Fifth Circuit upholds Texas law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals handed religious liberty advocates a major win Tuesday, ruling that Texas can require every public school classroom in the state to display a copy of the Ten Commandments. The 9, 8 en banc decision reversed a lower court injunction and cleared the way for enforcement of Senate Bill 10.
The ruling marks the most significant federal appellate victory for Ten Commandments displays in public schools in decades, and it sets the stage for a potential showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court.
By early December 2025, the American Civil Liberties Union and allied religious freedom organizations had filed suit in the U.S. District Court in San Antonio on behalf of 18 families with children in Texas public schools. Sixteen school districts were named as defendants, seven of them from North Texas. A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking the law.
Who Are ‘La Eme’? Kash Patel Announces Major Raid on Mexican Mafia
FBI Director Kash Patel announced a major series of federal raids Thursday targeting the Mexican Mafia—also known as La Eme—one of the most powerful and secretive criminal organizations operating in the United States.
Patel said multiple federal agencies executed search and arrest warrants at roughly 30 locations across Southern California, primarily in Orange County, resulting in dozens of indictments and arrests in what was called “Operation Gangster’s Paradise.”
Among the 37 people taken into custody include alleged murderers, drug traffickers and racketeers, according to the Department of Justice.
“The defendants accused of operating their own ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ in Orange County by peddling illicit drugs and carrying out assault and murders, among other crimes, are being held accountable today,” said Akil Davis, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles field office. “Orange County communities should be proud of their law enforcement professionals whose hard work and devotion to this case made the streets of Orange County safer today.”
What is La Eme?
La Eme, Spanish for “the M,” is a prison‑based criminal organization formed in the late 1950s inside California’s prison system. Law enforcement officials describe it as a “gang of gangs” that exerts control over nearly all Hispanic street gangs in large parts of California.
Angel Mom Blasts California Bill to Fund Taxpayer-Paid Legal Defense for Illegal Aliens Facing Deportation
Here’s the fundamental deal a government is supposed to make with its people. You follow the laws, pay your taxes—a lot of them, in some places—and in return, the government promises to keep you safe and spend your money wisely. It’s a simple arrangement, the bedrock of any functioning society.
But in some corners of America, that deal has been thrown out the window. It’s been replaced with a bizarre, upside-down new logic where the people who play by the rules are ignored, and those who break them are put at the front of the line. This isn’t just a policy debate; it’s a profound betrayal that starts in a governor’s mansion and ends in the heartbreak of an American family.
California Angel Mom Agnes Gibboney, who lost her son in an illegal alien-involved shooting, is blasting Gov. Gavin Newsom and state Democrats over a proposed bill that would use taxpayer dollars to fund legal defense for immigrants facing deportation. She urged voters to “stop this insanity.”…
“My son was murdered,” she said. “Not one politician has ever contacted me. Not one politician said, ‘I’m so sorry that this previously deported criminal [illegal alien] shot and killed your son.’ Not one of them.”
That gut-wrenching statement comes from Agnes Gibboney, a California Angel Mom. Her son, Ronald da Silva, was murdered by an illegal alien gang member who should never have been in the country. While California’s leaders have offered her nothing but silence, they’re now cooking up a plan to give her son’s killer’s allies something incredible: a free lawyer, paid for by you.
Under a bill from Assembly member Mia Bonta, California Democrats want to use your tax dollars to fund the legal defense for immigrants fighting deportation. This is the ultimate “Americans Last” agenda, brought to you by a progressive establishment, under Governor Gavin Newsom, that seems to have misplaced its moral compass entirely. They look at an illegal alien and see a future voter; they look at a grieving mother and see a political obstacle.
While homeless encampments overrun city parks and law-abiding families pack their bags for Texas and Florida, Newsom’s political allies are busy trying to create a legal slush fund for lawbreakers. It’s a middle finger to every Californian who works hard, pays into the system, and expects that money to go toward fixing roads or funding schools—not helping illegal aliens dodge the consequences of their actions.
