Rob and Mia Bonta built their power in California on money from a human trafficking front, fraudulent nonprofits, and a donor network now under active FBI indictment.
Mia Bonta’s 2021 Assembly campaign received thousands in straw donor contributions from “Music Cafe,” an Oakland karaoke bar raided by state authorities for ketamine and ecstasy distribution, prostitution, and human trafficking. The man investigators believe was the real owner of that front called Rob Bonta “brother,” partied with the Bontas in limousines, and sat courtside with them at Warriors games.
Just months after those donations, Mia Bonta abstained on a bipartisan bill making the commercial sexual exploitation of children a serious felony under California’s Three Strikes law. She only reversed course after nationwide outrage and public threats forced her hand.
This is the same couple whose operation includes Mia running Oakland Promise without a valid federal 501(c)(3) determination. She filed IRS Form 990s using a duplicate EIN from another nonprofit in clear violation of California corporation law. While the organization operated in legal limbo, she collected base salaries of $160,625, $147,000, and $128,125 in different years. Rob Bonta used his position in the Legislature to behest corporate and lobbyist money directly into organizations paying his wife six figures, including a $25,000 transfer from his own foundation that he initially tried to disguise as a loan on tax filings.
Her 2021 campaign headquarters was located at 1241 High Street in Oakland — the exact former corporate address of Viridis Fuels, the failed biofuel company that received a $3.4 million state grant after Rob Bonta personally intervened with the California Energy Commission on behalf of its president, a donor with a documented history of tax liens and financial failure.
The Duong family and their associates, now federally indicted alongside former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao on bribery and corruption charges, pumped over $172,000 into Rob and Mia Bonta’s campaigns — more than 30x their average contribution to other local politicians. When the FBI raids hit, Rob returned $155,000 “out of an abundance of caution.” His campaign then spent nearly $469,000 on private legal counsel from one of the most expensive firms in the country to navigate the investigation, including after receiving a letter warning that one of the targets possessed a “compromising video” of the Attorney General.
While this was happening, Rob Bonta’s Department of Justice leaked the full personal data of over 240,000 Californians who held concealed carry permits — names, addresses, dates of birth, and license numbers — days after the Supreme Court struck down similar restrictions in Bruen. The same Attorney General who has positioned himself as a national champion of data privacy and sued companies for far less presided over one of the most reckless state-sponsored data breaches in California history.
Mia Bonta authored AB 2624, legislation already being called the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” by critics. It attempts to criminalize journalists and citizens who document misconduct by taxpayer-funded nonprofits and government contractors — the exact structures her own record shows were used to move money and shield operations from scrutiny.
Rob Bonta has used the powers of the Attorney General’s office to manipulate ballot language against tough-on-crime measures that later passed with overwhelming voter support, lost a 6-3 Supreme Court case for violating First Amendment donor privacy rights, and allowed foreign-linked money to flow into litigation he then personally promoted for political gain.
They function as one closed system. She advances the agenda and shields the nonprofit pipeline. He controls the Department of Justice, the budget fights, and the legal apparatus that protects the machine. When one is threatened, the other’s power is deployed.
🚨 For anyone tracking the under-16 social media bans in Canada and the UK, you might have noticed the government suddenly walking back some specific wording.
They backed off forcing you to upload credit cards or facial scans because of the public backlash, and now they’re pushing a "backend token system". It sounds less intrusive on the surface, but here is the truth about what that actually means, because most people are being completely misled by that marketing:
A cryptographic token isn't a magic, anonymous poker chip. To work, a token has to be anchored to something verified. That means your physical device, your phone carrier contract, or your real identity is permanently tethered to that token.
Every single time your phone throws that token to let you log into an app, it logs exactly who you are, where you are, and what you're doing.
It isn't a privacy shield to protect kids. It's a digital passport that tracks an adult's every move across the internet.
An OMG journalist spent the past eight months undercover inside New Jersey ANTIFA, infiltrating the private Signal chats of a group known as NJ BURN.
What we uncovered proves ANTIFA is not just an idea. It is a network of real people organizing, coordinating, and operating inside America.
