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Post by Tennesseer on Feb 18, 2022 18:59:25 GMT -5
Trump loses fight to toss lawsuits accusing him of sparking Jan. 6 Capitol riot KEY POINTSFormer President Donald Trump lost an effort to dismiss a lawsuit by members of Congress accusing him of sparking the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and other actions designed to prevent Congress from certifying the election of President Joe Biden. The ruling against Trump in federal court in Washington was his second major legal loss in two days. On Thursday, a judge in New York state court ordered Trump and two of his adult children to answer questions under oath by investigators for state Attorney General Letitia James, who is conducting a probe of the former president and the Trump Organization. ..... Former President Donald Trump on Friday lost an effort to dismiss lawsuits by members of Congress and two police officers accusing him and others of sparking the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and other actions designed to prevent Congress from certifying the election of President Joe Biden. “President Trump’s January 6 Rally Speech was akin to telling an excited mob that corn-dealers starve the poor in front of the corn-dealer’s home,” wrote Judge Amit Mehta in his decision in federal court in Washington, D.C., against Trump’s motion to dismiss. Trump in that 2021 speech told a throng of supporters outside the White House “we fight, we fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” before urging them to march to the Capitol and oppose the confirmation of Biden’s victory. Soon after, thousands of his supporters invaded the Capitol complex and breached the walls of Congress. Lawmakers fled the Senate and House chambers to hide from the mob, delaying for hours votes to certify that Biden had won the Electoral College vote. Five people died in connection with the riot, and scores of police officers physical injuries and emotional damage from fighting against the invaders. The 112-page ruling by Mehta was Trump’s second major legal loss in two days. Complete article here: Trump loses fight to toss lawsuits accusing him of sparking Jan. 6 Capitol riot
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Post by swamp on Feb 18, 2022 20:48:38 GMT -5
prosecutors OFTEN hate those they are prosecuting. but feelings don't actually prevail in jury trials. facts do. this is an admission that the facts are not on The Donald's Side. if he doesn't like his chances in New York, he can ASK for a change of venue, i believe. Both the NY AG case (civil) and the NYC DA case (criminal) are state cases. Not sure they can be moved to different states because the defendant is unhappy. swamp - can you confirm or deny? State cases cannot be moved to another state. You MIGHT get another county
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Post by swamp on Feb 18, 2022 20:51:32 GMT -5
Trump loses fight to toss lawsuits accusing him of sparking Jan. 6 Capitol riot KEY POINTSFormer President Donald Trump lost an effort to dismiss a lawsuit by members of Congress accusing him of sparking the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and other actions designed to prevent Congress from certifying the election of President Joe Biden. The ruling against Trump in federal court in Washington was his second major legal loss in two days. On Thursday, a judge in New York state court ordered Trump and two of his adult children to answer questions under oath by investigators for state Attorney General Letitia James, who is conducting a probe of the former president and the Trump Organization. ..... Former President Donald Trump on Friday lost an effort to dismiss lawsuits by members of Congress and two police officers accusing him and others of sparking the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and other actions designed to prevent Congress from certifying the election of President Joe Biden. “President Trump’s January 6 Rally Speech was akin to telling an excited mob that corn-dealers starve the poor in front of the corn-dealer’s home,” wrote Judge Amit Mehta in his decision in federal court in Washington, D.C., against Trump’s motion to dismiss. Trump in that 2021 speech told a throng of supporters outside the White House “we fight, we fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” before urging them to march to the Capitol and oppose the confirmation of Biden’s victory. Soon after, thousands of his supporters invaded the Capitol complex and breached the walls of Congress. Lawmakers fled the Senate and House chambers to hide from the mob, delaying for hours votes to certify that Biden had won the Electoral College vote. Five people died in connection with the riot, and scores of police officers physical injuries and emotional damage from fighting against the invaders. The 112-page ruling by Mehta was Trump’s second major legal loss in two days. Complete article here: Trump loses fight to toss lawsuits accusing him of sparking Jan. 6 Capitol riot Obviously the judge is wrong.. funny how all judges are wrong when they rule against him.
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Post by Tennesseer on Feb 18, 2022 21:06:56 GMT -5
Both the NY AG case (civil) and the NYC DA case (criminal) are state cases. Not sure they can be moved to different states because the defendant is unhappy. swamp - can you confirm or deny? State cases cannot be moved to another state. You MIGHT get another county Thanks, Swamp.
