Claim:
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, bought shares of Palantir Technologies days before the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced a $30 million contract with the company.
Rating:
True
Context:
Though Greene made public those trades, we could not determine whether she ordered them herself or whether her portfolio manager made that decision without her input.
- A man accused of stealing the purse of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at a restaurant while she was under Secret Service protection was charged by federal prosecutors with that and two other alleged bag thefts in Washington, D.C., a court filing shows.
- Mario Bustamente Leiva, is charged with robbery, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with the three alleged thefts between April 12 and 20.
- “Following each robbery, Bustamente Leiva made fraudulent purchases using the credit cards obtained from the victim of each robbery,” a U.S. Secret Service agent wrote in the complaint against the Chilean national in U.S. District Court in D.C.
[Mario] Bustamente Leiva, a 49-year-old who prosecutors say is in the country illegally, was arrested Saturday in a D.C. motel.
