Some accountability may finally be coming
In keeping with the “move on” narrative concocted by Democrat activists during the Monica Lewinsky scandal in 1998 to protect Bill Clinton from impeachment, Democrats in 2024 probably thought they had successfully delayed, obfuscated, covered up, and pushed past various statutes of limitations for potential crimes associated with the scandals detailed in Part I of this series.
Enter the second Trump administration, and some of these scandals and other cold cases are apparently being pursued with vigor by the US Justice Dept and several grand juries. Multiple parallel reinvestigation tracks are now active or accelerating, with varying degrees of seriousness, institutional legitimacy, and the omnipresent legal controversy via Democrat lawfare.
Let’s examine them carefully, as the legacy media are going their best to keep them under wraps to protect the Democrat Party during the 2026 campaign season.
I. THE “GRAND CONSPIRACY” GRAND JURY
This is the most structurally significant and far-reaching of the ongoing investigations/reinvestigations of cold cases involving Democrat corruption (and more).
What it is: For months, the DOJ has been preparing a vast grand jury investigation against an expansive list of Trump’s adversaries, located in the Trump-friendly Southern District of Florida. The investigation targets former intelligence and law enforcement officials who allegedly conspired over the past decade to prevent Trump from exercising his constitutional and federal rights. Attorney General Pam Bondi asserted that those officials had protected Democrats like Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton from criminal investigations “while pursuing conservatives for their beliefs.”
Fort Pierce grand jury formally convened: A court order from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida shows that Chief Judge Cecilia Altonaga authorized a grand jury to convene in Fort Pierce beginning January 12, 2026. A top Trump ally has publicly said the grand jury will be used to look at evidence related to the alleged weaponization conspiracy. Legal advocates for the theory have noted that framing this as an “ongoing conspiracy” could eliminate statute-of-limitations barriers that might otherwise protect Obama-era figures.
Subpoenas issued: A federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida has issued roughly 30 subpoenas to former Obama-era intelligence and FBI officials. Those subpoenaed include former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s review described Brennan, Clapper, and former FBI Director James Comey as “excessively involved“ in a rushed and unconventional intelligence assessment on Russian election interference.
DiGenova appointment: Joseph diGenova — Trump’s former personal attorney and Reagan-era U.S. Attorney — was named counsel to the Attorney General to lead the sprawling South Florida-based criminal probe into those involved in prior cases against Trump. He replaced career prosecutor Maria Medetis Long, who was removed after she told supervisors the evidence was insufficient to support charges and allegedly resisted internal pressure to bring an indictment.
II. URANIUM ONE / CLINTON FOUNDATION — GRASSLEY’S MAY 2026 DEMANDS
This is the most immediately active thread touching the original corruption allegations from Part I, and it is happening right now — this month.
Grassley’s April 27, 2026 letter: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley sent a letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel demanding records related to the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One investigations, citing newly declassified FBI documents revealing a pattern of unresolved corruption allegations and repeated interference with federal investigators. Grassley is demanding a full accounting, including all investigative reports, interview transcripts, and the final disposition of every allegation raised in the probe.
What the declassified FBI records show: According to the released records, the FBI opened a preliminary investigation into the Foundation on January 29, 2016, focused on its alleged use by foreign entities to corruptly influence decisions before the State Department. The investigation was triggered by bank Suspicious Activity Reports suggesting that uranium industry figures and a federal public official may have participated in a scheme where large monetary contributions flowed to a nonprofit under Clinton’s control.
According to the 2016 FBI document, then-Secretary Clinton allegedly “failed to comply with“ a Memorandum of Understanding regarding foreign influence concerns, specifically by “failing to disclose four foreign donations totaling $2.35 million that were given by Ian Telfer, the then-head of Russia’s uranium company, Uranium One.”
The SAR angle specifically: Part of the justification for opening the Uranium One investigation was an intelligence memo which included “information received from several bank Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs).” Grassley is now demanding all SARs reviewed, produced, and associated with the FBI’s Clinton Foundation/Uranium One investigation — exactly the FinCEN/SAR thread discussed in Part I of this series applied to the Clinton side.
