Crime Use it in a Sentence (special counsel thread v. 25)

[DEN]

With the Dems taking over the committees we should finally see them.

 

[LangfordBarrow]

I was referring to Cohen

What did you do to get banned?

 

[Fawlty]

What did you do to get banned?

This is a bit like walking up to an open casket and asking the deceased how he died. I support this sort of thing.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

Interesting.
I would imagine it's not just Manny that was advising him on shenanigans. So many criminals.

What gets me is keeping people under investigation around/ignoring warnings (Flynn).
These people have a rather flagrant disregard for ethics.

Apparently Flynn's business partner is going on the grill next.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

This is a bit like walking up to an open casket and asking the deceased how he died. I support this sort of thing.

If you can't ask politely, simply pointing and giving the old Nelson Muntz does the job.

 

[DEN]

What did you do to get banned?

Ah now I see, I was going to @ ole this morning and he didnt pop up. Shame. I like playing word games and haggling over the definition of things with him brought the lulz.

If it's any consolation ODB I've been banned before. I know those feels.

 

[Cake4Breakfast]

So with the bans, are those guys exiled on Elba for a specific period, or have they been guillotined?

 

[Cake4Breakfast]

Have the allegations against Leaky Rudy been covered here?


"Speaking on Capitol Hill at a closed-door deposition, Mr. Comey said that he ordered a leak probe after Mr. Giuliani made public statements that indicated he had inside knowledge of the FBI investigation into whether Hillary Clinton mishandled classified information.

“I was concerned that there appeared to be in the media a number of stories that might have been based on communications reporters or non-reporters like Rudy Giuliani were having with people in the New York field office,” Mr. Comey said in a transcript of his Friday appearance before the House Judiciary and Oversight committees that was released Saturday.

Mr. Comey said he was fired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation before the outcome of the probe was complete, and the status of the investigation is unknown.

The former FBI director has previously expressed concerns about possible leaks out of the bureau’s New York office, but his comments to Congress were his strongest statement to date about his suspicions that Mr. Giuliani, a top surrogate to then-candidate Donald Trump, had received inside information from the FBI."


https://www.wsj.com/articles/comey-...s-leaking-fbi-information-to-media-1544322346

Also, he was just terrible in his interview with Chris Matthews yesterday, and Matthews didn't even ask him questions about this issue.

 

[Andy Capp]

To bad stavonsky isn’t the judge of this..

“When a person uses the attorney-client relationship to further a criminal scheme,” wrote U.S. Chief Judge Beryl Howell in the once-secret ruling, “the law is well established that a claim of attorney-client or work-product privilege must yield to the grand jury’s investigatory needs.” In other words, when a client commits a crime and the lawyer is in on it, or vice versa, both may as well forget about any claim of privilege that may exist between them. Their privileged interactions, so long as they’re connected to a criminal enterprise, are fair game for prosecutors."

But Howell is.

Here here. @Limbo Pete This post may be too late for the War Room year end awards but it deserves honorable mention in my book.

 

[LangfordBarrow]

This is a bit like walking up to an open casket and asking the deceased how he died. I support this sort of thing.

I was hoping someone else would fill me in.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

Here here. @Limbo Pete This post may be too late for the War Room year end awards but it deserves honorable mention in my book.

 

[Andy Capp]

Not being well versed on campaign finance laws , I don't know if what Trump and Cohen did was illegal. But the guy you site using the word "likely" to describe the nature of the violations is unbecoming of someone who proclaims to know the law. It either is illegal or is not legal.

"That’s because – as someone who served for two years as a member of the Federal Election Commission – the campaign finance law violations that Cohen pleaded guilty to committing, allegedly at Donald Trump’s direction, aren’t really violations"

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"In addition, Cohen was sentenced on his guilty pleas to violating campaign finance law on Trump’s behalf – an action that, as I will explain, was not really a crime at all."


Cohen is a lawyer, and no doubt retained his own consul. So I find it hard to believe he would plead guilty and accept a 3 year jail term if what he did was not illegal.

I didn't read it when he posted it because LOL @ Faux News. Having done so now, though, I see the premise is easily disproved since the whole first part is factually incorrect. I won't say he was telling a lie since he may not have known the head of the parent company of the Inquirer corroborated Cohen's testimony that Trump was fully involved. End of story. Typical Faux News.

