trump supporters) preparing a civil war against us?”
Waters: “I want to know about all of those right-wing organizations that (Trump) is connected with who are training up in the hills somewhere.”
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Trump is an “existential threat to our democracy.”
Adam Schiff: Trump is the “gravest threat to our democracy.”
Gregory Meeks: “Trump cannot be president again. He’s an existential threat to democracy.”
Dan Goldman: “Trump remains the greatest threat to our democracy.”
Jake Auchincloss: “What unifies us as a party is knowing that Donald Trump is an existential threat to Democracy.”
Abigail Spanberger: “Trump is a threat to our democracy … the threats to our democratic republic are real.”
Annie Kuster: “Trump and his extreme right-win followers pose an existential threat to our democracy.”
Becca Balint: “We cannot underestimate the threat (Trump) poses to American democracy.”
Jason Crow: “Trump is an extreme danger to our democracy.”
Michael Bennet: Trump is “a threat to our democracy.”
Steven Horsford: “Trump Republicans are a dangerous threat to our state.”
Gave Vasquez: “Remove the national threat from office.”
And more….
‘Unsecured a border ON PURPOSE’: Watch Tom Homan erupt on Biden’s national treachery
Joe Biden’s legacy may end up including a lot of different things: his leftist promotions of abortion for all and transgenderism for children likely will be there.
Also possibly there will be his record as a president who continued in office even though his mental powers were obviously declining, to the point a special counsel gave him a pass on a potential criminal case involving secret government documents because of his lack of mental powers.
But also will be his decision to open America’s borders, allowing in millions of illegal aliens, including criminals and even terrorists.
White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt explained, “We are in the process of carrying out the largest deportation campaign in American history. After four years of being vilified by the Biden-Harris administration, our heroic ICE officers can finally do their jobs.”
And Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief Tom Homan pointed out that Joe Biden was the first president in the nation’s history “who came into office and unsecured a border on purpose.”
He noted he’d worked for six presidents.
“Every president I ever worked for took border security seriously because you can’t have national security if you don’t have strong border security.”
He said even Barack Obama and Bill Clinton acknowledged the need for border security.
“Joe Biden was the first president in the history of this nation who came into office and unsecured a border on purpose,” he said.
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Homan noted that under President Donald Trump, the number of illegal aliens found at the border have dropped from 15,000 a day, during Biden’s tenure, to 178.
“When 96% less people are coming [across the border], how many women aren’t being sexually assaulted by the cartels? How many children aren’t dying making that journey? How many women and children aren’t being sex-trafficked into this country? How many known and suspected terrorists aren’t making it into this nation? How many pounds of fentanyl isn’t getting into this country to kill young Americans?”
A report from Fox News said, “Recent high-profile deportations have seen migrants deported to an El-Salvador mega prison after the president invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 wartime immigration law, to deport Venezuelan gang members. That move has since been held up in court with the Trump administration opting to deport 17 alleged members of Tren de Aragua to El Salvador from Guantánamo Bay on Sunday night via Title 8.”
The Trump administration also on Monday posted pictures of illegals who have been arrested, with a list of charges against them, on the White House lawn.
Good Morning from The White House! pic.twitter.com/1fhjzMU2gR
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) April 28, 2025
WATCH: White House touts immigration crackdown with Tom Homan and Karoline Leavitt
Transgender radicalism takes another serious hit in court ruling on bathrooms
Only a few weeks ago, the transgender agenda took a huge blow in the United Kingdom when its Supreme Court ruled that men who say they are female are not “women.”
The stunning decision reversed an agenda that long had been making inroads into society there.
Now there’s been a second blow.
According to a report in the National.Scot, a judge has ruled that schools in Scotland are required to provide single-sex facilities for children.
The Scottish Borders Council had been taken to court by two parents who pulled their child out of Earlston Primary School after its bosses proposed a new building – providing only unisex lavatories.
“Lady Ross KC issued a declarator – a court order – making clear the legal obligations on Scottish schools to provide single-sex facilities after a challenge from parents Sean Stratford and Leigh Hurley,” the report said.
