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In 12 Minutes, All Communications Nationally is Gone

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It was a very real condition until just hours ago where the United States Secret Service found the threat. W can only hope it has been neutralized and there is no more threat…but read on…

After checking several sources for as much complete information, below are some terrifying details. There are likely more to be revealed in coming days as the investigation continues.

Per the Secret Service website:


NEW YORK – The U.S. Secret Service dismantled a network of electronic devices located throughout the New York tristate area that were used to conduct multiple telecommunications-related threats directed towards senior U.S. government officials, which represented an imminent threat to the agency’s protective operations.

This protective intelligence investigation led to the discovery of more than 300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards across multiple sites.

In addition to carrying out anonymous telephonic threats, these devices could be used to conduct a wide range of telecommunications attacks. This includes disabling cell phone towers, enabling denial of services attacks and facilitating anonymous, encrypted communication between potential threat actors and criminal enterprises.

While forensic examination of these devices is ongoing, early analysis indicates cellular communications between nation-state threat actors and individuals that are known to federal law enforcement.

“The potential for disruption to our country’s telecommunications posed by this network of devices cannot be overstated,” said U.S. Secret Service Director Sean Curran. “The U.S. Secret Service’s protective mission is all about prevention, and this investigation makes it clear to potential bad actors that imminent threats to our protectees will be immediately investigated, tracked down and dismantled.”

These devices were concentrated within 35 miles of the global meeting of the United Nations General Assembly now underway in New York City. Given the timing, location and potential for significant disruption to New York telecommunications posed by these devices, the agency moved quickly to disrupt this network. The U.S. Secret Service’s Advanced Threat Interdiction Unit, a new section of the agency dedicated to disrupting the most significant and imminent threats to our protectees, is conducting this investigation. This investigation is currently ongoing.

The Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations, the Department of Justice, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the NYPD, as well as other state and local law enforcement partners, provided valuable technical advice and assistance in support of this investigation.

This is an ongoing investigation.

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The BBC in part also adds this:

The devices were seized from SIM farms at abandoned apartment buildings across more than five sites. Officials did not specify the locations.

The discovery followed an investigation into anonymous “telephonic threats” directed at three US government officials this spring, unnamed officials told the New York Times.

One of the officials works in the Secret Service and the other two work at the White House, according to the newspaper.

Investigators also told CBS News they found 80g of cocaine, illegal firearms, computers and phones.

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CBS includes in part:Telephonic threats to multiple senior U.S. officials this past spring – including multiple people protected by the Secret Service – first triggered the investigation, but officials say the network was seized within the last three weeks.

Still, another official added that “it would be unwise to assume” there aren’t other such networks in the U.S.

The investigation remains ongoing, according to the U.S. Secret Service. There have been no arrests yet, but officials said, “there could be arrests down the road,” adding that “from an operational perspective, we want those behind the network to know that the Secret Service is aware and that we’re kind of coming for them.”

This photo provided by the U.S. Secret Service, in New York, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, shows part of a wall of SIM boxes that were seized by the agency. (U.S. Secret Service via AP)

This photo provided by the U.S. Secret Service, in New York, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, shows part of a wall of SIM boxes that were seized by the agency. (U.S. Secret Service via AP)

Then from the Associated Press in part:

The operation had the capability of sending up to 30 million text messages a minute, McCool said.

“The U.S. Secret Service’s protective mission is all about prevention, and this investigation makes it clear to potential bad actors that imminent threats to our protectees will be immediately investigated, tracked down and dismantled,” the agency’s director, Sean Curran, said in a statement.

Officials also warned of the havoc the network could have caused if left intact. McCool compared the potential impact to the cellular blackouts that followed the Sept. 11 attacks and the Boston Marathon bombing, when networks collapsed under strain. In this case, he said, attackers would have been able to force that kind of shutdown at a time of their choosing.

