Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The DisInformation Chronicle,

A British newspaper reported last week that the Trump White House aims to deport British political operative Imran Ahmed who runs the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a pro-censorship organization Ahmed founded in London several years ago with Morgan McSweeney, the chief of staff to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. But before they kick him out of the country, the Department of Justice should indict Imran Ahmed for laws he broke in America, to include lying to Congress and filing materially false statements with the IRS.

Here’s a quick review of Imran Ahmed and the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).

Based on documents provided to me by a whistleblower, I reported with Matt Taibbi that CCDH was seeking to “Kill Musk’s Twitter” and interfere in the 2024 presidential elections by allying with Democrats. Our October 2024 investigation blew up across the internet—my first post on X getting over 40 million views, and BBC Today reporting on the story the following morning.

A Trump campaign official pledged CCDH would be “investigated from all angles.” But since the election, the Trump government has done nothing.

According to documents provided by a CCDH whistleblower, Ahmed now lives in Northeast Washington, D.C. with his American wife. And while The Telegraph reported that the White House wants to revoke Ahmed’s visa, I’m not sure this is possible as I have been told that Ahmed might have an American passport.

Instead, the Department of Justice should indict Ahmed first for lying to Congress in an August 2023 letter about the nature of his funding, and second for lying to the IRS when he applied for nonprofit, tax-exempt status for CCDH in 2021. Third, my CCDH whistleblower told me Ahmed has ranted in staff meetings that he “might go to jail.” While nobody inside CCDH understands why Ahmed is frightened about going to jail, they suspect it involves his shady funding.

I uncovered an American company Ahmed incorporated in Delaware that is likely how he hides some of his finances.

Lying and misleading Congress

Trying to figure out who was funding CCDH Congressman Jim Jordan asked Ahmed to explain if he was receiving government monies. In response, Ahmed, sent an August 2023 letter claiming that “CCDH is entirely funded by private donors.”

That claim is false, and providing false and misleading information to Congress is a crime. The British Telegraph reported last January that Members of Parliament were upset because the government had funded CCDH.

Here’s one paragraph from The Telegraph’s report:

Ben Obese-Jecty, the Conservative MP for Huntingdon, said: “It’s disgraceful that taxpayers’ hard-earned money is being wasted on Left-wing campaign groups, one set up by the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, who are waging war on our free media and trying to shut down X.

Again, Ahmed misled Congressman Jordan in his letter that denied government funding, but the Department of Justice has failed to investigate this misleading claim.

False statements to IRS

“A finding that there is a materially incorrect statement on an application for tax exempt status should hopefully encourage the IRS to take a hard look,” said Dean Zerbe, regarding CCHD’s application to the IRS to get tax exempt status. Zerbe is a tax attorney with consulting firm Alliant, and a former Senate staffer who investigated corruption in the nonprofit industry.

So what’s materially false in CCDH’s submission to the IRS?

CCDH falsely claimed in their 2021 submission to the IRS that CCDH was already operating as a registered charity in the U.K. However, London investigative reporter Paul Holden found that CCDH never registered as a British nonprofit. CCDH likely made the false claim to speed up the IRS process to gain tax-exempt status so they could begin fundraising in the States.

Yet, neither the IRS nor the Department of Justice has investigated CCDH’s materially false claim.

CCDH’s Secret Funding

Imran Ahmed launched the U.S. versions of the Center for Countering Digital Hate in 2021. You can find all the nonprofit’s financial reports called 990s, at ProPublica’s website.

In 2021, for example, CCDH reported taking in $1,471,247 in donations. While nonprofits are not required to report their donors, I discovered that someone donated $1.1 million to CCDH in 2021. But they hid the donor by running the money through a private Schwab Charitable Fund, meaning someone secretly gave Ahmed’s group almost 75% of the donations they raised in their first year.

Hiding the money has always been important to Ahmed, and CCDH’s whistleblower pointed me to another financial stream: a private company in Delaware that Ahmed also owns. Mirroring the name of the nonprofit, Ahmed’s private company is called the “Center for Countering Digital Hate Inc.”

Unlike the CCDH the nonprofit, CCDH Inc. (the private company) is not required to make its finances public. Yet I found that the CCDH nonprofit uses CCDH Inc. to pay the nonprofit’s bills. For example, when CCDH the nonprofit pays its law firm, the invoice is paid by the company, the Center for Countering Digital Hate Inc.

