Legal Random, Random

[ti-amie]

If he thought they'd send him to some country club jail to golf and tennis all day he's now got his rude awakening.

[Owendonovan]

Womp Womp wah.

[ponchi101]

When will we see a similar tweet about another, far more important, criminal that is playing golf right now?

[ti-amie]

That other criminal is busy trying to bait Judge Chutkan to respond to his attacks on her so that he can have his "lawyers" try and move the trial to West Virginia (no lie). Can't have all of those people in DC sitting in judgement of him dont'cha know.

The judge in the NYC case told him to pound sand. He was trying to get him removed because he donated $35.00 to the Democrats and the firm his daughter works for did PR work for the Dems at some point.

[ti-amie]

[ponchi101]

These people are such a pain. You are IN PRISON; you don't get to choose the menu.

[Owendonovan]

Peter Navarro Convicted of Contempt of Congress Over Jan. 6 Subpoena
The verdict made Mr. Navarro the second top adviser to former President Donald J. Trump to be found guilty of contempt for defying the House committee’s investigation.

Zach Montague
By Zach Montague
Reporting from Washington

Sept. 7, 2023
Updated 6:37 p.m. ET
Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser to President Donald J. Trump, was convicted on Thursday of two counts of criminal contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

The verdict, coming after nearly four hours of deliberation in Federal District Court in Washington, made Mr. Navarro the second top adviser of Mr. Trump’s to be found guilty in connection to the committee’s inquiry. Stephen K. Bannon, a former strategist for Mr. Trump who was convicted of the same offense last summer, faces four months in prison and remains free on appeal.

Mr. Navarro, 74, stood to the side of his lawyers’ table, stroking his chin as the verdict was read aloud. Each count carries a maximum of one year in prison and a fine of up to $100,000. A hearing to determine his sentence was scheduled for January.

Speaking outside the courthouse afterward, Mr. Navarro repeatedly vowed to appeal his conviction.

“I am willing to go to prison to settle this issue, I’m willing to do that,” he said. “But I also know that the likelihood of me going to prison is relatively small because we are right on this issue.”

The jury’s decision handed a victory to the House committee, which had sought to penalize senior members of the Trump administration who refused to cooperate with one of the chief investigations into the Capitol riot.

The trial also amounted to an unusual test of congressional authority. Since the 1970s, referrals for criminal contempt of Congress have rarely resulted in the Justice Department’s bringing charges. Mr. Navarro was indicted last June on two misdemeanor counts of contempt, one for failing to appear for a deposition and another for refusing to provide documents in response to the committee’s subpoena.

The rapid pace of the trial reflected, in part, the fact that the case turned on a straightforward question, whether Mr. Navarro had willfully defied lawmakers in flouting a subpoena. Even before the trial began, Judge Amit P. Mehta, who presided over the case, dealt a blow to Mr. Navarro by ruling that he could not use in court what he has publicly cast as his principal defense: that Mr. Trump personally directed him not to cooperate and that he was protected by those claims of executive privilege.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/07/us/p ... -jury.html

[ti-amie]

More criming by "George Santos"

New charges for Santos: stealing donor IDs, unauthorized credit card use
Rep. George Santos now faces 23 counts, according to a superseding indictment made public on Tuesday

By Anumita Kaur
October 10, 2023 at 6:48 p.m. EDT

A superseding indictment made public Tuesday charges Rep. George Santos with stealing the identities of family members and using donors’ credit cards to spend thousands of dollars, five months after the freshman congressman was charged with a host of other financial crimes.

Santos, 35, faces 10 additional charges, according to the indictment: one count of conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, two counts of wire fraud, two counts of making materially false statements to the Federal Election Commission, two counts of falsifying records submitted to obstruct the Federal Election Commission, two counts of aggravated identity theft, and one count of access device fraud.

In May, Santos was charged with 13 counts related to allegedly defrauding his donors, using their money for his personal benefit and wrongfully claiming unemployment benefits. Those charges included seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds, and two counts of making materially false statements to the United States House of Representatives. He pleaded not guilty.

“As alleged, Santos is charged with stealing people’s identities and making charges on his own donors’ credit cards without their authorization, lying to the FEC and, by extension, the public about the financial state of his campaign. Santos falsely inflated the campaign’s reported receipts with non-existent loans and contributions that were either fabricated or stolen,” U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said in a statement Tuesday. “This office will relentlessly pursue criminal charges against anyone who uses the electoral process as an opportunity to defraud the public and our government institutions.”

Santos, who is expected to appear in federal court on the additional charges on Oct. 27, did not immediately respond to request for comment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... donor-ids/

[patrick]

However, no one in House will evict Santos especially with no speaker

[ti-amie]

However, no one in House will evict Santos especially with no speaker

That doesn't even matter to them. Imagine if a Democratic Representative had been caught vaping and performing a sex act in a theater. The press and the GQP would've hounded her out of Congress. Santos criming is like you said something they will say "we can't do anything because no Speaker" just like the anecdote about the person who murdered their parents and asked for mercy because they're an orphan.

[Owendonovan]

However, no one in House will evict Santos especially with no speaker

Here's the slimmest of chances. I'd like to congratulate these republicans, but they just did the bare minimum, a year late.


Santos Faces New Expulsion Push by Onetime Allies: N.Y. Republicans
Six G.O.P. freshmen from New York said they would move to oust Representative George Santos amid new charges. But any vote faces a daunting threshold.
A clutch of Republican House members from New York began pushing on Wednesday to expel one of their own, Representative George Santos, amid mounting federal charges that he defrauded donors and lied about his campaign finances.

The group of six New York freshmen announced plans to swiftly introduce an expulsion resolution to try to capitalize on a spate of new charges against Mr. Santos and a vacuum in House Republican leadership, hoping to whip up enough support to rid themselves and their party of a major political liability ahead of next year’s elections.

“We feel that enough’s enough,” said Representative Anthony D’Esposito, one of the most vulnerable Republican freshman, who represents an adjoining New York district to Mr. Santos’s. “He’s a stain on the institution.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/11/nyre ... icans.html

[patrick]

Agreed about the year too late as the replacement will not have much time to serve about time if he is let go,

[ti-amie]

They get a chance to replace him with a MAGAt for the rest of his term. They don't do anything for the "right" reasons.

[Owendonovan]

I will blindly hope "once bitten, twice shy" enters voters minds.

[dryrunguy]

Indictments. The latest in Republican Resume Building...