FBI Arrests Former Newsom Chief of Staff on Public Corruption Charges

FBI arrests ex-Newsom chief of staff on public corruption charges https://t.co/JHXChHDKYv

— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) November 13, 2025

… $225,000.

BREAKING: Dana Williamson, Former Chief of Staff for Gavin Newsom, has been ARRESTED by the FBI on MULTIPLE charges, including:

-conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud
-bank fraud
-wire fraud
-conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruct justice
-subscribing to false… pic.twitter.com/naYdyHuUjC

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 12, 2025

…t ax returns
-making false statements

Newsom knew? https://t.co/92xqSRkwHZ

— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) November 13, 2025

… statement: “I greatly appreciate Dana’s counsel and her service to the state and the people of California over the last two years. Her insight, tenacity and big heart will be missed.”

He knew and he covered it up via glowing statement.

Now we are learning that his chief of staff’s alleged co-conspirators have entered plea agreements.

One of those co-conspirators was the chief of staff to Xavier Becerra, former California Attorney General and former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. It was apparently Becerra’s campaign account where $225k was stolen.

The drip drip drip of information today means there is a lot more coming.

A lot more.

Here’s what happened when Dana Williamson— Gov. Newsom’s former Chief of Staff— emerged from federal court.

She stayed pretty silent and said we could talk to her attorneys. Her attorney wouldn’t talk.

She had nothing to say when I asked for her message to Xavier Becerra: pic.twitter.com/hbgOtvhLsp

— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) November 13, 2025