9/11 24 Years Later, New Details Emerge

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One has to understand the FBI had serious domestic cases during the tenure of then Director Louis Freeh. No one was paying enough attention to counter-terrorism cases  and the same could be said for the CIA. This link from a Penn State investigator and summarized by Reuters takes us back to the cases that consumed the Bureau and hence Saudi operatives were not on the priority mission set.

The 9/11 survivors and families are still in the fight to resolve the matter of complicity of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. What does that look like yu ask? A big hat tip to investigative journalist Catherine Herridge for her work on interviews and documents, newly discovered that the 9/11 Commission either ignored or missed.

We are at a time where after 24 years, nothing should be redacted or embargoed.

Herridge reports: JUST IN: We have confirmed that the @FBI is aware of our new investigation that challenges the timeline of events surrounding the 9/11 attacks. We understand that our reporting today on the Saudi “Advance Team” will be reviewed for leads and the Bureau welcomes tips and information from 9/11 families.

 

The new information includes that some hijackers entered the United States as early as 13 months prior to 9/11 as advanced teams. Additionally, two other nodes of operations include Missouri and Oklahoma.

So many conspiracies continue to float about how GW Bush shares guilt and split loyalties. The information Herridge covers actually should place guilt and split loyalties with then President Clinton and then FBI Director Louis Freeh and his lack of leadership but one must also look at Congress because the FBI had gone through a time of a hiring freeze.

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The consequences of unreleased documents, lack of re-examining the evidence of work of the 9/11 Commission and more interviews is still a requirement. While almost 3000 died due to the attacks of that horrible day…more have perished since due to illnesses caused by working ground zero.

9/11 Families United have the following on their website which remain open questions and unresolved today.

The Answer to the Thousands of Stolen Cars

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Yes, it is an epidemic that no one mentions anymore, much less the media…but below are some facts. The cars are in fact stolen and even transported and sold with the original owners personal items still in the vehicle….yeesh


Let’s begin here…

Len Green of Toronto woke up to a very surprising call early one morning. A year ago, thieves had snagged his Acura from his driveway. The caller, David Common of the CBC, was sitting in Green’s old car. He’d found the stolen car in Africa.

Common asked, “Does this look like your car?” Green confirmed, “That’s it!”

After Common filmed a walk around the vehicle parked in Ghana, Green said, “I can’t believe it. And my documents and everything are still in there (the glovebox). That’s crazy.”

It’s certainly crazy. But Green is far from alone.

The billion-dollar industry hiding in plain sight

Auto theft in Canada and the U.S. is one of organized crime’s favorite side hustles. And business is booming. Detective Mark Haywood of Peel Police put it plainly: “A large portion of them are actually leaving the country.” He added, “You’ll see about 80 percent of them going out through the ports.”

Deputy Chief Nick Milinovich explained why: “It’s much easier to sell 15 cars on the black market than it is to sell 15 keys of cocaine or 15 illegal guns.” He added, “Last year in 2022 there was over a billion dollars worth of vehicles that were stolen across Canada.”

You read that right. Over one billion in losses. In Toronto alone, thieves took 27,000 cars in a single year. That’s one stolen every 17 minutes. And where do those cars go?

According to Haywood: “We’re seeing a lot of them go to the UAE to Dubai. Nigeria is a hotbed for that. Ghana is another place they’re ending up in.”

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TRENTON — Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Criminal Justice announced charges today against 11 people for their roles in an auto theft ring that allegedly targeted high-end vehicles, burglarized homes to get the key fobs needed to steal the cars, stored the vehicles in parking garages in the Bronx, New York, and eventually shipped them to West African countries.

Promoters or organizers of the enterprise allegedly identified their targets – including Land Rovers, Mercedes Benzes, and BMWs – for theft crews that would allegedly then steal the vehicles. Investigators identified 43 stolen New Jersey vehicles valued at approximately $3.65 million in two parking garages on Jennings Street and Third Avenue in the Bronx.

