According to the report linked below, Lt. Michael Byrd, the cop who shot and killed Ashley Babbitt and got away with it, Scot free, has apparently been running an unaccredited daycare in his house with his wife since 2008–for the last 17 years–and over these years has collected an astonishing $190 million dollars in HHS payments yet, there is reportedly not one single review of this daycare.*
1. I like Jordan Peterson usually, but this just didn’t make sense.
2. Thinking about charitable giving before the year’s end I considered adding the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Their ads, featuring CEO Yael Eckstein, appeared frequently on Fox during their evening programming. Then I looked them up on the Internet. The percentage of income dedicated to fundraising is unusually high, and the salary of the management team is, in my estimation, very high for a charitable foundation. I encourage readers who are considering donating to this charity to look up their financial reports.
@Snow on Pine:astonishing $190 million dollars in HHS payments
What’s the source for this number? For context the entire Feeding Our Future fraud added up to about $250 million involving about 80 people, and they’re accusing one guy of having got almost that much all by himself? I clicked through to the links, no source.
I would hesitate to say this number is obviously wrong, because no matter how dumb and corrupt things are they are probably more so than we think, but I wouldn’t accept this number without a hell of a lot better evidence than presented by Gateway Pundit, who doesn’t seem to have a much of a filter.
@Snow on Pine: The number is obviously wrong, and Gateway Pundit can’t read. Paul Sperry’s tweet, his source, says that the $190 million is for the entire state of Maryland, and Gateway Pundit decided that meant it all went to the Byrds. No one has shown that the Byrd daycare has got any money from the state or Federal government yet.
Maybe we’ll find out later that they have, but Gateway Pundit will still be an idiot. So are his commenters who are off to the races with it.
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Niketas Choniates–Dividing the $190 million figure by 17 gives you $11 million plus a year, a figure one would think impossible.
However, given the gigantic numbers being revealed in Minnesota, it may be time for us to revise our ideas of what “impossible” might mean in terms of frauds perpetrated on lax government agencies.
Who knows how much loot someone might be able to extract from a system which–it is possible–never bothered to really look at what it was paying out, or at who was getting it, and why?
@Snow on Pine:However, given the gigantic numbers being revealed in Minnesota, it may be time for us to revise our ideas of what “impossible” might mean in terms of frauds perpetrated on lax government agencies.
The $190 M given by Jim Hoft is garbage. He did not read his source correctly. He confused the entire state program with one guy who may not have ever had any of the money at all. Check the comments urging him to retract before he gets sued.
The $190 M for the whole state of Maryland works out to about $700 per kid. There is probably some fraud going on there, but no evidence so far that the Byrds committed any, and Jim Hoft accusing them of “pocketing $190 million” is one of the stupidest things he has ever said, in a long list of stupid things he has said.
Who knows how much loot someone might be able to extract from a system which–it is possible–never bothered to really look at what it was paying out, or at who was getting it, and why?
Who can say how stupid a blogger can get who reads a tweet wrong, vomits out libel based on his misunderstanding, and never looks back? Who can say.
Niketas Choniates–In my comment I properly gave a link to the source of this story I brought attention to.
After your comment, and checking further with GROK, I see that it says that this $190 million dollar figure is a misreading by Jim Hoft, the author of the Gateway Pundit article I linked to, and actually refers to the entire amount of funding which HHS gave to the state of Maryland for child care, not what was received by Lt. Byrd and his wife for their in-home day-care operation.
I apologize to all and sundry, I was obviously too fast on the trigger.
@Snow on Pine: The lie’s getting around the world before the truth puts its pants on, but at least you’re not helping it and I give you credit for that.
I didn’t ask Grok. I clicked your link, and then I clicked Jim Hoft’s link to see where he got the number, and then saw what Hoft did wrong, and is apparently not going to bother to correct.
NEW: Records show US Capitol Police Capt. Michael Byrd, who fatally shot unarmed J6 protester Ashli Babbitt w/o warning, has been running an unaccredited day-care center w/ wife Kaleska from their MD. home since 2008. MD. rec’s $190m in HHS day-care funds.
From that Hoft decided that Byrd had got the whole of Maryland’s $190 million. He spent far more time writing invective against Byrd than he did in reading the tweet or checking up on what it said, and it’s not the first time we’ve seen stuff like that at Gateway Pundit.
And how could a family with probably a max income of $200K per year acquire and be able to hide $100M+ in assets?? Perhaps they could get away with hiding $11M per year?? Maybe!!
Do federal law enforcement personnel have to report major sources of income or have periodic reviews of their financial status? Clearly may not apply to members of Congress (even though it should) but might be reasonable for lower level bureaucrats??
@R2L:And how could a family with probably a max income of $200K per year acquire and be able to hide $100M+ in assets?? Perhaps they could get away with hiding $11M per year?? Maybe!!
An academic question, because there is no family hiding $11M per year in this case. There’s no evidence so far that the Byrds have received any state money at all or done anything illegal with their home daycare.
But there must be organized crime families who’ve figured out how to obscure sums of that magnitude well enough to be hard to prosecute, though I’m sure they’re well-known to law enforcement.
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President Trump has already told the Iranian people we will intervene if the Islamists shoot protesters in the quantities of previous uprisings. At this point around three dozen protesters have been killed– though upwards of a thousand have been kidnapped/arrested.
