Democratic Operative Alexis Podesta Wore a Wire In FBI Probe In Sacramento
- Alexis Podesta, a Democrat insider and ally of Governor Gavin Newsom, secretly wore an FBI wire during a federal probe into Newsom's former chief of staff, Dana Williamson, who pleaded guilty to fraud and tax charges in May 2026.
- Dana Williamson admitted to conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, involving a scheme to siphon approximately $225,000 from a dormant campaign account linked to former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, disguising payments to benefit Becerra's former chief of staff.
- Numerous Sacramento political insiders and lobbyists were notified last fall that their phone calls were intercepted during the June 2024 wiretapping investigation, with many having little or no direct connection to Williamson.
- Governor Gavin Newsom and his wife have been formally announced under federal investigation after the probe expanded, with Newsom denying wrongdoing and alleging political retaliation, while Podesta continues to cooperate with investigators and serves on a state board.
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FBI 'infiltrated' Newsom’s inner circle! Governor's ally Alexis Podesta recorded conversations?
The FBI reportedly infiltrated Gavin Newsom's inner circle by getting one of his allies to wear a wire before the Justice Department launched an investigation into the California Governor and his wife. During the criminal probe, Democrat insider Alexis Podesta, 45, secretly recorded conversations, the New York Post reports. “Alexis wore a wire, and Dana did not,” said McGregor Scott, Williamson’s lawyer and a former US attorney for the Eastern D…
Newsom Ally Wore FBI Wire Before Probe Expanded
Alexis Podesta secretly recorded conversations for the FBI beginning in June 2024 during the agency's criminal investigation into Dana Williamson, Newsom's former chief of staff, according to Williamson's attorney, McGregor Scott...
Sacramento Had a Mole. Nobody Saw It Coming. – Jeffrey Lord
She wore a wire. For months. Inside the innermost circle of California’s most powerful Democrat. Alexis Podesta was a fixture in Sacramento politics — a Newsom appointee, a Jerry Brown alum, the kind of insider who knows where the bodies are buried because she helped bury a few herself. Starting in June 2024, she was also working with the FBI. Her target was Dana Williamson, Gavin Newsom’s own chief of staff. Williamson has since pleaded guilty …
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