Another day, another Trump office getting raided by the FBI
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Cohen paid off a porn star in order to cover up a tryst with a presidential candidate.
While it may or may not be something that voters care about - it is a serious breech of campaign finance law, ans as such it is the gateway crime.
Now Mueller can get in there and root around and attorney client privilege does not cover an attorney breaking the law.
While it may or may not be something that voters care about - it is a serious breech of campaign finance law, ans as such it is the gateway crime.
Now Mueller can get in there and root around and attorney client privilege does not cover an attorney breaking the law.
trump should do fine against this creep
Robert Mueller plea-bargained for a 6 month house arrest of California's biggest child porn processor
In the summer of 1999, U.S. Attorney Mueller engaged in plea deal with Asimov, by dropping two counts. At this point, Asimov and his attorney were close to obtaining a sentence which would not involve state prison or forfeiture of assets.
Mueller dropped the ball on the Asimov case. Because of the sealed grand jury testimony and sealed evidence, the public will never know the details about the one thousand of images of child pornography Asimov used and created and stored. The public is expected to believe that Asimov never distributed any of this pornography. From whom did he obtain this pornography. No public evidentiary hearings were ever held. Mueller did a good job protecting child pornographers in California.
Luke Reiter reports for ZDnet that on March 5, 1998, California’s Santa Rosa Police Department arrested David Asimov, 46, and seized more than 4,000 computer disks and videotapes from his Bennett Ridge home. Asimov was charged with four federal counts of possession of child pornography with each count carrying a five year sentence.
Sonoma County Deputy District Attorney Gary Medvigy said:
“There were thousands of disks, thousands of videos. Anything imaginable regarding sex between human beings and human beings, or human beings and animals, was there. Whatever your imagination can conjure up, he had it.”
On March 28, 2001, after David Asimov pled guilty to two counts in a plea bargain deal, U.S. District Court Judge Maxine M. Chesney sentenced him to only six months’ home detention with electronic monitoring and three years’ probation for possessing child pornography.
According to Phil Jahan of LetsRollForums, “Asimov’s child porn stash was so big many child victims and perpetrators would have taken a fall, had Asimov been zealously prosecuted at trial.”
Robert Mueller plea-bargained for a 6 month house arrest of California's biggest child porn processor | WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
Robert Mueller plea-bargained for a 6 month house arrest of California's biggest child porn processor
In the summer of 1999, U.S. Attorney Mueller engaged in plea deal with Asimov, by dropping two counts. At this point, Asimov and his attorney were close to obtaining a sentence which would not involve state prison or forfeiture of assets.
Mueller dropped the ball on the Asimov case. Because of the sealed grand jury testimony and sealed evidence, the public will never know the details about the one thousand of images of child pornography Asimov used and created and stored. The public is expected to believe that Asimov never distributed any of this pornography. From whom did he obtain this pornography. No public evidentiary hearings were ever held. Mueller did a good job protecting child pornographers in California.
Luke Reiter reports for ZDnet that on March 5, 1998, California’s Santa Rosa Police Department arrested David Asimov, 46, and seized more than 4,000 computer disks and videotapes from his Bennett Ridge home. Asimov was charged with four federal counts of possession of child pornography with each count carrying a five year sentence.
Sonoma County Deputy District Attorney Gary Medvigy said:
“There were thousands of disks, thousands of videos. Anything imaginable regarding sex between human beings and human beings, or human beings and animals, was there. Whatever your imagination can conjure up, he had it.”
On March 28, 2001, after David Asimov pled guilty to two counts in a plea bargain deal, U.S. District Court Judge Maxine M. Chesney sentenced him to only six months’ home detention with electronic monitoring and three years’ probation for possessing child pornography.
According to Phil Jahan of LetsRollForums, “Asimov’s child porn stash was so big many child victims and perpetrators would have taken a fall, had Asimov been zealously prosecuted at trial.”
Robert Mueller plea-bargained for a 6 month house arrest of California's biggest child porn processor | WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
Just like all the other “extremely serious and dangerous” things, too numerous to mention, for Trump, since coming down the escalator on June 16, 2015.
Quite clearly Mueller is out of control. He a rogue prosecutor, without limits, boundaries, duration or oversight. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. He has become the Grand Inquisitor, the Master of the Star Chamber.