“While car thefts in New Jersey have decreased significantly over the past year and have continued to decrease in 2025, we are committed to reducing them further. This case is about more than just the theft of vehicles, it is about stealing people’s sense of security and safety,” said Attorney General Platkin. “No one should be afraid that a thief will enter their home while they are sleeping to find their key fobs to steal their car, as is alleged in this case. So, we are working collaboratively to use every tool we have to return that sense of safety and security to our communities – including new laws, new technology, and information sharing between law enforcement agencies and between states to shut down car theft operations.”

“This is a case that shows what can be done when we work with our law enforcement partners at every level,” said DCJ Director Theresa L. Hilton. “This was a complex criminal enterprise that specifically targeted and stole high end vehicles to be shipped to overseas buyers. Working together, we were able to charge these defendants with serious crimes carrying lengthy prison sentencing exposure.”

“This case reflects how car theft today is a global enterprise,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark said. “Millions of dollars worth of stolen vehicles—including a $475,000 Rolls Royce—were taken to a Bronx parking garage that defendants used as a showroom. The vehicles wound up in shipping containers in Elizabeth  and then in West Africa. My Office, specifically, Assistant District Attorney Jessica Lupo, a Deputy Chief in the Trial Division, worked with NYPD Auto Crime and NJ Attorney General Matthew Platkin to identify and dismantle this group. We will not tolerate auto crime in the Bronx.”

According to the charging documents in this case, beginning in July 2024, law enforcement agencies identified a criminal enterprise that allegedly coordinated the theft of motor vehicles from Morris, Essex, Mercer, Middlesex, and Burlington counties. The stolen vehicles were allegedly “fenced” in the Bronx, for ultimate sale overseas. The members of the conspiracy also allegedly facilitated financial transactions as part of the criminal activity.

Theft crews would allegedly steal the requested vehicles, commonly from residences, and transport them to the Bronx, where middle-level and high-level fences would receive the cars, pay the theft crews, store the vehicles in the identified parking garages to avoid detection, and arrange for the disposition of the vehicles overseas, most often to West African countries.160831 v2 APM Terminals Port Elizabeth New Jersey aerial photo - gCaptain Port Elizabeth, NJ

Several allegedly stolen vehicles previously located in the garages on Jennings Street and Third Avenue, in the Bronx, were later recovered from shipping containers at ports in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and Staten Island, New York. The containers, and the stolen vehicles inside, were destined for West African countries.

Members of the alleged enterprise (see attached chart) include promoters/organizers, high and mid-level fences, and theft crews.

The promoters/organizers of this scheme, “Big G” and “E” remain unidentified.

Defendant Issa Yara was identified as a high-level fence. The investigation revealed that Yara was allegedly in repeated contact with members of the motor vehicle theft crews, exchanging text messages that identified target vehicles and the prices for them. For example, texts in January 2025 specifically referenced “cady,” “x7,” x3,” “X5,” and “Benz,” all of which refer to various types of high-end vehicles, including Cadillac, BMW, and Mercedes Benz. Investigators recovered additional texts requesting information about models and years of vehicles, buying and selling vehicles, coordinating payment, and locations of targeted vehicles.

Defendants Mamadou Camara, Moussa Doumbia, Arona Amadou, Mouslim Ouedraogo, and Moubarak Djibril were identified as middle-level fences. Camara was allegedly in repeated contact with members of the motor vehicle theft crews. Investigators learned Camara allegedly handled the receipt and purchase of stolen vehicles from theft crews, and that the crews dealt with Camara rather than “Big G” directly, who would also be present nearby. For example, the investigation revealed that, following the theft of a 2023 BMW X7 by codefendant Jahquil Louis and his crew, there were multiple calls between Louis and Camara from the time of the theft through the vehicle arriving at the Jennings Street Garage. Camara was captured on video surveillance at the Jennings Street garage operating multiple vehicles stolen from New Jersey.