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Post by Tennesseer on Feb 19, 2022 11:56:47 GMT -5
What a shame. Poor guy. Donald Trump's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week in courtFormer President Donald Trump was 0-3 in three high-profile legal battles this week, with new rulings that boosted significant cases his opponents have brought against him. Perhaps the most significant of all the courtroom defeats suffered recently by Trump was a judge's refusal Friday to dismiss several civil lawsuits filed against him for his alleged role in the January 6 US Capitol attack. In the 112-page opinion, US District Judge Amit Mehta said that Trump could face trial for his conduct around last year's insurrection. The ruling was a kicker to a week when attorneys general in Washington, DC, and New York secured victories in their efforts to gather evidence as to whether his businesses broke the law. While Trump continues to wield significant political loyalty and could well be the Republicans' 2024 presidential nominee, the legal turmoil surrounding him shows no signs of slowing. Exposure for his businessTrump's case for his 2020 election rested on the image created around his supposed business savvy. Now his company is a major source of the legal problems facing the former President. The week started with a DC Superior Court judge reinstating the Trump Organization as a defendant in DC Attorney General Karl Racine's lawsuit alleging that funds for the 2017 inauguration were misused. After reversing on Monday a prior decision that had dismissed the company from the case, Judge Yvonne Williams also said on Thursday that Racine's office could question the company's ex-Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg in a limited deposition. Racine alleges that inaugural funds were used to pay off a debt incurred by a hotel room block reserved for Trump Organization employees. He is seeking to recover the nearly $1.1 million that he claims was improperly spent during the inauguration, in violation of DC non-profit law. Ordered to testify in New York AG's investigationAs Williams was setting a September trial date in Racine's case, a judge more than 200 miles away was hearing Trump's arguments for why he should quash subpoenas in New York Attorney General Letitia James' investigation into the Trump Organization's business practices, arguments the judge would ultimately reject. James is investigating whether Trump's company misled insurers, lenders and others who relied on its financial statements. Hours after a contentious hearing on Thursday morning, New York Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump, as well as his children Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr., to sit for testimony in her civil probe. The Trumps have signaled they will appeal the order, but if those appeals fail, they could be sitting for depositions in the coming weeks. Dumped by accountantIn the lead-up to Thursday's hearing, James also revealed, via a Monday evening court filing, that Trump's accounting firm had recently told him that the last 10 years of financial statements the firm prepared for him could no longer be relied upon. The firm put Trump on notice that other parties that have been relying on the financial materials assembled by Mazars should be made aware that those financial statements are not reliable. "This is about as calamitous a thing that could happen to a business that you can imagine -- other than getting indicted or going bankrupt," George Conway, conservative lawyer and outspoken Trump critic, told CNN's "AC360" on Monday evening. "And this could lead to going bankrupt." The Trump Organization tried to spin the firm's statement as a reason that James' investigation should be considered moot. Engoron called that reasoning "audacious as it is preposterous." Liability for January 6Trump is no stranger to litigation around his business. But Friday's ruling allowing three January 6 civil lawsuits filed against him to move forward said his remarks ahead of the assault presented a "one-of-a-kind" case, the judge said, where the First Amendment would not shield him from liability. "The President's January 6 Rally Speech can reasonably be viewed as a call for collective action," Mehta wrote in his 112-page opinion, adding that the statements were "the essence of civil conspiracy" Mehta's decision means that Trump could eventually find himself at the defense table at a trial. Mehta rejected Trump's request that he dismiss two lawsuits brought by Democratic House members, and a third by Capitol Police officers. The plaintiffs are seeking damages for his alleged role in the violence of that day. While Mehta dismissed other defendants from the cases, he said that it could be plausibly shown that Trump entered into a conspiracy with far-right groups to violently disrupt the certification of the 2020 election results. The judge also rejected Trump's arguments that, as an incumbent president at the time, he is protected by an absolute immunity. "To deny a President immunity from civil damages is no small step. The court well understands the gravity of its decision. But the alleged facts of this case are without precedent," Mehta wrote. Trump is expected to appeal the decision. Donald Trump's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week in court
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Post by djAdvocate on Feb 19, 2022 16:51:53 GMT -5
i just had a thought. with his accountant disavowing his financials, how can he procure ANY loans? any thoughts?
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Post by Tennesseer on Feb 19, 2022 17:46:48 GMT -5
i just had a thought. with his accountant disavowing his financials, how can he procure ANY loans? any thoughts? Sell Ivanka and Tiffany to some slave trader?
