Month: April 2026

An Illinois woman has pleaded guilty to funneling thousands of dollars into a twisted conspiracy to create and distribute “animal crush videos” featuring the horrific sexual torture of baby and adult monkeys.

Amanda Leigh Fourez, 33, of Catlin, Illinois, entered her guilty plea on April 15 in federal court to charges of conspiracy to create and distribute animal crush videos, as well as distributing them through deranged online chat groups.

Fourez actively paid for custom videos showing real monkeys being burned alive, having their genitals mutilated, limbs broken, and subjected to unimaginable atrocities, all for the sick pleasure of like-minded degenerates in private payment groups.

Fourez was a key player in an online network of monsters pooling money to commission these bespoke torture flicks, archiving them, controlling their distribution, and sharing them via encrypted apps.

She admitted to sending at least 11 payments and distributing the videos on at least 10 occasions. She now faces up to five years for the conspiracy charge, seven years for distribution, and fines up to $500,000.

Amanda Leigh Fourez, a U.S. citizen from Illinois, paid thousands of dollars to have others make sexual torture videos involving adult and baby monkeys for people in deranged online chat groups.

Known as “animal crush videos,” they show real monkeys being burned alive and having… pic.twitter.com/56b2ZMgLZZ

— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) April 28, 2026

“Fourez admitted to her role in making these horrific videos and posting them online,” said ICE Director Todd M. Lyons. “What kind of sick person would pay someone make a video of sexualized animal torture? ICE will continue investigating these sadistic online groups and do everything in our power to stop them.”

Just weeks earlier, Joseph Garrett Buckland of Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to the same conspiracy. These cases are part of a broader ring that law enforcement has been unraveling.

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John Garrett, the beloved NHL goaltender who became one of hockey’s most recognizable broadcast voices, has died at age 74. The former Vancouver Canucks player and longtime color commentator passed away after a decades-long career that touched fans across North America.

From NHL Player to Broadcasting Icon

Garrett played professional hockey for eight seasons across five NHL teams, including the Vancouver Canucks, Hartford Whalers, and Quebec Nordiques. His playing career spanned from 1979 to 1985, during which he competed in 207 regular season games. After hanging up his skates, Garrett transitioned seamlessly into broadcasting, where he spent nearly four decades providing analysis and commentary for Canucks games. His warm personality and deep knowledge of the sport made him a fixture in Pacific Northwest homes.

Known affectionately as “Cheech” by fans and colleagues, Garrett brought authenticity and humor to every broadcast. His ability to break down complex plays while keeping viewers entertained earned him respect throughout the hockey community. Garrett worked alongside play-by-play announcer John Shorthouse for years, forming one of the most popular broadcasting partnerships in Canadian sports. His insights came from real experience between the pipes, giving fans a genuine perspective on goaltending and team dynamics.

Former NHL goaltender and longtime broadcaster John Garrett has passed away at the age of 74.

“The National Hockey League family is stunned and saddened by the sudden passing of John Garrett, whose astute analysis took fans – particularly in Western Canada – inside our game for… pic.twitter.com/CT5cDdhUy9

— TSN (@TSN_Sports) April 28, 2026

Outpouring of Respect

The hockey world reacted swiftly to news of Garrett’s passing, with tributes flooding social media from players, coaches, and fans. Former teammates remembered his leadership in the locker room, while current Canucks players acknowledged the impact his broadcasts had on their understanding of the game. The Canucks organization released a statement honoring Garrett’s contributions both on ice and in the broadcast booth, noting his dedication to the franchise and the city of Vancouver.

A Lasting Legacy in Hockey

Garrett’s impact extended beyond statistics and broadcast hours. He mentored young players, supported charitable causes throughout British Columbia, and remained accessible to fans who appreciated his down-to-earth approach. His broadcasting style reflected traditional values of hard work, team loyalty, and respect for the game’s history. Garrett represented a generation of hockey professionals who understood the sport’s working-class roots and never forgot where they came from. His death marks the end of an era for Canucks fans who grew up listening to his voice describe their favorite team’s triumphs and challenges. The hockey community has lost a genuine ambassador for the sport.

Far-left Minnesota Governor Tim Walz tried to steal credit for today’s massive federal raids targeting the rampant fraud plaguing his state – fraud that exploded on his watch while he and his radical administration looked the other way.

Federal agents executed 22 search warrants across the Twin Cities this morning as part of an ongoing investigation into massive taxpayer-funded fraud schemes involving day care centers, autism programs, Medicaid, and other social services, the very programs Walz’s administration has overseen for years as billions in federal dollars vanished into the pockets of fraudsters.

Walz, clearly desperate to pretend he’s been tough on crime after years of ignoring whistleblowers and letting the scams run wild, rushed out a statement stating:

“If you commit fraud in Minnesota you’re going to get caught — and that’s exactly what we saw today. We catch criminals when state and federal agencies share information. Joint investigations work, and securing justice depends on it.

