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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jared-kushner-s-dad-charles-who-trump-pardoned-gave-1-million-to-a-trump-super-pac/ar-AA1eDI8w?cvid=2ec741755bb24206a3f9a46d4f8fba5f&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=5
Jared Kushner's dad Charles, who Trump pardoned, gave $1 million to a Trump super PAC
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Charles Kushner donated $1 million to Trump's super PAC.
Kushner, who Trump pardoned, was one of the largest individual contributors to the super PAC.
Trump and his allies have burned cash at an alarming rate, making the donation even more important.
Charles Kushner, the father of Donald Trump's son-in-law and the recipient of one of the former president's final pardons, donated $1 million to Trump's leading super PAC.
Kushner pleaded guilty in 2004 to a host of federal charges, including witness tampering and tax evasion. In one of the more salacious aspects of the case, Kushner hired a sex worker to lure his brother-in-law and then sent a video of their encounter to his sister. Chris Christie, who oversaw the case, called it "one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes," that he'd ever prosecuted. Christie has long thought that putting Jared Kushner's father in prison led to him being blocked within Trump's orbit. Kushner has been out of prison since 2006. |
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/alleged-bribery-scheme-could-be-the-final-nail-in-the-coffin-for-trump/ss-AA1d7lrD?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=c94b79616dc044039addb725d71483c1&ei=75#image=5
Alleged Bribery Scheme Could Be the Final Nail in the Coffin for Trump
| Quote: | Ingram wrote a letter to a Trump Interior Department official with attached articles arguing on the Hammond’s behalf. A Republican lawmaker tweeted on July 1, 2018, that Trump was seriously considering the pardon.
Just one day later, Ingram sent in his donation to the Super PAC, and the following week, the Hammonds were pardoned.
The Natural Resources Committee tweeted this month that the two Democrats are investigating the case and are requesting documents be released.
“Chair @RepRaulGrijalva & @RepKatiePorter are requesting documents from @Interior regarding a second incident of potential bribery between senior officials in the Trump administration and real estate developer Mike Ingram.” – Natural Resources Committee (@NRDems) December 2, 2022 |
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gee how would the right wing supreme court rule on payoffs.... when everyone of them do not want rules for themselves so they can get free today's money million dollar RVs to go camp like average Americans...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-campaign-has-received-nearly-1-8-million-from-his-clemency-recipients-report/ar-AA1kTqiZ?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=5a618e9ae39c4ab589eee402b1b62b21&ei=70
Trump campaign has received nearly $1.8 million from his clemency recipients: report
| Quote: | Donald Trump's questionable usage of his presidential pardon power before he left office is paying dividends for his 2024 presidential campaign as grateful recipients are showering his campaign with cash and, in some cases, using the media platforms to boost his chances of returning to the Oval Office.
According to a deep dive from the Washington Post, the former president and his campaign have taken in nearly $1.8 million from appreciative recipients and their families with more expected to come.
The report notes, Donald Trump's ability to grant clemency was mostly focused on those accused of white-collar crime than any other offenses, with the Post adding that "tax scofflaws, health-care fraudsters, corrupt politicians and Ponzi schemers all benefited."
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Those people, the report notes, are well positioned to lavish money on his latest campaign.
"The Post found 26 clemency recipients or their immediate family members have contributed to a Trump campaign account or a pro-Trump political committee. That means more than 1 out of 10 of the people who received pardons and commutations gave money either before they received clemency, afterward or in both periods, for a total of nearly $1.8 million," the report states with Charles Kushner, father of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner leading the way.
RELATED: Was the Trump White House selling pardons?
The elder Kushner, who received his pardon in 2020 has contributed $1 million to a pro-Trump super PAC in 2023.
The report adds, "New York-based real estate investor Alex Adjmi had served time in the late 1990s for a money-laundering conviction. He rarely donated to federal campaigns, records show, but in 2020he made three payments, including one contribution to the Republican National Committee and another to a joint account with the Trump campaign totaling $37,600. Adjmi was among the 144 people who received clemency on Trump’s last day in office. This year, he donated $100,000 to a pro-Trump political committee."
In an interview, Adjmi claimed, "It had nothing to do with my pardon.” |
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only 1.3 billion fraud and right wingers love it...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/supreme-court-rejects-appeal-bid-by-trump-clemency-recipient-philip-esformes/ar-AA1lzbpH?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=c28fac0810304e25bf0353a80c577cfe&ei=9
Supreme Court rejects appeal bid by Trump clemency recipient Philip Esformes
| Quote: | The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from Florida nursing home owner Philip Esformes, whose 20-year prison sentence for a $1.3 billion Medicare fraud scheme was commuted by then-President Donald Trump in late 2020.
