The tweet examines an FBI raid on longtime Contra Costa County Assessor Gus Kramer and Assistant Assessor Vince Robb. Agents executed search warrants at the county office in Martinez, Kramer's home, and Robb's Pacheco residence over a sealed wire fraud investigation. Kramer denied involvement, stating he does not wire funds. The post notes Contra Costa lies across the bay from San Francisco and urges readers to watch California.
It speculates that assessors may be inflating property values to enable money laundering through real estate purchases. Citing OECD and Global Financial Integrity data, it states more than $2.3 billion was laundered via U.S. real estate from 2015 to 2021, often with complicit realtors and brokers manipulating prices. This practice is described as contributing to artificially high home prices that have priced many Americans out of ownership.
The author connects the raid to Trump's Truth Social post displaying weapons seized from Mexican cartels. It highlights Trump's nomination of Bill Pulte as acting Director of National Intelligence, noting Pulte's prior work exposing mortgage fraud linked to Congress, the justice system, and the Federal Reserve. The tweet frames these events as part of a larger strategic effort to expose systemic corruption beyond simple political graft.
The tweet examines an FBI raid on longtime Contra Costa County Assessor Gus Kramer and Assistant Assessor Vince Robb. Agents executed search warrants at the county office in Martinez, Kramer's home, and Robb's Pacheco residence over a sealed wire fraud investigation. Kramer denied involvement, stating he does not wire funds. The post notes Contra Costa lies across the bay from San Francisco and urges readers to watch California.
It speculates that assessors may be inflating property values to enable money laundering through real estate purchases. Citing OECD and Global Financial Integrity data, it states more than $2.3 billion was laundered via U.S. real estate from 2015 to 2021, often with complicit realtors and brokers manipulating prices. This practice is described as contributing to artificially high home prices that have priced many Americans out of ownership.
The author connects the raid to Trump's Truth Social post displaying weapons seized from Mexican cartels. It highlights Trump's nomination of Bill Pulte as acting Director of National Intelligence, noting Pulte's prior work exposing mortgage fraud linked to Congress, the justice system, and the Federal Reserve. The tweet frames these events as part of a larger strategic effort to expose systemic corruption beyond simple political graft.
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Joe Lange is great at reading between the tweets to get the story. Dovetails with the Pulte appointment. It makes so much sense.
Akso is a Maricopa County/Katie Hobbs issue