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McMahon’s Puppets Caught Acting!
In Staten Island’s latest act of political theater, Democratic Judge Raymond Rodriguez and Republican boss Michael Tannousis are pretending to feud — a carefully staged brawl orchestrated by District Attorney Michael McMahon and his wife, Judge Judith McMahon. As early voting shatters records, insiders say the McMahons are hedging their bets: Rodriguez wins, they win;…
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The FEDS’ Perfect Victim: Why a Man Who Never Lost a Dime Cried Fraud to the FBI
Bernhard Fritsch built a company that could have changed social media. Danny Guy made sure it didn’t. The German inventor’s platform, StarClub, was poised to revolutionize influencer monetization when Guy — a hedge fund shark with a $3 billion trail of losses — whispered “fraud” to the FBI. Prosecutors bit. Judge Dale S. Fischer sentenced…
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Escape from New York Socialism on Daufuskie Island
New Yorkers fed up with soaring crime, socialist pipe dreams, and ideological chaos might consider an island escape—literally. Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, offers a quiet refuge far removed from Zohran Mamdani’s Marxist makeover of NYC. While the “People’s Republic of New York” prepares for its next experiment in equity and anarchy, Daufuskie remains a place…
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Trump’s War on Radicals: President Fights Paid Agitators, Courts, and Crime
In The Unknown Podcast Episode 61, Richard Luthmann and Michael Volpe unleashed a verbal blitz on America’s chaos—tearing into leftist agitators, corrupt prosecutors, and foreign threats with bare-knuckle analysis. From the “No Kings” protests to James Comey’s indictment, from Chinese land grabs to fentanyl wars, the hosts framed Trump’s America as a new revolution: order…
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A Modern Day Lufthansa Heist
Bernhard Fritsch, once hailed as a visionary who beat Apple to digital music, has pulled off what some call the “modern Lufthansa Heist.” On Monday, Judge Dale S. Fischer handed him 15 years in federal prison — but Fritsch wasn’t there. The German tech mogul vanished, slipping back to Munich, where U.S. extradition laws can’t…
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GERMAN GENIUS GHOSTS THE FEDS
Bernhard Fritsch, the German-born tech entrepreneur once hailed as a digital visionary, has done what few defendants ever do—vanished beyond the reach of the U.S. justice system. Convicted of wire fraud in Los Angeles federal court, Fritsch fled to Germany just before his remand hearing. Investigative journalist Frank Parlato reveals how Fritsch, now in Bavaria,…
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Peace Abroad and Payback at Home
President Donald Trump’s second term is defined by peace abroad and payback at home. From the Knesset to Cairo, Trump’s “peace through strength” diplomacy is rewriting Middle East history—while his Justice Department delivers long-overdue justice to the corrupt elites and foreign agitators who once targeted him. On The Unknown Podcast, Richard Luthmann and Michael Volpe…
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A Self-Inflicted Wound: The Fall of Gotham
New York, once the city of resilience and rebirth after 9/11, is poised to elect a mayor whose worldview stands in stark contrast to that legacy. Zohran Mamdani, a Ugandan-born Democratic Socialist and state assemblyman, embodies the ideological drift of a city that’s forgotten its own hard-earned lessons. His policies—soft on crime, anti-Israel, and economically…
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Kiss My Black Ass: Oregon Bureaucrats Gone Rogue!
The Oregon Board of Psychology is facing national outrage—and possible personal liability—after targeting family-court reformer Jill Jones-Soderman during the Jewish High Holy Days and ejecting Black journalist Rick LaRivière from a hearing. Critics say the Board’s actions violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments, weaponizing licensing laws to silence dissent and hide judicial misconduct. Legal experts…
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Silence of the Billionaire
Czech billionaire Radovan Vitek—once hailed as Central Europe’s real-estate king—now faces scrutiny across multiple fronts. His CPI Property Group, worth €20 billion, has been hit with a half-billion-euro asset freeze in Cyprus, fresh lawsuits in New York and London, and accusations of suppressing stories that linked him to Russia. Vitek denies wrongdoing, calling the attacks…
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