They removed their eight-year-old son from the school after their concerns about plans for the new school that included only mixed bathrooms were dismissed by the headteacher and the council. the report revealed.
A lawyer representing the council conceded that the ruling found the school officials’ policy was illegal.
Hurley, 39, explained she raised concerns in 2023 about the school pushing for the “social transition” of a student, which “included allowing that person to participate in sports day races based on their ‘gender identity.’”
“She also said she was concerned her son would be punished if he misgendered trans pupils, adding: ‘In the end we felt we had no choice but to pull our child out of the school, which left him devastated,’” the report said.
The Christian Institute noted the ruling makes it required for state schools all across Scotland to have single-sex restrooms for students.
“Stratford and Hurley urged the council not to switch from single-sex to gender-neutral toilets during a £16.6 million building project to provide new premises for Earlston Primary School,” the Christian Institute said. “When both the school and council dismissed their concerns, the parents — with the help of For Women Scotland (FWS) — challenged the lawfulness of the decision at the Court of Session.”
Stratford said, “We’ve won, but common sense says we should never have been in this position in the first place.”
Rosie Walker, a lawyer representing the parents, said, “The court order makes clear that the 1967 regulations apply to all state schools in Scotland. There is no provision for gender-neutral toilets in the regulations. Any school not complying will be in breach of the regulations and could face a legal challenge from parents.”
WND reported earlier on the Supreme Court decision in the U.K. regarding men who say they are women.
The court ruling, a unanimous decision, said “woman” and “sex” in the 2010 Equality Act referred to biological sex, not a belief expressed by a male that he is suddenly female. In fact, following the science, changing gender does not happen, as being male or female is embedded in the human body down to the DNA level.
The ruling comes in a years-long legal war between campaign group For Women Scotland and the Scottish government over the definition of a woman.
The ruling said, “The unanimous decision of this court is that the definition of the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.”
Further, that ruling adopted what President Donald Trump recently, by executive order, concluded about sex in America: It is binary.
He, in fact, said the American government recognizes two genders, male and female.
The U.K. court’s 88-page decision said the “concept of sex is binary” under the Equality Act 2010.
‘Landmark’: High court abruptly declares men who say they are female are NOT ‘women’
Propaganda from ‘foreign actors’: Wikipedia’s parent now targeted by U.S. attorney
Wikipedia is viewed by many as an online resource for a lot of information, information on just about anything and anyone.
But those who look more closely have noted the leftist ideology to the point it actually contains wrong information on topics disliked by the left.
Now a prosecutor has put those concerns into words, announcing accusations that Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia among other projects, violated its 501(c)3 tax-exempt status by “allowing propaganda and misinformation from ‘foreign actors’ to flourish on the platform,” according to a report at Breitbart.
Wikimedia Foundation is the organization that runs various projects including Wikipedia, Wiktionary and others.
Now, Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin is accusing the Wikimedia Foundation of lawbreaking.
The report explained the group’s tax-exempt status has been questioned in a letter Martin dispatched to the foundation.
“As you know, Section 501(c)3 requires that organizations receiving tax-exempt status operate exclusively for ‘religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, or education purposes … [.] It has come to my attention that the Wikimedia Foundation, through its wholly owned subsidiary Wikipedia, is allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda to the American public,” Martin charges.
The letter continues, explaining that the organization is allowing bad actors to be “rewriting of key, historical events and biographical information of current and previous American leaders, as well as other matters implicating the national security and the interests of the United States. Masking propaganda that influences public opinion under the guise of providing informational material is antithetical to Wikimedia’s ‘educational’ mission.”
Further, the letter explains, “Wikipedia’s operations are directed by its board that is composed primarily of foreign nationals, subverting the interests of American taxpayers. Again, educational content is directionally neutral; but information received by my Office demonstrates that Wikipedia’s informational management policies benefit foreign powers.”
Further, “We are aware that search engines such as Google have agreed to prioritize Wikipedia results due to the relationship that Wikipedia has established with these tech platforms. If the content contained in Wikipedia articles is biased, unreliable, or sourced by entities who wish to do harm to the United States, search engine prioritization of Wikipedia will only amplify propaganda to a larger American audience.”
