The rooting out of government fraud and waste continues, this time at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP). A career CBP employee—a director, no less—appears to have gamed the federal system and siphoned from money slated for emergency management purposes to suit her own.
While the alleged crime occurred under the Biden administration, we now have a new sheriff under President Donald J. Trump. If not for Trump’s mandate to root out this corruption and fraud, and for his new attorney general, director, and secretary at the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) (which has oversight over CBP) respectively, this might have been another case of “nothing to see here, move along.”
Instead, the long-time CBP high-level staffer Serina Baker-Hill is under…