{"id":1794377,"date":"2023-01-04T06:20:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T11:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1794377"},"modified":"2023-01-04T06:20:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T11:20:46","slug":"10-scandals-to-watch-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/10-scandals-to-watch-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Scandals to Look Out For in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F10-scandals-to-watch-in-2023%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1794377&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/52258941585_c45d27183d_o.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>With the new year comes more corruption. However, 2023 offers the chance to close some long-running corruption cases. These are the top 10 things to watch in the coming year.<\/p>\n<h2>1. Government\u2019s Puppeteering of Big Tech and Media<\/h2>\n<p>The continuous release of the \u201cTwitter Files\u201d 2022 was closed with a new scandal. The internal communications of tech giant Elon Musk revealed extensive coordination between the government, Twitter, Facebook and Google and other large players controlling information flow. While conservatives have known \u2014 and complained \u2014 for years of Big Tech\u2019s censorship and shadowbanning, by purchasing Twitter and giving independent journalists access to corporate emails, Elon Musk provided indisputable confirmation that Twitter both censored and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/09\/twitter-files-part-two-confirms-the-tech-giant-has-been-shadowbanning-conservatives-for-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blacklisted<\/a> conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>The censoring of the Hunter Biden laptop story and the silencing of scientific criticism of the government\u2019s heavy-handed Covid regime, both at the prompting of federal agents, proved the most appalling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk is still able to access internal communications. Therefore, it is important to keep an eye on 2023.<\/p>\n<h2>2. Intelligence Agencies\u2019 2020 Election Interference<\/h2>\n<p>A related scandal to track in 2023 concerns intelligence agencies\u2019 interference in the 2020 election. Even before Musk took over at Twitter, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg revealed the FBI\u2019s role in prompting the censorship of the Hunter Biden story.<\/p>\n<p>As I said previously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/13\/twitter-files-overshadow-the-bigger-scandal-fbi-lied-to-tech-giants-to-interfere-in-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>In an interview with Joe Rogan in August 2020, Zuckerberg revealed that the FBI had warned his Facebook team before the Hunter Biden laptop news was published. \u201cbe on high alert.\u201d Zuckerberg says that the FBI had told Facebook. \u201c[W]e thought there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election\u201d And that \u201cwe have it on notice that basically there\u2019s about to be some kind of dump similar to that so just be vigilant.\u201d Based on the FBI\u2019s warning, when the New York Post broke the Hunter Biden story, Facebook treated it as potential misinformation and limited the visibility of the scandal.<\/p>\n<p>While Zuckerberg hedged on whether the FBI identified the Hunter Biden story as the one that prompted the warning, Twitter\u2019s former head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, signed a declaration <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/13\/twitter-files-overshadow-the-bigger-scandal-fbi-lied-to-tech-giants-to-interfere-in-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attesting<\/a> During their \u201cregular meetings with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and industry peers regarding election security,\u201d \u201cfederal law enforcement agencies communicated that they expected \u2018hack-and-leak operations\u2019 by state actors might occur in the period shortly before the 2020 presidential election, likely in October.\u201d Roth observed that he learned so much during these meetings \u201cthat there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden,\u201d Twitter also censored the story on the basis of the warning.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Hunter Biden laptop wasn&#8217;t fake, it was presented to Twitter and Facebook by the intelligence agency. The tech giants were forced to censor this politically dangerous story less than a week before the 2020 election. The FBI\u2019s interference in the 2020 presidential election is a huge scandal, yet just began to percolate in the press in late 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This scandal will continue into 2023. But, even more damning details could be dropped this year because of the \u201cTwitter Files\u201d Elvis Chan, an FBI Special Agent, was the one who sent the following: \u201cHeads Up\u201d to Roth on the late evening of Oct. 13, 2020 \u2014 hours before the Post story hit. Chan\u2019s email alerted the Twitter executive to a \u201cTeleporter link\u201d Roth could download 10 documents. \u201cIt is not spam!\u201d Chan stressed the importance of the link and asked Roth for confirmation. Roth downloaded the files two minutes later at 6:24 p.m. California time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chan sent a similar email two days after the Post story ran. The Oct. 16, 2020 post from Chan to Roth and a high ranking Twitter attorney included a similar message. \u201cI just got something hot off the presses today,\u201d Then tell them to keep an eye on their Teleporter messages. \u201ctwo documents to download.