[llama66]

Better than all the rest.

[Thanos]

Just another chonk who fits in well with the Trump Regime - current labour secretary broke the law as Florida AG when he cut sweetheart deal with sex-slave trafficker (and friend of Trump) Jeffery Epstein:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/alexander ... case-judge

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Federal prosecutors in Florida—including President Trump’s current Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta—broke the law when they signed a secret plea agreement with billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a Palm Beach judge ruled Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra ruled that the decision to keep more than 30 of Epstein’s accusers in the dark about the non-prosecution deal that allowed Epstein, a prominent financier with political connections, to avoid federal prosecution was unconstitutional.

By signing the deal, Marra ruled, Acosta and other DOJ lawyers violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA), which guarantees victims the right to speak with prosecutors.

“Petitioners and the other victims should have been notified of the Government’s intention to take that course of action before it bound itself under” a plea agreement, Marra wrote in the 33-page opinion, which mentioned Acosta multiple times.

The evidence, the judge concluded, shows that Epstein, 66, violated federal in 2008 by running an international sex trafficking operation that recruited underage girls, often times bringing them to the U.S. from overseas.

“Epstein used paid employees to find and bring minor girls to him,’’ Marra wrote. “Epstein worked in concert with others to obtain minors not only for his own sexual gratification, but also for the sexual gratification of others.’’

A bombshell Miami Herald report revealed how Epstein—who has been accused of molesting more than 100 underage girls—was granted the sweetheart plea deal by Acosta and other DOJ attorneys after mounting pressure by Epstein’s defense lawyers.

“When the Government gives information to victims, it cannot be misleading,” the judge wrote. “While the Government spent untold hours negotiating the terms and implications of the NPA with Epstein’s attorneys, scant information was shared with victims. Instead, the victims were told to be ‘patient’ while the investigation proceeded.”

“When the Government gives information to victims, it cannot be misleading,” the judge wrote. “While the Government spent untold hours negotiating the terms and implications of the NPA with Epstein’s attorneys, scant information was shared with victims. Instead, the victims were told to be ‘patient’ while the investigation proceeded.”

Those lawyers, including Sexgate prosecutor Ken Starr and celebrity attorney Alan Dershowitz, created the secret 2008 plea deal with Acosta, who was then Miami’s top federal prosecutor, and other attorneys unbeknownst to the billionaire’s alleged victims, the Herald investigation found.

“Particularly problematic was the Government’s decision to conceal the existence of the NPA and mislead the victims to believe that federal prosecution was still a possibility,” the judge wrote on Thursday about the secret plan that effectively buried dozens of sexual-abuse claims.

Epstein, instead of facing life in prison for sex trafficking, only pleaded guilty to two minor charges of solicitation of prostitution and procurement of minors for prostitution. He ultimately served 13 months of an 18-month prison sentence.

No surprise either to see the names of a couple of other right-wing ratfuckers like Dershowitz & Starr involved with this disgusting mess. Just the rich protecting the rich, as usual, and hijacking basic justice in order to see that their friends stay safe forever no matter how vile or outright evil their behaviour is. Acosta fits in perfectly with that cluster of catamites begging for scraps from a bastard like Donald Trump.

[DrCaleb]

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[llama66]

Why have 6G when you can have 12G. 2x as fast.

[DrCaleb]

And then make Mexico pay for it.

[Tricks]

[llama66]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

And then make Mexico pay for it.

Oh... Mexico WILL pay....

[N_Fiddledog]

[BeaverFever]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

:P

And nobody’s ever accused a model of being stupid

[herbie]

Nuthin says stupid like a MAGA hat.

[BeaverFever]

ICYMI: Former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe talks to CBC’s The Current about Trump and Russia:

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Former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe, who led the bureau for three months last year, contends a "crime may have been committed" during U.S. President Donald Trump's dismissal of FBI chief James Comey.

McCabe assumed the FBI's No. 1 spot following the abrupt firing of Comey in May 2017 and immediately opened counterintelligence and obstruction of justice investigations into potential election meddling, Russian collusion and any other wrongdoing.

He explains the decision was prompted by mounting evidence, which suggested Trump may have ties to Russia.

"We had facts that we could not deny [that] clearly formed the basis of a belief that the president may have committed a federal crime — that being obstruction of justice — and that he may present a threat to national security," McCabe told The Current's Anna Maria Tremonti in his first Canadian interview.

Listen or read full transcript here:

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5026687

[Douwe]

It is very bad news for the Trumpster when polls indicate that any one of the three possible front-runners (Biden, Sanders, and Harris would beat him handily.

[DrCaleb]

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Sentencing memo says Manafort 'brazenly violated' law

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort committed crimes that cut to "the heart of the criminal justice system" and over the years deceived everyone from bookkeepers and banks to federal prosecutors and his own lawyers, according to a sentencing memo filed by special counsel Robert Mueller's office.

In the memo, submitted Saturday in one of two criminal cases Manafort faces, prosecutors do not yet take a position on how much prison time he should serve or whether to stack the punishment on top of a separate sentence he will soon receive in a Virginia prosecution. But they do depict Manafort as a longtime and unrepentant criminal who committed "bold" crimes, including under the spotlight of his role as campaign chairman and later while on bail, and who does not deserve any leniency.

"For over a decade, Manafort repeatedly and brazenly violated the law," prosecutors wrote. "His crimes continued up through the time he was first indicted in October 2017 and remarkably went unabated even after indictment."

Citing Manafort's lies to the FBI, several government agencies and his own lawyer, prosecutors said that "upon release from jail, Manafort presents a grave risk of recidivism."

The 25-page memo, filed in federal court in Washington, is likely the last major filing by prosecutors as Manafort heads into his sentencing hearings next month and as Mueller's investigation approaches a conclusion. Manafort, who has been jailed for months and turns 70 in April, will have a chance to file his own sentencing recommendation next week. He and his longtime business partner, Rick Gates, were the first two people indicted in the special counsel's investigation. Overall, Mueller has produced charges against 34 individuals, including six former Trump aides, and three companies.

Manafort's case has played out in stark contrast to those of other defendants in the Russia investigation, such as former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who prosecutors praised for his co-operation and left open the possibility of no jail time.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mueller-m ... -1.5031579


Nothingburger, avec fromage.

[BartSimpson]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

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6G is proposed to integrate 5G with satellite networks for global coverage. 6g technology is considered to be cheap and Fast Internet Technology. It provides high data rates and fast Internet speed to access on air through wireless and mobile devices with data ranges up-to 11 Gbps when travelling far distances.

My agency is currently drawing up guidance and planning documents to migrate our disaster response communications to 6G as soon as is practical.

[BartSimpson]

Douwe Douwe:

It is very bad news for the Trumpster when polls indicate that any one of the three possible front-runners (Biden, Sanders, and Harris would beat him handily.

The same polls said that Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 election.