{"id":4602,"date":"2025-08-30T16:38:37","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T16:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4602"},"modified":"2025-08-30T16:38:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T16:38:38","slug":"the-fall-of-the-untouchables-inside-a-po","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=4602","title":{"rendered":"The Fall of the Untouchables: Inside a Po"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Democratic Donor Pleads Guilty to Major Fraud<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prominent Democratic donor Joseph Sanberg has agreed to plead guilty to two counts of wire fraud after<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>federal investigators uncovered a $248 million scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sanberg, co-founder of the fintech company Aspiration, misled investors and lenders about the company\u2019s finances while hiding major liabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJoseph Sanberg abused his authority and used lies to enrich himself at the expense of others,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201d said Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though Aspiration promoted itself as socially responsible, Sanberg\u2019s actions allegedly contradicted that mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has also donated significantly to Democratic campaigns, including California Governor Gavin Newsom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>L.A. Councilman Faces New Corruption Charges<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Los Angeles City Councilmember Curren Price now faces two more felony charges, adding to the ten already filed against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accusations include embezzlement, perjury, and conflict of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Price allegedly voted on city contracts while his wife\u2019s firm received over $800,000 from agencies benefiting from those decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is not how public service is supposed to work,\u201d said L.A. District Attorney Nathan Hochman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Donor Pleads Guilty to Major Fraud Prominent Democratic donor Joseph Sanberg has agreed to plead guilty to two counts of wire fraud after federal investigators uncovered a $248 million scheme. Sanberg, co-founder of the fintech company Aspiration, misled investors and lenders about the company\u2019s finances while hiding major liabilities. \u201cJoseph Sanberg abused his authority&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4604,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602\/revisions\/4604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}