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Teleporter is the best way to get around. \u201cTwitter Files\u201d Details is a one-way communication channel that allowed the FBI secret messages to be sent to the tech giant. Those messages, however, reportedly disappear after 24 hours, and to date, both the content of the Teleporter messages and the documents the FBI attached for Twitter\u2019s review remain unknown. But the timing suggests further evidence may exist showing the FBI lied to Big Tech to rig the 2020 election \u2014 and 2023 may be the year for it to emerge.<\/p>\n<h2>3. The Biden Laundromat<\/h2>\n<p>Federal prosecutors have been investigating Hunter Biden since at least 2020. Many expected charges to come last year, when in March of 2022, The New York Times \u2014 one of the go-to media outlets for Democrats to prime with inside information to blunt the effects of soon-to-be-released negative news \u2014 reported based on unnamed sources that David C. Weiss, the U.S. attorney for Delaware overseeing the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, had a grand jury <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/27\/doj-insiders-say-delaware-us-attorneys-office-too-inadequate-to-investigate-biden-family-corruption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">conducting<\/a> \u201ca wide-ranging examination\u201d Hunter \u201cBiden\u2019s international business dealings, with prosecutors considering charges for tax fraud, criminal foreign lobbying, and money laundering.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If Weiss intends to indict, 2023 will be the year to move because after That the country returns to campaign mode and it seems unlikely the DOJ would drop an indictment of the president\u2019s son during an election year. But whether Weiss indicts or not, the House of Representatives, now under Republican control, will most assuredly investigate the Biden family money-making machine \u2014 and there is a lot to investigate, including the financial dealings of Hunter Biden, James Biden, Sara Biden, and all the corporate entities linked to them, and how Joe Biden benefitted from those financial dealings.<\/p>\n<p>Further, beyond Ukraine and Hunter\u2019s dealings there, both Hunter and James Biden (the president\u2019s brother) negotiated deals with the communist Chinese regime, with financial records showing various entities run by President Joe Biden\u2019s family members received wire transfers \u201cfrom communist-connected Chinese businesses\u201d that \u201ctotaled $5,000,000, with the proceeds reaching Hunter and James Biden through a variety of business organizations they controlled.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Profiteering from communist China represents but one aspect of the duo\u2019s financial dealings. According to The New York Times, Hunter Biden\u2019s joint global equity firm, the Bohai Harvest Equity Investment Fund, helped arrange the purchase by a Chinese mining company of the world\u2019s largest cobalt source in the Congo. \u201cHunter reportedly launched that new joint enterprise with Chinese business partners less than two weeks after he traveled to China on Air Force Two with his then-vice president father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Senate report is also available <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/27\/doj-insiders-say-delaware-us-attorneys-office-too-inadequate-to-investigate-biden-family-corruption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">documents<\/a> Hunter Biden\u2019s receipt of a combined $3.5 million from the wife of the former Moscow mayor, a Kazakhstan investor, and several other individuals. \u201cCloser to home, James Biden\u2019s financial dealings also evidence a complicated pay-to-play scandal underlying his investing in the health care sector\u201d Americore, a company. James Biden is said to have remained a \u201cpromise of a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections,\u201d Before taking \u201ca six-figure personal loan out of Americore\u2019s coffers,\u201d but then the Middle East investment never materialized, and neither did James Biden\u2019s repayment of the loan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Between federal prosecutors and Republican House oversight committees, 2023 promises to hang out the Biden family\u2019s financial dirty laundry.<\/p>\n<h2>4. FBI Corruption<\/h2>\n<p>Since SpyGate exploded in 2018 with then-House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes\u2019 release of his memorandum detailing the FBI\u2019s abuse of the FISA court system, evidence of FBI malfeasance has continued to mount. While SpyGate and Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop story have not been brought to any serious consequences by the FBI, evidence of FBI malfeasance has continued to mount. Last year, however, a number whistleblowers were able to expose the FBI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These whistleblowers can include some in \u201csenior positions,\u201d According to reports, who <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/02\/all-fbi-agents-must-blow-their-whistles-or-theyll-be-complicit-in-bureaus-politicization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> Sen. Chuck Grassley\u2019s office that FBI officials \u201cfalsely portray[ed] as disinformation evidence acquired from multiple sources that provided the FBI derogatory information related to Hunter Biden\u2019s financial and foreign business activities, even though some of that information had already been or could be verified.