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Post by happyhoix on Feb 19, 2022 18:20:02 GMT -5
i just had a thought. with his accountant disavowing his financials, how can he procure ANY loans? any thoughts? Even before he was president he couldn’t get a loan from American banks due to his past bankruptcies - he used the Deutchebank but they’ve said they won’t do business with him in the future. So I don’t know - guess he’ll have to rely on the Russians, who apparently love to give him money according to Eric. Speaking of foreign entanglements, I wonder if the Scottish government has decided if they’ll pursue their examination of where the cash came from to purchase his Scottish golf courses? It’s been a while since I heard an update on that - we might be able to add that to the pile of lawsuits against Trump.
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Post by happyhoix on Feb 19, 2022 20:33:05 GMT -5
So - Trump should get five years jail time, per former US Army attorney Glenn Kirschner. www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-facing-five-year-felony-over-classified-docs-scandal-kirschner/ar-AAU4HMb‘He told MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart "if that were you or me...you can bet we'd already be indicted." The attorney said he was "really disturbed to hear—that the way our federal government handled that, knowing it was improper, knowing it was a likely crime—was that they took about a year to negotiate and cajole and convince Donald Trump to, 'Hey give us back those documents that you probably unlawfully removed from the White House.'" Trump is claiming he’s not responsible for all those boxes of classified documents because ‘he wasn’t a file clerk.’ So I guess he wants us to believe that when the Two Guys and a Truck showed up to move his shit, some low level clerical worker wheeled out 15 boxes of documents by mistake, and it took a whole fucking year for his Mar a Lago Eastern European hired help to find all that stuff and give it back to the government. Not his fault at all!!! Trump has been so good at being the first President to do so many things. First to refuse to the succeeding president. First to use his kids as his advisors. First to have a First Lady who is his third wife, plus a soft core porn actress. Let’s hope he also gets to be the first to wear an orange jumpsuit in the federal pen.
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Post by djAdvocate on Feb 19, 2022 22:47:27 GMT -5
i have never been in the position of imagining the worst president ever. then Trump came along.
unfortunately, i can imagine someone far worse. and that is why i worry for America.
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Post by Tennesseer on Feb 22, 2022 10:34:37 GMT -5
Supreme Court turns away Trump's appeal in dispute with House Jan. 6 panelThe Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away an appeal by former President Trump in his dispute with congressional investigators who have sought access to Trump-era records as part of a House panel’s investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. The court’s move, which came in a brief unsigned order issued without comment, comes after the justices denied Trump's emergency request to block the transfer of his White House records from the National Archives to the House select committee, a process that began last month. Tuesday's development formally ends Trump’s legal effort to stymie lawmakers’ efforts to obtain a batch of schedules, call logs, emails and other requested documents that the committee says could illuminate key circumstances surrounding the deadly Capitol riot. The order leaves intact a lower federal appeals court ruling that found Trump’s assertion of executive privilege and other legal theories unpersuasive in light of President Biden’s refusal to invoke privilege, as well as the House panel’s pressing task. Trump turned to the Supreme Court in December after lower federal courts rejected his requests to halt the National Archives from passing along his administration’s records. His attorneys had asked the justices to shield the disputed materials from disclosure while they considered his formal appeal. The justices, however, rebuffed Trump’s emergency request in a Jan. 19 ruling. Within hours, the Jan. 6 House committee began receiving records, a development that the panel's chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) hailed as “a victory for the rule of law and American democracy.” The court’s Tuesday order marked a denial of Trump’s formal request for appeal. Complete article here: Supreme Court turns away Trump's appeal in dispute with House Jan. 6 panel
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Post by Opti on Feb 22, 2022 10:39:36 GMT -5
i just had a thought. with his accountant disavowing his financials, how can he procure ANY loans? any thoughts? Sell Ivanka and Tiffany to some slave trader? It would be grandkids or unfortunates not from the US working at Mar Lago. Ivanka is protected by herself and Jared. It's not like he doesn't have hard assets to sell Tenn, instead of women.
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Post by happyhoix on Feb 22, 2022 11:58:11 GMT -5
SCOTUS just denied Trumps request to review the Jan 6 committee’s requested documents.
So Trump can’t claim executive privilege for the rest of his life. Biden is the executive now.
Imagine how that pisses him off.
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Post by Opti on Feb 22, 2022 12:29:11 GMT -5
i just had a thought. with his accountant disavowing his financials, how can he procure ANY loans? any thoughts? Sell Ivanka and Tiffany to some slave trader? This thought smacks of white male privilege to me. Why not sell Eric or young Barron? Why sell any human into slavery at all when the man owns golf courses, hotels, etc.? White woman slavery isn't funny to me. It happens all over the world including the US. Slavery of any woman, girl, boy or whatever is not funny to me. This really offended me today. Selling married women into slavery? How is that funny? How is that logical when he has Trump Tower, lots of golf courses, and Mar Lago to sell? Women's month starts March 1st. But apparently some think women are still property such that any rich white asshole can buy or sell them.
