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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) husband has reacted to this week’s raid on their DC home and the ongoing federal investigation into his infamous wife that could result in her deportation.

On Tuesday, a Fox News reporter confronted Omar’s husband, Tim Mynett, while he was walking his dog to get his reaction to the incident.

Video from the interaction was shared by the outlet this morning.

“Tim, tell us: do you have a reaction to the raid and the investigations that are going on?” the reporter asked him.

“Eh, my wife came here when she was 12 years old,” Mynett replied. “She was a child refugee.”

“No concerns,” he added while walking away.

WATCH:

FEDERAL PROBES: Ilhan Omar’s husband Tim Mynett dismisses mounting investigations into the congresswoman’s immigration paperwork and finances, telling Fox News Digital he has “no concerns” — even after HSI agents raided their D.C. home and subpoenas sent to multiple family members.

Full story here https://t.co/Rz3zPb9ILr

— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) October 14, 2026

His comments came the same day that Omar’s relatives were issued subpoenas as part of the investigation into her immigration paperwork. At least two of Omar’s relatives were subpoenaed.

One has been confirmed to be Omar’s sister, Sahra Noor.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, federal agents orchestrated a pre-dawn raid on the Washington, DC-area residence of Omar early Monday morning as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into her immigration paperwork.

Fox News Digital reported exclusively that the pre-dawn raid is part of an ongoing criminal fraud investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman’s immigration paperwork, documents filled out by her late father when she was a child.

According to her website, Omar arrived in the United States in March 1995, when she was 12 years old. She came with her family as a Somali refugee after spending approximately four years in a refugee camp in Kenya.

She became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2000, at age 17.

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Another day, another illegal released into the country by Democrats, arrested for a violent crime.

A man arrested in Florida for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor has been identified as a trans illegal from Mexico.

According to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, the suspect, Santiago Perez, 38, a biological man pretending to be a woman, posed as a prospective buyer for a property and set up a tour of the house with the homeowner.

It is alleged that on October 6, during the walkthrough, he maneuvered the homeowner’s underage son into a bathroom and sexually assaulted him.

Following the assault, the boy reported the incident to authorities who developed probable cause to arrest Santiago Perez on a sexual battery charge.

He is being held at the Lee County Jail and also has an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer.

According to Fox News’ Bill Melugin, “A federal source tells FOX that PEREZ was previously encountered by ICE after an arrest in Lawrenceville, GA in 2015, but because he didn’t meet the Obama administration’s ICE enforcement priorities at the time, he was ignored and ICE did not place a detainer on him with the Gwinnett County, GA jail.”

“Fox is told this was specifically the result of former Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson’s 11/20/2014 memo on ICE enforcement priorities.”

“Fox is told that PEREZ has a prior conviction for prostitution in Georgia in 2013. ICE has now placed a detainer on him with law enforcement in Lee County, FL for this sexual assault arrest.”

“NEW: Federal law enforcement sources tell @FoxNews that the suspect arrested in Lee County, FL for the alleged sexual assault of an underage boy during a house showing is a transgender illegal alien from Mexico who was previously ignored by the Obama administration when ICE had the opportunity to take him into custody in Georgia in 2015.”

“Police say 38-year-old URIEL SANTIAGO PEREZ, a biological male who presents as a woman, pretended to be an interested home buyer when he showed up to a house in North Fort Myers, FL last week – where the victim’s father was listing the home for sale and giving a tour of the residence.”

“Police say when the father briefly stepped out to smoke a cigarette, PEREZ sexually assaulted the underage boy in a bathroom. According to the police report, Perez exposed his “breasts” to the boy before forcefully sexually assaulting him.”

“A federal source tells FOX that PEREZ was previously encountered by ICE after an arrest in Lawrenceville, GA in 2015, but because he didn’t meet the Obama administration’s ICE enforcement priorities at the time, he was ignored and ICE did not place a detainer on him with the Gwinnett County, GA jail. Fox is told this was specifically the result of former Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson’s 11/20/2014 memo on ICE enforcement priorities. Fox is told that PEREZ has a prior conviction for prostitution in Georgia in 2013. ICE has now placed a detainer on him with law enforcement in Lee County, FL for this sexual assault arrest.”

