Random News and Notes 9 March
We start out in North Carolina where four individuals have been convicted and sentenced in a $112 million medicare fraud scheme. Brandon Eugene Sims, Kimberly Mable Sims, Francine Sims Super, and Keke Komeko Johnson were sentenced to a collective 14 years in federal prison for a Medicaid fraud scheme at a substance abuse facility in Kinston. The scheme involved paying over $1 million in kickbacks to Medicaid-covered addicts for fake treatments.
Authorities seized $6 million in cash, real estate, vehicles, and other assets, including $1 million in cash hidden by the facility owner in a Texas home.
Sources quoted by President Trump in a Truth post say the FBI used a grand jury subpoena to obtain a large cache of records from Maricopa County as part of a criminal investigation into potential election issues, drawing from leads like a still-unreleased 2024 bipartisan observer report on ballots stored together in a warehouse. This follows a late January 2026 raid on a Fulton County, Georgia warehouse, where an FBI affidavit cited substantiated irregularities in 2020 vote handling.
Maricopa county has faced ongoing disputes, including a 2021 audit claiming over 200,000 mismatched signature ballots were counted, though county officials disputed those numbers.
In a quick sports note, there was a photo finish at the LA marathon yesterday. Nathan Martin, a 36-year-old high school cross country coach from Michigan, surged from behind to clock 2:11:16.50, beating Kenyan Michael Kimani Kamau by just 00.01 seconds.
. . . up the pace. I decided I needed to push,” the 36-year-old said.
“At a mile and a half to go, I could see the leader and with 800 meters to go, I was thinking, ‘I’m catching him.’”
Well Done that man!
Epic Fury News
The Iranian regime, what’s left of it anyway, declared the second son of the room temperature Ali Khamenei, Mojtaba Supreme Leader. I guess that means his burial shroud comes with tomatoes and sour cream.
It should be noted that all the images used by the regime in the announcement were either old or AI slop. The last confirmed sighting of Mojtaba was a couple of days ago. There are reports that he was critically injured in a strike before the vote was taken. Again, unconfirmed.
In a comment the other day, I mentioned I was working on a list of all the senior Iranian leadership that have been killed since the start of Epic Fury and here it is.
- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
- Aziz Nasirzadeh, Minister of Defense / former IRGC Air Force Commander
- Mohammad Pakpour, Commander, IRGC Ground Forces
- Ali Shamkhani, Senior Advisor to Supreme Leader; former SNSC Secretary
- Abdolrahim Mousavi, Chief of General Staff, Armed Forces
- Mohammad Shirazi, Head of Supreme Leader’s Military Office
- Saleh Asadi, Intelligence Chief, Khatam al-Anbiya HQ
- Hossein Jabal Amelian, Chairman, SPND (nuclear/weapons research)
- Reza Mozaffari-Nia, Former SPND Chairman
- Masoud Pezeshkian, President
- Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, Judiciary Chief
- Alireza Arafi, Guardian Council cleric
- Gholamali Rashid, Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Armed Forces
- Fereydoun Abbasi, Former AEOI head, nuclear scientist
- Brigadier General Mohsen Darrebaghi, Deputy for Logistics and Support for the General Staff of the Armed Forces.
- Brigadier General Gholamreza Rezaian, Commander of the Police Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
- Brigadier General Bahram Hosseini Motlagh, Head of Operations Planning for the General Staff of the Armed Forces.
- Javad Pourhossein, Head of the Foreign Intelligence Unit within the Ministry of Intelligence.
- Mohammad-Reza Bajestani, Head of the Security Unit.
- Ali Kheirandish, Head of the Counterterrorism Unit.
- Saeed Ehya Hamidi, Senior adviser on the war with Israel.
Keep in mind, this list is not exhaustive, it only contains those who are confirmed to be dead. Part of the issue with creating a list like this is trying to collate all the different sources, This list comes from no less than 8 different sites.
Oil prices have been volatile over the past few days. All of a sudden futures prices for crude spiked yesterday. At one point a barrel of Brent crude was north of $115. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $124 a barrel but has dropped under $100 in recent trading.
This smells of market manipulation to me. While pricing has been volatile, the spike yesterday seemed far too coordinated to be anything else.