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Post by Tennesseer on Feb 22, 2022 12:45:11 GMT -5
Sell Ivanka and Tiffany to some slave trader? This thought smacks of white male privilege to me. Why not sell Eric or young Barron? Why sell any human into slavery at all when the man owns golf courses, hotels, etc.? White woman slavery isn't funny to me. It happens all over the world including the US. Slavery of any woman, girl, boy or whatever is not funny to me. This really offended me today. Selling married women into slavery? How is that funny? How is that logical when he has Trump Tower, lots of golf courses, and Mar Lago to sell? Women's month starts March 1st. But apparently some think women are still property such that any rich white asshole can buy or sell them. For fuck's sake. Lighten up. Geeeeez.
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Post by djAdvocate on Feb 22, 2022 15:01:18 GMT -5
Sell Ivanka and Tiffany to some slave trader? This thought smacks of white male privilege to me. Why not sell Eric or young Barron? Why sell any human into slavery at all when the man owns golf courses, hotels, etc.? White woman slavery isn't funny to me. It happens all over the world including the US. Slavery of any woman, girl, boy or whatever is not funny to me. This really offended me today. Selling married women into slavery? How is that funny? How is that logical when he has Trump Tower, lots of golf courses, and Mar Lago to sell? Women's month starts March 1st. But apparently some think women are still property such that any rich white asshole can buy or sell them. i think that Tenn was picking the low hanging fruit. but sure, enslave Eric and instead, if it makes it funnier.
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Post by happyhoix on Feb 22, 2022 16:15:37 GMT -5
Well, latest I could find was a November 2021 Forbes report that the Scottish ministers determined they do not have a duty to investigate where Trump came up with the cash to purchase Turnberry.
That’s a shame. One less lawsuit to toss on the dumpster fire.
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Post by dondub on Feb 22, 2022 16:21:50 GMT -5
Well, latest I could find was a November 2021 Forbes report that the Scottish ministers determined they do not have a duty to investigate where Trump came up with the cash to purchase Turnberry. That’s a shame. One less lawsuit to toss on the dumpster fire. I thought I had read it was an actual law.
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Post by happyhoix on Feb 22, 2022 18:54:09 GMT -5
Well, latest I could find was a November 2021 Forbes report that the Scottish ministers determined they do not have a duty to investigate where Trump came up with the cash to purchase Turnberry. That’s a shame. One less lawsuit to toss on the dumpster fire. I thought I had read it was an actual law. I think that’s what the ministers were debating - I think the law was created in order to investigate whether Russian oligarchs were laundering money purchasing Scottish property. Apparently they decided this didn’t look like money laundering.
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Post by dondub on Feb 22, 2022 19:56:00 GMT -5
I thought I had read it was an actual law. I think that’s what the ministers were debating - I think the law was created in order to investigate whether Russian oligarchs were laundering money purchasing Scottish property. Apparently they decided this didn’t look like money laundering. Then where did it come from? I thought the law required sourcing of funds and not specifically a hunt for laundered money. I thought that hunt was enacted if the source of funds was questionable. I just hate to see anyone let him off the hook for anything.👹
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Post by happyhoix on Feb 22, 2022 21:27:19 GMT -5
I think that’s what the ministers were debating - I think the law was created in order to investigate whether Russian oligarchs were laundering money purchasing Scottish property. Apparently they decided this didn’t look like money laundering. Then where did it come from? I thought the law required sourcing of funds and not specifically a hunt for laundered money. I thought that hunt was enacted if the source of funds was questionable. I just hate to see anyone let him off the hook for anything.👹 I agree. Don’t know why the scots decided to leave this alone.
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Post by happyhoix on Feb 23, 2022 14:53:56 GMT -5
Hmmm, all the prosecutors leading the Manhattan DA inquiry into Trump just quit.
Details to come…..
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Post by djAdvocate on Feb 23, 2022 16:42:31 GMT -5
Hmmm, all the prosecutors leading the Manhattan DA inquiry into Trump just quit. Details to come….. very worried about that.
