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Wow this is comprehensive. Consider reviewing the dramatic changes that were made to enforcement in 2009 that mostly eliminated procurement fraud, grant fraud and science fraud criminal enforcement to clear a path to politicized deployment of $1.3 trillion in stimulus funds and $600 billion in tarp bailout funds. These funds were used to restructure enforcement programs, relationships between agencies, relationships between government and industries and government and univerity systems that put revolving doors in everywhere and that eliminated resistance to politicized epsnding through crants and contracts.

In 2012, victory over fraud, waste and abuse was declared by Vice President Biden in Philadelphia with the cliam that .01% of $1.3 trillion in stimulus spending was impacted by fraud, waste and abuse. In 2014, a massive database and search engine program that had tracked all contracting and grant actions was memory holed through the elmination of funding to Dow Jones to preserve the spending data.

Criminal enforcement never recovered with predictable results in terms of eliminating deterrence. DOGE is now coming in to reverse this systemic corruption, but a strong feedback and referral system has to be reestablished to the DOJ (FBI) and OIG's (investigations) and they need to reestablish a referral system from OIG audits to OIG investigations and from OIG audits to DOGE.

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"Unfortunately, many of the nation’s federal district court judges are partisans eager to enforce the political goals of left-wing activists. These activists, in turn, are adept at “forum shopping” for lawless judges."

A possible solution is for the Trump Administration to find a friendly ally to sue them first, before anyone else. For example, before an Executive Order is signed on deporting millions of illegal immigrants that will guarantee a law suit to stop, postpone, or delay these deportations, strategize with political allies who would "forum shop" to file a suit in a Trump friendly court. Your allies would have all the details necessary to prepare and file a will written suit faster than anyone else. Then, fight like heck to ensure the desired court hears the case, rather than some left-wing forum. When this happens, and the Trump friendly court takes precedent, your allies don't ask for a delay of any kind, and instead, do whatever is possible to slow role the case...until millions have already been deported.

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Brilliant! And I can think of no one better to head up this massive undertaking than you, Mr. Ingrassia. You MUST have a role in President Trump’s administration, for the sake of all mankind.

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Paul, I concur with every word of this piece. You are the most knowledgeable and intelligent person on all things Trump. If you aren’t already spoken for, you’d be a great match for my niece, she’s 27 & in her first year of sports medicine residency. 😉

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Big ask, however, a GREAT “to do list”.

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