“Today’s raids by state and federal law enforcement happened because our state agencies caught irregular behavior and reported it. That’s how the system is supposed to work, and our agencies will keep at it as long as there are fraudsters around to put behind bars.”

Today’s raids by state and federal law enforcement happened because our state agencies caught irregular behavior and reported it. That’s how the system is supposed to work, and our agencies will keep at it as long as there are fraudsters around to put behind bars.

— Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) April 28, 2026

The FBI Director then dropped this brutal truth bomb on X:

“Come again? This FBI and DOJ with our DHS partners drafted and executed every search warrant today. But go ahead and take credit for our work while we smoke out the fraud plaguing Minnesota under your governorship.”

Come again? This FBI and DOJ with our DHS partners drafted and executed every search warrant today. But go ahead and take credit for our work while we smoke out the fraud plaguing Minnesota under your governorship. https://t.co/HczInx5sZm

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) April 28, 2026

The Gateway Pundit broke story after story exposing how convicted fraudsters claimed Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison were fully aware of the widespread racket but turned a blind eye.

We reported on the $11 million Medicaid scam where a major suspect fled the country after Walz’s soft-on-crime courts let him keep his passport.

We covered Dr. Mehmet Oz ordering a full-scale federal audit of Minnesota’s Medicaid programs after systemic fraud potentially topping $1 billion was uncovered, all under Walz.

Congressional hearings have roasted Walz for “criminal negligence or wild incompetence,” with data showing disproportionate involvement from certain communities in welfare, food stamps, and social service fraud.

The post Kash Patel TORCHES Corrupt Tim Walz After Democrat Governor Tries To Steal Credit For Federal Raid Busting Massive Minnesota Fraud Ring That Ballooned Under His Watch appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.

From erotic model to diver involved in a terrorist attack.

The German paper BILD comes with a revealing story about the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage, arguably the ‘most geopolitically explosive attack in recent history’.

The German outlet interviewed Wall Street Journal journalist Bojan Pancevski, who wrote the book ‘The Nord Stream Blast’ with Paul Ronzheimer.

BILD reported (translated from the German):

“The Ukrainian military granted the reporter unprecedented access. He met the planners and assassins of the “largest sabotage in history” and spoke to the German investigators, who succeeded in painstakingly working and against all expectations to solve the attack on the pipelines that once brought Putin’s gas to Germany.”

The book alleges that the attack was master minded by former top General Valery Zaluzhny (currently ambassador to the UK), and that Kiev regime leader President Volodymyr Zelensky ‘knew about the sabotage attack that his officers were planning’.

While in Ukraine the attack is seen as a glorious combat operation, in Germany, BILD reports, no one defends the act of sabotage.

“[The book tells] the curious but also impressive story of the only woman in the diving team that blew up the Nord Stream pipelines. Pancevski calls her Freya. She was ‘the bravest diver of the whole group’, but nothing in her CV indicated that she would one day go to war against Russia.”

“According to his research, the Ukrainian professional diver ‘Freya’, as book author Bojan Pancevski calls her, was part of the Nord Stream blaster team. Freya used to pose for erotic photos. BILD knows her real name and has researched her photos

[…] In her youth, Freya threw herself into Kiev’s nightlife and enjoyed it to the fullest: ‘Every now and then she also worked as a model and posed for provocative photos. In a nude photo that adorned the cover of an erotic magazine, she wore a captain’s coat. ‘Why does the sun of Crimea arouse sexy feelings?’, was the headline above it’.”

To have Freya in the team gave them a cover story: if they were subject to a police check, they were supposed to say that they were filming underwater porn.

Read more:

Guess Who Threatened to Take the Russian Nord Stream Pipelines Offline Before They Were Sabotaged This Week?

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The O’Keefe Media Group on Tuesday released undercover video of a Fox News Media VP bragging about spending money at strip clubs and charging it to Fox Corporate cards.

Jason Hermes bragged to an undercover OMG journalist that he can just walk into a strip club and spend thousands of dollars on a Fox corporate credit card.

“You could take this [Fox Credit Card], walk into a strip club, literally, and spend $4,000…on Fox! Go into your corporate manager, and they would sign it and pay it off…it’s still like that.“We would just…lie on the [Fox] expense reports—no one’s gonna f***ing say a word to me,” he said.

“It’s the best job, because I’m a celebrity around all of it, but no one knows me. It’s like winning the lottery,” he said.

Per O’Keefe Media Group:

Jason Hermes, the Vice President of Content Sales and Partnerships for Fox Weather under Fox News Media, admitted to lying on the company’s expense reports and using company funds to cover strip club expenses.

Hermes was caught bragging to our undercover journalist that he oversees approximately $90 million worth of business a year for the company, which makes him “…a celebrity around all of it, but no one knows me.”

Lying on an expense report, such as disguising strip club charges, directly violates Fox Media’s Standards of Business Conduct, which require “accurate and complete” information.

These apparent false entries are rolled into budgets, audits, and corporate filings, making company disclosures misleading instead of “full, fair, and accurate.” Because Fox requires employees to record truthful data, Hermes is in clear violation of this policy, which can constitute financial misconduct.