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) October 14, 2026

Sheriff Carmine Marceno noted, “To say I am repulsed by the acts of this disgusting individual is an understatement.”

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It’s a tale as old as party politics: Democrats saying they’re going to be moderates, then being unable to back it up.

Take Eileen Laubacher, who’s running against GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District. She paints Boebert, who’s been in the House since 2021, as being an extremist — and says that she’s going to stand up to “extremists in both parties.”

Why, just listen to this ad:

“Like so many of us, Eileen is done with the extremists in both parties,” a narrator intones in the piece. “Maybe the best way to break through the noise is a little less talking and more listening.”

OK, then. During her debate with Boebert on Monday — the only debate of the campaign — Laubacher was asked to call out those extremists, if she believes they exist.

“Ms. Laubacher, you have an ad running right now that says that you are done with the extremists in both parties,” said Kyle Clark of KUSA-TV in Denver.

“Who are the extremists in your Democratic Party? Please name them and explain how you’ll stand up to them.”

Uh-oh.

“I think — I think what’s extreme is — you want me to name specific people?” Laubacher said.

“Yes, specific people,” Clark responded.

“I don’t think that’s really necessary, Kyle. I think it’s more important to talk about the things that they want to do and the things that I want to do,” Laubacher stalled.

Which, hey, is not what she said in the ad — in which the Democratic nominee tried to get the vote of people in a heavily Republican district by insisting she’d had enough with the extremes of either party and implying her competitor was an extremist.

“What I want to do is find ways to work in a bipartisan way, to include voting on important bipartisan housing legislation, which I would have absolutely done,” she said.

“But I think it’s also important to find ways to find middle ground with people. I believe that we have way more in common across the aisle than we do that separates us. But I believe that the loudest voices on both sides are the ones that are making the most noise, and people think that that is what we should be listening to, and I do not think so.”

Clark had her dead to rights. “How are voters to believe that you will stand up to people who you will not even name?” he asked.

“Because I think — because I think that if I name three and forget two, like, that’s not going to help anyone,” she said. “Also, I think it’s important to understand that I think what we need to do is stand up for things that are right.”

Democrat Eileen Laubacher, running against Republican Lauren Boebert, is running an ad that says she’s “done with the extremists in both parties.” Asked to name the extremists in the Democratic Party and how she’d stand up to them, this is what happened: https://t.co/oim9YETI6S

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 13, 2026

If this isn’t a window into Boebert’s opponent — indeed, into Democrats in 2026 — what is?

She claims to be a moderate, one who wants to be practical and fight against the extremes. In her one debate, before a friendly Denver outlet, she’s asked the simplest question. Name one Democrat extremist. Just one.

It shouldn’t be difficult. Heck, she could have kicked Ilhan Omar while she was down. AOC if she were feeling punchy. Go outside of the chamber she wants to enter and there’s Sens. Ed Markey, Chris Van Hollen or Elizabeth Warren. Go for it. Prove your bona fides.

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Instead, look at her stammering to name just one extremist on the side she wants to represent. A single one! And this isn’t just putting her on the spot; she was practically inviting this by releasing the campaign ad that Clark was referencing.

The progressive pronoun police of 2024 are now the cost-of-living scolds, with the caveat that nobody wants to mention who started us down the inflation highway. (Joe Biden, anyone? A Democratic Congress?)

The Democrats would have us believe that they’re the party of pragmatism. If that’s true, they need to extirpate their left-wing element. When they can’t even identify who those extremists are — when they’re running on fake bipartisanship without even the thought of actually practicing it — that should be a much bigger issue than the GOP is making it.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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A Democratic candidate in one of the nation’s most critical races performed a disgusting, low-class action during a debate that is going viral.

As The Maine Morning Star reported, Maine GOP Senator Susan Collins and Democrat challenger Troy Jackson faced off in their second-to-last debate on Tuesday night as the general election rapidly approaches.

The two had multiple testy exchanges on various issues, including energy costs, immigration, tariffs, and campaign finance.