You can find the invoice here that CCDH paid to the law firm Faegre Drinker for help with renting a WeWork space and for help with immigration matters. According to Delaware state records, the CCDH company was incorporated in 2020, and the address on the invoice is 639 Morton Place NE which is a personal residence in DC, with 2 bedrooms.

Note also that the CCDH company has a different address from the CCDH nonprofit, which states in its 990s that it operates from an office building at 1250 Connecticut Avenue, in Northwest DC.

Since Morgan McSweeney and Imran Ahmed created CCDH, they have not only hidden the organization’s finances, but also who they employ. CCDH’s website currently shows only 6 employees. My whistleblower at CCDH sent me an organization chart that shows CCDH had 28 employees in the summer of 2024.

Imran Ahmed tells CCDH’s employees that he hides their names so that they are not retaliated against, but this is nonsense. A more likely explanation is money. CCDH’s nonprofit tax records filed with the IRS report that the nonprofit takes in around $2 million a year in donations. Ahmed is paid about $250,000 and his is the only salary reported to the IRS. None of the other salaries are reported, as required.

Instead, CCDH reports to the IRS that a couple hundred thousand dollars covers all their employee salaries.

Several members of CCDH’s leadership team are also paid six figure salaries. Yet, CCDH has never explained how they pay dozens of staff members with only the money they report to the IRS. The Washington Free Beacon just reported that the database for the George Soros, Open Society Foundations details a $250,000 donation to CCDH for 2024, but where else does the group get its money to censor free speech?

Enough is enough. When will Department of Justice demand answers?

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The strange psychological anomaly first appeared in 2016 – Psychotherapists across the US and even Europe began reporting a sharp rise in patients with “anxiety” about the US elections and, specifically, a potential win by Donald Trump.  This “Trump Anxiety” was greatly exacerbated by the establishment media, which was relentless in their propaganda narrative painting Trump as the next “Hitler”; a racist, misogynist monster who was hellbent on “destroying democracy.”  

Another group that was feeding the national hysteria over a Trump presidency was psychotherapists.  At the time, Politico asserted that Trump’s “crude” behavior could give “new fuel to the charge that his candidacy might be normalizing aggressive, disparaging talk and behavior.”  They cited a manifesto published by 3000 therapists declaring “Trump’s proclivity for scapegoating, intolerance and blatant sexism a threat to the well-being of the people we care for…” 

The same therapists urged others in the profession to speak out against Trump, enumerating a variety of effects therapists reported seeing in their patients:

“That Trump’s combative and chaotic campaign has stoked feelings of anxiety, fear, shame and helplessness, especially in women, gay people, minority groups and nonwhite immigrants, who feel not just alienated but personally targeted by the candidate’s message…”

The manifesto also made a subtler point: that all the attention heaped on Trump is actually making it harder for therapists to do their jobs.  Why?  Ironically, they claimed that Trump’s campaign “legitimized the tendency of people to blame others for their fears and anxieties instead of taking responsibility…” 

That’s right, far-left therapists were accusing Trump of promoting projection and scapegoating – While those same therapists were projecting onto Trump and scapegoating him for the unhinged mental illnesses of their patients.  

This mindless and obsessive rage over Trump, MAGA and conservative culture in general has become so prominent and so easily identifiable that it now has a common name:  Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).  After Trump’s return in 2025, therapists once again report an uptick in Trump anxiety.  They have also revealed that the surge in Trump related fears is overwhelming many of them and causing “burnout.”

One therapist writing for US News in April noted:

“In just the last few months, we have exchanged COVID-19 tests for litmus tests on political beliefs. People are scrubbing their social media pages instead of scrubbing their hands to feel safe.  I understand that my patients want to recoil from the chaos. The combination of depression and anxiety is palpable as people try to move forward but have no road map. And as law firms and universities capitulate to the demands of the administration, individuals feel increasingly powerless and helpless. But we must find ways to fight this despair lest we become paralyzed…” 

You might think therapists would be more inclined to question their own hysteria and find a more balanced view, but clearly this is not the case.  In spring of this year, the National Association of Scholars admitted that therapists were “in crisis” over Trump’s election win and that they had lost their objectivity.

“…Our field is gripped by a collective complex triggered by Trump’s win—a fixation so overwhelming it risks overshadowing the real, immediate concerns of our clients’ lives.”

