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The indictment is legally insufficient on its face... Maybe that's why no law is actually cited in the indictment.
Twitter.com ^ | April 04, 2023 | Robert Barnes @barnes_law

Posted on 04/04/2023 4:53:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: robertbarnes; trumparrignment; trumpindictment
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Not only is no actual law cited, but Bragg's indictment relies on a wild theory that invoices created by Cohen, checks, and accounting ledger entries which accurately reflect the payments of the invoices on a monthly basis over a year are somehow fraudulent because they characterize payments to a lawyer of his invoices as legal expenses.

In Bragg's world, since Cohen used some of the $450,000 he was paid to pay off a $130,000 loan he took out to pay off Daniels then somehow the payments of his invoices and the accurate recording of those transactions is supposedly "false" business records. That's a crazy, clown world.

Presumably if Cohen had bought a boat and paid his marina fees with the money he received from being on retainer as an attorney then Bragg would insist that the invoices, checks, and general ledger entries say "paid for lawyer's boat and docking fees" which is obviously ridiculous.

There is no requirement anywhere, including in New York, that business records reflect underlying motivations for the transaction. The records should reflect the transaction itself. You might hire a painter to paint your warehouse because you wanted to help him put his kids through college. But the business records would show "painting" not "college tuition for Harry's kids"

41 posted on 04/04/2023 6:28:29 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: Eagles6

That’s exactly what I keep thinking. I never understand why it isn’t.


42 posted on 04/04/2023 6:29:58 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: Rummyfan

Indicted.... but no law was broken. It’s straight out of Beria’s Soviet Union.
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Beria would be proud seeing how his persecution strategy is being employed right here in the “Land of the Free”!


43 posted on 04/04/2023 6:31:17 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: TexasGator
Trump is being charged with falsifying records to hide that crime.

Except that there is no underlying crime to hide.

44 posted on 04/04/2023 6:31:46 PM PDT by OA5599
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To: OA5599

“Except that there is no underlying crime to hide.”

Cohen pled guilty and went to the federal pen for it.


45 posted on 04/04/2023 6:33:03 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Alberta's Child

True, except for RATs.


46 posted on 04/04/2023 6:40:00 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Brian Griffin
By pleading to everything tossed at him Cohen blocked future prosecution risk.

I was under the impression he accepted a plea deal to avoid being prosecuted for more serious crimes. I did not follow his case closely so I am quite possibly or even probably wrong.

But the distinction here between Trump and Cohen with regards to the hush payments possibly violating a federal campaign finance law is that Cohen didn't fight it while Trump will. And of course that Cohen's case was federal while Trump's is not.

47 posted on 04/04/2023 6:41:51 PM PDT by OA5599
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To: ClearCase_guy

His most heinous offense was scaring the living sh*t out of Obama, Clinton, Biden, and scores of their Deep State apparatchiks all of whom could have been convicted of crimes like treason that carry the death penalty. That’s why they will stop at nothing to make certain he’ll never get a another opportunity to make them soil their undies!


48 posted on 04/04/2023 6:47:02 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: TexasGator
Cohen pled guilty and went to the federal pen for it.

It? What is it ?

Cohen pled guilty to several counts of tax evasion and making false statements. I'd say those were more of the "it" which led to prison time than the dubious at best campaign finance law violation.

49 posted on 04/04/2023 6:50:05 PM PDT by OA5599
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To: OA5599

“Cohen pled guilty to several counts of tax evasion and making false statements. “

and campaign finance violations ...


50 posted on 04/04/2023 6:52:13 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: smokingfrog

No – but there must be at least 12 votes toward an indictment in the New York court system.
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Piece of cake. Members of the jury are already intimidated and paid off before the jury is even seated. Standard procedure in Communist jurisprudence.


51 posted on 04/04/2023 6:53:39 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: Cen-Tejas

Now, it’s just a matter of how long before a REAL judge looks at this laughable indictment document and throws it out.
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A real judge? You’re a real optimist, and I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for one to appear if I were you!


52 posted on 04/04/2023 6:57:45 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The underlying crime appears to be fully corroborated by photographic evidence.   This photo clearly shows President Trump engaging openly and maliciously in felonious, first-degree jaywalking.


     

53 posted on 04/04/2023 6:58:34 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

>> The process is the punishment.

Usually... but in Trump’s case, it will turn out to be publicity and a maga-fired-up base that vaults him into the presidency in 2024, well worth the time and money that (for him) are, relatively speaking, peanuts.

As a bonus, he’ll get to kick Alvin Braggs’ teensy little prog-balls up into his esophagus region. Politically speaking. You’ll won’t hear squat from that fat soros buttboy ever again.


54 posted on 04/04/2023 7:03:51 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: TexasGator

So you side with Alvin Bragg?


55 posted on 04/04/2023 7:13:14 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: ohioman

“So you side with Alvin Bragg?”

Grow up and quit with the juvenile posts.


56 posted on 04/04/2023 7:15:31 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

How many jurors are there?
My understanding is there can be as many as 23. So 12 would barely be a majority in that case. Seems like the requirement should be a little higher.


57 posted on 04/04/2023 7:41:06 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

Trump made about 245 judicial appointments during his presidency, so there’s hope.


58 posted on 04/04/2023 7:46:07 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: TexasGator

You grow up troll!


59 posted on 04/04/2023 8:09:19 PM PDT by ohioman
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To: TexasGator

You still didn’t answer the question.


60 posted on 04/04/2023 8:09:54 PM PDT by ohioman
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