BONUS POD: Operation Riptide RIPS through Fraud plus No Media Attention to Gavin Newsom
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Listen to Armstrong and Getty on the I Heart Radio app. Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Today we have the largest economy on earth. We have the strongest military on earth. We have the most powerful technology on earth. We have the greatest culture on earth. And above all, we have the greatest people on earth. Greatest. You're listening to the 47 morning update with Ben Ferguson. Good Thursday morning. Nice to have you with us on the 47 morning update, and we've got two big stories for you. First up, Operation Riptide. It is ripping into fraud. And now we have some of the biggest fraud catches so far, all because of President Donald Trump's leadership. Also, Gavin Newsom, he has no problem attacking the President in the White House. But now the media seems to be looking the other way on some of his serious legal problems. We explain it to you. But before we get to that, I want to take a moment and ask you to help the people in Israel with my friends at the IFCJ working right now on the ground for all those in need. From America's Revolutionary War to Israel's fight for survival in 1948. Both nations have faced moments that tested their courage, yet freedom endured. In October of 1985, President Ronald Reagan delivered these remarks about America's commitment to stand with Israel. In our talks, we paid special attention to two issues. Our commitment to Israel's security and well-being and our shared desire to move forward together toward a just and lasting peace between Israel and all its Arab neighbors. A strong, secure Israel is a shared interest. As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews reflects on the friendship between the United States and Israel. Two democracies built on faith, liberty, and hope. Sign up to receive a free USA-Israel flagpin when you go online to flagpin.IFCJ.org. That's flagpinifcj.org. It's the 47 morning update and it starts right now. Story number one. All right, I want to take you back in time for a moment. Remember Donald Trump when he was running for president? He said, hey, if you elect me, I'm going to get rid of waste fraud and abuse. I'm going to clean house and the swamp and the deep state and I'm going to find great Americans who actually serve the interest of the president's agenda, which you guys are voting for. Well, here's another example of that campaign promise paying off big time. The FBI. has busted now several fraud schemes across the country in the last few weeks. The FBI director, Kash Patel, said in the latest weekly update to the agency, Kash Patel highlighted some of the results of Operation Riptide. Now, that operation focused on criminal actors. and the key services they rely on, as well as their infrastructure, their tools, and their services, and their communication platforms, and then their money. FBI Cleveland, for instance, disrupted a Chinese fishing platform linked to the theft of millions of credit card numbers, and nearly, and this is the part that, again, this goes back to the Chinese and why you don't want to trust them with things like AI, nearly $1.9 billion in losses worldwide.
I didn't say $1.9 million. I said $1.9 billion dollars in losses worldwide Kash Patel has now revealed. Now, as a result of these efforts of the FBI just in Charlotte, they said two individuals were convicted for operating a business, email compromise scheme that stole $25 million alone from U.S. companies. Thanks to FBI Boston, our Cyber Division and international partners. We helped dismantle a VPN service used to buy ransomware groups around the world. He said this is exactly what Operation Riptide is about, targeting the cyber criminal ecosystem at every level, and we're just getting started. Now, fraudsters have also been targeted by the FBI in Los Angeles, for instance. An Orange County man was arrested for carrying out a nearly... 100 million dollar bank fraud scheme. This according to Kash Patel. Thanks to FBI Milwaukee, Wisconsin man also pleaded guilty to defrauding nearly 190 investors out of more than $14 million. Then out of New Orleans, a Texas man was indicted for running a $4 million investment fraud scam. The victimized more than 20 people, he said. noting that a Texas couple had also been indicted for stealing more than $2.5 million from vulnerable victims through a year-long fraud scheme thanks they said to FBI Seattle. They also said that fraud scheme was a psychic fraud scheme. So again, preying on weak. Kash Patel added the FBI Pittsburgh also announced charges against an Ohio woman accused of embezzling more than $460,000 from a law firm that she was working at as a paralegal. Seven other individuals, for example, in Las Vegas, were arrested for exploiting coronavirus relief programs. You can also go all the way up to Alaska, where an individual there was sentenced to prison for defrauding those programs as well. Now, the FBI also targeted violent criminals, taking illegal weapons off the streets. In Birmingham, for example, they had a Operation Safer Communities resulted in 36 arrests and seizure of 11 firearms as part of Summer Heat 2.0. And after a separate seven-week enforcement effort, FBI Birmingham announced more than 170 arrests and confiscated an additional 22 illegal firearms. By the way, Democrats should be excited about this because they're the ones that hate guns the most. So you'd think they'd be like super pumped about this, right? No, of course not. They hate Kasper-Tel. They hate Donald Trump. They hate law and order. And so that's exactly why they're against this. Now, Kash Patel also revealed highlights from an FBI Litterok sting resulting in the arrest of... 39 people. The seizure of 35 firearms, large quantities of fentanyl that could kill many Americans, as well as a lot of other illegal drugs. You can go from Litter Rock to Portland. The FBI saw a man sentenced to prison for assaulting a federal officer during a violent attack at an immigration and customs enforcement facility. That was, of course, you know, those protests that were paid for yet again by the radical left.
