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From: smythlejon2@hotmail.com
LeftistsAreMorons wrote:
>On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 13:54:38 -0400, -hh
> wrote:
>
>>On 9/25/25 11:56, LeftistsAreMorons wrote:
>>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2025 10:32:05 -0500, super70s
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2025-09-25 12:35:20 +0000, pothead said:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2025-09-25, c186282 wrote:
>>>>>> I'd disagree ... it served a useful purpose for awhile.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Some vestige of it SHOULD remain.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If anything it exposed the massive corruption and waste of taxpayer
>>>>> money that has been going to support these slush fund, politically
>>>>> motivated programs.
>>>>>
>>>>> USAID in particular.
>>>>
>>>> Rather than being distributed, $98 million dollars of food aid was
>>>> purposefully burned and destroyed by Trump. That food could have
>>>> prevented the deaths of hundreds of thousands of starving children in
>>>> Africa this year to date. Millions more expected to die over the next
>>>> year.
>>>
>>> NONSENSE
>>
>>
>>"[Congress] Demands Answers on Reports of Trump Administration
>>Destroying Emergency Food Assistance & Wasting American Tax Dollars"
>>
>>
>>>on-reports-of-trump-administration-destroying-emergency-food-assistance-w
>>asting-american-tax-dollars>
>>
>>
>>>> Live happily with your conscience, MAGA cultist.
>>
>>They delight in deliberate cruelty imposed on others...
>>
>>...while forgetting the inevitable kharmic backlash.
>>
>>
>>-hh
>
>Meeks is s fruitcake.
>
Another one of Trump's appointees has gone down for kiddy porn.
Why can't you rightist assholes keep your hands off the children?
Won't your wives and boyfriends fuck you anymore?
Ex-RNC staffer gets more than 12 years in prison in child porn case
Probe that snared Ruben Verastigui allegedly involved at least 18 others,
including a former Commerce Department aide.
A sign for the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Ruben Verastigui has been in custody since his arrest last February and is
currently jailed at the U.S. Penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa., according to
the federal Bureau of Prisons. | AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File
By Josh Gerstein04/08/2022 08:17 AM EDT
A former GOP staffer and Republican National Committee aide who admitted to
being part of a ring that traded child pornography involving babies was
sentenced Thursday to more than 12-and-a-half years in prison Thursday.
Ruben Verastigui, 29, received the 151-month sentence from U.S. District
Court Judge Amit Mehta during a hearing held via video conference,
according to an announcement from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington,
D.C.
Verastigui was a digital strategist for the RNC in 2017 and 2018, working
on social media advertising for political committees backing former
President Donald Trump, according to Verastigui's LinkedIn page. The
digital strategist also worked for the Senate Republican Conference and for
a nonprofit group called Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions. An
anti-abortion activist originally from San Antonio, Verastigui spoke at the
March for Life in Washington in 2013, according to a video clip posted
online.
Mehta's sentence for Verastigui was seven months more than the minimum of
the range of 144 months to 188 months permitted under a plea deal he struck
with prosecutors last year. When Mehta accepted the guilty plea last July,
he indicated he was not binding himself to that range and might reject the
deal, returning the case for trial. But at Thursday's court session, the
judge agreed to a sentence within those parameters.
Mehta, an appointee of President Barack Obama, delivered the sentence amid
renewed attention by Republican lawmakers to sentences in child pornography
cases. Claims that incoming Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was
too lax in her sentences for such offenders dominated the questioning of
her by GOP senators at her confirmation hearings last month. Jackson was
confirmed to the high court Thursday in a 53-47 vote and will take her
place there once Justice Stephen Breyer retires this summer.
At the time of Verastigui's guilty plea, he admitted to possession of 152
videos and 50 images of child pornography and to receiving and distributing
sexual depictions of children. He has been in custody since his arrest last
February and is currently jailed at the U.S. Penitentiary in Lewisburg,
Pa., according to the federal Bureau of Prisons.
According to an affidavit submitted in connection with Verastigui's arrest,
he sought out images of rape of children during an online chat in 2020.
Prosecutors said Verastigui also fantasized online about killing children
while abusing them.
The former GOP aide was snared in an investigation that focused on a ring
of at least 18 people trading child pornography via a chat group on an
unnamed website and appears to have zeroed in on at least one other
political staffer in Washington, according to court filings.
In November 2020, a Trump appointee at the Commerce Department, Adam
Hageman, was arrested on charges he shared a child pornography video and
commented on sexually abusing children. Hageman appears to have been set to
enter a guilty plea last April, but it is unclear from public court records
whether that hearing was ever held.
The probe was conducted by detectives from the Metropolitan Police
Department's Youth and Family Services Division, Internet Crimes Against
Children Unit, the Northern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children Task
Force, and Homeland Security Investigations, according to a statement
issued by D.C. police last year.
The sentencing submissions by the prosecution and defense in Verastigui's
case are absent from the court's public docket and appear to be under seal.
Such secrecy is unusual for the federal court in Washington where he was
sentenced.
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