Posted on 03/22/2024 2:34:16 PM PDT by lowbridge
The Justice Department took the rare step earlier this month of moving to dismiss a $3.3 billion civil fraud lawsuit against Dish Network — months after founder Charlie Ergen and his wife donated more than $113,000 to President Biden’s re-election campaign late last year.
Ergen, a former professional poker player who helped launch what was then called EchoStar Communications in 1980, has battled the federal fraud claim for nearly a decade.
But the Tennessee native saw his luck change shortly after he and spouse Candy contributed $100,000 to Biden’s super PAC and maxed out with matching $6,600 donations to the president’s principal campaign committee in December, according to campaign finance filings.
This past January, Dish nabbed a $50 million grant from the administration to help expand 5G coverage nationwide — the “largest award” of its kind, the company crowed — through a $1.5 billion fund created by the CHIPS and Science Act.
On Jan. 12, two days after the $50 million award was announced, attorneys at the Justice Department intervened on behalf of Dish — and “tried to bully” Vermont Telephone, which filed the fraud claim, “into an unethical settlement” by threatening to have the suit dismissed, according to lead attorney Bennett Ross.
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“We do not believe it is a coincidence that Mr. Ergen, his wife (who also is scheduled to be deposed next week), and DISH’s Political Action Committee collectively contributed in excess of $5 million to Democratic candidates and causes between 2008 and 2022,” he added.
“With the upcoming election, this case looks like just the latest example of the DOJ’s two-tiered justice system under which the well-heeled, politically connected are treated one way, while everyone else is treated differently.”
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“all I see is the sluts, the thieves, the cheat, the drugged, the criminal all getting ahead.....”
Yep. We’ve got a developer who bought next to us last summer and is ruining our lives by lying and cheating about his new construction project. That type is rampant from your neighborhood to the Oval Office.
Any pretense of legitimacy has been totally discarded. It’s corrupt, we know it’s corrupt, and they know that we know it’s corrupt. And no one cares.
Biden must be the most crooked politician in history.
So, a shakedown. Got it.
“...And no one cares.”
And that, in a nutshell, is what I lose sleep over.
Biden asked for $125, Dish came back with $100, and they split the difference?
That's not even a penny on the dollar. I'll bet that's the same kind of deal the Chinese got...
That is a FANTASTIC ROI.
No surprise, the biden administration is totally corrupt.
How do you spell “shakedown”? B I D E N
I’m sure this is just a coincidence…
Maybe trump should donate 100K to biden to get his lawsuits dropped.
Exactly—I personally bribed then U.S. Senator John Kerry many decades ago—and he delivered as promised. (The statute of limitations have passed but thanks for asking...lol.)
This is the real politics of the real world.
Policy debates are for college sophomores.
P.S. I have lots of other bribery stories—have posted them from time to time.
Part of me hopes they just go on TV and admit it all. "Yeah, we stole 2020, and 2022, and we will steal 2024. Nothing you can do about it, and if you protest or even criticize it, we will prosecute you. And also, all you companies, pony up or we'll crush you."
If you say it is corrupt you are an “extremist” and an “election denier”.
Since it worked, there's probably an applicable designation other than "bribe" in the campaign finance laws. Technicalities, y'know.
“ all I see is the sluts, the thieves, the cheat, the drugged, the criminal all getting ahead.....”
There’s a lesson in there.
L
American fascism in action.
It’s happening many times daily now.
“ all I see is the sluts, the thieves, the cheat, the drugged, the criminal all getting ahead.....”
Just like Nazi Germany in its hey-day. That’s the model for this American government.
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