Good summary of what happened today in court... including questions from the jury.
"Merchan explained that the crime of falsifying business records in the first degree must include the intent to commit a crime to aid or conceal the commission of another crime. But prosecutors do not need to prove the other crime was actually committed.
Several jurors began taking notes as Merchan told them that a “general intent to defraud suffices.”
Lawyers for Rudy #Giuliani’s creditors have formally asked his bankruptcy judge to appoint a trustee that would “take control” of the former NYC mayor’s finances, citing the debtor’s “dishonesty,” “incompetence,” and “gross mismanagement” throughout the months-old Chapter 11 proceedings.
🍿
Stephen Thomas Farrea: member of Nationalist Social Club-131 also known as NSC-131; known for disrupting children’s “drag queen story hours”, charged with possessing child pornography.
#NotaDragQueen #Transrights #News
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/29/metro/warwick-rhode-island-neo-nazi-child-pornography-nsc-131
1 of 14/ Body Language and Behavior Analysis No. 4745: Donald Trump Departing the Courthouse as the Jury Begins Their Deliberation – Nonverbal and Emotional Intelligence #BodyLanguageExpert #BodyLanguage #BehaviorAnalysis #DonaldTrump #TrumpTrial
First partial day of deliberations, and notes from jury in #ManhattenVsTrump
Reading tea leaves, i think the Jury might be looking at the the alleged predicate crimes (that allows a misdemeanor to be a felony) which are: (1) federal election finance fraud, (2) state election finance fraud and (3) state tax fraud.
just need "Preponderance of the Evidence" like knowing it rained because sidewalk is wet.
The jury does have lawyers and a couple of financial people. and some took a lot of notes
#Tiktok in 2022 tried to offer the White house a deal. It would let federal officials pick its U.S. operation’s board of directors, would give the government veto power over each new hire and would pay an American company that contracts with the Defense Department to monitor its source code
The problem was it would still remain a chinese owned company
Also it would become a political tool open for corruption
(WaPo archive)
https://archive.is/FYL8V
A former sheriff from Florida has received political asylum in Moscow, and is now a key player in Russia's disinformation operations against the West, the NYT reports.
"Working from an apartment crowded with servers and other computer equipment, Mr. Dougan has built an ever-growing network of more than 160 fake websites that mimic news outlets in the United States, Britain and France."
#politics
(NYT archive)
https://archive.is/GWRzR
.#Nasa and #BoeingSpace teams polled “go” to proceed with plans to launch the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station at 12:25 p.m. EDT Saturday, June 1. During a Delta-Agency Flight Test Readiness Review Wednesday at #KSC in Florida, leaders from NASA, Boeing, and #ULA (United Launch Alliance) verified launch readiness, including all systems, facilities, and teams supporting the test flight.
No. I won't tell you my jokes about ghosts having sex with owls
Going to cry about it?
Well boo fucking hoo
Justice Sam #Alito refuses to recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases or Trump cases in letter to Congress.
"My wife is fond of flying flags. I am not," he writes. "I asked her to take them down and she refused"
Waiting for her to fly a swastika and union jack next.
Trump outside after #ManhattenVsTrump jury begins deliberating
"This judge contributed to Joe Biden and far worse than that. But I'm not allowed to talk about it 'cause I have a gag order,” Trump whined.
"It'll be talked about in the history books. What's happening here is weaponization at a level that nobody's seen before, ever. And it shouldn't be allowed to happen."
Lol sounds terrified and trying to set himself up as a marytr. Obviously doesn't think he has a jurist on his side
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s husband is representing Fox Corporation — Fox News’ parent company — in a defamation lawsuit
*Me at Hotel, pushing all the tables together at the Continental breakfast*
Hotel staff: Sir, could you please not-
Me: PANGEA BREAKFAST!
Former Trump attorney has Colorado law license suspended for attempting to overturn 2020 election results
Jenna Ellis, has agreed to have her law license suspended for three years in Colorado for her role in attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results
such a bad lawyer that when fired as a traffic lawyer, she was able to collect unemployment because they assumed her education was the problem
Gamer Nerd, loves Futuristic Science Fiction, Curling, and craft beer.