Throughout the debate, Jackson consistently hewed to the liberal, Trump-hating lane while Collins touted her independent voting record and history of delivering for Mainers.

But one moment toward the end overshadowed these exchanges, and it demonstrates what kind of individual Jackson is.

As Collins delivered her closing argument, Jackson can be heard belching into the microphone roughly 33 seconds in. It’s unknown whether he was trying to express displeasure with Collins or just thought it was a good time to let one rip.

Collins ignores him and continues to share her message with Maine voters.

WATCH:

GROSS: Troy Jackson burps at 33 seconds in this clip while Sen. Susan Collins talks.

Troy Jackson is a nasty man. https://t.co/tRaCEZCvY9

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 14, 2026

This should not come as too much of a surprise, considering Jackson is the same candidate who married his second cousin and has two sons with her.

For followers of politics, this incident brings to mind disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-China) f*rting on MSNBC while talking to Chris Matthews back in November 2019.

According to the latest polls, Jackson holds a lead of about two points over Collins. It’s important to note, however, that Collins has a history of defying the odds and winning.

Even in a difficult political environment for Republicans, Collins cannot be counted out. Let’s hope history repeats itself.

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A new report by Miranda Devine at The New York Post reveals that a federal banking regulator found that “major banks closed accounts and refused credit to MAGA merchants, pro-life causes, religious groups, conservative organizations and sectors disfavored by the Biden administration, such as firearms, oil and gas, and private prisons.”

This follows a report on fair banking that was released on Wednesday by US Comptroller Jonathan Gould that he posted on X.

Under the direction of @POTUS and pursuant to his Executive Order, “Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans,” the @USOCC today released our debanking report.

With @SecScottBessent’s leadership, we are working to end politicized debanking. Access to banking should be based on financial risk, not political beliefs or whether a lawful industry is out of favor.

Read our findings: https://t.co/xCycsJfd0F

— Comptroller Jonathan Gould (@USComptroller) October 14, 2026

According to the Post:

Major banks closed accounts and refused credit to MAGA merchants, pro-life causes, religious groups, conservative organizations and sectors disfavored by the Biden administration, such as firearms, oil and gas, and private prisons, a bombshell report from the federal banking regulator has found.

The NY Post also names the guilty parties: JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, Capital One, PNC, TD Bank, and BMO Bank.

These banks cited “reputation risk” as their reason to de-bank conservative groups during the Biden regime years.

Of course, this tactic of the radical left is nothing new for The Gateway Pundit and our readers. As The Gateway Pundit readers are well aware, conservatives have faced increased efforts by the left to de-bank, de-platform, and cancel their voices and ability to do business at every level in the United States.

Tens of thousands of Americans have lost banking privileges, social media pages, and their right to speak freely without warning, The Gateway Pundit has been banned, shadowbanned, censored, and disappeared from online platforms, online banking, and even insurance companies over the past several years.

In December 2021, The Gateway Pundit and Jim Hoft were personally banned from PayPal on the last day of 2021.  We had never violated any of PayPal’s bylaws, we had never been warned about our activity — BUT we are conservative and pro-Trump. That was enough to get us removed from the platform.

American Express slashed the credit line of Mike Lindell’s MyPillow by a staggering 90% after a 15-year partnership between the two companies.

Former Facebook executive Alex Stamos called for conservative news alternatives OANN and Newsmax to be completely deplatformed “to turn down the capability of these Conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences.”

Attorney John Eastman was debanked by Bank of America and USAA in April 2024 for his advocacy of President Trump in his efforts to expose the massive fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

Independent journalist Christina Urso, known professionally as Radix Verum, reported that Bank of America abruptly terminated her bank account in May 2024. Urso was critical in her reporting on various issues including the FBI’s involvement in the Governor Whitmer kidnapping case.

Individuals who shopped at stores like Cabela’s, Dick’s Sporting Goods, or purchased religious texts like a Bible, may also have had their transactions flagged.

Stripe disabled the Libs of TikTok account in February 2021 with no explanation.

Paypal went on a ban-a-thon in 2022 and has terminated the accounts of a number of campaign organizations. These organizations include the Gay Against Groomers, the Free Speech Union, legal activists Law or Fiction, and the parenting group UsForThem.

