If you lived through the disgraceful “Paycheck Protection Program” fraud of the COVID era — in which criminals collectively received hundreds of billions of dollars to fund fake companies with believable names like “DODGE HELLCAT LLC” and “PAY MY PARKING TICKETS LLP” and “WAKANDA FOREVER P.C.” — then you might be wondering how things could get any worse when it comes to the rampant theft of your tax dollars.
I mean, expectations are at the absolute rock bottom. Every time you get your paycheck, and you see how much has been taken out, you immediately — and correctly — assume that your money has simply been stolen to pay for some Somali daycare, or a “learing center,” or maybe even a home healthcare business that shares an office space with 500 other “home healthcare businesses.”
This is the default assumption right now, so it really doesn’t seem particularly conceivable that we’d uncover even more egregious fraud that somehow makes us stand up and take notice. We’re all so jaded that it’s pretty hard to imagine any kind of fraud that generates a real reaction from anyone.
Then a story comes out, which somehow manages to defy all of our expectations — proving once again that, as bad as things are, they can always get worse. This week, courtesy of an indictment from the DOJ, we’ve learned many more details about how your tax dollars — laundered through COVID payouts — directly financed an international political assassination with the help of dozens of defendants.
Yes, you heard that correctly. This “Paycheck Protection Program” was so poorly monitored, and so flagrantly easy to defraud, that it somehow led to at least one documented political assassination overseas. And not just any political assassination — I’m talking about the very dramatic assassination of the president of Haiti back in the summer of 2021.
We’ll start with news coverage of that assassination at the time. This is one of the most bizarre (and also fascinating) stories that no one ever talks about. It’s like one of those Harrison Ford/Tom Clancy movies in real life. Here’s what we were told, shortly after the assassination.
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To be very clear about this — the hit squad — consisting of Colombian mercenaries and some Haitians — drove up in a convoy (two vans and three pickup trucks) to the president’s heavily fortified private residence around 1 a.m. on a Wednesday. They got on a megaphone and announced, “This is a DEA operation; do not leave the house. I repeat, we are DEA agents, and if you leave the house, you will be shot!” They were wearing fake DEA tactical vests to really sell the ruse.
In response to this situation, the president’s security detail — consisting of around 10 people — simply decided to let the fake DEA agents into the president’s home. They don’t ask any questions. They don’t verify anyone’s identity. Reportedly, at this time of night, the guards were typically asleep or playing with their phones. So they were never going to offer much resistance. They make the Secret Service agents at Butler, Pennsylvania, look like highly competent, dedicated bodyguards by comparison. And then, after the mercenaries shot the president to death (and nearly killed his wife), they took a couple of these guards hostage and attempted to escape.
They didn’t get very far. They holed up in a building. They began frantically texting their handlers overseas, looking for an escape route or backup. Then there was a shootout after the police fired tear gas into the building. Some of the assassins escaped to the nearby Taiwanese embassy, while others went to another building. All of them were eventually arrested or killed by Haiti’s police force. That was the story we were told at the time.
What we didn’t know until this week were the specific details about who financed these mercenaries, who organized their mission, and for what purpose. We now have much more information about the full list of co-conspirators and more details about the financing of the operation in particular. A lot of this information comes from WhatsApp messages uncovered by the feds.
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He delivers this news in a very matter-of-fact tone, as if we shouldn’t be surprised by any of this. But this is truly unbelievable stuff. Here’s the indictment that was just unsealed.
CTU Security LLC was a company in the State of Florida, … with listed addresses located in Doral, Florida, and Miami, Florida. … . … [They] purported to operate as a personal protection and security company … In exchange for future infrastructure and security contracts, the CTU companies, utilizing PPP and [COVID disaster] loan proceeds, recruited, hired, and otherwise materially provided for Colombian mercenaries and others and participated in a planned coup d’état in Haiti, including the planned killing or kidnapping of President Moïse.