Inside the group's Signal chats, members discussed plans for port blockades, riot activity, support networks for criminal defendants, and celebrated acts of political violence. Using names, profile photos, and digital receipts, OMG traced individuals to positions throughout some of America's most influential organizations.
The same network connected to disruptive port blockades in New Jersey was also active during the unrest surrounding Delaney Hall, where activists confronted law enforcement and journalists outside the immigration detention facility.
Among those identified were an engineer affiliated with @OpenAI & @OpenAINewsroom, an AI Automation Leader at T-Mobile, Rutgers University students and personnel, a Princeton doctoral candidate, a former New Jersey congressional candidate and city councilman, board members connected to the American Civil Liberties Union, and National Lawyers Guild, and nonprofit executives with ties to United Nations-affiliated initiatives.
Some messages in the Signal chats showed these individuals celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination and hoped that the past attempts on President Trump were successful.
The American people deserve to know when individuals involved in activist networks also hold positions within institutions that shape public policy, technology, education, and culture.
These are not simply anonymous individuals organizing online. OMG identified numerous individuals and organizations connected to members of the NJ BURN network and reached out to them for comment. We will update our reporting with any responses we receive.
The identities referenced in this report are based on evidence gathered during our investigation, including social media activity, public records, and other corroborating information. Some identifications remain unknown, and additional information may emerge following publication.
That's the point of a Title-1 Search Warrant issued by a FISA Court. That's not the issue at hand at all.
FISA 702 has nothing to do with the issuance of a Title-1 warrant.
FISA 702 is unconstitutional govt permission to look at electronic records of the target.... THAT MIGHT LATER LEAD TO a Title-1 warrant application.
Please spend some time learning what this stuff means, and stop repeating nonsense talking points.
Warmest best.
@Rey_Rey0099@CNBC Those folks have been legally anal probed for more than a decade. Of course, this began over Biden and Harris, so are you equally frothing at the mouth to go after them? If not, why not?
In unison, every Dem & Dem outlet: Trump's politicized Justice Dept is investigating Gavin Newsom!
NYT paragraph 19 of 27: The Newsom investigation began under Biden.
What an incredible propaganda machine.
@mrymuendy@cspan She’s a joke, but an unfunny one. The investigation into CA, sparked by whistleblowers, was begun under the Biden/Harris Administration. She, of course, had zero issues with weaponized DOJ as it went after opposition
@yeshuaisking_@DelgadilloShari@LongTimeHistory Well for one thing, is it an extremely expensive, highly trained K9? Is a dog the officer is handling and familiar with? No. It’s a strange dog, with unknown training and temperament. Not an apples to apples comparison
@chicogirl07@LongTimeHistory In their defense, they are not there to die either. This breaks my heart, as a dog parent myself, but I don’t expect an LEO to not defend himself if he sees a furry missile running at him. Especially if the pups he’s encountering have been habitually less than friendly
@ChiranduJay@according2_taz And what philanthropy does Harry participate in that would garner him an intro to the NBA commissioner? What makes him so special? He’s not from here and he doesn’t follow the sport
Now I hope people understand why the Sussex website is linked on the Royal Family website.
All their updates are tied to initiatives that align with the UK government and orgs that the Crown helped set up.. The Palace could have easily put up the Archewell link, but they didn't.
Today, Meghan & Harry quickly jump to celebrate and support Starmer's bullshit excuse to push removing anonymity online.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry are assets.
You were lied to.
Megxit saga is a Lie.
PS. Regarding James Holt, extradite that dude back to the US.
@GooalMouth@louise_payfer This isn't about 'protecting the kids' - it's about full blown censorship and speech control. PARENTS protect their children and use / exposure on social media - no one with a thinking mind would trust government with this
The lack of accountability for domestic spying abuses across the board is yet another reason we need a warrant requirement to reauthorize FISA.
“Trust us” is not enough.
@MechsWorld@foxnewspolitics IDK - their 'professional capacity' was to engage in BS that they knew was BS - still, I believe legislation is written to hold such foolishness to account & require warrants for US citizens