Kash Patel also reminded agents that their work in is saving children. And multiple child predators were sentenced convicted in charge as a result of investigations by the FBI in Tampa, then in Boston, Kansas City, and Baltimore. Quote, as of yesterday, for example, one member. of 764 was sentenced to 30 years in prison. He said, as always, we're going to keep getting after it, and I'll see you next week. Now, you look at that weekly update, and that's the reason why I wanted you to understand kind of how this works. This is not like a six-month update. This isn't a year-end of the year, like update. This is the weekly update. Next week's update will be completely different with completely different information. I really, really, really, really, really want you to think about that, okay? You have a FBI that is working right now, by the way, exactly how it's supposed to. They're allowing the great men and women in uniform to do their jobs. It is something that I think should make all of us proud. And it's no longer using the FBI for political purposes. You may remember, we found out the FBI was actually briefing, and you go back to politics here. They were briefing and sending letters to big tech, for example, Twitter under the prior administration, on what they wanted to be censored. I want you think about that. They were out there spending their time sending emails and finding things that were posts online by people like Mark and myself and saying, hey, we need you to censor this information. There was questions, for example, put online like about ivermectin, for example. And then what was the government doing? They were then connecting to Facebook or meta. to X and others and saying, and Instagram saying, yeah, you guys need to take this down. Like, think about that. That was what law enforcement looked like under Biden Harris and under Obama. And then now look at it like we're actually going after and taking people down that have committed real serious, heinous crimes. That is something that should make all of us excited. And it's, again, goes back to the promise that was made. By the President of the United States America, we're going to go after those that we're going to go after the bad guys. Like we're going to go after waste, we're going to have to go after abuse. We are going to go after these things.
And that is exactly why we should be so excited and proud of this. Next, story number two. Gavin Newsom investigation is something that is insanely underreported on. So let me go to the Sacramento B. All right. And I'm just going to read for you something that they had earlier today. The DOJ is investigating Gavin Newsom and his wife. Here's what's to know. Federal investigators are digging into the finances of California Gavin Newsom and his wife. The first partner, Jennifer Gavin Newsom, the governor calls it a, quote, political attack tied to his expected 2028 president to run. The Trump administration's Justice Department is probing the Gavin Newsom ties to nonprofits, okay, what we're talking about a moment ago, taxes and business dealings going back years. His wife has occupied a higher profile position compared to the spouse of other state leaders. The filmmaker and gender equity advocate. has helped shape her husband's policies on issues like reproductive health, the male loneliness and mental health crisis, school nutrition, and regulating children's access to social media. Here are the key takeaways. Now, again, this is coming from the Sacramento B. And again, this is one of the most underreported stories that if it was a Republican that was in this much trouble as a governor, it would be wall-to-all coverage 24-7. The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating... The First Lady of California's taxes and nonprofits connected to her and the governor with several probes ongoing for about a year that originated from whistleblower complaints. So that would be internal. Okay. This isn't some whistle. This isn't some witch hunt. This isn't some political, you know, okay, we're coming after you because you came after us or we want to retaliate against you type of scenario, which is what Gavin Newsom, of course, said. No, no, no. This is people in and around you internally whistle. that complained to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Sacramento. All right. That's why I'm giving you this from the Sacramento B. Then, number two, on their list says the IRS and FBI agents have approached staff, friends, and associates of the Gavin Newsom's in recent weeks and obtained their bank records. That's significant. The governor's office said the probe intensified after Todd Blanche became acting head of the DOJ. One of the investigations is connected to Dana Williamson. Now, this is the screaming, like, this is the fireworks going off moment. So you understand. This is the, oh, you know what moment if you are Gavin Newsom internally, okay? One of the investigations connected to Dana Williamson, that is Gavin Newsom's former very close friend and former chief of staff. Now, why is that significant? Well, Dana has pled guilty. to federal charges, okay? She's pled guilty to fraud and lying to the FBI last month and faces up to 36 years in prison with the plea agreement. Now, and go back to what I said earlier. This isn't a witch hunt. This is whistleblowers within the government, whistleblowing, and then seeing major problems and then a Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff pleading guilty to federal charges on fraud and lying to the FBI. And...
