Feds Probe AOC For Employing Illegal Alien, Helping Migrants Evade ICE
Border Czar Tom Homan announced that he has officially opened a federal investigation into Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) over allegations that she employed an undocumented immigrant on her staff and assisted other illegal aliens in evading Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
The Trump administration is investigating Ocasio-Cortez for two alleged offenses: employing an undocumented immigrant who subsequently assisted another individual in evading ICE. In an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson, Homan stated that he has instructed the agency to pursue legal action against her.
“It’s being looked at (AOC employing illegal alien), can’t comment past that. I’m aware of it, we’ve asked ICE to drill in on that case,” Homan said. “As far as her educating people how to evade ICE arrests, she’s really educating them on how to avoid prosecution. Because there are statutes on the books when you knowingly hinder your removal, that’s a crime.”
Johnson questioned how an undocumented immigrant could have secured employment in Congress and potentially gained access to classified information.
“It is not possible,” Homan stressed, emphasizing that the congresswoman will be held accountable if such claims are accurate.
In March, Diego de la Vega voluntarily left the U.S. amid intensified deportation efforts by the Trump administration, citing concerns for his safety. He became politically active in 2010 when he supported the DREAM Act, legislation that sought to create a pathway to legal status for undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children.
Although the bill narrowly failed in the Senate by five votes, de la Vega, despite his undocumented status, worked as a “special assistant” to former Harlem Assemblymember Robert J. Rodriguez and interned for Representative Carolyn Maloney (D), the report added.
In 2022, de la Vega was appointed Deputy Communications Director by Ocasio-Cortez. In an interview with Migrant Insider, AOC praised him, saying, “Diego is amazing.”
Homan sent an email to the deputy attorney general requesting an investigation into Ocasio-Cortez.
That came shortly after reports emerged that the New York Democrat was hosting seminars teaching undocumented immigrants how to avoid ICE enforcement.
Following Homan’s email to the DOJ, AOC revealed that the Trump administration had yet to answer her requests about whether she is under federal investigation.
“I’ve asked them, they haven’t responded to me,” Ocasio-Cortez told Fox News. “But you know, I was once again fully using the First Amendment to inform people of their constitutional rights. They say a lot of things, but I’ve written a formal letter, and they won’t respond.”
The congresswoman organized a “Know Your Rights” webinar earlier this year, in which lawyers advised illegal immigrants on how to respond to interactions with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities.
The internet forum, held in both English and Spanish, provided legal advice and distributed papers, including one declaring that immigrants “do not have to open the door” for ICE officials unless they had a judge-signed warrant.
Ocasio-Cortez’s office also supplied information on how to receive pro bono legal assistance and urged undocumented people to sign privacy release forms, which would allow her office to interfere in deportation proceedings.
Ocasio-Cortez has forcefully denied any allegations that her actions were inappropriate, labeling the prospect of a federal inquiry “politically motivated.”
Ocasio-Cortez is also under fire as her district has decayed into a crime-ridden cesspool, and voters are furious with her.
Since she was first elected in 2019, major crime has risen by a staggering 70 percent in her Bronx/Queens district.
“The 110th Precinct in Queens, which covers part of the infamous ‘Market of Sweethearts’ human-trafficking and prostitution mecca on Roosevelt Avenue, saw a 105% surge, the highest increase of any NYC precinct in that period,” The Post said in its report.
“Major crimes consist of murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny and auto theft,” the outlet continued.
The 115th precinct, which is also in the representative’s district, saw a whopping increase of 85 percent in major crimes, and her constituents are frustrated with their celebrity representative.
“She’s not doing s–t. She doesn’t live in the neighborhood, she doesn’t care,” Elmhurst resident Guadelupe Alvarez, a former supporter of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, said.
The headlines in Albany were loud. The whispers behind closed doors were louder. And now, a stunning new twist has sent shockwaves through America’s political and legal world: New York Attorney General Letitia James — the woman who made her career promising to “take down Donald Trump” — is suddenly facing her own federal probe that could derail everything.
This isn’t just politics. This is survival.
According to reports, James is officially the subject of a widening Department of Justice investigation after former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi dropped a criminal referral that could expose James to staggering legal consequences.
For years, James has built her national brand by waging war against Trump and the NRA. But now, federal subpoenas, whispers of mortgage fraud, and the looming shadow of a grand jury have flipped the script. The hunter may have just become the hunted.
MSNBC’s legal analyst Danny Cevallos didn’t mince words when speaking about the situation. “There is nothing scarier for a citizen [than] to get a subpoena or find out that they’re being investigated by a federal criminal grand jury,” he warned. “It’s terrifying.”
And terrifying may be an understatement. Federal investigators, insiders say, are combing through terabytes of records — from property purchases to campaign finances — and they aren’t just looking at Trump-related lawsuits. They’re digging into James herself.
Here’s the danger: federal probes don’t stay in neat little boxes. As Cevallos explained, “They may be investigating issue number one and then stumble across never before known issue number two.” Translation? Even if James survives the Trump battlefield, she could still fall victim to collateral damage from a financial paper trail she never expected anyone to follow.
