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“When you get to the White House there are two jobs you must lock up – Attorney General and director of the Internal Revenue Service.”
–Joe Kennedy, Sr. to John F. Kennedy, perhaps apocryphally. (Joe Sr. had been involved with organized crime during Prohibition. Sound familiar?)
@SenJohnKennedy (R-LA) isn't the first John Kennedy to help hide a president's tax problems that might reveal ties to organized crime...
3/ Hot off the presses: My @FordhamLawNYC Review article on "Crony Attorneys General: A Historical Sketch of the AG as a Case for DOJ Reform" starts w/ this quotation, and shows a century of hack AGs from both parties.
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Jed Shugerman
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THREAD: Barr's Conflicts:
Outstanding by @CrisLeeMaza on Bill Barr's financial ties to Russia-related entities:
1. Howard Lorber's Vector Group (@DonaldJTrumpJr allegedly called Lorber about Trump Tower meeting)
2. AlfaBank
3. Ochs-Ziff
4. DeutscheBank.
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2/ This isn't evidence of actual bias, but that's not the standard.
As I told @CrisLeeMaza, “The legal standard is not actual conflict, it’s about the appearance of a conflict, appearance of bias."
A remarkable number of Russia-related ties raises concerns about Barr's judgment.
3/ Howard Lorber's Vector:
Barr earned $5K-$15K in dividends. Based on what sized investment?
Lorber brought Trump to Moscow in the 1990s, and he's tied to Trump Tower Moscow.
@DonaldJTrumpJr allegedly called Lorber about Trump Tower meeting w/ Russian agent. ("I love it.")
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Jed Shugerman
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So maybe you're wondering if a cabinet member has ever been impeached... Here's a short history of impeaching department heads:
William Belknap, Secretary of War, impeached for kickback corruption, majority of Senate but not 2/3 voted to convict in 1876. He resigned anyway... 1/
2/ Attorney General Harry Daugherty was threatened with impeachment in 1922 for his DOJ's bootlegger kickback scandal. He was not impeached, but the investigation led to his resignation. I discussed this in a @washingtonpost op-ed on Whitaker this year: washingtonpost.com/opinions/think…
3/ Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon - the famously wealthy tycoon - has supported the disastrous policies of trickle-down and fiscal austerity, and was blamed for meddling w/ the Fed to keep rates too low (!!!), and contributing to and exacerbating the Great Depression in 1929.
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Jed Shugerman
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In today’s @nytimesbooks, @DavidLat reviews @emilybazelon's important _Charged_ on prosecutors' upward political ambitions driving mass incarceration. They generously cite work by @JohnFPfaff (Locked In) and me. Here's a short thread w/ more detail. 1/ nytimes.com/2019/04/08/boo…
2/ In _Locked In_, @JohnFPfaff uses thorough research and rigorous quantitative methods to challenge conventional wisdom. He shows the chief cause of mass incarceration is the sharply increasing rates of prosecutors turning arrests into criminal charges (& then guilty pleas).
3/ @JohnFPfaff shows over the past generation, the ratio of prosecutions-to-arrests has roughly doubled, while arrests haven’t increased significantly.
That punitive turn in prosecutorial discretion drives mass incarceration far more than any other factor.
Why did that happen?...
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