FBI and St. Paul police are investigating the alleged beating of a Mexican citizen by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers that resulted in eight skull fractures, according to CBS News. The incident, which occurred last month, left Alberto Castañeda Mondragón in the intensive care unit of a Minneapolis hospital. Authorities are working to determine the cause of his injuries.
Investigators from the St. Paul Police Department and the FBI canvassed the shopping center parking lot where Castañeda Mondragón said ICE agents wrestled him from a vehicle, threw him to the ground, and repeatedly struck him in the head with a steel baton, CBS News reported. ICE has claimed Castañeda Mondragón's injuries were self-inflicted, stating he attempted to flee while handcuffed and "fell and hit his head against a concrete wall." However, hospital staff who treated the man told the Associated Press such a fall could not have caused the extent of his injuries.
In other news, four Democratic members of Congress are asking the top internal watchdogs at 16 different federal agencies to investigate whether former lobbyists appointed by the Trump administration violated ethics rules to benefit their former clients, according to CBS News. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Andy Kim, along with Representatives Pat Ryan and Deborah Ross, wrote to the inspectors general to express concerns about several former lobbyists-turned-government officials. These include Attorney General Pam Bondi, border czar Tom Homan, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles. "While federal ethics law directs federal employees not to work on matters involving clients they represented in the past year, we are concerned that some Trump," CBS News reported.
Meanwhile, "The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert criticized CBS again after the network issued a statement about his interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico that did not air on broadcast television, CBS News reported. "For the lawyers to release this without even talking to me is really surprising. I don't even know what to do with this crap," Colbert said about the statement, which he crumpled up in a dog poop bag and discarded. Colbert added that he is "not even mad." CBS News reached out to CBS and its parent company Paramount for comment.
In California, search and rescue efforts are underway following an avalanche in the Castle Peak area of the Sierra Nevada, ABC News reported. Ten backcountry skiers are missing, with six survivors rescued amid "highly dangerous" conditions. The avalanche was reported midday Tuesday, according to the Nevada County Sheriff's Office. A group of 15 skiers encountered the avalanche, the sheriff's office said.
Finally, members of the House Oversight Committee are set to depose retail billionaire Leslie Wexner on Wednesday, whose wealth helped fuel Jeffrey Epstein's fortune, ABC News reported. Newly revealed documents suggest that Wexner quietly resolved a multimillion-dollar theft issue with Epstein in 2007 after learning Epstein had stolen hundreds of millions from him. At the time, Epstein was under investigation by federal prosecutors for sex crimes and money laundering, according to emails and a memo later drafted by prosecutors.
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