‘Pave the Roads’
And don’t think this political rot is confined to Sacramento. This is a progressive infection that has metastasized in local governments across the state. In deep-blue Humboldt County, a proud “sanctuary county,” the supervisors are already scheming up their own version of this plan, a “universal representation fund” to protect people from federal immigration agents.
A State Drowning in Debt
The state’s fiscal lunacy perfectly matches this moral decay. California is a financial basket case, buried under the highest taxes in the nation and staring down a deficit in the hundreds of billions. As Ms. Gibboney puts it, “California is about three to 400 billion, with a ‘B,’ dollars in debt. How is that possible? How much more can you milk us, citizens?”
The usual activist groups think this is a brilliant idea. But the actual taxpayers footing the bill have other questions. As one resident noted, maybe the county should focus on paving the damn roads before it starts subsidizing legal services for non-citizens. This is the progressive playbook in action: performative virtue is always more important than providing basic services.
An Affront to Angel Families
The bill’s architects talk a big game about “dignity” and a “fair hearing.” But what about the dignity of Ronald da Silva, a father of two, gunned down in his own driveway? Where is the fair shake for American families that have been shattered by migrant crime? The Left’s compassion is a selective, one-way affair, reserved for those who violate our sovereignty, while the victims are told to grieve in silence.
Southern Poverty Law Center Indicted on Federal Fraud Charges
A federal grand jury in Alabama indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts Tuesday, charging the civil rights nonprofit with defrauding donors through a concealed program that paid members of the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel said.
The case represents the most significant federal prosecution ever brought against a leading civil rights organization.
The indictment, returned in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, charges the Montgomery, Alabama-based organization with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of making false statements to a federally insured bank, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Acting U.S. Attorney Kevin P. Davidson signed the charging document.
At a Justice Department news conference, Blanche said prosecutors allege the SPLC paid roughly $3 million between 2014 and 2023 to eight people tied to the Ku Klux Klan, United Klans of America, the National Socialist Party of America, the Aryan Nations-linked Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, and America First.
One recipient, described as a leader of the group that organized the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was paid about $270,000 over eight years, Blanche said.
“The SPLC was not dismantling these groups,” Blanche said. “It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred.”
He said the group never disclosed the informant program to donors, in violation of nonprofit transparency rules.
Prosecutors allege payments moved through at least five sham entities, including Center Investigative Agency, Fox Photography, North West Technologies, Tech Writers Group, and Rare Books Warehouse, before being loaded onto prepaid debit cards.
Patel, in a post on X mirroring his own news conference remarks, said the SPLC “lied to their donors” and paid extremist leaders whose activity in at least one case was “used to facilitate the commission of state and federal offenses.” He said individuals remain under investigation.
The Infiltration: The Deep Scandal Behind the Biden DOJ Targeting Pro-Lifers
The Justice Department under President Joe Biden didn’t just target pro-lifers for prosecution—it outsourced much of the detective work to pro-abortion activist groups, and even appears to have agreed to help them raise money.
These groups acted like deputized secret police, compiling dossiers on pro-life activists—including personal details like addresses and the names of their children—reporting on their activity to the DOJ, and laying out the road map for legal charges against them.
These eye-opening revelations come from the Justice Department under President Donald Trump, which released an exhaustive report Tuesday outlining the way the previous administration weaponized the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act to target pro-life protesters. The revelations build on the research from my book “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government,” fleshing out the exact way in which far-left activist groups dictated policy in the Biden administration.
The report doesn’t just reveal the previous administration’s extreme bias against pro-lifers, but also how abortion activist groups effectively carried out law enforcement functions on the government’s behalf, without any democratic accountability.
The indictment names only the organization.
SPLC’s interim CEO Bryan Fair disclosed the criminal probe earlier Tuesday. After the indictment was announced, he denied wrongdoing.
He said the program, now discontinued, gathered intelligence on violent groups and was frequently shared with law enforcement, including the FBI.
“We will vigorously defend ourselves, our staff, and our work,” Fair said. He tied the program to threats dating to the 1983 firebombing of the SPLC’s Montgomery offices.
The case sharpens a clash that escalated last October, when Patel severed FBI ties with the SPLC, calling it a “partisan smear machine.” House Republicans held a December hearing accusing the group of coordinating with the Biden administration to target conservatives.