These possible false expense reports made by Hermes may also violate the Federal U.S. Tax Code 274, which states that “no deduction shall be allowed for an activity generally considered to constitute entertainment, amusement, or recreation.”

WATCH:

CAUGHT ON HIDDEN CAMERA: Fox News Media VP Jason Hermes Brags About Charging ‘$4,000 Strip Club Bills’ to Fox Corporate Cards, Admits to a Stranger, “We Would Just…Lie on the [Fox] Expense Reports—No One’s Gonna F***ing Say a Word to Me,” in Direct Violation of Fox Corporate’s… pic.twitter.com/NwKIzO6pnX

— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 28, 2026

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A ceasefire to the Iran War entered its 21st day on Tuesday with the potential for renewed direct talks still uncertain, as the U.S. and Iran continued to disagree over opening the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran effectively closed the waterway shortly after the war began in late February. 

In a Truth Social post Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump claimed that Iran has “informed us that they are in a ‘State of Collapse’” and that Tehran had requested that the U.S. open the Strait of Hormuz “as they try to figure out their leadership situation.”

Iran has said it will not open the Strait of Hormuz until the naval blockade that the U.S. imposed earlier this month is lifted. 

Iran’s Vice President Ismail Saqab Esfahani said this week that any damage to Iran’s oil infrastructure resulting from the U.S. naval blockade would cause Iran to retaliate with “four times the damage” against “the same infrastructure in countries that support the aggressor,” likely referring to the Gulf states Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, and Kuwait.

A senior Iranian official told Drop Site News on Monday that Trump’s characterization of Iran’s leadership as being in disarray is inaccurate.

In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the U.S. cannot “normalize, nor can we tolerate… a system in which the Iranians decide who gets to use an international waterway and how much you have to pay them to use it.”

The price of Brent crude oil rose above $110 on Tuesday for the first time in three weeks. Gas prices continued to rise, with AAA reporting the national average price of gas at $4.18.

NBC News reported over the weekend that the total cost of damage to U.S. assets and bases in the Middle East is much higher than previously disclosed. Repair costs are estimated to exceed more than $5 billion across more than 100 targets in at least seven countries.

The UAE announced on Tuesday that it will leave OPEC, a group of oil-producing countries, with the country’s minister of energy and infrastructure saying that the exit “reflects a policy-driven evolution aligned with long-term market fundamentals.”

Israel issued new evacuation orders in Lebanon on Tuesday, extending orders to 16 new towns north of the “yellow line.”

The Israeli army said two of its soldiers were wounded Tuesday after their forces were targeted by a Hezbollah drone in southern Lebanon, while Lebanon’s Health Ministry said four people were killed by Israeli attacks across the country on Monday.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened mass destruction in Lebanon on Monday, saying “if the Lebanese government continues to shelter under the shadow of the Hezbollah terror organization, fire will burn the cedars of Lebanon.”

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Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted for a second time, according to CNN and Fox News.

The exact charges are not clear; however, Fox News reported that the latest indictment is related to Comey’s Trump assassination Instagram post.

The second indictment comes after a judge dismissed Comey’s prior charges of false statements and obstruction based on the Constitution’s Appointments Clause.

BREAKING: James Comey indicted again, this time over controversial 2025 Instagram post seen as targeting Trump, sources tell @davidspunt pic.twitter.com/lp4RWP2fL1

— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 28, 2026

CNN reported:

Former FBI Director James Comey has been indicted a second time by Trump’s Justice Department, two sources familiar told CNN.

The specific charges were not immediately clear.

President Donald Trump has long pressed for his political adversaries to face charges, including the former FBI director whom he believed to be a key player in the alleged effort to “weaponize” justice system against him.

In September of last year, the Justice Department first brought charges against Comey, accusing him of lying to Congress over leaks to the press. The case was dismissed late last year by a federal judge who found that the interim US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia had been improperly appointed, having skirted approval from the Senate.

Last year it was reported that James Comey was under investigation for calling for Trump to be killed in a cryptic Instagram post.

“Cool shell formation on my beach walk,” Comey said in his caption in May 2025.

Comey previously peddled a BS story explaining how he just stumbled upon a curious formation of shells as he was walking down the beach with his wife.

“We were walking on the beach, we went to the beach to prepare for this week… and we were walking back towards the road and we saw in the sand someone had arranged shells with numbers. And Patrice, my wife, said, ‘why would someone put an address in the sand?’ and I said, ‘I don’t know’ and we stood over and I said, ‘I think it’s some kind of political message,’” Comey said.

Comey then threw his wife under the bus.

“She said you know, when I was a server – she did a lot of work in restaurants – meant to remove an item from the menu when you ran out of ingredients. And I said, ‘well to me, as a kid it always meant to leave a place, to ditch a place.’ And she said well that very clever you should take a picture of that and I did and posted it on my Instagram and though nothing more of it until I heard through her that people were saying that it was a call for some sort of assassination which is crazy!” Comey said.

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