[HotAir] Lil' Mussolini. My how the mighty have fallen.
Democrats have been working overtime in New York in an effort to seize Donald Trump's commercial and private property, including his estate at Mar-a-Lago. Thus far those efforts have come up short, but they may have inadvertently given others some ideas that could come back to bite one of their own. In Baltimore, former State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby is facing sentencing on a variety of charges ranging from perjury to fraud, including the fraudulent use of pandemic relief funds to buy luxury real estate holdings in Florida. On Friday, federal prosecutors in the case filed a motion asking the court to allow them to seize one of Mosby's vacation condos there as partial payment for the fines she will be expected to pay. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. (Baltimore Sun)
Federal prosecutors filed notice Friday that they will ask to seize former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s Florida vacation condo on the same day as her sentencing on perjury and mortgage fraud charges.
The government indicated early on in the case that it would seek forfeiture. Friday’s filing formalizes prosecutors’ request and sets up the possibility of a legal fight over the condo at Mosby’s May 23 sentencing.
The government intends to sell the condo, according to the motion, which Mosby bought in February 2021 for $476,000. If there are profits from the sale, Mosby would get back her $47,600 down payment, prosecutors wrote.
As we previously discussed, Mosby has publicly called on Joe Biden to issue her a pardon so she can avoid all of this trouble. Unfortunately for her, Biden appears to have more than enough problems on his own plate at the moment. Overriding a series of lawful convictions in a case of official corruption and fraud probably wouldn't do much for his already plummeting poll numbers. In past cases of officials being prosecuted and receiving stiff financial penalties, the debt has typically followed them around once they were released from prison. That was the case with Rod Blagojevich, one of four of the past ten Illinois governors who wound up going to jail. He was hit with some hefty fines, but the court didn't wind up taking his property.
Perhaps we'll be seeing more of this in the future, however. This happens more often than some might think. There are three types of asset forfeiture available to the courts. These are described as criminal forfeiture, civil judicial forfeiture, and administrative forfeiture. Mosby would be facing criminal forfeiture, while Donald Trump is being threatened with civil judicial forfeiture in the hush money case. The courts are able to either seize the title to your property or order banks and other financial institutions to place a hold on your financial assets so you are unable to access them.
I suppose an action like this could send a message to other public officials and would likely be seen as justice being served in Mosby's case. But it still doesn't address the more important, underlying question. How is it that we keep ending up with public officials who violate the trust of the voters and seek to line their own pockets illegally? This is particularly problematic in Baltimore, where a series of mayors and City Council members have wound up in handcuffs. We are currently only a couple of weeks away from the city's mayoral primary, which winds up being effectively the same as the general election. The latest polling shows that former Mayor Sheila Dixon is running neck-and-neck in her bid to return to office.
This is the same Sheila Dixon who was driven from office and only barely avoided prison time after being convicted of fraud, theft, and criminal misappropriation. (She was sentenced to four years probation in a sweetheart plea deal.) And now the voters of Baltimore appear to be poised to potentially put her back in office. There is the answer to the question above. We keep winding up with politicians going on trial for criminal activity because we keep electing the same pack of criminals over and over again. Who is really to blame here... the politicians or the voters?
[ZERO] Special Counsel Jack Smith's team admitted on Friday that key evidence in Trump's classified documents case was altered or manipulated - leaving two different chronologies; one that was digitally scanned vs. what's in the actual boxes.
Smith also misled the court, after originally telling U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that the boxes remained "in their original, intact form as seized," when in a footnote they conceded that they removed classified documents and left placeholder sheets, which prosecutors acknowledged has created an "inconsistent" record - in which some of the documents are no longer in the same order as they appear in digital scans made in the fall of 2022.
"The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court," the footnote reads, according to Just the News.
The finding comes after Cannon ordered a review into whether the FBI may have seized legally privileged records in response to a request from Trump co-defendant Walt Nauta.
So when will the "Politically Created" Trump case be tossed-out?
When will Jack Smith and other DOJ/ _ _ _ higher-ups arrested and charged?
Because: Treason, Subversion, Perjury, False Arrest, Evidence Tampering, Massive Organized Voter Fraud, Civil Rights Abuses, and a Political Coup are all serious Felonies.
Seriously, at the very least, several Upper Level types in the DOJ/_ _ _ need to be ID'd & indicted.