Defendants Louis, Jomar Ocasio, Daniel Deleon, Quadir Williams, and an unnamed juvenile were identified as members of motor vehicle theft crews. On January 5, 2025, a 2024 BMW X5, valued at approximately $89,000, was stolen from Pompton Plains, Morris County. The homeowner reported a burglary after hearing people in his home, finding his back window broken, and the key fob and vehicle missing. Surveillance captured three suspects near the rear door. Phone records placed Deleon near the scene at the time of the theft.

In another example, on December 30, 2024, a 2024 BMW X7, valued at approx. $52,150, and a 2021 Audi SQ8, valued at approx. $52,360, were stolen from East Windsor, Mercer County. Surveillance captured three suspects entering the occupied home, where they stole a Gucci purse, Gucci wallet, Valentino wallet, $400 in cash, a driver’s license, a N.J. Firearms ID card, and the vehicles. Louis’ phone placed him near the area of the burglary and near the Jennings Street garage. The stolen X7 was later recovered on February 25, 2025, from a container destined for Ghana, Africa, from a port in Elizabeth.

Theft crews were paid for the stolen vehicles with cash from money wired from West Africa to the mid-level and high-level fences. The total value of the stolen vehicles linked to specific residential burglaries by the theft crews operating as part of this enterprise was approximately $542,295.

All defendants are charged with first-degree racketeering.

How Badly is the Taxpayer Being Fleeced?

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We have some indications as noted by what DOGE has uncovered…but it hardly all of it. The House is working diligently on the Trump Big Beautiful Bill because much of what has come from DOGE as well as Cabinet secretaries, there will need to be legislative action to stop the stupid as in spending in the future….yet…check out what my long time friends at Open the Books has uncovered….

In part:

BY THE NUMBERS

During fiscal year 2024, federal agencies reported $161.5 billion in improper payments – money sent to the wrong entity, for the wrong amount or wrong reason – according to data released by the Office of Management and Budget in November.

That means President Biden left office having presided over $925.7 billion in waste, fraud, abuse and duplicative payments – and that’s just what agencies were able to report.

Adjusted for inflation, the figure grows to $986.2 billion – almost a trillion dollars lost through improper payments!

That’s the worst for any president since reporting began in 2004, even when adjusting for inflation.

NOTE: Perhaps unsurprisingly, the single-year record came during the fog of Covid, as enormous amounts of cash were shoveled out quickly by Congress. Fiscal year 2021 say $281.4 billion in improper payments, which we now know includes Covid-related aid that was subject to massive fraud.

BY AGENCY

As Open the Books first reported in RealClearInvestigations, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wasted $87 billion in improper payments, more than any other government entity. Medicare reimbursements to health providers had a 7.7% mistake rate this year, the worst since percentages were first reported in 2019.

Another $4 billion was sent to recipients who had issues regarding their citizenship, including $824 million in unemployment insurance from the Department of Labor.

The government also sent $346 million to dead people, mostly because the Office of Personnel Management continued to send benefits to retirees who are no longer alive. That’s the highest amount since at least 2021.

The Treasury Department is working to rectify the problem of payments sent to dead people, having reported it recouped $31 million in such payments in five months. It did so simply by gaining access to the Social Security Administration’s federal death database. It’s amazing what can happen when the left hand simply knows what the right hand is doing! That said, Open the Books has reported $3.6 billion in Covid stimulus checks went to dead people. As our CEO, John Hart, told FOX News, “There are miles to go before we break even.”

Other Covid-era programs continued to have some of the worst improper payment rates. Roughly 25%, or $2 billion, of loans forgiven under the Paycheck Protection Program this year were paid improperly.

The data was released on Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 27, the day before Thanksgiving, leaving little time for negative coverage before families began breaking bread.

For comparison, Biden leaves office with an overall mistake rate of 5.42%, slightly higher than President Trump’s 4.94% in his first term. Still, Trump presided over $846.8 billion in improper payments, adjusted for inflation as of last October.

