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Post by SSHoya on Jan 4, 2023 10:49:27 GMT -5
You have to give Orange Psycho his due for the one thing he is successful in doing. He is an excellent grifter and conman who can prey on the "Republican" cult/base. And can easily intimidate the morally-bankrupt GOP politicians/cultists whose only quest is that for power. Agree. However, I think that says far more about the people he cons and intimidates than it does about Trump's prowess in either endeavor. Yeah, dumb and dumber. That's why he proudly proclaimed "I love the poorly educated!"
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Post by Massholya on Jan 4, 2023 20:51:59 GMT -5
In any year prior to 2016 this would be a major news story. Now it’s just another drop in the bucket.
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Post by SSHoya on Jan 9, 2023 12:28:18 GMT -5
Progress. ATLANTA – An Atlanta-area grand jury investigating efforts by former president Donald Trump and his allies to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia has concluded its investigation, according to the judge overseeing the panel. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney issued a court order Monday morning saying the special grand jury had completed a final report on its investigation. He said the report was accepted by a majority of the county’s judicial bench and that the 26-member panel was being officially dissolved. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/01/09/fulton-county-trump-investigation-ends/
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Post by SSHoya on Jan 11, 2023 19:42:20 GMT -5
Special Counsel Smith is investigating potential fraudulent fundraising activities by the former President's entities. A wide-ranging subpoena sent to Trump campaign officials last month shows new areas of investigative interest as part of the Justice Department’s extensive Jan. 6 criminal probe, according to a copy reviewed by The Washington Post, and lawyers say a grand jury focused on the day’s events and related fundraising has increased its activities in recent months. Recipients were also asked for documents related to the genesis of an “Election Defense Fund,” an entity that Trump officials created to raise money from grass-roots donors after the election. Officials later testified to the House committee investigating the events of Jan. 6, 2021, that such a fund never technically existed but was a mechanism to generate funds from people who believed and were outraged by Trump’s false election-fraud claims. The subpoena shows the Justice Department is interested in other Trump entities besides the Save America PAC — which The Post and others reported earlier this year was a subject of inquiry by investigators. It seeks “all documents and communications” related to a panoply of other Trump-affiliated groups, including the Make America Great Again PAC, the Save America Joint Fundraising Committee and the Trump Make America Great Again Committee. Recipients are asked to produce documents related to the “formation, funding and/or use of money” of the groups and to show all employment contracts or correspondence with the groups or officials affiliated with them. www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/01/11/trump-subpoena-jan6-campaign-officials/
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Post by SSHoya on Jan 19, 2023 22:05:51 GMT -5
Biggest loser keeps on losing
(CNN) A federal judge said Thursday that former President Donald Trump and his attorneys are liable for nearly $1 million in sanctions for a lawsuit Trump brought against Hillary Clinton, ex-top Justice Department officials and several others alleging they conspired against him in the 2016 campaign.
"This case should never have been brought. Its inadequacy as a legal claim was evident from the start," US District Judge Donald Middlebrooks of the Southern District of Florida wrote. "No reasonable lawyer would have filed it. Intended for a political purpose, none of the counts of the amended complaint stated a cognizable legal claim."
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Post by SSHoya on Jan 20, 2023 15:37:04 GMT -5
Biggest loser keeps on losing. Maybe the Orange Psycho and his shysters are worried about more sanctions.
(CNN) Former President Donald Trump on Friday withdrew his lawsuit seeking to block the New York attorney general's office from accessing materials from his private trust.
In a one-page notice filed with Judge Donald Middlebrooks, Trump's attorney, Timothy Weber, said he was voluntarily dismissing the lawsuit. No further reason was given.
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Post by tashoya on Jan 23, 2023 12:42:21 GMT -5
Now golf is an endurance sport? Also, he uses a golf cart.
