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Elias Pettersson

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16 minutes ago, Sabrefan1 said:

Trump apparently posted this. 

 

Believe it or not?  😂

 

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I think Trump is just pumping up her Instagram account. I mean I just went there myself to check it out. 
 

I wasn’t really impressed though. She’s not my type.  But a 77 year old dude might be interested. 

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7 hours ago, RupertKBD said:

 

Interesting....so they can say they are debt free and have $200 million in cash and that's not illegal, even if it's not true?

 

Like they say it's only wrong if you get caught.

 

It's illegal to lie in SEC filings.

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Back to Rikers for this dumb f**k

Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg sentenced for perjury

Less than a year after he was released from jail, former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg is heading back.

 

Weisselberg was sentenced Wednesday to five months in New York City's Rikers Island jail complex, in line with a plea agreement reached with prosecutors over perjury he committed in a 2023 civil fraud case.  

 

Weisselberg pleaded guilty in March to two felony counts of perjury. The Manhattan District Attorney's Office said he admitted to giving false testimony regarding the size of former President Donald Trump's triplex apartment in New York during a July deposition.

 

Prosecutors initially charged Weisselberg with three additional counts of perjury, but their agreement allowed him to avoid pleading guilty to those charges. 

 

One of those initial counts was related to false sworn testimony on May 12, 2023, in a discovery deposition. The other two counts stemmed from Weisselberg's October 10, 2023, testimony in his civil fraud trial, in which he and longtime former boss Donald Trump were found liable for fraud and other related allegations.

Sentencing For Allen Weisselberg In Perjury Case

Allen Weisselberg, former chief financial officer of Trump Organization Inc., third right, at criminal court in New York, US, on Wednesday, April 10, 2024.  Curtis Means/Daily Mail/Bloomberg via Getty Images

 

Weisselberg spoke once during the brief, two-minute hearing, after Justice Laurie Peterson asked if he had anything to say. "No, your honor," Weisselberg replied. Moments later he was led out of the courtroom in handcuffs.

 

New York State Attorney General Letitia James had accused Trump and his associates, including Weisselberg, of inflating the value of the Trump Organization to receive favorable loans and other benefits. That civil case ended with a judge ordering the former president to pay more than $450 million, including interest.

 

Weisselberg was found liable for fraud and ordered to pay $1 million plus interest. During the fraud trial, he acknowledged receiving $2 million in severance after leaving the Trump Organization.

 

Bragg's office secured a previous guilty plea from Weisselberg in connection with a separate case, a 2022 criminal tax fraud case against the company, in which two subsidiaries of the Trump Organization were found guilty of 17 felony counts. 

 

The Trump Organization entities were fined $1.6 million in the 2022 case. Trump was not personally charged in that case and denied any knowledge of fraud.

Under Weisselberg's plea deal in that case, he was required to testify at the Trump Organization trial in 2022.

 

As part of his plea agreement in Weisselberg's perjury case, prosecutors agreed not to call him as a witness in Trump's upcoming criminal trial, which is scheduled to begin Monday.

A timeline of perjury

On April 19, 2023, Weisselberg was released from a five month jail sentence after 100 days, for good behavior. 

 

Thirty-two days later, on May 21, he committed perjury during a deposition, according to the Manhattan District Attorney. 

 

On July 17 — 55 days later — he did it again, he admits. 

 

And then again 87 days later, on Oct. 12, while on the stand in his civil fraud case, according to prosecutors. 

 

Now Weisselberg has once again been sentenced to five months in jail. 

 

He will be eligible for release in 100 days, with good behavior.

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27 minutes ago, Elias Pettersson said:

 

I think Trump is just pumping up her Instagram account. I mean I just went there myself to check it out. 
 

I wasn’t really impressed though. She’s not my type.  But a 77 year old dude might be interested. 

 

 

I had no idea who she was until I Googled her and took a look back in 2017/2018 when the excrement was hitting the fan with the whole payoff/hush money thing.  I thought to myself, "Geez Trump, have some standards". 

 

Some women come out of the porn industry a lot worse than when they went in.  I'm guessing it's because of the rumoured rampant drug use in that line of work.