The Gateway Pundit’s founder was even blocked from purchasing home insurance in 2019 due to his conservative website.

A Soros-funded NGO pressured companies not to advertise with right-wingers this year.

The Nazis are Back in Germany: Soros-Funded NGO Pressures Procter & Gamble, ALDI, AXA and Others: “Don’t Advertise with Right-Wingers”

These are just a few of the examples we could find of companies and banks targeting conservatives.

The debanking and targeting of conservatives and right-leaning customers is nothing new. Today’s New York Post report shines more light on this illegal practice.

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Former Special Counsel Jack Smith collected information on 639,000 Republican voters and donors during his sprawling Arctic Frost investigation, according to documents released by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley.

The information collected included the donors’ physical home addresses, credit card information, occupations and donation amount.

“Operation Arctic Frost” was a taxpayer-funded Biden DOJ witch hunt launched in April 2022 that seized government-issued cell phones belonging to Trump and Pence while conducting a barrage of interviews across the country.

The 2020 Trump alternate electors prompted the Biden DOJ to open the Arctic Frost investigation into Trump and hundreds of other individuals and organizations.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley last year revealed that Jack Smith targeted the ‘entire Republican apparatus.’

Fox News reported:

A new memo obtained by Fox News Digital alleges that former President Joe Biden’s Justice Department collected information on hundreds of thousands of Republican voters and donors.

The memo is part of an update from Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and his investigation into former special counsel Jack Smith and his Arctic Frost probe, which was launched by Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) in 2022 to investigate efforts to overturn results of the 2020 election.

Grassley has been diving into Arctic Frost since last year, releasing a drip feed of whistleblower reports on the investigation that led to Smith testifying before the Judiciary Committee last month.

The latest update found that Smith’s special counsel’s office and the DOJ “obtained spreadsheets containing Republican campaign donors, supporters, and detailed personal voter information in various formats, totaling over 639,000 individuals, at minimum,” Grassley said in the memo.

“Out of those, over 148,000 rows are identified in the spreadsheets as donors,” he continued. “The donors generally contributed small-dollar amounts.”

A new report released by House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan in September confirmed Jack Smith coordinated with the Biden DOJ to spy on their political opposition.

Republicans released documents that revealed investigators improperly subpoenaed phone records that belonged to 44 GOP lawmakers during Jack Smith’s Arctic Frost investigation.

Jack Smith’s team also secured gag orders to prevent the GOP lawmakers from learning that Biden’s DOJ obtained their phone records.

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A House bill that would let crime victims sue state and local officials who release illegal immigrants under federal detainers is sitting on the calendar for a possible post-election vote.

The measure is the Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act of 2026, H.R. 7640. Republican Rep. Tom McClintock of California introduced it on Feb. 23.

The House placed it on the Union Calendar on March 12 as Calendar No. 465. Just the News reported Monday that the committee cleared it with little notice last month.

Congress can stop sanctuary policies.

They should pass @RepMcClintock’s H.R. 7640: Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act of 2026

Does your Member of Congress support it? https://t.co/GstupAvddH

— Immigration Accountability Project Action (@iaproject) August 17, 2026

The provision Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio called the bill’s sharpest tool is a private right of action. Victims, and the families of victims, could sue the cities, states, and officials who released the criminal illegal who harmed them.

The Congressional Research Service summary says the suit can be brought against a state or local government that, for example, released someone who was later convicted of the crime despite a detainer.

House GOP crafts nuclear option for sanctuary cities, letting victims sue local officials https://t.co/aLUN5I0Gr3 via @JustTheNews The bill’s most poignant weapon creates a right of private action for victims and families of victims to sue the municipalities and officials who released violent offenders, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told Just the News.

— SASSYCHICK (@KT07500539) October 13, 2026

Jordan told Just the News the language would strip some of the civil immunity those officials now have. In some places that protection is absolute immunity, the broadest form of the doctrine.

“It allows people who’ve been harmed, where local political leaders tell the local law enforcement they can’t work with federal law enforcement, detainers aren’t honored … to go take that city, take that state to court,” he said.

