Posted on 03/22/2024 2:34:16 PM PDT by lowbridge
The Justice Department took the rare step earlier this month of moving to dismiss a $3.3 billion civil fraud lawsuit against Dish Network — months after founder Charlie Ergen and his wife donated more than $113,000 to President Biden’s re-election campaign late last year.
Ergen, a former professional poker player who helped launch what was then called EchoStar Communications in 1980, has battled the federal fraud claim for nearly a decade.
But the Tennessee native saw his luck change shortly after he and spouse Candy contributed $100,000 to Biden’s super PAC and maxed out with matching $6,600 donations to the president’s principal campaign committee in December, according to campaign finance filings.
This past January, Dish nabbed a $50 million grant from the administration to help expand 5G coverage nationwide — the “largest award” of its kind, the company crowed — through a $1.5 billion fund created by the CHIPS and Science Act.
On Jan. 12, two days after the $50 million award was announced, attorneys at the Justice Department intervened on behalf of Dish — and “tried to bully” Vermont Telephone, which filed the fraud claim, “into an unethical settlement” by threatening to have the suit dismissed, according to lead attorney Bennett Ross.
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“We do not believe it is a coincidence that Mr. Ergen, his wife (who also is scheduled to be deposed next week), and DISH’s Political Action Committee collectively contributed in excess of $5 million to Democratic candidates and causes between 2008 and 2022,” he added.
“With the upcoming election, this case looks like just the latest example of the DOJ’s two-tiered justice system under which the well-heeled, politically connected are treated one way, while everyone else is treated differently.”
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Well, son of a b****!
Well, isn’t this how the system is supposed to work?
So maybe if Trump would donate a few million to biden his cases would be thrown out too.
all I see is the sluts, the thieves, the cheat, the drugged, the criminal all getting ahead.....
10% for the Big Guy......
What else did you think all the billions in Biden’s “infrastructure” “green” programs was for?
I’m sure there’s absolutely no relation between those two events. Only a true conspiracy theorist would think otherwise.
he’d have to pay for Biden’s “campaign”
and you though jesse Jackson was a shakedown artist?
In a sane world, a Republican congress would defund the DOJ and FBI.
Isn’t this a bribe to prevent prosecution?
Ya think?!!!
Spend $113,000 on a bribe to save $3.3 billion in penalties. Good move there.
For us peons, it’s like spending $1 to save $29,000.
Best government money can buy.
If that’s the going rate, Trump should contribute $1712 to the biden campaign.
btt
Sounds like the same crap Elliot Spitzer used to pull in NY.
Well, there’s Trump’s way out! Just donate $113k to Biden.
Rico
Sauve!
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