“…What the post-election reaction exposes is that political bias among psychiatrists, therapists, counselors, and social workers is reaching a critical point. Many in the general public remain unaware of these tensions, but they could have a profound effect on the therapeutic process, potentially skewing the focus away from clients’ individual needs and toward a broader, politically charged narrative.”

At least one psychotherapist is finally acknowledging that Trump Derangement Syndrome exists and that it is the fault of patients, not the fault of Trump.  He says that at least 75% of his patients are obsessed with Trump and project their life problems onto the President. 

Jonathan Alpert, whose office is out of Manhattan, also argues that psychotherapists are actually encouraging TDS and irritating the condition by politicizing their therapy sessions. 

“This is a profound pathology, and I would even go so far to call it the defining pathology of our time,” Alpert said.

It’s important to understand that 2016 was perhaps the height of the liberal order.  Coming off of 8 years of Barack Obama and the rapid spread of third-wave feminism, the woke left believed themselves invincible.  Like a spoiled child that has throws a tantrum because she knows the parents will relent and give her whatever she wants, Zennial feminists and progressives grew up in an America where their ideology was rarely is ever questioned.  

Their delusions led them to believe that they were the overt majority of the population.  They thought that their movement was absolute and that political power was theirs to claim without substantial opposition. 

It’s not that Trump has any uniquely dark or evil effect on people, this idea is absurd.  Instead, Trump has come to symbolize an uncomfortable wake-up call for leftists:  They are not the majority.  The world does not belong to them.  Their power is not guaranteed.  They don’t get to do whatever they want whenever they want, and, in fact, they are going to have to obey certain historical (conservative) boundaries if they want to function in society. 

This realization has driven them to madness.  An eternal temper tantrum.  A mental breakdown that compels their every feeling and action. 

Trump, like him or not, represents a social and political reckoning that is absolutely necessary.  Children need to wake up from their fantasies and delusions.  Children need to grow up.  TDS is the political left’s struggle to avoid growing up; to avoid accepting the reality that they do not run the world.   

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Ryan Wedding, the former Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned cocaine kingpin, now on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, along with nine associates and nine front companies spanning Mexico, Canada, Italy, and the UK.

Wedding sits on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list and is accused of operating a multi-ton cocaine trafficking operation that spanned worldwide and left a trail of murders with hired hits across the Americas. 

Treasury, the FBI, the DOJ, and Mexico’s financial intelligence unit coordinated sanctions targeting his criminal organization. 

According to the FBI, Wedding’s organization uses cryptocurrency to move and launder the proceeds of drug trafficking. 

OFAC claims:

Wedding operates a Colombia-to-Mexico-to-U.S./Canada cocaine pipeline

Launder millions using crypto, jewelry fronts, and luxury-vehicle holdings.

Ordered numerous assassinations, including of U.S. citizens and a federal witness.

Employs ex-law-enforcement operatives, high-end escorts, and corrupt professionals to locate targets, clean money, and hide assets.

Besides Wedding, OFAC also sanctioned:

Edgar Aaron Vazquez Alvarado (“the General”) – ex-Mexican law enforcement, provides armed protection, intel, and owns three Mexico-based fuel companies used as fronts.

Miryam Andrea Castillo Moreno – Wedding’s wife; money laundering and violence facilitator.

Carmen Yelinet Valoyes Florez – runs a Mexico prostitution ring; assisted in a federal witness murder.

Daniela Alejandra Acuna Macias – Wedding’s Colombian girlfriend; collected money and gathered intel on rivals.

Deepak Balwant Paradkar – Canadian attorney who arranged drug connections, bribery, and murder plans while violating attorney-client privilege.

Money-Laundering Network:

Rolan Sokolovski – Canadian jeweler who moved millions through crypto and his “Diamond Tsar” storefront.

Gianluca Tiepolo – ex-Italian special forces; managed luxury-vehicle assets, operated tactical-training camps used for hitmen, and ran multiple auto/motorcycle firms.

Cristian Diana and John Anthony Fallon – executives involved in Tiepolo’s companies and linked to laundering entities.

All U.S.-linked assets belonging to Wedding and his associates have been frozen, and U.S. persons are prohibited from doing business with any of them, including any entities they own 50% or more of.

The Bureau’s Sam Cooper brought Wedding to our attention in early September, highlighting the “missed opportunities” Canada had to capture the former Olympian snowboarder turned cocaine kingpin.

Read Cooper’s report.