[The Federalist] The sentencing memorandum reveals for the first time concrete evidence that the FBI created multiple summaries of Michael Flynn’s questioning, which may indicate they’re hiding the truth.
On Tuesday, attorneys for Michael Flynn filed a sentencing memorandum and letters of support for the former Army lieutenant general in federal court. The sentencing memorandum reveals for the first time concrete evidence that the FBI created multiple 302 interview summaries of Flynn’s questioning by now-former FBI agent Peter Strzok and a second unnamed agent, reported to be FBI Special Agent Joe Pientka.
Further revelations may be forthcoming soon following an order entered late yesterday by presiding judge Emmet Sullivan, directing the special counsel’s office to file with the court any 302s or memorandum relevant to Flynn’s interview.
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[FOX] One day after former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's legal team made the bombshell allegation that the FBI had pushed him not to bring a lawyer to his fateful Jan. 24, 2017 interview with agents at the White House, the federal judge overseeing Flynn's criminal case is demanding answers from Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ordered Mueller late Wednesday to turn over all of the government's documents and "memoranda" related to Flynn's questioning. The extraordinary demand puts Mueller under the microscope, and sets a 3:00 p.m. EST Friday deadline for the special counsel's office to produce the sensitive FBI documents.
Sullivan -- who overturned the 2008 conviction of former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens after government misconduct came to light -- is weighing how to sentence Flynn, who pleaded guilty to one count of lying to federal authorities during the 2017 interview in the West Wing. Flynn faced mounting legal bills that forced him to sell his home amid the prosecution, and Mueller has already recommended he receive no prison time.
The judge's brief order states that Mueller can choose to file the materials under seal if necessary.
Sullivan also ordered the Flynn team to turn over the documents backing up its assertions. The judge could determine why the FBI apparently took a significantly more aggressive tack in handling the Flynn interview than it did during other similar matters, including the agency's sit-downs with Hillary Clinton and ex-Trump adviser George Papadopoulos.
Flynn is set to be sentenced next Tuesday -- but Sullivan's move might delay that date, or lead to other dramatic and unexpected changes in the case. Sullivan even has the authority to toss Flynn's guilty plea and the charge against him if he concludes that the FBI interfered with Flynn's constitutional right to counsel, although he has given no indications that he intends to do so.
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The judge's brief order states that Mueller can choose to file the materials under seal if necessary.
So basically this is a nothing story. In my opinion, Mueller won't turn over shit until he's hung by his toes over some tourist tar pit. At the bottom of hell.
Yes Virginia deporting him to Guam might be funnier.
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The only reason I can imagine why these documents are so sensitive is that they're gonna show the FBI screwed up.
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The documents are going to show that the feebs lied and committed numerous felonies in their frame up job on Gen. Flynn. If they see the light of day, they will also cut the legs out from under Mueller's investigation and clear the way for the Obama/Clinton crime cartel to be indicted.
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Team Mueller won't turn over the documents--doctored or not--for that exact reason. Judge Sullivan who has a history of throwing the book at DOJ (Ted Stevens trial) will toss out the case and issue some stern words but not take it further than that.
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If he turns them over, the judge will see coercion, and denial of constitutional rights. And toss the entire Flynn case which opens up any of the others based of fruit of the poisoned tree, and Mueller's entire framework of lies unravels.
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@#5: Judge Sullivan already sees that this whole mess is rotten to the core. He knows what is going on. Whether the SC complies with the order or not I expect the judge is going to vacate the plea and toss the case.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, was sentenced to a total of three years in prison on Wednesday for his role in making illegal hush-money payments to women to help Trump’s 2016 election campaign and lying to Congress about a proposed Trump Tower project in Russia.
US District Judge William Pauley in Manhattan sentenced Cohen to three years for the payments, which violated campaign finance law, and to two months for the false statements to Congress. The two terms will run concurrently.
Cohen pleaded guilty to the campaign finance charge in August and to making false statements in November.
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No doubt he deserves it, and no doubt nothing would've happened to him if he wasn't Trump's lawyer.
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Looks like they took the 'tax evasion' charge off the docket. I've been trying to figure out how Mueller would have concluded Cohen was guilty of 'tax evasion' in spite of clearing at least one IRS audit without that charge.
[Twitchy] "I would love to be able to regulate the content of speech. The First Amendment prevents me from doing so". They are fascists. Don't let them take your guns and rights or you WILL end up in a camp. People like him are why we have a First Amendment.
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Former law clerk with the Ninth Circus of Appeals.
Immigrated to Ohio from Taiwan where eating your dogs and cats is extremely popular.
Lieu and Yee in California successfully convinced the LPGA that speaking Chinese as an official language is a must.
Is a snowflake when it comes to "cyber bullying".
Notorious for being totally disconnected from his Asian constituents.
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Taken out of context if I read another news article correctly. Sort of Donk humor. I think ....
How they become millionaires.
