Sunday, May 2, 2021

This Week in Organized Crime

 It looks like someone ought to be keeping track:

  • Trump apologist and Big Lie enabler Sidney Powell is facing both a $1.3 billion defamation suit from voting machine vendor Dominion Systems and an effort by the state of Michigan to sanction her over her Big Lie activities in that state, plus $12,000 in attorney fees. In the Dominion suit, her attorneys are - seriously - arguing that  
    “no reasonable person” would believe that her false claims and conspiracy theories about the 2020 election were “truly statements of fact.”

     The Michigan Attorney General has asked the court's permission to include those remarks as evidence in a suit asking Powell and others to be sanctioned. 

    “As lawyers, fidelity to the law is paramount.  These individuals worked to further conspiracy theories in an effort to erode public trust in government and dismantle our systems of democracy. Their actions are inexcusable.”  
  •  Deep State believer and Orange Acolyte Victoria Toensing had her house raided by the FBI, evidently as part of the same investigation the feds are conducting into Rudy Giuliani's business dealings in Ukraine. They got her phone.

  • Donald Trump, Jr. has his own problems stemming from an investigation into the Trump inaugural celebrations that directed hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Trump Hotel, which apparently tripled its room rates for the events. Mother Jones is reporting sworn statements by Junior are contradicted in numerous emails, planning documents and perhaps even by testimony his sister Ivanka gave in connection to the same investigation

  • And Rudy Giuliani's troubles persist with that FBI raid that snagged his electronics and offered his son Andrew the opportunity to show us all why he's been kept away from media all this time. 

    "When federal agents raided my father’s home at dawn yesterday morning, the Biden Justice Department sent a clear message to America: If it can happen to the former mayor who led New York City through 9/11, it can happen to you, too."

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