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mac
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Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 11:20 am Post subject: |
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In fact, Trump did everything he could to prevent the National Guard from protecting the Capitol. It was the plan to use violence to disrupt the vote and send the matter back to the legislative bodies of the Republican states. Or as he said, in plain view, to his brown shirts: "Stand down, but stand by."
Lock him up. |
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real-human
Joined: 02 Jul 2011 Posts: 14839 Location: on earth
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-doj-official-cooperating-with-department-s-probe-into-trump-pressure-campaign-reports/ar-AA1054PH?ocid=winp2sv1plus&cvid=f5aac16707054d62ae441d95398bbaf1
Former DOJ official cooperating with department’s probe into Trump pressure campaign: reports
Rebecca Beitsch - 4h ago
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Aformer Trump administration Department of Justice (DOJ) official who worked closely with Jeffrey Clark is cooperating with his former employer’s investigation into the former president’s pressure campaign at the DOJ, according to multiple reports.
Former DOJ official cooperating with department’s probe into Trump pressure campaign: reports
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Former DOJ official cooperating with department’s probe into Trump pressure campaign: reports
“We’ve been fully cooperating both with the Department of Justice and the Select Committee, and we’ll continue with that cooperation,” Edward Greim, an attorney for Ken Klukowski, said to CNN.
Klukowski came to work at the DOJ just 36 days before the end of former President Trump’s term, joining the staff of Clark, an assistant attorney general who Trump later weighed installing as attorney general so that he could forward an investigation into the former president’s baseless claims of election fraud.
The move comes after the DOJ has executed warrants on both Clark and John Eastman, a Trump campaign attorney who advocated for former Vice President Mike Pence to buck his ceremonial duty to certify the election results.
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real-human
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Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/watch-chris-wallace-asks-anita-hill-if-ginni-thomas-should-be-investigated-for-trump-plot-to-overturn-election/ar-AA14KyVR?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=bbc5a9e67a754bca8207d808af9a8e97
WATCH: Chris Wallace Asks Anita Hill If Ginni Thomas Should Be Investigated For Trump Plot to Overturn Election
Quote: | CNN anchor Chris Wallace asked author Professor Anita Hill, who famously accused then-Judge Clarence Thomas of sexual misconduct, if Ginni Thomas should be investigated over her involvement in Trump’s plot to overturn the election.
In a preview clip from Wallace’s series Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace, the host asked Hill to weigh in on Justice Thomas’ part in overturning Roe v. Wade, and provocatively asked about Mrs. Thomas, a pro-Big Lie activist who exchanged text messages with then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows prior to the events of Jan. 6. and has admitted she attended the rally that preceded the attack, as well:
CHRIS WALLACE: In this last term of the Supreme Court, Justice Thomas provided the fifth vote to overturn Roe v Wade and take back a woman’s right to abortion. Does that decision by him make it even harder for you to reconcile? Justice Thomas and his years on the court?
PROF. ANITA HILL: I think if you read Thomas’s opinion in Dobbs case, you will find that he wants to start looking at contraception. He wants to look at perhaps the whole idea of protecting people based on gender identity. I think this is where we are in the country. And yes, Thomas seems to be out in front with it, but he’s not the only one and the votes are there to move us in that direction.
CHRIS WALLACE: And what do you make of the fact that we’ve now learned that Ginni Thomas has been deeply involved, both with the Trump White House and with several states, with trying to overturn the 2020 election.
PROF. ANITA HILL: You know, I think we need to know everything and we don’t know everything about that involvement. I think everybody who has been involved with trying to turn over that election really is, has put all of us at risk and more particularly, put our democracy at risk. And so, yes, that should be fully investigated. And the people who have, are found to be involved ought to be held accountable. And it doesn’t matter who they are or who they’re married to.
The latest interviews from Wallace’s series Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace feature Gloria Estefan, Professor and author Anita Hill, and journalist Malcolm Gladwell. |
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vientomas
Joined: 25 Apr 2000 Posts: 2343
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2022 9:03 pm Post subject: |
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If the Repubs think it's OK to investigate Hunter Biden, who is not in government and is not the President, it should be OK for the Dems to investigate Mrs. Thomas who is not in government and is not a Supreme Court Justice. Seems fair to me. |
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real-human
Joined: 02 Jul 2011 Posts: 14839 Location: on earth
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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:08 am Post subject: |
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note how they do not list him from the get go as a top republican...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/feds-arrest-ex-florida-rep-david-rivera-on-charges-connected-to-venezuela/ar-AA14WurP?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=8e89270c2ad7494580ea793197777240
Feds arrest ex-Florida Rep. David Rivera on charges connected to Venezuela
Quote: | TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Former Florida Rep. David Rivera, who had successfully outflanked a series of investigations during his lengthy political and consulting career, was arrested Monday by federal authorities in connection with an ongoing probe into his work with Venezuela’s authoritarian regime.
David Rivera speaks on Nov. 2, 2010, in Coral Gables, Fla. The former Miami congressman was arrested Monday in connection to an ongoing federal criminal investigation.
David Rivera speaks on Nov. 2, 2010, in Coral Gables, Fla. The former Miami congressman was arrested Monday in connection to an ongoing federal criminal investigation.
