Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker appears to have shilled on the cheap, reportedly taking nearly $10,000 from a Miami-based company that the Federal Trade Commission shut down for being what it alleged was “a scam.”

It’s been a stratospheric rise.

Over the course of 14 months, Matthew Whitaker has gone from being part of Washington’s right-wing political furniture to overseeing the Justice Department, if only for a maximum 210-day statutory limit.

Paul Manafort’s former son-in-law Jeffrey Yohai boasted about having “turned state’s evidence” on his ex-father-in-law in order to to swindle investors into a real estate scam, according to a newly unsealed criminal complaint.

Now that Jeff Sessions is gone, Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has oversight of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, the Justice Department says.

Matthew Whitaker, Jeff Sessions’ chief of staff who will take over as acting Attorney General with his boss’ ouster, has been an outspoken advocate of limiting — or even ending — the Mueller investigation.

Two Roger Stone associates were asked about an alleged effort to intimidate Randy Credico, during grand jury testimony in the Mueller investigation, CNN reports.

Who’s guilty for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? In President Trump’s world, it’s Barack Obama.

“President Obama allowed a very large part of Ukraine to be taken,” Trump said in a Tuesday press conferemce, before replying to a follow-up question on who annexed the Crimean peninsula with: “That was President Obama’s regime.”

“That was during President Obama, that was not during me,” Trump said, after noting that he had a “great meeting in Russia” with Vladimir Putin, referring to the summit in Helsinki, Finland.

Intriguingly, Trump mentioned that “right now you have submarines off of that particular parcel,” referring to Crimea, which juts out of Ukraine into the Black Sea.

“It was President Obama that allowed that to happen, it had nothing to do with me,” he added.

Facebook banned what appeared to be a Kremlin-backed group of online trolls operating on its network in the hours before yesterday’s election, the social network said.

A Georgia judge ordered Gwinnett County officials to extend voting today, AJC reports, after voters faced serious problems this morning at some polling places.

A self-described non-partisan advocacy group announced plans Tuesday to file an 11th-hour lawsuit to stop Georgia Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp from overseeing vote-counting in his own election.