[NYPOST] A journalist at The Root says the Rev. Jesse Jackson sexually harassed her after a speech at a previous employer, claiming he grabbed her thigh before saying, "I like all of that right there!"
Danielle Young, a writer-producer at The Root, detailed her experience with Jackson in a 2,000-word post published Monday, alleging that Jackson touched her inappropriately while taking a photo with him after a keynote speech by the "living legend" at a "very popular" media company.
"I walked toward Jackson, smiling, and he smiled back at me," Young wrote. "His eyes scanned my entire body. All of a sudden, I felt naked in my sweater and jeans. As I walked within arm’s reach of him, Jackson reached out a hand and grabbed my thigh, saying, ’I like all of that right there!’ and gave my thigh a tight squeeze."
The unexpected touch, Young said, left her "shocked, to say the least," and uncomfortable in a room full of colleagues. So she started to laugh, she said.
"And I continued to giggle as he pulled me in closer, stared down at my body, smiled and told me he was only kidding," Young continued. "The entire time, my co-worker snapped photos."
Young’s post included seven photos of herself with Jackson, including one in which Jackson’s right arm is around her neck while his left arm embraces Young’s arm across her body. Both Young and Jackson are smiling in five of the photos. In another, Young, who said she was "visibly uncomfortable" at the time, is pointing directly at the camera, "asking [Jackson] if we can just take the picture," according to her post.
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Dog bites man story - we already know Jesse likes his side dishes.
[Hot Air] Fox News’ Catherine Herridge reports that two strains of the Russia story collided or, at least, crossed paths on the day Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya met with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower:
The co-founder of Fusion GPS, the firm behind the unverified Trump dossier, met with a Russian lawyer before and after a key meeting she had last year with Trump’s son, Fox News has learned. The contacts shed new light on how closely tied the firm was to Russian interests, at a time when it was financing research to discredit then-candidate Donald Trump...
Hours before the Trump Tower meeting on June 9, 2016, Fusion co-founder and ex-Wall Street Journal reporter Glenn Simpson was with Veselnitskaya in a Manhattan federal courtroom, a confidential source told Fox News. Court records reviewed by Fox News, email correspondence and published reports corroborate the pair’s presence together. The source told Fox News they also were together after the Trump Tower meeting...
NBC News first reported that Veselnitskaya and Simpson were both at a hearing centered around another Fusion client, Russian oligarch Denis Katsyv. His company, Prevezon Holdings, was sanctioned against doing business in the U.S. for its alleged role in laundering more than $230 million.
The story of Russian influence on the election now has so many moving parts that it’s getting hard to keep them all straight. But it all connects back to lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who died in a Russian prison in 2009. According to his employer, businessman Bill Browder, Magnitsky was arrested after he uncovered millions of dollars in fraud involving Russian companies.
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Rhetorical of course. British intelligence cut-outs, sleazy foreign agents, unnamed sources, secret funding; who could have possibly devised such an elaborate scheme of entrapment ?
[Bloomberg] On their first full day of jury deliberations at the bribery trial of Senator Robert Menendez, a juror asked the judge a basic question: What is a senator?
U.S. District Judge William Walls declined to answer the question, and he refused that juror’s request for a transcript of Monday’s closing argument by Menendez’s attorney, Abbe Lowell. The panel had returned to the Newark, New Jersey, federal courthouse Tuesday after spending about 75 minutes deliberating the day before. Walls told jurors that they should rely on their individual and collective memories to determine how to define a senator.
The juror’s question, odd as it may have seemed, may have related to whether Melgen could have been considered a Menendez constituent. Defense attorneys said during the trial that Menendez regarded it as part of his Senate work to look after the interests of people beyond his home state. In his closing argument, Lowell reiterated that Menendez never introduced legislation that benefited Melgen.
The New Jersey Democrat is accused of taking bribes from Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen in the form of private jet travel, a Paris vacation and campaign contributions in exchange for pushing the doctor’s business interests at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Defense lawyers say they were just favors among good friends.
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So, it was an entirely reasonable question, which the journalist tried to make the juror look like an idiot. This is why nobody trusts you, media.
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I'd like to know the type of person this question came from; he could be a ballbuster / pain in the ass sort. Then again, it's very unlikely blithering idiots would have made it to the jury in the first place, especially this jury.
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Hopefully something that Robert Menedez will very soon no longer be ?
Sorry Beso. The Dems have made it clear that they will fight to retain Menendez in the Senate. He is a Swamp Monster and the other Swamp Monsters, regardless of their supposed party, fight for their own.
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He is a Swamp Monster and the other Swamp Monsters, regardless of their supposed party, fight for their own. interest - how many of them would be in the same situation if investigated thoroughly?
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I think the commenters are missing it: Juror asks judge question that judge decides not to answer. Mistrial. Motivations of juror and judge irrelevant but for outcome.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
11/08/2017 15:12 Comments ||
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having just spent 2 weeks in a Superior Court, I can attest: The Judge does not have to answer all questions, he can refer them to the evidence which addressed that issue. Not necessarily a mistrial argument, but I'm sure the defense attorneys might attempt it
Posted by: Frank G ||
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errr: 3 weeks. Why anyone does this voluntarily (even with the $) is beyond me
Posted by: Frank G ||
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[NYPOST] A journalist at The Root says the Rev. Jesse Jackson sexually harassed her after a speech at a previous employer, claiming he grabbed her thigh before saying, "I like all of that right there!"
[Hot Air] Fox News’ Catherine Herridge reports that two strains of the Russia story collided or, at least, crossed paths on the day Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya met with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower:
The juror’s question, odd as it may have seemed, may have related to whether Melgen could have been considered a Menendez constituent. Defense attorneys said during the trial that Menendez regarded it as part of his Senate work to look after the interests of people beyond his home state. In his closing argument, Lowell reiterated that Menendez never introduced legislation that benefited Melgen.