Internal disputes surfaced during the earlier investigation, with one DOJ official describing the department’s reaction to FBI briefings as “hostile,” while a DOJ Public Integrity official maintained the FBI presentation lacked sufficient basis. Even after Trump first took office, a 2020 investigative update showed key requests remained unresolved nearly two years after submission.
The Patel factor: With Kash Patel now leading the FBI, Sen. Grassley’s demand lands in a very different Washington than the one that handled the Clinton Foundation file in 2016. Whether Patel’s FBI will produce the records — or has already accelerated the underlying investigation — is the central unknown as of this writing.
III. RUSSIA PROBE ORIGINS — OBAMA OFFICIAL GRAND JURY
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi directed federal prosecutors to launch a grand jury investigation into accusations that members of the Obama administration manufactured intelligence about Russia’s 2016 election interference, following a referral from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who declassified documents she alleges undermine the Obama administration’s conclusion that Russia tried to help Trump defeat Hillary Clinton.
Republicans have seized on a newly declassified July 27, 2016, email in Special Counsel Durham’s classified annex, which purportedly said Hillary Clinton had approved a plan during the campaign to link Trump with Russia. Durham’s earlier investigation found serious flaws but produced only one conviction — a guilty plea from an FBI lawyer for a false statement. Was he the fall guy who let others slip through the prosecutorial net?
This probe is significant for the Ukraine threads because the Chalupa/DNC-Ukraine coordination, the Manafort ledger leaks, and the origins of the FBI’s counter-intelligence work against the Trump campaign are all potentially within its scope.
IV. BIDEN MENTAL CAPACITY / PARDON ABUSE INVESTIGATION
President Trump ordered Attorney General Bondi to investigate whether the Biden administration conspired to cover up Biden’s mental state while in office. This is primarily a domestic governance probe but may touch on who was actually directing Ukraine policy and the Burisma-related decisions during the period when Biden’s cognitive capacity was clearly in decline.
V. WHAT IS NOT YET ACTIVE
Despite the above activity, several threads from Part I do not yet appear to have dedicated, confirmed grand jury activity (but almost certainly should!):
- Hunter Biden’s financial network (Burisma, Rosemont Seneca, PrivatBank, the Baturina wire, CEFC flows): The special counsel investigation by David Weiss effectively ended with Hunter Biden’s 2024 conviction and subsequent pardon. The pardon was broad enough to block most new federal prosecutions of Hunter specifically. However, it did not cover co-conspirators, and the Joe Biden S-corporation question (CelticCapri Corp) remains theoretically open (refer to Part I).
- DNC/Chalupa-Ukraine election interference: No dedicated criminal investigation confirmed yet, though it falls within the scope of the broader Russia-origins probe.
- The FinCEN/SAR angle on Biden family transactions: The $20M+ in traced foreign funds documented by House Oversight has not yet been publicly tied to an active grand jury — though the Grassley precedent on using SARs as predicate for the Clinton Foundation probe suggests this is a viable pathway the current DOJ could deploy.
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
There is cause for optimism that investigations that were previously swept under the rug by a Democrat-friendly Justice Dept are being (or will be) reexamined under the new management of the Trump Justice Dept.
The most important of these is the “grand conspiracy grand jury” whose purpose is to examine allegations of a coordinated, multi-year effort by former high-level intelligence, law enforcement, and DOJ officials—such as James Comey, John Brennan, Peter Strzok, and others—from the 2016 Russia investigation (Crossfire Hurricane) through subsequent probes and prosecutions of Donald Trump (including the Mar-a-Lago documents case and election-related matters) to undermine his candidacies and presidencies.
The intent is to investigate claims of a broad “conspiracy” involving alleged abuses of power, misleading FISA warrants, leaks, and politically motivated actions, potentially using a unified conspiracy theory to overcome statutes of limitations by linking events with recent “overt acts.”
Whether this investigation, as well as the other active reinvestigations summarized above (and hopefully those on the “dormant list” noted above), produces indictments of major figures, or collapses under the weight of political appointee involvement and insufficient evidence, is the defining legal drama of 2026.
The end.
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This article originally appeared in Stu Cvrk’s Substack. Reprinted here with permission
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