The motive is supposedly that the people running these businesses were hoping to get “future infrastructure and security contracts” in Haiti. And they were going to do that by removing Haiti’s president and installing someone who would funnel them a lot of government contracts (Initially, the plan was apparently to kidnap the president and fly him out of the country, but they gave up on that idea when they realized they had nowhere to put him).
In other words, the plan here was to defraud the U.S. government in order to fund an operation to kill Haiti’s president so that they could then defraud Haiti’s government for even more money. This is next-level stuff. Most COVID fraudsters were content to just steal hundreds of thousands of dollars. But these COVID fraudsters dreamed much, much bigger. They saw the initial fraud as a down payment on the bigger fish.
The indictment mentions another Florida company, Worldwide Investment Development Group LLC, which is the company that allegedly got the fraud started. Here’s how the scheme worked, according to the DOJ. The conspirators used shell companies (with names like “Dragonzplay” and “Agatha Construction”) to get hundreds of thousands of dollars from the federal government under the COVID programs, no questions asked.
They fabricated payrolls and employees, and no one in the federal government noticed or cared. The money was wired to them almost immediately. Worldwide then used some of this money to extend a $175,000 line of credit to CTU, which was earmarked for military equipment (including ballistic vests) for private military forces in Haiti. A principal of Worldwide also allegedly “paid $9,000 to fund the travel of approximately 18 Colombian nationals with military training to Haiti,” as well as $15,000 for ammunition.
At one point, the head of CTU allegedly told Frederick Bergman (a Florida businessman) that he had an idea — he was going to ship the bulletproof vests for the hit squad from Florida to Haiti by claiming that they were “paintball protection vests.” Bergman then offered an alternative idea: “I don’t think they’ll have a problem having my research company ship X-ray protective vests.” So that’s what they decided to do.
They managed to convince customs that they were sending dozens of “X-ray protective vests,” and apparently that didn’t raise any eyebrows whatsoever. I guess they thought it was totally normal for someone getting an X-ray to need ammunition pouches and ballistic hard plates.
The Florida companies took the stolen money, shipped the mercenaries to Haiti, and then shipped them the ballistic vests. They were able to source the firearms themselves from the local black market in Haiti, but evidently it was harder to get the ballistic vests that looked like something the DEA would wear. So they used CTU’s expertise to procure the vests in the U.S., and then shipped them overseas. The night before the assassination, the conspirators met up, distributed the equipment, and executed the plan.
The result of the assassination was that Haiti has been thrown even further into turmoil, with gang violence dominating the country. It’s not safe to travel anywhere. Haitians still haven’t replaced the president with an elected successor, filled the parliament, or held any kind of election. It’s worse than ever. And to make matters more interesting, the defendants argue that they were acting on lawful orders from a Haitian judge and thought they had the approval of the U.S. government. This is from The New York Times:
Jurors heard evidence that Arcángel Pretel [a principal of CTU] was a longtime F.B.I. informant, who earned $138,000 over a decade providing information to the F.B.I. and D.E.A. Prosecutors told jurors that Mr. Pretel never informed his F.B.I. handlers of the plot to kill [the president]. ..[The defense attorney] said evidence showing that Mr. Pretel had introduced some of the co-defendants to two F.B.I. handlers proved that his client thought he was participating in a lawful operation. “You don’t invite your F.B.I. handler to your murder plot,” [the defense attorney] said.
It seems they’re raising the prospect that the PPP funds were maybe deliberately laundered from the government to these hitmen to carry out some kind of CIA operation. Who knows? What’s clear, though — and what’s important to understand about this plot — is that, at any point, if we had a remotely competent federal government, this would’ve been shut down. All it took was for someone in the government — maybe the customs officers checking the “X-ray vests” or someone checking the payrolls at this web of fake companies — to notice that something wasn’t quite right. Instead, this assassination took place five years ago, and we’re only learning some very important details in 2026.