 

[Andy Capp]

He will be bring on Alan Dershowitz to manage at a minimum, the constitutional issues. Alan has been campaigning for that job for over a year now and you can bet the POTUS likes what he hears.

Would you like a friendly wager on this? Simple yes/no Trump personally hires the Dersh within some specified time. I'm not vested in the result, just for amusement.

I'm sure he'll show us like he promised to, instead of just telling us like he's done so far.

Or maybe his promise was just another lie

Speaking of just another lie, I wonder if anyone bought, "I won't blame you, I'll take the blame" about shutting down the government? I mean, c'mon, is there any way anyone believes that?

 

[DEN]

Would you like a friendly wager on this? Simple yes/no Trump personally hires the Dersh within some specified time. I'm not vested in the result, just for amusement.


Speaking of just another lie, I wonder if anyone bought, "I won't blame you, I'll take the blame" about shutting down the government? I mean, c'mon, is there any way anyone believes that?

The Dersh is an attention whore but I'll be damned if I don't respect his legal acumen. He's the best at playing devil's advocate on the right right now. I can tell when shit's really hit they fan for Trump when Dersh doesnt at least make a somewhat credible argument in his defense.

Now that Cochrane is dead, making the chewbacca defense inadmissible, Dersh may be trumps only hope.

 

[Andy Capp]

The Dersh is an attention whore but I'll be damned if I don't respect his legal acumen. He's the best at playing devil's advocate on the right right now. I can tell when shit's really hit they fan for Trump when Dersh doesnt at least make a somewhat credible argument in his defense.

Now that Cochrane is dead, making the chewbacca defense inadmissible, Dersh may be trumps only hope.

If I could shoop, Trump would be stooped in front of R2D2 and then it would flip to Obi Wan with Dersh's head and the Evil Spock beard and moustache, watching the hologram.

 

[Andy Capp]

Have the allegations against Leaky Rudy been covered here?


"Speaking on Capitol Hill at a closed-door deposition, Mr. Comey said that he ordered a leak probe after Mr. Giuliani made public statements that indicated he had inside knowledge of the FBI investigation into whether Hillary Clinton mishandled classified information.

“I was concerned that there appeared to be in the media a number of stories that might have been based on communications reporters or non-reporters like Rudy Giuliani were having with people in the New York field office,” Mr. Comey said in a transcript of his Friday appearance before the House Judiciary and Oversight committees that was released Saturday.

Mr. Comey said he was fired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation before the outcome of the probe was complete, and the status of the investigation is unknown.

The former FBI director has previously expressed concerns about possible leaks out of the bureau’s New York office, but his comments to Congress were his strongest statement to date about his suspicions that Mr. Giuliani, a top surrogate to then-candidate Donald Trump, had received inside information from the FBI."


https://www.wsj.com/articles/comey-...s-leaking-fbi-information-to-media-1544322346

Also, he was just terrible in his interview with Chris Matthews yesterday, and Matthews didn't even ask him questions about this issue.

I wonder what happened to that investigation.

 

[Darkballs]

Strzoks phone was inspected by a records officer working for the SCO. The OIG has not and can not inspect it cause they erased it after that.

Page’s phone was never inspected by anyone and was also deleted and lost before being found several months later.

So which part of that is mischaracterized?

The part where you fail to explain that the phone was looked through by federal agents who declared that it had no relevant information.

 

[Bloody Pulp]

The part where you fail to explain that the phone was looked through by federal agents who declared that it had no relevant information.

It was looked through by a special counsel officer, the same special counsel whom strzok was working for. Not by the OIG who was investigating him.

If a cop was under investigation by the feds and the feds asked for the cop’s phone but his department said, “don’t worry fam, we looked and didn’t see anything on it so we deleted everything and kept no record of what was on it.” I assume some would have a problem with that.

I’m fairly certain in fact atleast a few of the folks in here would be in full autisitic screeching mode yelling “bootlicker!” at anyone who said they didn’t see a problem with that.

 

[Bloody Pulp]

The part where you fail to explain that the phone was looked through by federal agents who declared that it had no relevant information.

And only one of their phones was at that.

So again, which part of what I said mischaracterized anything?

 

[Joe]

I'm starting to doubt Trump has the best people