"Trump granted clemency to private-equity CEO David Gentile—who had just begun serving a seven-year sentence for orchestrating a $1.6bn fraud that diverted investor money to luxury personal expenses—"
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Gentile #corruption #crime #PaytoPlay #grift #RuleofLaw
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William Lindsey
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"freeing him less than two weeks after he reported to prison, despite regulators’ findings that thousands of investors lost their savings and ongoing questions about any ties between Gentile and Trump."
#Trump #Gentile #corruption #crime #PaytoPlay #grift #RuleofLaw
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Robert Reich features a statement made by former federal judge Mark L. Wolf explaining why he resigned from the federal bench in early November. Wolf states,
"The White House’s assault on the rule of law is so deeply disturbing to me that I feel compelled to speak out. Silence, for me, is now intolerable. ...
What Nixon did episodically and covertly, knowing it was illegal or improper, Trump now does routinely and overtly."
#Trump #corruption #crime #RuleofLaw
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Winner of this week’s Joseph Welch Award
Robert ReichWilliam Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"After Trump launched his own cryptocurrency, $TRUMP, his Department of Justice disbanded its cryptocurrency-enforcement unit. The top 220 buyers of Trump’s cryptocurrency were invited to a dinner with Trump. Sixty-seven of them had invested more than $1 million. The top spender, Justin Sun, who was born in China and is a foreign national, reportedly spent more than $10 million."
#Trump #corruption #crime #RuleofLaw #crypto #grift #JustinSun
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"Sun also reportedly spent $75 million on investments issued by a crypto company controlled by Trump’s family. It is illegal for people who are not U.S. citizens to donate to American political candidates, and the most that anyone can donate directly to one candidate is $3,500. Ordinarily, the Department of Justice would investigate this sort of situation."
#Trump #corruption #crime #RuleofLaw #crypto #grift #JustinSun
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"There is, however, no indication that any investigation has occurred. Rather, a few months after Sun started purchasing tokens from the Trump-family cryptocurrency company, the Securities and Exchange Commission paused its fraud suit against Sun and his companies pending the outcome of settlement negotiations."
#Trump #corruption #crime #RuleofLaw #crypto #grift #JustinSun
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My camera shoots fascists
in reply to William Lindsey • • •William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"President Donald Trump sprung a fellow convicted fraudster from prison this week after the man had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for a $1.6 billion Ponzi scheme. …
The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House for comment on this story."
~ Will Neal
#Trump #Gentile #corruption #crime #PaytoPlay #grift #RuleofLaw
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Convicted Fraudster Trump, 79, Frees Man Convicted of $1.6B Fraud
Will Neal (The Daily Beast)William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •“'Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?'
Augustine made this suggestion 1,600 years ago, in The City of God. Today, in the country of Trump, we’re getting a convincing demonstration of Augustine’s proposition. Justice has been removed and a gang of criminals are in charge."
~ William Kristol
#Trump #criminals #corruption #crime #PaytoPlay #grift #RuleofLaw
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Sex Crimes. State Crimes. War Crimes.
William Kristol (The Bulwark)Alex P Roe
in reply to William Lindsey • • •GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺
in reply to Alex P Roe • • •Why, Alex, what an INTERESTING question! It's of course a bit far-fetched, but as somebody once famously said: never say never! Right? Right??
@wdlindsy
Alex P Roe
in reply to GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺 • • •GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺
in reply to Alex P Roe • • •One tends to forget since he's such a selfless president, but you have a point! 😉
@wdlindsy
tessarakt
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Ylönën
in reply to William Lindsey • • •Medea Vanamonde 🏳️⚧️
in reply to William Lindsey • • •$TRUMP?
STRUMP!!!!
As in STRUMPET?!?!?!?