That should make you wonder, once again, about what happened in Butler, when Donald Trump was shot in the ear. Given the incompetence that was displayed by the Secret Service on that day — and of course, by “incompetence” I’m assuming it wasn’t a setup — it’s not a stretch to wonder whether we missed an obvious foreign connection to the assassination.
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More broadly, this is a story about the butterfly effect that’s caused by massive, unmitigated fraud. It has effects that most people don’t even realize — including effects on foreign affairs. But this has become a normal part of our country in no small part because we’ve imported so many people from the Third World, where this kind of dysfunction is commonplace. Now, no matter what state you’re in, you’re going to notice rampant fraud in about five minutes once you start looking. This is new reporting from the Maine Wire, for example:
Eight home health care businesses are located in a small office in Westbrook.
Some have Minneapolis phone numbers.
We have visited this location on multiple occasions in the middle of the workday and never found a soul there. https://t.co/xjnL659Lat
— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) September 18, 2026
The same outlet just reported new details on an alleged scheme to funnel Medicaid money from Arizona to Rwanda.
Two men accused of collecting more than $60 million from Arizona’s Medicaid program for nonexistent or incomplete addiction and mental-health treatment face mandatory prison time if convicted of major fraud charges in a case that allegedly sent millions through a Phoenix-area church and onward to Rwanda. … Prosecutors allege Desire Rusingizwa and Fabrice Mvuyekure used Happy House Behavioral Health LLC to bill taxpayers for patients who were dead, incarcerated or hospitalized, among other false or excessive claims. Prosecutors say Happy House collected more than $60 million for false or inflated treatment claims and paid $5.5 million to a church. … The 51-count indictment describes a referral operation involving 11 sober-living companies and alleges that Happy House paid $5.5 million to Hope of Life International Church. Its pastor, Theodore Mucuranyana, is accused of helping transfer more than $2 million to an unnamed entity in Rwanda.
Of course, this is just the fraud that prosecutors managed to uncover. We can assume that for every fraud scheme that the government detects, there are about a million that no one ever notices — especially since most major jurisdictions in this country now go out of their way to protect not only criminals but also terrorists.
I couldn’t believe this was real, but it is — it was flagged by a reporter for Townhall:
Arlington County prohibits cooperation with ICE even in cases involving felons and terrorists. Arlington County’s latest ‘Trust Policy’ prohibits Arlington County Police Department “from initiating contact with federal immigration authorities” even when the department identifies an illegal alien as a violent felon, gang member, human trafficker, or terrorist.
If police in Arlington uncovered a plot to murder, say, the president of Haiti, under this policy, they probably couldn’t do anything about it. After all, it’s not a state-level crime. And if they tell the feds, then they’d be violating the “Trust Policy” they’ve established, which has the express purpose of protecting terrorists from deportation.
This is the general attitude that Leftist states have adopted — criminals, even terrorists, can do whatever they want. The result is that these degenerates are now more brazen than they’ve ever been.
Going back to the Paycheck Protection Program — of the $4.2 trillion dollars that was disbursed in “COVID relief money,” some of the most conservative estimates are that around $200 billion was stolen outright. As the author Cremieux has found and posted on X, some of these loans obviously should’ve been scrutinized a little more carefully.
The COVID era Paycheck Protection Program was defrauded at an incredible scale. People received PPP loans for total nonsense at stunning rates.
Thread of funny claims.
Dodge Hellcat LLC
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) December 12, 2024
You can see some of the PPP loans in Cremieux’s X thread. Something called “DODGE HELLCAT LLC” got $13,000. Then there’s “REPARATIONS FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE LLC,” which received $55,000. We can’t forget about “FREEMONEYLLC” ($15,000), “TRAFFIC TICKETS” ($20,000), “JIGGAVIBEZ” ($7,500), and “WAKANDA MURKLEDOVE” ($20,833).