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Post by SSHoya on Jan 23, 2023 14:38:49 GMT -5
More of the Orange Psycho's supporters and the GOP base bite the dust. Hopefully, DOJ is working its way up the corrupt, criminal, and immoral food chain that comprises the "Republican" Party/cult. Four members of the far-right Oath Keepers group were convicted of seditious conspiracy Monday, joining founder Stewart Rhodes in being found guilty by a jury of plotting to keep President Donald Trump in power by force. Seditious conspiracy charges are rarely used and even more rarely successful. At Rhodes’s trial only he and Florida Oath Keepers leader Kelly Meggs were found guilty of the crime, while three associates were convicted of less politically-loaded charges. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/23/oathkeepers-verdict-seditious-conspiracy-jan6-guilty/
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Post by SSHoya on Jan 25, 2023 9:19:09 GMT -5
Looks like Judge Middlebrooks's imposition of almost a $1 million in sanctions has had the effect it was supposed to on the biggest loser and his shyster lawyer Alina Habba. Maybe Habba has figured out that once the loser stiffs her on payment, her pathetic law firm is at risk of failing. Former president Donald Trump on Tuesday withdrew a second lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) related to her office’s fraud probe of his business practices. A stipulation of voluntary dismissal signed by Trump lawyer Alina Habba and a lawyer for James’s office was filed with a federal appeals court in Manhattan. No reason was given for the withdrawal. Trump first filed the lawsuit in federal court in Syracuse, N.Y., claiming James was violating his rights and that of his company by pursuing a politically motivated investigation. After a judge in May found “no evidence” that James had acted with bias, Trump appealed the ruling. Days earlier, U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks had fined Trump and Habba almost $1 million for what was ruled a frivolous lawsuit brought against his 2016 presidential rival, Hillary Clinton, and others. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/24/trump-lawsuit-new-york-attorney-general/
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Looks like Judge Middlebrooks's imposition of almost a $1 million in sanctions has had the effect it was supposed to on the biggest loser and his shyster lawyer Alina Habba. Maybe Habba has figured out that once the loser stiffs her on payment, her pathetic law firm is at risk of failing. Former president Donald Trump on Tuesday withdrew a second lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) related to her office’s fraud probe of his business practices. A stipulation of voluntary dismissal signed by Trump lawyer Alina Habba and a lawyer for James’s office was filed with a federal appeals court in Manhattan. No reason was given for the withdrawal. Trump first filed the lawsuit in federal court in Syracuse, N.Y., claiming James was violating his rights and that of his company by pursuing a politically motivated investigation. After a judge in May found “no evidence” that James had acted with bias, Trump appealed the ruling. Days earlier, U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks had fined Trump and Habba almost $1 million for what was ruled a frivolous lawsuit brought against his 2016 presidential rival, Hillary Clinton, and others. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/24/trump-lawsuit-new-york-attorney-general/I am not a lawyer. So those of us who don’t really know how all this stuff works are always left to wonder: do these fines ever actually get paid or is it just the regular suckers that actually pay fines?
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Post by SSHoya on Jan 25, 2023 12:59:48 GMT -5
Looks like Judge Middlebrooks's imposition of almost a $1 million in sanctions has had the effect it was supposed to on the biggest loser and his shyster lawyer Alina Habba. Maybe Habba has figured out that once the loser stiffs her on payment, her pathetic law firm is at risk of failing. Former president Donald Trump on Tuesday withdrew a second lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) related to her office’s fraud probe of his business practices. A stipulation of voluntary dismissal signed by Trump lawyer Alina Habba and a lawyer for James’s office was filed with a federal appeals court in Manhattan. No reason was given for the withdrawal. Trump first filed the lawsuit in federal court in Syracuse, N.Y., claiming James was violating his rights and that of his company by pursuing a politically motivated investigation. After a judge in May found “no evidence” that James had acted with bias, Trump appealed the ruling. Days earlier, U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks had fined Trump and Habba almost $1 million for what was ruled a frivolous lawsuit brought against his 2016 presidential rival, Hillary Clinton, and others. