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.
I wouldn’t want to see that either.
He’s actually had some pretty good success. Bunch of losers, too; but he is in the game, so I wouldn’t be too critical.
That’s what I meant - possible conflict.
We’ll know soon enough, if the prosecutor objects.
I was surprised to see that this jurist was a Clinton appointee!
Maybe he despises Hillary and perhaps he respects the law and not the Clinton’s!
The other shoe will drop if and when a forensic expert is ordered.
The other shoe will drop if and when a forensic expert is ordered.
Amen to that! :)
Delay, delay delay.. Team Clinton will delay and stall this trial until AFTER she’s elected president.
It is not that it is justified. It is just that the timing is curious.
... C'mon Hillary.
Let a *real* woman show you how it's done:
Cheers!
Dredging up decades old dirt and releasing it at an opportune is the Clinton M.0.
-PJ
Good point PJ. I forgot about Henry Hyde.
This makes no sense. If Klayman filed the suit a couple of days ago, even assuming he served the defendants on the very day he filed, they would not yet have had time to file either an Answer to the Complaint or a Motion to Dismiss it. Things just don’t happen that quickly in any court. Is there a link to the Order? Or a case number. We can search it at PACER.
For later rereading.
Great. Now how many times are we going to have to see pictures of him sans shirt?
"Vote for me, I look better without a shirt than Hillary does"
Correct Ive not heard a word of this.
Klayman’s got guts—or he hasn’t been made aware of the Arkancide phenomenon.
Thanks. I saw that after my earlier post. The order is docket #40, so the article has to be wrong about when the suit was filed, wasn’t a few days ago. I haven’t taken time to look at PACER to look up the docket to see when it was filed and the intervening activity, i.e., the Answer, motions filed, the scheduling order, who the attorneys representing the defendants are, etc.
Interesting the conference is set for exactly one year to the day before our next POTUS will be inaugurated. THO, I would bet there’s gonna be a lot of rescheduling before it’s all said and done. RICO cases are very hard to win, so let’s see what Klayman can do.
Are you serious?
Are you serious?
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