Posted on 10/11/2017 3:18:13 PM PDT by TigerClaws
The FBI has opened an investigation into Harvey Weinstein, DailyMail.com has exclusively learned.
DailyMail.com understands the move came at the behest of the Department of Justice, run by Donald Trump's Attorney General Jeff Sessions, which instructed the bureau to investigate the mounting allegations leveled at the movie mogul.
While it is unknown whether the DOJ order came directly from Sessions, the move is likely to be seen in a political light given Weinstein's friendship with Trump foe Hillary Clinton.
The move by the DOJ came amid rumors that Weinstein plans to head to Europe for sex rehab leading to fears of a Roman Polanski-style situation where he dodges prosecution in the U.S.
The FBI can both look at whether he has committed any federal crimes in the U.S. and prepare extradition proceedings if he remains in Europe.
Among the allegations against Weinstein, which the FBI is expected to examine, is that he forced Lucia Evans, a student who wanted to be an actress, to perform oral sex on him in New York in 2004.
New York State has no statue of limitations on rape and criminal sexual acts - its legal term for forced oral or anal intercourse.
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How is any of what’s alleged a federal beef?
Took awhile.......
...or why Harvey is hiding out in Europe.
Just some possible crimes:
1. Income Tax Evasion if payoffs to victims deducted as business expense
2. Bribery if any federal official was given anything of value, including campaign contributions, to cover up his actions
3. Kidnapping if any of his victims were detained against their will
4. Communication from one state to another state with the purpose of covering up a state crime could become a federal issue. This could include conspiracy laws if some other person assisted in intimidation or payoff to cover up a crime.
You think Trump got the NYT to write this story? Why?
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Not necessarily, but he could have played some role. Not the least of which was keeping the Clintons out of the White House. I don’t think this story would have happened if they were in power.
And i do believe Trump has fed information to the NYTimes before, like his tax returns.
.....some of it happened across state lines......
Another fine example of pay to play.
Beautiful deconstruction.......
He’s already in France at “rehab.”
Well, if that’s enough, fine by me. Especially since so many of CA’s and NYS’s AGs turned a blind eye.
Hope the FBI puts the AGs under a microscope while they’re at it. That kind of corruption is just begging for federal scrutiny.
The calm before the storm.
She will never get locked up for anything. waste your time.
hat tip etcb-—Just some possible crimes:
1. Income Tax Evasion if payoffs to victims deducted as business expense
2. Bribery if any federal official was given anything of value, including campaign contributions, to cover up his actions
3. Kidnapping if any of his victims were detained against their will
4. Communication from one state to another state with the purpose of covering up a state crime could become a federal issue.
5. This could include conspiracy laws if some other person assisted in intimidation or payoff to cover up a crime.
Time was I would think the feds knew something.
Now I think it’s just PR.
Well, they can bootstrap away with my blessing. As long as they go after any pols who enabled that SOB.
But I read an article this a.m. in which the author said maybe this is because HW violated one of the cardinal rules of left wingism...he gave a speech about how the Israelis are doing a good job of protecting themselves because they have guns and he was about to make a movie about the ghetto in Warsaw during WWII and how not being armed at all led to the massacre there. Of course the left can't have anyone say that! And this would explain why HW right away came out and said that he would make an anti-NRA and anti-Trump movie to atone for his sins.
To me that makes a ton of sense.
Anything to avoid investigating stuff that actually means something to the country and future of the country, like the decade-long dissemination of security secrets by the Awans; the sale of same by Hillary Clinton. Yes, Harvey W. was and is a turdball. Every woman who was abused over the past 30 years by him was justifiably outraged and felt threatened but unfortunately is nothing they are not used to. And most became profoundly wealthy in their chosen field.
She said her father raped her
LOVE IT-——this story is an example of the Clintons losing power...in fact, the entire left is being exposed to be a bunch of lunatics.
You never know about these things. Sometimes they can take a life of their own. I didn’t want to look it up, but I seem to remember ex Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert being convicted of a federal crime for paying his own money to cover up a sex crime he could not be prosecuted for due to the time elapsed.
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