A 33-year-old Pakistani national has been federally charged after authorities say he ran an unauthorized website that dumped more than 5.1 million counterfeit U.S. Postal Service shipping labels into the American mail stream, and left the Postal Service holding the bag for more than $126 million.

According to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Faheem Akram of Khanewal, Pakistan, operated LabelsBank.com, a site that was never authorized to sell USPS products. Investigators say the site sold fake postage at a flat cut-rate price, typically $2 a label, no matter the package’s weight, size, or destination.

Postal inspectors in Miami say more than 5,000 customers used the site.

According to NBC 6 South Florida, more than 5,200 buyers purchased the phony labels and shipped packages at rates far below what honest Americans pay. The website has now been seized and shut down.

A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida indicted Akram on one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and to make and sell counterfeit postage stamps, five counts of making and selling counterfeit postage stamp labels, and four counts of wire fraud. As prosecutors note, charges are allegations. He is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

If convicted, he faces up to five years on the conspiracy and counterfeit-postage counts and up to 20 years on each wire-fraud count, according to NBC 6.

U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones, President Trump’s U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, did not mince words.

“The alleged scheme was simple but massive: sell counterfeit postage online at fixed, cut-rate prices, as little as $2 per label, regardless of a package’s weight, size, or destination, enabling customers to avoid legitimate Postal Service charges,” Quiñones said in a statement released by the Postal Inspection Service.

“The indictment alleges more than 5.1 million counterfeit labels and more than $126 million in losses. Through the work of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and our prosecutors, the website has been shut down, the domain seized, and federal charges brought against its alleged operator, a Pakistani national.”

Miami Division Postal Inspector in Charge Bladismir Rojo put the warning in plain English: “Our reach goes beyond our borders. If you are defrauding the Postal Service and targeting U.S. consumers by pushing phony postage, we will find you and bring you to justice.”

The Akram case is one slice of a much bigger hemorrhage.

A September 2026 audit from the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General estimated USPS lost $3.1 billion to counterfeit package labels from March 2024 through February 2026, and could lose hundreds of millions more if the leak is not plugged.

In fiscal 2025 alone, the agency lost an estimated $1.6 billion by accepting fake labels. Tracking data showed the overwhelming majority of those counterfeit labels still moved through the system for delivery.

A Pakistani national has been charged with allegedly selling over 5 million fake USPS labels through his operation of an unauthorized website, causing more than $126 million in losses. Thanks to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the site has been shut down and charges have been… pic.twitter.com/8EDJx1MRN7

— US Attorney Reding Quiñones (@USAO_SDFL) September 28, 2026

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ABC’s far-left daytime circus The View just did what Disney lawyers keep pretending the show never does: it used the public airwaves to pick a House race, name the Democrat, and tell people in a specific Florida district to go vote him in.

On Monday’s broadcast, co-host Ana Navarro, the network’s “Republican,” walked viewers through Florida’s 27th Congressional District, the South Florida seat she said she lives in, and then dropped the mask.

“So, anybody who lives in Coral Gables, in Miami, in Key Biscayne, in downtown Miami, pay attention to that race and go vote because it’s going to matter,” Navarro said. “And we can actually knock this woman out. There’s a great guy running, his name is Elliot Rodriguez. Give him a look.”

The “woman” is Republican Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar. The “great guy” is Democrat Eliott Rodriguez, the former CBS Miami anchor now running to flip FL-27.

Navarro also noted that Salazar won her last election comfortably but said the race has suddenly become much more competitive.

That assessment is based in part on Democratic-sponsored polling. A September survey conducted by Tulchin Research for the Democratic House Majority PAC showed Salazar at 47% and Rodriguez at 46%, while an August Bendixen & Amandi poll showed the two candidates tied at 45%. Those results should be viewed with their sponsorship in mind.

Salazar won reelection in 2024 with 199,159 votes, or 60.38%, compared with Democrat Lucia Báez-Geller’s 130,708 votes, or 39.62%, a margin of more than 20 percentage points, according to official Miami-Dade County results.

