Posted on 05/29/2015 7:31:33 PM PDT by smoothsailing
A Florida judge has set a trial date in the racketeering case against the Clinton Foundation and Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Judge Donald Middlebrooks of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida ordered the racketeering, influenced and corrupt organizations, or RICO, case to head to trial January 20, 2016.
The order, entered Friday and obtained by the Washington Examiner, came days after Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch filed a lengthy civil complaint against the Clintons and their foundation in the same court.
While the Clinton legal team could settle the case or enter a variety of motions in an effort to derail the lawsuit before the trial, the judge's swift decision means the matter could go to court before the Feb. 1 Iowa caucus and Feb. 9 New Hampshire primary.
Klayman, who has filed dozens of lawsuits against the Clintons and other prominent politicians, suggested the former first couple and their family philanthropy used their political clout to drum up foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation and lavish diplomatic favors for contributors while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state.
Klayman also asked the judge to order a "neutral forensic expert ... to take custody and control of the private email server and reconstruct and preserve the official U.S. Government records relating to the conduct of U.S. foreign policy during Defendant Secretary Clinton's term as Secretary of State."
Judge Middlebrooks has not yet ruled on Klayman's request that the court seize Hillary Clinton's server.
The court documents also state the Clinton Foundation and the former first couple must discuss the Cameras in the Courtroom pilot project, an initiative in the Southern District of Florida aimed at incorporating video recordings into civil cases.
"I am pleased that the Court has set this case for early jury trial," Klayman told the Examiner. "This is a matter of extreme national importance and before now, for decades, the Clintons have not had to answer to a jury for their alleged crimes. Now, justice will be done."
The Clinton Foundation declined a request for comment Friday.
outstanding!
Can’t disagree with that. One possible ray of hope, however unlikely, is such a trial will bring to light criminal activity heretofore undiscovered. For now the Clintons are untouchable, but every dog has his day. Nothing lasts forever.
Must be convicted before Obama can pardon
Seize all of their money, the good and the bad, under RICO statutes? Before trial?
The Clintons aren’t gonna like that...
The clintons have it coming to them..and IT aint good!
ahahaha WHAT A FLASHBACK
I am serious.
I am serious.
Klayman does not win in the courtroom. He does manage to dig up some useful evidence along the way which is why he does all of this, but trying to find a case that ended in his favor is tough. I haven’t found one.
Thanks for the link.
The headline and the article are misleading. The judge did not decide anything. This is just a routine scheduling order. Undoubtedly, the Clintons will file a Motion to Dismiss and/or a Motion for Summary Judgment, and if the judge denies that, that will be news; then one could say that the judge has ordered the case to trial.
Not that I'm not all for it derailing them.
Notice that this all takes place in Southern Florida, with a corrupt Democrat demographic. I see an exoneration for the Clintons so that they can go into the 2016 Presidential race claiming that the charges are false, and just another attempt by the VRWC to defame Bill and Hill!
This appears on the surface nothing more than a political stunt to be carried out before a biased court and jury pool......
Bill and Hill are just getting inoculated against future accusations of their criminal behavior......no more, no less.
Nah! the Judge is merely helping the Clintons inoculate themselves from scrutiny...payback for his judgeship.
“-—the people will have to.” Yeah, seems to me the 14th amendment applies. The part about powers reserved to the people. When gummint can’t get out of its own way. Should apply to the Grand Kenyan also. I’ll be there when ya’ll decide it’s time to hold a Provisional Court on the steps of Scotus to prosecute his dumbassness.
Was the judge required by law to issue the order? Did he have options? If so, what were they?
How about taxpayers in all regions of the USA ban together an file on Clintons: especially where Uranium mined from your State—and other issues.
Additionally, the IRS has a Crime Unit: if thousands filed vs Clinton Foundation(s) perhaps there might be a courage IRS agent with some integrity.
The forms known as IRS Form 3949 A are available on line to file a complaint.
Also, non profits DO NOT HAVE in their bylaws to Aid ILLEGALs: so when searching State Non Profit or Fed Non Profit By laws etc. when the term IMMIGRANT is utilized but their Aiding Abetting SEDITION is ILLEGALs aka foreign invaders...that is not what the NP is reporting! FRAUD! UTILIZE USA Laws or go down being silent...
I am not familiar with that court in particular, but often such orders are required by a court-wide case management protocol. The idea is to get a trial date scheduled so that the court’s docket keeps moving. A fixed trial date encourages the lawyers not to dally, not to mention encouraging settlement negotiations.
Even with such a protocol, can a judge decline to schedule by refusing to accept or hear the case?
Doesn’t the Supreme Court do that?
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AND IN other news, O’Malley is now in the headlines as a Dim contendah. He’s been out there all along; the timing is really interesting. If the Clinton Crime Famiglia goes down, will O’Malley take over with the Irish mafia?
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