Prosecutors must now prove donor deception and intent. An arraignment date has not been set.
Dossiers on Pro-Lifers
According to a report, Patel “monitored” pro-life activists for years before charging them. The National Abortion Federation sent him “security reports” or “dossiers” on pro-life activists.
For instance, NAF sent the Justice Department a 135-page report on an Operation Save America convention in June 2021, complete with a conference schedule, lodging, and multipage dossiers on “anti-choice individuals,” many of whom Trump would pardon after the Biden DOJ brought FACE Act charges against them. The dossiers contained personal information, such as addresses, photographs of the pro-lifers with their spouses and minor children, names of associates and affiliated ministries, and even driver’s license numbers.
The guide’s information about prior arrests ultimately formed the basis for later FACE Act charges.
The National Abortion Federation informed Patel “in real time” about ongoing protests, “often before local law enforcement could fully respond,” the report states. “At his request, NGOs compiled evidence that ultimately gave rise to search warrants and charges.”
In other words, NAF provided surveillance of pro-life activists, tipped the DOJ off to their activities, and even provided roadmaps for charging documents.
The report even notes that, in the Biden administration, federal prosecutors tried to screen out jurors based on religion. In one email, a prosecutor complained of “a very Catholic magistrate on duty this week” who “was very particular about the bond conditions and not infringing on [defendants’] First Amendment rights.”
Helping Activists Raise Money
Even before Patel worked with abortion groups to target pro-lifers, he had agreed to serve as a reference to help the National Abortion Federation raise money.
In December 2020, NAF’s Security Director Tara Gannon asked Patel if one of his colleagues would agree to be a reference, as the federation was seeking a grant from the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund. While Patel first asked his colleague if she would be a reference, he later agreed to do so himself.
NAF sought the grant to “help cover the costs of security activities within our department,” including “travel costs to provide member training—active shooter, bomb threats, domestic violence in a reproductive health setting, etc.”
The fund awarded NAF a $100,000 grant in 2022 for the “Security and Safe Access Program, to help reproductive health clinics and providers counter anti-abortion harassment and violence.”
What Does This Mean?
While law enforcement can and should receive and investigate tips from the public, this report shows that Biden’s Justice Department went much further than following up on reports about wrongdoing.
Throughout its four years, the Biden administration outsourced much of its thought work to the infrastructure of the Left, deputizing radical activist groups that occasionally acted like agents of the state. These activist groups, bankrolled by the Left’s dark money network, called many of the shots in the federal government. This vast influence campaign acted like an octopus, weaving its woke tentacles to control the levers of the federal bureaucracy.
While Trump has done yeoman’s work to dismantle this influence network, the Left’s infrastructure remains. In fact, many of the woke bureaucrats I exposed in “The Woketopus” have moved from government back to the leftist NGOs from whence they came. In other words, the Woketopus remains a threat, and a potential future Democrat administration may seek to resurrect the same cozy relationship with the Left.
US, Iran Warn: With Talks in Limbo, We’re Ready for War
The United States and Iran on Monday each warned they were ready for war as the clock ticked on a ceasefire, with lingering uncertainty over talks that President Donald Trump had announced would resume in Pakistan.
The White House said Vice President JD Vance was ready to fly back to the Pakistani capital Islamabad, which was visibly preparing for a second round of talks on ending the war that has engulfed the Middle East and shaken global markets.
But Tehran’s cleric-run government declined to confirm that it would participate and accused the United States of violating the truce through its blockade of Iranian ports and seizure of a ship.
The United States and Iran on Monday each warned they were ready for war as the clock ticked on a ceasefire, with lingering uncertainty over talks that President Donald Trump had announced would resume in Pakistan.
The White House said Vice President JD Vance was ready to fly back to the Pakistani capital Islamabad, which was visibly preparing for a second round of talks on ending the war that has engulfed the Middle East and shaken global markets.
But Tehran’s cleric-run government declined to confirm that it would participate and accused the United States of violating the truce through its blockade of Iranian ports and seizure of a ship.
