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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️

@gridguru.bsky.social
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Veteran NERC-certified System Operator guarding reliability, committed to sustainability. Opinions my own & reposts ≠ endorsements.

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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Managing ramps, state of charge, and dynamic reserves in real time keeps us on our toes, but leveraging fast-responding BESS alongside wind and solar is making energy production cleaner and more reliable. tinyurl.com/h9e2k2c3
spglobal.com
US BATTERY STORAGE: WECC leads US battery storage additions with 2.2 GW in Q2
The Western Electricity Coordinating Council region added the most utility-scale battery storage capacity in the second quarter, accounting for 45% of the 4.883 GW installed across the US. The US…
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
☀️ U.S. solar capacity passes coal capacity in 2026. 🪨 Coal peaked in 2011 at 283 GW, declining to 157 GW by 2027. Solar was 1 GW in 2010 and will be roughly 240 GW by 2027. #renewables #solar
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Grid reliability requires fuel diversity. Offshore wind provides high capacity coastal gen right where urban demand centers need it most. Paying entities not to generate and cancelling gigawatts of planned renewable gen diminishes our resource capacity, reliability and raises costs. buff.ly/1t6Yztq
engadget.com
Trump administration spends another $1.2 billion to kill offshore wind farm projects - Engadget
This is the fifth such deal in which the president and his team has paid big to cancel a green energy contract.
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
For the first time ever, solar power generated a majority (51%) of California’s electricity in May 2026. From under 2% in 2012 to powering over half the state today, clean, abundant solar energy is proving that a fast transition to renewables isn't just possible, it’s happening.
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Balancing the grid isn't just about managing today’s load, it’s also about matching the speed of AI data center growth. Data centers can expand 2 to 3x faster than new power supply can come online. Planning for this gap is essential. #gridmodernization
cnn.com
AI is making your life more expensive. Here’s how | CNN Business
AI is raising prices for Americans – and not just electricity bills.
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
So let me get this straight: energy prices are absolutely skyrocketing, and the plan is to spend $1 billion in taxpayer money just to... checks notes... make sure we have LESS energy? 🤯
nytimes.com
Trump Officials Weigh New $1 Billion Deal to Stop Offshore Wind Farms
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Solar installations are down 14%! As this administration drags us into a catastrophic war with Iran, they’re simultaneously gutting our energy independence at home. #solar #energy
nytimes.com
U.S. Solar Installations Fell in 2025 as Trump Attacked Clean Energy
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
It’s not all bad news: “In 2024, 92.5 percent of all new power capacity installed around the world was renewable. And even in Trump’s United States, which has been behaving in many ways like a petrostate, more than 92 percent of utility-scale electricity capacity planned for 2026 is green.”
nytimes.com
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Coal-fired power plants produce 42% of all mercury emissions. Gifting a dying fuel source more lax standards so that they can save a buck makes no sense. This administration is increasingly poisoning the future for the sake of quarterly margins.
nytimes.com
E.P.A. Weakens Limits on Mercury From Coal Plants
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I guess i didn’t miss much 🥱 “It was a tedious, tiresome performance. For much of the night, the president seemed to be boring everyone, perhaps most of all himself.” ~Applebaum
nytimes.com
Opinion | ‘He’s Debased This Country’: The Best and Worst Moments From Trump’s State of the Union
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Abandoning the IEA because they model climate scenarios is like a pilot throwing away the radar because they don’t like seeing clouds. You can ignore the data, but you can’t ignore the weather. 🤦🏻‍♂️
nytimes.com
U.S. Tells International Energy Agency to Drop Its Focus on Climate Change
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
BOUIE: “.. I try to avoid superlatives in my writing, but there is simply no question that this is the most flagrant display of presidential racism since Woodrow Wilson screened D.W. Griffith’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’ in the White House in 1915.” @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The EPA is officially putting the dollar value of a human life at zero as it relate to clean air. By refusing to monetize the health benefits of cleaner air, we’re ignoring the thousands of asthma attacks and deaths prevented every year. #EPA #CleanAir
nytimes.com
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The irony: after years of political campaigning for total deregulation and "unleashed" American production, the industry's loudest cheerleader is being forced to hit the "off" switch by the very market forces he lobbied for. 🤡 oilprice.com/Latest-Energ...
oilprice.com
Low Oil Prices Force Billionaire Harold Hamm to Halt Bakken Drilling | OilPrice.com
Billionaire oil magnate Harold Hamm has ceased drilling operations in North Dakota’s Bakken shale, citing low margins as oil prices remain near the $50 per barrel range and costs increase.
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
In 2023, 47,026 Americans died from falls, compared with 44,762 from motor vehicle accidents.
usafacts.org
Why have death rates from accidental falls tripled? | USAFacts
Since 2000, death rates from heart disease and cancer have declined, whereas deaths from accidental falls have increased threefold.