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Rivera, who represented a Miami-area district from 2011 to 2013, was detained in Georgia on Wednesday in connection with a Miami grand jury indictment issued last month. His arrest was first reported by The Associated Press. According to the indictment unsealed on Monday night, Rivera and his former political consultant, Esther Nuhfer, are facing charges of conspiring against the U.S., failing to register as foreign agents and engaging in illegal financial transactions including money laundering.
“It was the purpose of the conspiracy for the defendants to unlawfully enrich themselves by engaging in political activities in the United States on behalf of the government of Venezuela, and by representing the interests of the government of Venezuela before officials of the of the United States government and in an effort to influence United States foreign policy,” states the 34-page indictment.
Before his brief stint in Congress, Rivera served as powerful budget chief while in the Legislature. He was an ally of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who once shared a house with him in Tallahassee. Rivera maintained his ties with various GOP officials after he left office and attended the recent one-day session where the Florida Legislature picked new leaders.
Rivera’s defense attorney Simon Ferro did not return a call requesting comment.
Rivera had previously come under criticism for failing to register as a foreign agent despite working for Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., Venezuela’s state-owned oil company. That company hired Interamerican Consulting, Rivera’s firm, to provide consulting services to the country’s state-owned oil company.
Any work Rivera did for the Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. would require him to register as a foreign agent.
Petróleos de Venezuela’s subsidiary company in the U.S., however, sued Rivera, claiming he did no substantial work and sought to recover $15 million it paid to his firm.
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The indictment states that beginning in 2017 — shortly after former President Donald Trump took office — Rivera and Nuhfer were sought out to help lobby politicians on behalf of Venezuela and gain political support to normalize relations between the U.S. and the country led by strongman Nicolas Maduro.
As part of the effort to curry favor on behalf of Venezuela, the indictment references meetings that were arranged with a U.S. congressman from Texas as well as a U.S. senator from Florida. Previous reports have already identified the congressman as former Rep. Pete Sessions. The indictment does not state the name of the senator, but Rubio played a pivotal role in advising the Trump administration over its dealings with Latin American countries.
The indictment says that two meetings were held with the Florida senator in Washington D.C. in July 2017 to discuss a possible deal with the Maduro regime where he would accept a deal to “hold free and fair elections in Venezuela.”
At one point Rivera sent an encrypted text message to those involved in the effort and stated that the senator was meeting the next day with Trump and that he would “tell him that he has the possibility in his hands to solve the crisis…” Rivera exchanged texts with the senator that said the U.S. should “facilitate, not just support, a negotiated solution” as well as “no vengeance, reconciliation.”
In a later encrypted text, Rivera said that the Florida senator had called him to tell him that Maduro had to “give guarantees for December’s election.” The indictment says Maduro ultimately refused to promise open elections and there is no further mention of any dialogue with a senator.
Rubio’s office did not immediately return a request for a comment about Rivera's indictment.
Rivera left Congress after he was defeated in 2012 in a campaign that ultimately triggered a federal investigation. Democrat Justin Sternad and co-defendant Ana Alliegro subsequently admitted scheming to provide more than $70,000 in secret financing to Sternad’s primary campaign in an attempt to weaken his Democratic opponent, Joe Garcia. Garcia and Rivera had faced off in 2010 and Rivera considered his former opponent a bitter rival. But in 2012, Garcia won the Democratic primary and the general election, unseating Rivera in their second face-off.
In 2011, a year before the campaign-finance scandal, the IRS and FBI began examining Rivera’s involvement in a secret consulting contract between a dog track, Magic City Casino, and a marketing company listed in his mother’s name.
In 2019, then Florida House Speaker Jose Oliva, a Miami Lakes Republican, declined to impose nearly $58,000 in fines that the Florida Commission on Ethics had recommended because Rivera had failed to properly report his income and he double-billed taxpayers for travel expenses while he served as a legislator. |
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real-human
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Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2023 12:39 am Post subject: |
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pardoned by trump so no jail time...
https://www.rawstory.com/manfort-fines/
Former Trump campaign chairman hit with $3.2 million fine to settle tax-dodging charges
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Donald Trump's one-time campaign chairman Paul Manafort is paying a whopping $3.2 million in fines to finally settle federal tax-dodging charges.
A judgment against Manafort was entered for his “willful” failure to file timely legally required annual reports disclosing his ownership — or control — of more than three dozen offshore companies and accounts, according to the watchdog news site The Florida Bulldog. The penalties and interest assessed against him covered the tax years 2013 and 2014.
The $3.2 million settlement was approved by Miami U.S. District Judge Rodolfo Ruiz last week.
Trump pardoned Manafort before he left office in 2021, which freed him from jail, but didn't let him off hook for tax fines.
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Manafort served as Trump's campaign manager from May to August of 2016. He left his job before he was charged with any crimes, following a flurry of concerns about his ties to Russian president Vladimir Putin and his firm’s lobbying on behalf of pro-Russian Ukrainian oligarchs.
He was convicted of eight criminal counts in 2018, including tax and bank fraud. He later pleaded guilty to two other counts ― one against the U.S. and the other conspiracy to obstruct justice — as part of his plea deal. He was sentenced to a total of 7.5 years.
According to Palm Beach County records, the IRS withdrew federal tax liens totaling $6.3 million against Manafort for the years 2010 to 2014 and 2017 after he apparently paid those back taxes in 2021. |
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