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BREAKING: Former New York Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos sentenced to 4.25 years in prison, a federal judge ruled.

Background courthousenews.com/ny-corruption-…
Judge Wood previously sentenced Dean Skelos to 6 years imprisonment, but she went down to 4 years because of his age: 70 years old.

The ".25" is a three months enhancement that the judge tacked on for misleading testimony during his retrial.

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ICYMI: Here is my developing story on the sentencing of disgraced ex-Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos.

Adam Skelos, his son, has not yet been sentenced. courthousenews.com/ex-ny-senate-l…
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Prosecutors claim that indicted attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya fabricated supposed findings from a mutual legal assistance treaty. @PeteBrush dug up that Russian MLAT, and it's signed by "S.A. Karapetyan."

A top Russian prosecutor with that name died in a copter crash last year.
Just as prosecutors allege, the Russian MLAT clears itself and vilifies an "Investment Company" throughout, in particular, Bill Browder's Hermitage Capital.

Here's a story on the death of Karapetyan, whose name matches the one on the doc's signature. rferl.org/amp/russian-pr…
It should be noted that figures connected to the Prevezon case, believed to be tied to Russian organized crime, have a habit of encountering misfortune.

After Magnitsky's death in a Moscow prison, his family's attorney survived a four-story fall from his Moscow apartment.
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🚨 MAJOR: Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian attorney in the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, charged with obstruction of justice in the Prevezon case.

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said she fabricated evidence.
Remember when Donald Trump, Jr. claimed that he "mostly talked about adoptions" with Veselnitskaya at the Trump Tower meeting?

That's Russia's response to sanctions over the death of Sergei Magnitsky, a key figure in the Prevezon case.

Background: courthousenews.com/judge-enforces…
The sealed indictment was docketed on Dec. 20, 2018.

You can find the unsealed 18-page indictment here. documentcloud.org/documents/5677…
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Take the quote: “Impeach the motherfucker.”

It seems to me that a serious journalist should contextualize the operative verb “impeach.” The noun “motherfucker” typically requires little additional context.
For instance, how many people know that the day Rep. Tlaib made that remark, she co-wrote an op-ed with a constitutional attorney laying out the grounds they would cite?

Or that, a day earlier, her colleague Rep. Sherman announced plans to introduce articles of impeachment?
I spoke to Tlaib’s co-author in the below op-ed, attorney John Bonifaz, on Friday, to discuss the push for impeachment, touching upon the grounds, timing, momentum and more.

Look out for a story next week on the substance beyond the swear word. freep.com/story/opinion/…
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Statement Of Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office On The Convictions Of State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos And His Son Adam

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Robert Khuzami, Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, said: “Yet again, a New York jury heard a sordid tale of bribery, extortion, and the abuse of power by a powerful public official of this State.
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