PBP: P01135809 Trump Espionage, Coup, Conspiracy, Racketeering, Fraud & Obstruction Trial Thread

Yeah, I actually knew that. But I enjoyed writing "guilty," because that is what he is. (No doubt I would not have written that way if I were a lawyer, because doing so would have set my teeth on edge.)

 

If I remember right about Bragg, is that he said that the case wasn’t trial ready.

Did Bragg shut down the investigation? Or is this kinda like our criticism of Garland that it all happened so slowly that it makes it look like incompetence? I really dont know the answer here.

 

You know how after you've been smelling sulfur for several hours, you no longer smell sulfur? That's Trump. He smells so powerfully of rotten eggs that most people can't process it any more. Whatever he does now, it's a shrug.

 

Part of the fraud was that he claimed his NY home was 30,000 square feet when it’s 10,000.

Which means he thinks his dick is 9 inches long.

 

So if the business license belongs to a parent company that owns billion dollar buildings in Manhattan, a judge can issue a summary ruling to have entire buildings siezed up-and-down Park Avenue with the swing of a gavel? If that's the case, what legal safeguards does any business have against the weight of the U.S government once they become a target?

 

Be pre-emptive- don't do anything to make your business a target.
If you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have anything to worry about

 

Don't lie on legal or contractual documents.

 

Socialism!

 

Not really. If a company is legally dissolved for whatever reason, its assets get sold and dispersed to pay taxes, creditors and, if anything is left, the shareholders. The government isn’t seizing the property here.

Anyway, read the decision. It lays out what’s happening pretty clearly.

 

Is the dissolution of assets being forced in this case? I didn't see the word "dissolve" in the decision.

 

No, not yet. But, dissolving a company is a potential result if the company in question is essentially operating as a criminal enterprise. The Bernie Madoff case is a good example. A court can take over such an enterprise, appoint a receiver, and have the company dissolved.

 

No. It's an important distinction. If he and his sons had been found guilty of criminal charges of fraud, we'd be having a very different (and more entertaining) conversation right now.

 

Not committing fraud. HTH.

 

New York real estate people have an insanely strong lobby as one would imagine. They generally do not come after real estate developers until you get to egregious. In criminal LE terms, You can rob people, you can rob the liquor store, you could probably rob a bank but it's when you start robbing three Banks, they're like okay we got to shut them down.

So he was always relatively never that big of a fish but then you know he wants to become president and run his mouth and start taking shots at the sitting AG, you gonna have some problems.

 

Gee, if only there was some history of malfeasance

Washington Post reporter Michael Kranish, co-author of the book Trump Revealed, tells NPR's Robert Siegel that the Justice Department considered the case "one of the most significant race bias cases" at the time.

It was a suit that was directly against them, and it is one that Donald Trump to this day clearly is upset about.

Michael Kranish

"They signed what was called a consent order," Kranish says. "Trump fought the case for two years. ... He says it was very easy, but actually he fought the case for two years."

The Trumps took essentially the first settlement offer the federal government provided, Kranish says; the Trumps did not, in fact, have to admit guilt in settling the suit.

This sounds familiar:

The case eventually was settled two years later after Trump tried to countersue the Justice Department for $100 million for making false statements. Those allegations were dismissed by the court.

https://www.npr.org/2016/09/29/4959...ed-by-decades-old-housing-discrimination-case

 

That should be blaring news...

Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey told MSNBC that Donald Trump’s threats to military leaders “is a parallel to the 1930s in Nazi Germany.”

Said McCaffrey: “That’s 15-25 House members, a couple of Senators, and all those who are Trump MAGA loyalists—it’s a major threat to the armed forces of the United States.