According to NewsBusters, the clip is one of the most overt examples yet of ABC News using a licensed broadcast program to electioneer. MRC associate editor Nicholas Fondacaro posted the excerpt and put it plainly: electioneering is a violation of ABC’s broadcast license.

The FEC defines electioneering as a broadcast, cable, or satellite communication that identifies a federal candidate, is distributed to the relevant electorate, and airs within 30 days of a primary or 60 days of a general election. For the November 3, 2026 general election, that federal electioneering-communication period began on September 4, 2026.

There is also “express advocacy,” which is even more direct: language unmistakably urging the election or defeat of a particular candidate. The FEC distinguishes that concept from the technical category of an “electioneering communication.”

WATCH:

Electioneering is a violation of ABC’s broadcast license.
ABC News program The View tells viewers in FL-27 to “go vote” for Democrat Eliott Rodriguez over Republican Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar:

“So, anybody who lives in Coral Gables, in Miami, in Key Biscayne, in… pic.twitter.com/n9s08yGCAD

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) September 28, 2026

Disney still wants you to believe this is “bona fide news.”

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr opened a public proceeding this year after Disney petitioned the Commission to declare The View a bona fide news interview program exempt from equal-opportunity rules. Carr’s point was simple: a show does not get the news exemption if its booking and commentary are “based on partisan purposes, such as an intention to advance or harm an individual’s candidacy.”

The Media Research Center has already dumped thousands of exhibits into that file. According to Fox News, MRC President David Bozell told Fox News Digital that broadcast licenses are a privilege, not an entitlement, and that ABC is operating like a partisan cable network on the public airwaves. Bozell’s letter to the FCC argued The View is not news. It is a Democratic operation.

The Gateway Pundit reported in June that MRC submitted 2,473 separate pieces of evidence documenting The View’s “pervasive bias” and, at times, “willful electioneering.” Monday’s segment belongs in that pile.

This is not the first time Navarro has used the show as a get-out-the-vote shop. In May she told viewers that if they wanted “abuses of power checked,” they had to “vote Democrats in in November, period.”

Whoopi Goldberg has run the same play, warning the audience that “our lives literally depend” on turnout. Disney still files papers in Washington calling this Meet the Press.

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Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recused from a blockbuster climate case.

Oral arguments for Suncor Energy v County Commissioners of Boulder County are scheduled for next week.

The high profile case will determine whether state and local governments can sue oil companies for damages caused by ‘climate change.’

Alito previously refused to recuse himself from the case despite pressure from environmental groups over his holdings of stock in oil companies.

Justice Alito does not have a financial interest in any of the parties.

“Justice Alito has determined that he will not continue to participate,” the high court said.

Politico reported:

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is stepping back from a major climate argument just a week before the court is scheduled to take up the case.

Alito had faced calls to recuse himself from Suncor v. Boulder over his financial interests in energy companies.

A Monday letter from Scott Harris, clerk of the court, informed the parties that Alito “has determined that he will not continue to participate in this case.” The notice did not further explain his decision to sit out arguments Oct. 5, the first day of the court’s new term.

In the case, Colorado localities are seeking damages under state tort laws related to the effects of climate change. The suit named Suncor and ExxonMobil.

While Alito does not hold stock in those companies, he is invested in several other fossil fuel companies, including oil giants ConocoPhillips and Phillips 66. They are named in many lawsuits similar to Colorado’s that have been filed around the country. The future of those cases will be affected by the Supreme Court’s ruling in Suncor.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday that his office has launched an investigation into Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas over allegations that the insurer denied or delayed urgent and medically necessary care, as a separate national debate intensifies over the use of artificial intelligence by both hospitals and insurance companies.

According to the Texas Attorney General’s Office, the investigation covers Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, its parent company Health Care Service Corporation, and related entities. Investigators are examining the companies’ claim-review procedures and prior-authorization requirements.

Paxton’s office said it had received reports alleging that medically necessary or urgent procedures were delayed or denied.

In one particularly serious allegation, the Attorney General’s Office said a newborn needed urgent treatment and a transfer to another medical facility, but administrative denials and potentially improper utilization-review procedures allegedly delayed approval.