is facing up to 38 years in prison. That is what you refer to as someone rolling. So this is someone who's trying to get, like trying to spend the rest of their life in jail. They know a lot, obviously, about Gavin Newsom's wife. This former chief of staff and clearly is singing like a canary, I think is a fair way of putting it. Now, the First Lady of California, Gavin Newsom, earned about 2.3 million from the... Representation Project Nonprofit between 2011 and 2018. That's a hell of a lot of money from a nonprofit, 2.3 million. A 2021 Sacramento Bee investigation found more than 800,000 donations to the nonprofit from companies that directly lobbied the governor, meaning her husband. You understand where we're going with us. All right? So you've got companies that are directly lobbying the governor. And all of a sudden, at the same time, you got more than $800,000 in donations to the nonprofit from companies that needed to do business with and were lobbying the governor who happened to be her husband. All right. That included PG&E, AT&T, and Kayser. as well. Now, just days before the DOJ Probe became public, the state's fair political practice commission actually fined Gavin Newsom. Now, this is probably the first time you're even hearing about this, okay? So, you know, you know when there's like smoke, there's fire, that's saying, well, now we have fire, not just smoke, all right? So just days before the DOG Pro became public, the state's fair political practice commission find Gavin Newsom more than $31,000. For failing to report, you ready, 5.6 million in charitable donations on time, with most going to California Fire Foundation during the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. Gavin Newsom was late filing reports on so-called beheaded payments. Not once, not twice, not 10 times, not 25 times, but 34 times alone in 2025. And the governor has previously been fined for failing to disclose 14 million in donations made between 09 and 2024. Now, in a video posts on social media, Gavin Newsom called Trump the most quote corrupt president of American history, blah blah blah, blah, blah, and said the White House is abusing the grand jury process to target him because he's considering a 2028 presidential run. No, none of this started under Trump, this all started in the state by whistleblowers who came forward and then you have a former chief of staff for Gavin Newsom who has taken a plea deal begging to not spend the rest of their lives in prison. I'm going to tell you right now, when you have whistleblowers that are doing what they're doing in California, you know it's bad. And when you have whistleblowers in California that are, who then get to a point with data that's actually putting the chief of staff of Gavin Newsom in prison and then him, and then that person taking a deal. And then, of course, the pushback is, well, you just need to understand.
Right? You just, you need to understand that this is all witch hunt. That's what Gavin Newsom said is press conference. This is all Donald Trump being evil. Donald Trump's a bad guy. Donald Trump is terrible. Donald Trump is the worst person in the world. And this is all because I'm going to win the presidency. Okay, buddy, sure, whatever you say. I'm going to tell you right now there is a very good chance that Gavin Newsom will not be running for president. There's a very good chance that Gavin Newsom is going to be fighting for his life to not be in prison. based on what we are witnessing right now. Thank you for listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever you're listening to this podcast right now. And for more in-depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast. And we will see you back here tomorrow. All new drinks are now at McDonald's, with refreshers like the strawberry watermelon refresher and the mango pineapple refresher with popping boba to crafted sodas like the Spriteberry blast with Bari Weiss flavors and cold foam. Who knew ice cold drinks could be so fire? Six all new drinks are here. Now at McDonald's. Refreshers contain caffeine. Why should you listen to Armstrong and Getty on demand? We're not boring. A lot of news is boring. And tedious. And depressing. And makes you angry. You don't want to live your life like that. Hey, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty. We're Armstrong and Getty. We try to bring you the truth. And help you figure out this crazy modern world. How about something about a comedic tone? We have a winner. Yes. Listen to Armstrong and Getty on the IHeart Radio app. Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.