Martin notes that the problem just gets worse, as “It has come to our attention that generative AI platforms receive Wikipedia data to train large-language models. This data is now consumed by masses of Americans and American teachers on a daily basis. If the data provided is manipulated, particularly by foreign actors and entities, Wikipedia’s relationship with generative AI platforms have the potential to launder information on behalf of foreign actors.”
His office said it wants answers to questions including, “What mechanisms does the Wikimedia Foundation have in place to fulfill its legal and ethical responsibilities to safeguard the public from the dissemination of propaganda, particularly in light of its designation as a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and in light of the Foundation’s longstanding hands-off policy regarding Trust & Safety (including content moderation and editor
misconduct)?”
Also, how does it handle “editor misconduct,” how does it handle accountability and how does it “exclude foreign influence operations.”
“What is the Foundation’s official process for addressing credible allegations that editors or contributors have materially misled readers, engaged in bad-faith edits, or otherwise manipulated content in ways that undermine Wikipedia’s commitment to neutrality?” Martin wants to know. And, “Does the Foundation maintain a public, formally adopted policy explicitly prohibiting hateful content and conduct by editors?”
BOOM. WIKIPEDIA JUST GOT SLAPPED WITH A FEDERAL WAKE-UP CALL.
The Department of Justice just dropped the hammer — the U.S. Attorney for D.C. is formally accusing the Wikimedia Foundation of violating its 501(c)(3) status by letting propagandists flood the platform with… pic.twitter.com/UMehMzbY7r
— Jews Fight Back (@JewsFightBack) April 25, 2025
No more donations to @Wikipedia until they start being truthful
pic.twitter.com/3QWJ5NWuEI— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 31, 2024
Prosecutor under fire over Tesla vandal case declares it’s time to focus on ‘racial disparities’ in sentencing
A liberal Minnesota prosecutor receiving backlash for letting a Tesla vandal off easy is now pushing to reduce “racial disparities” in sentencing.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty’s office will consider a defendant’s “racial identity” when weighing potential plea deals starting Monday, KARE 11 reported. Moriarty drew criticism days earlier after declining to prosecute an employee in Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s administration who keyed six Tesla vehicles and caused more than $21,000 in damage.
“While racial identity and age are not appropriate grounds for departures [from the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines], proposed resolutions should consider the person charged as a whole person, including their racial identity and age,” a memo from Moriarty’s office reportedly reads. “While these factors should not be controlling, they should be part of the overall analysis.”
Moriarty’s office told KARE 11 that the sentencing memo “acknowledges that there are many factors to be considered in negotiations” because “each case – and defendant – is unique.”
“A defendant’s race matters because we know unaddressed unconscious biases lead to racial disparities, which is an unacceptable outcome,” a spokesperson told the outlet.
The policy adds to the staunchly left-wing record of Moriarty, who gave Minnesota Department of Human Services employee Dylan Bryan Adams “pre-charge diversion” instead of felony charges for vandalizing six Teslas. Moriarty said Wednesday that Adams will pay victims restitution but her office will not prosecute him because felony convictions can lead to “recidivism” by harshly affecting someone’s life.
Moriarty also said the suspect “did not have a record” and that “this is how we handle first time, low-level property cases” — though her current policies normally allow diversion only for less costly property crimes than Adams’.
Moriarty’s office did not respond to an inquiry from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The conservative Minnesota-based think tank Center for the American Experiment said Moriarty’s priorities as a prosecutor are off.
“What problem is Moriarty trying to address?” the center said in an X post Friday. The group pointed to a research it released in November on the state’s justice system that found, “while disproportions between the races exist, those disproportions do not equate to unwarranted ‘disparities’ created by an unjust system.”
The report said “social justice efforts that seek to reduce consequences for black offenders” are “misguided” and “burden the law-abiding black community with disparately high crime rates.”
“We will send a copy over to her office right away,” the center said in its X post.
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