For all I know, these are real companies with extremely strange names. What we do know, without any doubt, is that the federal government was not looking into any of this. This was a rubber-stamp operation. As with literally everything else the government does, this program was incompetently managed, and it wasted a very large amount of your money that fraudsters took full advantage of.
Some of the more egregious examples (short of Haitian assassination plots, anyway) were uncovered not by the DOJ or the FBI but by Alex Stein, who put together a documentary on PPP fraud. As he demonstrates, for a very large demographic in this country, defrauding the government is a way of life. They’re open about it. They’ll talk about it on the street. They’ll make rap songs about it.
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What an unmitigated disaster for the entire country. We pumped trillions of dollars into the economy, causing inflation (and a massive increase in the cost of living that we’re still seeing today). We destroyed people’s lives — including the lives of children — based on junk science. On top of that, we managed to light hundreds of billions of dollars on fire for the benefit of scam artists who don’t even hide what they’re doing. The scale of the fraud was truly staggering.
At some level, you have to sit back in awe. Fraudsters — many of them black, as you’ve probably noticed — were coming up with absurd names for fake businesses and walking away with insane amounts of money. They’re walking into mansions and asserting “squatters’ rights,” even after they’ve been arrested.
Seeing all this, you had to ask, if only out of a morbid sense of curiosity — where do we go from here? How are they going to top this? I mean, how do you one-up “DODGE CHARGER LLC”? How do you one-up buying a hitman with your COVID money or a Pokémon card? And then the president of Haiti gets mowed down by a bunch of assassins hired with PPP money, and you realize just how bad things can get.
A big part of the problem is that whenever there’s any attempt to actually enforce the law — to punish criminals who don’t even have a right to be in this country — the Left immediately runs interference. They take to the streets. And everyone else cowers before them.
We’re now seeing this familiar posture play out once again in Austin, Texas, where an apparent illegal alien named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was just shot by ICE, supposedly while he was completing a DoorDash delivery. Here’s some video that was shot from a cellphone before the incident, and then shortly after.
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🛑Full Vid: Wilber Rafael Garces Perez Shot by ICE🛑
Here is the full video of the North Austin incident where ICE shot the illegal alien known as Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, from Venezuela. It includes EMS arriving to pick him up at the 8000 block of Anderson Square.
Austin-Travis County EMS Chief Robert Luckritz said crews were notified about 12:56 p.m., were on scene in about three and a half minutes, found an adult man with a gunshot wound to the torso, and got him off the scene within nine minutes of their arrival. He was taken to Dell Seton Medical Center in serious but stable condition.
Garces Perez was released from the hospital Sunday evening and is currently in ICE custody. Very little has been released by DHS on what led up to the shots.
— Katie K USA (@KimKatieUSA) September 21, 2026
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A video, independently verified by the Statesman, taken at the scene where a federal immigration agent shot and injured 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez on Sunday in North Austin shows him sitting in the driver’s seat of a blue Toyota after the shooting. https://t.co/VzpEGy5jxI
— Austin American-Statesman (@statesman) September 21, 2026
The locals are restless, even though it’s very difficult to make out what exactly happened. It looks as though he led ICE on a vehicle pursuit since he knew he was an illegal alien. Then the officer shoots the guy, apparently because he was still trying to drive away (and potentially backwards into the officer). This is one of the reasons you shouldn’t evade the police while you’re driving a car. You see, cars are deadly weapons. When you move them towards police officers, you become a deadly threat. At any point in this situation, this guy could’ve simply chosen to follow the law. But he didn’t, and now the Left is rushing to defend him. For example, one of the “Pod Save America” guys offered this take:
Oh my God ICE shot this unarmed man in the back while he was delivering food. 24 hours later, the bullet is still lodged in his back and they’ve refused his pleas for pain medication He entered the country legally and had a valid work permit.