Now, he has an opportunity to make good on the war on waste.

SEC's Final Clawback Rules: What to Know | WorldatWork

So, as long as President Trump is signing Executive Orders, he needs to sign yet another that stands up a task force that pursues investigations and ‘clawback’ taxpayer money as much and as fast as can happen.

Homan and Noem in NY for Illegal Migrant Operations

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The operations in New York included criminal and civil law enforcement actions. A ruthless leader of Tran de Aragua, Anderson Zambrano-Pacheco was arrested who is/was wanted for kidnapping a woman from Aurora, Colorado also with the help of the DEA in an apartment building in the Bronx.

It is important to know however just what law enforcement is up against in New York as noted below as an example:

 

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ABC News:

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem joined an immigration enforcement operation in New York City on Tuesday.

Noem posted a brief video of an arrest to her social media account.

The secretary is witnessing both criminal and civil enforcement operations, according to sources familiar with the actions in New York.

The criminal case involves a member of a Venezuelan gang that took over an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado, the sources said. One alleged gang member was arrested in the Bronx.

The New York division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said it was working with partners at the Justice Department and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to assist the Department of Homeland Security with enforcement efforts.

***.Violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua recruiting NYC migrants for ... TdA recruiting migrants

There have been recent arrests in New York of a Venezuelan fugitive and TdA gang member. ICE published this example from May of last year in New York:

NEW YORK — On May 10, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) New York City arrested an unlawfully present Venezuelan citizen and member of the Tren de Aragua transnational criminal organization. Johan Jose Cardenas Silva is wanted by Peruvian authorities for conspiracy, assault and aggravated theft. Cardenas was also one of eight noncitizens arrested by the New York City Police Department March 27 and charged with criminal possession of a weapon-second degree: loaded firearm; criminal possession weapon-second degree: loaded firearm on school grounds; criminal possession-controlled substance-5th: intent to sell; and act in manner injure child less than 17.

ERO New York City officers assigned to its Long Island office arrested Cardenas upon his release from Nassau County Correctional Center pursuant to an administrative warrant of removal. He is detained in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.

“This international fugitive mistakenly thought he could waltz into the United States to not only evade justice in other countries, but to continue his criminality with impunity,” said ERO New York City Field Office Director Kenneth Genalo. “His history of lawless behavior and membership in a violent international criminal organization clearly demonstrate that he is a serious threat to the public safety.”

U.S. Border Patrol officials encountered Cardenas in Del Rio, Texas, Oct. 4, 2022, and determined he unlawfully entered the United States and issued him a notice and order of expedited removal.

On Jan. 19, 2023, ERO San Antonio served Cardenas a notice to appear with a list of free legal services and filed it with the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR). On March 30, 2023, an immigration judge ordered Cardenas removed from the United States.

On Oct. 5, 2023, Cardenas was released from Stewart County Detention Center on an order of supervision to report to New York City; however, he never reported as directed.

On March 27, NYPD arrested him for the crimes of criminal possession of a weapon-second degree: loaded firearm; criminal possession weapon-second degree: loaded firearm on school grounds; criminal possession-controlled substance-5th: intent to sell; and act in manner injure child less than 17. On this same date, the Bronx Criminal Court arraigned and released Cardenas on his own recognizance before an immigration detainer could be lodged. Due to the New York state’s Protect Our Courts Act, ERO New York City was precluded from arresting Cardenas upon his release.

On April 1, the Nassau County Police Department arrested and charged Cardenas with the crimes of grand larceny in the fourth degree: value property greater than $1,000 and petit larceny. On that same day, ERO New York City lodged an immigration detainer with the Nassau County Jail against Cardenas’ release.

On April 9, ERO New York City received notification that Cardenas was an international fugitive wanted by Peruvian authorities on an arrest warrant issued in October 2018.

On April 30, the First District Court of Nassau County convicted him of petit larceny and sentenced him to 60 days of imprisonment. More here.