[Free Beacon] Democratic senator Sherrod Brown (Ohio) has raked in millions of dollars from the financial and banking sectors despite depicting himself as an anti-Wall Street populist.
Brown, who is weighing a run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, has raised more than $7.3 million from the finance, insurance, and real estate industries since joining Congress in 1998. Of that total, more than $1.8 million came from donors in the security and investment industry‐a subsection of Wall Street.
The overwhelming majority of those contributions to Brown‐more than $6 million‐began pouring into his coffers after his election to the U.S. Senate in 2006. As denoted by the Center for Responsive Politics, the donations have only increased in scale since 2015 when Brown became the top Democrat on the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee.
The senator has accepted the donations while simultaneously denouncing Wall Street and "corporate greed." Earlier this year, Brown laid out his views on the industry: "Wall Street’s business model systematically undermines American workers," Brown told an Americans for Financial Reform forum in July. "Corporations and their CEOs focus almost exclusively on their quarterly performance in the stock market.... We need to change how we think about the economy‐CEOs don’t drive the economy."
"We need policies that restructure our economy so that workers share in the profits they create, and Wall Street doesn't determine when workers keep their jobs or how much is in their paychecks."
Despite the tough rhetoric, Brown's support from the financial and banking sectors has continued to flow unabated.
During his reelection campaign this year, the senator pulled in more than $5 million from finance, insurance, and real estate interests. A substantial portion of that amount‐more than $1 million‐was raised from the security and investment industry. Overall, more than $3.3 million of the contributions came from individual donors, while more than $1.7 million came from industry-affiliated PACs.
[USA TODAY] NEW YORK ‐ The owner of the National Enquirer has admitted the company paid off a former Playboy model to squelch her account of an alleged sexual affair that could have jeopardized Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
New York federal prosecutors on Wednesday disclosed that the intent of a $150,000 payment American Media Inc. gave the woman in August 2016 "was to suppress the model's story so as to prevent it from influencing the election."
Without naming Trump, prosecutors released a nonprosecution agreement with American Media that said the transaction was made "in cooperation, consultation, and concert with ... one or more members or agents of a candidate's 2016 presidential campaign."
The filing similarly did not identify Karen McDougal, the former Playboy model who contacted a National Enquirer editor in June 2016 in an effort to sell her account of a 10-month sexual affair she said she'd had with Trump in 2006 and 2007.
However, the outlines of the nonprosecution agreement generally match McDougal's previous public statements about Trump and the National Enquirer.
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Even if proven true its not a campaign contribution is one is likely to do it anyway. And to save his family and help stock, etc, Trump probably would have paid to have it go away (doesn't mean guilt either).
#3
Yet another example of how the Federal Election Commission and the arcane campaign finance laws are a truly undemocratic boondoggle. Public welfare support for lawyers and interest groups...
[USA Today] California's Public Utilities Commission is considering a plan that would charge mobile phone users a fee for sending text messages, according to recent public law filings.
The proposal is partially due to landline-era legislation coupled with the fact the people are shifting patterns away from voice calls in favor of texting.
California is determining whether surcharges and user fees on text messaging comply with Public Purpose Programs, which use tax revenue to make telecommunications services accessible to low-income residents. The programs, which date to the 1930s, were given a face-lift in the late 1990s, allowing individual states to impose requirements to preserve what's referred to as a "universal service."
During the rise of the internet, the telecommunications industry was able to elude these taxes by offering "information services" like email and web browsing.
However, as mobile phone users shifted their behavior away from making phone calls, voice call revenue for these state programs has dropped by about a third, from $16.5 billion in 2011 to $11.3 billion in 2017, according to law filings.
Meanwhile, the budget for subsidizing poorer users has risen by almost half, from $670 million in 2011 to $998 million in 2017, the filings said.
The wireless industry argues added fees would put carriers at a higher disadvantage since messaging services like Apple's iMessage, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger would not be charged under the proposed legislation.
I would imagine they will take a run at taxing anyone who texts someone in Cali from out of state...
"No state shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection laws: and the net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any state on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the treasury of the United States; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Congress." Art I, Section 10.
Oh, and 'tax benefits' for the company who comes up with an app which texts the user their location every crossing of an intersection.
In the guise of a number of silly games to choose from. The 'Turn off texting' option in the game only puts the texts in the background; the still happen they just do not show.
Oh, and admissible in court, so if the mark goes out of state to avoid taxes, those taxes can be collected, or if the mark goes to a plus ungood or, gasp, double plus ungood location like a gun range, then the mark will accumulate bad bad choice points which, after reaching certain levels, will trigger certain levels of state examinations - you know, for the public safety.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
"I would love to be able to regulate the content of speech. The First Amendment prevents me from doing so".
[USA TODAY] NEW YORK ‐ The owner of the National Enquirer has admitted the company paid off a former Playboy model to squelch her account of an alleged sexual affair that could have jeopardized Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
