Isn't it … odd … that Trump just "happened" to meet an adoring devotee at Chick-Fil-A in Atlanta, a Black woman who hugged him, proving that Black people are just head over heels in love with Trump –
And she turns out to be an employee of the Georgia GOP?
All staged to create viral videos and all deeply insulting to African American voters, with the implication that they can be easily deceived and manipulated.
Truong My Lan, a Vietnamese billionaire property developer, was sentenced to death for a massive fraud scheme that funneled $44 billion from the country’s largest bank. She, along with 85 other people, were found guilty in the sprawling trial that was conducted by 10 state prosecutors and about 200 lawyers who summoned 2,700 to testify. Only Truong My Lan received the death penalty. Read more about the case from the BBC.
So, it now transpires that in the middle of the Horizon IT debacle Paula Vennells claimed that sub-post masters were likely to be tempted to steal by having large amounts of money in their tills...
when as we now know actually it was here & her associates who were tempted to steal by fraud by covering up IT problems they were aware of.
And just in case you had forgotten Vennells has served as an Anglican priest...
Fmr #Trump exec #Weisselberg sentenced to 5 months in #jail after pleading guilty to lying under oath in the NYAG’s #civil#fraud investigation into business practices at the #TrumpOrganization. #AllenWeisselberg, who worked for the Trump family for a half-century before retiring recently, was taken into custody after a brief proceeding in NY Sup Court & is expected to serve his sentence at #RikersIsland.
Judd Legum and Rebecca Crosby explain why Trump is so eager to stop his trial that begins on Monday:
"This case is about how Trump used illegal means to hide the truth from the American people in order to increase his chances of victory in the 2016 presidential election."
“Trump’s trial for election interference in 2016, when he paid people with damaging information to keep quiet before the election and falsified business records to hide those payments, is set to begin on April 15. Evidently very worried about this trial, Trump has already tried eight times to delay it until after November’s election….”
Our top story: Ken Paxton escapes consequences for his actions, again ... As Senior Writer and Assistant Editor Justin Miller writes, for all the emphasis placed on his alleged #fraud, the attorney general was never headed for prison—at least not on these charges ...
#NYAG#LetitiaJames asked an appeals court to require Trump to prove within 10 days that the company providing his $175M bond in the state’s #civil#fraud case is financially capable of delivering if his #legal challenges fail.
The request was made in a filing Thurs by the state.
When #Trump posted a bond in NY on Mon, it appeared that he had evaded a #financial crisis. He had paused enforcement of the >$460M judgment against him, while his appeal is pending.
But the surety bond was missing vital information typically included in those filings, experts say.
Trump stands to gain billions… from the merger between TrumpMedia & Tech & the blank-check co [#SPAC] #DWAC, which took the parent company of #TruthSocial public.
If Truth Social was loosing cash so rapidly, how could Trump keep it afloat up until the recent IPO? According to the Guardian, by borrowing millions from a Russian shell company controlled by Postolnikov — a guy whose name is listed on FBI search warrants in an ongoing money laundering investigation.
If all of this is true, the movie about the takedown Comrade Trump appears to write itself.
@randahl
I've been following this shitshow for quite a while now. I never believed the merger would actually happen until it did, and I still think the SEC never should have given the green light for it.
I wrote about the link between TMTG and Paxum Bank back in October 2023:
"In 2022, the Southern District of New York investigated TMTG for money laundering, after finding it received a $8 million in loans: $2 million from Paxum Bank, based in Dominica and chartered under the Offshore Banking Act No. 8 of 1996. Paxum is partially owned by a former Russian government official who now runs a maritime agency under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation. The other $6 million came from “ES Family Trust” which shared a director with Paxum."
Ok: how is it helpful to keep pointing out how bad Trump is? OF COURSE he is! But it seems like most people already either know this, or are complicit with/brainwashed by his kind of corruption….
Interesting that some people w/ large audiences never explore: WHY he's gotten away with his -criminal level- bs for decades -no delving into previous failings in law enforcement, the justice system(s) or media realms
or discuss much about the many heavily pushed norms that enable authoritarianism
Vietnam Sentences Billionaire to Death for White Collar Fraud
The trials of Tru'o'ng Mỹ Lan and 84 others are part of an anti-corruption campaign led by the head of Vietnam's Communist Party....