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Choosing industrial profits over human health is a direct betrayal of the EPA mission. We are accepting dirtier air and more preventable deaths just to cut costs for corporations. This is a tragic step backward for public health. #PublicHealth #Environment #EPA www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
nytimes.com
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Forcing the dirtiest and most expensive plants to keep burning coal while simultaneously suspending renewable power projects is the opposite of what our warming planet needs. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/c...
nytimes.com
Trump Tosses Lifelines to the Struggling Coal Industry
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Want to skip out on complying with limits on lead, arsenic, chromium and other hazardous pollutants for the next two years without doing an impact study? Just send the Trump administration an email and they’ll take care of you. 🤬 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/c...
nytimes.com
A Top Source of Lead Pollution Faced Tighter Rules. Then Trump Intervened.
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
By 2030, data centers could account for as much as 11% of U.S. power demand — up from 3% now, according to analysts at Goldman Sachs. www.latimes.com/environment/...
latimes.com
Power-hungry AI data centers are raising electric bills and blackout risk
Experts warn that a frenzy of data center construction could delay California’s transition away from fossil fuels, raise electric bills and increase risk of blackouts
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
A federal judge has struck down the federal government’s wind energy block, ruling it “arbitrary and capricious.” This decision protects green jobs, climate goals, and vital investments in renewable energy.
apnews.com
Federal judge throws out Trump order blocking development of wind energy
A federal judge has struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was…
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Key distinction between failing and failure
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
🚗 A new study finds EVs may be “dirtier” to build, but much cleaner to drive. Despite higher emissions from battery production, EVs outperform gas cars after just 2 years, cutting total pollution in half over their lifetimes. #EVs
apnews.com
Study finds EVs quickly overcome their energy-intensive build to be cleaner than gas cars
Producing and manufacturing electric vehicles and their batteries uses a lot of energy, leading many to be skeptical about the environmental benefits of going electric.
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
🌎 Rising global heat is now killing one person every minute. Our dependence on fossil fuels is not just an environmental issue; it is a public health crisis. We can change this story. It is time to accelerate the shift to renewable energy.
theguardian.com
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals
Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year from combined effects of failure to tackle climate crisis
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
⚛️China is quietly racing ahead in nuclear power by building reactors twice as fast and far cheaper than the West. With state backing, standardized designs, and a clear national strategy, it’s poised to surpass U.S. nuclear capacity by 2030 and dominate global exports. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
How China Raced Ahead of the U.S. on Nuclear Power
The United States was once the undisputed leader in atomic energy. Now it is trying to catch up.
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
A study in Environmental Research found that air pollution from burning fossil fuels causes ~8.7 million deaths every year — about 1 in 5 globally. it’s a powerful reminder that every MW shifted toward cleaner energy isn’t just about carbon or compliance — it’s about saving lives. ⚡
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Top 10 Rally Reminders for #NoKingsDayOct18th
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🌞🔋 From Jan‑July, solar supplied a record 39% of electricity while fossil gas fell to just 26%—the lowest ever. This summer solar peaked at 21.7 GW & batteries hit ~11 GW of discharge, proving excess solar stored by batteries can light the night. #Renewables www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
canarymedia.com
Solar is crushing gas power in California this year
The state’s combination of solar and battery plants has pushed clean generation of electricity to new heights, offering a welcome reprieve from high gas…
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
From the Art of Belief by Moreira
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Indigenous Peoples’ Day: Today we celebrate the people who first called this land home. We remember the struggles and tragedies they endured. We honor their place in, and contribution to, the shared story of America.
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
🔌💡The U.S. keeps funneling money into a dying coal industry while China is racing ahead with massive renewable projects. It’s time for policymakers to stop subsidizing obsolete fossil fuels and invest in clean, affordable energy for America. #RenewablesNow #EndCoalSubsidies
nytimes.com
Why China Built 162 Square Miles of Solar Panels on the World’s Highest Plateau
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/10/2025
Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
My Dodgers are going to the NLCS! 🥳
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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”
Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Electric cars can be the cheapest or the most expensive — it all depends on how you charge. Infrastructure matters as much as innovation. 🔋🏠🏙️ #ev #batteries
nytimes.com
How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State
Charging an electric car battery is usually cheaper than going to the gas pump. But it depends on where you live.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 09/10/2025
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Next month, California cuts off power from Utah’s Intermountain Plant—ending coal-fired electricity for good. 🔥 2007: U.S. got ~50% of power from coal 🌎 2023: 16.2% ⚡ CA 2024: 2.2%, now heading to zero A huge win for clean, reliable energy and the climate. #CleanEnergy #ClimateAction #coal
latimes.com
California says goodbye to coal and hello to cleaner electricity
Your morning catch-up: California says goodbye to coal, trash fees will surge for L.A. residents and more big stories.