This warrant is clearly a speculative and arbitrary instrument (on Trump Attorney Cohen). It had to be approved by Mueller's titular boss Rod Rosenstein which mean both these principles are involved in criminal conspiracy of political motives.
Mueller is stomping all over the checks and balances of the U.S. Federal Constitutional System. He has set himself up as a fourth branch of government beyond the checks of the others. He is driven by malice and ambition. He has turned his reputation as an aggressive, pit bull of a prosecutor into a rabid, mad dog of a persecutor.
It is time to kick Mueller's scrawney ass back into retirement; and Rod Rosenstein has proven himself to be incompetent as Deputy Attorney General. Both need to be fired to return some semblance of sanity and due process to the AGs Office. And the guy who should do that is Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General, by rescinding his recusal and taking hold of these hooligan elements, running roughshod through his Office, for the good of the country.
With them should go the facilitators and protectors of this corrupt process including those Republicans in the Senate.. Lindsay Graham and John McCain.. who have shamelessly supported it and threatened dire retribution if any action to remove Mueller is taken.
This warrant is clearly a speculative and arbitrary instrument (on Trump Attorney Cohen). It had to be approved by Mueller's titular boss Rod Rosenstein which mean both these principles are involved in criminal conspiracy of political motives.
Mueller is stomping all over the checks and balances of the U.S. Federal Constitutional System. He has set himself up as a fourth branch of government beyond the checks of the others. He is driven by malice and ambition. He has turned his reputation as an aggressive, pit bull of a prosecutor into a rabid, mad dog of a persecutor.
It is time to kick Mueller's scrawney ass back into retirement; and Rod Rosenstein has proven himself to be incompetent as Deputy Attorney General. Both need to be fired to return some semblance of sanity and due process to the AGs Office. And the guy who should do that is Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General, by rescinding his recusal and taking hold of these hooligan elements, running roughshod through his Office, for the good of the country.
With them should go the facilitators and protectors of this corrupt process including those Republicans in the Senate.. Lindsay Graham and John McCain.. who have shamelessly supported it and threatened dire retribution if any action to remove Mueller is taken.
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Nonsense. This had to approved by a federal judge. What part of that is unconstitutional?
If your hero has nothing to hide why doesn't he just shut up for once in his life?
Not mine. I'm older than that.
Did you know that my ID number in the Armed Forces was my SIN and that is what they put on your ID tags. I memorized it way back then and haven't needed to look at my card for 40 years.
The gift that just keeps on giving.
Deputy attorney general Rosenstein personally approved FBI raid of Trump lawyer, officials say
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/...d-fbi-raid-of-trump-lawyer-officials-say.html
Deputy attorney general Rosenstein personally approved FBI raid of Trump lawyer, officials say
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/...d-fbi-raid-of-trump-lawyer-officials-say.html
Funny part is if Mueller was digging diligently in exactly the same way, but the target was Hillary Clinton, all the people currently calling him a rogue and shrieking about rights would be on their feet cheering.
And all the people currently cheering would be moaning that he's a fascist thug.
Because the tiny fraction who believe principles should apply to all equally is smaller than ever.
Well, I know you wouldn't listen to anything I have to say about it, you'd probably just give me another round of "you're not a real lawyer." So here's what Ken White, defense attorney with Brown White & Osborn, and a former Federal prosecutor, has to say about it. . .
"What does this tell us? First, it reflects that numerous officials — not just Mr. Mueller — concluded that there was probable cause to believe that Mr. Cohen’s law office, home and hotel room contained evidence of a federal crime. A search warrant for a lawyer’s office implicates the attorney-client privilege and core constitutional rights, so the Department of Justice requires unusual levels of approval to seek one. Prosecutors must seek the approval of the United States attorney of the district — in this case the office of Geoffrey Berman, the interim United States attorney appointed by President Trump.
Prosecutors must also consult with the criminal division of the Justice Department in Washington. Finally, prosecutors must convince a United States magistrate judge that there’s probable cause to support the search. Faced with a warrant application destined for immediate worldwide publicity, the judge surely took unusual pains to examine it. This search was not the result of Mr. Mueller or his staff “going rogue.”
