I'm not going to be lectured about the "Just Us" system that let Bill Clinton, Charlie Rangel and Jon Corzine walk.
Oh, and don't forget the John Edwards kabuki show...
“I’m not going to be lectured about the “Just Us” system that let Bill Clinton, Charlie Rangel and Jon Corzine walk.”
Right, but the “but Johnny did it too” defense is pretty weak, I hope we can agree. Perjury is indefensible. We shouldn’t excuse it. So if you want to argue that Zimmerman’s didn’t commit perjury, fine by me. But I’m not particularly sympathetic to the line of argument “Well, all those Dems got away with stuff that was just as bad or worse, so we should give Zimmerman’s wife a pass.”
Maybe there’s an innocent explanation, but multiple transfers of just under $10K (which certainly looks like a knowing evasion of rules that would have required automatic reporting of such transfers to the IRS) doesn’t look like the work of innocent rubes. To all appearances, the evidence on the table so far certainly looks as if Zimmerman’s wife was doing her best to conceal from the judge the fact they had direct access to tens of thousands of dollars that they’d explicitly discussed using for bail if push came to shove. That’s perjury in my book.