US and Iran signal new ceasefire talks in Islamabad as truce nears end
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani officials say the United States and Iran have signaled they will hold new ceasefire talks in Islamabad. A two-week truce is set to expire Wednesday. U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf are expected to lead their teams. Both sides remain firm, with President Trump warning of potential conflict and Iran hinting at new strategies. Meanwhile, the U.S. military says it boarded an oil tanker previously sanctioned for smuggling Iranian crude oil in Asia. The Pentagon said the boarding occurred “without incident.”
Driven by the pressures of war, Iran gives its field commanders more power over militias in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iran has granted its commanders more autonomy over militias in Iraq, allowing some to act without Tehran’s approval. Three militia members and two other officials described the shift to The Associated Press, on condition of anonymity to speak freely about sensitive matters. It comes amid the pressures of the Iran war. Many Iran-backed militias are funded through Iraq’s state budget and embedded within Iraq’s security apparatus. The conflict in the Middle East has exposed the fragility of Iraq’s institutions. Baghdad has struggled to control the militias. Officials and experts say that even if a fragile ceasefire deal holds, the U.S. is expected to intensify efforts against them. A decentralized structure allows factions to operate independently, complicating efforts to rein them in.
Oil prices hold steady but Wall Street and global markets higher despite doubts about US-Iran talks
Wall Street followed global markets higher and oil prices eased as U.S.-Iran talks aimed at ending the war remained in doubt. Futures for the S&P 500 rose 0.4% before the opening bell, Tuesday while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.6%. Nasdaq futures were also up 0.4%. U.S. benchmark crude was down 14 cents at $87.28 per barrel. Markets will also have their eyes on Capitol Hill Tuesday, where Trump’s nominee for the Federal Reserve Chair, Kevin Warsh, will appear at a hearing before the Senate Banking Committee
A preschool classroom is shaken by loss after a mass killing in Louisiana
Across Shreveport, Louisiana, schools were limping through the day, stung by the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. in more than two years. Seven siblings and a cousin were killed Sunday. The children ranged in age from 3 to 11. At a preschool program in the city, teacher Angela Hall lasted until noon. One of the dead was a student, a boy she described as a “cool little dude.” She had just pulled his mother aside last week to brag that he could write his first and last name. Now she is praying. “Just give us that strength.”
Fired former UK official says he felt political pressure to approve Mandelson as US ambassador
LONDON (AP) — The ex-civil servant behind the decision to approve Peter Mandelson’s appointment as British ambassador to Washington says he felt political pressure to rush through the appointment despite security concerns. Olly Robbins, former head of the Foreign Office, was fired by Prime Minister Keir Starmer last week. He told the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday that there was an “atmosphere of pressure.” He said there was “a very, very strong expectation” that Mandelson “needed to be in post and in America as quickly as possible.” He said the vetting problem did not involve Mandelson’s relationship with Epstein. Starmer is facing calls to resign.
Pope’s visit to Equatorial Guinea is a diplomatic challenge as he closes his Africa trip
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has arrived in Equatorial Guinea for the final leg of his four-nation African journey. The former Spanish colony on Africa’s western coast is run by Africa’s longest-serving president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. He has been in power since 1979 and is accused of widespread corruption and authoritarianism. The discovery of offshore oil in the mid-1990s transformed Equatorial Guinea’s economy virtually overnight. Yet more than half of the country’s nearly 2 million people live in poverty. And rights groups have documented how revenues have enriched the ruling Obiang family rather than the broader population. For Leo, the visit marks perhaps the most delicate diplomatic challenge of his four-nation Africa tour.
Japan scraps a ban on lethal weapons exports in a change of its postwar pacifist policy
TOKYO (AP) — Japan is scrapping a ban on lethal weapons exports, a major change of its postwar pacifist policy as the country seeks to build up its arms industry and deepen cooperation with defense partners. The approval Tuesday by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Cabinet of the new guideline clears a final set of hurdles for Japan’s postwar arms sales. The move comes as the country accelerates its military buildup in the face of growing security challenges in the region. While the change of policy met with China’s criticism, it has been largely welcomed by Japan’s defense partners like Australia and attracted interests from Southeast Asia and Europe.
