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1 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
So I read the judges decision doc here. It’s almost all redacted. But some basic outlines are clear - bribery for pardon scheme. Seems to involve both wouldbe pardonees lawyer and some sort of non lawyer fixer who was managing the bribery ask and seemingly some ...
2/ related political campaign for a pardon. As I said, virtually everything is redacted. But the emails in question, which reveal the scheme were apparently uncovered in a raid sometime before the end of the summer. And the DOJ investigators were trying to get the judges ...
3/ permission to use the emails in their investigation, both arguing a crime fraud exception to the privilege and also that the emails included a person (seemingly the aforementioned fixer) who wasn’t an attorney or an agent of the attorney, thus voiding the privilege.
4/ If I’m reading this right, this tells us the person trying to buy a pardon is already in the federal prison system.
5/ This page explains why the document is being released now.

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