The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    DoJ Krazy Thread VI

    By PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/09/2020 - 3:29pm |

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    DoJ tries to muzzle Cohen?

    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/salvadorhernandez/michael-cohen-bac...


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/09/2020 - 6:45pm


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/10/2020 - 9:26am


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/10/2020 - 9:31am

    Barr pushed unqualified DA (HuffPost):

    Geoffrey Berman, the former federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, provided the committee with a detailed account behind closed doors of three days in June as he was pushed out, according to his opening statement, which was obtained by The Associated Press.

    Berman said Barr, over a 45-minute session at the Pierre Hotel in New York, “pressed” him to step aside and take on a new job heading up the Justice Department’s Civil Division so the administration could install Jay Clayton, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, to the top prosecutor post in Manhattan.

    “I told the attorney general that I was not interested,” Berman told the panel.

    Berman explained, “There were important investigations in the office that I wanted to see through to completion.” He told Barr that, while he liked Clayton, he viewed the SEC commissioner as “an unqualified choice” for the job.

    “He had had no criminal experience,” Berman said.

    When Barr warned that if he didn’t go, he would be fired, “I told him that while I did not want to get fired, I would not resign,” Berman said.


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/10/2020 - 5:03am

    Pardoning Stone is a crime


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/10/2020 - 8:43pm


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/11/2020 - 2:59pm

    ...The DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday denied Roger Stone’s request for a prison sentence delay. This means that Stone will have to go to prison on Tuesday unless the President steps in. @kpolantz

    — Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) July 10, 2020

    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/11/2020 - 5:37pm


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    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/11/2020 - 9:19pm


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/11/2020 - 9:21pm


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/11/2020 - 2:57pm

    The only Republican senator to condemn the Roger Stone commutation so far is @MittRomney, who calls it an act of “[u]nprecedented, historic corruption.” pic.twitter.com/mS03Mpz9YN

    — Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 11, 2020

    Edit to add update:

     


    by artappraiser on Sat, 07/11/2020 - 4:08pm


    by artappraiser on Sat, 07/11/2020 - 6:23pm


    by artappraiser on Sat, 07/11/2020 - 6:45pm

    David Ignatis on the Mueller op-ed:


    by artappraiser on Sat, 07/11/2020 - 7:11pm

    MUELLER writes in the Washington Post, defending his team against Trump’s attacks in a more aggressive way than he did during his congressional testimony. https://t.co/zQA47BEt2m pic.twitter.com/2w1fF38ZdP

    — Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 11, 2020

    (Never Trumper Charlie Sykes re-tweeted)


    by artappraiser on Sat, 07/11/2020 - 7:17pm

    & why was he so meek when it counted? He should have kicked "his friend" Barr in the balls for the shitty hatchet job He did misconstruing his reports. I dont get the faux decorum - it hurt the country. We're still playing catchup, And Mueller's job was to put the pieces together for us. How many of his investigations got shoved in a blind alley? Mueller should have been whistle blower #1.


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/11/2020 - 7:30pm

    Bolton and Mueller let the country down. 


    by rmrd0000 on Sat, 07/11/2020 - 8:13pm

    Stone threatened Congressional witness

    (Cilizza notes convicted of threats on Randy Credico, Now that we've turned out attentions to Gauci)

    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/13/politics/roger-stone-donald-trump/ind...


    by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 07/14/2020 - 1:00am


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    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/18/2020 - 2:19am


    by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 07/20/2020 - 12:48pm


    by artappraiser on Mon, 07/20/2020 - 5:26pm

    Audit: emoluments meet SCOTUS

    https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/folks-the-executive-branch-needs-an...


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/23/2020 - 2:21am

    Trump skimming campaign funds


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 07/23/2020 - 9:06am

    For a guy who could not pass a G.E.D. today, he does alright.
    Chess may not be his game but he is playing U.S. Taxpayers like a drugstore banjo.


    by moat on Thu, 07/23/2020 - 4:47pm

    This is money from GOP coffers and Trump campaign donors. I guess Forbes is pointing out to GOP donors to send their anti-Democrat money elsewhere as Trsump is a losing bet.

    It's better anyway if Trump spends on himself. Too bad he didn't pocket the Wall money before a swath 50 yards wide for it vandalized the Organ Pipe Cactus Biosphere Reserve.

      For Trump, too much, is never enough.


    by NCD on Thu, 07/23/2020 - 6:30pm

    Right, Forbes is not Mother Jones. The report shows the money what to avoid.

    But I think they are also fascinated by the bald faced grab on a professional level.

    Kids, don't try this at home.


    by moat on Thu, 07/23/2020 - 6:53pm


    by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 10:25am


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 07/25/2020 - 4:58am

    Abramson retweeted this:


    by artappraiser on Mon, 07/27/2020 - 1:21am

    Professional liar - what do we want/expect out of this?


    by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 07/27/2020 - 3:46am

    it's a surprisingly simple suggestion:

    For those of you interested in what a perjury charge looks like (I’ve indicted/prosecuted many):

    On or about July 28, 2020, within the District of Columbia, after having been placed under oath by a person authorized by law to administer oaths,

    — Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) July 29, 2020


    by artappraiser on Tue, 07/28/2020 - 8:46pm