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
If there isn’t enough money to pay essential workers as important as air traffic controllers and TSA during a shutdown, then Congress shouldn’t be paid either. #trumpshutdown
nytimes.com
Flight Delays Begin as Air Traffic Staffing Shortages Worsen
The delays came just hours after the transportation secretary warned that flying could be disrupted by the government shutdown.
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
☀️ New perovskite solar panels are up to 20 % more efficient than traditional silicon cells. Their thin, flexible design lets us harvest power on roofs, windows, cars & streetlights, slashing land use. #ClimateAction
ft.com
How next-gen solar panels could go on lampposts, cars and even windows
Perovskite panels are more powerful, lighter and less rigid than traditional alternatives
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
☀️🔋California’s solar farms are now out‑producing fossil‑fuel plants, cutting coal and gas use by 21% in the first half of  2025. California’s clean‑energy mix hit a record 39% solar—leaving fossil fuels at  a historic low of 26%! #CleanEnergy www.reuters.com/markets/comm...
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Coal‑friendly policies aren’t saving anyone. Rolling back pollution rules and propping up dirty plants hurts public health, hikes electricity bills, and accelerates climate change. Clean energy is the only affordable, healthy path forward. #Renewables
nytimes.com
Why Trump Wants to Revive the Coal Industry
The burning of coal is the largest contributor to climate change worldwide. But the Trump administration sees United States coal as crucial.
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
⚡️As AI grows, so does the electricity it needs. By 2035, data center power demand could quadruple. At #CAISO, we’re working to keep California’s lights on and emissions down in the #AI era. #EnergyFuture
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Each new turbine not only generates clean power, it represents innovation, collaboration, and a more resilient future for our grids. And honestly, it’s an incredible time to be part of it. #renewableenergy #windpower
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Inserting partisan blame into federal workers’ out-of-office replies without their consent is outrageous. Public servants shouldn’t be used as mouthpieces for political spin. It erodes trust in government and undermines neutrality.
nytimes.com
Partisan Language Inserted Into Education Dept. Workers’ Automated Emails
The out-of-office responses from the accounts of employees on furlough cast blame for the shutdown on Democrats.
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Government keeping the coal industry alive is like subsidizing horse‑and‑buggy rides after cars hit the road. The government needs to stop clinging to a dying technology, and fuel the future with renewable energy. #fossilfuels #renewableenergy
nytimes.com
‘Mine, Baby, Mine’: Trump Officials Offer $625 Million to Rescue Coal
The new effort, which includes opening 13.1 million acres of federal land for mining and eliminating pollution limits, aims to save an industry that has been declining for decades.
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Coal is dirty, costly, and harms our wallets and our health—yet the government keeps propping it up. Clean wind, solar, and hydro are cheaper, safer, and the future we deserve. 🌬️☀️💧 #Renewables #CleanEnergy
nytimes.com
In Coal-Powered West Virginia, Sky-High Energy Costs Strain Residents
As residents’ electricity prices have increased, nearly one out of five customers of the leading utility company in the state is behind on monthly bills.
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
As the #CAISO CEO says “We need a grid bigger than the weather.” By expanding the DA market & adding more regional partners, geographic diversity lets surplus clean power flow where it’s needed, boosting reliability and cutting costs. #EnergyReliability
politico.com
Can California reshape the West’s energy markets? This man is trying.
The California Independent System Operator president spoke on how to make an energy dream a reality.
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Sun Day reminds us that real progress happens when policy, industry, and grassroots activism converge. Let’s continue to champion renewable energy pathways that safeguard our planet, empower communities, and deliver long‑term economic growth. #SunDay
nytimes.com
Here Comes the Sun Day
Fifty-five years after the first Earth Day, climate activists are organizing a nationwide celebration of solar power on Sunday.
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The western energy imbalance market (WEIM) transfer data shows just how dynamic the Western market has become. BA’s aren’t just importing power, they’re exporting too. This two-way flow highlights the diversity of resources, which boosts reliability and lowers cost #energymarkets
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
California’s aggressive climate policies are not “backfiring”; we are reconfiguring the energy ecosystem to prioritize innovation, public health, and long‑term economic stability that ultimately provides for a greener world. #climatechange #fossilfuels
buff.ly
California's Great Climate Backfire
Sacramento Democrats allow dirtier air to avoid gasoline price spikes.
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Rick Lozano ⚡️🔋☀️☢️🛢️ @gridguru.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
A bag of cash. Really?!? So, where did the money go? Did Homan keep it? Did he report it as income? Seriously, I never want to hear again that Republicans are the law and order party.
nytimes.com
Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash
Mr. Homan came under scrutiny after he was said to be recorded last year taking $50,000 in cash from undercover F.B.I. agents.
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