Marco Rubio’s best friend is on trial for a $50 million Venezuelan lobbying scheme – and Rubio has to testify against him. The FBI told the NYPD to “stand down” on Epstein in 2019, and now New York’s attorney general has the tools to reopen the case. And the Pentagon blew $93.4 billion in a single month on lobster tail, Steinway pianos, and Herman Miller recliners – then 42 million Americans lost their food stamps.
The Florida Network Is on Trial
David Rivera – Marco Rubio’s former housemate and political enforcer – goes to trial March 16 in Miami on charges he secretly lobbied the Trump administration on behalf of Nicolas Maduro’s government through a $50 million contract with Venezuela’s state oil company. Rivera’s defense strategy: subpoena Rubio and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and argue that if he’s a foreign agent, so is half the current administration. The trial will force the sitting Secretary of State to testify about private meetings with sanctioned Venezuelan figures.
New York Had Everything It Needed to Go After Epstein’s Friends
“New York residence” appears 45 times in the federal government’s own 86-page memo on Epstein’s co-conspirators. The Manhattan townhouse was the epicenter – and in 2019, the NYPD’s Special Victims Unit was actively investigating when the FBI called and told them to stand down. A separate email described the Manhattan DA’s contact with a victim as “another fire” that needed to be “put out.” One month later, Epstein was dead. New York Attorney General Letitia James now has the statutory tools to reopen the case without federal permission.
The Spending Spree Is the Receipt
Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon spent $93.4 billion in September 2025 – the most any federal agency has spent in a single month since at least 2008. Lobster tail, king crab, a $98,000 Steinway piano, a $21,750 Japanese flute, $225 million on furniture, $3.5 billion on cable TV. A watchdog warned Hegseth. He did nothing. Two months later, SNAP ran out of money and 42 million Americans’ EBT cards didn’t reload – for the first time in the program’s history. There was a $5 billion contingency fund sitting there. They chose not to use it.
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