Posted on 06/03/2024 6:37:18 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
A juror in a Minneapolis trial related to $250 million in stolen pandemic aid reported that she had a sack with $120,000 in cash delivered to her door — and a note promising more if she voted to acquit.
The bribe was delivered to the juror’s home in on Sunday evening — just hours before the jury was due back in court to hear the final closing arguments in the trial.
Juror 52, a 23-year-old woman, was not home when the bag was dropped off but immediately notified police after family at the house showed it to her.
“This is completely beyond the pale,” said Assistant US Attorney Joseph Thompson in court on Monday. “This is outrageous behavior. This is stuff that happens in mob movies.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“I have a bag of bribe cash here from some awful people! $200,000 in small . . . Er, uh .. . Sorry that’s $120,000 in cash!”
A $250,000,000.00 government fraud loss here and another there and pretty soon you are talking some real money! (~$8.9 Billion):
The government is really bad at money management/anti-fraud...always “after the fact” oopsie! (I know, I know: “Captain Obvious”!)
Why not? It would work in Somalia.
Defendants:Abdiaziz Farah, Mohamed Jama Ismail, Abdimajid Nur, Hayat Nur, Said Farah, Abdiwahab Aftin, Mukhtar Shariff
This seems very crude and obvious. Is more going on, I wonder.
The article is missing quite a bit if info.
More here...
Someone may have just wanted this particular juror kicked off the jury.
If so, the ploy worked, didnt it.
Good question.
See my reply #26.
Wow! You’d think Congresswoman? Omar was involved. She’s good at buying votes in the Somali community.
For a cool $1.5 Million all of the jurors can be dismissed. It does sound like the Somali way.
EC
everyone has a price...
mine is $500k for betraying my company, but their bi-weekly pay checks is keeping me honest for the last 25 years with them.
It's not hard to believe at all. They're not afraid of the law ... and we know why they're not afraid of the law.
If the bag don’t fit, you must acquit. As in, I’d need $1m to acquit.
Plus the brightest crooks don’t get caught right? So, a little hyperbole there, and for the sake of the butterflies lolz
Lolz
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