The high court's action earlier this week sets the stage for Esformes — whom an FBI agent once said was "a man driven by almost unbounded greed"— to be re-tried in Miami federal court on six health-care criminal charges that jurors at his first trial deadlocked on.
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If he is convicted, the Supreme Court is likely to be asked to rule whether the case should be tossed out because of Trump's clemency and another issue.
The Department of Justice's insistence on retrying Esformes on those deadlocked charges after his criminal sentence was commuted is highly unusual — and possibly unique — in American legal history, and has raised claims that the DOJ is motivated by animus against Trump.
A group of Republican former attorneys general, and an ex-FBI director have supported Esformes' efforts to have the case dropped.
A lawyer for Esformes had no immediate comment on the Supreme Court's refusal to hear his appeal. The DOJ and the prosecutor overseeing Esformes' case did not immediately return a request for comment.
Whether Esformes will be retried remains to be seen.
In a joint court filing Thursday, prosecutors and Esformes' attorneys asked a judge to postpone a scheduled teleconference in the case from next Monday to late January.
The filing said, "The parties have initiated dialogue concerning issues inherent in this matter, and wish to have the opportunity to continue such dialogue."
"In light of the upcoming holidays, and complexity of certain issues under discussion, the parties respectfully request that the Court continue the status conference in this matter to January 29," the filing said.
CNBC has asked Esformes' lawyer if that language refers to actual or potential plea talks.
In its action this week, the Supreme Court denied Esformes' request that it review an 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in January upholding his conviction in the first trial on charges including fraud, money laundering, and receiving illegal kickbacks.
As is typical in such petitions, the Supreme Court did not explain why it would not hear the challenge.
Lawyers for Esformes had unsuccessfully argued to the 11th Circuit appeals court that the case should be dismissed because of prosecutorial misconduct that occurred before his trial. Esformes also had unsuccessfully challenged a judge's order that he pay $44 million in fines and forfeiture.
The 11th Circuit in its ruling had said it did not have jurisdiction — yet — to decide whether the DOJ's decision to retry Esformes on the hung counts was bared by Trump's grant of clemency to him.
Esformes' lawyers had argued that a retrial would violate Trump's clemency action, as well as the double jeopardy clause of the U.S. Constitution.
But a panel of judges on the 11th Circuit ruled that because Esformes has not yet been convicted on the hung counts, it would be premature to decide whether the prosecution is barred by the issues his attorneys have raised.
There is no federal law saying prosecutors cannot retry a defendant on charges a jury deadlocked on after a president commuted their sentence for other counts on which they were convicted. And no federal court has addressed that question.
The DOJ has said in court filings that Trump's commutation of Esformes'sentence applies only to the counts on which he was convicted.
Prosecutors also have said that if Trump wanted to pardon him on the hung counts he would have said so, noting that "on the same day President Trump commuted Esformes's prison sentence, he issued 15 pardons, each of which stated he was granting a 'full and unconditional pardon' to the recipient."
Esformes was convicted in 2019 of 20 criminal counts related to what the DOJ said was the largest health-care fraud scheme ever prosecuted by the department.
The DOJ said that over two decades Esformes and his co-conspirators cycled thousands of Medicare and Medicaid patients through a network of nursing and assisted living facilities despite the fact they did not qualify for such care.
With the proceeds of the scheme, prosecutors said, Esformes funded a lavish lifestyle that included $1.6 million Ferrari Apera automobile, a $360,000 Greubel Forsey watch, and the services of female escorts.
Prosecutors also have said Esformes paid $300,000 in bribes to Jerome Allen, the then-coach of the University of Pennsylvania's men's basketball team, who helped get Esformes' son admitted to the university's Wharton School of Business by falsely claiming he was a prized basketball recruit. |
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if this was an attempt to get at Biden will trump announce he will Pardon the guy if he becomes president... ie another hero for the right wing?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/car-plows-into-parked-vehicle-in-biden-s-motorcade-outside-delaware-campaign-headquarters/ar-AA1lEvyY?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&cvid=4b9a09b532d74311eafcd333468018a3&ei=10&sc=shoreline
Car plows into parked vehicle in Biden's motorcade outside Delaware campaign headquarters
| Quote: | WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A car plowed into a parked SUV that was guarding President Joe Biden 's motorcade Sunday night while the president was leaving a visit to his campaign headquarters. The president and first lady Jill Biden were unharmed.
