Adam Kidan pleaded guilty in the Jack Abramoff scandal and was ordered to pay $21.7 million in restitution. He donated to Mackenzie's joint fundraising committee on June 30. Trump pardoned him on July 3.
Tuberville claims Fauci 'killed millions' and wants every one of the '20 to 30,000' Alabamians he says were lost to sue him. Alabama's entire COVID death toll is about 21,100 — and a Republican-led House investigation found no evidence linking Fauci to wrongdoing, the AP reports.
A settlement in Paxton's lawsuit wiped out the dunes sagebrush lizard's endangered status. More than 95% of its habitat is already gone — and a Midland oilman is one of the top donors to the super PAC backing Paxton's Senate run.
Texas Monthly reviewed 1,300 pages of emails and found Abbott's CAIR proclamation tracks a report written by a fellow at a think tank the SPLC lists as an anti-Muslim hate group — including a claim about the FBI that appears to be false.
Senate Republicans subpoenaed an 85-year-old scientist, grilled him over his private diary, threw his lawyer out of the room, and swore at him. Meanwhile 2,318 Americans have caught measles this year and the federal response has been minimal.
Finstad kept promising farmers the pain was temporary — from April 2025 through February 2026. He voted twice to protect the tariffs causing it, while Chinese orders for the fall soybean harvest sat at zero.
As Ohio House speaker, Husted stripped the one-year window that would have let survivors of clergy sexual abuse sue after their deadline had passed. Survivors filled the Statehouse halls. He took a side door into the chamber, and they sued him for meeting behind closed doors.
Steube sued to stop proxy voting and promised in writing never to use it. Nine months later he filed a false letter with the House clerk so he could go speak at a political conference in Orlando.
Salazar posed with oversized checks for a children's hospital, a university, an airport and a road project — all paid for by bills she voted no on. Caught on camera, she said she forgot. She is still counting that money as hers today.