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Additional whistleblowers reached out to GOP Rep. Jim Jordan. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/aug\/10\/jim-jordan-demands-testimony-ex-fbi-official-over-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reporting<\/a> FBI officials \u201callegedly pressured agents to label cases as \u2018domestic violent extremism\u2019 to boost case numbers.\u201d Numerous whistleblowers \u201chave <a href=\"https:\/\/republicans-judiciary.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/HJC_STAFF_FBI_REPORT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disclosed<\/a> how the FBI leadership is conducting a \u2018purge\u2019 of FBI employees holding conservative views,\u201d FBI investigations can be affected by political bias.<\/p>\n<p>Potential for more whistleblowers and the \u201cTwitter Files\u201d and House oversight committees now in Republican hands, could reveal more fully the FBI\u2019s corruption in 2023.<\/p>\n<h2>5. Eugene Yu Versus Tru the Vote<\/h2>\n<p>The fifth <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/11\/18\/in-this-untold-story-of-poll-worker-data-chinese-servers-and-scandal-only-the-fbi-knows-the-truth\/\">scandal<\/a> Watch out for True the Vote and Eugene Yu in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last year ended with the L.A. County district attorney\u2019s office dismissing criminal charges against Yu, the founder of the Michigan-based election-management software company Konnech. The L.A. County D.A. had previously announced Yu\u2019s arrest, stating in a press conference on Oct. 4, 2022, that \u201cunder its $2.9 million, five-year contract with the county, Konnech was supposed to securely maintain the data and that only United States citizens and permanent residents have access to it.\u201d However, the press release states that \u201cDistrict Attorney investigators found that in contradiction to the contract, information was stored on servers in the People\u2019s Republic of China.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Yu\u2019s arrest, the self-proclaimed \u201cnation\u2019s leading voters\u2019 rights and election integrity organization,\u201d True Vote announced that it had \u201cplayed a small role\u201d in the investigation of Konnech and applauded the L.A. County D.A.\u2019s office for its work on the case. True the Vote\u2019s involvement in the case apparently prompted the far-left D.A. The Vote&#8217;s involvement in the case prompted the far-left D.A. to reconsider the charges, which eventually led to the dismissal. \u201cabout both the pace of the investigation and the potential bias in the presentation and investigation of the evidence.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although LA. While LA. Yu, True the Vote&#8217;s representative and two other representatives are presently awaiting a civil suit in federal district court against Yu for defamation. Yu maintains that Konnech did not have the right to sue him. <em>Never <\/em>Chinese servers had election worker data stored. True the Vote counters by claiming that it provided evidence to the FBI supporting Konnech&#8217;s illegal use of foreign servers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2023 will see these conflicting accounts play out and, more importantly, reveal the FBI\u2019s role in the scandal \u2014 because the real import concerns neither Yu nor True the Vote, but the FBI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, a confidential source gave evidence to the FBI that Konnech had personal information about election workers stored on a Chinese server. The evidence was used by the L.A. County D.A. Yu was indicted by the office. These charges were later dropped because of concerns about the authenticity and credibility of the evidence by the state prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>While the public still does not know whether the CHS\u2019s server data was authentic, the FBI does and did long before Yu was arrested. But following Yu\u2019s arrest, the FBI remained silent, apparently abandoning multiple confidential human sources and discarding an 18-month investigation into evidence that Yu maintained the personal information of tens of thousands of American election workers on a server in China. The other option is that the bureau allowed Yu to be arrested for crimes he did not commit and permitted the innocent American to be branded a felon and traitor by not informing the L.A. district attorney\u2019s office that the China-server data was false.<\/p>\n<p>With Yu\u2019s civil case against True the Vote still pending in Texas, this year should bring some clarity to the question.<\/p>\n<h2>6. Supreme Court Leak<\/h2>\n<p>Although it is long overdue 2023 should bring an end to the Supreme Court leak scandal. That scandal, of course, concerns the leak of Justice Samuel Alito\u2019s draft opinion in <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em> Politico. The May 2022 leak prompted Chief Justice John Roberts to direct Gail Curley, a former Army colonel and the court\u2019s marshal, to investigate the source of the leak.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Roberts was at the time <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/judiciary\/3759810-what-happened-to-the-investigation-into-the-dobbs-draft-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">promised<\/a> A full investigation was conducted and he indicated that the justices could expect a final report in fall. However, so far, no public report has been released. Watch for 2023 to reveal details \u2014 and hopefully justice for the leaker.