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@nycsouthpaw
Feb 21, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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The Palm Beach federal court's finding that prosecutors violated the rights of Jeffrey Epstein's victims by failing to notify them that the govt would enter into a non-prosecution agreement with Epstein. It illustrates a v cozy relationship w the defense. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5746…
...the opinion also illustrates that, while working hand in glove with the defense, the prosecutors in Alex Acosta's U.S. Attorney's office developed no relationship whatsoever with the minor victims of Epstein's crimes.
As the prosecution and defense approach a deal, Alex Acosta himself gets involved, negotiating directly with Epstein's lead defense lawyer Jay Lefkowitz, and the results are--at least to me--stomach turning.
The year after the non-prosecution agreement with Epstein was signed, Acosta's US Attorney's office repeatedly misled victims and their attorneys to conceal the existence of the agreement.
This isn't just my gloss on the opinion, btw. The judge expressly found Acosta's office misled Epstein's victims--minors whom he sexually abused.

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May 31
The commentariat loves to keep saying this presumably because they’ve heard it smarmy pundit friends say it, but it’s still completely false.

Businesspeople in New York are prosecuted for cooking their books in exactly this way all the fucking time.

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A couple months ago I did a radio interview for The Truce and the conservative host asked me whether the (then upcoming) Trump trial would lead to people no longer doing business in New York, and I tried to be accommodating and say maybe some die-hard Trump Republicans you know..
But he pressed the point and demanded I take politics out of it. And I told him that these are very common cases and every NY lawyer like me will advise someone setting up a business that they should respect the formalities of its separate existence, keep accurate books, etc.
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Aug 31, 2023
After propublica’s work, Harlan Crow appears quite prominently on Justice Thomas’s latest disclosure form. documentcloud.org/documents/2393…
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Thomas attributes some of his private jet use to the leak of the Dobbs opinion. Image
A real dog ate my homework excuse for failing to report the sale of the house his mother lives in to Harlan Crow. Image
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Aug 7, 2023
It appears the Special Counsel’s office filed under seal its support for a Garcia hearing to evaluate Walt Nauta’s lawyer’s alleged conflicts, and Judge Cannon has decided to have it out in public.
The issue is that discussing Stanley Woodward’s representation of three potential witnesses in the secret documents case would reveal the fact of their grand jury testimony. Cannon has decided in a conclusory line that isn’t reason enough, but it’s not clear why she thinks so.
It’s also kinda weird to strike not only the proposed sealed supplement but also the motion for leave to file under seal from the docket. Cannon has denied that motion, which presumably might be an appealable issue, but then excised what she denied from the record. Strange.
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Aug 5, 2023
The interesting thing about this order imo is judge chutkan deciding the battle of the forms in the govt’s favor.
By popular request, I will try to explain. According to the govt’s motion, they proposed a protective order, Trump responded with an entirely different form, and then the govt came back with a form based on a case before Judge Nichols.
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Transactional lawyers like myself call this the battle of the forms. You just keep sending each other different templates for an agreement, and consequently you delay the work of marking up the other side’s language and isolating the substantive issues between you.
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Aug 1, 2023
The third indictment of Donald J. Trump — this one for trying to steal the government of the United States. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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And a fourth paragraph that summarizes the government’s three-pronged case. Image
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Jul 23, 2023
What I find lamentable about DeSantis’s curriculum is the strong echo of antebellum pro-slavery ideology it contains, apportioning credit to the slaveholders and the slave system for supposedly improving enslaved people. I’ll explain.
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The historical record reveals this pro-slavery ideology to be nonsense. Enslaved peoples were the bearers of their own traditions and evidently resourceful and innovative without the intervention of the enslavers, and often to their great frustration.
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