 

Though to be fair to her, she went from being a post career traveling stripper back to making bank as a porn star after the whole Trump saga thing ended.

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5 minutes ago, nuckin_futz said:

Back to Rikers for this dumb f**k

Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg sentenced for perjury

 

I need to start paying attention to these Trump bullet sponges and their court cases.  I had no idea that perjury could rise to a felony charge. 

 

This being New York and the voting laws were changed 3 years ago, he's still going to have the right to vote for his daddy in November since he'll likely be released in July.

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The "Stable Genius" has struck again.....

 

A bill for the renewal of FISA 702 was killed by House Republicans today, after Donald Trump voiced his opposition, claiming it was the same act used to "tapp" his phones and spy on his campaign. The bill was supported by Speaker Mike Johnson and several other Republicans (but not enough to override the MAGA faction that don nothing other than Dotard's bidding)

 

The reason there were Republicans supporting the renewal is because unlike former president dipshit, they understood that this was a completely separate section and actually applied to foreign targets:

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/caileygleeson/2024/04/10/house-lawmakers-strike-down-fisa-renewal-measure/?sh=10518b656e20

 

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Trump claimed Wednesday that the law “was illegally used against” him to spy on his campaign, in reference to the Justice Department’s 2020 findings that the FBI improperly obtained two of four warrants while investigating a former campaign associate—but the warrants were acquired under a different section of FISA that is not currently up for reauthorization.

 

I've said it before, but it bears repeating: Trump is the most stupid POTUS of all time.....and it's not close.....

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2 minutes ago, RupertKBD said:

The "Stable Genius" has struck again.....

 

A bill for the renewal of FISA 702 was killed by House Republicans today, after Donald Trump voiced his opposition, claiming it was the same act used to "tapp" his phones and spy on his campaign. The bill was supported by Speaker Mike Johnson and several other Republicans (but not enough to override the MAGA faction that don nothing other than Dotard's bidding)

 

The reason there were Republicans supporting the renewal is because unlike former president dipshit, they understood that this was a completely separate section and actually applied to foreign targets:

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/caileygleeson/2024/04/10/house-lawmakers-strike-down-fisa-renewal-measure/?sh=10518b656e20

 

 

I've said it before, but it bears repeating: Trump is the most stupid POTUS of all time.....and it's not close.....

 

 

You realize it was the Democrats that killed it, right? 

 

The 19 Republicans just put the Democrats over the top.

 

This is one of the issues I side completely with the Democrats.  FISA is a rubber stamp end-around of the Constitution.  You know, that prop that the Republicans love to hold up in the air when they are feeling especially self-righteous.

 

 

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15 minutes ago, Sabrefan1 said:

You realize it was the Democrats that killed it, right? 

 

The 19 Republicans just put the Democrats over the top.

 

This is one of the issues I side completely with the Democrats.  FISA is a rubber stamp end-around of the Constitution.  You know, that prop that the Republicans love to hold up in the air when they are feeling especially self-righteous.

 

Sure, but that's beside the point. The guy who really killed it is the guy with the so-called "big brain" who didn't even know what bill he was telling his acolytes to vote against.

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Just now, RupertKBD said:

Sure, but that's beside the point. The guy who really killed it is the guy with the so-called "big brain" who didn't even know what bill he was telling his acolytes to vote against.

 

 

I agree with the result if not the method to which it got there.  I'm just hoping that both the Senate and Biden follows through.  If this was an election year stunt, we'll find out when the Democratically controlled Senate gets it's mitts on it.  They'll quietly kill it in committee.

 

My poms poms are out cheering for the Democrats to take the FISA laws apart piece by piece. 

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the destroyer of worlds

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5 hours ago, Sabrefan1 said:

Trump apparently posted this. 

 

Believe it or not?  😂

 

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Jonathan Frakes video meme quote reply incoming in 5-4-3-2...   🤣

And this post can easily be viewed as a violation of his gag order.

 

Not only that, but if this is legit evidence that exonerates him, the place for this is in the courtroom. 

 

What a moran.  He's not worth actually spelling the word correctly. 

 

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