<\/p>\n<h2>7. Covid-19<\/h2>\n<p>Many scandals involving Covid-19 are poised to flourish in 2023. The \u201cTwitter Files\u201d revealed the government\u2019s push to silence critics of the federal response, and those details will likely spur many questions about those efforts \u2014 from the origins of Covid-19 and the likelihood of a lab leak, to the funding of gain-of-function research, to the safety and efficacy of the jab. Related scandals may also evolve if it becomes clear that those responsible for formulating the government\u2019s response to Covid knew of the validity of contrary scientific opinions and lied to the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>8. SpyGate<\/h2>\n<p>2023 will be likely the year Special Counsel John Durham concludes his investigation into the Crossfire Hurricane or Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Conventional wisdom says Durham\u2019s team is done indicting individuals and that all that remains is a written report. Conspirators who were hoping to be sentenced will be disappointed if this is true. However, this detailed summary of the Russia collusion hoax exposes the extent of the deceit perpetrated by corrupt agents in the deep state.<\/p>\n<p>When paired with this report, it can be quite a powerful document. \u201cTwitter Files\u201d The growing number of whistleblowers and revelations could be the catalyst for an overhaul of intelligence agencies.<\/p>\n<h2>9. Pro-Life Targeting<\/h2>\n<p>Another scandal developing in 2023 concerns the Biden administration\u2019s targeting of pro-lifers, with the federal prosecution of Mark Houck providing a platform to expose further DOJ politicization.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration\u2019s targeting of Houck first made news when some 20 law enforcement officers, including many with ballistic shields, long guns, and a battering ram, swarmed his family home in late September 2022 to arrest the father of seven on charges that he violated the Federal Access to Clinic Entrances, or FACE, Act. Houck has filed a motion to dismiss all charges. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/09\/is-the-abortion-escort-who-went-after-pro-lifer-mark-houck-the-real-face-act-violator-court-filing-suggests-yes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asserting<\/a> Houck was the one who purportedly escorted Planned Parentshood. Houck also argued in the motion that the Biden administration\u2019s selective use of the FACE Act to prosecute pro-lifers compels the dismissal of the charges.<\/p>\n<p>The motion has not been decided by a court, but Houck will most likely appeal the denial. This will force the Biden administration into defending its absurd attack on prolifers. And if the charges aren\u2019t dismissed, Houck\u2019s defense \u2014 that the Planned Parenthood escort was both the aggressor and the true perpetrator of a FACE Act crime \u2014 will be paraded for both the jury and the public at large. The Biden administration will likely be on trial at the end.<\/p>\n<h2>10. Journalists\u2019 Silence<\/h2>\n<p>The tenth scandal of 2023 is one that can\u2019t be watched because it is the dog that didn\u2019t bark: the press that didn\u2019t report.<\/p>\n<p>Trump ended years of left-leaning bias within the press. They discarded any pretense of professionalism from the reporters who were employed by the journalists considered to be the standard-bearers in journalism. They spread the Russia collusion hoax while ignoring the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. They became propagandists for their favorite politicians and stopped being watchdogs of our constitution. And given the media elite\u2019s lack of response to the first nine scandals, their continuing silence in 2023 seems an assured final scandal.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n Margot Cleveland, The Federalist&#8217;s senior law correspondent, is Margot. She has also contributed to National Review Online and Washington Examiner. Aleteia and Townhall.com. Her work has been published in USA Today and Wall Street Journal. <\/p>\n<p>Cleveland is a lawyer and a graduate of the Notre Dame Law School, where she earned the Hoynes Prize\u2014the law school\u2019s highest honor. Later, she served as a permanent law clerk on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals for almost 25 years. Cleveland was a former full-time university professor and now teaches adjunctively. <\/p>\n<p>Cleveland is a stay at home mom to a son with cystic Fibrosis. She writes frequently about cultural issues related parenting and special-needs children. Cleveland can be found on Twitter at @ProfMJCleveland Cleveland&#8217;s private views are expressed here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the new year comes more corruption. However, 2023 offers the chance to close some long-running corruption cases. These are the top 10 things to watch in the coming year. 1. Government\u2019s Puppeteering of Big Tech and Media The continuous release of the \u201cTwitter Files\u201d 2022 was closed with a new scandal. The internal communications &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1793308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[8016,5458,3819,7169],"class_list":["post-1794377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-8016","tag-bongino","tag-report","tag-scandals"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1793308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}