All posts tagged "U.S. Marshals Service"

In a video posted to his X account in late December, Ivan Raiklin is seen walking behind a senior federal prosecutor outside the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C. Peppering her with questions, the former Army Green Beret turned lawyer and self-styled Trump “secretary of retribution” accuses the official of “covering up for the fed-surrection.”

Since Donald Trump’s defeat in 2020, Raiklin has become known for extreme rhetoric in support of Trump’s lie that the election was stolen, including promoting a “Deep State Target List” and calling for “live-streamed swatting raids” against Trump’s enemies.

Raiklin’s social media posts and podcasts typically carry an undercurrent of menace and often indirectly call for violence by accusing opponents of treason, implying they deserve death. ...

A “sovereign citizen” who skipped his federal trial last summer on Jan. 6-related charges is now in custody after the FBI arrested him in Florida.

Victor Sean Dennison, 49, was arrested at Woodlake Condominiums in Clearwater, Fla., on Monday, according to multiple outlets. Federal court records show that Dennison is charged with failure to appear in addition to a bevy of other charges he already faces.

Dennison appeared in federal court on Tuesday, and ordered into the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service for transfer to Washington, D.C., an FBI spokesperson told WSTP 10 Tampa Bay....

A joint fundraising committee for President Joe Biden disgorged a $50,000 donation from Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced CEO of now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, according to a Raw Story review of new federal records.

The Biden Victory Fund surrendered the Bankman-Fried donation to the U.S. Marshals Service in January, Federal Election Commission records indicate.

Bankman-Fried, who made his donation to Biden in 2022, was sentenced to 25 years in prison last month for stealing $8 billion from customers, which he used in part to finance contributions to politicians and political interests across the ideological spectrum....

A government agency best known for hunting down federal fugitives has become wildly successful at capturing another kind of target — money from political campaigns.

More than 150 political campaigns and committees — including well-known politicians such as House Speaker Emerita Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) — have together surrendered to U.S. Marshals upward of $1.35 million in donations from executives of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, according to a Raw Story analysis of Federal Election Commission data.

That’s a nearly 10-fold increase in FTX-related campaign contribution forfeitures since mid-May....

More than 30 federal political candidates and party committees have together surrendered at least $160,000 worth of donor dollars to the U.S. Marshals Service in recent weeks, according to a Raw Story analysis of federal campaign records.

It’s an all-but-unprecedented relinquishing of precious campaign cash to a government agency best known for hunting down suspected criminals, and even veteran election officials say they’ve never seen anything quite like it in U.S. politics.

But this isn’t any routine situation: Most of these “disgorgements” stem from contributions made by executives of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, including former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, Raw Story’s analysis indicates. And the Department of Justice is urging campaigns to give the money up....