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/24/trump-lawsuit-new-york-attorney-general/I am not a lawyer. So those of us who don’t really know how all this stuff works are always left to wonder: do these fines ever actually get paid or is it just the regular suckers that actually pay fines? These types of sanctions are paid on pain of contempt of court. The court can issue an order (a writ of execution) asking the US Marshals to seize the assets of the contemnor (those refusing to pay) in order to satisfy the sanction. The sanctions imposed by Judge Middlebrooks are the costs and attorney fees expended by the defendants in their defense of the frivolous lawsuit. Judge Middlebrooks has also given Habba and her law firm ten days to file a verified statement of net assets and liabilities of her firm to the extent that such a sanction "seriously jeopardizes its financial status." If she does so, the sanction as to her firm is stayed pending further review. Judge Middlebrooks has opined that he believes such a sanction will not jeopardize her firm but has given her a chance to demonstrate otherwise. A collateral effect of Trump refusing to pay and it falling upon Habba to do so (Middlebrooks's order is for joint and several liability, i.e., either singularly or both can satisfy the whole sanction) is that Habba may put her law license at risk in a bar disciplinary proceeding for disobeying a lawfully-issued court order. A writ of execution is a process issued by the court directing the U.S. Marshal to enforce and satisfy a judgment for payment of money. (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 69). www.usmarshals.gov/what-we-do/service-of-process/civil-process/writ-of-executionconstitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artIII-S1-4-3/ALDE_00013522/chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3916&context=uclrev
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Post by Massholya on Jan 25, 2023 19:12:45 GMT -5
I am not a lawyer. So those of us who don’t really know how all this stuff works are always left to wonder: do these fines ever actually get paid or is it just the regular suckers that actually pay fines? These types of sanctions are paid on pain of contempt of court. The court can issue an order (a writ of execution) asking the US Marshals to seize the assets of the contemnor (those refusing to pay) in order to satisfy the sanction. The sanctions imposed by Judge Middlebrooks are the costs and attorney fees expended by the defendants in their defense of the frivolous lawsuit. Judge Middlebrooks has also given Habba and her law firm ten days to file a verified statement of net assets and liabilities of her firm to the extent that such a sanction "seriously jeopardizes its financial status." If she does so, the sanction as to her firm is stayed pending further review. Judge Middlebrooks has opined that he believes such a sanction will not jeopardize her firm but has given her a chance to demonstrate otherwise. A collateral effect of Trump refusing to pay and it falling upon Habba to do so (Middlebrooks's order is for joint and several liability, i.e., either singularly or both can satisfy the whole sanction) is that Habba may put her law license at risk in a bar disciplinary proceeding for disobeying a lawfully-issued court order. A writ of execution is a process issued by the court directing the U.S. Marshal to enforce and satisfy a judgment for payment of money. (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 69). www.usmarshals.gov/what-we-do/service-of-process/civil-process/writ-of-executionconstitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artIII-S1-4-3/ALDE_00013522/chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3916&context=uclrevSo SOMEBODY has to pay at some point?
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Post by SSHoya on Jan 25, 2023 19:13:53 GMT -5
These types of sanctions are paid on pain of contempt of court. The court can issue an order (a writ of execution) asking the US Marshals to seize the assets of the contemnor (those refusing to pay) in order to satisfy the sanction. The sanctions imposed by Judge Middlebrooks are the costs and attorney fees expended by the defendants in their defense of the frivolous lawsuit. Judge Middlebrooks has also given Habba and her law firm ten days to file a verified statement of net assets and liabilities of her firm to the extent that such a sanction "seriously jeopardizes its financial status." If she does so, the sanction as to her firm is stayed pending further review. Judge Middlebrooks has opined that he believes such a sanction will not jeopardize her firm but has given her a chance to demonstrate otherwise. A collateral effect of Trump refusing to pay and it falling upon Habba to do so (Middlebrooks's order is for joint and several liability, i.e., either singularly or both can satisfy the whole sanction) is that Habba may put her law license at risk in a bar disciplinary proceeding for disobeying a lawfully-issued court order. A writ of execution is a process issued by the court directing the U.S. Marshal to enforce and satisfy a judgment for payment of money. (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 69). www.usmarshals.gov/what-we-do/service-of-process/civil-process/writ-of-executionconstitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artIII-S1-4-3/ALDE_00013522/chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3916&context=uclrevSo SOMEBODY has to pay at some point? Yes. I would love it if they appealed the sanctions order and then got sanctioned again for a frivolous appeal. If a court of appeals determines that an appeal is frivolous, it may, after a separately filed motion or notice from the court and reasonable opportunity to respond, award just damages and single or double costs to the appellee. www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frap/rule_38
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