Two Hundred and Fifty MILLION Dollars!
Posted on 07/23/2021 3:37:21 PM PDT by Libloather
Former Trump inaugural committee chair Tom Barrack on Friday was released from federal lockup in California on a $250 million bond ahead of his scheduled arraignment in New York on charges he acted as an agent of the United Arab Emirates and obstructed justice.
As part of the terms of his release, Barrack, 74, is subject to electronic monitoring and will have to foot the bill for his GPS ankle bracelet, Judge Patricia Donahue ordered, signing off on an agreement that had been worked out between the government and Barrack's attorneys.
Barrack, a private equity investor and founder of the investment firm Colony Capital, also had to surrender his passports and is barred from transferring funds overseas, the judge said. He cannot trade any securities without written permission from federal prosecutors and is not allowed to transfer more than $50,000 except for attorneys fees.
He's scheduled to be arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn, New York on Monday. His spokesman said earlier this week that Barrack "is not guilty and will be pleading not guilty.”
A longtime friend of former President Donald Trump, Barrack had been behind bars since his arrest Tuesday on charges that he and two co-defendants were "acting and conspiring to act as agents" of the UAE between April 2016 and April 2018, but without registering as foreign agents.
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This isn’t the Barack who should be in jail.
yes, but probably amounts to pocket change for him.
For a tax discrepancy usually handled administratively- calculate the tax error- pay it and a fine.
He should DEMAND that two separate IRS groups audit his return and provide the results to the court- I guarantee they come up with 2 different figures.
Welcome to the Peoples Republik of Amerika. Filthy bastards.
His Bail will be revoked.
How bizarre. Not at all, the UAE and the Saudis, thanks to Trump, we’re two of the most rational players in the Middle East. And they were rational about Israel, and Israel was rational about them too. This is an attack on Trump’s Middle East policy.
We had a coup in 2020, and the opposition is being harassed and rounded up, and political force being brought to bear on any average supporters, particularly in military and government.
Its not the violent African style, because everyone has too much at stake, more like Napolean’s Brumaire.
Asterisks mine.
Same thing happened to Manafort. Tony Podesta at that time was cleared and allowed to reregister with no repercussions.
You might be able to find a hitman for 5% of that bond. Ridiculous for a 76 year old man who was a one-time adviser for the former President. Also, are all FARA charges equal to murdering someone now or only while Republican? I see the Podesta Brothers were in the news today, free as a bird.
/ShockFace
They tried to keep Larry Elder off the California ballot for including his social security number in his tax returns filing.
Political prosecution. Equal treatment under the law as a concept is dead, unless we can crush the Democrats at the polls.
Interesting how Mr. Tony Podesta was let off scot free and we have a man harassed by the FBI and out on $ 250 million bond (just where is he going to go) for doing the same thing. Maybe he can sell some paint by numbers; it seems to attract a lot of dirty money for others and no attention from any “enforcement” agency.
Talk about adding insult to injury! They just had to add that little slap to this crock.
Judge Patricia is showing her bias.
Two Hundred and Fifty MILLION Dollars!
A longtime friend of former President Donald Trump...
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That is indeed a crime.
In less civilized tyrannies, they take the ex-president’s supporters out back and shoot them. Maybe throw their families in prison.
In the civilized American republic, the ex-president’s supporters and their families are first financially ruined, then publicly humiliated, and then sent to prison.
It is still tyranny, and yet it sends the same unmistakable message to political opponents.
Lawfare in a nation of laws is republican death.
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