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Trump ordered to pay New York Times, three reporters nearly $400,000 in legal costs over dismissed lawsuit
CNBC ^ | 12 January 2024 | Dan Mangan

Posted on 01/12/2024 1:14:26 PM PST by zeestephen

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To: zeestephen

This post from The Conservative Treehouse shows what can happen with the government doesn’t care about right and wrong:

For more than 25 years, I worked in real estate finance. I know of a case, many years ago, where a Federal prosecutor wanted to hurt someone. The”someone” neglected to list among dozens of liabilities a small loan guarantee when the “someone” applied for a loan on a real estate project. The failure to list the guarantee was unintentional. That “someone” paid back the loan applied for as well as the loan subject to the guarantee. The bank testified that the failure to list the small guarantee made no difference in their decision to advance funds. In fact, the bank said the guarantee proved irrelevant in their underwriting. Nonetheless: the Federal prosecutor argued that the “someone” violated the law and defrauded the bank eventhough the bank didn’t think it had been defrauded; eventhough no one lost a dime and both banks made the monetary return expected and were repaid in full on time without a payment ever being late. The result: the “someone” went to Federal prison for two years. With that, I lost all faith in Federal prosecutors and in the judicial system.


21 posted on 01/12/2024 2:46:59 PM PST by Aria
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To: mass55th

The Pentagon Papers case was decided decades ago, and I believe it determined that the press isn’t liable for the legality of the leaks supplied to it. (That’s different from the press illegally producing the leaks.)


22 posted on 01/12/2024 3:24:45 PM PST by Miami Rebel
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To: antidemoncrat

No, the Dimocrats are determined to get Trump on the ballot and make the election about him instead of the Poobah of Putz, Biden. It’s stopping Trump from winning the general that the Dims are determined to do.


23 posted on 01/12/2024 3:33:51 PM PST by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: zeestephen

In the film The Dark Knight Rises, it is the judges who are among the first to be dealt with.


24 posted on 01/12/2024 3:36:26 PM PST by KobraKai
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To: thegagline

WOULD THE JUDGE FEEL THE SAME IF HIS TAX RETURNS WERE REVEALED???


25 posted on 01/12/2024 4:23:24 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: mass55th

Frivolous lawsuit?


26 posted on 01/12/2024 4:44:48 PM PST by joesbucks (It's called love-bombing. Claiming he's saving the world. This is a cult. Just back away. )
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To: joesbucks
"Frivolous lawsuit?"

Yes, E. Jean Carroll's suits were frivolous.

27 posted on 01/12/2024 4:57:19 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: zeestephen
From the article:
"The resulting series of articles won a Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious award in American journalism...."

Prestigious? LMAO.

Two words: Walter Duranty
(also of the New York Times).
28 posted on 01/12/2024 8:05:19 PM PST by Alvin Diogenes
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To: Miami Rebel

They are not liable only if they did not participate in the crime.


29 posted on 01/13/2024 5:45:28 AM PST by Mouton (150MTs in the right location will not solve are problems now.)
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