Not All Conservative Attorneys are Corrupt (Updated)

The DoJ can't find a prosecuting attorney to sign the dismissal motion in the case aganst Mayor Adams. The count of "with all due respect, fuck you, I quit" is now up to six.

What's going on is that there is ample evidence of a quid pro quo in the Adams case and the career attorneys are not willing to flush their law licenses in order to satisfy Mango Mussolini.

Or their freedom as what Bondi wants them to do is, in fact, a crime.

What Bannon and Trump Have in Common

They're both convicted felons.

Conservative firebrand Steve Bannon pleaded guilty to defrauding donors in a fundraising effort to build a wall along the southern US border in a deal that allowed him to avoid prison.

Bannon pleaded guilty to one state felony count of a scheme to defraud in the first degree and was sentenced to a three-year conditional discharge.

My guess is that he realized that he was probably going to lose at trial, and in that case, he would be back in prison. And this time, he can't rely on Trump to pardon his ass out of stir.

Companies Have Lawyers; Foreign Bribery Ed.

President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order directing the Department of Justice to pause enforcing a nearly half-century-old law that prohibits American companies and foreign firms from bribing officials of foreign governments to obtain or retain business.

“It sounds good, but it hurts the country,” Trump said of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, as he signed the order at the White House.

He can refuse to enforce the Act all he wants, but the truth of the matter is that a time will come when the Orange Felon isn't in office and the next president/AG can direct enforcement to resume, including looking at bribery that happened during the Putin Puppet's time. Any competent company lawyer knows that; they'll do their jobs and advise their clients most strongly to follow the law.

Corruption and Ass-Kissing At Work

The Trump administration on Monday ordered federal prosecutors to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, arguing in a remarkable departure from longstanding norms that the case was interfering with the mayor’s ability to aid the president’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

That's one hell of a quid pro quo, there. Support the Ancient Orange Felon and he'll make your Federal criminal corruption charges go away.

Ah, the Irony

OpenAI is complaining that DeepSeek stole all of the data from OpenAI that OpenAI stole from everyone else.

No wonder Sam Altman wants to hang around with the bloated Felon: They're both thieves without a shred of self-awareness.

Private Equity Firms are Criminals and Should be Outlawed

Here's another case in point: A private equity firm jacked up the price of fire trucks.

Private equity firms and funds are nothing but amoral vultures and pirates. Maybe after we get through the next four years, we can have a correction and start doing something about these thieves.

Maybe involving the use of tumbrels?

A Woman of Serious Integrity

President Donald Trump has made good on his vow to pardon participants in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, sparking intense criticism — including from one of the planned recipients.

Pamela Hemphill, a 71-year-old resident of Boise, Idaho, who was sentenced to two months in jail after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge in the attack, said she will not be accepting Trump’s pardon.

“Accepting the pardon would be an insult to the Capitol Police officers, to the rule of law, to our nation,” Hemphill, who had posted videos of herself entering the Capitol as the attack unfolded, told the Idaho Statesman on Tuesday.

I don't know that I'd have the gumption to do what she did, to skate away with a clean record because the leader of my former cult had the power to issue legal forgiveness. So I have a lot of admiration for her and her decision.

A Reminder for Today

Our soon to be First Felon. All Hail the Convicted Criminal-in-Chief!

All American presidents, living and dead, have had a total of thirty-four felony convictions.

Hard to See This as Anything Other Than Trash Removal

The Salisbury man who died Monday after he was shot by two Kannapolis police officers over the weekend was the ‘Pizzagate’ gunman arrested in Washington, D.C., in 2016 after he terrified people with a loaded AR-15 inside a restaurant.

[Pizza Asswipe], the man killed, made national headlines in 2016 when he entered Comet Ping Pong, a pizza restaurant in Washington, D.C., armed with an assault rifle and loaded revolver. He drove from Salisbury to the nation’s capital in search of an alleged child sex ring linked to Hillary Clinton — something he learned about from a fake news story, The Washington Post reported.

Besides whatever warrant he chose to fight it out over, he was also a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. he was going to go away for a lot longer.

Shooting it out with the cops never ends well for the clown opting to go down that route. It leads to decades in prison or a grave.

I feel bad for the cops who may have issues from killing this guy, and he probably has a mother who loves him, but no tears that this clown isn't breathing our air anymore.

This Will Be Off the National Media Radar in Three Days

Five people are dead and others injured after a shooting Monday at a Christian school in Wisconsin, the police chief says.

Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes says the suspect shooter is also among the dead.

Just kids being killed at a school. Happens a lot. It's not as though they were CEOs of large companies, so a blip and it'll be gone.

Only one CEO was offed, so it's not like they're living under the same cloud of threat that schoolkids have done every day since 1999 or 2012.

A Pithy Observation

Normally, there would have to be at least two dozen kids shot dead while the cops stood around with their thumbs up their asses to generate the same level of collective angst that we're seeing from the press and the politicians over one dead CEO.

Rich Christian white straight male lives matter the most.

Not Sure if This is True

RUMINT is that the two people who called 911 to rat out the accused shooter of the UHC Scumbag CEO are being told they can't claim the reward because they didn't call through Crimestoppers to get a claim code. Just like the health care industry, screwing people over for not reading the fine print.

The Yelp reviews on the McDonald's in Altoona have been brutal. between that, the poisonous onions, and the chain now being the TOFF's favorite food, I'd sell the stock short.

