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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg was granted immunity for providing information to federal prosecutors in their investigation into Michael Cohen, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
Weisselberg was subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury about hush money payments made to women in order to protect President Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The decision to grant Weisselberg immunity is a stunning new development in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office investigation into Cohen, who on Tuesday pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and other financial crimes.
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This is huge
by Michael Wolraich on Fri, 08/24/2018 - 11:56am
And a note of caution before you do your touchdown celebration dance...
by Michael Wolraich on Fri, 08/24/2018 - 12:09pm
All of Cohen's phone, computer stuff didn't have "enough"?
The dossier made clear the Cohen-Russian Prague meeting involved the Trump people coming up with cash for the Clinton hackers....would the Trump finance guy possibly have any clue about that?
And Spiro Agnew's lawyer says Guiliani is a clown, Trump should resign, but won't.
by NCD on Fri, 08/24/2018 - 1:42pm
I love how former lawyers from the Nixon administration have finagled fifteen extra minutes of fame by trashing Trump.
PS One might equally assert that Trump is a clown, and Guilliani should resign, but won't
by Michael Wolraich on Fri, 08/24/2018 - 11:22pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/26/2018 - 3:11am
by Peter (not verified) on Sun, 08/26/2018 - 10:34am
Lawyers don't do anger, it's just that simple, you obviously don't know many..
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/26/2018 - 10:42am
Spiro Agnew's corruption had nothing to do with Watergate, but it was refreshing when his sorry crooked ass got taken down.
Trump & Cohen & Manafort's corruption have been blatant for decades. That "oh-me-oh-my" whining of yours that "oh not related to Russia" is bullshit, because they've had illicit ties to Russia forever, laundering illegal cash through banks in Cyprus & elsewhere, propping up their casino & real estate empires with Russian money that had to be expatriated from Mother Russia's imperiled rubles. Perhaps there's been some excess in that some of this is only tangential to Russian influencing the 2016 election.
But here's an analogy for you - 2 years ago I started noting a lot of ants going back and forth from my barn. I was a bit lazy, and rationalized it like, "there aren't that many, and how much damage could they do?" but as time went by, I finally started lifting some of the roof beams and floor boards, and peeking into what was actually happening - and sure enough, they'd eaten the insides out of the barn annex (which was more sodden), enough so that it had to be knocked down even though it looked structurally intact from outside. Tens of thousands of ants with eggs laid everywhere, guaranteed to keep growing and spreading if nothing was done.
So Mueller & SDNY and Miami Beach and others are finally starting to take down the Trump criminal empire. A shame it's taken so long, and now that it's invested the presidency with defiled powers and an openly corrupt attitude towards that role, willing to sell this position or legislation or access or other piece of the pie for some bag of cash, it really doesn't matter whether Mueller overstepped his bounds - Mueller's ripped apart enough nests of thieves there's no need to keep quibbling over how bad the rot is when the whole shithouse is coming down. Deal with it, Peter - you're barking up a hollow gutted tree.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-or...
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/michael-cohen-and-the-busti...
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-russian-italian-mafia-fusion-785524
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 08/26/2018 - 11:02am
From Empty Wheel:
Mueller's good.
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 08/26/2018 - 2:35pm