Remember, If they can do it to a popular Former President, think of how easy it would be to use the same process to falsely accuse any politically opposite citizen.
Disclaimer: No, I do not plan to commit suicide, die from a sudden cancer or Heart Attack. But I can't rule out the usual HC/DC QT processes, a robber with gun, train, or Hit-n-Run. 🤣
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Stunning to nobody. We all suspected this from about 5 minutes after the raid was announced. Stunning only that the truth sort of leaked like some test flatulence.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
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"The Government acknowledges that this is inconsistent with what Government counsel previously understood and represented to the Court,"
And the trial better end soon, because we're running out of weasel words! (Translated from government rear-end-covering: "We lied.")
Posted by: Tom ||
05/05/2024 14:13 Comments ||
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In any 'normal' criminal case, you mess up the evidence, it get thrown out.
[NYPOST] The Biden administration warned Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday that legal action will be taken if it enforces a new law that allows authorities to arrest migrants colonists who were previously denied entry or deported from the US — as she and the state attorney general vow they "will not back down."
In a letter to the Hawkeye State governor, a Justice Department official called the measure unconstitutional and gave the state a May 7 deadline to suspend enforcement of Senate File 2340, which Reynolds signed into law earlier this month.
The DOJ official argued that the law "effectively creates a separate state immigration scheme," which "intrudes into a field that is occupied by the federal government and is preempted."
Boynton further claimed the law violates the Immigration and Nationality Act and conflicts "with various provisions of federal law permitting noncitizens to seek protection from removal to avoid persecution or torture."
[GatewayPundit] Lefty actor Mark Hamill made an appearance at the White House press briefing today for some reason. He apparently had just met with Joe Biden, again, who knows why?
The Hill reports:
If you’ve spent any time on Twitter/X, you know that Mark Hamill is more famous for his hatred of Trump than for his role as Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies.
Mark Hamill calls Biden ’Joe-B-Wan Kenobi’ in White House press room appearance
Mark Hamill says the force is with President Biden — the actor made a surprise visit Friday to the White House briefing room and offered a "Star Wars"-inspired nickname for the commander in chief.
"How many of you had ’Mark Hamill will lead the press briefing’ on your bingo cards?" Hamill, sporting a pair of sunglasses, told reporters at the top of the White House’s press briefing.
[GEO.TV] Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday came to the former US president Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... 's rescue after Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro Nazified the beleaguered presidential nominee by likening him to German dictator Adolf Hitler.
In a recent interview with MSNBC’s The 11th Hour, De Niro said, "I’m tired of calling him names...He is really, genuinely a sick person."
While reactions to De Niro’s MSNBC interview started pouring in from the social media, Tesla CEO Elon Musk educated the actor that Trump administration policies "bore no resemblance to those of Hitler".
"Well, Trump was actually already president for 4 years and his policies bore no resemblance to those of Hitler, so this makes no sense," Musk wrote on X.
The billionaire further enlightened De Niro that Trump brought some peace in the Middle East with Abraham Accords.
"In fact, with the Abraham Accords, he made some progress towards peace in the Middle East, which was definitely not high on Hitler’s agenda."
The actor even tried to advise Trump's supporters not to vote for the GOP leader, arguing that they "don't understand how dangerous it will be: if he comes back to power." According to him, Trump's second term would be "chaos beyond our imagination" as "the guy’s a monster".
"And, historically, from what I see, in Nazi Germany they had it with Hitler. They don’t take him seriously. Looks like a clown. Acts like a clown. Mussolini, same thing. These guys, I don’t know why, they look like clowns. Somehow people, that element of society, identifies with them," De Niro said.
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I am for the public perception of 'actors and entertainers' in general revert back to the 'so-called actors and entertainers again be perceived as whores, perverts, etc'. It just feels right.
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If instead of assuming that De Niro is an actor, you assume that he is a paid influencer does his actions make better sense?
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#8
...you assume that he is a paid influencer does his actions make better sense?
More of a washed up idiot screaming "PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEE!!!!" by screeching the things he thinks the Powers That Be™ in Hollywood want.
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[ZERO] Special Counsel Jack Smith's team admitted on Friday that key evidence in Trump's classified documents case was altered or manipulated - leaving two different chronologies; one that was digitally scanned vs. what's in the actual boxes.
[NYPOST] The 
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
