“Wore a Wire To Infiltrate” - Newsom Had an FBI Mole Probing Corruption
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The FBI had a mole inside Gavin Newsom s political orbit before the agency s corruption probe expanded into the Governor and his wife. The New York Post has learned Democrat insider Alexis Podesta, 45, secretly recorded conversations during the criminal probe into Newsom's then-chief of staff, Dana Williamson.
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FBI infiltrated Gavin Newsom's inner circle by convincing Governor's ally to wear a wire.
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The FBI had a mole inside Gavin Newsom's political orbit before the agency's corruption probe expanded into the governor and his wife.
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The Post has learned Democrat insider Alexis Podesta, 45, secretly recorded conversations during the criminal probe into Newsom's then chief of staff, Dana Williamson, 53, who pleaded guilty to federal fraud and tax charges.
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In May, according to Williamson's attorney, the revelation she was wearing a wire as far back as June 2024.
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This is like Joe Pistone, Donnie Borasco type of stuff.
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Explains why a swat of Sacramento political insiders and lobbyists were stunned to receive FBI letters last fall informing them that their phone calls have been intercepted during the investigation, despite many have little or no connection to Williamson.
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Alexis wore a wire and Dana did not, said McGregor, Scott Williamson's lawyer and a former U.S. attorney for Eastern District of California, which is now investigating the Newsom's.
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The disclosure comes as Newsom announced last month that he and his wife, whose nonprofit had been burning through money in recent years, as well as members of the governor's inner circle, are under federal investigation.
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Within hours of that announcement, Newsom blasted out an email to raise money for Political Action Committee.
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Dana Williamson pleads guilty, has the situation come up.
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However, now we find out that there is a wire on this.
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So we're in a wire, and they are now investigating the Newsom's specifically.
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The only reason they're investigating the Newsom's is because something came up on the wire.
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And so they got Williamson, and Williamson, the wire must have been very compelling because he pled before plea.
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It is where your lawyer basically tells the government, says, look, we're going to plead guilty on this.
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We want to figure out what are we going to do here on sentencing.
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You assume that the government's going to get you on one felony or two felony, and so you're suddenly now worried about sentencing, not how many or what charges.
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Like if it's one felony or three felonies, Adam, you know how this works.
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So even though you've done three things, three things should be five years each, but you're only going to serve the five years once.
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And the six weeks, eight weeks, two months that they had you in temporary jail waiting trial, they credit that as time served.
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So this is what's happened with Dana Williamson.
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The closer you get to the Eastern District, the more moderated you get in California because you're going east.
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You see Gavin Newsom come out talking about these guys.
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You know, this president, he's an absolute joke.
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I think there's something big coming because now they've said, we've got Williamson dead to rights, going to sentence.
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Now we're also investigating the Newsoms, and there's two things there.
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One, what, if anything, did they have to do with the Williamson crimes?
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And now they're investigating specifically the leak, the DOJ leak statement is their nonprofit.
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We know about the diaper math, and we know about a few things.
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So, Pat, it appears that there's some very real things going on.
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And just throwing this out there, the FBI doesn't put a wire on someone because of a rumor.
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So that means they have freaking all the evidence that they needed for a judge to sign off and go,
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We want a wire on this person, and we want—by the way, there was more than just the wire.
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They had cell phone warrants, and so they said they'd been listening to calls.
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People got a letter that said, by the way, your phone message is—
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By the way, Bubbles Pimp left you a message just now.
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So Alexis Podesta is—by the way, this is a close ally to Newsom.
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So this is like, this isn't just some random person.
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she helped move $225,000 out of a dormant campaign account.
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And she was disguising it as consultant fees, no show jobs, anything, Tom,
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So once you get caught with something that massive, Pat,
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think about what you want to talk about people ratting.
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If you ever watched the first 48, Tom, my favorite show,
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those people go into the interrogation room as soon as they know that they're done they give
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them a coca-cola they start ratting on everybody you don't think dana williamson is like listen i
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will tell you everything just as long as i don't have to spend the rest of my life in jail and
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mind you all this time all this points to what happens in california they keep pushing remember
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they did they stopped the nick shirley act keep anything to stop anybody from investigating all
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the fraud because it's it's rampant and i pray i pray tom that they go down they all go down
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and they all do the perp walk that everybody in the Trump administration had.
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So she had control of the accounts, and she was moving the money.
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So you're saying something could actually happen here?
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Look, this is the Department of Justice saying they're investigating Newsom's,
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they're investigating their charity, and we already know the diaper math.
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So it's like, who was getting the money for the diaper?
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Remember that math? It's like, this is impossible.
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somebody was getting money for diapers because it was impossible to be paying
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Starting to think Gavin Newsom might not be as good at this leadership thing.
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I just don't know if he's actually doing the thing.
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You know, this is completely his leadership under question.
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We see California literally burning down, God forbid, but also behind the scenes in his administration, it seems like there's some shady stuff going on, remains to be seen.
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It's like at the end of the day, this is a failure of leadership.
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If you're the CEO of a state or of a company, let's say, you might not be under investigation, but, you know, they say when there's smoke, they're fired.
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It's like if your COO, your CMO and your chief of staff, they're all under investigation and they're being questioned.
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And it's like, what kind of culture are you building there
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Do what you got to do in California, Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass, do all that.
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Is that the mic drop statement that you're making?
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Well, listen, I mean, if this is, who do you think,
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the part I'm trying to find out here is who's setting them up
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Is it the Democratic Socialist section that's sitting out there and saying, hey, let's get this guy out?
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You guys saw the other day J.D. Vance gave a shout-out to AOC as a possible candidate of the Democratic Party to the point that they even asked AOC the question.
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And they said, what do you think about what J.D. Vance said about you?
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And if you were to think about who would be more conniving and strategic to get somebody out, who would it be?
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i mean um you know uh i hope he is that's what i'll say what he said i hope he is what was the
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question do you hope jd thinks that he thinks that you you could be the nominee why would jd
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who is more united under who is more true believer in their cause socialists or democrats
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DSA socialists are more true to their cause, right, of what they believe in.
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Okay, so if that's the case and they really believe in their cause,
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do you think they have enough true believers that would find a way to destroy their candidates?
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I have not – I've been unwavering in my position that I don't believe that the core DNC wants Gavin Newsom.
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The core DNC, and I believe what I said because I was reading the tea leaves.
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I think it was a right read that nine months ago they were thinking about J.B. Pritzker.
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He's Illinois. He's from the Midwest. He's got a lot of money.
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I don't think that's the guy anymore, but I think the DNC, Pat, is still not on Newsom.
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They know there's too much baggage, and they don't need California.
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They're going to win California anyway, and he has a lot of baggage that comes with it.
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So do I think the DSA, which is more split from the DNC than MAGA ever was from the RNC,
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Do I think that they're pulling strings and doing things?
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Could they be whispering, maybe go talk to this person too?
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They do it to each other all the time in the primaries.
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But then they're better at waving a flag and getting everybody together for the election.
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