Not sure why it's the TBI and not the FBI coming down on these guys, but if they're not lying about FinCen access then that's a pretty big deal.
"NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A well-known Arizona election denier says his group — working through a conspiracy-minded assistant police chief in tiny Millersville, Tennessee — gained access to a highly confidential federal database that tracks Americans’ banking transactions and other financial data.
Mark Finchem, who pushed lies about the 2020 presidential election and waged an unsuccessful campaign for Arizona’s secretary of state in 2022, made the stunning admissions during a series of recent interviews with far-right podcasters and in a “press conference” staged in Las Vegas to support Millersville Assistant Police Chief Shawn Taylor.
Taylor's department and residence were raided last month by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation following questions raised by an exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation.
"There's a system called FinCen where we're actually able to track money laundering," Finchem said two weeks ago in that “press conference” to which only other far-right podcasters and conspiracy theorists were invited.'
![Screenshot from the linked article reading:
"Next steps
• I [Matt Lee] want you to have a personal website and have your listening habits on your own website, not my website. But I know some people won't want that, which is fine but Libre.fm is effectively a silo (other than Last.fm which it talks to, although federation with other instances has been possible for a long time) and has over 372,000 registered users and 302 million scrobbles.
• Some new features will only work if you're publishing your Libre.fm stats on your own website.
• A new version of Libre.fm's front end will appear later, powered by Ruby on Rails.
• [highlighted] We're also going to put our full attention to supporting ActivityPub where possible. [end highlight]"](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/597178 "Screenshot from the linked article reading:
\"Next steps
• I [Matt Lee] want you to have a personal website and have your listening habits on your own website, not my website. But I know some people won't want that, which is fine but Libre.fm is effectively a silo (other than Last.fm which it talks to, although federation with other instances has been possible for a long time) and has over 372,000 registered users and 302 million scrobbles.
• Some new features will only work if you're publishing your Libre.fm stats on your own website.
• A new version of Libre.fm's front end will appear later, powered by Ruby on Rails.
• [highlighted] We're also going to put our full attention to supporting ActivityPub where possible. [end highlight]\"")
Patrick Breyer
in reply to Patrick Breyer • • •🇬🇧🚨Orban moving fast: Endorsement of #ChatControl on the agenda for Wednesday (ambassadors) and Thursday (EU interior ministers) parlament.gv.at/dokument/XXVII… +++ Politicians, before you destroy secure #encryption understand that China spied on the US on a large scale using backdoors set up for lawful interception wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s… +++ Finland to take a stance on Wednesday eduskunta.fi/FI/tiedotteet/Siv… +++
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