Michael Rubin — Director of Policy Analysis
Daniel Pipes — Founder and Chairman
Jonathan Spyer — Director of Research
Benjamin Baird — Director of MEF Action
Mardo Soghom — Senior Iran Analyst
Shay Khatiri — Writing Fellow
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According to the report linked below, Lt. Michael Byrd, the cop who shot and killed Ashley Babbitt and got away with it, Scot free, has apparently been running an unaccredited daycare in his house with his wife since 2008–for the last 17 years–and over these years has collected an astonishing $190 million dollars in HHS payments yet, there is reportedly not one single review of this daycare.*
* See https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/developing-lt-michael-byrd-who-shot-ashli-babbitt/
1. I like Jordan Peterson usually, but this just didn’t make sense.
2. Thinking about charitable giving before the year’s end I considered adding the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Their ads, featuring CEO Yael Eckstein, appeared frequently on Fox during their evening programming. Then I looked them up on the Internet. The percentage of income dedicated to fundraising is unusually high, and the salary of the management team is, in my estimation, very high for a charitable foundation. I encourage readers who are considering donating to this charity to look up their financial reports.
@Snow on Pine:astonishing $190 million dollars in HHS payments
What’s the source for this number? For context the entire Feeding Our Future fraud added up to about $250 million involving about 80 people, and they’re accusing one guy of having got almost that much all by himself? I clicked through to the links, no source.
I would hesitate to say this number is obviously wrong, because no matter how dumb and corrupt things are they are probably more so than we think, but I wouldn’t accept this number without a hell of a lot better evidence than presented by Gateway Pundit, who doesn’t seem to have a much of a filter.
@Snow on Pine: The number is obviously wrong, and Gateway Pundit can’t read. Paul Sperry’s tweet, his source, says that the $190 million is for the entire state of Maryland, and Gateway Pundit decided that meant it all went to the Byrds. No one has shown that the Byrd daycare has got any money from the state or Federal government yet.
Maybe we’ll find out later that they have, but Gateway Pundit will still be an idiot. So are his commenters who are off to the races with it.
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If you haven’t seen this one yet, it might be his best one.
https://x.com/amiKozak/status/2008583232800129117?s=20
Niketas Choniates–Dividing the $190 million figure by 17 gives you $11 million plus a year, a figure one would think impossible.
However, given the gigantic numbers being revealed in Minnesota, it may be time for us to revise our ideas of what “impossible” might mean in terms of frauds perpetrated on lax government agencies.
Who knows how much loot someone might be able to extract from a system which–it is possible–never bothered to really look at what it was paying out, or at who was getting it, and why?
@Snow on Pine:However, given the gigantic numbers being revealed in Minnesota, it may be time for us to revise our ideas of what “impossible” might mean in terms of frauds perpetrated on lax government agencies.
The $190 M given by Jim Hoft is garbage. He did not read his source correctly. He confused the entire state program with one guy who may not have ever had any of the money at all. Check the comments urging him to retract before he gets sued.
The $190 M for the whole state of Maryland works out to about $700 per kid. There is probably some fraud going on there, but no evidence so far that the Byrds committed any, and Jim Hoft accusing them of “pocketing $190 million” is one of the stupidest things he has ever said, in a long list of stupid things he has said.
Who knows how much loot someone might be able to extract from a system which–it is possible–never bothered to really look at what it was paying out, or at who was getting it, and why?
Who can say how stupid a blogger can get who reads a tweet wrong, vomits out libel based on his misunderstanding, and never looks back? Who can say.
Niketas Choniates–In my comment I properly gave a link to the source of this story I brought attention to.
After your comment, and checking further with GROK, I see that it says that this $190 million dollar figure is a misreading by Jim Hoft, the author of the Gateway Pundit article I linked to, and actually refers to the entire amount of funding which HHS gave to the state of Maryland for child care, not what was received by Lt. Byrd and his wife for their in-home day-care operation.
I apologize to all and sundry, I was obviously too fast on the trigger.
@Snow on Pine: The lie’s getting around the world before the truth puts its pants on, but at least you’re not helping it and I give you credit for that.
I didn’t ask Grok. I clicked your link, and then I clicked Jim Hoft’s link to see where he got the number, and then saw what Hoft did wrong, and is apparently not going to bother to correct.
Hoft’s source was this tweet:
From that Hoft decided that Byrd had got the whole of Maryland’s $190 million. He spent far more time writing invective against Byrd than he did in reading the tweet or checking up on what it said, and it’s not the first time we’ve seen stuff like that at Gateway Pundit.
And how could a family with probably a max income of $200K per year acquire and be able to hide $100M+ in assets?? Perhaps they could get away with hiding $11M per year?? Maybe!!
Do federal law enforcement personnel have to report major sources of income or have periodic reviews of their financial status? Clearly may not apply to members of Congress (even though it should) but might be reasonable for lower level bureaucrats??
@R2L:And how could a family with probably a max income of $200K per year acquire and be able to hide $100M+ in assets?? Perhaps they could get away with hiding $11M per year?? Maybe!!
An academic question, because there is no family hiding $11M per year in this case. There’s no evidence so far that the Byrds have received any state money at all or done anything illegal with their home daycare.
But there must be organized crime families who’ve figured out how to obscure sums of that magnitude well enough to be hard to prosecute, though I’m sure they’re well-known to law enforcement.
Middle East Forum roundtable. Very grounded discussion about what is happening in Iran. Daniel Pipes is the founder of this organization.
President Trump has already told the Iranian people we will intervene if the Islamists shoot protesters in the quantities of previous uprisings. At this point around three dozen protesters have been killed– though upwards of a thousand have been kidnapped/arrested.
Michael Rubin — Director of Policy Analysis
Daniel Pipes — Founder and Chairman
Jonathan Spyer — Director of Research
Benjamin Baird — Director of MEF Action
Mardo Soghom — Senior Iran Analyst
Shay Khatiri — Writing Fellow
January 5, 2026 | Special MEF Briefing: Is This the End of the Islamic Republic?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDePUMhUFBU