Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff Dana Williamson pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud — admitting she siphoned $225,000 from a dormant campaign account and wrote off over $1 million in luxury handbags and high-end travel as business expenses on her tax returns.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer then went on national television and told Newsom directly to lawyer up — launching a separate investigation into what he called rampant hospice fraud in California that could be ten times worse than what they found in Minnesota. Days later Congress announced yet another investigation — this time into Newsom’s $190 million taxpayer funded prison tablet program after reports that inmates used the devices to sexually exploit women and children. Three separate federal investigations. One governor. And a 2028 presidential ambition that is looking more complicated by the day.
