...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly...crony Jona Rechnitz ‐ who recently boasted about being a jeweler to the Kardashian family ‐ is facing a new criminal probe from the FBI in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, for allegedly bilking an investor out of millions of dollars, a court filing shows.
Rechnitz, who’s embroiled in a Los Angeles County civil lawsuit for allegedly failing to pay back the investor, is asking for the case to be delayed because he’s now under a criminal investigation for the same matter ‐ and risks incriminating himself if the case moves forward, court records show.
"Forcing Defendants to litigate this matter ‐ knowing that there is a parallel criminal investigation related to the allegations at issue in the Complaint and that Plaintiff’s goal is to enmesh Defendants in criminal prosecution ‐ would force Defendants to choose between exercising their Fifth Amendment rights and defending themselves in this civil action," Rechnitz’s attorneys wrote in a filing late Monday demanding the stay.
They requested an emergency "ex-parte" hearing on the delay scheduled for Tuesday morning after the judge in the case said he couldn’t hear arguments on their request until next February, the filing shows.
The judge is expected to make a ruling Tuesday morning local time.
Rechnitz ‐ the snitch who claimed in federal corruption probes that de Blasio, high-ranking NYPD officials and the head of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association all accepted bribes from him ‐ is currently appealing his own 10-month prison sentence for his role in the schemes.
But instead of keeping a low profile while cooling his heels, Rechnitz allegedly swindled an unsuspecting investor, Victor Franco Noval, into loaning him millions of dollars for his jewelry company, Jadelle and Jewelry Diamonds, according to the civil lawsuit against him.
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