cuttlefish are cool!
tRump - not so much
The Trump Org is guilty on all counts of criminal tax fraud.
Sentencing to follow.
Edit:
Conspiracy: guilty
Tax fraud: guilty
Tax fraud again: guilty
Tax fraud yet again: guilty
—though the company is likely to only face a relatively small fine.
Wha happa?
From the Forbes piece, it looks like the “corporate death penalty” is still in play:
The Manhattan prosecutors’ case against the Trump Organization that went to trial is separate from a civil fraud case against the company brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. James sued the Trump Organization, Trump himself, his children and business associates in September, alleging the company fraudulently inflated the value of its assets on financial statements more than 200 times over the course of a decade, in order to obtain more favorable business terms and inflate Trump’s net worth. That case, which is set to go to trial in October 2023, could result in greater punishments for the Trump Organization than the Manhattan case. James is asking the court to impose a range of penalties, including canceling certificates for Trump’s businesses, barring Trump from engaging in any commercial real estate acquisitions for five years, blocking him and his children from serving as officers or directors in any New York business and forcing the defendants to pay an approximately $250 million fine. The court has also already ordered an independent monitor to oversee the company’s activities until a final judgment is reached at trial.
Their reliability is, well, questionable. At best.
No classified documents were found, but someone really needs to empty the shredder.
Could this be a factor in his “love affair” with Kim?
Bottom feeder gonna bottom feed.
meet the next Senate candidate endorsed by tRump.
Rebecca Solnit on FBook:
A friend wonders if Trump is over. I’d say yes. He will continue to make as much chaos and claim as much attention as possible, but basically he’s got no good future and no real route back to power. We’re now at the stage when the Republicans, like scorpions in a jar, turn on each other, so make some popcorn and enjoy the schadenfreude. Murdoch on Trump, Trump on DeSantis, Ivanka pretending she was anywhere else the last six years, McCarthy unable to get real loyalty from his troops, McConnell maybe never coming back to senate leadership (thank you Rev. Warnock and Annabel), and a whole lot of them in a whole lot of trouble: Alex Jones, Steve Bannon, Manafort, Flynn, Giuliani, and maybe something special coming from Georgia for Sen. Graham and General Flynn.And the most of it for DJT, who’s got more kinds of trouble coming at him than he can count and lawyers who are kind of afraid to fully back him, because they know he’s so shifty. And all those insurrectionists in jail, and all those Republicans blaming each other and Trump for the recent election results. Pence is an outcast, Romney is on his own, Cheney is in conflict with her party, Sarah Palin was defeated by a newcomer Democrat (the great Mary Peltola). They had their rampage and now they’re paying. I mean, the war isn’t over, but this is not their day.
Dahlia Lithwick wrote today about the Supreme Court case brought by NC Republicans who want to overthrow all regulation of elections: “It’s a trend. There is no disputing that election deniers and coup enthusiasts were roundly shellacked in the midterms. Vigilante violence at polling places didn’t end up happening. Polls show that for voters, protecting democracy was a huge motivator and priority. Even the most rabid voices attacking election integrity ended up conceding defeat, and the handful who refused were ignored into oblivion. It is at least plausible that the midterms, in tandem with Donald Trump’s rapidly plummeting fortunes, prove that Americans prefer that their democracy play out at the ballot box, and not—with all due respect to Ginni Thomas—in backroom deals about fake electors. Efforts to invalidate election results through vote suppression, election subversion, personal manipulation, and even, at worst, violence are not a winning program with voters, it turns out.”
