L.A.! Looking for a fun Saturday afternoon tomorrow? There are a few tix left for the 2pm WAITING FOR GAL GADOT, the Fringe show everyone's talking about! Wednesday's show sold out, so get 'em while you can!
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![Hornok, a former Justice Department drug cartel prosecutor, was appointed by U.S. Attorney Ed Martin on March 3 after three-decade veteran Denise Cheung resigned. Cheung had refused to carry out what she said was a demand by Martin and acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove's to freeze the bank accounts of a $20 billion Biden administration environmental grant program without sufficient evidence.
"He said the ex officio directors, Rubio, Hegseth and Garvin, would like to inspect the books and records" of the institute, the person familiar said. Foote replied that they were welcome to come at "any reasonable time." When Hornok responded that "agents" would arrive at the building "with computers” on Monday, Foote told him the office would be closed.
"Anyone who obstructs our efforts is subject to criminal investigation," Hornok said, according to the person familiar with the call.
Hornok's and Martin's offices declined to comment.
O'Brien, the USIP security chief, compiled a timeline of what happened next.
"On Sunday, I personally notified the [Inter-Con] guard force that their contract was suspended and had them depart. letting them know all [entry] badges had been deactivated and they were not authorized on the property," O'Brien said in an interview. The contract was officially canceled Monday.
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"On Monday, at approximately 2:30 p.m." four members of Inter-Con's local office "came onto the property and attempted to use their key cards to open the doors. Ken Jackson was sitting in a government Lincoln Navigator on 23rd Street." The security guards "walked around, trying different badge readers" on different doors. Eventually, one "who had retained a manual key to the building" used it to open a side door.
At the time, only O'Brien, Moose, USIP communications director Gonzo Gallegos and two lawyers were in the building. When the four entered and refused to leave, O'Brien said, the head of the Inter-Con team "said DOGE had called them and threatened every one of…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:33brbmgz7ekacuiwji32lcgj/bafkreido77fvjxyfebiwenj25meldow267qxavawoaetbb3cvomag6xz7u)