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Unhappy with the new DA. New York Lawyers Prosecuting Trump Resign, Throwing Future of Case in Doubt
Two New York prosecutors who were heading up the Manhattan district attorney's probe of former President Donald Trump and his business practices have resigned, The New York Times reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. The abrupt resignations of prosecutors Carey R. Dunne and Mark F. Pomerantz cast doubt on the fate of the contentious investigation. The development came after Alvin Bragg, the new Manhattan district attorney, indicated that he wasn't fully confident in moving forward with the case against Trump, according to the sources. The probe is seeking to determine whether Trump inflated the value of his assets in order to get better loan terms from banks, the Times reported. While the former president has so far avoided charges related to the investigation from the DA's office, the Trump Organization and its former chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, have been indicted on 15 felony counts, Insider reported. Pomerantz confirmed his resignation to the Times but did not provide more details. Dunne declined to comment. Bragg was sworn in as Manhattan district attorney at the beginning of the year. Before he assumed the position, he told CNN in an interview that he thought it would be "a disservice to Manhattan" to lose the two prosecutors Dunne successfully argued before the Supreme Court to get Trump's taxes, and Pomerantz, a highly-regarded lawyer, had been recruited by the former district attorney to help guide the Trump investigation, CNN reported. "Carey and Mark have been doing this a long time," Bragg said to CNN. "I want to hear what they're thinking. I'll bring my experience to bear. I may add other people to the team." Bragg's spokesperson, Danielle Filson, said after the news of the resignations emerged that Bragg's office is "grateful for their service," but did not comment further, the Associated Press reported. New York Lawyers Prosecuting Trump Resign, Throwing Future of Case in Doubt
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Unhappy with the new DA. New York Lawyers Prosecuting Trump Resign, Throwing Future of Case in Doubt
Two New York prosecutors who were heading up the Manhattan district attorney's probe of former President Donald Trump and his business practices have resigned, The New York Times reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. The abrupt resignations of prosecutors Carey R. Dunne and Mark F. Pomerantz cast doubt on the fate of the contentious investigation. The development came after Alvin Bragg, the new Manhattan district attorney, indicated that he wasn't fully confident in moving forward with the case against Trump, according to the sources. The probe is seeking to determine whether Trump inflated the value of his assets in order to get better loan terms from banks, the Times reported. While the former president has so far avoided charges related to the investigation from the DA's office, the Trump Organization and its former chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, have been indicted on 15 felony counts, Insider reported. Pomerantz confirmed his resignation to the Times but did not provide more details. Dunne declined to comment. Bragg was sworn in as Manhattan district attorney at the beginning of the year. Before he assumed the position, he told CNN in an interview that he thought it would be "a disservice to Manhattan" to lose the two prosecutors Dunne successfully argued before the Supreme Court to get Trump's taxes, and Pomerantz, a highly-regarded lawyer, had been recruited by the former district attorney to help guide the Trump investigation, CNN reported. "Carey and Mark have been doing this a long time," Bragg said to CNN. "I want to hear what they're thinking. I'll bring my experience to bear. I may add other people to the team." Bragg's spokesperson, Danielle Filson, said after the news of the resignations emerged that Bragg's office is "grateful for their service," but did not comment further, the Associated Press reported. New York Lawyers Prosecuting Trump Resign, Throwing Future of Case in DoubtThis is the criminal probe - the civil case is ongoing, and frankly it would probably hurt Trump more to pay billions in fines than it would to - say - have Eric locked in the pokey for 18 months.
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Post by djAdvocate on Feb 23, 2022 22:20:23 GMT -5
yeah. replaced Vance, who would NEVER have done this.
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Post by happyhoix on Feb 25, 2022 16:16:24 GMT -5
I saw this on another board and I’m wondering if it’s true - the NYAG reverted the investigation into a criminal one, not civil. So still the possibility of jail time for the grifters?
Is that possible/ true?
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Post by Tennesseer on Feb 25, 2022 17:27:38 GMT -5
I saw this on another board and I’m wondering if it’s true - the NYAG reverted the investigation into a criminal one, not civil. So still the possibility of jail time for the grifters? Is that possible/ true? Cannot find any current news about what you mentioned. But did find this article from May, 2021: New York attorney general adds 'criminal capacity' to probe of Trump Organization(CNN)New York Attorney General Letitia James is joining the Manhattan district attorney's office in a criminal investigation of the Trump Organization, James' office said Tuesday. The attorney general office's investigation into the Trump Organization, which has been underway since 2019, will also continue as a civil probe, but the office recently informed Trump Organization officials of the criminal component. "We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the organization is no longer purely civil in nature. We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA," James' spokesman Fabien Levy told CNN. "We have no additional comment."Full article here: New York attorney general adds 'criminal capacity' to probe of Trump Organization
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Post by swamp on Feb 25, 2022 17:30:28 GMT -5
Alvin Bragg. Took office and immediately stepped in a pile of shit by issuing a memo declining to prosecute many low level crimes. He’s been busy walking that stance back while also trying to be tough on guns. Trump isnt on his radar.
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