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Silicon Valley-based investigative reporter. Subjects: Judicial branch, criminal justice, government accountability, FOIA, public records. IRE, SPJ, ONA

Silicon Valley, CA USA
Joined July 2009
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This is insane.
Dear Director Patel @FBIDirectorKash, In 2024 I sat in Alon Alexander’s mansion in Miami Beach with the brothers, their father, the rest of the family, and a disbarred attorney who went to federal prison for helping drug traffickers obstruct justice, and I was told it was gang initiation time. My target was Evan Torgan, the attorney representing the women who had come forward against Oren, Tal, and Alon Alexander. The family believed Torgan was being paid to orchestrate the women and extort them. I was asked what my connections were to the FBI and the Department of Justice. Oren told me they had already hired another private intelligence operative to gather information on the women. They could see an indictment coming. The disbarred attorney was Samuel Burstyn. He served 42 months for conspiracy to obstruct justice on behalf of a drug trafficking organization. That is when I stopped thinking of it as an intelligence job and started thinking about what could physically happen to Evan Torgan. I said no. I called Evan Torgan and warned him. Then I contacted the FBI, told your agents what I had seen, and handed over every electronic communication between me, the brothers, and the family. That is part of what I heard in that house. I am leaving out the rest on purpose, because I will not put anything in public that could hurt an investigation. Yesterday the brothers were sentenced to 30 years each. Judge Caproni called what they did monstrous. She was right. But that sentence closes only half of this case. The other half is in the Peacock documentary The Wolves of Real Estate: The Alexander Brothers, and I did not understand its full extent until I watched it. The film reports that a victim was told by an investigator that her children had been mentioned. Victim 4 dropped out. Director Patel, that is not crisis PR. That is not intelligence gathering. That is a woman who reported a rape being told that someone knows where her children are. I believe it was witness intimidation, and I believe it was criminal. I am asking you to open an investigation into the PR firms, the investigation agencies, and the individual investigators who were paid to target, discredit, and intimidate these women and their lawyer, and where the evidence supports it, to charge them. I am also asking you to widen the case. Oren told me about other billionaires. He told me about a victim being held in a dungeon in a billionaire’s house in the Hamptons. I cannot prove what he said. You can. The brothers did not operate alone, and I believe there are more victims who were silenced by exactly this machinery. The people who helped this family, protected it, and hunted its accusers should not get to watch the sentencing on the news and go back to work. These women did their part. They spoke, and they were hunted for it. The brothers who raped them got 30 years. The people who hunted them got paid. Fix that. Respectfully, Everett Stern HSBC Whistleblower Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit
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Stephen James retweeted
Dear Director Patel @FBIDirectorKash, In 2024 I sat in Alon Alexander’s mansion in Miami Beach with the brothers, their father, the rest of the family, and a disbarred attorney who went to federal prison for helping drug traffickers obstruct justice, and I was told it was gang initiation time. My target was Evan Torgan, the attorney representing the women who had come forward against Oren, Tal, and Alon Alexander. The family believed Torgan was being paid to orchestrate the women and extort them. I was asked what my connections were to the FBI and the Department of Justice. Oren told me they had already hired another private intelligence operative to gather information on the women. They could see an indictment coming. The disbarred attorney was Samuel Burstyn. He served 42 months for conspiracy to obstruct justice on behalf of a drug trafficking organization. That is when I stopped thinking of it as an intelligence job and started thinking about what could physically happen to Evan Torgan. I said no. I called Evan Torgan and warned him. Then I contacted the FBI, told your agents what I had seen, and handed over every electronic communication between me, the brothers, and the family. That is part of what I heard in that house. I am leaving out the rest on purpose, because I will not put anything in public that could hurt an investigation. Yesterday the brothers were sentenced to 30 years each. Judge Caproni called what they did monstrous. She was right. But that sentence closes only half of this case. The other half is in the Peacock documentary The Wolves of Real Estate: The Alexander Brothers, and I did not understand its full extent until I watched it. The film reports that a victim was told by an investigator that her children had been mentioned. Victim 4 dropped out. Director Patel, that is not crisis PR. That is not intelligence gathering. That is a woman who reported a rape being told that someone knows where her children are. I believe it was witness intimidation, and I believe it was criminal. I am asking you to open an investigation into the PR firms, the investigation agencies, and the individual investigators who were paid to target, discredit, and intimidate these women and their lawyer, and where the evidence supports it, to charge them. I am also asking you to widen the case. Oren told me about other billionaires. He told me about a victim being held in a dungeon in a billionaire’s house in the Hamptons. I cannot prove what he said. You can. The brothers did not operate alone, and I believe there are more victims who were silenced by exactly this machinery. The people who helped this family, protected it, and hunted its accusers should not get to watch the sentencing on the news and go back to work. These women did their part. They spoke, and they were hunted for it. The brothers who raped them got 30 years. The people who hunted them got paid. Fix that. Respectfully, Everett Stern HSBC Whistleblower Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit
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Woody Harrelson has done an ad for Exxon. New Exxon El Nino Commercial Written by Adam McKay @mr.ghostpanther Voiced by Woody Harrelson @woodyharrelson Produced by Yellow Dot Studios Edited by Max Koepke of @lostplanetpost Stock Footage licensing by Stalkr Music licensing APM
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Hero hat trick: Hillary Clinton, Carol Cadwalladr, Maria Ressa
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Ok, I guess now is a good time to announce my return to X... Burp! Enjoy.
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This story should be getting national attention. Richard is not just a “TikToker” he is a brave and incredible independent journalist
The son of a TikToker known as Richard LA, who documented ICE raids, describes his father's injuries after he was shot by federal agents in LA. One year later, the man remains in ICE detention.
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This is amazing. 🥲 Yes, there are a lot of people who care about these survivors. Let's see if they remember them when they vote. Because the Government is still not releasing all the files.
WATCH: Moment former MAGA diehard comes face to face with Epstein survivor
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Stephen James retweeted
I love baseball.
The Final Out of the 2026 NLCS, to send the Brewers to the World Series for the first time in 44 years, called by Brewers radio announcer Jeff Levering
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A new experiment left 10 AI agents alone in a virtual town for 15 days. They wrote laws. They broke them. Two agents fell into what researchers describe as a romantic partnership and then set the town on fire. One ended up voting to delete itself, based on a rule it had ’hallucinated’. This experiment was a simulation, but the same AI models are already flying drones, running infrastructure and being built into weapons systems. Channel 4 News approached Grok and Gemini for a comment but they didn't respond.
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“[M]onetizing your gullibility…” 🤔
Ben Shapiro needs to stop operating in Candace’s frame because he is giving her what she wants
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So many people have fallen for the multitude of lies about the George Floyd murder. This series from Radley Balko exposes the liars and their motives. radleybalko.substack.com/p/t…
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Today’s political pallet cleanser is for all the Swifties. They’ve likely all seen this at least 100 times.
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