First of all, a lot of these claims are based on statements from this guy’s lawyer (who presumably is NGO-funded in some way). The lawyer is not a credible source of information. She’s contradicted herself several times. Even if we take her claims seriously, and even if we believe that the guy “entered the country legally” and “had a valid work permit,” none of that would even matter. You see, having a work permit does not grant you the right to remain in this country. Nor does it matter whether you “entered legally” if you then overstay your visa. These are simple concepts.
Over and over again, the Left pretends not to understand them, because in the end, what they want is open borders. They don’t actually care about this random guy, or whether this shooting was justified, or any of the facts of what happened. They think all immigration enforcement is tantamount to fascism, so they’ll lie about everything. They will run cover for the foreign criminals who are degrading our quality of life and destroying our country.
And all the while, they won’t say anything at all about DoorDash employing illegal aliens, which is against the law. Honestly, the company should be investigated and shut down over this until they can ensure that they aren’t paying illegals. In a legitimate society, that’s what would happen. We’ve all ordered food from DoorDash and had this experience — they tell you that a normal-looking American driver with a name like “Susan” is on the way with your burrito in her Toyota Corolla, and then a military-aged Pakistani shows up at your home on a bike or something.
This happens because people sell their DoorDash credentials online. They sign up with a Social Security number, and then they sell the credentials to foreigners, sort of like the old taxi cab medallion system. DoorDash knows it’s happening. It’s a core part of their business model. Their app doesn’t punish it or monitor it. And they need to suffer consequences as a result. So does every other company that knowingly employs foreigners. If that happens, we will solve the illegal migration problem overnight.
Leftists would rather muddy the waters by pretending ICE had no reason to shoot this particular DoorDash driver because if you’re talking about that, then you’re missing the much bigger — and more important — issue at hand.
The best possible response to these people — once we’re done enforcing the law and deporting every illegal alien without apology — is to be honest about what we’re seeing, every day, in our own communities. We should talk about what life is actually like with and without the wonders of “diversity.”
That’s one way to assess the merits, or lack thereof, of the Left’s ideological experiment. I was thinking about this the other day because my kids set up a farm stand right off our driveway with extra vegetables from our garden. They listed the prices for each item of produce and put out a box for people to leave the money. I would have happily just given the vegetables away for free, but this was for the kids and a good way for them to earn a little cash.
The next day, all the produce had been purchased, and in the box was actually more money than should have been there. Neighbors came by and paid extra just to be nice. My neighborhood is homogeneous, almost entirely white, high-trust, and basically crime-free, so we assumed that the kids could set up a stand like that and everyone else would be decent and honest and not rob us blind. And our assumption was correct.
What would have happened if we set up the same unmanned farm stand in a “diverse” neighborhood? What if we set it up in a neighborhood with, say, a large population of Haitian immigrants? Well, we all know exactly what would happen. The next day, all my kids’ produce would be gone, along with the box of money, and probably the table and the crates the vegetables were in. And we all know it.
What this proves is that it is actually possible to have a society where you can basically trust the people around you to be decent and honest and, to some extent at least, to look out for your interests. This country was built as such a society. It wasn’t just pockets of decent neighborhoods here and there that were more the exception than the rule, like it is now. That used to be how the country as a whole operated. But then we prioritized “diversity” over stability, safety, trust, and all the things that are a million times more important and a million times more conducive to human well-being than “diversity.” We’ve allowed foreigners to take advantage of us for generations, and every single one of us has seen our quality of life decline in the process.
Our “tolerance” has been abused to the point that we’re now inadvertently funding foreign political assassinations. Americans in Austin have to deal with foreigners running away from the police and endangering everyone on the road. People in Arizona are being forced to send their money to undisclosed groups in Rwanda. Toothpaste is stashed behind plexiglass at the CVS in Chicago.
In order for any of this to change, we don’t need a “fraud task force” or a handful of prosecutions. Instead, we need to make the simplest possible observation, which also happens to be the correct one, which is that these people are not making our country any better. They’re making it worse. And therefore, whether they’re delivering a burrito or not — whether they’re “unarmed” or not — they have to go, one way or the other.
