The most powerful member of the Virginia Senate surrendered to federal agents Thursday. Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas was indicted with six others, two of her daughters and her grandson among them, in what prosecutors call the Lucas Enterprise: more than 100 kilograms of marijuana and about $4.5 million over five years, per the Justice Department and CNBC. The indictment says she used her office to shield the operation and shape the law around the family business. Lucas denies all of it, and she is charged, not convicted. But when the people writing the laws are accused of writing them for the family business, that is exactly what a grand jury is for.
Also in today's episode:
– 15 charged, six of them medical professionals, in about $2 billion of California health care fraud (CBS Los Angeles, KTLA)
– Peter Schweizer on the decade-old questions behind the federal search at Ilhan Omar's home (Breitbart, Fox News)
– The leading economic index turns positive over six months, and no recession signal (Conference Board, Breitbart)
– SpaceX and Tesla form special committees to study a merger; Musk himself pumps the brakes (The Epoch Times, CBS News)
– A podcaster's "pistols firing" line about Vice President Vance draws a backlash (Breitbart, WND)
– Vance stops his own Nebraska rally to lead the Lord's Prayer for a stranger (Breitbart, Newsweek)
There is a famine of truth in our land. Seven stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.