Second, the search demonstrates that federal prosecutors and supervisors in the Justice Department concluded that Mr. Cohen could not be trusted to preserve and turn over documents voluntarily. The same regulations that require prosecutors to seek high-level approval for a warrant to search a law office also instruct them to use the least intrusive means to obtain evidence from a lawyer, and to consider requesting voluntary cooperation or serving a subpoena. Mr. Cohen’s lawyer has loudly protested that he had been cooperating. This search warrant means that prosecutors — including the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the criminal division at the Justice Department — believed that Mr. Cohen could not be trusted to respond fully to a subpoena or might destroy documents.
Third, the search suggests that prosecutors most likely believe that Mr. Cohen’s clients used his legal services for the purpose of engaging in crime or fraud. Attorney-client communications are privileged, which is why it’s so unusual and difficult for prosecutors to get approval to search a law office. Justice Department regulations require federal prosecutors to set up a system to have a separate group — a so-called dirty team — review the files and separate out attorney-client communications so that the investigators and prosecutors won’t see anything protected by the privilege."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/...d of non-whites and women. I am truly sorry.
And all the people currently cheering would be moaning that he's a fascist thug.
Because the tiny fraction who believe principles should apply to all equally is smaller than ever.
Well, I know you wouldn't listen to anything I have to say about it, you'd probably just give me another round of "you're not a real lawyer." So here's what Ken White, defense attorney with Brown White & Osborn, and a former Federal prosecutor, has to say about it. . .
"What does this tell us? First, it reflects that numerous officials — not just Mr. Mueller — concluded that there was probable cause to believe that Mr. Cohen’s law office, home and hotel room contained evidence of a federal crime. A search warrant for a lawyer’s office implicates the attorney-client privilege and core constitutional rights, so the Department of Justice requires unusual levels of approval to seek one. Prosecutors must seek the approval of the United States attorney of the district — in this case the office of Geoffrey Berman, the interim United States attorney appointed by President Trump.
Prosecutors must also consult with the criminal division of the Justice Department in Washington. Finally, prosecutors must convince a United States magistrate judge that there’s probable cause to support the search. Faced with a warrant application destined for immediate worldwide publicity, the judge surely took unusual pains to examine it. This search was not the result of Mr. Mueller or his staff “going rogue.”
Second, the search demonstrates that federal prosecutors and supervisors in the Justice Department concluded that Mr. Cohen could not be trusted to preserve and turn over documents voluntarily. The same regulations that require prosecutors to seek high-level approval for a warrant to search a law office also instruct them to use the least intrusive means to obtain evidence from a lawyer, and to consider requesting voluntary cooperation or serving a subpoena. Mr. Cohen’s lawyer has loudly protested that he had been cooperating. This search warrant means that prosecutors — including the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the criminal division at the Justice Department — believed that Mr. Cohen could not be trusted to respond fully to a subpoena or might destroy documents.
Third, the search suggests that prosecutors most likely believe that Mr. Cohen’s clients used his legal services for the purpose of engaging in crime or fraud. Attorney-client communications are privileged, which is why it’s so unusual and difficult for prosecutors to get approval to search a law office. Justice Department regulations require federal prosecutors to set up a system to have a separate group — a so-called dirty team — review the files and separate out attorney-client communications so that the investigators and prosecutors won’t see anything protected by the privilege."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/...d of non-whites and women. I am truly sorry.
If my memory serves, the final, beginning of the end for Richard Nixon was when he fired his Justice officials for their "anti-American" activities against him.
What just happened to trump's personal attorney has never happened before in the hole history of the US of A.
It was entirely a criminal commienazi police state move.
Next it will be the turn of all the flunkies that helped run the coup.
It was entirely a criminal commienazi police state move.
Next it will be the turn of all the flunkies that helped run the coup.
Hi! DanBones
Are you saying that this is the first time a presidents lawyer's office was raided?
Are you saying that this is the first time a presidents lawyer's office was raided?
What just happened to trump's personal attorney has never happened before in the hole history of the US of A.
It was entirely a criminal commienazi police state move.
Next it will be the turn of all the flunkies that helped run the coup.
It just goes to show how deeply dirty this Presidency is, eh?
brings to mind the words of the ex head of the CIA who tweeted something to the affect that when people found out how crooked this guy really is they will be shocked.
I have no doubt whatsoever the Donald J Trump has done some horrible things in his life.
I have no doubt whatsoever the Donald J Trump has done some horrible things in his life.
Only if you ar looking out the back of yr pants
Wait till the IG report comes out in the next couple days...then we'll talk "dirty"