While Biden was walking from the campaign office to his waiting armored SUV, a sedan hit a U.S. Secret Service vehicle that was being used to close off intersections near the headquarters for the president's departure. The sedan then tried to continue into a closed-off intersection, before Secret Service personnel surrounded the vehicle with weapons drawn and instructed the driver to put his hands up.
Biden paused and looked over toward the sound, surprised, before he was ushered into the vehicle, where his wife was already seated, before being driven swiftly back to their home. His schedule was otherwise unaffected by the incident.
The Secret Service did not immediately comment on the incident. |
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gee is this front page news? can you imagine if Clinton had told people this the right wing owned and controlled media would have had it front page for 6 months... to 6 years...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/everything-is-for-sale-internet-fumes-as-court-records-reveal-trump-s-co-defendant-walt-nauta-was-promised-pardon-after-2024-election/ar-AA1nuzFb?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=43e761677e8243e099e38e38f7979f9b&ei=46
‘Everything is for sale': Internet fumes as court records reveal Trump's co-defendant Walt Nauta was promised pardon after 2024 election
| Quote: | WASHINGTON, DC: Court records indicate that the valet and co-defendant of Donald Trump in their federal confidential documents case was reportedly told that he would be granted a pardon if the former president is elected to a second term in office, according to the New York Post.
Notably, a cooperating witness in the case allegedly told the FBI about the purported pardon pledge in November 2022, one year before a Florida grand jury indicted Trump and Walt Nauta for concealing confidential White House documents.
Trump's co-defendant Walt Nauta promised pardon after 2024 election
The FBI's heavily redacted notes from an interview with a former Trump White House employee, identified as 'Person 16', stated, "Nauta was told by [Trump's] people that this investigation was not going anywhere, that it was politically motivated, and ‘much ado about nothing'."
The witness informed the bureau, "Nauta was also told that if even if he gets charged with lying to the FBI, [Trump] will pardon him in 2024."
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The Justice Department claims that during Walt Nauta's FBI interview, he misled the agency on the whereabouts and movements of boxes containing White House papers at Mar-a-Lago (Alon Skuy/Getty Images)
The Justice Department claims that during Walt Nauta's FBI interview, he misled the agency on the whereabouts and movements of boxes containing White House papers at Mar-a-Lago (Alon Skuy/Getty Images)
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Notably, the document characterizes 'Person 16' as a former employee of Trump's White House who visited the former president's Mar-a-Lago residence many times starting in 2021 and had 'free access' to both Trump and the Oval Office.
However, the witness refused to have his FBI interview videotaped out of concern about possible retaliation.
The memo noted, "Person 16 refused recording of the interview, despite being advised that not recording the interview would be anomalous compared to other witness interviews. Person 16 accepted ‘that risk,' stating having the interview recorded ‘was a far bigger risk for him in the Trump world'."
However, it's unclear how the witness found out about the purported Nauta pardon scheme and who told Nauta about it.
Furthermore, the Justice Department claims that during Nauta's FBI interview, which took place one month before Person 16's, the former Navy sailor misled the agency on the whereabouts and movements of boxes containing White House papers at Mar-a-Lago.
According to his interview transcript, Nauta admitted to FBI investigators that he had misled Trump into believing that he was going for a jog rather than talking to agents tasked with the investigation of secret papers.
In the lawsuit, Nauta and Trump have both entered not-guilty pleas.
Internet reacts to Walt Nauta being promised pardon after 2024 election
People on the Internet shared their opinions as Walt Nauta was reportedly told that he would be granted a pardon if the former president is elected to a second term in office.
A user wrote on X, "Huh, that sounds very crimey" while one added, "Idk. Do you think he'll take the risk of committing perjury with the hope that Trump will win the election?"
A user added, "I feel like he's in for a big surprise" whereas one mentioned, "I think that's the expectation of a LOT of MAGA supporters and J6 insurrectionists. Let's hope they are all deeply disappointed on November 6th!"
A person also stated, "It's time to reign in the pardon power. It's absurd Trump has been allowed to abuse it the way he has already, yet nothing has been done about it."
Another wrote, "In trumps administration, everything is for sale or trade." |
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