“So we got a good deal that we worked long and hard on. We just got to try to get it passed in the lame duck.”

The rest of the bill is about cooperation and money. It would bar state and local governments from blocking their own employees from enforcing immigration law, working with federal agents, or asking about a person’s status.

It would require the Department of Homeland Security to issue a detainer when someone is arrested for a criminal or motor-vehicle offense and DHS has probable cause that the person is inadmissible or deportable. Local authorities would have to honor those detainers.

Jurisdictions DHS finds out of compliance would lose certain law-enforcement and immigration funding. That money would go to places that comply. The bill also gives federal immunity to officials and agencies that follow it, and it lets related prosecutions be moved to federal court.

DHS could refuse to hand someone over to a jurisdiction that is not in compliance, and it could not transfer a person who already has a final order of removal.

Just the News tied the push to recent cases.

The outlet cited a September DHS account of Rohit Rohit, an illegal immigrant from India released during the Biden years, who is accused of stalking Shalini Thakur for months and then killing her in a Panera Bread parking lot in Sacramento.

ENOUGH BREAKING: NEW: DHS confirms that a murder suspect who killed a woman in Sacramento, CA on Tuesday by chasing her down with a gun, shooting her, then shooting her again in the head on the ground, is an Indian illegal alien who was caught & released at the border by the Biden administration.

DHS says Rohit Rohit was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol after crossing the Arizona border illegally in August 2023, but he was released into the country.

Per local media, he had been stalking and harassing the woman he killed, even putting an AirTag under the hood of her car.

He shot and killed himself after the murder.

DHS statement:

“This illegal alien from India harassed, stalked, and then killed a 38-year-old woman in California, and then took his own life when police caught up to him,” said a DHS Spokesperson. “This tragedy would have been completely avoided if it weren’t for the Biden Administration RELEASING this killer into our country.”

— MAGA Deb (@DebRN1953) September 11, 2026

DHS said sanctuary politicians had to end policies that “play Russian roulette with American lives.”

The bill has not had a floor vote. Congress.gov lists it as reported to the House and waiting on the calendar. Jordan’s timeline for a vote is the period after the election.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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One of Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico’s wealthy White supporters has set off a major firestorm in East Austin after getting into a nasty argument with a student from a nearby historically Black college.

As FOX 7 Austin reported, a Huston-Tillotson student named Bri shared a video on her Instagram account @briii.likethecheese in which she is seen confronting a couple with a Talarico sign in their front yard. The home is just a few feet away from the university gates.

Bri claims in her post that the couple has been leaving notes on cars from students at the college to get them to move off the street. She says this is “harassment” because this is all public parking.

“Excuse me, do y’all live here? Y’all know that it’s legal to park right here, right?” Bri tells the couple in the video.

“What are you talking about?” the woman asks.

After Bri confronts the couple over their notes, the woman starts exerting her white liberal privilege in a very condescending fashion.

“We paid $1.5 million for our house; y’all’s graduation rates are 25%,” she snarks.

“You’re in a historically Black neighborhood,” Bri fires back.

“This is our neighborhood!” the woman yells.

Bri calls the woman a “Karen” and tells her not to scream at her.

The woman later says she will call the police, while Bri quips that she “can’t wait” to put this exchange online.

WATCH HERE

This explosive exchange caused protesters to swarm the couple’s home over the weekend. Many were seen carrying signs that read “You brought a house, not our history.”

Per FOX 7, the police were called despite the protest remaining peaceful.

WATCH:

Neighbors told FOX 7 Austin that they never had an issue with student parking before and were “very disappointed” by the liberal White woman’s actions.

We haven’t had any issues with parking at all. I don’t know why she felt the need to say it’s her neighborhood,” said Sybill Bradley.

“I was very upset. I was disappointed, frustrated, especially living as close as we are to that, to see that, and especially to hear the words that she said when she kept screaming, ‘my neighborhood.’ And then for her to make the remark about the school, that was very disappointing,” another neighbor told FOX 7 Austin. “If you didn’t want to socialize with us, you just speak and move on, but what happened the other day, we’ve never had that happen before.”

