Message & Note to the NY Times newspaper. No one with half a functioning brain gives one iota of a hoot about Jeff Bezos or Amazon...period.
You don’t shoot (metaphorically) at the world’s richest man and master CIA asset unless your aim is true.
How did the sexting photos get out? Did someone hack his phone or did his floozy release the photos? My phone is full of photos of food we eat, or photos of our cats, or our grandkids... But still wondering if people can hack into our cell phone texts?????
And BTW his wife is adorable, his floozy is ugly.
Old laws have a tendency to linger rather than be outright overturned by later legislation. I wish we had a DOJ.
GF must have missed the security header on the pix stating “Not for Public Distribution” ...
The first ten Comments completely miss the point of my post.
This is ALL about Trump.
The Enquirer did not publish previous defamatory stories about Trump after paying to get exclusive rights to those stories.
The owner and the company were granted immunity from campaign law violations in exchange for full testimony and document release about the unpublished Trump stories.
They also promised to violate no laws of any kind for a period of three years.
If the Enquirer is now charged with extortion, their campaign immunity will disappear, and the Southern District of New York will lean on the Enquirer owner and the company until they make up some convincing lies about Trump.
The MSM are circling the wagons around this pervert. The story is extortion to distract from his aberrant behavior and adultery.
I must have been asleep when the federal prosecutors went after Stormy Daniels for extorting Donald Trump
I think that Bezos makes claims of extortion and hangs all of it on the letter that he published from Dylan Howard about “expediating this situation” by just flat out telling Bezos’s people exactly what they had. Whether or not that holds water depends on the other evidence, because this in and of itself is not the slam dunk he portrays it as. He dances around the situation, and references the Saudis and says that this is a major component, which is not borne out by the letter he has published which makes no reference to the Saudis.
I don’t want to don rose-colored glasses, but ignoring what Mr. Bezos claims without substantiation, and focusing on what he has actually provided, this could be nothing more than “this is what we’ve got, we’ve heard that the Post is about to publish a bunch of claims about us, those claims are in fact unsubstantiated because this is the thing we have (and not the other thing.)”
It almost sounds as though Bezos is trying to rumble the National Enquirer with his own conspiracy theory about them, which is kind of surreal.
Off-the-shelf Stingray devices cost somewhere between $16,000 and $125,000, far too rich for a poor hacker’s pocketbook. Of course, what the government can do for $100,000, anyone else can do for five hundred. Here’s how you build your own Stingray using off the shelf hardware.
https://hackaday.com/2016/04/08/build-your-own-gsm-base-station-for-fun-and-profit/
And here’s me thinking that publishing dick pics was about driving down Amazon stock (so Bezos could buy out his wife at a reduced price) by introducing uncertainty since Bezos is the number one shareholder and he had no pre-nup.
I cannot possibly understand how a man this smart & this successful is dumb enough to take a picture of his genitals with a cell phone & send it out anywhere.
I wouldn’t want to have my privates in a picture of ANY kind.
How could he be that stupid???
Arrogance & Ego sure go hand in hand-—sorry for the pun.
As regards the Washington Post, I recall a story from long ago that suggests they do not mind engaging in extortions themselves.
When Gary Hart was under siege from the Donna Rice scandal there was a period during which he was holed up in his Washington residence, deciding what to do – weather the storm or withdraw from the race. The Washington Post contacted him with new allegations of infidelity – this time with a story about an affair he had carried on with the wife of former Maryland Senator Joseph Tydings. The Post wanted a confirm or deny reaction from him before they ran the story. He asked for time to formulate a response, but instead of responding, he made an announcement that he was withdrawing from the race. The Post never ran the story. Later, in a Madison Wisconsin newspaper, I read the story of how the Post influenced Hart to quit, in an interview with Bill Dixon, who had run Hart’s short-lived campaign. So, they affected his participation in the race by threatening to publish a story that they never ultimately published.
Granted this was decades before the Graham family fire-saled the Post to Jeff Bezos, but the role of the Post at that time was no different than the role of AMI today. Imagine how many times in the intervening years the Post shaped events, instead of reporting on them.