PARDON SCANDAL: The Biden Family’s Arc of Corruption


 

Plaintiff is thus entitled to judgment by default as if every item and paragraph of the complaint were supported by proper and sufficient evidence. O.C.G.A. § 9-11-55(a). Here, this means Plaintiff has established that Defendant violated the ORA by failing to either turn over responsive records or else notify Plaintiff of her decision to withhold some or all such records.

In its complaint, Plaintiff sought the following relief:

1) a declaration that Defendant has violated the ORA;

2) an order for Defendant to search for all records responsive to Plaintiff’s request without further delay;

3) an injunction ordering Defendant to cease withholding non-exempt public records responsive to the request;

4) an award of attorney’s fees and costs pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 50-18-73(b);

5) a writ of mandamus, ordering Defendant to provide the requested records; and

6) any other relief the Court deems proper.

By finding Defendant in default, the Court has in effect declared that she has violated the ORA. The Court also hereby ORDERS Defendant to conduct a diligent search of her records for responsive materials within five business days of the entry of this Order. Within that same five day period, Defendant is ORDERED to provide Plaintiff with copies of all responsive records that are not legally exempted or excepted from disclosure. If Defendant is required or decides to withhold all or part of a requested record, she should follow the procedures set forth in the ORA (see O.C.G.A. § 50-18-71(d)). If the records are stored electronically, they may be produced electronically in a commonly used format such as PDF. The Court expects that such production will include the correspondence identified by Plaintiff in its complaint. If it does not, Defendant is further ORDERED to provide an explanation why such correspondence does not exist in Defendant’s records (or why it is being withheld). Beyond that, no other relief, injunctive or otherwise, is necessary at this time (to include striking Defendant’s answer, which is of no effect based on the Court’s finding of default).

Records and communications including emails, email chains, email attachments, text message meeting minutes, outlook calendars, voice recordings, video recordings, correspondence, statements, letters, memoranda, letters, reports, briefings, cables, presentations, notes, or other form of record, regarding a meeting between Merrick Garland, Attorney General, DOJ, and General Mark Alexander Milley, former, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, concerning:

(1) President or former President Donald J. Trump

(2) Domestic Violent Extremism

(3) Far-right Militia Movements.

Demonstrating the need for President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, the investigative arm of Congress had to direct some government agencies to “improve the efficiency and effectiveness of federal programs” in order to save a colossal $67.5 billion in fiscal year 2024, which ended in September. Otherwise, American taxpayers would be forced to pick up the tab for yet more government waste, which is rampant and has long persisted under both Democratic and Republican administrations.

To save the tens of billions, seemingly a drop in the bucket considering the government spent $6.75 trillion in fiscal year 2024, the few federal agencies involved had to receive instructions from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The nonpartisan and independent Congressional watchdog examines how taxpayer dollars are spent and provides lawmakers with objective and fact-based information to help the government save money and work more efficiently. Here are some examples that led to the latest savings. The GAO directed Medicaid to better align states’ estimates for demonstrations with recent costs, saving $13.4 billion. The Department of Energy (DOE) halted construction on a facility that is no longer necessary for treating nuclear and hazardous waste, saving $6 billion. The Department of Defense (DOD) was instructed to identify improper payments, errors, and fraud, resulting in $4.8 billion in savings. The Small Business Administration (SBA) was forced to crack down on the rampant fraud of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) that doled out monstrous sums of money to small businesses recovering from the pandemic, resulting in the decline of $2.1 billion in ineligible or fraudulent applicants.

The list of examples continues and can be viewed in detail in the GAO’s lengthy report, which was recently released to the public and covers the agency’s overall performance and accountability for 2024. The watchdog estimates that the questionable programs it is currently targeting will save American taxpayers at least $50 billion in fiscal year 2025. The GAO has cracked down on tens of thousands of reckless government programs since 2002, saving approximately $1.45 trillion. However, many federal agencies have blown off thousands of recommendations that could result in $106 billion to $208 billion in financial benefits, according to GAO estimates. The congressional watchdog implies that it more than earns its keep with a budget that is a lot smaller—$811.9 million in fiscal year 2024—than the money it saves taxpayers by promoting better management throughout government, which should occur without the GAO’s mandates.

Careless spending has long been an issue for government agencies, which are typically bloated and mismanaged, and the problem has worsened significantly under the Biden administration illustrating a need for the Department of Government Efficiency. The office will be headed by billionaire Elon Musk, the head of electric car company Tesla, rocket company SpaceX and social media platform X and Vivek Ramaswamy, a pharmaceutical entrepreneur and Yale Law School graduate. Besides cutting wasteful spending the new department will be tasked with dismantling government bureaucracy, slashing excess regulations, and restructuring federal agencies. It will send shockwaves through the system, and anyone involved in government waste, according to Musk.

Judicial Watch has for decades exposed enormous amounts of government waste and this year alone has reported on well over a billion dollars in reckless spending, just a snippet of a widespread issue. That does not include mandatory spending such as Social Security, Medicare or military and homeland security, areas that are also plagued by waste. There is a category listed as “other” in which the government doled out an astonishing $238 billion in fiscal year 2024 and some of the allocations are downright outrageous. Examples range from $15 million to fight climate change in an Islamic nation that hates America and serves as a recruiting ground for terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to half a billion dollars to build electric vehicle charges in mostly underserved communities to $2 million to combat corruption in Mexican sports betting.