Enter Pam Bondi. The former Florida attorney general — who rose to national prominence during Trump’s impeachment defense — has now thrown gasoline on the fire. On Friday, Bondi confirmed that
Bondi told Fox News that the move was essential to avoid “any appearance of political animus.” But the choice of special prosecutor raised even more eyebrows:
The timing couldn’t be more explosive. On the same day Bondi’s announcement dropped, a grand jury was reportedly convened to weigh potential charges against James — after mortgage authorities flagged suspicious discrepancies in her real estate filings.
The details are as shocking as they are bizarre. Investigators are said to be zeroing in on documents where James allegedly listed her father as her “husband” — a possible move to secure more favorable loan terms reserved for married couples. Other filings reportedly
For Schiff, the allegations revolve around claims that he misrepresented his Maryland residence to secure mortgage advantages, only later updating the paperwork years after the fact.
But it’s James who is in the hotter seat. Because unlike Schiff, her entire public identity is wrapped in one narrative: that she is the righteous crusader who brought Trump to his knees.
During her 2018 campaign, James made headlines by promising to investigate Trump. In 2022, she delivered, filing her massive civil fraud lawsuit. Earlier this year, she won a blockbuster ruling against the former president, ordering him to pay more than $450 million in penalties.
But now, the tables are turning. If the allegations prove true, the attorney general who accused Trump of inflating property values could herself be accused of bending the rules on her own property holdings.
That’s why observers are calling this a “legal earthquake.”
James’ attorney, Abbe Lowell, has already gone on the offensive, blasting the probe as “the most blatant and desperate example of this administration carrying out the president’s political retribution campaign.”
“This is an attack on the rule of law,” Lowell declared, insisting that James is ready to fight with “facts and the law.”
But critics argue that this is no witch hunt — it’s accountability. “If she broke the rules, she doesn’t get to hide behind her office,” one Albany insider told reporters. “She set the standard for Trump. Now she has to live by it.”
Meanwhile, whispers inside political circles suggest that some Democrats are privately panicking. With James facing mounting scrutiny, questions are swirling about whether her legal war against Trump could collapse under the weight of her own troubles.
For years, Letitia James was the face of legal resistance against Trumpism. She was the one Democrat who could boast that she had beaten Trump in court, not just in politics. But if federal prosecutors prove that she played fast and loose with her own financial disclosures, the consequences will be devastating.
Not just for her. But for the entire political narrative that cast Trump as the only one bending the rules.
As Cevallos put it bluntly: “If somebody is the subject, the target, of a grand jury investigation, that is not a good sign.”
And right now, Letitia James is not just in the spotlight. She’s in the crosshairs.
This case is still unfolding, but one thing is certain: the legal earthquake shaking New York won’t stop with subpoenas. With a special prosecutor in place, a grand jury convened, and whispers of fraud in the air, Letitia James faces the fight of her career.
Whether she emerges as a political martyr or a fallen titan depends on what investigators find in the paper trail. But for the first time in years, James isn’t the one issuing subpoenas. She’s the one answering them.
And that may be the biggest plot twist of all.
The Justice Department has opened an investigation into the Office of New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), the state’s top prosecutor, who brought a successful civil fraud case against President Trump.
The probe by federal prosecutors, launched by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York, issued two subpoenas this week, seeking information related to James’s case against the Trump Organization as well as another brought against the National Rifle Association (NRA).
Separately Friday, the Justice Department appointed Ed Martin to investigate a prior criminal referral made by the Federal Housing Finance Agency alleging James claimed a Virginia home was her primary residence to secure more favorable loan terms. Martin also appears to have been tapped for similar allegations made against Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), multiple outlets reported Friday.
An attorney for James confirmed the inquiries, characterizing them as weaponization by the Department of Justice in going after a Trump adversary.
“Investigating the fraud case Attorney General James won against President Trump and his businesses has to be the most blatant and desperate example of this administration carrying out the president’s political retribution campaign,” attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement.
“Weaponizing the Department of Justice to try to punish an elected official for doing her job is an attack on the rule of law and a dangerous escalation by this administration,” Lowell added. “If prosecutors carry out this improper tactic and are genuinely interested in the truth, we are ready and waiting with the facts and the law.”
James scored a big victory in her civil suit against Trump, with a judge issuing a nearly half-billion-dollar penalty for the Trump Organization after determining the business overvalued its assets.
Several outlets also reported Friday that another subpoena was issued to James’s office related to a case she brought against the NRA, arguing it failed to properly administer its charitable organization. That judgment included $6.35 million in penalties for NRA leaders.
The Justice Department declined to comment. The Hill has reached out to the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of New York for comment.
James, who was elected as New York’s attorney general in 2018, has long been the recipient of Trump’s ire. The state’s top prosecutor has long challenged the administration’s directives in court and successfully sued the president and his organization over what her office said was business fraud. A New York judge ordered Trump to pay nearly $355 million in penalties in early 2024. James’s office said that with interest, the figure would balloon to more than $450 million.
Beyond Friday’s subpoenas, the mortgage investigation led by Martin is one of the first cases for a man who was tapped to lead DOJ’s new Weaponization Working Group after he failed to be confirmed by the Senate as U.S. attorney for D.C.