Deadly domestic violence cases stir calls for more prevention resources for Black communities
Two deadly cases of domestic violence — one in Louisiana and the other in Virginia targeting Black mothers — have sparked a national conversation about domestic violence prevention and mental health care resources available to Black communities. Specifically, advocates in the aftermath of the headline-grabbing cases say the tragedies highlight troubling underlying issues. They see Black women as more likely to experience domestic violence and are calling for the nation to confront disparities in access to care. Authorities say a man on Sunday fatally shot seven of his children and another child in Shreveport, Louisiana. And last week, police say, former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax shot his estranged wife and then killed himself.
South Korean police seek to arrest K-pop mogul behind BTS
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police are seeking to arrest music mogul Bang Si-Hyuk, chairman of the agency behind K-pop supergroup BTS, as they expand an investment fraud investigation. Bang is under investigation over allegations that he misled investors in 2019 by telling them Hybe had no plans to go public, inducing them to sell their shares to a private equity fund before the company proceeded with an initial public offering. Police believe that the fund may have paid Bang around 200 billion won $136 million. Bang, a music executive and producer who founded Hybe as Big Hit Entertainment in 2005, is one of the most powerful figures in K-pop, overseeing some of the industry’s most popular acts, including Seventeen, Le Sserafim and Katseye.
Kennedy tells Congress Los Angeles hospice fraud may have cost taxpayers $5 billion
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday that hospice fraud in the Los Angeles area has cost the federal government an estimated $5 billion, a figure he delivered while describing a scheme built on fake addresses, recruited patients, and phantom care that nobody in the previous administration bothered to stop.
Kennedy’s testimony laid out a fraud operation that is staggering in its simplicity. Operators set up hospice companies at invented addresses. They went into low-income neighborhoods and paid residents flat-screen televisions and $600 cash to hand over their personal identification. Those residents were then enrolled as hospice patients, on paper. The federal government paid $6,000 per enrollee. And almost none of the “patients” ever died, because they were never actually receiving end-of-life care.
A single address, over 100 licenses
Van Duyne opened the exchange by asking Kennedy whether a specific address meant anything to him: 14545 Friar Street in Van Nuys, California. It didn’t. She told him why it should.
“We had over 100 different licenses for hospices, yep, right at this address, and we asked him what he was doing about it, basically nothing.”
The “him” was former HHS Secretary Becerra, whom Van Duyne said she had pressed on the same waste, fraud, and abuse during the prior administration. Her account of that exchange was blunt: she got nothing.
Van Duyne then asked Kennedy to walk through what his office was actually doing. His answer was direct. Kennedy said the department had already shut down 500 hospices in Los Angeles. He added a detail that speaks for itself: not a single member of Congress or anyone else had called to complain about the closures.
“We’ve already shut down 500 hospices and Los Angeles, and incidentally, we haven’t had one call from Congress or anybody else about complaining because clearly these were fraudulent. A lot of these places, like you say, they’d have, they were just invented addresses.”
No complaints. No constituents calling their representatives to say a real hospice they relied on had been wrongly shuttered. That silence tells you everything about how real these operations were.
Kennedy described the mechanics in plain terms. A typical hospice stay lasts about 18 days. The patients enrolled through these fraudulent companies stayed indefinitely. Nothing ever happened to them, no decline, no treatment, no death, because they were never actually there. They were names on a form, recruited with a television and a few hundred dollars, generating thousands in federal payments per head.
Kennedy told the committee the scheme was “operated by certain foreign communities,” specifying Estonians and Armenians. He was careful to note that the broader Armenian community in Los Angeles is “incredibly great” and that “very few of them were involved.” But the ones who were, he said, were “making hundreds of millions of dollars out of fraud and just stealing money from us.” His bottom-line estimate: roughly $5 billion.
The task force and the crackdown
The closures Kennedy described are part of a broader anti-fraud push. President Donald Trump placed Vice President J.D. Vance in charge of an anti-fraud task force that held its first meeting on March 27. That task force suspended federal funding to nearly 450 hospices suspected of fraud in the Los Angeles area alone.
