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Manhattan district attorney considers prosecuting Steve Bannon after Trump pardon
CNBC ^ | 02/03/21 | Dan Mangan

Posted on 02/03/2021 11:36:42 AM PST by hsmomx3

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is considering whether to prosecute Steve Bannon for state crimes. The former senior White House advisor last month received a pardon in a federal criminal case from then-President Donald Trump. The inquiry by District Attorney Cyrus Vance’s office underscores the double-edged sword of presidential pardons, which only apply to federal crimes, not to state cases.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bannon; bidenvoters; cyrusvance; vance
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To: pierrem15

18 USC 241 and 242.


21 posted on 02/03/2021 11:48:17 AM PST by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: hsmomx3

The very fact that there’s this hound dogging of DAs and political persecution should be shooting up red flags among ALL Americans.


22 posted on 02/03/2021 11:48:20 AM PST by Skywise
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To: hsmomx3

This is full-n banana republic level of corruption.

It only took, what, 600 years to get the concept of equality before the law to be fully integrated into a constitutional legal framework? (Just using the period between Magna Carta and the US constitution as general historical markers.)

And we’re going to just watch the Democrat/MSM/GOPe machine walk away from that hard-won civilizational achievement as if it never existed?

Not that I have the first clue as to how one might object in any effective way to this.


23 posted on 02/03/2021 11:48:54 AM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: hsmomx3

Cyrus didn’t fall far from the apple tree .

A corrupt apple tree at that.

5.56mm


24 posted on 02/03/2021 11:49:22 AM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho ain't my president.)
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To: Skywise

Isn’t it unethical for a prosecutor to announce they are considering going after someone, on the grounds that it taints the target without offering a fair opportunity to respond?

Just asking.


25 posted on 02/03/2021 11:51:05 AM PST by TheConservator (Beware the tyranny of the woke mob. There has never been a greater threat to liberty.)
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To: TheConservator

Not necessarily - it’s been used for actual criminal mob intent (eg Al Capone).

This was also used against Bill Cosby when they decided to re-press charges on “new found evidence”.

Does it smell to high heaven? Yeah. But is it actually unethical? If Bannon actually did something wrong? Ehhhhh...


26 posted on 02/03/2021 11:56:19 AM PST by Skywise
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To: hsmomx3

NYC seems to try people not for actual crimes, but for purely political purposes. It’s like they have no actual criminals to pursue, only political hit jobs. They are such deep in the bone commies, they make me physically ill. My contempt for them is deeper than NY Harbor. I don’t see how decent people can continue to live in that odiferous morass of sewage.


27 posted on 02/03/2021 11:56:19 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: precisionshootist
This is what intolerable government looks like.

If there's any action that justifies political violence against the state, it's politically motivated prosecutions, because those are the state committing violence against its citizens.

If I had Bannon's money, I'd already be working on forming my own hit squads of Eastern European or Russian mercs.

28 posted on 02/03/2021 11:57:28 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: hsmomx3

So do you think the Judges will rule “Lack of Standing” or “Latches”. Don’t bet on it. Conservatives should consider severing all ties with New York. State and City DAs are on the hunt.


29 posted on 02/03/2021 11:58:33 AM PST by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: hsmomx3; Texas Fossil

Bannon Says an Epic Battle’s Looming and Establishment Will Be Caught With Their Pants Down

Wayne Dupree ^ | February 2, 2021 | Missy Crane
Posted on 2/3/2021, 11:45:26 AM by Texas Fossil

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3931425/posts


30 posted on 02/03/2021 11:59:28 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Law & order took the last train out of DC & America on election/coup/night, Tuesday, Nov. 03, 2020!!)
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To: hsmomx3

“I hope Vance & Co. lose whatever cases are related to Bannon and Trump.”

They’ll lose every case related to both Bannon and Trump.

Vance doesn’t have anything, but he needs to pretend he does, so the Trump haters keep chasing conspiracy theories.

I read the leftwing media diligently. Vance supposedly has “69 sealed indictments” related to the Mueller farce.

Doesn’t that sound familiar?

It almost sounds like ‘Q quackery’ written for the left.


31 posted on 02/03/2021 12:00:54 PM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: Grampa Dave

Thanks for the link. I missed this!!


32 posted on 02/03/2021 12:06:35 PM PST by hsmomx3
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To: hsmomx3

How does a New York DA have jurisdiction? Is Bannon so dense as to live or work in New York?


33 posted on 02/03/2021 12:07:39 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: hsmomx3

They have no fear of patriots.


34 posted on 02/03/2021 12:08:59 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: hsmomx3

You were probably posting yours when this was posted.

This is probably, why they are going double jeopardy on our guy!


35 posted on 02/03/2021 12:10:41 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Law & order took the last train out of DC & America on election/coup/night, Tuesday, Nov. 03, 2020!!)
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To: hsmomx3

If only the Bush DOJ had pursued the case against fugitives of justice, Marc Rich, and his partner Pincus Green, after Bill Clinton pardoned them.


36 posted on 02/03/2021 12:53:36 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: a fool in paradise
Double jeopardy?

Happens all the time just in reverse. When States fail to convict the feds file under some pretext, supremes have ruled that is not double jeopardy, even though it clearly is. Rodney King cops being a prime example. It was something they cooked unto over come Jim Crow courts that wouldn't convict a white man, just fine of course if it is the other way around.

37 posted on 02/03/2021 1:01:01 PM PST by itsahoot (Skill to intrepret auto correct is necessary to read my posts, understanding them is another matter.)
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To: Meatspace

There’s a lawyers trick I heard about: “change of venue.”
Could this be used to get the persecuted out where they might get a reasonable jury? Would it work in state courts/


38 posted on 02/03/2021 1:07:07 PM PST by tsomer
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To: econjack
"Another jerk who wants his 15 minutes of fame."

Cyrus Vance, Jr. has had more than his share of 15 minutes of fame. He's the dope who refused to prosecute Weinstein in 2015, after Ambra Gutierrez turned over an audio recording of the fat slob admitting that he touched her inappropriately. Vance said there wasn't enough evidence to pursue the case. One of Weinstein's lawyers, David Boies, who was a part of Gore's legal team in 2000, donated $10,000 to Vance's campaign after he said he wouldn't prosecute. And as we all know, Democrats don't have to follow the rules, or answer questions about their behavior. When evil has control, evil always wins.

39 posted on 02/03/2021 1:09:47 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: a fool in paradise
"Double jeopardy?"

Vance tried this against Paul Manafort, and his case was dismissed by Judge Maxwell Wiley. Wiley said it was double jeopardy. Vance claimed he was going to appeal the decision, but this was in December 2019, and there's been nothing more about it in the news:

New York fraud charges against Paul Manafort, ex-Trump campaign chairman, dismissed by judge

It appears that Vance has no problem with pursuing charges that are clearly "double jeopardy." It just depends on what Judge he gets that determines whether the case is dismissed, or moves ahead.

40 posted on 02/03/2021 1:16:50 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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