The FHFA first made a criminal referral for James in April, raising claims about a Virginia home and another New York based property.
Lowell also dismissed that probe, noting that Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has also faced allegations he improperly claimed three homes as his primary residence to secure more favorable mortgage terms.
“The appointment of Ed Martin — so extreme he couldn’t even win enough support from his fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate to become an actual U.S. Attorney — makes it crystal clear this is a manufactured investigation to pursue political retribution,” he said in a statement.
“As we wrote to Attorney General Bondi, any objective inquiry would conclude Attorney General James violated no laws in managing her properties, but one must wonder why AG Bondi failed to include Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in her mandate. Will Mr. Martin also be pursuing the reports of mortgage fraud involving the AG Paxton, or will that somehow fall outside his definition of justice because he is not allowed to review the conduct of Republicans?”
Attorney Preet Bharara called the Schiff accusations “transparently false, stale, and long debunked” in a statement issued late Friday.
“Now Ed Martin, the most brazenly partisan and politically compromised person possible for the task, has been picked to investigate a political adversary. The bias here is glaring. Mr. Martin’s nomination to be U.S. Attorney of the District of Columbia was derailed not only by his partisanship and unfitness, but also by the hold Senator Schiff appropriately placed on the nomination. Mr. Martin is a January 6-defending lawyer who has repeatedly pursued baseless and politically-motivated investigations to fulfill demands to investigate and prosecute perceived enemies. Any supposed investigation led by him would be the very definition of weaponization of the justice process.”
Patricia Crowley was an actress who was best known for her roles in the TV series “Dynasty” and the 1960s sitcom “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies,” but she has also acted in numerous other TV shows and movies including “Hawaii 5-0,” “Columbo,” “Generations,” “Port Charles,” and “The Bold and the Beautiful.” She also received the Golden Globe new star award in 1954 for her roles in “Forever Female” and “Money From Home.”
The New York Post reports that on Sunday September 14, 2025, just two days before her 92nd birthday, Crowley died of natural causes in Los Angeles. Her son, Jon Hookstratten, who serves as the executive VP of administration and operations for Sony Pictures Entertainment, announced the sad news of his mom’s death.
Crowley is survived by her husband, Andy Friendly. They had been married since 1986, but that wasn’t her first marriage. She was previously married to Ed Hookstratten. The couple had two children together, Jon and Ann Hookstratten Osher.
Crowley’s acting career began when she followed her sister,singer Ann Crowley, to New York City, where she landed a role in the chorus of “Oklahoma!” on Broadway. While attending the High School of Performing Arts, she stared as the lead in the Broadway show “Southern Exposure.” Then she went on to land a role in a live episode of CBS’ “The Ford Theatre Hour” opposite Jack Lemmon and Jack Albertson.
While Crowley has acted in numerous TV shows and movies in her long career, it has been awhile since she has been seen on screen. Her last onscreen role was in the 2012 in the film “Mont Reve.”
Crowley is survived by her husband, her children, five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Watch the video below to see Crowley perform with Dean Martin on The Dean Martin Show in 1970.
The final chapter of Liam Deane’s life is cloaked in shadows—rumors, unanswered questions, and eerie coincidences that refuse to fade.
Behind prison walls, whispers circulate that his death was no random outbreak of inmate violence, but the culmination of a silent code: a ruthless, unspoken pact among prisoners to exact vengeance on those guilty of crimes against children.
Others suspect something darker—a calculated act, perhaps even tacitly permitted by the very system meant to keep order. What truly transpired in those dim corridors may never fully come to light.
Liam Deane, just 22, from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, was convicted of a crime so harrowing it shook his community to its core: the murder of his newborn daughter, Luna, who was barely two days old.
The grim trial exposed a horrific, unprovoked act of violence against an innocent soul, leaving the public reeling. The raw details ignited fierce debates on the perils of unchecked rage, the vulnerability of infants in fragile homes, and the heartbreaking fallout when emotional turmoil spirals out of control.
Weeks after sentencing, Deane’s life was abruptly ended by another inmate in an act many viewed as prison justice—a brutal reminder of the deadly consequences awaiting those branded with such offenses behind bars.
The echoes of this tragedy linger deeply—not only in the minds of law enforcement, medical teams, and legal officials, but also within the hearts of the wider Wakefield community who watched the nightmare unfold. It stands as a stark testament to how swiftly innocence can be shattered, and how quickly vengeance can claim a life.
For the people affected, the intertwined fates of baby Luna and her father symbolize a profound and painful reckoning. Their story calls urgently for reflection on mental health support, the management of destructive emotions, and the critical need for stronger safety nets for vulnerable new parents under psychological strain.
Closing Reflection
From this and other stories, a clear and troubling pattern emerges: when emotional fragility, unchecked fury, or entrenched conflict collide with crisis, lives can unravel in devastating ways. Whether within close-knit communities, fractured families, or behind prison bars, the message is urgent—prevention is vital. We need better mental health resources, open dialogue, and protective systems focused on those most at risk. These tragedies leave behind more than sorrow—they leave pressing questions and crucial lessons that demand action before history repeats its darkest chapters.