The City of Austin’s Transportation and Public Works department released the following statement to FOX & when asked about East 9th’s parking policy in the neighborhood. The statement appears to back up Bri’s assertions.

Parking is allowed on those blocks of East 9th Street. While there are some areas where drivers are not allowed to park — such as around corner clearances, at intersections, and in front of driveways — the curb is otherwise open for public parking.

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A Saudi national employed as an engineer at OpenAI has been arrested by the FBI after allegedly planting a surreptitious audio recording device inside an executive conference room at the company’s San Francisco headquarters.

According to the Justice Department’s October 13 announcement, 35-year-old Abdulrahman Alfozan was arrested on Friday, October 9, and made his initial appearance in federal court on Tuesday.

Alfozan, who had worked as an engineer for OpenAI since July 2025, is accused of placing a concealed recording device in a room where company executives regularly discussed highly confidential information, including proprietary research, advanced AI capabilities, government engagements, and strategic business decisions.

If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and three years of supervised release.

According to the DOJ’s press release:

According to the complaint, Alfozan had been employed as an engineer by OpenAI since July 2025.

On or about Sept. 30, OpenAI personnel discovered a surreptitious audio recording device (Recording Device 1) inserted into a USB port on the back of a television in an executive conference room inside one of their buildings in San Francisco.

OpenAI determined that the device, which had been concealed in toilet paper, was installed on or about Sept. 28, and that its contents were encrypted.

Recording Device 1

Closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage inside OpenAI’s office showed that Alfozan appeared near the executive conference room on multiple dates prior to the device’s discovery, although he had no authority to access or to participate in meetings occurring in the executive conference room.

According to the complaint, meetings in the executive conference room where Recording Device 1 was discovered frequently involved discussions of highly confidential technical, commercial, and strategic information, including proprietary research, product plans, and business-development opportunities, as well as nonpublic information about Open AI’s technical progress and strategic decisions, capabilities, priorities, government engagements, and commercial relationships.

According to the complaint, prior to Sept. 28, Alfozan used a productivity tool to make multiple inquiries about Open AI’s building addresses, meeting rooms, meeting-room capacities and calendars, “leadership and exec” locations, and external partner meetings.

Moreover, a chatbot account associated with Alfozan’s spouse (which shared multiple identifiers and attributes with Alfozan’s own chatbot account) submitted prompts between Sept. 24 and Sept. 30 related to building, customizing, installing, audio recording, testing, obfuscating, and remote accessing a device, including inquiries about “build[ing] a continuous audio recorder,” “customiz[ing] Wi-Fi . . . connectivity,” “improv[ing] audio and live listening,” and “encrypt[ing] the SD card,” among other things.

The same chatbot account also submitted prompts specifically related to Recording Device 1, including its custom header and unique MAC address, between Sept. 27 and Sept. 28.

The complaint further alleges that on Oct. 5, Alfozan entered the executive conference room and appeared to look behind the television into which Recording Device 1 had been inserted, as captured below:

Image of Alfozan

Finally, the complaint alleges that, also on or about Oct. 5, Alfozan left a bag unattended in a different room in an OpenAI building. OpenAI security personnel found and opened Alfozan’s bag, inside which they discovered — among other things, including Alfozan’s wallet and ID — another recording device (Recording Device 2) similar to Recording Device 1.

FBI Director Kash Patel stated: “According to the complaint unsealed today, Abdulrahman Alfozan allegedly concealed a covert recording device inside his employer’s executive conference room to secretly capture sensitive communications about the company’s super intelligence technology. Protecting American SI innovation is essential to safeguarding our nation’s economic strength and national security, and the FBI views that mission as one of our highest counterintelligence priorities.”

FBI and partners arrested this individual after he allegedly concealed a recording device inside his employer’s executive conference room to secretly capture sensitive communications about the company’s super intelligence tech – Thank you to @ODNIgov Jay Clayton @AGToddBlanche and our law enforcement partners for their support in this case. Investigation ongoing. Protecting American SI innovation is critically important and FBI views it as one of our highest counterintelligence priorities.

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) October 13, 2026

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