Whether the 450 suspended hospices and the 500 Kennedy said were shut down represent overlapping or distinct sets was not clarified during the hearing. But either number, or a combination, points to the same conclusion: Los Angeles had become a hub for industrial-scale hospice fraud, and the federal government kept writing checks.
The question that hangs over the testimony is not whether the fraud existed. It’s how it grew this large without the previous administration acting on it. Van Duyne’s account suggests the answer is straightforward: she raised the alarm, and the prior HHS secretary did “basically nothing.”
A pattern across the country
Los Angeles hospice fraud is not an isolated case. It fits a widening pattern of welfare and benefits fraud that independent journalists and federal investigators have been uncovering across the country.
Independent journalist Nick Shirley posted a video in December showing his investigation into allegedly fraudulent day-care centers run by Somali migrants. In March, he posted a similar video looking into reputed hospice companies in the Los Angeles area. California’s governor’s office has previously mocked independent journalists who exposed alleged government fraud rather than addressing the substance of their findings.
Family and friends of TV anchor who broke Clinton tarmac story challenge suicide ruling nearly five years later
Christopher Sign was found dead in his Alabama home on the morning of June 12, 2021, hanged from his home office door, his wife and eldest son the ones who discovered him. The Jefferson County Coroner’s office ruled it a suicide almost immediately. But nearly five years later, the people who knew Sign best say nothing about that morning adds up, and they want answers that local authorities have refused to provide.
Sign was the Birmingham television anchor who, in 2016, broke one of the most consequential stories of the presidential campaign: Bill Clinton’s private meeting with then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch on an airport tarmac in Phoenix while the Justice Department was investigating Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as Secretary of State. The meeting prompted a public reckoning within the Justice Department. Lynch pledged to accept the recommendations of career prosecutors and the FBI. Hillary Clinton was never prosecuted.
Sign paid a price for that reporting. He told Fox News in 2020 that his family received significant death threats after he broke the story. He wrote in his book, Secret on the Tarmac, that he had made his position clear to those around him.
“I made it clear (to others) in front of my wife that I was not suicidal. We all laughed but deep down knew it was serious.”
Now, as the Daily Mail reports in an extensive investigation, Sign’s relatives and close friends are speaking publicly for the first time about what they describe as a series of troubling circumstances surrounding his death, and a wall of silence from the officials who handled the case.
Sign was 45 years old, a former University of Alabama offensive lineman listed at 6-foot-1, 215 pounds. He had three young sons. Friends described a man at the top of his career with a full calendar ahead of him.
Josh Swords, a former Alabama teammate and Tuscaloosa defense attorney, told the Daily Mail that Sign had plans for the very next day, a baseball game with friends and his son. Father’s Day was coming. All three boys had birthdays approaching. Full-pad football was about to start. A family vacation was scheduled.
Swords did not mince words about the official conclusion:
“This was a 45-year-old guy at the top of his game with a beautiful stay-at-home wife and three rising superstar sons. He loves his job, he came home on a Friday night after a great week at work, and decides to kill himself at home where his boys are? No way, no how.”
What happened in the hours after Sign’s death raised further alarm among his family. His body was cremated less than 48 hours later, before his parents, who drove in from Texas, could view him. Sign’s mother, Susan Sign, 80, told the Daily Mail she arrived to find a house full of strangers and a daughter-in-law who barely acknowledged her.
“I expected her to take me aside to talk to me. Then I told her mother I would like to see his body and have his brother select his clothes, and the mother told me, ‘oh he’s already been cremated.’ That was a difficult moment for me, not to have the opportunity to take one last look at my son.”
The speed of the cremation is one of the central grievances. Bill Naugher, the Birmingham-based publisher of Sign’s book, questioned why no one paused to honor what Sign himself had written.
“I don’t know why we didn’t pump the brakes a little bit and say, ‘Listen, it’s in the book that he’s not going to commit suicide, so let’s at least honor his request and take a couple of days to do a full autopsy.’ But once the death was ruled a suicide that shut it down.”
Whether a full autopsy was ever performed remains unclear. The Daily Mail reported that relatives raised concerns about its absence, but no documentary confirmation appeared in the reporting.