“Blue Cross Blue Shield has a responsibility to put patients before profits and ensure that Texans receive the care they need,” said Attorney General Paxton.

“When a newborn baby or any other Texan urgently needs medical treatment, an insurance company’s priority should be helping provide that care to the best of its ability—not searching for ways to delay or deny it. I will wage a relentless legal battle against any insurance company that fails to protect health and safety of Texans.”

Paxton also announced the investigation on X:

BREAKING: I am investigating Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance company over denials and delays of urgent and medically necessary care. pic.twitter.com/6826b3Pnpr

— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) September 28, 2026

The Texas investigation comes just days after the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association released its own analysis raising concerns about an entirely different side of the healthcare payment system: hospitals using artificial intelligence to identify additional billable diagnoses.

According to Blue Cross Blue Shield Association’s September 24 analysis, increasing coding intensity was associated with an estimated $942 million in additional spending for Blue Cross companies between 2023 and 2025. Roughly $653 million was linked to secondary diagnoses that moved patients into higher-reimbursement categories.

BCBSA said more than 60% of hospital systems now use AI-enabled technology capable of scanning laboratory results, medical records and clinical documentation for secondary diagnoses.

The association’s analysis found that the percentage of inpatient cases categorized as medically complex increased from roughly 37% in early 2023 to 40% by the end of 2025.

At the same time, BCBSA said it found no corresponding increase in treatment that would indicate patients were actually receiving substantially more complex care.

Luke Chalker, BCBSA’s senior vice president of product and data science, summarized the group’s conclusion:

“AI is identifying more billable conditions, not sicker patients.”

But the AI fight cuts both ways.

Healthcare industry reporting indicates that insurers are also deploying artificial intelligence to scrutinize medical charts and challenge claims.

McLaren Health Care’s chief financial officer recently said insurers use AI to scan records for claims they can deny while hospitals examine those same records to maximize reimbursement.

“All the insurers are using A.I. to scan our charts to look for claims to deny. For the same reason, we’re looking at the same charts today,” Dave Mazurkiewicz, the CFO of McLaren Health Care, told the NY Times.

That developing technological arms race has created a striking dynamic: hospitals can deploy algorithms to identify diagnoses that generate higher reimbursement, while insurers can use their own automated tools to challenge whether those claims should be paid.

Hedgie Markets summarized the controversy on X, arguing that patients ultimately bear the financial consequences through premiums and other healthcare costs.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis also weighed in, according to the statement provided for this report:

“Both Big Hospitals and Big Insurance are using AI tools to either seek more reimbursements or to deny more claims. The result: AI providers make a lot of money, individuals pay higher premiums and have more denials, and nobody gets healthier.”

BCBSA itself says its estimated $942 million increase ultimately puts upward pressure on premiums and out-of-pocket costs for families, employers and taxpayers.

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Music superstar Nicki Minaj joined “My View with Lara Trump” on Fox News Saturday and discussed the

“For a very long time, black people specifically feel that they should just vote blue, so I would say the entire country there’s been a major shift where people are starting to wake up and see what’s going on and choose differently.”

“They’re noticing that black people are not allowed, according to the Democrats for the most part, to make a different decision.”

“We’re not allowed to think. We’re not allowed to voice concerns.”

“And they’re seeing in real time, if they do, what happens to them: smear campaigns and just outright nasty behavior from these adults. It just doesn’t look good.”

“And so the Democrats kind of have been just digging their own grave in that way.”

She then took a shot at how leftist narratives have infected the entertainment industry.

“I think the Democrats have gotten way too caught up in pop culture, for lack of a better term.”

“I think that they’ve allowed their relationships with artists to cause them to act like children and to be so petty and childish.”

“But that’s what I think they do. They allow people in the music industry to influence them, and these people clearly don’t have their best interests at heart.”

Watch:

Wow Nicki Minaj just dropped truth bombs on the Democrat party and how they treat the black community.

“Black people are not allowed, according to the Democrats, for the most part, to make a different decision. We’re not allowed to think.

“We’re not allowed to voice… pic.twitter.com/ofNgEaBkWn

— J (@JayTC53) September 27, 2026

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