RUMINT also is that there are people in the dead CEO's circle saying that he had plans to reform things. Yeah, sure. That sounds a hell of a lot like the cases where an armed robber is shot dead by a cop or a citizen and the dead robber's family claims that he was going to turn his life around and that he was going to use the money from this last job to pay his bus fare to seminary.

Rich Lives Still Matter More

Two days after the CEO of UHC was whacked, Yeremi Colino, a 17-year old migrant, was stabbed to death in the Financial District of NYC because he didn't speak English.

There is still no serious press coverage of the murder of that young man. They are still obsessed with the CEO murder. The ratio of cops working the CEO to those working the murder of Colino is probably on the order of a thousand to one, or more.

The lives of rich white men matter more. They always have.

No Reward for These Killers

Global interest in whacking a healthcare CEO, zero interest in some racists who killed a teenager because he didn't speak English.

Officials say two migrant teens were victims in a New York City stabbing, one fatally, after the teens were asked if they spoke English and they responded that they didn't.

Officials say a trio of men approached the teens around 7:40 p.m. Thursday night, when one of the men asked if the teens spoke English. When the teens said they did not, they were attacked, according to police.

The rules and concerns are different if the victim isn't white and rich. Bet the NYPD has maybe three detectives on this case, compared to the hundreds on the other one.

Don't Worry, You Seditious Scumbag, Felon^34 Will Pardon You

A police officer accused of leaking confidential information to Proud Boys national leader Enrique Tarrio became a “double agent” for the far-right extremist group after its members burned a stolen Black Lives Matter banner in the nation’s capital, a federal prosecutor said Monday at the start of the officer’s trial.

Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Shane Lamond was a “Proud Boys sympathizer” who warned Tarrio about his impending arrest for the banner’s destruction and later lied to investigators about their communications, said the prosecutor, Joshua Rothstein.

Since the Wannabee Autocrat has said that he's going to pardon the J6 terrorists, this guy probably has nothing to worry about.

Felons of a Feather, Flock Together

President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he wants real estate developer Charles Kushner, father of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, to serve as ambassador to France.
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The elder Kushner was pardoned by Trump in December 2020 after pleading guilty years earlier to tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations.

Prosecutors alleged that after Charles Kushner discovered his brother-in-law was cooperating with federal authorities in an investigation, he hatched a scheme for revenge and intimidation.

Kushner hired a prostitute to lure his brother-in-law, then arranged to have the encounter in a New Jersey motel room recorded with a hidden camera and the recording sent to his own sister, the man’s wife, prosecutors said.

The French should be absolutely thrilled that the new American ambassador is going to be a real scumbag and a nepo-criminal like Jared's dad. When you drill down to the core of the matter, the only difference between Kushner and Trump is that Kushner went to prison.

Honey (ie, bee food)

If you use honey, you should buy it from local producers. If you buy commercial honey, there's a good chance that what you think is honey has been adulterated with sugar syrup.

NRA Can't Catch a Break

Douglas Hamlin, who was appointed to lead the NRA this summer in the wake of a long-running corruption scandal at the gun rights group, was involved decades ago in the sadistic killing of a fraternity house cat named BK, according to several local media reports at the time.

I'm not going to discuss my thoughts about the sort of people who could do what was done to poor BK.

But man, if you're hiring for a company or organization that has a large public presence, do a deep dive on the web when you're vetting people. If you don't know how to do that, then drag your dead ass to your local university and hire a kid from computer sciences or library sciences to do it for you. A hell of a lot of newspapers have digitized their archives and dollars to doughnuts that searching those resources would have unearthed this story.

And if you're a candidate for such a job and you have some dirt like this in your past, then consider what will happen when someone digs it up. Even if the archives aren't searchable online, somebody out there will remember it and contact a reporter. So now, while few people may have know of it, now millions know about Doug the Cat-Burner

Yet Another Grifting Republican is Heading to Prison

A jury convicted Pahrump Justice of the Peace Michele Fiore on all counts in a federal wire fraud case on Thursday.

Fiore, currently suspended from her Pahrump duties, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and six counts of wire fraud. Each count carries a maximum sentence of 20 years. She appeared more subdued after the verdicts were read in the courtroom.
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Fiore is accused of raising more than $70,000 for a statue to remember Las Vegas Metro Police Officer Alyn Beck, but then spending the money on personal expenses. Beck and Officer Igor Soldo were killed in the line of duty in 2014.

“Michele Fiore used a tragedy to line her pockets,” [federal prosecutor Dahoud] Askar told the jury.

An executive with Olympia Companies, a major developer, had testified the company paid for the statue in its entirety and Fiore would have known this.

Pretty ballsy to raise money for something that somebody else is paying for and then steal all of it.

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Be a Trumper, Go to Prison

A judge ripped into a Colorado county clerk for her crimes and lies before sentencing her Thursday to nine years behind bars for a data-breach scheme spawned from the rampant false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race.

District Judge Matthew Barrett told former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters — after earlier sparring with her for continuing to press discredited claims about rigged voting machines — that she never took her job seriously.

“I am convinced you would do it all over again if you could. You’re as defiant as any defendant this court has ever seen,” Barrett told her in handing down the sentence. “You are no hero. You abused your position and you’re a charlatan.”

And now she's a convicted charlatan. Listening to the lies of Trump and the addlepated rantings of Lindell can cost one.