Valid or not, he did get arrested before Hillary... sad state of things.
What about statute of limitations? I thought the extension of the statute of limitations for that person being outside the jurisdiction is for people fleeing? Trump did not flee, and everyone knew where he was.
“Falsifying Business Records” x 34
That’s their felony charge.
This is a damn joke.
It’s all the same thing twisted 34 different ways.
As of 2017, there was no underlying act of Trump that needed to be concealed from anybody except his wife.
From the Tom Delay playbook.
I was worried before I read it.
Not any more.
He said she said with Michael Cohen as the State of New York’s witness for the prosecution.
34 counts with each count being a separate invoice, check or general ledger entry. What an unmitigated crap storm this is.
NINTH COUNT:
AND THE GRAND JURY AFORESAID, by this indictment, further accuses the
defendant of the crime of FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS IN THE FIRST DEGREE,
in violation of Penal Law ยง175.10, committed as follows:
The defendant, in the County of New York and elsewhere, on or about June 19, 2017, with
intent to defraud and intent to commit another crime and aid and conceal the commission thereof,
made and caused a false entry in the business records of an enterprise, to wit, an entry in the Detail
General Ledger for Donald J. Trump, bearing voucher number 858770, and kept and maintained
by the Trump Organization
There must be “intent to defraud”.
Seems to me there is something huge missing in all 34 counts - the "crime" referred to in the indictment is not identified at all. A defendant cannot defend against an unknown charge. This indictment is a massive deprivation of due process of law. You are entitled as of right to know what you are accused of. This indictment DOES NOT DO THAT. MOVE TO DISMISS THE INDICTMENT. IT IS UNCONSTITUTIONALLY VAGUE AND AMBIGUOUS.
2017? Seems to me that was some time ago. Obviously I guess the crime he was allegedly doing was hiding the bimbo payoff?
Unless there is a superceeding indictment, if this is it, it is nothing but BS.
A person is guilty of falsifying business records in the first degree
when he commits the crime of falsifying business records in the second
degree, and when his intent to defraud includes an intent to commit
another crime or to aid or conceal the commission thereof.
The important issue here is what crime is he covering up. If it is that BS voting law violation, it was ruled already.
All are 2017.
All are checks/vouchers supposedly falsified in terms of their ledger entry.
I doubt the president did his own accounting. As Jarret or Dershowitz says, who reveals in a public record and NDA. The whole point is not to disclose it.
If the NDA is legal, then the non-descriptive entry must also be legal.
The Eighth Count is for what Cohen did. They would have to prove instruction by President Trump beyond a reasonable doubt, using The Rat's testimony -- a known perjurer in the same Manhattan court! Who rarely followed Trump's instructions, according to reams of his own prior testimony!
No, this guy Boogums is just a blackface Nifong. Nifong served time, was disbarred, lost judgments against him, and declared bankruptcy. He lives a solitary life in the North Carolina woods and refuses interviews.
Not only will every one of these fates befall Bluegums, but he will only realize later that Democrats USE-AND-ABANDON, and that is exactly what just happened to him.
If he wasn’t in charge of the company at that point (and he couldn’t be), how can they charge him for acts he could not control?
Counts 1 thru 7 are time-barred due to be past the statue of limitation. Plus, they are not charging him with another crime but I guess it’s a felony to write a check to your lawyer if you are republican.
I think there’s a major flaw in the indictment which Bragg is obscuring thus far.
There is no false ledger entry.
The specific payments were to Cohen. Stormy Daniels had been paid already.
No matter the reason for the payments to Cohen, the ledger is not false.
That’s why the indictment says there was no “retainer agreement” with Cohen. But “retainer” is a term of art. At that point Trump only owed Cohen money.
The ledger entries were correct.
I’m no lawyer and I have a question. We all know the saying “you can indict a ham sandwich,” implying anyone can be indicted for just about anything due to the low burden of proof.
Can Trump and his lawyers motion for the judge presiding to dismiss the charges prima facie because they’re bogus? Or must it go to trial first?
This is all Hillary again. Can someone PLEASE explain to me why that effin C has so much power?