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To: Les H who wrote (47603)9/11/2025 9:10:11 AM
From: Les H  Respond to of 49070
 
Secret audios, dramatic leaks, spying claims: A bribery scandal engulfs Argentina’s Milei

  • Secret recordings allege President Javier Milei’s sister Karina took pharmaceutical contract kickbacks, threatening his anti-corruption campaign message before elections.
  • The bribery scandal involving Argentina’s disability agency has exploded into headlines just weeks before crucial Buenos Aires provincial elections.
  • Government raids on journalists who leaked the recordings have sparked international condemnation and raised serious press freedom concerns.

BUENOS AIRES — Argentines are so used to the corruption in their political system that even Peronists — supporters of the populist movement that dominated Argentina’s politics for decades — employ a fatalistic maxim to describe their politicians: “Roban, pero hacen,” or, “They steal, but they get it done.”

But for the last two weeks, Argentines have been riveted by a ballooning graft scandal drawing in close associates of libertarian President Javier Milei, the wild-haired economist who won Argentina’s 2023 election in part by campaigning as an outsider against the corrupt, Peronist-dominated elite — “the caste,” he calls it — whose unbridled spending helped precipitate Argentina’s economic crisis.

At a time of extreme fiscal austerity, the allegations that his powerful sister and chief of staff, Karina Milei, profited from a kickback scheme in Argentina’s disability agency have exploded onto the headlines here, threatening to sully the government’s reputation ahead of national midterms at the end of October. Milei denies the allegations.

“It appears to be very similar to many other corruption scandals in Argentina, and taints his image as being completely different, of not being part of ‘the caste,’” said Eugenia Mitchelstein, the chair of the social sciences department at Buenos Aires’ San Andrés University.

LA Times



To: Les H who wrote (47603)9/11/2025 10:10:40 AM
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Updated
Sept. 11, 2025, 10:05 a.m. ET

Jacey Fortin and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

Here’s the latest.

The authorities had new leads on Thursday in their search for the person who shot and killed the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk: a weapon they said was used in the shooting, imprints of a forearm and a shoe, and video tracking the shooter’s movements as he climbed onto a roof to carry out the attack.

Robert Bohls, the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.’s Salt Lake City office, said in a news conference that the gun that was recovered was a “high-powered bolt-action rifle,” and that it had been found in a wooded area in a neighborhood near the campus of Utah Valley University, where Mr. Kirk had been speaking to a large crowd on Wednesday afternoon.

Investigators “have good video footage of this individual,” said Beau Mason, Utah’s public safety chief. But he added that officials will release the images only if they cannot identify him. Officials referred to the shooter as a man throughout the news conference.

President Trump, an ally of Mr. Kirk’s, blamed the rhetoric of the “radical left” for Mr. Kirk’s killing, but investigators in Utah did not assign any possible motive. They did share new details about his movements on Wednesday: The person arrived on campus shortly before noon and used a stairway to make his way to the roof of a campus building overlooking the site of Mr. Kirk’s scheduled appearance, according to Mr. Mason. After the shooting — a single shot that hit Mr. Kirk in the neck — the person jumped from the roof and fled to a nearby neighborhood, Mr. Mason said.

Mr. Mason said that the person being sought “blended in well” at the campus because he appeared “to be of college age.”
New York Times



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